skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have done the first week since estefan suggested it to me. After week one, I will say this: It has definitely been helpful.

It gets a little too philosophical at times in a "you need to want to change the world sort of way" but the professor really emphasizes that you need to become aware of your own strengths and suggests different ways of utilizing your particular skills to discover and solve problems. He provides concrete examples of how others have done this which I have found useful.

If you lack confidence and creativity I think it might help you out. Of course there are no silver bullets for this sort of thing but I think I have already learned something from it.

If you would be interested in taking the course in sync with me and discussing the various lectures, let me know. I find that to be helpful when MOOCing. My contact info is in my bio, hit me up if that sounds appealing to you.
This was obviously a controlled leak by Apple... it was released in after-hours on a Friday and was leaked to an Apple friendly journalist.

I think the scale of this downsizing is being underestimated. I think Apple car is dead.
But there are essentially no tariffs any more. Not sure how NAFTA changed that. But assuming its true: aluminum is fungible as mentioned. Providing more to Mexico means they can export more of their own to the US.
I would think the opposite in the U.S. Surely most wealth of the top N% (for some small N) is either inherited or enabled by existing family wealth and connections. The rags-to-riches hard worker stories are outliers.
This report refers to the earlier Bloomberg report but basically contradicts it [1]. In that report they said the strategy was shifting towards making the underlying tech for self-driving rather than a car, but that never made any sense to me.

The value in the business to Apple will be in the design, interior, and performance of the vehicle. Self-driving technology is going to be a commodity; buyers are certainly not going to be evaluating the self-driving capabilities when deciding which car to buy. The most important part is making a nice car, the self-driving tech is an implementation detail (and it will be like deciding whether to use Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi for a wireless protocol like AirPlay). Many companies are working on self-driving tech, including Uber which Apple is indirectly an investor in now (and won't be competing with each other, like Google). There will be plenty of time to work on it internally, license/buy it or collaborate with someone like Uber. Their development efforts should be focused on everything else (like manufacturing processes to enable scale and avoid Tesla's problems), that's what their business will really be about.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/apple-taps...
Its the third book in a series of three, are the other two as good? Should I start with them or just skip to the third one?
Grandparent is asserting a fact (that the US rich are probably the most historically meritous group of wealth individuals in history). It is not an intuitive fact, and it isn't presented with evidence.

There are two big issues:

* It is very hard to gut-feel wealth distribution (eg, http://marketrealist.com/2013/10/shutdown-101-perceived-weal...). Identifying who the US rich requires more study of statistics than most people have time for - so this assertion is about a group that is difficult to identify. If most of the US rich were in fact living quietly on family wealth from a generation ago, how would this be identified? How do we verify that these 'rich people' are indeed meritorious? They might not be.

* All of history is a very long time. Although the US is technologically the most advanced nation we have ever seen, to claim that it rewards the meritous more than any nation in history is probably wrong, and suggests grandparent isn't making a point based on careful thought. We have had democracy for more than 2,000 years, the US has only been around for ~300.
We just played with Elastic File System mounted into a Pod via `nfs` and it worked like a charm, with the additional "oh, wow" of being able to attach the same EFS to several Pods at the same time. I was also thrilled that they mounted with the root uid intact so there wasn't any kind of dumb permission juggling.

I did say "played with" because we haven't beat on it to know if one could run Jira, Gitlab, Prometheus, that kind of workload. I wouldn't at this point try Postgres but maybe it'd work.
Thanks, I worship as I please. But all the talk about exploitation is pretty thin, when Microsoft pays top rates for good talent.
Darn, I was eagerly awaiting them to go out of business so I could pick up one of their vans (all Fords btw) at auction for pennies on the dollar. Their drivers in SF are absolutely clueless and honestly should not be alowed on the road.
So that they called up Bay Area Auto Wraps R Us and paid $2500 or less per vehicle impressed you? Not exactly a stroke of genius to brand your vehicle fleet.
I'm not sure what you mean by polish. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than say OS X and stays much more out of your way? For me GNOME 3 does a much better job than OS X.
A Party in a Lunatic Asylum: On the Mundane Mysticism of Alan Moore
Hi,

I'm not the person you replied to, but I have a question(s) I hope you can help with.

Is there a list of the minimum requirements to join Atlas? I can't seem to find it in your FAQ. Is it true that entry is granted (or not) based on an evaluation of the startups business plan? Do I have to convince someone at Stripe that my idea has legs before I'll be granted access?

Also, is the service exclusively for startups that deal in digital goods? Say I have a physical product that I need a US company to import and sell (via a fulfillment service). Would Stripe Atlas accept me as a client?
The host of one of my favorite podcasts once asked Milton Friedman (huge free market guy, in case someone doesn't know) what he thought of NAFTA, and Friedman said he didn't like it. Friedman said that a real free trade agreement would've been one page, rather than the pile of exemptions it turned into. Everyone with the political clout to make it to the table was able to keep their protectionism somewhat intact.
I feel like this would work well but both parties would never agree.

Elon gets ungodly amounts of money and mass production experience to execute his vision. Apple gets to make a ton of money if it works out.

But would Elon join one of the big cos when he thinks he could be a big co? I don't think so?
Tesla replaced the tactile controls with a big touch screen. In my mind that is going backwards. The great thing about cars is the physical tactile controls that can be used without looking. Aftermarket stereos always have a worse interface than the OEM interface. Granted, I don't have a car with a touchscreen, but I would specifically look for a car with physical tactile controls if I was in the market. Disclaimer: not a Tesla fan at all.
What is the key difference between "central servers" and "bootstrap servers"?

I mean DHT is "decntralized" once the client has a copy, but initially a client has to get a copy of it from somehwere.

And unless every client gets the DHT from a different source, the system seems "centralized" in that sense.
Atlas is also restricted to Delaware, whereas with most of the other services, you can incorporate anywhere (including Wyoming, which is the best for privacy and taxes).
Well, you'd think it would be smart to license someone elses software but Tesla, GM, Ford, Uber, Mobileye, a couple dozen startups and any number of other players are all pursuing their own proprietary autonomous drivng OSs. The data is invaluable.

Google, on the other hand, who intended from the beginning to license it's OS out to carmakers has yet to secure any meaningful partnerships.
If you're going to start splitting hairs then you don't "have to" use any one particular method of staying in touch with people. Supreme convenience is not force.
Great idea! Maybe this could help Venezuala. Oh wait...
This kind of waste seems common and from an outside perspective very frustrating.

There is a famous example where Ford imported cargo vans from Europe to the US with disposable seats in them so they would be taxed (more cheaply) as passenger vans. I think the tax in question was referred to as the "chicken tax".

The situation is a bit different but China's value-added tax scheme combined with the prevalence of factories in bonded export zones leads to a lot of useless shipping of goods (or components of goods) from China to Hong Kong (or another nearby foreign jurisdiction) and back for no good reason other than to avoid tax. I'm sure this works out great for the local freight industry...
The vast majority of tech recruiters have no actual idea of how skilled their employee-side client is and are just keyword correlation machines that happen to be made of meat.

As such I doubt it impacts them much, if at all, beyond the obvious disappointment of not getting the salary cut, which they surely mitigate by just throwing candidates until one sticks.
IIRC, flask deploys straight to AWS's elastic beanstalk (gunicorn) with minimal configuration, I even think it's given as an example in EB's docs. I've deployed an EB hosted flask instance (2 ec2 instances behind a load balancer with zero issues) in production.
> who can live anywhere in the world

Must the director be a Canadian citizen or permanent legal resident?
You get a tax ID, online, and use that to open a business bank account wherever your normal bank account is.

Just saying. :)
> The claim that low thread counts are typical for web applications (and thus what people should focus on) is inaccurate. There are a large number of AWS customers who run applications using Aurora, and it is very common for them to run with hundreds of threads (and many customers choose to run with thousands).

For your typical web application, you do have very low thread counts, and you usually get parallelization through multiple instances of the web application (in my case, an API).
I've only played the demo so far, but I like that the first thing we learn about Doomguy is that he has no patience for questgivers. When you pick up your armor in the second room, a comm screen comes on and says "Hello. I'm Dr. [whatever], the director of this facility, and I think that we can work together for our mutual benefit--" Then Doomguy rips the comm screen off its mount, throws it against a wall, and moves on.

I also like that, as you say, it doesn't matter why glory-killing demons buffs you, but some valiant writer explained it anyway. (The database entry for the armor says that it's shot through with channels that absorb and repurpose demonic energy, or something.) I really appreciate it when someone actually takes the time to justify game mechanics like that; it helps with the whole suspension-of-disbelief thing for me.
I wonder whether there was some element of "those who have an inclination and ability to complete Starfighter may be insanely qualified from one set of screening criteria, but not from the criteria that resonates with people hiring employees".

In other words, maybe it turned out to be a better filter for self-starters who might be nascent entrepreneurs (reflecting the founders who created it), but sometimes those characteristics aren't what hiring companies are looking for when they have a specific role to fill.

Sometimes you interview people who would be outstanding in certain roles or for certain companies--but maybe not the one you happen to be currently working for.

I'm struggling here, but FizzBuzz is effective as a tool to weed people out, but FizzBuzz taken to the extreme doesn't necessarily equate to a tool to rule people in.
You have no evidence that they do either, so you can't trust them.
That's why I said "(at least cash wise)" :-)

Having Elon focus on SpaceX would be a win IMO. I'm not sure when you're talking $20bn+ acquisitions that the founder/CEO would stick around beyond being an adviser.
A better title would be Focus.

Steve Jobs loved to improve by cutting. When he got back to Apple, at its brink, it had been churning out a hodgepodge of products: several models of desktop and laptop that confusingly overlapped. Jobs brought the product heads together and showed them a grid with four squares:

| laptop | desktop |
----------------------+---------+
consumer | | |
----------------------+---------+
professional | | |
----------------------+---------+

He cut most of Apple's products. Yes, that takes courage, and Steve Jobs must have had that or a complete disregard for the opinion of other people. But clearly he was driven by more than a desire to simply Think Different.

His core design mantra, in my eyes, was Minimalism. He cut things as soon as he could, because he was dying to cut them, because he first and foremost made things for himself, and he happened to be a Minimalist.
Same in Croatia, 100 Euros for a j.d.o.o. (simple limited liability company) vs cca. 4000 Euros for d.o.o. (limited liability company 3k for capital, 1k expenses). I still wouldn't recommend, since VAT is 25% and capital gains is 20% (which is ok). Bulgaria and Romania have better terms and are within EU too.
‘Courage’
Disclaimer: PetSet co-author

PetSets will probably be beta in 1.5. The problem with rushing PetSets is that the worst thing that can happen would be that we say PetSets are beta and then it eats someone's DB for lunch.

The goal is to get the core function stable and predictable (put enough stress testing and partition testing that we are comfortable with it) and put it into a longish beta while we add out the features that are necessary to make it able to predictably and stably keep running your clustered services. We want beta to mean "stable enough to trust".
The authors were commenting and taking questions in this Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/51z582/report_wik...

According to them, Assange asked them not to publish the information because it might help Hillary Clinton.
What Netflix ratings really mean, and how they work
Doing it is only part of of it. Doing it behind users back without a message or warning, or a even an article on their website is the biggest problem.
* Contracts you've made with hosting providers and other services expire when your company does, not when your personal assets are liquidated.

* Same goes for anyone who sues you.

* Business partners and clients won't deduct taxes from your invoices, but often will if you're a sole proprietor.

* If you ever have employees and later liquidate the company, you can have arranged in advance for them to get a portion of the proceeds, which may or may not be motivating earlier on in the company.

Maybe few of these apply to you, since if you get sued you'll surely just flee to Antarctica to snark from amongst the penguins, who are likely to be the only employees you'll ever have either way.
Well really I abbreviated my sentence.

... snap-fit, glue, welding, staples, rivets, plastic push-clips, and any other assembly mechanism which undoing causes the device to be structurally damaged, cosmetically damaged, or necessitates buying new non-standard fasteners for each open.

General point is that the battery itself isn't so special compared to opening the rest of the device. Even on my i9500 with a standard "removable battery", the plastic clips which hold on the back cover have started to break off because they must have been designed for 20 insertion cycles. We don't need a "modular smartphone", we simply need assholes to stop "designing" them as if they're disposable.

Self-threading plastic screws aren't bad as long as you always back-thread them when reassembling. Soft thread-lock as used on eg Thinkpads is about the borderline of acceptability, and that's only because if you open your device enough you aren't really worried about a screw loosening over time.
Kvetching by free trade acolytes about 'real' free market capitalism reminds me strongly of leftists bickering about the USSR not actually being communist.
Any idea what causes the slow app switches?
There is no non-public info in this case. It's same as if you were in a public hall with a lot of people, who talk only about stocks, and writing down how many, how often and when particular stocks are mentioned and in which context (buy, sell, various). Morally ambiguous thing is that hall belongs to Google and they're the only one up in the balcony, which is the only place you can hear all the people from.
GNU “will begin to add per-use fees” $150M investment
This. Apple is already a luxury brand and has the money to make what Tesla cannot: a truly no-compromise electric car. Teslas, while perhaps faster than traditional ICE vehicles, have comparably less luxurious interiors. Additionally, Apple has such brand power that they could release a car tomorrow and have a guaranteed level of sales. Few companies would have the cash, expertise and brand value to develop such a product.
It's probably not a good idea to try to "save money" on your taxes by claiming a low income and distributing yourself whatever's on the balance sheet later on; it's apparently a notorious audit flag.

Respectfully: it's also unethical, if you think about it carefully. Pay full freight on your payroll taxes: if you make so much much money that this dodge is material to you, you're the last person who should have a loophole to take advantage of.
Ugh. Another article by someone with no background in the subject he's covering. 12-megapixel lenses eh? That's a lot of pixels for a lens. Professionals call "digital negatives" DNGs, do they? I wonder what professionals call raw... I love the social commentary and analysis in the New Yorker but they should probably steer clear of tech.
You can melt your MacBook in the oven but not your iCloud account. You're comparing apples to oranges (pun intended).
Do you know the story of how the British went from petty traders to "greatness"?
I don't have a Tesla but my Dodge Charger also uses the touch screen for most controls. I don't have a problem with it. It still had physical buttons and knobs for things that matter. I have physical buttons on the wheel for phone/medial controls, and physical buttons for adjusting temperature. There are a few more physical buttons. Everything else I do on the touch screen and it works great. And this is on a much smaller touch screen than the Tesla. Touch screen per se is not an issue as long as the important controls are not buried deep in the UI.
The other half of the "claim a low salary" S-corp dodge is that distributions (the standard way LLC's pay their principals, and the standard way S-corps pay "profit sharing") aren't payroll-taxed (technically: aren't self-employment taxed).

So I think the trick here is, you pay yourself $70k in salary, but issue yourself a $30k profit sharing distribution.
PetSet co-author here:

Think of PetSet as a design pattern for running a cluster on Kubernetes. It should offer a convenient pattern that someone can use to Do-The-Right-Thing.

The hard part of clustering software is configuration change management. If an admin adds a new member to the cluster by hand, they're usually correct (the human "understands" that the change is safe because no partition is currently going on). But an admin can also induce split brain. PetSets on Kube try to make configuration changes predictable by leveraging their own strong consistency (backed by the etcd quorum underneath the Kube masters) to tell each member the correct configuration at a point in time.

The PetSet goal is to allow relative experts in a particular technology to make a set of safe decisions for their particular clustered software that behaves exactly as they would predict, so that they can make a set of recommendations about how to deploy on the platform.

For instance, CoreOS is working to provide a set of recommendations for etcd on pet sets that would be correct for anyone who wants to run a cluster safely, and encode that into tutorials / docs / actual pet definitions. They're also driving requirements. Other folks have been doing that for elastic search, zookeeper, galera, cassandra, etc. PetSets won't be "done" until it's possible to take the real world considerations into account safely when writing one.
It's a way of bandlimiting (lowpass filtering?) price change through mild overproduction.

It works because overproducing food costs less than the risk of market shortage transients. It's one of those Catch-22 moments where you feel in awe of the genius of it.

I am very sorry it is a significant fraction of your state budget. Given the nature of the risk profile your state should not be underwriting this risk.
Performance. Think, distributing your client requests over a set of servers over which the data is sharded.

AFAIK, ETS tables can't be sharded.
You mean unlike Tesla that just announced and got billions worth of sales? I don't think the magic is reserved for Apple only
That's a bit disappointing. People have been waiting for petsets for quite a while now. But thanks for the info.

FWIW, some other less-stable features (the new volume attaching logic in KCM, for example) should have been marked as beta. You guys are not quite consistent about what you feel is stable. :-)
If I understood correctly, using the root permission granted by the user when the prompt for the password comes up, they hack the database containing the accessibility settings, and add themselves to the list.
Same reaction: "I mean, Helm can do anything but this is getting ridiculous."
Apple's value add is the same as it has been since the very first iPod: User Experience. Apple is a UX company; they've been successful because everything they did was laser focussed on the UX.

Right now buying and operating a car kinda sucks in a lot of ways [0] because GM doesn't have anyone whose job it is to subordinate all business functions to UX. Steve Jobs did that at Apple and maybe today somebody is still carrying the torch. The fact that Apple has a culture of design and implementation oriented around UX is the value add.

Imagine the process of purchasing and repairing your car feeling like an Apple store. Imagine Jony Ive designing the fit and finish of the car hardware, inside and out. Imagine a center-console human interface that was designed by someone with taste [1]. All of this is going to be packaged seamlessly with that beautiful attention to detail in subsystems integration that makes my grandma want an iPad, just because it feels amazing, even though it does literally nothing useful.

Obligatory disclaimer: For political reasons I strongly disagree with Apple's walled garden philosophy, and it makes me so angry that the best laptops available run closed source OS's natively. But I have to admit that Cupertino's hardware, shopping process, and unboxing experience is beautifully designed, and that their focus on UX does lead to a nice experience if you stay within their ecosystem.

[0] e.g. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/147352433956/how-not-to-buy-a-c... but really just talk to anyone who has been near a dealership or repair shop

[1] We have been stuck in the center console design dark ages for decades, even in luxury automotive.
Because so few non-autonomous cars are sold per year?
Never heard of him.
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It really seems to more of a sacrifice to some god of the Apocalypse to me. Although given the history of Japan since the Meiji period, nothing should surprise me.

Medieval Japanese culture is just so achingly beautiful it does not surprise me that people have such love fr it.
I just don't understand that argument, on two fronts: First, Elementary looks almost exactly like a stock Fedora Gnome desktop (slightly clunkier, actually, in terms of window decorations and the settings panels)...so, how is it uniquely pretty in the Linux world? Second, I consider recent Gnome on Fedora to be comparable to Windows and mac OS (preferable, even, IMHO).

Linux from several vendors has been pretty for years. Being pretty, or historic lack thereof, clearly isn't the thing keeping Windows and mac OS users from switching in droves.