skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert in front end technologies. Mostly done C all my life and now Java. But, when it came to jumping on to JavaScript and writing Web Apps, I choose Typescript. I don't know what most of the people think about it, but for me it was more about code readability. I can look at Typescript and tell what's going on. Couldn't do this with regular JavaScript.

http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/
My AT&T iPhone gets a v4 address when I'm using my cellular data - but when I use my AT&T DSL connection, I get v6.
Pyongyang Is Totes Awesome, Bro
Globo seems to credit Ronaldo Torres with unmasking him as a fraud at both Botafogo and Fluminense...

Separating the reality from the fantasy is difficult when the sources from the period can't be relied upon: the Globo article also includes an clipping from a Brazilian newspaper - presumably written by one of his journalist friends - discussing him being the top scorer in the French third tier in 86/7! Which I'm pretty sure he wasn't. Various accounts of him as a footballing charlatan have this stint in France as a brief year in the middle of his career or an extended stint in its twilight; have his career begin as a promising teenager or as a 23 year old socialite. Attempts to total up his career appearances seem to agree he played in around 30 first team matches for professional clubs but disagree about whether these were only overseas or mostly in Brazil

Above all, even in the internet age you can see why some of his taller stories might have been believed...
You'd find that the n-folded paper is both too tick and to narrow to achieve a n+1 fold. You could still put it in the hydraulic press and apply plenty of force with it, but the points where you apply the force will be too clumped together; the press would not fold the paper, just squeeze it really, really hard, and probably deform it or tear it apart at places.
Absolutely! The reference to "snakes" was so dated.
Probably because this thread has a very good chance of becoming an off-topic flamewar.

(I didn't downvote, by the way.)
Quick vent.

I'd much rather lawyers just kept of the internet entirely.
I would say, in no particular order:

1) not as strong eminent domain (either law or willpower to use, idk)

2) similar to above with zoning

3) labor costs (very cheap to have literal around-the-clock construction work in China)

4) existing infrastructure that is for the most part "good enough" for current use cases

#4 kinda kills us for things like e.g. public transit, when most people have cars.
That does not work because anybody who has your email address knows to remove anything after '+'. The only case it can work is if you were to only use addresses where there was a + sign, and throw all other emails to the trash.

I have thought of a similar technique but this time using a period that would float between all the letters I have in my username. Any emails sent to an address without the period gets autodeleted.
Venturebeat has been a little bit over the top trying to make this "bot" thing happen for some reason.

If some blogger can say something is "disruptive" even before it succeeds, it probably it isn't disruptive.

I've never seen any successful disruptive company that everyone knew as being "disruptive" before they succeeded, not to mention companies or founders who call themselves "disruptive".
LIKEtoKNOW.it's Instagram Feed Is Super White
Autonomous shuttles == private bus service.

I'm not disputing that subways would be preferable. I'm saying that from a fiscal and political standpoint SF MTA will never be able to justify and afford the capital investment unless they start building them RIGHT NOW.

The biggest cost in running a bus service is labor. Out-of-the-gate, autonomous cars and shuttles will have a substantially lower operating cost than the public bus service network, and will for some time. Middle-income commuters will flock to private bus services. Even if slightly more expensive, they'll be cleaner, more comfortable, and more timely, _especially_ for commuters. SF MTAs current fare is $2.25. A ride on Chariot (which I've used a couple of times) is less than $4. Imagine what Chariot could offer if they didn't incur labor costs for each shuttle?

The private shuttles don't obviate the need for a public bus service, but they'll absolutely take a huge chunk of the profits. Also, without middle-income commuters you're left with a higher proportion of people traveling on free or subsidized bus fares. Also also, average passenger count will decrease dramatically when you take away some of those commuters. An outsized proportion of revenue comes from packed buses, which if we're being honest is probably one reason why SF MTA has been slow with service upgrades--service upgrades not only cost money to implement, they reduce your margins.

San Francisco doesn't build subways because 1) it's too costly and 2) NIMBYs put up too many political roadblocks. Serious competition will mean even 1) less revenue for SF MTA, and 2) more excuses for the NIMBYs to block investment. Also, autonomous vehicles will only bolster lobbying for investment in the road networks at the expense of public transit.

The pain of slow transit _manifestly_ isn't enough to cause SF to build a new subway (the Central Subway notwithstanding for obvious reasons). Autonomous vehicles will only tip the balance in favor of surface transit generally, and away from public transit. It will make subways even more expensive in absolute and relative terms, which means they simply won't happen because (for good reason) SF has generally been a fiscally conservative government. The few recent big projects have come with substantial problems, despite being primarily funded privately or without state or federal money, and so will only make the city more risk-averse.

Long-term subways would still make sense. But from a long-term perspective subways have made sense in SF for quite some time. If investment can't be sustained from at least a medium-term perspective, it simply won't happen without a miracle. And autonomous vehicles will make the numbers look much worse than they ever have.
I'm 38 now and I no longer enjoy all the interactions with my friends that I used to. Often once we get started I can get into it, but the thoughts I have in advance come up like a cost-analysis proposition in my head. Part of me is convinced that socialising with friends is work. I know my friends have started to feel the same as they've gotten older too.

I blame things like instant messaging for making those baseline friendship interactions too easy and too disposable and too convenient.

My response is to get out there and I socialise anyway. If someone makes efforts to be friendly to me I man the fuck up and return in kind and I recognise the way I feel for the fault that it is. It's a dead end that leads to unhappiness. Hanging out with people (not just your friends, ANYONE) is like exercise for your mental health. The more you hate and dread it the more you probably need it so it's best to just get it over with because it'll become easier with renewed practise.
Contratto a tempo indeterminato?
The big problem is when you give out your email address to a human who stores it in his contacts, and some malware app gets a hold of his contacts and sells/distributes it.
I've heard recently that suits are making a comeback... :)
We can't even maintain the infrastructure we have.
That's basically the objective of every compression algorithm. Huffman coding does it directly by construction, Lempel Ziv do it indirectly - in LZ78/LZW, you get essentially and asymptotically (though randomly, per individual sequence) code length proportional to log_2 prob(sequence), because the sequences added to the dictionary are added by order of probability.

In LZ77/LZSS, it is basically the same, except the dictionary is not constructed explicitly but rather implicitly from the history. In both cases, you need to refer to Lempel and Ziv's proof that indeed, the codeword length converges to log_2 P(sequence), which is optimal by the Shannon Source Code Theorem.

I highly recommend Cover & Thomas book on information theory if you find that interesting and are not afraid of math. And Shannon's original 1949 paper ("A theory of communication") is surprisingly and exceptionally readable - though it doesn't cover LZ for obvious reasons.
Amazon status all Green, but IAM roles unreachable
I am trying to upload some Amazon Lambdas. I have not had a problem doing this before. Now, out of the blue I am getting 503 errors during the upload process. Here is an image of the error: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2jPVs9ymvNddl8tam5xczBERzA. To be sure it was not my environment I went to the Amazon console directly. I am getting errors there as well: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2jPVs9ymvNdTkVJbmVRejA3Qlk

I can't open a ticket because I would have to buy a support contract. I also know it is no use posting in the Amazon forums because I have never received a response.
Anecdotally in the Denver/Boulder area I haven't seen an impact. People who drink haven't converted to pot, because - IMHO - it's been "decriminalized" for so long. At places I work we still go out for a beer after work and restaurants are generally unwilling to allow pot products as they are alcohol (that may be a corporate or regulatory thing though).

The Guardian published an article stating that alcohol consumption (specifically tax revenue) has actually gone up: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/31/alcohol-indu...
This was about daytrading, where you would be lucky to find a stock that moves 10% intraday.
Good point. I agree that it'd probably have become a flamewar and sucked. But also I wish it stayed at a low positive vote count, instead of being grayed out like it was an invalid opinion.
> they have the right to smash your vehicle to get past

Um...I'm pretty sure that reads as "if your car is in the way they get to drive into it to move it out of the way". I like to think our emergency services drivers aren't driving such a reckless manner as to be smashing into stationary vehicles along the way to a shout.

Perhaps GP's comment is poorly worded and they mean that the emergency services have a right to break into a vehicle by way of smashing windows to facilitate its removal.
Interesting no one has mentioned this page in the thread: https://www.fcc.gov/general/traffic-pumping

As I understand there is an incentive model in place to encourage this type of traffic.
It's especially common when they used to work at a "famous" company.

Some real world examples: in the mid-2000s being a "Googler" was a straight pass by some to thinking you were some wizz-bang amazing programmer. Because Google only hired the best and brightest, right?

Then you work with some of them and realize they they were nothing more than a smart college kid who got lucky with who hired them and were terrible programmers. They were juniors at best, but now with the ego of RMS.

The same happened for a while with "Game Producers" from Zynga, when they were riding high and had a better reputation. The trouble was that Zynga had a policy of rapid promotion so you got "Producers" and "Studio Leads" who couldn't last 5 minutes outside of Zynga. That wasn't always the case, but it happened enough that it actually became something of a black mark in the industry.
732 is certainly a step in the right direction.
One problem with eminent domain in the US, as I understand it, is that the price the government is required to pay the owner is not just based on current value of the land, but also potential future value.

I hear that it's common for people who own low-value properties located next to highways and such to have plans drawn for "future improvements", which can be high-value things like hotels, for instance. Then, when the government wants to take ownership of the land, they can say, "look, I am planning to build a hotel here, this land's potential future value is 10 times what it is now!" Which makes things kind of hard for the government.
I don't understand why everybody does not block third-party cookies by default. I took a stab at my cookie list and found 300 cookies from advertisers and intel gatherers. I deleted them selectively, but I did not want go through that again, so I blocked the third-party ones.

Some have been explicitly aloud because I trust them, like google analytics. But other google cookies are prohibited, like plus.google.com. Facebook is explicitly blocked. Doubleclick is blocked. some websites will not work if certain third parties are blocked, so i have to explicitly allow them once i realize the problem.
I am really beginning to hate browsing the web these days... Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browser screen. With an average of 20 browser tabs open, while one is loading I often go to click on another to check on something, and this instantly triggers a flurry of popups begging me to stay/subscribe.

Also the retargeted ads that follow me everywhere now. MOST of them are for companies where I have ALREADY bought something, so they are wasting their ad spend on chasing an existing customer, not a likely prospect.

This has made me resolve to try and make the web a less shitty place, one web site at a time - and I have ensured that my web projects absolutely DO NOT have any popups or cross site tracking in there (aside from normal analytics that is only used in house).

[I accidentally mis-typed 'pop up' above but LOVE the Freudian slip so will leave it as-is].
Yeah, it's down. I'm experiencing issues too. Also see https://twitter.com/aws_shd/status/767864566667542528
Sure, but GP's comment suggests ramming the vehicle out of the way on the way to a shout.
Digital Foundry did an episode of their Retro series on the Unreal Engine's move to consoles, which is well worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV8enCp651c
I'm saying it's not reasonable to think that a private individual can make a long-term profit day-trading, skilled or not. It's quite reasonable to suppose lots of impossible things.

How does your model account for magnitude?
Scala supports dependent types like how F# supports higher kinded types. Kind of, some of the time, but you might be able to find a library which shims full support.
Last I heard they have integrations with all the major telephone providers - comcast, verizon etc...? Where did you hear about the congress lobbying shutting it down?
I find the conclusion a bit strange:

> The troublesome transformer was not replaced, but the building owner agreed to turn off the sign should problems arise.

I thought they said it was a potential danger if folks cannot use their phones nearby, but then they dont take action to take down the sign. Are they waiting for an emergency to happen first?
The Secret of Floppy Paper
I think the opposite of every you said. Short term factors are far more predictable, with less noise, but this is only true if you trade defined situations and have good understanding of counterparties. Noise really isn't much of an issue except for illiquid stocks. The rest have highly correlated movements and random noise averages out anyways.
Why do we have blood types?
I'm using a Galaxy Note 3 with CyanogenMod 12.1 (Lollipop) and I get each month's security updates. So it appears as though Google does release security updates for existing major versions.
I wouldn't call this obscure by any means. You'll find Ethernet flow control enabled on just about every datacenter network, especially those that have a combined network and storage fabric.
It's clear from initiatives like this that the people coming up with these ideas either don't understand why our current voting system exists, or don't understand the technical challenges digitising them.

The only way that an online voting system could work safely is if every vote was anonymous, as well as being stored in an immutable ledger.

However, you'd also need to make sure that nobody could vote twice, so you'd have to mail to everyone in the country (similar to the census) a UUID that would serve as their token. And due to the fact that votes need to be secret and that the postal system could be manipulated, you would have to provide a service for people to get their UUID in person. Once you have that UUID, it must be stored such that there is no link to the person who's UUID it is.

Then and only then could you actually get close to having a safe voting system (with public oversight). However, there are still the usual problems of how do you get a copy of the software securely, is the software going to be free software, how will the software be audited, who will host it and mirror it, etc.

The great thing about Australia's voting system (and any paper voting system in fact) is that it is decentralised. If a single voting center screwed up your votes, none of the others are affected. If an online voting system has a bug, then potentially every vote is in danger.
Know from other publications?
Buying short isn't the opposite of buying long - it's the reciprocal. Which is an important distinction: if you buy a diversified portfolio of 10 stocks and one goes bust, if you bought long you've lost 10%. If you bought short, you're completely broke.
The United States right now is the richest country in the history of the world, by a wide margin. Second place is the U.S. last year, third place is the U.S. in 2014, etc. It has the highest income, around $18 trillion (GDP) [0], and most wealth, around $85 trillion.[1]

Some politicians take the radical position that taxes must always be reduced, then claim the government has no money for government services and investment.

The U.S.'s problem is not economic, it's merely a political problem with certain politicians.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth
How SaaS is shaping up in Sydney
Lagrange Points
Building a Really, Really Small Android App
This is absolute BS. I've had nothing but stellar support from the Play store and you can easily contact them via chat, email or even voice.
Also one of the only ways to negotiate your way out of a spanning tree broadcast storm. Generally the firmware on the MAC will reflect a pause frame to the source when it's FIFO is full. That happens because the host is not pulling packets out of the FIFO fast enough, or the network has gone bonkers and is sending a gazillion packets per second.

The latter can happen when your misconfigured DHCP server gives out an address that other nodes on your network believe to be the broadcast address for the subnet. The device with that ill fated address will get deluged after every packet they send as people ack or nak or respond with queries. I saw that happen when a NetGear router had a netmask of 255.255.255.248 which the user copied from the WAN config to the LAN config, but the DHCP server was told the netmask was 255.255.255.0. Hilarity (not) ensued.
Am I paranoid in assuming their "opt out" system is basically probably an "opt in"?

Related: I know that it's possible to "opt out" via the Direct Marketing Association communications (https://dmachoice.thedma.org/), but have thus far not done this as I assume I'll just get more junk mail.
The web exists for 20+ years now. How exactly is visiting a website unknown waters?
The parent comment said criticisms of private day traders were motivated by jealousy, and I said that's certainly not the case for the most notable of the critics. Buffett could have made his success as a rodeo clown for all it matters to my point.
Seriously, sunspots? Would love to see more about this. Did you write it up anywhere?
Except everyone misuses such a thing, privacy gets violated, often don't test well for battery in many different conditions, and then users end up with a shit experience yet don't have the technical expertise to understand why (or which app is causing the problem). Android is particularly difficult since you can have a service running without an app present, so disabling it isn't very intuitive.

I think Apple has done a better job at this balance by not letting people shoot themselves in the foot at the cost the odd useful service not being possible.
There's nothing wrong with the path you've chosen for yourself but I can say based on my anecdotal experience that human social dynamics, particularly in groups, can be counter-intuitive and are definitely a "you get what you put in" kind of thing (not to be confused with being a doormat for your "friends").

I think it's remarkably important to surround yourself with people that are meaningful to you; that to me is different from things in common. Having things in common helps provide a medium for bonding but it's rarely the specific activity that is the focus for bonding, it's the shared experience that is.

There are lots of people that I call friends with whom I have little in-common, but there's a specific experience I've had with them or perhaps one specific thing to bond over that has created a strong connection.

Meaningful conversation is important too but I often find that trying to have a conversation I want to have can be productive. Many people are actually very interested in different ways of thinking or approaching life.
Until you are on a first name basis with someone who owns a tea shop, you have not tried all the teas. And if you have, try another tea shop.
So true. Its only the extroverts who like this environment. Unfortunately they are often the loudest. I hate when I'm in the middle of something and my bored co-worker wants to use me to waste time.
We didn't try but being speaking with the vendor it seemed that enabling extra cores could take about a week from raising a purchase order to the activation code coming through. Maybe larger customers who run hundreds of these may have a quicker turn around time dealing directly with IBM.

And it's not that IBM deliver an entire server like in your case. For most practical applications, it's merely the case of adding CPUs to the pool of CPUs available to the PowerVM hypervisor. If you need to provision additional memory or IO, that needs to be accounted in as well.

That hypervisor is weird on it's own. It's part firmware part software.

If you have big box serving your users who solely rely on CPU cycles then yes, it's a sweet deal. And consider yourself very lucky if you have users who will immediately see better performance if you throw more CPU cycles at them.
> wanting to justify risk aversion

I don't think this is it. In fact, I think it's the exact opposite. I think risk aversion is what's justified by default. You don't need to defend being steadily employed or your lack of interest in stocks. It's the reasons people give to take risks that most of us are challenging.

Stock trading is gambling. It just is. So to deny it's gambling is already a red flag. To say you have more information than other people is another. And to say you're smarter so you're okay, well, maybe you are, but no one is smart enough to compete with those who cheat. And if you're cheating, none of these comments apply to you.

So for those who insist day trading is profitable, the empirically backed scientifically proven answer is simply, no it's not. And that's why it's so easy to knock on those who disagree with this claim. Yes, people make money, but so does every single person who continues to gamble. If you never won, you wouldn't keep gambling.

But to be fair, for entrepreneurs, it's the decision to not have a steady job that needs defending and that is analogous to the irrationality of the day trader. They may claim it's a great idea, but the empirically backed scientifically proven answer is, no it's not.

But I think a key difference in values is that entrepreneurs feel like they're actually building something. They value their work. And that's where you just have to agree to disagree. Passion is not an opinion.