skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet Venezuela keeps buying weapons from Russia:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/venezuela-buying-su30s-h...
> Comedian Hannibal Buress, whose YouTube’d comments about Bill Cosby in 2014 made him famous — a fact that came to annoy him — hired Yondr for a gig in 2015.

Understandable why a comedian wouldn't want this kind of fact to be the thing that makes them famous (as opposed to being famous for just being a good comedian)...but if someone hadn't recorded his bit on that particular night and then put it onto YouTube...Bill Cosby would still be doing Jell-O commercials and other beloved-type activities. I don't mean to trivialize the various reporting efforts that put Cosby's misdeeds into the public -- Buress essentially just talked about what he found on Google. But the fact is is that the allegations against Cosby were publicized, then basically forgotten, to the point where a prestigious journalist managed to write an entire biography of Cosby with barely a mention of the allegations. Unfortunately for that journalist, Buress's bit became viral and the journalist had to shamefully admit how he had basically ignored that part of Cosby's life [1].

Buress had been doing doing the Cosby-rape-allegation bit for several months [2]...but it was that particular night and that particular YouTube bootleg that went viral. I guess it's a credit to Buress's art that he didn't want to capitalize on a freak viral hit, but as far as freak viral hits go, this had a relative net positive for both society and for the artist's career (well, Buress's, not Cosby's).

[1] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/controversial-cosb...

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-hannibal-buress-and-why-d...
It doesn't look like the pouch blocks incoming calls. Why not just set a custom ringtone and vibration for work and make sure you have a quick get away?
It's what many have seen happen again and again, and it's what many have experienced themselves.

I understand what you're trying to do here, and you're not wrong. It's rather more about context and how this works in reality.

Your perspective is correct, in that seeing a relapse as a complete failure can actually make it worse. You're right that the best mindset is to get up again, remember that whatever has been accomplished is not lost at all, deal with minor withdrawal, and get back on the horse (or wagon, I guess).

But the perspective of others here is also correct. One of the most common causes of relapse is thinking 'I can handle it now', is moderation, is forgetting the difficulties and struggles of quitting, forgetting the weeks, months or years lost to continuously failed 'moderation', and taking for granted the positive things that happened since quitting.

To someone who is 'clean', it is absolutely disastrous to think that a relapse is not very dangerous. Because the mind wants excuses to indulge again, and even the tiniest thought that this can be possible without potentially a complete reversion to an earlier situation can be enough of an excuse.

But to someone who just relapsed your message is probably very valuable. I think most people here would agree with that.

The thing is, the number of people around who need to hear that a relapse should scare the living crap out of them is almost guaranteed to be much higher than the number of people who need to hear that it's not the end of the world.

Before relapsing, not relapsing is 100% the correct advice. After relapsing, your message might or might not help. I've experienced many situations where no approach helped after a relapse other than, well, waiting and hoping.

And that's why I think people disagree so strongly. Not because you're wrong, but because your statements, in practice, can be harmful to people reading them.
Probably millions at this point. A worm is just a virus that can spread itself without human interaction.
I have tried both some time ago for an OCR task. In my brief experience, GCV performs better than Microsoft. Also last time I tried, I sometimes randomly get server error from Microsoft, so I guess Google infrastructure is more ready. The downside is GCV is a bit pricier. Also both do not provide parameter to set language models, so that's a minus in my eyes.
It isn't just pro users.

With TB file systems, assuming you haven't outsourced everything to iCloud, data integrity matters. If you have, now you're trusting them not to screw up, ever.

From the movie or mp3 that mysteriously no longer plays, through to more important things - business data or family photos. I suspect many people have experienced bit rot, even if they don't recognise it as such. We've even reached a point where with quoted drive figures copying 2tb from one drive to another will likely result in a bit flip (source - Ars ZFS+btrfs article a couple of years back).

Heck, most people have some level of data loss from a HDD or flash drive fail. Sometimes even when they tried to do all the right things. Only question is whether it was backed up. In the case of personal users, unlikely. Self healing could have been quite some selling point!
More like

-- Takes out phone and swiftly gets escorted out of the venue by ushers/security.

This isn't a policy happening in a vacuum - musicians, comedians, and other performers are taking steps throughout their acts to clamp down on phone recording.
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Makes a lot of sense. I get frustrated with how explicit I have to be with Rust sometimes (currently I'm writing something with a lot of reusable, immutable structures and am put off by how much Rc.clone() that requires) but making it known to the programmer that every indexing of a String is effectively an iteration is a good call.
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You're lucky you didn't get voted down -5, with the Type Police out and about.

I like ES5 (would be ES6, but for IE support...) Javascript, but it is a bit light on the immutability aspect, given the environment and problem set it usually runs in.

Check out the "Ramda.js" library for JS (http://ramdajs.com/0.21.0/index.html). There's some good concepts put to use there. (although I have my own version of "currying" implemented at work, as I like to sometimes have "0 arity" functions for event handlers -- but those types of "functions" aren't particularly "pure")
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The wonders of adblock, wasting bandwidth and power while contributing a total of absolutely nothing to the companies in which you despise.
There are still many phones available that allow you to be on-call and not have a large, glowing rectangle of light obscuring other people's views.

Personally, I think the company founder made a good point when he said that people should be able to let loose without fear of becoming social media clowns. We bang on about open standards, privacy being violated and 'freedom', and here we are moderating the behavior of all around to our own detriment.

If you buy a ticket you also agree to the terms and conditions, if you don't like it, don't go to the event. Is that not how this works? People keep telling me so.
"Raise your arms, I'm going to sweep you with this metal detector."

-- beep

"What's that?"

-- uh, nothing

"Ok sir, you're going to have to empty your pockets if you wish to enter"

-- puts phone in pouch
Yup, I did some benchmarking (for a webapp which runs a separate process for each customer) and SQLite had the highest TPS and lowest memory usage by a large margin.

Probably because it runs in the same address space as each server process and there is no message passing (TCP/unix socket) overhead.
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My cofounder and I have done data science / engineering work for various large companies. We have a startup idea in this space that we've fleshed out over the past six months while working at our jobs.

I have roughly $50,000 of our money that I can commit to our startup while we build the prototype in preparation for raising money. We can live with family members -- so rent will be free -- so we estimate our cost of living to be $1,000 / month / person.

At $2,000 per month total -- this gives us 20 months to finish the prototype. We think we can do it in 3-6 months, but we recognize that our time estimates could be completely wrong.

Are these numbers reasonable? Should we save up a much larger amount of money, like $100k or $250k? How complete should a prototype be before raising money?

Here are some additional considerations:
- My cofounder has $20,000 in student loans to pay. Should he pay them all off before quitting his job?
- We have another $50,000 of money in 401(k)s and Roth IRAs. We're young enough to lose all this money and make it back without concern. Should we convert some of our retirement money into capital for our startup[1]? This would give us a total of $100k in funding.

[1]: http://guides.wsj.com/small-business/funding/how-to-tap-an-ira-or-401k-to-help-fund-a-start-up/
I hate to bring this up, but this is perhaps one of the clearest examples of PR copy as mentioned by Paul Graham's Submarine post: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Basically, this is a big advert for Yondr (the company making the phone baggies) - the clickbait title, the picture of the baggies, the quote from the fan saying he's ok with the whole thing, the list of artists signed up with Yondr, and the whole spiel about why a "phone-less" concert is such a great thing.
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USA does socialism right, the police force is socialized and we have the best police in the world! Not to mention our fire fighters and our public schools.

Our military is socialized as well, and, like our police force, it's the best in the world

Can't wait till we socialize our health care system with single-payer, if the examples set by our socialized police and military mean anything, we'll have the best health care in the world!
Yes, but a computer has programming to enforce the rules and it can (and should) reasonably be expected to enforce those intentions accurately.

Another way of putting this is that they are using the computer to express their intention to authorize (or not authorize) access by means of the programming. It should, as a matter of good public policy, be on them to get this right. That's why my standard would require material deception--that is, but for the intentional deception, access would not have been granted.

Anything less simply sets too low a bar and excuses incompetence. This is bad public policy because it allows people to stumble into felonies while excusing all kinds of negligence on the part of those people who were supposed to be protecting things. Otherwise we have an "I know it when I see it" standard for which parts of a site are okay to interact with and reasonable minds can (and frequently do) disagree over the particulars. My standard would move this rule to determining statements of fact--did they know or should they have known they were deceiving this computer system/person in order to gain access? It also deliberately prevents people from shifting the blame for negligently configuring access to their computers.

I think we both know the widespread public harm caused by networks of hacked computers and we both know that, unlike the real world, essentially every computer's locks and windows are tested many times a day. Leaving things open is clearly negligent in my view and I've seen far too many clients of mine leave vulnerabilities open longer than is justifiable, contrary to my advice. I mean, I still see PCI audits reporting POODLE, which is just sad.

Now, inasmuch as you're telling me that the law doesn't and isn't likely to see things my way, sadly, I have to agree with you there.
Hi,

sorry if it's the wrong place to report an issue that I faced recently with GCP.

I had reached the limit of max projects one can have in their dashboard. I deleted some projects and when I tried to create a new project, I was getting the same message .

I had to wait for a week to create a new project ( the time window in which user can stop project deletion )

this really prevented me from trying some new services in spite of GCP giving generous $300 credit.
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Socialsit have been using this excuse forever. Its never "real" socialism. Nationalising everything is socialism. It has been a major aspect of socialist thought for a very long time.

True, there are other strands of socialsit thought but usually all countries that become socialist try to do command and control and not anarcho syndicalism or something like that.

So maybe go back and inform yourself about the history of socialist tought.

Also stop trying to sell Sweden as Socialist. Those countries are normal capitalist wellfare states, just like France, Germany or any other western state.
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The panel at Vulture rated it as one of history's 100 most influential jokes for that very reason - http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/100-jokes-shaped-modern-comed...
Ok, so don't go to live performances then? I totally understand what you're saying and often feel the same way even if I just leave my phone at my desk for a few minutes, but no one is forcing people to go to these shows.

Unfortunately this is one of those "this is why we can't have nice things" situations where people repeatedly ruining acts with phone usage have forced drastic action.
You still have the problem that heat from the sun accumulates differently in each part of your ship causing stress on the hull.
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I skimmed the article, and this seems to explain a few things for me. The image I have in my mind is that Google is Google, masters of the datacenter. If they can build the most reliable website on earth (e.g. Google's down? Internet must be down) then their cloud service must be stellar. And yet, having switched from AWS to Google a few months ago at work, our experiences have left me sorely disappointed. It's been a nightmare, honestly. Why such a difference between what I expected and what we experienced?

The article seems to allude that Google's cloud offerings are, like a lot of services they offer, just side projects for them. That would explain why a lot of their platform feels half-baked. And the article (clearly a PR piece) waffles on about how Diane Greene has brought in lots of sales and marketing muscle. I see that clearly in the large amount of PR articles about Google Cloud floating around (including on Hacker News) and the sheer quantity of Google employees on social media and on here. I don't see the same from AWS. At first I saw that as a good thing, but it seems like the same effort that goes into their marketing and customer engagement has not gone into the technical side of things, despite what the article may say.

Perhaps that's a necessity of business. Maybe Alphabet doesn't want to pour more resources into Google Cloud without seeing more revenue. So Diane Greene is beefing up the numbers so she can get the technical resources she needs allocated. Maybe. My personal opinion remains doubtful, given Google's overarching track record, but time will tell.

Google Cloud is by no means unusable. It's a nightmare to work with, yes, but it does work, and if you've got the engineers on staff to handle the extra workload, then it's fine. We're going to continue to put up with it, because Google's particular mix of offerings allows us to save money and at the end of the day that's the common tongue. I just wish they wouldn't make my life more difficult.
I think they may have been referring to the names right down at the bottom - a minifier wouldn't use "NWvQtGjjfQX" without having used all the two, three four or five letter variable names.
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Memorize the book, and then test, you honestly only need to understand about 1/3rd of it later, the rest you'll pick up as you need. Second, used land mobile gear is a great way to get started, I can help you find a radio too.
The attacker. Who can't say that it's illegal to block his money, and use the lack of blocking as an argument in a court of law.
Seizing the means of production
I wish the ARRL would stop pushing EmComm to the exclusion of anything else.
3 shirts, 4 pairs of trousers, meet Japans hardcore minimalists
nickik, thanks for erasing the libertarian socialism wing of socialism and focusing solely on authoritarian socialism. Maybe the problem isn't socialism but authoritarianism?
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Thanks! And that's a very good point. The idea of "Pythonic" as a guiding principle, however, is just to try to make the new functional additions look as Python-y as possible. Case-in-point: Coconut uses the plain english keyword "match" and an indented block for pattern-matching instead of trying to introduce new symbols or syntax.
I am generally in favour of the idea of phone-free events, and I've been to one where where my phone was stapled in one of those "static-free" electronics plastic pouches.

However, how far down the rabbit hole are we going to go here? Security gates/screenings for phones? Some engineering innovation of a cross between faraday cage and EMP? Centralized reputation profile for events (a la Uber, eBay, AirBnb)?

I would love it if everyone just played ball, but one bad apple 'n' all that.
What you're describing is essentially the PGP Web of Trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
They are about as socialist as 1970s Britain
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I don't think it's necessarily unpopular, albeit perhaps a bit exaggerated. :)

But the concept behind the product, the type of control exerted and enforced at venues, is interesting. Even though it's just assumed everyone has a smartphone now, I think there is still a really big rift in how everyone uses it and sees it. My gf never had a smartphone until incredibly recently and had been asking me what I thought about them, and it occurred to me that even though I'm happy to have one, I barely use it. For me it's mostly sudoku on the metro and finding places in the city, along with occasional email nags from work and some messaging.

To opine on the article at hand, I do agree with the artists that it's a better experience to just leave the phone in the pocket - it's how I've done concerts and performances pretty much since I was interested in going to them, and with some performances, I see it as a means of respect to the performer(s).

Admittedly, in a "I know it when I see it" sort of way, the type of show dictates decorum for me, and there are plenty of shows where it feels more appropriate to use the phone to share what's going on.
Looks very sparse compared to what? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... it's the 16th densest city or town in the US. The only place in the US that is both denser and has more people is New York City.

Now you could argue that US cities are generally not that dense; NYC is half the density of Paris. But Amsterdam, say, is only 2/3 as dense as Somerville is. Berlin is even less dense than that (but I know its boundaries contain some serious chunks of park/woodland).
We now have the lamest reason ever to buy a burner.
> But Sweden isn't nationalizing/socializing all aspects of the economy nor controlling monetary exchange rates nor demonizing businesspeople as tools of the gringos, etc.

Exactly, so you get what I'm saying?
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Which is the perfect app for fastest picture-sharing?
"Put your phone in this pouch."

-- Sure.

Continue to then use your watch to read email and record audio.

This is a tech race that Yondy will lose.
Abstraction is the alternative. Design an API that treats encodings uniformly, and the encoding becomes an internal implementation detail. You can then have a polymorphic representation that avoids unnecessary conversions. NSString and Swift String both work this way.
do burners not have metal components or whatever is detectable by those wands? If so, I'd like one please.
Hapcam is the perfect app that shares pictures fastest, in a flash, you won’t even need a minute. This is the finest app by far in my use, to share pictures automatically with my friends without any risk on my privacy. It has two modes, both very simple and easy for online picture sharing.
Yeah, we'd rather Venezuela be like the Congo.
The Obama administration has secured 526 months of prison time for national security leakers, versus only 24 months total jail time for everyone else since the American Revolution.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/obama-has-sentenced-w...
Or take a second phone, and you'll be fine.
Or you can, you know, just enjoy the show without your phone...
I think that's entirely reasonable, but I think it's also entirely reasonable for a concert to disallow whatever they choose. You have no innate right to bring anything with you into a concert venue. Most venues already do this for various things, whether it's recording equipment, outside food, drinks, etc.

I get it that you're uncomfortable being without your phone, but you can always vote your displeasure by not attending such events.
Wait...what is your list of socialist countries? You don't include the Nordic model countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark? Or governments with socialist aspects (Japan, Australia, etc...too many count). Thankfully, Wikipedia maintains a list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states

Venezuela doesn't even make the list since they aren't "officially" socialist (only four countries are, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, China). So what is your criteria then? What is a socialist state? Is it just anything that nickik declares as socialist? Zimbabwe had price controls and they practiced land redistribution as well as nationalization. Would you try to spin them as socialist? Or just really corrupt?
> save a lot of IT Admin costs if they switched to Google Docs + Chrome Books

There's practically zero administration involved.

I'm sure there are companies who could benefit from this; but they need to accept that they rely on a single provider and its uptime for all their software and data storage requirements.

This is a huge trade off, and must be considered carefully.
Crazy thought (sad that I even have to think about it), but what if a gun(wo)man entered the room and no one is able to call for help or give the police his/her position via their phone since it is locked.