skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We've been struggling managing a collection of periodically updated CSVs & binaries over a few GB's in size, we struggled with Git-LFS and gave up, and we were considering (dreading) SVN, this looks really promising. Cheers!
If you would like to force enable Electrolysis. Within about:config create a new boolean pref named browser.tabs.remote.force-enable and set it to true.
> They're not jailing twitter dissidents.

> They aren't destroying the credit ratings of political dissenters.

You should probably listen to this talk.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7443-the_price_of_dissent

While it's primarily about the UK, the USGOV is defiantly involved.

(note: I trust that this crowd is mature enough to not let Applebaum's introduction taint the important message by the actual speakers)
The end of the article goes into a discussion about acquisitions but misses an important point. The reason Warren Buffett makes good acquisitions is because he owns the company so he only benefits if the acquisition works whereas CEOs and the board of directors make money either way. Execs are motivated to make the largest value acquisitions because they personally make money on them not because it's good for the company. This situation has been gutting our largest corporations for decades.
And on the mobile front, consider Google's Project Fi: bundling Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular to sell voice and data for $20 per month + $10 per GB.

Similar mission to Google Fiber?
I think it is a fair comparison because that is the goal.

Apple wants to become AOL/minitel, just like everyone else (desperately) wants to become AOL/minitel. That's the goal - it's the end-game.

Provided nobody gets in their way, and they don't screw it up, that's what they will try to become.

It's all laid out very clearly with more than a century of research and backup data in the book _The Master Switch_ by Tim Wu.
You mean like:

pass in proto tcp from any to any port www synproxy state

I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek, though. It seems your solution is either a superset of the above, or perhaps just an alternative. And compiling p0f to BPF is definitely an interesting topic and quite noteworthy.

Though, I would dispute the notion that compiling to BPF is either simpler or more secure. The BPF JIT has been responsible for several kernel exploits recently. The original BPF was much simpler but irrelevant at this point. While I believe the design of the contemporary incarnation in Linux is still provably correct, the implementation manifestly still has bugs. And from a user perspective it's really difficult to beat the syntax of PF's pf.conf. pf.conf can't be emulated by using a front-end configuration generator for iptables + company as the semantics of many tasks require implementation logic in the kernel, whether as extensions to BPF or to the networking subsystem.
Doesn't this already exist: https://getmagicnow.com/
In Europe, there is Tele2 doing exactly this. For instance, in The Netherlands, there was a Triopoly of Vodafone, KPN and T-Mobile. It started as a MVO (Mobile Virtual Operator) but later obtained a 4G license and is now building out it's national 4G network. Subscribers are now moved to 4G netowkr as much as possible.

Tele2 advertises to business users as a "flat data pipe". To consumers, it profiles itself as a cheap provider offering a lot more data in it's packages. It slowly looks like it started a data-war among the providers. The past year, there has been a lot of movement in the dat package offerings, while in the era of 2005-2015 about the only movement was "Unmetered access for €10" to data-packages.

I'm very curious to see Dutch subscriber numbers over the first half of 2016. I expect them to go up slowly but steadily.
ORM-Creator
Kalid has a whole pile of good stuff at:

https://betterexplained.com/
The people with the real power (Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve) are not elected. Vote != Power. The more concentrated power is, the more likely you are to have a really favorable or really unfavorable opinion of The Boss.

A dictator you agree with is so much better than democracy. The thing is that a dictator you do not agree with is much, much worse than democracy. When things are bad, you are arguably better off with someone who will force the right decisions.

Imagine if a dictator outlawed non-renewable sources of energy overnight. Significant short term pain, with (likely) tremendous long term gain for society. Instead, we all come to the consensus that everything is okay in moderation (gas, coal, etc.).

Now, no one person has the power to fix our hardest problems. And democracy seems to breed zero-sum thinking with a focus on competition among political parties. Why not try to work together to solve the problems we face?
Those are really small annoyances compared to everything else in Go. I don't mind Go being opinionated, everything is like that anyway and it's kind of nice in some ways. But don't mistake opinionatedness with misdesigned poor quality libraries and experimental ideas.

Take net package for example, it's not opinionated, it's just completely broken and misdesigned. There is so much mess with even the most basic things, like timeouts and cancellations [1][2] that it's almost impossible not to fuck up somewhere.

This is because the whole net library is synchronous and pushed onto experimental ideas of goroutines and channels. Instead of having an actual event loop underneath with timers, signals and everything and use asynchronous writers and readers they just poll fds and wake goroutines when fds are ready, forcing themselves to deal with typical multithreaded concurrency hell.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-complete-guide-to-golang-net...
[2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16100
> at night. Better contrast.

I think we have completely opposite understanding of things here.

>What functionality is missing that you'd expect it to have? For the small number of sensors Tesla has

exactly - small number of sensors. That is one of the main deficiencies.

>why it would make Tesla defensive.

because they can't improve it.
It isn't, though. Smalltalk "messages" are just function calls. It's not like all Smalltalk objects are running asynchronously, in parallel, with unsynchronized messages flowing around.
Are you saying Linux is the same as Windows? Can I play Overwatch on my Linux home desktop?
I'm still waiting on seeing some real UWP apps that aren't first-party Microsoft efforts or shovelware. The platform is not exactly new, and I'm just not seeing anybody bothering to adopt it.
Classic from old Hotmail as well.

Don't think hotmail do this anymore but I am sure I fell victim to it 16 or so years ago.
It somewhat indirectly highlights how much of common public understands statistics and their application.
Yes... see game programming too.
This also left me scratching my head. I always think of "structured programming" when if statements are brought up, and that's purely procedural and significantly predates object orientation. I think it's a poor definition.
This also left me scratching my head. I always think of "structured programming" when if statements are brought up, and that's purely procedural and significantly predates object orientation. I think it's a poor definition. It doesn't mention objects, encapsulation or messages.
"the first crack at designing an solution for containers that looks like it's actually ready to be used by grown ups.

Google is not a grown-up?

"And containers don't migrate to another host as easily as VMs.

Really?
Funny thing about his "real objects" answer is that it sounds very close to what unix shell scripting does. Shell scripting that the web kiddies turn their nose up at.
Data / examples?
FoxyProxy also lets you set different proxies for different pages. So you can run one proxy to be able to access the corporate intranet from outside, and another to access a non-public testing webpage, etc.
I tried it on 49 Dev. Seemed to work nice and much faster than 47 when I was quickly testing. But this was just a quick impression.

Unfortunately I couldn't use my addons with it and together with the constant updates it was a no go for me.
America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets
Sure. And this seems an OK thing. Many tiny companies hire a programmer to write them excel macros. If they can be replaced by some SAAS app, then do so.

No reason for 100s of companies to write the same app.
Sad that the message of this piece will likely be discounted and discredited. It amazes me the blasé attitudes towards drugs in the tech world. Hearing even high-profile tech leaders extoll the 'virtues' of getting high while ignoring the huge toll it takes on individuals and their families seems selfish to me.
Hate to break it to you but your dealer does not give a fuck about your health. It is extremely difficult for the police to find the dealer of a dead person, and then very difficult to prove the elements needed for a murder charge.

The police do not even try to find dealers of drug deaths, unless the victim is a celebrity.

Furthermore, every heroin dealer knows that each of their clients is likely to go into a downward spiral and become a liability. Thus, they treat their clients as expendable.
Part of the disagreement that seems to be emerging is that not all management positions are the same. Being a CEO of a large company per se doesn't carry the same risk as starting your own business.

A CEO or manager at many large corporations often has very little risk relative to the employees, and their contributions are often small relative to that of the employees, and in the least often not greater than the employees. I'm not saying there aren't good managers, or that they do nothing, but management has become too top heavy in the US as a whole, and the salaries of management pathologically disproportionate to their relative contributions.

You don't have to look very far to find examples of CEOs driving businesses into the ground and then leaving with severance packages that dwarf average employees' salaries, sometimes even average employee lifetime salaries, or of CEOs sheltered from financial or legal consequences by corporate personhood. There's also plenty of CEOs who take over businesses that are already turning around from a downside, after reforms that were put in place, and then are credited with causing the improvements, even though they did nothing.

Starting a company is different from managing or acting as an executive of an existing one, and my guess is that this is what people are reacting to. Even founders are sheltered to some extent when you consider venture capital and the protections of incorporation relative to, say, acting as an independent contractor.
> that's what knee-jerk Uber defenders are writing who refuse to grant taxis any credit for being good, useful services.

No, you're missing the point: they understand that it's a useful service. They are just pointing out that the service they provide is now being done better with Uber/Lyft/etc.

> These responses aren't reporting average case experiences with level headed analysis.

They really are. Just because you don't agree doesn't make it not true. You're basically going "I'm not crazy! It's *everyone else that's wrong!"

> It all reads very much like paid social engineering by Uber.

"I'm not crazy! It's a conspiracy I tell you! They're all shills!". Not helping, especially with the half-hearted hedge afterwards that you then back away from instantly with the next line...
"Having a law that says you can't ask someone something seems to violate Freedom of Speech and it sets a dangerous precedent."

Like your age, religion, sexual orientation, or if you're planning on getting pregnant?
Sonic is awesome. They have excellent customer support and actually care about and actively protect your privacy.

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/sonic-isp-privacy/
We buy the line that value drives price from sales people selling their wares to us. Yet we do not hold that line when it comes to the price we sell ourselves for.

@markonthewall, in the companies you start do _you_ pay your engineers based on their value or based on market rates?
>Dude, without the USA, the world will do just fine. Sure, there will still be wars, but when are men not fighting over one thing or the other?

Bullshit defense. There has never been a period in history with fewer wars and proportionally lower fatality rates due to violence. The existence of war at all does not somehow invalidate the value of American hegemony.
Airbnb's First Foray into Urban Planning
Dat is (currently) focused on synchronizing files in a peer-to-peer network.

Noms can store files, but it is much more focused on structured data. You put individual values (numbers, strings, rows, structs, etc) into noms, using a type system that noms defines, and this allows you to query, diff, and efficiently update that data.

Also Noms isn't peer-to-peer (although we hypothesize that it could run reasonably on top of an existing network like IPFS).
Yes, startups are not a good place to do research. Since the redesign of YC, with less funding per startup, startups are intended to fail, not pivot, if the original design doesn't work. When you think about it, YC's process is waterfall development.

PayPal was a huge pivot. Their original business was hardware security tokens.
Just did a quick test with a clean profile and then I get the normal proxy window. I previously had several add-on installed to do some more advanced proxy settings, that probably bit me with the upgrade to Firefox 48.
Reminds me of Hanx Writer: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hanx-writer/id868326899

and Electratype (I was on the team that made this app): https://itunes.apple.com/app/electratype/id619414507
So if this is hard to understand, the conclusion, in simple words:

the memory consumption for a javascript editor will be a magnitude bigger than native.

In my example 66Mb Sublime vs 620MB VS Code (no plugins)
Chrome was designed with multi-core processors in mind. Firefox wasn't, since obviously multi-core processors weren't really a thing when Firefox was initially released. As a result, Mozilla had to tear up a big chunk of the architecture to implement it. That's why it took so long. A simple case of technical debt.
> why aren't they simply offering large enough compensation packages to attract the existing pool?

Well, they are. Compensation packages at the big tech companies are ridiculous. I know someone that got $100k signing bonus (cash, not stock) without a degree at 21 years old. He's not a genius either.

At a certain point, don't you think it's better to share some of that opportunity with smart foreigners? How many Teslas does an American twenty-something need?
Salary and benefits negotiation usually comes at a point where the decision to hire has already been made, meaning it's costly for the employer to not negotiate.

That is why there is negotiation in the first place.
Turbo Pascal isn't Algol 68. A PC in 1989 isn't a B5000. But even accepting the example, 34,000 lines/minute gets you a compile that takes 294 minutes, or just under 5 hours. That's... not very good.

Of course faster hardware is part of the answer, but I suspect that it doesn't cover nearly all the ground between Turbo Pascal's compile time and Go's.
Same for athletes, the MLB Players Union has been extraordinary in preserving value for its members (guaranteed contracts!).
Oh WOW, actually embedding the icons as plain SVG. Color me impressed.
Sorry for seeming incredulous, but if you're saying that you're saving 100k a year in NYC, then you must be making like 400k or living in a cardboard box.

Even with a 300k salary, you could only save 10k a month if you only had 5k worth of monthly expenses (3-4k is easily rent in NYC).

And keep in mind that making 300k-400k is not typical.
Fiction is for the journey so the word count means nothing.

Ulysses. "Bloom had a glass of water". I'm not better than Joyce.
OOP came out of early "supercomputer" simulation work. Best i can tell, the idea is that each object should be possible to be assigned one or more CPU core (with each running a instance of the object). This then maximizing the performance of the simulation.
Those actually sound like a brilliant idea! Would you mind submitting an issue so I don't forget it? (or submit a PR?) https://github.com/mxstbr/sharingbuttons.io
80 bits of entropy (20 really random hex chars) should be safe enough.
Given that I use script blocking plugins this would be really interesting in discovering the inner works of this kind of stuff. Can you share some code?
Thanks! _blush_
Almost anyone can think of other apparent motivations Musk might have without my help and indeed without much thought. It doesn't require explanation.

I also think that people should be strongly discouraged from making claims like "here is a man who twice bet his personal fortune on these companies with no other apparent motive besides making the world a better place." That statement actively decreased the quality of discussion. Hopefully bronz will think before posting in the future.
i mean look at this statement
"A study showed patients prescribed high dosages of
opioids long-term (>90 days) had 122 times the risk
of opioid use disorder compared to patients not
prescribed opioids"
from the cdc to drs here http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/guideline_infographic-a....
So people taking opioids have are at more risk of opioid use disorder than people who dont take them. -YA THINK. And finally look at how they garble the data here http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6450a3.htm they are finally getting to where they can see the drugs are from illegal sources and not dr regulated rxs.
A better compensation structure would take into account that the majority of the price is a given, and compensate say 30% of the price over $270k.

But that would require realtors to give accurate and competitive assessments of property values, distracting from their primary hustle which is getting their client to sign an exclusive contract.
Hangout meet Slack
Short of an unholy ritual involving the supernatural, Tesla PR or Musk can only guess as to what the driver noticed in this case, and neither can accurately speak to what the either the driver or car did or did not do until the investigation is completed.

I think there's a lot to be concerned about wrt. AutoPilot and I plan on thoroughly reading the completed investigation reports.
Naughty Dog used a custom Scheme system for their early games. That one was written in Allegro Common Lisp.

When they were bought by Sony, they abandoned their tools and moved on to C++, hoping to share code with the rest of Sony game developers. Didn't work out as wished. They brought Scheme back into their game development, but differently. For example:

http://www.slideshare.net/naughty_dog/statebased-scripting-i...
I feel this is a straw man. I'm Swedish, but have always loved the US for some strange reason. I still do, but that doesn't mean that the US is perfect in any way, shape or form. It is a fantastic country with many flaws. You are obviously right in much of what you write, but that does not excuse a lot of the things that NSA et. al. does in the name of freedom. My point is just that we should not hold ourselves to the lowest of standards ("We're better than <non-democratic country" is not a good excuse).
If it was true that the output of engineering alone was creating that value, then it stands to reason that dissatisfied engineers could simply leave and capture something closer to 100% of that value.

The reality, though, is that businesses themselves enable substantially all of the value they create through engineering. Google can't drive billions in revenue without engineers, that's true. But the Mets can't play in Shea Stadium without the janitors cleaning up after games, too.
No hard feelings, sharingbuttons isn't a startup by a long shot, just a fun personal open source project! People should have choices :+1:
Are you a star? If not, then you have very little leverage in negotiating compensation. That is true across professions: Rock Star, Sports Star, Sales Star, Surgical Star, you name it. Next ask if stars are made or born. If born, then you're out of luck again - until you are reincarnate. If made, then learn from how others made themselves stars. Like many things in life, it helps to start young, and it often comes down to luck.

If your plan is not to achieve fame and fortune via stardom, then pursue it through more accessible means like being a doctor or lawyer or banker or businessperson. Being an engineer or scientist can be a stepping-stone, but if you stay on that stone then there is a slim chance of achieving star power.
> I expect to have a million dollars saved up within a decade and I certainly haven't relied on political panache to get there.

In 10 years, your "million" will be worth 800K now. Not everyone wants to sit around for decades to become a millionaire.
What about "this was never a good idea." Can't remember where I read this, but biometrics are a username, not a password!
Thanks. So it's building a hash tree with deterministic chunking and that means you can cheaply update the hash after updating parts of the tree as you only have to rehash certain bits?

Does that mean that your chunk sizes are kind of fixed? Do you think there's a way to retain that advantage and be able to coalesce smaller chunks into larger ones?

Say your smallest nodes are 4KB but for more efficient storage you might want to go up to 4MB chunks.
Could that be done while retaining the same hash for the same underlying data?
So from the charts I see that tumblr is best used for gifs and astrology, maybe even gifs about astrology. This should be followed by hipster fashion and gossips. Social media at its best.
Yes. From the abstract:

>Members of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, including two invited specialists, met in a 1-day interactive workshop to score 20 drugs on 16 criteria: nine related to the harms that a drug produces in the individual and seven to the harms to others. Drugs were scored out of 100 points, and the criteria were weighted to indicate their relative importance.

You could make the scores come out however you wanted based on the people you chose for the "1-day interactive workshop" and the criteria you used as the basis for the analysis. This isn't something you'd ever want to use as a basis for policy.
Product Management 101: How to deal with high friction steps
Saleforce Aquires Quip
Most employers post-pay, meaning a portion of your earned capital is nearly always at risk as an employee.
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