skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why else would the US go to such extreme lengths (Iraq, Libya) to protect the petro-dollar? Without near infinite global demand for dollars we would be completely crushed under our own debt."

This position conspiratorial and non-factual and has no sound logical basis.

Yes - the US does use some geopolitical muscle to protect the 'petrodollar' but there are clear and unambiguous facts that fly in the face of the notion that Iraq/Libya were petrodollar issues.

1) The petrodollar is important, but not an existential issue for the US. The USD is so deeply entrenched as a global currency, the transactional amount for USD for Oil is relatively small in comparison, moreover, nobody needs to hold dollars to buy Oil, they just need it to transact. The statement 'near infinite amount of demand' isn't remotely true.

2) The US can easily use basic diplomatic pressure to keep Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Norway in line. Outside of that - there is no real control. Iran, Russia et. al. can do as they please today.

3) Your argument is a little upside down: the US Fed is fighting deflation not inflation - meaning that the US would love to have some softening of the currency overall.

4) The US is not carrying debt anything like most unstable countries. People loan to the US not because they have faith in the petrodollar, but because they have faith that the US Gov will pay them back - which is ultimately a function of the health of the economy - and relatively speaking, it's good. Or at least compared to most places.

Your position takes a simple thing and turns it into the extreme: 'Because the US has a petrodollar - all it's wars and geostrategy revolve around this'. It's like saying 'look at the bad cop on the news' and surmising all cops are bad.
Which has been mostly okay with widely-distributed ownership, but was a problem in Christoph Hellwig's case against VMware recently. So there's an actual problem of enforceability, versus the project-hampering PITA factor of CLAs at all, e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/443989/ It's a seriously tricky balance issue.
The coal lobby has done a good job of making renewables look like they're a significantly different way of life. At the end of the day your aircon will still run whether it's powered by coal, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro or literally anything else that can push electrons. Where the power comes from has very little effect on the utility of that power.
But it is not as if those 50 people with a last-mile problem live all within a few blocks of a single street going in one direction from the transit terminal. The people with last-mile problems, really two or three miles, are scattered all over the place, and for that a ride service works a lot better.
Public spending is never the underlying reason for hyper inflation. Usually there are other circumstances like supply problems. Money chasing too few resources. If resources and production kept up with money supply increase, then there would be no problem. Deficit spending is necessary if you want private sector to have savings.

For example, look at Japan. Central Bank tried for over 25 years to increase inflation without success. It's actually not very easy to do.
Errr, yes.

US, Canada, UK, ECB, Norway, Aussie, Sweden - do not print money to pay bills, as you find in Brazil, Venezuela, China, every African state, and a good chunk of the rest of the world.
6 or 7 years ago I owned my only automatic after a few mostly poor experiences hiring, especially in the US. It was pleasant enough in traffic jams, but everywhere else it was compromised - it'd change gear when I'd prefer it didn't, preferred to drive like a limousine driver (slow, and very steady, slow gentle changes) to such an extent that I had to keep it permanently in sport mode, though it was far from sporty.

The book figures said it gave just about the same economy as the manual version, but real life use gave me far further from those than I ever remember experiencing with a manual.

I'll never have another unless it is a sporty thing with 8 speed, paddles and a prancing horse on the bonnet.
Industrial Autonomous Tractor Concept
The implementation is suboptimal, and Go has some overhead compared to C.
OpenID is dead thanks to OAuth. I hope IndieAuth could get some traction but the problem with it is that every user needs to have their own tld domain but many registrars and dns services don't even use two factor authentication.
The falcon wing doors were only a small part of the post the parent was commenting on. IIRC even Musk has conceded that their reach exceeded their grasp a bit when it came to those doors, but does that one point validate the entire comment?
Good spotting. Also I am curious to know the size of the SVG icon compressed with gzip. I can't find the original file that they claim is 7192 bytes.
You're right, 2-10x is a more realistic number!
Was the duration of your service almost 3 months? I can't imagine then having enough loaners to hand out for weeks at a time.
A pilot flying as a passenger to get to another flight they're scheduled to work, or who's taking advantage of an employee benefit (free/cheap flights). Why they would use language that excludes a military pilot or someone from a different airline altogether, I don't know.

Might just be an industry-insider code phrase to keep from alarming the passengers with the obvious request ("Uh, does anyone onboard know how to fly a Boeing 737?")
gun rights are at a sort of apogee in this country

I don't think it's quite that simple, for it's rather binary. In what I call the free states, it's still climbing, with e.g. 2 states going Constitutional Carry (no license required for concealed carry), with my Missouri likely joining them this month.

In the slave states, its getting steadily worse, California is front and center, but also see the Massachusetts AG continuous redefining of the state's "assault weapons" law, and the various laws that have been passed in the last few years, plus Bloomberg's initiative campaign to ban the lending of firearms, a very direct threat to US gun culture.

And of course there's the minor detail that a very large fraction of the country doesn't see this as a problem at all. The overwhelming majority of the states (42 with shall issue or better), and most of the people (72%, ditto), are directly living and driving this "apogee", through the politicians we freely elect.

As for what we want, let's start with:

Nationwide shall issue concealed carry.

Nationwide reciprocity of concealed carry licenses.

Going further, nationwide Constitutional Carry (no license required, which is the law of the land in 10 states now).

An end to statewide "assault weapons" and magazine capacity bans.

An end to statewide inexpensive gun bans (that's California and Massachusetts.

Cut the thicket of "20,000" gun control laws nationwide to a relative handful, few enough that everyone can know what the law actually is. There's a whole bunch of "flypaper" laws that, whatever the claimed or real intent, just entrap those trying to abide by the law.

Deport Michael Bloomberg ^_^. Seriously, rule unconstitutional the laws he's getting passed, generally by deceptive initiative, that ban the lending of guns, and that are directly aimed at strangulating the creation of new gun owners.

End the VA's polices of removing gun rights from veterans without a real adjudication as is required by law, and stop the extension of this to the elderly on Social Security.

End the ITAR attempt to put most of the nation's gunsmiths out of business.

Put a stake in things like the BATFE's proposal to redefine what nitrogen percentage makes wetted nitrocellulose a high explosive (only stopped for now because of the disaster it posed for the DoD and the rest of the government).

Terminate the BATFE with extreme prejudice, and forbid all in it from ever working in law enforcement again. This article paints a nice picture of them, but in the field they're murderous and incompetent thugs. The ban is to keep them from polluting other law enforcement agencies.

I can go on if you want ^_^.
There's also GNU moe!

https://www.gnu.org/software/moe/
>But surely you can see that 35% is so high a rate they'll focus more on tax avoidance than is healthy for any of these parties, including themselves?

I don't want to defend the US corporation tax structure, but I don't think corporation tax should be considered in isolation. Other countries have a low corporation tax and make up for it by high employer contributions to social security or other taxes.
I mostly thought it was odd that of all of the JVM languages they included it was Clojure. Ruby sort of makes since given that Rails recently included ActionCable.
Having plenty of spares doesn't help when the entire product line gets recalled. That's not a thing you plan for when buying spares.
These planes seem like they would be good candidates for a fly-by-wire conversion, or at least a redesigned Starfighter II.

Probably not practical, since they don't bank-n-yank well, but they would sure look cool :-)
I'm not sure I'm the one being dismissive here, and insulting my "mental capacity" is rather dull. I've read your other comment, as well, but it, like this one, provides no concrete explanations or evidentiary support for your argument.

> They are related, but not completely determinitive of one another; it is a 'nature vs nurture' issue, as I describe in my comment on a lower post. Existing evidence shows that preferences and understandings are a result of nature and nurture; there are a number of interesting studies on the subject, which obtain differing results, but none agrees with Rawls' assumptions. You can find this evidence in a number of fields including psychology on moral reasoning, educational psychology, and studies on philosophy.

First off, it's a rather vacant argument to suggest one's preferences as they relate to one's material conditions and circumstances, are "nature v nurture". What preferences are you suggesting are natural, divorced from one's material conditions and circumstances? Which are you willing to agree to being informed, established, or perpetuated by one's material conditions and circumstances? What evidence are you specifically pointing to as differentiating natural preferences vs those which are learned within one's social space? Most importantly, what at all does this evidence have to do with the veil of ignorance or Rawls' arguments for justice, fairness, or equality—which isn't some Rawlsian invention, but has a long history in the works of Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and other seminal political and social theorists?

You seem to have a conception that Rawls' ideas are somehow reducible to a single binary format of true/false. This is what I mean by pointing out your comments show no actual understanding of Rawls, or any other thinkers who discuss the veil of ignorance or equality. You don't realize that what you think you're disputing with relation to Rawls isn't something Rawls has suggested to be any different. What assumptions do you think Rawls makes that you believe you—and all this alleged evidence—disagrees with and proves to be incorrect assumptions?
100000% accurate article. It frustrates me when I see even professional programmers perpetuating the "Math Myth", as it's called here. "It's important for all programmers to have a foundation in CS theory!" No, it's not.

The vast majority of human beings will never do anything intellectually intensive post-college. Even those in STEM fields. Not that an undergrad degree is "intellectually intensive" anyway.

EDIT:

>The second argument is the one I always hear around the mathematics department: mathematics helps you to think clearly. I have a very low opinion of this self-serving nonsense. In sports there is the concept of the specificity of skills: if you want to improve your racquetball game, don't practice squash! I believe the same holds true for intellectual skills.

Dear God, I'm so happy to see this in writing. For a while, I was afraid that I was the only one who had realized this. This observation has several useful immediate corollaries. For one, it shows that those "brain training" games that some people like to play are a waste of time. Also, it shows that if you ever catch yourself saying "I'm working on my X to help with Y", it probably means that you're just afraid of the failure that will inevitably come when you initially begin to practice Y, and that fear can only be ameliorated if you just dive in and start doing Y.
Hopefully, these little satellites fly low enough to fall down in a few years, rather than becoming space-spall fodder.
There are other ways these days, at least in Germany with the massive explosion of sport betting offices.

So, the guy who wants to launder some money gives e.g. 1000 € to a low-level dude. This dude then goes to the betting office and places all day long 10 or 20 combo bets with 3 spares (i.e. 7 / 17 of the bets have to be won in order to win the total bet), and every sub-bet has a ratio of 1.01-1.10 profit (which means you're unlikely to lose, but you still have to know some basics, and you absolutely must distribute risk by betting small-ish amounts)... the dude gets to keep any winnings, and if he can provide the receipts, doesn't even have to cover losses to the launderer.

Another common method is to use gambling machines for small amounts. This again only works in Germany because our machines do not play with instant real money, but "points" - 1 point = 1 cent, and you can only transfer 20ct every 5 seconds, and only 80€ per hour. Needless to say, it sucks for the machine operator because a non-player is occupying the machine without generating losses (= income for the machine operator).

Source: worked for a long time in a pub/gambling hall located directly next to a betting office. Seriously, I've seen some weird stuff.

As for the question "how do the launderers find people?": easy, in the hood I worked the Bulgarians had quite a "monopoly", it were usually those who didn't find odd-jobs for the day that ended up with sitting around in betting offices, and for "how does a launderer prevent dudes running off?", well, you can imagine there's a load of violence and human trafficking involved, including threatening relatives back home, and outright selling of women into prostitution. It's sickening.
100 GbE isn't that expensive. Transceivers for 100 GbE are in the $800 per port or so. CDW sells Proline 100 GbE transceivers for $300 a pop. It's a standard QSFP28 interface that is used for most of them. It carries 4x 25 GbE across the fibres.

They also make 100 GbE DAC cables.

Longer distances do cost more... Just looking around I found some 100GBASE-LR4 transceivers going for $6k a pop from Finisair... but at least you get to continue using your single mode fiber ;-)
Yeah, not having Scala or Java but having Clojure was strange to me. I would be curious to see how a CLR language (C# or F# mainly) fares relative to the JVM.
The new Huawei Nexus 6P. Switched from an iPhone 6+ but I had similar speeds on both devices.
OK, I think see what you are saying.

Your point is that if we can convince the compiler to optimize out the initialization of a register, we can get printf() to "leak" the previous value of that register. The example of %esi is specific to this variable being the first to occur in format string and the fact that you are running on a non-Windows 64-bit system, where the format string is passed in %rdi and the first format variable in %rsi (and %ax is zeroed to specify that no vector arguments are involved).

It happens that current Clang makes this and only this omission, although GCC and ICC leave crash because they try to execute 'idiv' by zero. Confusingly, this error is reported as a "floating point exception" even though no floating point numbers are involved. If one wanted to see the uninitialized value for these other compilers, you could probably just use a bare printf("%llx") without any argument.
> This extensive list of skills is exactly why cycling is
> a lifestyle choice/hobby, not an effective method of
> transportation.
>
> Car ownership isn't much better.

But that's it, isn't it? There's an investment in time/energy you have to make. Is the investment worth it for you?

> Instead, I can live my life. It's actually quite liberating.

For me, being car-free is very liberating. There's just more pluses to using a bike for my primary transportation.
The Powerwall is at least a commercial disappointment, if not poor performer / sale: https://www.google.com/?client=safari#q=powerwall+poor+sales
That assumes that a sense of self is required in order to have feelings. I don't think that's true. I do find the idea that a sense of self developed from an ability to model the mental states of others, but I don't think having a mental state requires having a sense of self.
because that's not creepy.
When all you have is a hammer, the world is full of nails. In my experience, knowing more math will allow you to tackle harder problems in a more sophisticated manner.

> Great!... Except, not so, because his proof only worked in a mythological environment where there is no latency between nodes. Under real conditions, the algorithm's properties led to unacceptable results, and he just hid behind the proof.

Then he did a bad job. His failure does not undermine the power of taking a formal approach to a problem. He should have accounted for this latency in his initial model. What he did is the equivalent of someone working on an autonomous car and assuming that a noisy GPS signal is good enough to do control with.
> [Vector format] means that you only need one file per icon; it doesn’t matter how many sizes you want to render icons at.

That's not really true, even with vectors it's good to have different images for different sizes, that add details (for larger sizes) or remove details and increase component sizes (for smaller sizes), so the icons look good at different sizes. You can see in the tape recorder icon the author shows: at larger sizes, it looks much better than the bitmap images, but at smaller sizes the bitmapped icons look better; the vector icons become a mush of unclear elements. The bitmap shows pieces as proportionally larger than they should be, so the visual elements that you consider important still show clearly.
This so called study still has plenty of dollars chasing it, with Bloomberg's billions now stepping up to the plate, the problem is with that "so called" detail. The major medical journals such as the NEJM are quite willing to publish self-evident garbage, like Kellerman's infamous one that only scored a successful self-defense use of a gun if it killed the perpetrator, which we're not legally or morally allowed to intend, nor is the common outcome (about a 1/4th chance of a handgun round to the torso killing the target, and most are never shot at, few are hit, and fewer hit in a vital area).

I for one think e.g. the the CDC has one job, one that it's manifestly been failing at as has become obvious with the lab screwups and the Ebola response, and which we may now be seeing with Zika.

As for the lack of trust, the gun control side does not hide its desire for confiscation; how is the other side supposed to have any trust in its good will?
Haiku! Hadn't heard about this project for long time. What's their status right now? How active is the development?
The article talks about raw bitmaps, though, while PNG is a bitmap compressed with deflate.

Since rendering a bitmap is straightforward, I imagine it would be preferred here for performance (I am just guessing here).
Indeed. I was hoping for more.
Good to hear. Nano's up-front display of the core key combinations has been a source of relief for people getting dropped into a terminal editor for ages. Wish more distributions would set nano as the default $EDITOR instead of vim.
Competent Elites Are More Alive
There is always a question about that: When the subject of the sentence is clear, omitting that subject can result in more compact writing , but whether the writing is easier to read or not is a question. I thought that omitting some obvious subjects would help, but thanks for your feedback.
They're not doing sequential scans of files on disk, they're doing random reads and writes in a database, where each write is replicated and durable, in parallel, across the entire key space of market transactions. The task was to reconcile market transactions end-to-end by matching orders with their parent/child orders (e.g., as orders get merged/split or routed from broker/dealers to others or to exchanges to be executed), thus building millions (billions?) of graphs across the entire dataset. You can see more details in the video of the presentation at the bottom of this blog post:
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/financial-servi...
but I presume you're much more familiar with the intricacies of the stock market than I am. :)

Here's the performance you can expect to see per Cloud Bigtable server node in your cluster, whether for random reads/writes or for sequential scans:
https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/performance

Here's a benchmark comparing Cloud Bigtable to HBase and Cassandra that may be of interest (on a different benchmark than presented in the FIS blog post, but shows the relative price/performance):
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/introducing-Goo...

Disclosure: I am the product manager for Google Cloud Bigtable. Let me know if you have any other questions, I'm happy to discuss further.
This is honestly my biggest issue with HN as well. The community has a tendency to downvote well-reasoned, substantive posts simply to express disagreement. I think this is poisonous behavior that will eventually turn HN into yet another echo chamber if left unchecked.

I think downvotes should be removed entirely. Either flag a post for being off-topic, inappropriate or adding nothing of substance to the discussion, or reply with a counter argument to express disagreement to well-written posts that deserve it. The ability to silence opinions different to your own with minimal effort can only hurt the quality of discussion here, in my opinion.
Web Audio API is all about playback. The media capture API can tackle recording, and it works on mobile: http://simpl.info/mediacapture/
"Also to be clear the driver assist features seen on cars like the model s are not what most people are referring to when they talk about self driving cars here."

Just saw your edit/addition, so I'm going to add more as well:

When did I even conflate them -- even if the state of the art is actually "driver assist" as you've described?

Google’s self-driving cars aren’t “fully autonomous”. Without human drivers, they’d lose control approximately every 1,500 miles, according to Google’s own reports.

Can you guess how many driverless miles their "self-driving cars" have driven?

Hint: It's zero.

If you're curious, here is an example of a much more grounded academic talk (read: not a TED talk) from 2015 by a renowned (in the autonomous vehicle research community) Boston (not California) researcher who worked with Thrun that corroborates the issues I've mentioned earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5CZmlaMNCs
As far as climate impact goes, I think the long-term idea is on-demand, self-driving electric cars that get their energy from wind and solar.

Remember, the present system, which is destroying the climate, has many parts, so you have to change most or all of them to really fix things. But the parts will not be changed all at once. So for each component you need something new that will sell on its own, but also fit into the new overall pattern you want to get to eventually. What the transportation-on-demand companies are doing is a good example of this.
Apple and Google don't really compete with Walmart, so that's acceptable ( but not good ! )

What is really not acceptable is that a small company will pay 1 or 2 order of magnitude more tax than the giant they directly compete against.