skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, stability would be good for them and everybody. War and fighting is not good for business in general.

The instability we see is definitely not a function of design. If you have studied any of it you will quickly realise that this is situation that has many actors that act based on their own interest and absolutely nobody has control over it. Those that attempt to control it usually end up creating a hole host of unintended consequences even if they sometimes manage to achieve their main goal.

Its however true, that in some limited cases, creating more chaos can potentially help you. Such cases definitely exist but they are not the majority of strategies used. Syria releasing of Jihadist to split the rebels is a interesting example of such a strategy. It usually is a strategy of the weak, not the strong. The strong prefer control, not chaos.

The idea that it would be best to throw everything in chaos is completely wrong and even the leaders of the super powers understand that. Only if you assume that their is some sinister conspiracy that has completely different values thats operating under our institutions, could such a policy be explained. I see 0 evidence for such a conspiracy.
I'm thinking about doing something very similar (using the NodeMCU variant)

Do have a description of your setup?
Iraq, the surprising arrival of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Brexit shock, rise of Trump...the commentator classes of New York, DC, London and other "tastemaker" cities need to reckon with their failures and understand why they were so utterly wrong. Instead, in most cases, we see doubling down and demonization of the other side. It's quite extraordinary. The black swans are coming fast and thick.
So... asking on behalf of a friend ;-)... my local dealer stocks both Arduino and Genuino brand boards. Is this unusual or about to change?

I feel like a curtain of innocence has been torn away for me. Ignorance of the politics in the Arduino scene was bliss.
The fastest one you can get? But honestly its not that important. Linux runs mostly flawlessly from a cheap old USB stick as well until you open big files, then it clearly fully depends on the available speed.
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No, they are not. One has more in common with a FPGA, the other is literally a Linux computer. Different complexity, different skillset, different use case.

..Unless you're talking about something like the Arduino Yun, which actually runs a Linux OS. But as an example, you're probably not going to build a wifi security camera on the original device.
Not to mention that, by Bloomberg's standards, most companies are "broke".

Debt isn't intrinsically good or bad, it can be very good in the right situation. I, as OP, recently left grad school with over $100k in debt, which will be paid easily in less than 5 years.

Debt allows you to leverage your future earnings to do something now. I wouldn't be able to pay for grad school without debt, and would be in a worse situation without it.
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I completely agree, I don't think it will end up being a massive disaster in the long-run, precisely because people will be thinking about how to solve them. Quick dismissal of the potential problems that could result does not help us solve them.
For me it was important that there was no gap in my income since I have a family, but you may want to get feedback from others to ensure you're on the right track. Maybe even get one paying customer to ensure you can validate the business. The best validation of an idea is that someone is willing to pay for it.
Out of interest, is American English considered a dialect of British English?
Freedom 0 exists with BSD code, 1-3 are worthless as a non developer.

So I'll ask again: What's the benefit to someone who isn't a developer?
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Here's an (older but interesting) interview with the "world's most quantified man":

http://hanselminutes.com/399/chris-dancy-the-worlds-most-qua...
How beautiful! Congress voted to invade another country. That makes it legal.

Next you'll get together with your wife and make the decision to invade your next door neighbor. That should be legal, right?
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I signed up for the beta but haven't heard anything back yet. Anyone else?
Upvoted for the timely Olympic scoring.
> nature itself will eventually take care of the numbers

I don't think most people would disagree. It's just that nature isn't very merciful, and the way it enacts it's policies could lead to a lot of suffering. It'd be much more pleasant if we self-regulated so that nature didn't have to.
Apples and oranges; two totally different products for different customers and uses.
I'll add Bloomberg. Esp their radio. Esp__2 their law program.
> The forced restructuring of Iraq's economy along right-wing neoliberal lines

I don't think 'right-wing neoliberal' is the right term for what's basically a soft version of the Warsaw Pact's command-and-control economies.

> Read "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Chandrasekaran.

I did, and it's very good — excellent. The short, short version is that basically everyone is incompetent, time-serving, disinterested and/or corrupt.
The exact same thing is observed in Belgian French (wallonian) where they use "une fois" (same thing as "once") because of the dutch speaking influence locally.
Net worth = assets - liabilities

An asset is a house, a liability is a morgage. Taking out a morgage doesn't effect your net worth because while you add a liability you also add an asset that counteracts that liability.
From a developer perspective is secure boot more of a obstacle than really useful. You need to use gummiboot, etc. to terminate the signing in order to use developer kernels without having a bottleneck, that one person in the company that does the signing, in the development process. (I am currently working with an Intel Quark X1020 where secure boot is enforced, it's not really nice)

U-boot is ported and regularly run on the MinnowBoard with an Intel Atom.

Do you speak about tianocore? I don't have much experience with it, can you configure it as well as u-boot and just compile in stuff you need?

Update: If you didn't know, u-boot supports signed images too. So UEFI is not necessary for this.
it sure does. I hope AWS and GCE will step up their GPU instance game
This design process helped Gravitational go $0 to $150k in sales in two months
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I think...that was the joke?
When you saw yourself in the mirror..and couldn't stop smiling.
You can get MagSafe clones for USB-C: https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
I bought like 2 of them so far and they both were exactly as expected. The only thing to note is that you should try to find those with CPUs (are those CPUs?) similar to the ones from the original designs. Some (the super cheap ones, < $1) often are identical by design but come with some crappy CPU
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He also just really liked writing about landscapes.
Exactly. Very well articulated.
Looking at the visualizations provide I don't see a visual proof that the code is able to extract city blocks; by city block, I mean as defined by Wikipedia here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block

Proof might be an interactive map that shows the city block of a selected area in NYC.

Is there a visual proof in the walkthrough I'm not seeing?
But if real CPU computer is cheaper than the microcontroller, you may start comparing it... :-)
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What are the stats for NYC?
It looks like a Flute. Air pressure enters and each hike let's a specific frequency go out.
Besides the obvious trolling occurring here, I'll answer your question on behalf of OP.

Arduino was (at one time) considered the holy grail of Makers.
They had open source schematics[1] and were very easy to use while quickly prototyping something.

For Makers, once the prototype phase had finished and it was time to move to 'production', the ATMega and ATTiny chips were very easy to buy in bulk and use directly in the product, with the guarantee that the code written on the Arduino would (for all intents and purposes) work on the embedded chip.

Long story short, before they shot themselves in the foot by infighting, they had a respectable standing among tinkerers and makers.

[1] https://www.arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/Arduino_Uno_Rev3-sche...
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Of possible interest, I used the GitHub API a few months back to see what was actually happening with the code government agencies were committing to GitHub (reuse, contribution patterns, licensing, etc). I ended up writing up some of my observations in a post [1] and 18F blog [2].

[1]: https://emanuelfeld.github.io/blog/2016/04/27/government-git...

[2]: https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/06/16/emanuel-feld-talks-about-his-...
I think you are assuming that the "cloud brains" will just be number crunchers like today's computers. Human intelligence and computer intelligence are fundamentally different. Sure, plugging directly into a massive calculator is useful, but does have it limits. However, this article is more about running simulated copies of our neural patterns. The human brain is limited to only a handful of simultaneous ideas. Imagine if you could synthesis an idea with 100 inputs instead of just 5. Or if you go with the spontaneous theory of creativity, you can parallelize the creative process, and just have a higher chance of having a good idea by increasing the number of ideas had. This is fundamentally different from raw calculation. Both are likely to be useful, but both will serve different purposes.
My MIL is Muslim. When we are visiting and it's time to pray she finds a quiet corner, unrolls her rug, does her prayer, and is back before the tea has finished steeping.

I've spent more time getting to the break room at work than she has on afternoon prayer. So I fail to see the connection between the 2-3 scheduled daily prayer times and production. If that is the case, coffee, cigarettes, lunch, and bathroom breaks are equal contributors.
Any of them, I've been using everything from teensy,nano, and rebranded Uno. So far they have all worked like a charm and at a steep price reduction. Example, 5 nanos for $15 from Amazon [1].

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/XCSOURCE-ATmega328P-Controller-Arduin...
The problem with blaming Sykes-Picot for everything is that almost none of the modern borders are due to that agreement (well, the Jordan-Syria border does seem to match up, but that's it).

More likely a better explanation lies in the importation of the Western idea of a nation-state (that a country should be coterminus with cultural boundaries), which tends to strongly reject the idea that countries can have multiple countries, combined with the failure of the Ottoman Empire to synthesize a durable Ottoman culture. The latter failure is arguably due in large part to, you guessed it, European meddling: the Ottoman state had largely functioned, and kept peace among fractious religious sects, by keeping its Islamic nature as a core of its identity (basically being a dual Turkish-Arab state). One aspect of this was the basis that most obligations of civic duty (particularly military duty) was borne solely by Muslims, with the non-Muslims (predominantly Christians) paying an extra tax, an arrangement generally accepted by both groups. European powers considered this intolerant [1], and forced a series of capitulations on the Ottomans in part to guarantee the security of Christians (which basically leads to the Armenian Genocide).

With the idea of a state centered on Islamic identity increasingly a failure, the Young Turks instead focused on a narrow, Turkish-based state, which alienated pretty much all minorities (including the Arabs) save the Kurds (their bid for nationalism started mostly post-WWI). After the Armenian Genocide, many Arabs suspected that similar treatment awaited them, but they largely kept to showing support for the regime during the exigencies of WWI. The Iraqis in occupied Mesopotamia didn't cooperate with the British (not that it saved them from retribution), for example. The Bedouin did offer support to both sides, but they were not reliable allies to either side. Only the Hashemites (who controlled Mecca and Medina) revolted, successful only due to the aid of the British, who gave them Jordan and Iraq as victory spoils (their original Kingdom of the Hejaz was conquered by the Saudis, another British ally, in the interwar period).

[1] Side note: the Ottomans generally forbade the Muslims from proselytizing to the Christian groups, whereas the capitulations generally forced the Ottomans to accept Christian missionaries attempting to convert Muslims.
>Some projects are more than eager to cut up to 8% of potential bugs with such a trivial change.

Except it's not trivial, it's not 'free' - it adds noise to the code base and the idea it will eliminate all typing bugs is ludicrous.

>Stating a type in a variable declaration doesn't harm concision

Java is a good example of language that has explicit type declarations for every variable. That's one of the reasons why the average Java program is 2x as long as an equivalent python program.

> obviously it does exactly the opposite of what you claim regarding clarity.

No, not obviously. Are Java programs easier to read than python thanks to their explicit variable declarations and tendency towards verbosity?
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I went for a test drive the other day, and the sales guy told me on his first test drive a couple of year ago, the customer actually rolled the BMW he was considering to buy. Upside down, airbags on.

He was so impressed by the automatic assistance call that he actually bought the car.
He didn't say we can't do it, but that there are problems. Automation will help, but it doesn't solve all of the problems associated.
This is like saying a farm tractor and a pickup truck are the same thing because they both have internal combustion engines and wheels.
The local Microcenter sells Arduino Uno R3 clones under their Inland store brand for $10, currently and frequently on sale for $6. Ideally, I'd like to support Arduino LLC, but given how absurd this whole feud has been, I don't feel especially guilty when I buy a clone. I have bought a few Arduino brand 101 boards from Microcenter as well so I'm not a total sell out!
> back to at least 2011.

At least to 2006, ten years ago, thanks to the US Embassy cable published by Wikileaks:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

Some coverage:

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/10/wikileaks-cabl...

"The cables also show that U.S. support for efforts to overthrow the Syrian government beginning in 2011 were not a response to the Assad government’s repression of protests but rather a continuation of a years-long strategy by more directly violent means."

Without that cable, this would be impossible to prove. Helps understanding why Manning who leaked that was 9 months in solitary confinement, stripped naked:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/11/stripped-naked...
I'm not sure why "contraception by default from birth with free reversibility" would be an unpopular opinion. People who don't want kids would be happy, people who want kids but want control over timing would be happy, even people who want kids to be an unexpected gift would be happy...
Sure they are not.

Different form factors, and most importantly different energy need. You'll get much better result running an arudino on AA batteries than a pi.
What costs you more – time and materials or fixed price?
I think they're technically microcontrollers, which are actually a microprocessor and then some (RAM, ROM, ADC, etc) all on the same chip.
You said previously that "Science publishing needs to be coordinated by the major funding agencies.", a bit stronger than "I'm saying the funding agencies need to create their own journals".

I'm not challenging anyone's success, and I'm in no position to say it's not a rock-solid organization and journal. I'm only saying that forcing that ALL journal be run by funding agencies exposes research to the risk of being controlled by those who fund it, lest they don't get published.

Plus, while I don't doubt the dedication of your former boss, this is your opinion (hence inherently biased, though in good faith) and it is just one case you're mentioning. I won't bet this would happen all the time.
“Another consequence of the delay is that several of the accusations are now barred due to the statute of limitations. We can’t see any other outcome for this investigation than that it be shut down.”
This is pretty interesting from a video encoding point of view. We're currently using g2.2xlarge AWS instances which are Kepler based. All we really need from those instances is the GPU (more specifically, the NVENC H264 encoding chip), so other specs aren't too important.

It looks like the NV6 Azure instances use a newer Maxwell based chip, which can handle much more (concurrent, or higher bitrate/resolution) videos, compared to the 2 generation older AWS GPUs.

And the NV6 is virtually the same price as the g2.2xlarge... time to do some testing. Hopefully Amazon can catch up soon.
If you are offered two choices, A and B, and have to make a decision, how do you decide which to choose? By comparing characteristics of each.

When there is only one choice, it doesn't really matter what the characteristics of it are, and any information that might reflect negatively on it can be kept hidden from view.

This is not just for the purpose of maximizing income streams. Two competing charities might attempt to raise money to accomplish the same goal, but one may have a far better approach and get far better results.

Imagine if you were given a large scoop of a mushy substance labeled "FOOD". There were multiple vats of it behind a counter, but they all contained the same thing.
And just as you can choose to use a landline, you can choose to drive a 1990 Honda Accord.
No, they are both dialects of English.
I needed a small box to run owncloud. I would definitely use something like a Pi (or odroid).

I needed to control my brewery's heating element based on input from a timer and a thermometer. That definitely called for an arduino.

They're different, and while it's true I COULD have used a Pi for the latter, it would use way more power and be complete overkill.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. But mortgages exist in lots of Muslim majority countries. Are you really suggesting that Muslims don't take on debt?

You can take out a mortgage in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Morocco.. They were the first four I checked.
It has one analog pin, it seems to be very limited, I agree. But you can get an ADC breakout and talk to it via SPI.
Serious question: what are people building with these boards? The recurring projects I've seen are controlling lights, doors/locks and monitoring water in plants. I don't find these particularly compelling, am I missing something? How is this the next big thing?
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Does this feel like creating a new gate keeper to anyone else? What happens when the start up closes?
> don't do to others what you don't want done upon yourself

This only works for people who sufficiently appreciate their own possessions. Others might develop a very relaxed "stuff comes, stuff goes, who cares it's just materialistic crap anyways" attitude and and that equips them to have surprisingly little remorse in regards to theft. This is probably exemplified best in the extremely high rate of theft affecting near-zero-value bikes in many Dutch cities. That kind of thief might even rationalize by inverting guilt, "if he feels bad about the loss it's his own fault that he is not as cool about shitty old piles of rust as I am"
You're entirely missing the point of what freedom means. The point is that you have the freedom to exercise 1-3 if you choose to do so. It doesn't matter if the user isn't currently a developer, and it doesn't matter if there is any practical benefit. The freedoms themselves are inherently valuable.
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I've spent a lot of time with religious people. Many of them think that our current birth-control methods are immoral. Many states in the US still have abstinence-only education.
Also, Norway:

"The country maintains a combination of market economy and a Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system. Norway has extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, fresh water, and hydropower. The petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) On a per-capita basis, Norway is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside the Middle East." (Wikipedia)
Why do you want an Arduino when the ESP8266 is half the price and has WIFI?
I know money is money, but that tax-payer money I was mentioning is the research funds themselves, not the money used to pay subscription.
While not "at birth", there is a non-profit working on this for men: https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/
> France was the colonial power in control over there, they used basic divide and conquer tactics.

And while France ran Algeria and Lebanon, they were thriving, pleasant, peaceful, beautiful places. Beirut was once one of the loveliest cities in the world.

There are worst things than colonialism; to a first approximation, every single post-colonial country is worse off than it was when it was a colony (I wouldn't count the U.S. as post-colonial because in a very real sense it's a successful colony).
You could not be more wrong. I am a software engineer, and I pray five times a day. My wife is a physician, prays five times a day, and wears the headscarf. If our household income is any indication, we are thriving just fine.
Do you have a writeup of the tools you use? I'd love to see something like that.
Maybe offer broadband to people in the state next to yours. An "internet swap" between towns. Then it'd be under federal jurisdiction rather than state.

This would probably only work for towns close to the border and at best would demonstrate how stupid the legal landscape for competitive internet access has become.
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Totally agree, but what percentage of (1) is w.r.t. the total grant?
To me, the free software philosophy assumes that every user is a developer, or at least, it asserts that any user should be capable of comprehending and modifying any code that runs on their system, and defends their right to do so. The distinction between the two ("user" and "developer") exists because proprietary software and commercial software created a fundamental disconnect between the processes of ownership and development, and because computers have gotten too complex for any single person to fully comprehend. But it's not a distinction that should exist.