skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
163,696 square miles in California and it can only be these 49...
Both Gumroad (http://blog.gumroad.com/post/110080508463/vat) and Paddle (https://www.paddle.com/support/how-does-paddle-handle-vat-on...) are payment providers who will handle EU VAT for you. Paddle is probably more suited for a SAAS.
>I wonder what kinds of devices this is intended for?

I worked on POS terminals that were 400MHz ARM11 with no GPU. We were using Qt in a proprietary OS to do little touchscreen UIs.
That sounds like a good idea and pretty straightforward to implement -- now I almost wanna try it...
My understanding was that the trucking industry had taken huge strides towards improving their network and load matching years ago. Uber's technology may have been revolutionary in the taxi industry but are you sure there's a lot of room for improvement in trucking? I would have guessed the trucking industry was actually more efficient than Uber in these areas.
Dame Stephanie Shirly: A women's software company in the 1960s (2015)
Even if it turns out to be leaky, it could still be a big deal: I think it's fair to say that the greatest cloud risk isn't actively and persistently hostile providers - mostly because that sounds like an almost hopeless task. A more realistic risk is that via a VM-breakout or other hack hostile code manages to run on the hypervisor or to at least indirectly influence the hypervisor and other VMs. And that kind of code may well be harder to exploit with even slightly leaky encryption. A hacked hypervisor may not be entirely under the control of the hacker; or breaking the encryption may cause side-effects (such as instability) that causes watchers to take note; or it may simply be quite complex and require case-by-case exploits that are generally impractical.

Even a less that perfect protection from the hyper-visor may still have some value.

I'd be more worried about the performance overhead, personally - I can't imagine using this if the impact is significant, and it seems like it almost has to be.
All video will be downgraded to 480p unless you pay extra. That is as blatant as a net neutrality violation as they get. It was pretty clear that this was T-Mobile's ultimate end goal when they introduced the Binge On feature that allowed data to circumvent data caps. I'm just sad that we allowed them to get away with this obvious bait and switch tactic to get public approval for anti-net neutrality behavior.
Developers suck at judging their own performance in interviews
1) Cool.

2) This isn't, strictly, about processing text data but about an approach to development that Racket makes easy.

Specifically:

Prototype in a REPL or similar
Easily integrate unit tests alongside the relevant
units.
Convert it to a statically typed implementation:
Remove some need for run-time checks
Depending on programming ethos has significant value

3) If you really want to do text processing, let's go with perl:

print sort map{sub{map{push@_,shift;"@_\n"}@_}->(split)}<>

From: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=62671

4) Things missing from yours and the perl one:

Usage notes
Command line flags/options
Tests
Static typing (maybe of value for small programs like
this, but useful in larger programs [EDIT:0])

The first three are trivially added to the other two programs (though the perl one will need some reformatting). But the fourth is impossible. Again, for this scope of project (a demonstration, mind you) the tests and static typing aren't as essential. But if you want this code to live on, and potentially become part of a library of more utilities, they're very helpful.

[0] and projects that depend on this is a library call so they know the types of the arguments and returns.
> Only if you assume that the best utilization of scarce resources is the most profitable one

Well, the best utilization is the one with the highest utility. In an efficient market that's the same as the most profitable, by definition. The usual caveats apply: no two individuals can ever agree how to measure utility, a free market won't be efficient unless there are no barriers to entry (city zoning may be a barrier to entry), transaction costs are low (the cost of moving from one apartment to another in the rental market is high), and property rights exist and are enforced (including both the obvious property rights and the ones that would apply to all the externalities like neighborhood character but don't exist and won't be enforced for a variety of good reasons)

So yes, caveats. Obviously. There's a moral character to some of these things. One can argue that people living in houses in a big city is morally superior to people vacationing in those houses. (Is that a thing you'd like to argue? Please do explain why, if it is.)

But to the point before: is AirBnB a rent extractor? Pointing out that caveat apply to the measuring of capital utilization in the abstract is not a strong argument in and of itself. Do they apply here? If they apply, would you care to quantify the impact in dollar figures for a typical city? (I recognize this can be hard for moral injuries, but it's not always clear when the injury ceases to be financial and becomes moral.) And even if these caveats apply, how do they apply to making the case that AirBnB actually extracts economic rents? The main thing it seems to be doing is lowering transaction costs associated with doing a short-term rental, and they do have competitors (HomeAway, Wimdu, Tansler, FlipKey, just plain Craigslist, etc, not to mention that the homeowners face competition from substitutes in the form of hotels) so it's not quite obvious that they're the ones collecting on this economic rent.
of course it's unrealistic. i think op was being facetious.

but, there is something to be said about our calling it "unrealistic" and not "impossible". :)
A lot of people seem to be missing the point of PowerShell. The concept is far more poweful than the unix shells, because it's a superset of them. It's like Haskell and Haskell-without-types.

We could only dream we had something like strongly-typed pipes in Unix -- and that various tools supported it too.
I wouldn't be surprised if driverless cars were way more secure for pedestrians and cyclists.

It's really difficult to keep track of pedestrians and cyclists when driving, whereas a driverless car has 360° nightvision.
> "it would allow you to securely run a VM in the cloud that is protected against someone who controls the hypervisor"

> Attestation uses an on-chip certificate signed by an AMD master key during fabrication.

This is absolutely fantastic for security in the cloud, but it is important to note that this will not protect against nation state level actors.

Rest assured that the USG will obtain the AMD master signing key with or without AMD's permission. Other nation states may do likewise. The rest will have to wait for a leak, and if that key is leaked this feature will become almost nonexistent.
I wasn't suggesting neo-marxism. I was pointing out that we are fucked in the long term unless we collectively stamp this out.
E-Sports is next. Here's why
Canadian cops want to know your passwords
The open shares that Exxon(market cap 370B) has on the market exceeds the number of shares that Saudi Aramco will have(100B). So this won't have a very large impact.
Nice move from Unity, which has built a great development suite but is hampered by its own success with its very reasonable fixed cost license per seat business model. This partnership allows them to get a revenue cut of its customers' games without alienating them.

I had always expected Unity to build their own steam-like platform, but this short circuits things with an immediate huge userbase. Great move.
Agree on Greenspan, but do you really believe that the inflation rate has been 1.7%? Actual inflation is estimated to be anywhere from 3-7%, depending on the source.

The Fed, setting interest rates way below the actual inflation, is actually taking money from savers and retirees (rather than rewarding them), or forcing them to be reckless with their money by investing in principal-at-risk investments (which they should not at their age)
As with any large-scale change, it depends. We did testing across the ecosystem before turning it on by default (that will be in a future release, not 1.11) and there weren't any major regressions, at least. Some small improvements are there.

For example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/34096#issuecomment-22...
Some things never change. It's been this way for as long as I can remember. The sad irony is, satisfaction remains the same (i.e., low) as well. We keep chasing our tails and products remain sub-par and users still frustrated. It's a shame SOS isn't a loved buzzword.
Almost none of that matters in a novel. Which has little structure other than sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. Many won't even include italic text (though some might).

If your output is simple, stick to simple tools. Tool tyranny -- decisions you're forced to make, because your tools dictate them -- is a significant cognitive overhead.

(Incidentally, this is why I found Lyx actually harder to use than LaTeX. Lyx forced me, from the beginning, to consider the document format and structure, whilst LaTeX lets you just start writing paragraphs and sorting out the rest later.)

The more extended answer: if you've got other shit you need to do, you address it when the time comes.

Markdown, specifically, allows for inline inclusion of other formatting languages, particularly LaTeX and HTML. It also has native support for images, tables, lists, etc.

You've got the option for Roman, bold, italic, and monospace text. If your document needs more than this, address it in layout.

In the workflow mentioned here, the author actually answers your question: images, etc., were added (for the cover) in LibreOffice and through ePub management tools, including a Python script to reorganise the output file as needed.

Again, the advantage of Markdown (or rsT, or AsciiDoc, or ...) is that the markup gets out of your fucking way. Instead of obsessing over format, you write your fucking story (or article, or essay, or rant, or ...). Then deal with the layout later.
There's actually lots of Ubisoft games on Origin.[0] I've also seen The Witcher and lots of indie games on there, too. I poked around Uplay a bit, but that appears to be 100% their own.

[0] https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/browse/ubisoft
>people install things like ReSharper

This used to be true but VS2015 is actually completely fine without ReSharper. Roslyn is amazing, I've even built my own custom code analyzers (ie. compiler extensions) that integrate in to the entire ecosystem seamlessly (nuget package registers them to VS project, IDE shows you code analysis on the fly, C# compiler uses them on every build, including CI/build server - and you can enforce stuff with it - eg. raise build errors).

>but .NET lacks a build tool like Maven or something similar

There are .NET build tools, FAKE, CAKE, etc. etc. but people don't use them much, tooling integration is notably missing. It would be nice to have something like Gradle in .NET but VS support for msbuild is good enough for most.
Selam Ceyhun,

I'd be a constant user for Amazon DE. Can help you out with testing.
News release from the future:

After 2 years the original Otto product failed to get a footing in the market. Simultaneously, all attempts to integrate Otto technology into the core uber product failed due to internal politics and the fundamental impedance mismatch between self-driving AI for trucks and urban transportation. Additionally all original core Otto staff have left, and some are pursuing a new company that will revolutionize the future of truck driving.
That's because this is a non-issue.
I very much recommend Agner Fog's Microarchitecture. It's a rather ponderous tome, but it is quite simply the definitive resource on the actual design and performance of real-world x86 CPUs.

It does have a brief introduction on some of the basic execution fundamentals but then it jumps right in, so you will probably need some external introduction if you are not generally familiar with the topic.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf
FWIW, I am one of those people who really loves it. I'm excited for a new book, but I feel it's worth saying that the old one has been not only instrumental in my efforts to learn Rust, but also a flat-out enjoyable read. Thank you!
Why UE4 over Unity? I have downloaded both and while both have a steep learning curve the one for UE is steeper, and the initial experience is much worse. Seems they never really tested it on the mac much.
Commercial long-haul freight belongs on railroads for both environmental and economic reasons because it is so much more efficient. It doesn't make sense that in our glorious free market freight on highways is taxpayer subsidized while freight on rail is mostly private.
It's pretty a Awful. I set it up as o was getting nagged about setting up the app as an authenticator, and the next update wouldn't boot. Not a great first experience, considering it's a webview app.
Interesting, I hadn't read the outcome of Wednesday's meeting. Prior to it the local Fed Chiefs were saying that they definitely expected one to two raises this year, and maybe as early as September. All rate hikes are usually minuscule, but they add up. 2 minuscule rate hikes would double the rate right now.

One reason to raise rates is that they were set as low as they were for emergency purposes. The emergency itself is over, so time to start increasing them a little.
Amazing Rust announcements (core and third party) have been coming in constantly for quite a while now.

So much win.
And as things are, there is no way they can get it.

One day Valve will stumble, but I don't think that the spoils will go to one of those who made fools of themselves while Valve didn't.

Ambition is a hindrance to trust, that's why from the current crop, the only plausible candidate for a Steam successor is GoG. They give a believable impression of keeping up their business as long as they at least keep a certain niche of the market, while everything else looks like projects of the "displace Steam within x years or be shelved" kind.
Easy to say in retrospect. Wrong like nearly everyone else.
That should be controller.com
So I wonder how it compares to having the python interpreter open.

According to my machine, running the python interpreter results in 1 PID, 129M virt, 4.6M res.
Page warp becomes but a tiny part of the problem with a page-flip video – now you have motion blur, varying exposure, resolution, noise, and depth of field to worry about. Maybe if you had a camera capable of recording extremely high frame rates at high resolution (probably north of 120fps @ 1440p), a high-intensity, diffuse light source, and a lens with a tight aperture / narrow focal length, you’d at least have something to work with.
As one of those enterprise pseudo-sysadmin-scripting-guy, I do agree with the sentiment; and I think the fundamental object-ness of PS was nice and the emphasis on docstrings is nice. However, I still think a python-like syntax would have been miles better. As much as I tried, I just can't get into Powershell -- way too many special characters look awfully "dirty", and $vars give me PHP/Perl-induced PTSD. Deployment is also a bit of a pain.
A number of politicians have advocated that, particularly when it comes to non-violent drug offenses. Clinton, for example, is running on that platform:

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/criminal-justice-refor...

Though I should say that I'm not sure shorter sentences across the board are what's needed. We definitely need shorter sentences for non-violent drug offenses, and shorter sentences for inmates who seem like they can be rehabilitated is a good idea.

On the other hand, I infrequently read about cases in the news where some deeply disturbed individual commits a truly heinous crime, and then is back out in the general population after only 2 or 3 years. There are some people who really should be in for a longer time.

I often look at sentencing through the lens of "how would I feel if this person lived in my neighborhood." Someone like Mumia Abu-Jamal is in for life, but I wouldn't be particularly bothered if he lived next door to me (or Bernie Madoff, sentenced to 150 years). Then there are people who only get a few years, but I wouldn't want them living anywhere near me.
What's the story behind Otto? There are exactly two blog posts on the Otto blog- Otto launches and Otto sells to Uber.

The line 'When we started Otto we committed to rethinking transportation' - what, three months ago?

I hadn't heard of these guys before, but a business designed to be quick flipped? Was this business ever not part of Uber? What kind of three month old startup has a team that size?

There doesn't seem to actually be even an MVP product there. How do businesses like this end up getting built and sold so quickly?
Why /docs instead of something more encompassing like /site or /pages?
Rust is a bigger failure than you ever thought it would, Stevey-pie.

Remember like a year ago when I told you that Rust was on its way downhill if ANSI standardization wasn't pursued?

Crazy how I'm always right, and how anti-capitalist deviant weirdos like you are always wrong.

Mozilla is going down as well. Give it another year or two, Firefox will crumble, funding will dry up, they'll probably want to hang on to "earners" like you that will work for nothing because they don't know any better but big corps will probably pick up some of the more sane talent in the meantime.

Things we've learned from Rust will either be used to make gcc better, or create a new systems language that people actually want to use, that is S T A N D A R D I Z E D, and developed by a more ethical group of people.

Adios, maricón
Your proviso is irrelevant to my point: You've concocted this world model that tells you that criminal defense attorneys lobby in favor of stiffer prison sentences because it serves their monetary interests. My point is that your world view is wrong; its not about the merits of your hypothetical ban.
Where did I claim that as my goal? If somebody just has to be a wiseass, that's fine, but I don't mind making him unhappy, because trying to make him happy along with everybody else will make me very unhappy indeed. If I can keep from making myself unhappy, and keep from making unhappy anyone who doesn't just have to be a wiseass, I'm willing to call it a day.
Facebook 'Pages' are a rough analogue to Twitter personas [1]. Anyone can create a 'Page' with an arbitrary name, and which can be followed, interacted with, and be used to make public posts.

But Facebook should figure out if they want the cake, or if they want to eat it, because they can't have it both ways. In the early days, public posts on Facebook were actually public, and viewable by anyone without needing to (or being begged to) log in to Facebook.

But they changed this behavior sometime in or after 2012 [2], and now nothing that is generated by personal profiles is ever fully-public, and only 'Pages' have the ability to produce content that's viewable-without-login. A good example of this latter is John Carmack's posts (of Oculus), which albeit publicly viewable in theory, present a nag-bar overlay asking the user to log into Facebook [3].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/104002523024878

[2] http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2012/10/public-facebook-pages...

[3] https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1818885715...
The military is already using it. https://hatmer.github.io/assets/documents/Document.pdf
Hey friedpiper44,

For some reason that I don't know I can't get to use their app, it seems they also want to scrape emails and contact information with URLs you provide

But I think they make the whole process very weird with this 'rockets' and 'target' things

Have you gave a try to contactbro?
But if you buy an apartment as an investment, and just sit on it, you're not doing anything to affect the price of housing

You are definitely affecting the price of housing by doing that
That is not quite true.

Many of us doing enterprise consulting do jump between Java and .NET projects all the time.

Sometimes even doing mixed projects, like the UI in .NET and the backend in Java.
There's a click bait title if ever I saw one. A single benchmark is run without numbers and the AMD part only completes just ahead of the Intel part (which is down clocked by 200Mhz).

Not got anything against AMD, just the title. Really hoping Zen puts some competition into the marketplace.
They are only extremist from Twitter (Americentric) point of view. In other places it might well be considered a mainstream ideology.
Accessing paid WiFi hotspots with MAC address spoofing [video]
I know a lot of the fundamental concepts in computing, many from when they were nearly new. I knew nearly all the concepts long before Windows, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, or NT. I didn't learn the concepts in the context of Microsoft or Windows. So, I learned the concepts before I ever saw any Microsoft acronyms.

E.g., I first learned about Kerberos from one of the first papers about it, an article in Scientific American. I learned about RSA and public keys, of course, usable with Kerberos, near the beginning. I still have the source code for an early version of Kerberos. And I learned about and used authentication, capabilities, and access control lists back not too far from their origins in Multics. Sure, later IBM called some of that Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) -- saw some of that, too.

So, at one point Microsoft in Windows Server wanted some authentication, capabilities, with encryption, etc. so borrowed Kerberos and got Active Directory. Fine. So far I've never seen even a single word of Microsoft's Active Directory documentation but likely already understand nearly all the main purposes and core ideas. For working with the actual code, I suspect that I can get the dozen or so operations I need with examples and documentation and, then, be okay on Active Directory.

Uh, in a very significant sense, Microsoft and Windows are an example of the old biology ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. That is, each organism as it develops from fertilization goes through stages that closely repeat how the species evolved. Well, as Windows grew from Windows 95 to Windows 10, it stayed close to the development of the core ideas in computing, e.g., multiple virtual memory, demand paged, protected, with gate segments, etc., embedded operating systems with an hierarchical file system. They stayed close to the ideas in the Mach kernel. And they are staying close to the ideas in virtual machine. Some of the hardware ideas include instruction caches, data caches, multi-way set associative caches, cache invalidates, page-segment tables, address translation look aside buffers, micro-code, instruction pipelines, speculative execution, out of order execution, parallel execution, etc. I understood all of those well long before I ever touched a PC.

I have a friend with a background a little less than mine who got good with Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, running an e-mail server, etc. all fairly quickly. So can I.

There is an issue: I'm trying to be successful with my startup. For that, I need to learn some about computing. Okay. But I'm not trying to be a broadly competent computer professional. The difference is, I just want to know enough for my startup and am not trying to know enough for everything everyone else might encounter. So, a good computer professional can be eager to learn everything in sight (early in my career, I did a lot of that). But as a startup entrepreneur, I want to minimize how much I learn. Significant difference.

Besides, I try to avoid acronyms.
Gawker.com is shutting down
How I wrote my first novel during my daily commute
Especially in a creative environment - every productive workplace should be creatively engaging.