skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes that (a) they need the money and/or (b) they could even do something they want to do with the money that they aren't already doing. I could imagine all sorts of cases where neither of these things are true, and everything's going well and according to plan. If everyone's expectations are already being met, what's the point in putting yourself on the hook to someone else for something more, regardless of how much money it is or how low the additional expectations are?

I could see the logic from a VC perspective- VCs aren't going to make any money from companies that don't take funding from them. Companies that don't take funding may as well not exist to them. VC firms themselves are businesses that make money by nurturing other businesses. That just means that all VC firms need startups to nurture, it doesn't mean that all startups must be nurtured by VC firms.
> Also, in comparison, most vehicles don't last longer than 8 years. Most people will have put over 100 thousand miles on their vehicle at that point, most vehicles start falling apart just over the 125 thousand miles line, unless you've been very meticulous about babying your vehicle.

That's sounds crazy. Where I live (Europe), a car with 100k miles is maybe at 40% of it's lifetime. My car has almost 100k in it, and it is completely fine (it's a French (!) car), it has two small scratches on it and everything works as expected (no, it's not babied if you don't consider a 2 yo baby sitting in it).

This is anecdata of course, but really, 100k miles is nothing. My father drives a Skoda with 420k miles in it at the moment -- it definitely doesn't look like new but it works.
One way it's related: if a volume's information only depends on its surface area, then you can imagine the volume is really just a hologram with the same number of bits, and the bits are directly embedded on the surface of that hologram.
Actually, looking over the new Web Animation API, it looks like jQuery doesn't even offer much of an advantage for animations as long as you're targeting new browsers that have the Web Animation API (yes, I was referring to the animation support built into jQuery).
Amazed at how Angular has created a generation of programmers that accept 2-way data binding and MVC as "the only way" to develop web apps.

JQuery encourages more fluent, purely functional reasoning, and one-way data binding of immutable data objects.
Why do you think the industrial base is evaporating?

If you look at something like iron production, the US share of global production has declined quite a lot, but US production has stayed pretty consistent while global production has exploded. A lot of the jobs are gone because of bigger machines and automation, but the production still exists.
http://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/tool-lending-library

> The Oakland Tool Lending Library currently offers over 5,000 tools available for loan, as well as books and how-to videos and DVDs. The tools can be used for a variety of purposes, including home improvement, remodeling and repairs, gardening and landscaping and seismic retrofit. This is a free service to Oakland, Emeryville, and Piedmont residents and property owners.
I am about to embark on a similar journey. I started off buying a 1993 33' Diesel pusher motorhome with the intent to travel the US fulltime while working remotely. It was awesome fixing it up and making it livable, modern, beautiful, and adding solar. Working with my hands was extremely rewarding! That said I soon learned that 33' is a huge vehicle which I did not feel comfortable driving regularly over mountains and severely hindered locations I could camp at. Now that big rig is for sale... instead I've founded a really cool travel trailer with loads of solar ready to go! I plan to pull that behind my 4runner equiped for overland adventures and cannot wait to get started! Great article and I hope others can try this lifestyle. I hope to share some of my experiences with others as well.
Sure, $9K on top of $80K is pretty steep, but that $80K build is orders of magnitude more comfortable than what an old VW could provide, and at reasonable speeds too. By the time you upgrade a classic VW to similar standards (Subaru engine swap, A/C that isn't terrible, etc), the cost would be close to $80K. OTOH, if you want something more Spartan and more classic VW-like, $60K should be good enough to get you there, and it's not like a VW T6 conversion would cost less.
The key to parsing WSJ op-eds is to read the italicized part identifying the author first. Here the OP is an "adviser at Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce" (i.e. Think Tank funded by large corporate donors operated "independently" to give a veneer of respectability to their self-serving policy goals.)
If we're going to accept that shit is broken and we should go ahead and fix it, why can't we fix DNSSEC itself? It's a terrible, broken, already-obselete protocol that sees virtually no meaningful real-world deployment. Why would we spend tens of millions of dollars to deploy something we already know is broken.
FYI: "«Baffling» «signal» «from HD 164595» is probably none of the above."

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&...
> consciousness and insight

Being unmeasurable and undefined, and therefore irrelevant to measures of intelligence, "consciousness" is typically not considered part of AGI [1]. Not sure what you mean by "insight".

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329
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I like how the marquee example is of how to do something you shouldn't be trying to do [1] anyway.

In more general terms, if a regex is complicated enough that something like this seems to make sense, the problem is that your regex is too complicated, and you should fix that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12312574
Or you raise taxes for the rich 1%.
I like: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book

Real world ocaml is not so complete, and light on subjects such as C interop.
I was going to post a response on how they wouldn't have enough money from private sources to build that many taxis but it seems it'd cost only ~$23 billion to replace every single taxi in the United States with a Model S. That's shockingly cheap.
Yeah, but then you just add velocityjs (as you reference). But I'm really referring to simple animations here, for anything complex I'd use Canvas or possibly SVG (although SVG can also have performance issues).
Absolutely, it of course depends on the terms. But in my experience investments for that amount never involve a board seat and normally involve a smallish amount of equity so investors have no means to pressure companies into taking an A later if they don't want to. There is some expectation that you'll do something with this money and normally for early stage companies that means hiring people, but I've never heard of an investor strong arming an entrepreneur into hiring people when they didn't want to.

Where does your belief that they do come from?
Dice can be unfair in a wide number of ways. Here are a few.

They can be weighted so that one face lands down more than others. One approach to detecting such weighted dice is to burn them looking for metal residue in the ashes. Cheaters got around that by simply hollowing out parts of the dice to unbalance them. Both metal weighted and hollowed out dice can be detected by dropping them in a glass of water and watching to see if they tend to turn while floating or falling through the water. Cheaters got around that common test by using mercury weighting with a chamber in the center where the mercury resides when the dice is to act fair and a connected chamber near the edge where the mercury is knocked to by the cheater rapping the dice on the table before a roll. Now, casino dice are clear to make it easier to detect weighted dice, but of course cheaters still try to put bits of heavy metal under the painted dots!

Dice can also me made in a fashion so that the tend to roll off some sides more easily. This, naturally, is more of a problem with dice that have beveled corners. Casino dice have nice sharp edges.

Instead of being rounded, some sides of the dice can be cupped, causing a suction cup effect that causes the dice to roll less easily off of one side.

Dice can be manipulated by narrowing them in one or more dimensions. Non-cubic dice may have just slightly smaller faces on some numbers or slightly slanted faces, making them roll in a non-fair fashion.

In the army, dice games are often played on the surface of a bed's blanket. Cheater put a small little burr below the surface in one of the dots to make it catch on the blanket fabric.

Finally, there are "joke store" dice with bad numbering, for example no single dot face.

A favorite of mine are a set of 4 dice with obviously strangely number sides. Bradley Efron [1] invented a way of numbering four dice so that no matter which die is chosen by your opponent first, there is a die that you can pick from the remaining three that will roll a higher value that your opponent two-thirds of the time!!!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Efron
FreeBSD already has DTrace :)
Is it really not a caricature that people in SV wear jeans and their startup's stock t-shirt with a blazer over it? People really dress like this?
FWIW, it appears miss stevens has protected her account and as of the last hour WrkRiot no longer exists on TWitter.
They aren't like a doorknob.

I had to replace an interior door handle on a '99 Miata (interior is far easier than an exterior; exterior means pulling the door skin off for access and having to deal with paint matching), and a Miata is real straightforward repair job. But I still took a photo of each and every little piece I pulled off not knowing when one would break or be deformed before or after this process. (And having to locate a dealership to order the part shipped while showing him a handful of broken parts and a complete photo of "this doohickey".)

$1000 would be steep price to pay for a Corrolla but not outlandish. I would bet the cost of replacing one on a BMW 3 series would be more.
Your claims about what little-o and big-O mean don't match the explanation at https://cathyatseneca.gitbooks.io/data-structures-and-algori...

That page says o(f) == O(f) and not Theta(f). When you say "small-o is a claim that your process can't be faster than -this-", that seems to match the definition of Omega(f). Did you mean that the author should have used big-Omega?

As a side-note, I've always thought that {big-O,Theta,Omega,small-o} notation was very confusing. We should just have a notation for "the asymptotic equivalence class of a function", let's say A(f). Then to say f \in O(g), we say A(f) <= A(g). To say f \in Theta(g), we say A(f) = A(g). f \in o(g) becomes A(f) < A(g). And so forth. Instead of lots of new notation, we add a single function A and re-use notation for orderings which everyone already knows. (Of course, I'm omitting the definition of the ordering on these equivalence classes, so maybe there is some difficulty in defining that...)
What were the poor infrastructure choices? I'm of the impression that the highway system (if that's what you're referring to) worked very well. Sure, it would be nice to have a train going everywhere you wanted, but in a place as sparse as 1950s America, that wasn't feasible. The choices don't seem poor to me, but they worked so well that there is less need for public transit. The remaining problem is that the cost to own or contract a car is too high for many folks--hopefully the self-driving car revolution will alleviate that and prove once again that our highway infrastructure was an investment and not a liability.
Seems like the exact opposite of faith in God to me. If you accept the supernatural, then there is the possibility that humanity has some "spark" which cannot be replicated artificially. But without the supernatural, humans are just matter organized a certain way, and as such demonstrate that intelligence can be constructed out of matter.
Hmmm, on first thought, writing "thin layer" sounds like a potential boondoggle.

But then again, it's not something I've personally tried (nor needed), so that might be an inaccurate assessment.

If you don't need a full/complete GUI stack (and other related bits) implementation for your application, then yeah, it might be the way to go.
Agreed. It gets even harder with tiny dependents.
Well, cube root of N; you can stack memory.

The speed of light limitation on distance to DRAM memory is real, but so far seems to affect mostly supercomputers. Are there any large server boards where speed of light lag is the limit on memory capacity?
Carson is in a bit of a bind in terms of marketing Intercooler. There is a huge mass of community support for frameworks that he feels are taking fundamentally the wrong approach. If he doesn't make a strong case for pushing the pendulum in the other direction then he'll just get drowned out by the echo chamber. Sometimes the plucky underdog has to shout a bit more loudly than is considered polite.

Maybe one could argue that 'survival of the fittest' is working as intended here but perhaps the tipping point is occasionally in need of a nudge.
I think the admiration of TempleOS is dumb. The whole phenomenon is a tragedy and the guy needs help.
This is the most probable case. No real claim here on the artificial nature. I think the key thing is in this quote:

> "Basically, if the signal was beamed out into the galaxy without aim or direction, that would require an enormous amount of power to actually be detected."

So there's too much energy involved, hence it might be artificial.

What I don't see anywhere is details about the signal, but that's probably what they going to announce on September 27. Sigh, that's a long time to wait.
Great analysis but can someone fork this and update the graphs to improve some things? I'd do it but I'm on a really bad internet connection right now.

1. Use SI magnitudes, so that we don't have to count the zeros. (so 100k instead of 100000.)

2. Either use the same chart for LSM vs Btree for each of read and write, or at the very least use the same y axis between the two.

3. It's hard to see the difference on the limited write benchmarks. Can we make it either logarithmic or another graph with these differences highlighted?
A couple comments for your own safety and the safety of the vehicle:

1) Those batteries should be in battery boxes. You can find them at any marine supply store. Note that for boats where batteries are commonly stored like you have them there, it's the law. For RV's it's a good practice and may be required by some insurers and in some states.

2) H2S also known as hydrogen sulfide. It's explosive and it's possible for even the best sealed batteries to have a problem whereby H2S is released. If those batteries have vent ports, you need to ensure they are connected to a vent tube and run out of the vehicle. If they don't have vent tubes, don't assume they won't vent. I run sealed batteries in my boat and it came with a H2S detector connected bilge ventilator. If the H2S detector senses a build-up of the gas it sets off an audible alarm and kicks the ventilator on. I've seen the aftermath of battery compartment explosions. Trust me, it's not something you want to experience. The cheapest option here is to get batteries which allow for the connection of a vent tube.

UPDATE: here's a decent article on the issue with a picture of a vented battery box (I didn't know those were a thing - cool!):

http://blog.rvshare.com/6-things-need-know-rv-battery-box/

UPDATE #2: just went out and looked at my boat. This is what's in the battery compartment attached to the bilge fan:

https://www.zoro.com/macurco-fixed-gas-detector-h2s-4-12inhx...
Do you not believe there are scarce resources? Or do you not believe money is used to direct how those scarce resources are used?
Why? The current state of the art certainly appears to be a very long way off from that, but there don't appear to be any fundamental limitations that would make it impossible forever.
I completely forgot about GunZ doing that. I guess I was wrong; torrents have been taken seriously for awhile :D
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So we're replacing a universally understood syntax for a new one that was just invented, and is painfully verbose? I understood what the first regex was doing just fine.

This is a major step up in readability, so it's nice, and you have to invent a new syntax to do that, so I'll chalk that up as unavoidable. But did it have to be so verbose? SCSH/irregex's SRE had similar readability wins, with way less verbosity. You still have to learn a new syntax, though.
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Wouldn't you be able to do this with the daily email digest on IFTTT too?
So not entirely stagnant ;)

I still don't see why Ubuntu/Debian/et al don't take this (or something like it) up in a more official manner. I can see why it's not a default of course, but it could be made a question during installation for example.

An additional benefit would be that you'd be able to source packages from machines on your local network, with fallback to the internet, and it would all be pretty much automatic and configuration-free.
Thanks, you're absolutely right. Web Animation API is one of the few new JS APIs that I haven't explored much, and I see I've been missing a lot. I tend to use CSS animation in production for most animations whenever I can, but I'm definitely going to keep my eye on support for the Web Animation API (although I'm guessing it won't be hardware accelerated like CSS for a while, if ever).
Evernote is a bad datapoint for the Times to use as a starting point for some tech bubble tea leaf reading. The company was mismanaged for nearly 4 years. The founder and CEO walked or was pushed out over a year ago. And rightly so. It was like it was run by someone with A.D.D. For example they opened an online store that sold a bunch of branded Evernote junk, pens etc. including Evernote socks... They kept adding new features when core features were broken for several versions of the app. In some cases resulting in data lost, eroding customer confidence in the product.

The tech winter came and took out VC funds, valuations, board seats and executives. It also slowed down the rate of new startups and IPO's. It didn't crush companies like reporters speculated or wished. This time companies that received large amounts of funding unlike the crazy web 1.0 companies of 1999. These companies have finical planners, oversight and accountants. This gave them some buffer.
It depends. For me, I prioritize it because a long commute adds zero value to my life, just costs (monetary, mental and time). I moved years ago to where mass transit could cover anywhere I needed to go, and could often get me there in 20 minutes or less. Granted, everyone's priorities are different, so for some they'll take a longer commute to facilitate other things.

Most of my early jobs were 15-25 minutes each way via car. Later on as I moved towards increasingly urban areas it did increase to around 45-60 minutes each way. Then I moved, and shrunk it to 15-20 minutes again via mass transit. Then I started working for myself, and that's anywhere from 0 minutes (remote) to 35-40 minutes each way -- with a few extreme cases being 90-100 minutes each way because I choose not to drive (I have a car, but it exists for fun, not commuting, though I'll use it for a commute or meeting in a pinch) and to minimize cost.
>If they sold a car, they get profit immediately. If they kept the car for their own fleet, it would take longer to earn the same profit and then add additional overhead of maintaining the fleet, the reservation system, refunds, additional litigation, etc.

A car company can raise capital and manage fleets much better than individuals can.
Came here to post this link as well. I remembered loving the opening scene as a kid. After reading this on Letters of Note a few years back it gave me a whole new appreciation for the genius of Gene's portrayal.
The important thing is to be awareness of this disparity. It's often set up as a false dichotomy: you either have to feel guilty, or you have to ignore and forget poverty and privilege.

It's ok to observe differences and then keep that in mind when relating to other people. Use this knowledge to be more empathetic. Be kinder. Be grounded. Be connected. You can lead your best life earning tons of money while also understanding your relationship to the world and the diversity it contains. You can let this understanding inform your responses and intentions.

Processing the world isn't simple. But you can continue to evolve how you relate to differences and different people, and that can guide your overall goals as well as your decisions in specific interactions.
Same here, but references seem to be nonexistent for on premise OS version.
European traffic patterns seem to be much different than American ones. Driving culture in Europe is radically different. Chronic stop and go traffic, and also the obsession of over-salting roads in the north, and the insanely hot conditions down south, eat cars. In addition, most Europeans rely on public transportation for a lot of what we'd use cars for.

Not only that, European models of cars seem to be much higher quality than typical US ones, partly due to the tastes of European culture, partly due to EU regulation.

Top Gear over the years has had at least one segment about this from a British/European point of view, but I quick Google isn't telling me which episode.
FYI, none of the code on your site works for me, possibly because I have cookies and localStorage disabled in my browser. Not sure if this is specific to your framework or a quirk of the website itself (hopefully not the whole framework, as I don't understand why this requirement would be imposed if not actually needed by the app that's using it... since the fundamental premise of the framework seems to be "it's lightweight").
> In more general terms, if a regex is complicated enough that something like this seems to make sense, the problem is that your regex is too complicated, and you should fix that.

I disagree. There is no such thing as a "complicated regex" in itself; it's all the same to the underlying engine. It's the maintenance of the regex that's the problem. You could, for instance, compile many small, maintainable patterns into a (technically) complicated regex with guarantees it will evaluate as expected—which is one possible way the outlined SQL approach could work. Don't confuse process with technology.
Young Frankenstien is one of the funniest movies of all time. Every scene a classic. If you haven't watched it, I highly recomend it.

RIP Mr Wilder
You missed what I was illustrating by referencing bounded memory - every realized program has a finite (therefore constant-bounded) number of states. The point is that such analysis is not useful, because it "cheats" with an misleading implicit constant for the bound.

Similarly, if one is analyzing the performance of a general algorithm and assumes memory access is constant time, then that constant needs to be understood as the full access time of main memory (assuming that's what problems will always fit in).

One cannot casually make this assumption to get an O(n) complexity result, profile the program with a problem size that actually fits in cache, and then combine the two to extrapolate larger running time. They each have different baked-in assumptions.
I was actually just about to use jQuery + PJAX on a new project, but this looks much better! Perfect timing.
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A few years ago, on the bus home from work, I had a conversation with a mechanic who owned a shop in an economically disadvantaged area. He said that everyone on the block borrows tools from him, and he did it as a way of building a good rapport with his customers.