skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's apples to oranges - I really think there is a difference in loosing military control of an empire versus losing economic dominance. The US isn't going to cut spending on it's military substantially because china makes a better cellphone than Apple. Apple will continue to compete, and consumers will enjoy better phones at lower cost.
If the goal is irrational, the method to achieve it does not matter.

Ex falso quod libet.
I think that's the next step, I've done things like this before but generally only to troubleshoot outright breakage caused by some addon. Thanks!
I think their main developer (Brainslayer) publishes his builds periodically. So those aren't random people. But in general it's not really a fully open development project. I.e. it's not governed by any community.

OpenWRT is better in this sense, but even there some people split into recent LEDE project: https://www.lede-project.org

Regarding bricking. Linksys WRT1900ACS is designed with that in mind. It has two partitions, and you always flash updates to another one, so if something goes wrong, you can easily switch to the other partition which will hold previous installation, using special on / off sequence. It's a neat idea, and more routers should follow it.
Yes, of course. You are under no obligation to share that information in such an encounter.
The Borowitz report still isn't funny or insightful.
The only tax complaint I've heard from entrepreneurs in Denmark is complexity, not cost.

Most freelancers I know want out, not because taxes are too high, but because an accountant is too expensive.
> why move be an alien in US

I think you may have missed the whole point about USA. Nobody is an alien in this country, a lot of people would life to make you feel that way, but I know a lot of people from Sikkim regularly get asked where in China are they from.
1. Price if obvious reason of migration, and in their case (multiple datacenters and "-1 datacenter" policy) it was huge benefit.

2. The other concern was Oracle's slow bugfixing and reaction to feedback.

So, this is a good case showing how a company can stop wasting millions of $ for proprietary software, joining Open Source community, contributing to it and taking benefits from tech collaboration with core developers of the product.
Amazon accidentally announces a cheaper Echo Dot
No worries about it being unoriginal. It's a great idea and obviously left an impression on me 8 years ago. :)
You can't recommend your solution to others and then say that they can't judge whether or not it is a good solution.
Let's assume movie tickets are free. Unless the ticket explicitly says, "You must watch the ads for this ticket to be valid", you're under no obligation to watch the ads before a movie, even if the theater's business model is dependent on your eyeballs actually seeing the ads. If that business model starts to fail because more and more people are realizing they don't have to watch the ads before a movie, you can't blame the people, you have to blame the business model. There's no reason to have a moral obligation to abide by some implicit non-legally binding contract, especially when that contract involves the invasion of my privacy and subjects me to potential violence.
Have a source on the electricity costing pennies?
>mill and separate wheat into flour and bran. Of course you don't see anyone demonizing these processes because

There is actually a movement to avoid modern milling techniques. Something about how the high pressure steel mills today affect the endosperm and then the readdition of the separately ground germ and bran produces a different whole wheat flour than grinding the wheat berries as one ingredient.
Two words: "consultancy services"
The article uses the term "occupation" so I'd say it is related.

The United Nations is one of the most corrupt political entities so their stance is of dubious value IMHO.

https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/1853.2
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/united-nations-corruption-and...
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The electricity and cost of the rail gun isn't measured in pennies.

An Aerodynamic vehicle could be safe, but it would also mean it would generate considerable drag on the way up requiring more power, it also would be safe only after almost reaching orbit because it would be hypersonic out of the launch pad, if you can design a hypersonic glider NASA would like hear about it.

Building a launch pad over 200KM is also not a simple feat, if you ask why people are building rockets it's because we have no clue how to build EM and by all accounts it's not sustainable for earth.

EM launchers for the moon and even mars as well as large asteroid bases are considerably more sensible.
Origin is from the original author. The original author passed the torch to someone else who then used it as a donation source. So the original author came back, forked it, and titled their fork Origin.
Still slow from my experience.
That deep attention to what you are doing sounds like "flow" -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of optimal experience. See his talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?lan...
Just give someone a big performance bonus with the understanding that part of it is to be used on bribes? Seems rather easy.
I agree that we should add some more documentation in this area (though we always have to be careful that we don't document things so thoroughly that we de-facto stabilize the internals and make it impossible for us to improve them in the future). But in the meantime, if you're just learning the language, I would recommend not being overly concerned with the performance details of collections until you start seeing them at the top of your performance profiles.

EDIT: And of course, I do encourage you to check out the documentation that we have in the std::collections module that goes into at least a little detail about each of the standard collections, along with tips for choosing when to use each: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/#when-should-you-u...
Nope. And in the case of terrain following airplane algorithms, it's practically impossible to maintain minimum clearance AND allow for any expectation of pilot override.

The >=.7 second human reaction time (with a planned/known reaction such as brakes or jerking steering wheel) is the very reason why Autopilots are safer.
Perhaps God-like beings are the inevitable end-state of our universe, and are now reaching back through time in order to minimize the suffering needed to reach said state, influencing the trajectory of the universe in whatever ways they can (whilst under consistency constraints). See retro-causality.
> Is it possible to have a free society that's completely surveilled?

It is, if a society's ethical and legal code and how its members actually behave are closely aligned (which prevents blackmail), surveillance is done by all to all, and the government has limited ability to arrest and prosecute.
Very cool! Love the candid and open conversations on both successes and failures from some very impressive entrepreneurs. Can't wait to see the rest.
Well with a car, if it always breaks down, you'll likely buy more cars through your lifetime, and the quality of the product has a feedback loop on the performance of the company. With a house, same thing. Worst case, if it's bad, sell it replace it with something else.

But with education, students have likely never bought a car, or a house, and don't have much background or life experience at this point in their lives and you want them to make a one-time, long-term, investment decision in a non-fungible asset?

Most students only make the decision once and whatever you learn about the school or career not meeting expectations isn't ever applied again. Worse, you don't find out first hand what quality your education really was until after leaving the college. Worst, the decision isn't really couched in terms of a ROI type investment decision (maybe thats changing), but that's certainly not the only factor at play in student school decision.

That's not a good basis for balancing a market.

> Loan issuers are forced to issue loans without regard to the likelihood those loans will be paid back.
Private loan issuers aren't forced to do anything. They can always leave the market and invest elsewhere if they cant figure out how the serve the market.
Makes me think of this other Ars story: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/we-love-spacex-and-we...

I'm glad these guys are making waves in getting stuff to space, but maybe they should focus on getting one or two people to LEO, which none of them have even tried to do yet, before they start thinking about colonizing other planets.
Love the immersive steadicam style! Seems more candid. Looking forward to the other videos!

One question, how did you decide on who to interview?
Please take a look at the Human Rights Watch reports[0] for USA, China and Russia. I honestly wonder how you can reach such a conclusion about freedom of expression and human rights in those countries.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016
I worked at Tim Hortons. Can I still be Prime Minister?
I agree with what you say, but advertising (more specifically Google's Adwords) actually introduced me to a couple of interesting services/products! Was I manipulated? Definitely, because I clicked the ad, but I don't mind because I also benefited.

However, a lot of adverts are subterfuge these days and I did fall for one (to shame it, it was TrackR Bravo, which works nothing like its advertised, to make matters worse it was part of a present), so one does need to be careful.
I think they mean you can have email on a custom domain for free. Not that they give custom domains for free.
Python's Tornado docs had its domain expire
The problem I would see is that if the cops were called to a particular address, they could look up "how many guns are registered to this address" on the way there - and this will greatly affect their demeanor upon arrival.

People have guns for many reasons - but the police will only make the assumption that if you have them, you'll be wielding one or potentially have it ready to go once they get there.
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This question has come up before in the context of governing bodies before (e.g. legislature vs executive). The usual answer is that we do our best to create checks and balances, because there is no good answer to your question.

Note: I am not saying that the existing system of checks and balances are actually doing any checking or balancing in any country presently. I am just suggesting that it is usually what we can aspire to.
The tale of caching and why it matters…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes#Con...
Many Palestinians don't feel they are being represented by those people.

You are absolutely correct that there is (IMO) a healthy amount of Arabs elected to the Knesset, but I think more needs to be done to integrate them into normal and day-to-day Israeli society. Unfortunately, integration into host societies is not popular among hard-liner fundamentalists.

Frankly I think something akin to the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in Canada would be appropriate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut_Land_Claims_Agreement
The current ones aren't corrupt as much as eager to overstep their bounds in order to perform their designated tasks. If the proposed agency has the same problem, that's a feature, not a bug.
It's not going to cost pennies, it's an easy calculation treat energy efficiency as 100% efficient and calculate how much watts you would need to put say a 10,000KG payload in orbit and then calculate how much it would cost you in terms of electricity.

F (d)x/(d)t = F * v = m * a * v = joules per second = watts
> but I'm missing the 'real' wow-factor of why Postgres was a better choice in the end than Oracle

I'm guessing it was a few million dollars worth of wow-factor.
File formats will be documented when I publish the data-files in a few weeks.

What do you mean with postings?

The main index is split into 32 shards (there is also an additional news-index which is updated about every 5-10 minutes). Each shard is updated and queried seperately. The query actually runs 2/3 on a Windows server and 1/3 on a Linux server. The latter in Docker containers. I want to move everything to Linux over time.

Query has two phases. First only a rough - but fast - ranking is done. Then the top results of all shards are combined and completely re-ranked. This is basically a meta search engine hidden within.

First query phase is in src/searchservernew.dpr, and the second phase is in src/cgi/PostProcess.pas.
From a purely technical and tinfoil-hat point of view, they'd have meta-data about your emailing habits. They wouldn't be able to read the mail for your encrypted traffic, but lets be honest - most people don't. So that mail could be read too.
I love the quote (I think it was from Edward Snowden): "Saying you don't care about mass surveillance because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about the First Amendment because you have nothing to say."

To me, that says it all.
Legally: under most circumstances, you can refuse to comply.

In practice: you never want to escalate an encounter with police officers here, it can quite easily with loss of life. You did the prudent thing.

IANAL, answers based on my life lived in the US...
This is not the point.

The point is that there now exists backchannels between governments and corporations who control modern communication, and those backchannels are being used to censor anything.

The content of the messages does not matter one iota, they could have the best intentions in the world. The slippery slope is that we have people in power making decisions without checks and balances, and especially without the checks and balances we already have in place. Even assuming intentions pure as driven snow eventually those backchannels will be abused. It is a matter of when, not if.

That is the slippery slope.
> I'm missing the 'real' wow-factor of why Postgres was a better choice in the end than Oracle

Not having to deal with stuff like this while having the same features/performance/stability/etc may qualify as a 'wow':

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_licensing
> but for 8 byte inputs python's random hash is faster
> than siphash24.

For reference, note that Rust recently switched its default hash function from SipHash 2-4 to SipHash 1-3, which should lead to improved performance while retaining the usual flood-resistant properties (at least, that's what the algorithm's creator advised us to do :P ).
I used to think this way. I remember writing an angry rant comment on a review of the Magic Trackpad, saying it was the beginning of the end for precise, professional input.

Now, of course, I exclusively use the MT with my Macs & plan on moving to iPad Pro. I've realized that what actually makes someone more efficient and productive are not the tools that seem the most complex or offer the most options. What I've realized is that the biggest impediment to productive general computing is what I'm going to coin as "context exhaustion."

iOS is an OS designed to be orders of magnitude better in this category than a PC OS. A roll-your-own, completely open Linux distro is the opposite. At the end of the day, the tool that requires the least maintenance and repetition of movements is the tool that actually offers the most real productivity advancement. To use my example, once I realized giving up precise input was completely negated by the freedom of zoom gestures, I realized the great economic benefit of the MT. I'm critically faster at navigating interfaces with gestures like double-tap-to-zoom.

The best part is, Apple isn't trying to achieve market dominance the way MS did. They're simply offering high end products in high demand - and if they don't match your vision of what productive work should look like, you'll always have other options that will be much more popular in terms of market share.

A lot of focused complaints like these, I think, are the result of Apple fans not taking advantage of new features that reduce contexts.
What's their plan to prevent malware from coming through their ad network?
Sure, those reduce the instances you'll need a shell on a box, but they can't eliminate them. Sometimes you just need to see what's going on on that box, run top, see why there's a few thousand messages in the mail spool ad coax them through, figure out why SQL isn't responding or keeps dying, etc, etc.
I'm sure some will, but the sheer variety of Android handsets means it's highly unlikely it'll disappear from all of the viable ones anytime soon if people actually want them.

There are a huge number of niche, speciality phones, such as phones with extra many SIM-slots - max I've seen is five - extra large batteries, up to 10,000mAh - extra rugged - huge extra antennas - water proof - models with walkie talkie functionality, and many other special purpose models. This is the advantage of reference designs that get copied and adapted over and over cheaply, allowing tons of different companies to churn out variations cheaply.

Given that, I'm sure there will be ones with wired headphone connectors for a very long time.
> It would be up to the laptop manufacturers to include a driver to do such.

Which means it's not going to happen, and if it does, it's not going to work right.

The "IBM Compatible" or "Wintel" commodity hardware platform has proven to be a powerful force for making computers less expensive and easier to use, but there's something to be said for vertical integration.
1) If you read or hear about someone you think are doing something great, contact them, tell them, ask them.

2) If you see someone who is doing something amazing, go over to them, tell then how great you think it is, ask them how they do it.

3) If there is something you want to understand but don't, figure out who do and ask them.

4) Get out amongst people.

5) Build, create, write, launch something put it out there for the world to see.

In other words.

Just be genuinely interested in the people you interact with and you will be building the best possible network without feeling you are being insincere. It doesn't matter if it's in person, by mail, via a tweet.
Whilst reading, I wondered how the first guidance, "avoid abstraction", could apply to creating programmes, especially in commercial settings.

"Purple", "poetic" or "tangental" function, variable and class names litter my personal projects. I enjoy coming up with these things immensely, at the time. Often, later, I rename them to more directly communicate their intended use. Which way exhibits "better" poetry?
>> Dishonesty is apparently more pervasive and built in to their culture.

Oh yeah [smiles dishonestly from across the ocean]
The underlying issue is that having faith in Empiricism(1) is reasonable but having faith in God is ignorance.

Quoting Hamming: "A man was fishing with a net in the sea. He concluded that there is no smaller fish in the sea than what he caught". (s/fishing net/scientific method)

(1)Empiricism modulo quantum effects - and here we go again.
I always had this, maybe stupid idea, of vouching referrals search engine. You pick a few sites you know are good and they (their 'webmasters') would vouch for new ones, and those could vouch for new ones, etc. Catch is, if one or two (whatever) of your child or grandchild vouched sites screws up, then they're toast, out of index, but so are you. That way you would pick wisely.

Same idea would probably work for online commenting. Vouch with a chain of responsibility. That's essentially how pagerank did its thing, but with no repercussions and vouching was automatic based on links from initial seed of what they thought was good. I'd do it with humans.
Iirc Gigablast had such a feature.
I don't disagree with many of your points, but I think perhaps what is missing is perspective. Playing a bit of devil's advocate:

> I think that what's lacking in the american system is the recognition of "normal" entrepreneurs, those making $200 dollars at a time, and growing their high-potential tech-product business from $0 to $1M in 5 years

This doesn't move the needle in the biggest economy in the world. That's not even a viable business in most cities with high cost of living. At that rate you probably wouldn't even be able to pay yourself a decent wage, let alone hire anyone, within the first 2-3 years. Why would the United States want to let you in where there are more promising businesses/entrepreneurs on the path to $100m/year companies within 5 years?
I don't see why this is a problem. You want to free load on other people's connections but not share your own? (In the US anyway, the free wifi you get for running that secondary SSID just comes from other people's personal connections).

This is why we can't have nice things. I hope they find a way to defeat people doing this, but my guess is it would be prohibitively expensive (war driving entire cities, etc).
Do they actually have a concrete plan for ensuring no malware is served over their ad network?
Many things are possible. But military experiments on a scale four orders of magnitude smaller have revealed many previously unsuspected engineering difficulties with putting the technology into production. Solving those problems at the 20m scale would seem a necessary prerequisite to successfully building a space launcher at the 200km scale.
Y Combinator loves to bash Israel (and Jews!) for some reason. I agree with your assessment. There's plenty of Israel critical material on Facebook. Only a very few items--items that would be not legal under US law, have been cited as examples. There's no secret kabal conspiracy here.
I see that as the point of GP's comment: different people get satisfaction from different things, and different people excel at different things. That's normal.
> In Islamic theocracies, it is frequently illegal and the punishments severe.

The only reason its not illegal in much of the US (and, actually, the laws prohibiting it are on the books in a number of states but unenforceable due to federal action) is that would be Christian theocrats have been defeated by other political actors. Which is a certainly a good sign for the US, but hardly consistent with the idea that Islam is uniquely problematic and that Christianity has "outgrown" the same kind of repressive tendencies.

> America (arguably the most Christian nation in the world)

Maybe the most Christian first-world state with an area greater than 110 acres, but certainly not the most Christian nation in the world.