skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The standard mobile phone plan in Finland comes with unlimited data, and carriers differentiate their services based on speed.

Meanwhile in Germany, providers ask ~8 euros per month for a 14.4-50 Mbit/s "flatrate" with 1Gb traffic limit... they do provide "unlimited" traffic as advertised but once you consume more than that you are restricted to ISDN speeds (about 64kbit/s). The marketing guys came up with the word "high-speed volume" so they don't need to refer to this as a "limit".

Really scummy practices if you ask me. :(
Although the average person may be content with 1Gb of data per month, what use could 64kbit/s have in 2016 (other than texts and narrowband voip ("Call your friends like its 1999™")?
The reason for it is because the vast majority of jobs college people get are bullshit jobs.

I blame capitalism and it's tendency to create useless positions in hierarchical organizations.

If you think the gov makes all the useless and pointless paper pushing jobs, you have never been in a large company.

In fact, market capitalism creates all kinds of pointless soul sucking jobs like lawyers, police, and insurance brokers. This is because nobody trusts each other.

You can blame gov regulation, except most regulation is written by lobbyists for mega corps
A modern take on this subject is a book called Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. I read the Inner Game of Golf recently and it talks about allowing your subconscious mind to perform without your conscious (verbal) mind gettin in the way. A lot has to deal with becoming relaxed and not allowing your critical self to tense up your body. Apparently Pete Carrol (NFL Seahawks coach) credits the book to a lot of his success. Im guessing here but it's possible that Jordan Spieth (won two major golf tournaments last year and tied Tiger Woods lowest scoring record at Augusta) used this book too. The author has some putting drills that I correlate to Spieth's use of not looking at the ball for short putts; he looks at the hole instead.
It's tragic how corporate greed can kill such an awesome site. They wasn't even ashamed to ask for money in countries where they didn't had adverts while they were removing the features from its users.
It's stated that the goal is to fit file icons into inodes to avoid additional disk accesses. How much of an issue is this on an SSD instead of a hard disk?
This might be an extremely stupid question, but does it make sense to apply the concept of mirror neurons to ANNs?
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My specific point is Skydiving is safer than other adventure sports.

Here are the numbers:
Deaths per year http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/

Risk of dying 1/100,000 http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm

A comparative table: http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/

Anyway you count it, skydiving properly done is a fairly safe sport.
Furthermore, the relevant metric isn't current price, it's the price at the time these get deployed at scale which, for a giant company, is at least 3 - 5 years.

Large companies can afford to absorb many millions of dollars worth of losses for pilot projects because the learnings have the potential to far outweigh the losses. Even if each of these robots cost a million bucks a piece, if one robot can help Lowes learn something that reduces the cost of future robots by $100, spread across a 10,000 robot deployment, that robot has paid for itself.
I don't know about the US, but 糖醋鱼 is a popular dish in China, among many other sauce heavy fish dishes.
What do you mean by "a richer object model". The drawbacks are principally that the programmer has less control over allocs and layout.
Perhaps you're right, and we need to treat our countries addiction to freedom in addition to trying to reduce the supply of liberty.

Fixed it for you, as my side sees it.
And at the same time they weren't treating us as customers, more like second rate users.
Isn't HVIF compressed SVG? They basically substituted the verbose tags with binary, which is a form of compression.
CitusDB is an option for scaling out PostgreSQL workloads, but it's not a direct equivalent to Aurora. That's both good and bad in different ways. E.g., it's good that CitusDB is not a fork of PostgreSQL as Aurora is a fork of MySQL. It's bad that CitusDB as pure software can't offer the same kind of high-performance, auto-replicated storage layer that Aurora does.
>1. there's nothing useless about it

Opportunity cost. It slows down the parsing for support of something that nobody has ever seen in the wild (not to mention it doesn't even match the name of the format, but let's get past that since we already use ; | and others).

Plus I can't even imagine a use case that would make it a good idea to use that over a simpler delimiter, or even the special purpose ASCII delimiter character. Can you?
I've emailed Scott a few times about HN bugs and he's very responsive. I'm curious to hear what he says.
This is something that irritates me about high dpi displays. If you have a small 16x16 icon and go to high dpi, often a regular 32x32 icon is used. So you just use a larger low dpi icon. The problem is that the icon at the same physical size now has much more details and looks less clear. The correct thing to do would be to have a separate 16x16@2x icon with 32x32 pixels, that is intended for the same physical size as the original 16x16 icon.
So I grew up in Seattle, and deep fried fish with chips is something you get at ivars, and at that is definitely an English dish (fish wth chips is the national food of the U.K.). The standard American way of cooking a fish is smoked (salmon) or on a barbecue with foil (well, OK, I'm not sure about the east coast).
Variable length integers could have easily increased the object count limit with only a very small increase in size. VLQ[1] would have been one good choice, but various other schemes would have allowed the same size as a one-byte encoding with up to about 250 objects while still allowing larger numbers.

But of course that increases encoder and decoder complexity. For icons, a 255 style/path limit seems reasonable and keeps the code simple.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity
> Insane. No politician is calling for a complete elimination of guns. That idea has never been proposed or discussed seriously in any way. I don't think even the fringe of the anti-gun lobby wants to get rid of all guns.

Are you serious? I can't determine if you're being sarcastic or not.

Sure the idea has never been formally proposed, because no politician will ever get elected in America if they proposed such idea.

But here's Hillary Clinton for you:

> I do not know enough detail to tell you how we would do it, or how it would work, but certainly the Australian example is worth looking at.<

Now you may say that Hillary Clinton didn't mean gun confiscation by 'Australian example', but it's clear she clearly isn't appalled by Australian gun confiscation.

Why Australian example? Why not Canadian example? Why not French example? Sure maybe this is not a strong correlation.

But then Democrats get caught all the time talking about complete elimination of guns when they think they are not on Camera:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/01/maryland-deputy-ag-reveals...

Matt Damon openly supports Australia styles gun confiscation:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/07/06/matt-damon-mass-gun-co...

I'm sorry, but I don't believe that the ideal vision of America gun control proponents have is to have no civilian ownership of guns.
I mean, in some sense, mirror neurons could explain almost all social behavior, and culture/society in general.

I'd be interested in knowing exactly how the mirror neurons communicate and work with the rest of the brain.
Did you have trouble with it on mobile or desktop? Spotify's gapless playback is solid for me on desktop, but spotty on mobile due to cell data. If it's a regular playlist I try to go offline instead.
Same in the US. It amazes me that it's legal, it doesn't match any reasonable interpretation of the word.
I don't live in LA, so my situation might only partially comparable. but there are quite a few things that make it possible for me not to own a car that my parents didn't have access to. For example car sharing/ride hailing services that were not available 20 years ago, delivery services that didn't exist in that form. Electric cargo bikes make it feasible to carry medium loads without too much physical effort.

I can quite well imagine not buying a car for the next decade and instead rely on a combination of all of the above, something that would have been very hard for my parents generation.
I envision brain-machine interfaces by 2025. So what?
I'm not sure if anyone actually oversubscribes ram with Xen. But we (prgmr.com) still allow you to order PV VMs, mostly because NetBSD performance is abysmal in HVM mode.
I think even families may be shedding cars. Maybe not BOTH cars, but I know at least two families that have gone from two car households down to one car households.
This is good news: It's also good to actually see RMS actually compromising.

Also, nano is actually a useful tool, despite its reputation as the editor for those who don't know what they're doing. It's an excellent editor for quick edits that aren't worth pulling up emacs for. Although I would never reccomend it for Real Work, that's not really its intent. And it owns its field, having crushed all competition save vi, which is really in its own class.

Also, nano is frankly a lot more powerful than a lot of people give it credit for: It's just not programmable, which is a necessity in editors these days.
You have to admit those are very, very odd/unlucky cases.
By those standards, riding a bike on the street is a "super dangerous" sport.. (I could tell you 10+ stories about odd/unlucky bike accidents)
But the sausage cart isn't going to be paying more than Wal Mart.
> Perhaps you're right, and we need to treat our countries addiction to guns instead of trying to reduce the supply.

There's no 'addiction' to Gun. I am an immigrant myself, and before coming to America I was anti-gun. Now, I am not scare of guns anymore and consider it to be a great social good.
Yeah, nothing a drunk lackey in power selling your country to the highest bidders...
What kind of audit do you want?

The Fed is already thoroughly audited in the usual sense, by an independent
inspector general and by an outside accounting firm (currently, Deloitte and
Touche), and the resulting financial reports are made public online. Every
security owned by the Fed, up to the detail of the identifying CUSIP number, is
also available online. Moreover, the Government Accountability Office (GAO),
which does in-depth reviews and analyses (“audits” of a different type) of
government activities at the request of Congress, has wide latitude to review
Fed operations, including supervision and regulation as well as other functions.
For example, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the GAO conducted
reviews of the Fed’s emergency lending programs during the crisis and of the
Fed’s governance structure. Since the financial crisis, the GAO has done some
70 reviews of aspects of Fed operations.

You're right that they are unconstrained by politics, and are free to act how they think is best. But they do explain their thinking and operate very transparently.
Ha ha, funny idea! After examining my own behaviour the other day I realised that if I ever owned a store that faced the street, I would totally put a microphone in the window to get customer feedback from after-hours window-shoppers: you can't solicit that kind of honesty!
Tinfoil hat aside, I kinda like this.

We work with a decent number of older, non technical people, and our product team would love to be a fly on the wall to hear where they're frustrated in the product. Obviously due to security concerns we could never implement something like this, but in a perfect world this would be a killer feature.
Linode Atlanta is being DDOS'd
Also, doesn't every modern OS use an icon cache? So you'd only read the icon once for every file type.
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To a certain extent I disagree. As long as you have to pay your taxes in the sovereign's currency, and failure to pay those taxes has real consequences, there will be demand for that currency...
Yes, this sheer human irrationality is an impediment to sensible progress.

I know, and you know, that a car just does not make sense mathematically. You can Uber/Lyft whenever it’s too difficult to walk. But emotionally, and I feel it too, turning the ride into a transaction makes it something you have to consider carefully. With a car, the payments, the insurance, the gas, are all disconnected from the idea of taking a specific trip. As a result, since I don’t have a car, I very rarely go anywhere that I can’t bike.

Now, combine this with so many people who can’t look at this mathematically, and say that life without a car is impossible, and we get very poor housing and transportation policies being supported all over the Bay Area.
Neat idea but the piece of shit ;) couldn't detect me calling it one.
Sure. For me the most important concern of a laptop is mass. Then screen resolution. rMBP is a good choice if you rank these two criteria as highly as I do.
Anyone creates "money" every time they lend. Banks do a lot of lending, so they're definitely involved. But even opening a bar tab creates "money" (more accurately, "credit").

Here's a great video by famous investor Ray Dalio about this concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
Ah, thanks for the example. I'm used to thinking of costs as development (fixed costs, spread over an extended period before revenue is generated) and maintenance (proportional costs over the same timespan as revenue), but I never thought of customer acquisition as something occupying the "proportional cost, paid up-front" segment.

Not really relevant to tarsnap (I've never found an efficient way to spend money to acquire customers in the short term; instead I focus on longer-term branding) but I can absolutely see that it fits some companies.
Aargh. I was hoping to get some work done today, but my linodes are almost completely unresponsive. I can barely even ssh in and work on the command line.

Oh well, guess it's time to take the rest of the day off and do something else. :-)
Does this mean that Chrome is always listening on my computer's internal microphone?
Well...Philosophy ("love of wisdom") originally encompassed all of science. In a sense, once a discipline was able to be conducted more empirically, it split off. So at any particular stage, Philosophy will be trying to answer those questions we can't answer empirically.

So I find the "free-ride" a little harsh. What happens over time is that more and more questions that used to be purely "philosophical" have more and more empirical answers.

I think it might be useful for Philosophy to be less its own specialty and more an umbrella for the whole enterprise of "love of wisdom".
While I don't know about the exact numbers, I do recall that HSBC was actively coaching the drug cartels (and hezbollah) on tricks to alter their names on forms so they wouldn't get picked up by watch lists.

At which point the exact dollar amounts are irrelevant, and the fact that nobody was criminally charged over this is what concerns me more than anything.
Nice library. The landing page needs some more work. The "features" section contains just keywords that are not explained. I'd like a sentence explaining each feature: what it does and when/why it is useful. For example, at first I didn't understand what "Auto Mute" meant. That was until I played a sound while I switched to another tab, which made the sound stop. When would one want to use auto mute? To me it felt unnatural/unwanted, almost like a bug. Explain why Web Audio API is used when available. What will not work (if applicable) when using the HTML5 Audio fallback? In what kind of web applications would I want to use Waud.js? Games?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

At the age of 19, Musk was accepted into Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, for undergraduate study. In 1992, after spending two years at Queen's University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where, at the age of 24, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from its College of Arts and Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from its Wharton School of Business. Musk extended his studies for one year to finish the second bachelor's degree.[41] While at the University of Pennsylvania, Musk and fellow Penn student Adeo Ressi rented a 10-bedroom fraternity house, using it as an unofficial nightclub.[37]

In 1995, at age 24, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space.[35][42] In 2002, he became a U.S. citizen.[43][44]
I think that uses the Snapdragon 810 which has a better modem than the iPhone 6s/6s+ which has a Category 6 modem. Your phone, the 6P has a Category 9:
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/810
If you noticed, one thing I didn't dispute at all was the "cost effective" part -- LADAR sensors are becoming cheaper and cheaper every year. I remember back in 2008, they were prohibitively expensive (around the same price as a Model S is now).

Now, you can get ones anywhere from $200-$5000. That's why I am sticking with my 5 year prediction for an auto pilot Jetta.
Showing controls is only possible on <video> tags. This won't work on gifs.
I agree. Most historical cases of hyperinflation had major structural/sytemic issues limiting production capacity relative to demand. Currency creation is only a problem relative to the capacity to produce.
Do you have any interest in scaling this down to meetups as well?

I've been thinking of trying to organise one to scratch my particular technical itch and my plan was pretty much to throw something up on meetup, though I don't have any plans for a venue.

P.S. your site is down.
> I resolved to your first paragraph in a response to a sub-comment here, and will not repeat the text.

You really didn't, except to offer some hand-waving nature v nurture nonsense and insults that don't elucidate or engage Rawls' ideas at all.

> Rule of law provides a foundation for equality; having a system that treats everyone in a predictable, unbiased, and well-known fashion gives them something they can count on when they plan and engage in all the activities of life. The more your fate rests in the hands of officers acting capriciously, with the power of vague unpredictable rules that you were never aware of, the more difficult and terrifying your life becomes. When you don't have rule of law, who you are in relation to the powerful determines what you can do, and who you can be, thus depriving many (if not most) of opportunity, while subjecting them to the worst form of oppression, embodied by constant terror.

You appear to assume that "rule of law" as an idea provides any guarantees at all that the laws themselves by which one is ruled are at all just, fair, or equitable. It is, at best, foolish to make such an assumption. People living under a lawful regime of unjust laws will find themselves in no better shape than those who toil under a less lawful society. History is replete with such circumstances, including:

- Jews under the rule of law of National Socialism

- former slaves and their descendants under the rule of law of the post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow South

- slaves under the rule of law in every Western colonial/imperial territory, and the pre-Civil War US

- interracial couples under the rule of law before Loving v Virginia

- women under the rule of law throughout Western nations before the advent of equal suffrage

The rule of law provides no innate or guaranteed protection from inequality or injustice. Who you are in relation to the powerful always determines what you can be and do, especially within the context of legally proscribed behaviors. Those who hold power typically make the laws. When the laws are unjust, inequitable, and unfair, the rule of law does nothing to alleviate such a condition.
Well, I'm going to replace my comment.

I'll just let yours stand as evidence of the kind of thing that happens when you ask for compromise on such a strange issue.
At the grocery store the other day, my wife and I were deciding between a few items. The thought occurred to me that a microphone in the aisle would be huge for customer feedback! A few seconds later I realized that it would just be a feed of people yelling at their kids/spouses... not very helpful.
Like this?

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/nature/2016/03/could-chi...
Is it me or is Linode being targeted specifically lately? If Linode is being targeted specifically, why? (Note: Linode is on my shortlist of hosting services for a project in the near future.)
But there is no correct time. That's a deterministic paradigm, whereas tasks are probabilistic events, with a distribution of possible points. Take a given task, and there are versions or scenarios where it takes 1x units of time, all the way to 100x. What critical chain does is help the worker play with the 3 sides of the PM triangle, time, budget, and scope, in a way that optimizes for the global throughput, not just their little local optimum.
No doubt they're important factors but I don't think they're the game changer. The blogosphere (with comments + RSS) exhibited those traits long before Twitter arrived.
With C++ one can go far further than that. It's the matter of time spent on the solution. With all that other languages there is a performance ceiling that can't be breached.
There is a feature of HVIF, called level of detail, that lets you vary what shapes appear according to the display size. You can find it in the Icon-o-Matic documentation. Ctrl-F for "LOD" in https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/icon...
WORD convert Word to PDF and other formats to Online
True, good point. I might conjecture that not-banning non-resident ownership is proving to be a bit wobbly too though.

I suppose I should say something like: as we more in to a world where more and more people have the ability to access foreign residential property as an investment class we might need to rethink the rules around foreign non-resident property ownership for residential property, under some circumstances, perhaps, maybe.
Most historical cases of hyperinflation had roots in limitited.production capacity from externalities e.g. war.
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