skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be interested in seeing what it's like when the locking process sleeps for a small amount of time, and how that affects lock contention and CPU load. Maybe actually doing some work (such as writing the current timestamp 10 times) as well. Unless you actually are doing something, there could be some interesting differences that are covered up or optimized away.
Good effort, but I'm not sure your post makes sense. If I committed the same crime, wouldn't I get the same punishment? In this case, that's being banned from playing Pokemon Go, not from the Internet as a whole.
Vancouver. If you think that's expensive, you should see our real estate!
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Where did you get the 12bn number for Walmart Labs from? It seems quite high.
That does seem simpler. I've run into variants of this problem where each thread/process can potentially produce GBs of data. For that use case performance would suffer if combining were done as a separate step.
Very true... only best should deserve and priority should be given to citizens of this country first. I am working on H1B and I can feel the pain of fellow US workers. However, one should look at their past and must understand that people have migrated from all over the world in past when there were no visa restrictions. May be even now citizens some countries enjoy a free passage to the main stream job market.
Please do not blame, hate us (H1B workers) coming to this country through legal channel. We all coming here in the search of better career opportunity, earning good money, having good quality of life. It is responsibility of the law makers to ensure that proper due diligence is done before any foreign worker is to be hired. There is a process in place, minimum education criteria before anybody can be hired on h1B visa. So I can say confidently that 90% H1B candidates comes with good education, higher skills. For some of them English may not be the first language so they may not be as savvy in spoken English as the US Born people but don't make a mistake of writing them off as unskilled, uneducated fake candidates.
We are also victims of some greedy, unethical companies with whom we have to work just because they hold our H1B visa. We have to follow unethical practices otherwise our Visa’s will be cancelled. We have to stick to these employers for years and years while we wait for Green cards. We have to manage with low salaries, no benefits.
If US Government streamlines it Green card processing rules then many of us would be willing to work with good companies and have good career growth, have a good pay instead of working as a low pay worker. US employers will then hire foreign workers only due to its competency and not for low rates. It will be a level playing ground for all.

So I sincerely request all my US friends, brothers and sisters to helps us free from this modern day slavery. Please sign the petition.
https://goo.gl/FB7DTm

Thanks
Definitely. The "worst case" is just walk away from my lease and move in with in-laws.
> You were replying to me in that other comment as well. :)

Sorry! Will teach me to not read avatars!

On your point on RWA, whether RWA appropriately reflect the risks of a financial institution is I think a separate debate, but the definition of "appropriately capitalised" from a regulator point of view is based on RWAs, and therefore sizing how much debt needs to be bailed in to recapitalize the bank on RWAs is not absurd.
> Yes the retroactive magic bullet Glass-Steagall act was in place but they were certainly not very risk adverse. Do you remember Savings & Loan? 'cause I do.

Savings and Loan associations (while they perform some similar functions) are different institutions than banks, governed by different laws and regulations, and the high-risk behavior that played a major role in the S&L crisis was directly enabled by the deregulation of that industry (it's a much more clear example than the ties between the banking deregulation and the recent housing finance crisis.)

You can't point to the S&L crisis as evidence that banks weren't risk-averse at the time, since high-risk behavior at issue there was at S&Ls, not banks, and was directly tied to the laxer regulatory oversight of S&Ls at the time, compared to banks.
The number of people using any non-PHP apps is very, very, very, small, so it just doesn't get a lot of attention from us or users. One of our favorite customers is a developer in the Django community, so we added things at his request, but I think he uses a custom deployment and so our stuff doesn't get a lot of testing even from the fellow who requested it and helped us develop it. I would like to put more resources into it, but it's a chicken and egg problem. No customers want it, so it doesn't get a lot of attention, so people who do want Django support see that we're not very serious about it and don't use it or contribute to it.

I'm glad to hear Virtualmin is working well for you. If you have problems with Python stuff in Virtualmin, feel free to let us know. The squeaky wheel gets the grease...and not many people squeak about Python/Django support in Virtualmin. As far as I can tell there are literally thousands of times more WordPress users than Django users (just to put it into perspective).
The first comment in that article points out what's really the cherry on the stupidity cake: it's not even that the mortgage interest deduction is small-but-at-least-something for middle-class families. For a lot of them it's literally zero, because it's often less than the standard deduction. Even leaving aside the political class's counterproductive obsession with homeownership, the insanity here is of the masses passionately supporting a $100 billion annual expense that benefits them not one cent.

Just another one of those things that makes me fantasize about a rationalist dictatorship, before I sigh and return to the real world.
The Paradox of Donald Trump’s Appeal
Only best should deserve and priority should be given to citizens of this country first. I am working on H1B and I can feel the pain of fellow US workers. However, one should look at their past and must understand that people have migrated from all over the world in past when there were no visa restrictions. May be even no,w citizens some countries enjoy a free passage to the main stream job market.
Please do not blame, hate us (H1B workers) coming to this country through legal channel. We all coming here in the search of better career opportunity, earning good money, having good quality of life. It is responsibility of the law makers to ensure that proper due diligence is done before any foreign worker is to be hired. There is a process in place, minimum education criteria before anybody can be hired on h1B visa. So I can say confidently that 90% H1B candidates comes with good education, higher skills. For some of them English may not be the first language so they may not be as savvy in spoken English as the US Born people but don't make a mistake of writing them off as unskilled, uneducated fake candidates.
We are also victims of some greedy, unethical companies with whom we have to work just because they hold our H1B visa. We have to follow unethical practices otherwise our Visa’s will be cancelled. We have to stick to these employers for years and years while we wait for Green cards. We have to manage with low salaries, no benefits.
If US Government streamlines it Green card processing rules then many of us would be willing to work with good companies and have good career growth, have a good pay instead of working as a low pay worker. US employers will then hire foreign workers only due to its competency and not for low rates. It will be a level playing ground for all.

So I sincerely request all my US friends, brothers and sisters to helps us free from this modern day slavery. Please sign the petition.
https://goo.gl/FB7DTm

Thanks
Airbus is going to regret that decision. The old adage about capitalists selling the noose that hangs them holds true
If it's a puny number, and enormous number of people benefit from it, and the benefit is 100% financial (as in this case), then each person isn't benefiting all that much from it.
How do you intend to prevent false positives?

As a power user, I am concerned about the possibility of widespread adoption of your product and/or others like it.

I don't want my bank to ban me just because I use a browser extension to capture my own cookies from my own valid session and pipe them into a shell script I wrote to invoke curl to harvest my latest bank statement as a PDF and store it locally.

Supposing that your system wouldn't flag that activity as malicious, what about the vulgar things that I did to their servers while I was developing my archive-bank-statement tool?

NB. Please ignore the implication that my tool is complete or useful. It's not... :)
> Oculus was their first, real consumer hardware release and effort.

Wouldn't their server initiative be their first?
The regugee crisis of today, one could argue, is a result of supply issues caused by climate change... and things haven't even really started to get bad yet. As things get worse, the people who are impacted will resort to more extreme measures.

Even if we turn this planet into Mars, we can figure out how to live on it... humans are amazing adaptable. The issue is can we scale that up to 10 billion people? I imagine resource wars are the biggest threat from climate change.
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We won't reject comments unless they are offensively rude, spam, wildly off-topic or otherwise significantly problematic.

We can withstand a little bit of criticism...
Maybe add 2015 to the title. This same blog post has been linked a good amount before.
If you read the history, the form of government the US has failed and failed and failed while trying it the way you describe. The US was on the verge of collapse when it re-arranged things a bit and handed over more power to the federal government. That's why the country still exists. In its earliest days, it was in danger of collapse just like every other state that had attempted the same kind of organization.

If we take away the federal government power to a) raise money and b) keep a standing army we will likely see this country destroyed in short order, whether from within or from without. Quite a few countries would be thrilled to pieces if we hamstrung our federal government so they could invade and do as they please.
Isn't this just an indirect subsidy for banks? Basically, the government partially pays for the interest rate the bank charge on your mortgage.
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Does anyone have a extension of know a way of viewing all gmail inboxes in 1 window? On mobile there is a option to view "All Inboxes" but not on web. Don't want to go down the route of forwarding from one inbox to the other.
I wonder though, doesn't SSE technically violate a lot of HTTP's assumptions? From the point of view of a HTTP middlebox, a SSE response would basically be a single endless entity, transmitted at a very low bandwidth. I'm no expert at real-world deployment of SSE, but that they sounds to me like it could break a lot of proxies that don't have special handling for SSE. (Or at least cause unnecessary resource consumption for those proxies)

Also I wonder why there are not more websocket-based APIs. WS has the same widespread support and ready-made debug tools as HTTP and seemed to be designed exactly for push or non request/response use cases. So, out of couriosity, why would SSE be prepared over WS?
As others have already stated, there are some problems with this "study." I'm too lazy to do this myself, but my guess is that when you actually redo this auto-complete search, and look at not just the top search, but rather the top 5 searches, you will find a lot of overlap in many of the state searches, which will probably show less state variation (with some exceptions of course, and possibly more regional homogeneity, which would be interesting.)
Are you guys all agreeing to disband? I have heard that selling yourselves as a qualified, functional team can bring a higher value than each person solo. I guess acqui-hires are an example of that; maybe some of the recruiter types that have responded here have thoughts about how to initiate that dance.
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Also I have worked for Google in NYC and London so feel free to ask any questions.
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The mortgage interest deduction is the thing that makes it possible to itemize for most people. Then you also get to deduct your property taxes, your state income taxes, charitable contributions, other misc stuff.

Any of those things separately is often less than the standard deduction. But all together they are more, and the mortgage interest is generally the biggest and the one that pushes it over the top.
That is a very good point, and I have never looked at it that way. Unfortunately, this is exactly what we should expect, as governments usually consult large organizations for feedback, and small (or as-yet unformed) organizations are put at a great disadvantage.
Yeah... like I like this idea. I just don't know how sustainable it is. I am decent with money (Almost 0 debt, almost 1 month of expenses, etc) but I don't really feel like living in self-inflicted poverty.

I have done it before and I know I can do it, but I don't see the point in inflicting abject poverty on myself just so I am vaguely protected.

I understand what you are coming from, but really isn't for me. (Maybe when my income grows / I don't live in NYC...)
> For this reason, organizations like the Congressional Budget Office treat tax breaks and government spending as essentially equivalent.

This seems weird. Collecting and spending money has overhead and externalities (enforcement for example), while not taxing in the first place does not.
TODO messages are a terrible taxation on comprehension of code.

Most TODO items should be written "TODIDNT", what would we guess, 99% of TODO items never happen? What is the thinking here, "I knew I should have written the code more correctly, but I didn't -- commenting about what I failed to do here gives me a pass"?

Either do it, or don't. Don't tell everybody about what you didn't do, it reduces comprehension of the code at hand.

I'm a fan of a DESIGN.txt or other document that everyone can bitch and moan about shortcomings into. It's centralized and threaded by contributions, something like a wikimedia Talk page.
That would explain it, but I've heard this complaint about taxis disappearing when it rains in very many cities - it would be odd if they all had similarly broken incentives for the drivers.
> We really should start with that one. If anything, replace it with an individual deduction. It'll be a double-whammy. Get rid of this bullshit subsidy for large corporations and at the same time level the playing field for small businesses and individuals trying to get coverage.

We really should just drop both and replace it with an increase in the standard deduction for individuals.
> As tempting as it is to use SSH everywhere (for exactly the reasons outlined here), other protocols exist because they usually have some form of marginal gains over the alternatives, and marginal gains matter at scale.

I heard people "at scale" also use micro services over HTTP. Or even Rest for mobile apps, where latency is a real issue.

So I am not buying that part. I think HTTP (over TCP) has won because the web has won. As always technical people are overestimating the importance of technical aspects of a product and thereby their own importance, when really it is all about usability and network effects.
Isn't is easier to forward into one inbox, and then just have that one gmail window open? You can set up gmail to send emails with aliases so that you can correspond as if you are responding from the other accounts.
> If you buy insurance yourself on the exchange, then you pay with post tax dollars.

It's deductible at tax time, though.
That's a super cool product. Do you do long term setups? Like if a bar wanted to always have one, is that something you can accommodate?

Also, there is a typo in your FAQ, second question (Can I print without adding the printer as a friend?), account is misspelled in the answer.
That depends quite a bit on your state income tax and real estate taxes. In MA, it's quite easy for those to exceed (or near) the standard deduction amount, meaning the mortgage interest deduction will push you over into itemizing.

A single person earning $60K and paying $4K in real estate taxes has already exceeded the standard deduction amount.
What are you going to do when your national defense is wholly dependent on the U.S.?
When mental health services are cut, the burden doesn't go away but gets picked up by police and hospitals, who aren't properly equipped to handle those challenges. The SFPD and ambulances spend massive amounts of time responding to emergencies involving mentally ill homeless, which limits their ability to respond to other problems.
That was kind of my point.
I wonder though, doesn't SSE technically violate a lot of HTTP's assumptions? From the point of view of a HTTP middlebox, a SSE response would basically be a single endless entity, transmitted at a very low bandwidth. I'm no expert at real-world deployment of SSE, but that they sounds to me like it could break a lot of proxies that don't have special handling for SSE. (Or at least cause unnecessary resource consumption for those proxies)

Also I wonder why there are not more websocket-based APIs. WS has the same widespread support and ready-made debug tools as HTTP and seemed to be designed exactly for push or non request/response use cases. So, out of couriosity, why would SSE be preferred over WS?
Are other laptop chargers similarly complex? Dell, HP, Microsoft etc
Yep. While in the abstract I would support eliminating it, now that I've finally purchased a home I'm against any changes to the status quo. The very economics of this huge purchase are only made rational by that deduction.
This is a good point. We never thought of these strings as URLs, but there are places where it would be nice to use them that only want URLs (the href attribute, for example).

The way we have it now is nice in that any valid URL can be used to locate a database. I am loathe to restrict that.

Interesting point though - thank you!
Lincoln put it best - half-slave and half-free won't work. They were legally immiscible ( unmixable ). The abuse of "states rights" in text by Southrun Lost Causers is invalid and should be discarded - the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision clearly showed that they wanted Federal enforcement of that "state's right".

You have the emerging legal unsustainability of this, coupled with slaves being the only asset of value left in the South. So, war, war.
I read Story by Robert McKee after I read The Story Grid and I found Shawn's explanations and descriptions more precise and to the point than Robert's. I also really like how Shawn, for the most part, uses a single story (The Silence of the Lambs) in his examples and how he keeps going back to it. Using a single story, I felt, helped me better grasp the context of each example and allowed me to 'grow' with the dissection of the entire story. The grid itself was also extremely useful as it provided me with a framework, a cheat sheet that I could reference at any time to understand where I was in his overall analysis of the story.
Funny when you've contributed to your state's thing at least twice. I wonder whether it's the humid heat, or the need to chill lots of beer and cheese that makes Wisconsin obsessed with electricity.
Other comments allude to it, but this one should be at the top as it gives a good example as to why the methodology is suspect: pretty sure people in AK know what a gallon of milk costs in Delta Junction. I, a WA resident, would have to look it up.

There are other, similar examples of course. Price of weed in CO? Yeah, maybe residents are looking, but I'm more inclined to think the girl in Detroit is wondering, "I'm paying $250/quarter for pot, I wonder how much it costs in states where it's legal?" If I want to know how much weed costs in WA (where it is also legal), I pull up the website of my local store, not ask Google.
Can you pay the premium out of an HSA? That's pre-tax.
You're greatly missing the point in favor of your own argumentation. As one of the most prosperous places on earth, we expect SF to do better. China is a mess, yet in Shenzhen they've been averaging a new metro station every month for the last ten years and that is only one Chinese city. You say we shouldn't excuse Chinas faults because of its state, yet you are ready to "counter" any critique of the US with something that is worse in China.
> consumer
Nitpick: 32 percent female; 37 percent was for new hires.

More importantly:

> Critics have pointed out that Apple is more diverse because a significant percentage of the company’s employee base are lower-paid workers in its retail stores, which Google and Facebook do not have. But Apple’s gains this year did not come exclusively from retail. There was a 1 percent increase for women and blacks in technical jobs.

According to the actual report:

http://www.apple.com/diversity/

They give a breakdown on gender globally and race within the US. For tech workers, the numbers are 23% female, 8% black, 8% Hispanic (national 17%) - and 27% Asian. The race stats are not terrible, but 23% female is pretty bad (though it might be better in the US).
It's worse than that: taxi drivers count the amount of money they made in a day and stop when it's enough. Then if it rains they make their day quickly and go home, while they will cruise much longer during low demand days.

This is a classic example of short term view and the invisible hand going bad, found in Thinking fast and slow.
What are the situations where you did not (or would not) opt to use feature flags?
Hardware is commoditized but brands are not. Anyone can make handbags but only some can sell them for $5000. Oculus has potential to be as profitable as Apple if they absolutely nail the execution and the experience. But it remains to the be seen if the Rift is an iphone or a newton.

Being tethered to a high end gaming pc "dooms" it to be a niche product. How soon can Oculus either ally with a console or make a console?
Use the "-g:vars" switch on javac and then use a classfile reader library to inspect the LocalVariableTable.
Or just let WordPress users just be users. Abstract the management of WordPress away from the CMS.

Have their access be just the content and limited/filtered by role. The built-in roles need virtually no tweaking.

We have our WordPress sites as git repositories and build via CircleCI, Ansible and Composer. For Multisite instances we use Composer and Satis and keep the themes in their own repositories and use tagged releases to manage our multisite build using CircleCI and Ansible again.

We use two-factor auth for Wordpress login (currently Duo on non-multisite installs). Nobody gets to install plugins. Nobody writes files into folders manually.

Minimal plugin usage is a solid recommendation.
As I heard from a dev-ops friend whom I hold in very high regard, Launchpad is better for admins, while Github is better for developers. I wish I could recall the reasoning behind the distinction.

Personally, I've never been able to wrap my head around Launchpad, but I haven't put any significant effort toward doing so either.
Does porting react-core/base from JS runtime to native runtimes like C/Rust have any merits.

The UI abstraction with libreact-core + libreact-{platform} is the holygrail for native UI development. Samsung & MS have previously committed on bring RN to Tizen & Windows.

I would love to see react-core ported to LuaJIT.
How exactly does the api work? Is every call to check a flag making a HTTP request to LD or does the ld client sync periodically?