skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games are fun. Here I'm teaching to code one without any engine stuff. Straight up programming: http://buildanappwithme.blogspot.com/2016/01/build-your-firs...
Wow, not a single line on that page about what she believes, what she stands for.
The only person that's had a pretty good batting average on this election so far is Scott Adams - it's downright eerie the way he's called it almost since this time last year.
> I would reduce to a stream of words

Thus proving gbraad's point?

Guanxi is not those things you mentioned. Incidentally, it's not something that is difficult for foreigners to grok - they just need to have some exposure and experience with it.
The engineers are not getting that obviously, it depends on how much equity they have and the difference between the amount of VC money pumped into a company and the final sale price of the company. VCs often get 2x preferred stock (at the minimum - it entitles them to 2x what they invested). This is before anyone else is allowed to see a dime. Every term sheet is different of course.
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You don't think his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants is racist?
>People really should learn to not reuse usernames.

another person who asked questions on stackoverflow was Ross Ulbricht; it didn't quite help him.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road...
If you claim that the benefits of our technological society are merely perception, I suggest that you are not perceiving all that clearly.
This is a great comment—I work for the author's firm, would love to learn from your experience if you're game. If you're willing to talk, reach out at joeflaherty@foundercollective.com
Be nice to see an explanation from our moderating overlords
I do some high-level math work myself, so I may be biased. That said, I really like the optional static tying in Julia. It allows you to prototype an untyped mockup of your program really quickly, and add the types to your inner loops later if you find they're too slow. Now, I'm not working with colossal datasets, so for those you will probably want to statically type your inner loops the first time around or you'll be waiting a while. It should probably be noted that my job involves a lot of 'throwaway' code so for large, long-term projects this is probably not the ideal workflow, it just works for what I do.
I see that you're having a bit of trouble parsing my statements. Allow me to help.

>but to pretend like you're making a constructive addition to the discussion / debate is folly.

That's silly. I'm just saying that all these things happened. Facts, if you will. These things definitely happened and were reported ad nauseum. The terror attacks, Clinton passing out, her basket of deplorables comment, those actually happened. And now this email thing.

These were Trump talking points long before the events happened.

Now, I think that her campaign staff could somehow spin this so that she comes out relatively unscathed, IF all these things didn't happen within about a week of each other. If this was spaced out over a month or so, we'd forget.

The way the timing is, no spin doctor in the world can buff this out.

I'm not advocating for either candidate, like you are, but I'm pointing out the fact that Clinton has pretty much made herself unelectable.
As a follow up, I found this news article from Time[0], talking about a discovery process:

> Instead, as Clinton revealed Tuesday, her attorneys searched the trove of emails for certain email addresses and subjects. Baron argued that raises the possibility that they missed some emails that should have been saved for the public record.

> First, the lawyers searched all emails with a “.gov” email address in any address field, which yielded 27,500 emails—more than 90% of the total correspondence ultimately provided to State.

Those matching emails were turned over on Dec. 5, 2015 and Combetta posted on July 24, 2015. The optics of trying to change the email addresses ahead of a search by her lawyers for certain email addresses to decide what to turn over are certainly not great.

[0] http://time.com/3740357/hillary-clinton-emails-search/
At least vote. Write in your dog, if you have to. Otherwise future politicians won't aware that you will be at the poll, ready to vote for them, and they'll pander to someone else.
I like the bit about 4am being the most productive hour. I have always been a morning person and for most employers and customers I have worked early in the morning until mid-afternoon. Quiet time is golden.

As far as the main theme of the article: having more people idle is something society needs to adapt to. In the extreme of insufficient work, I would like to see a very low minimum income and a policy to promote breaking up jobs so people at least got 15 or so hours a week. Looking forward a decade, I bet there will be much less for people to work on.
What do you mean why is nobody doing that? Lots of providers are doing that. Almost the only providers in the same price league as AWS are Google Cloud, Azure and Rackspace. All of them appear to assume (rightly so, judging by peoples reaction) that they can keep their margins high on the basis of brand name recognition and specialist features, and none of them seem interested in rocking the boat.

They will drop their publicly listed prices once smaller customers gets comfortable enough with cloud services to start seriously shopping around, not before. Larger customers will already negotiate (e.g. I know of one AWS customer with ~75% discount over the listed prices)

> The only place I have a gripe on AWS pricing is bandwidth. I keep waiting for the announcement that bandwidth is being cut in half next month and it hasn't happened.

AWS bandwidth pricing is 5x-50x higher than the providers I usually use. E.g. for the cost of 1TB of transfer at AWS you can rent a server for a month + multiple TB of transfer elsewhere. Cutting it in half would still leave them ridiculously expensive for bandwidth.

> I've done the datacenter thing many times and there are so many pieces to the costs of running your own that most people don't include. The biggest one is just plain agility. Predictable workloads can benefit from self-hosted, but then again you can get much better prices at AWS when your loads are predictable as well if you're willing to commit.

I do the datacenter thing every day, and I also do AWS and other cloud providers every day, and when I move customers to dedicated hosting they typically cut their total infrastructure costs to 1/2 or 1/3 vs AWS costs after considering reserved instances and maintenance costs. For many of them, if they were large enough to get serious attention from Amazon they might have been able to negotiate deals that'd make it cost effective to stay, but I've also had more extreme examples, like a customer that cut their hosting cost to 1/10th.

The agility argument doesn't fly with me - I manage multiple systems that are hybrid mixes of dedicated predictable loads on self-owned or leased hardware, coupled with cloud resources that are "tied in" via VPNs as needed.

With well designed systems, the very availability of cloud makes dedicated hosting cheaper even if you never or rarely use it: Where we before often had to plan for 50% to 100% overcapacity on dedicated hardware to handle spikes (and might still have to just accept that some spikes would slow things down), we can now plan on almost no overcapacity and spin up on-demand instances to take spikes (we need only sufficient overcapacity to react and for additional capacity to come online), or even to shave off the top peaks of daily traffic.
Google turns up these:

https://www.google.com/patents/US5628016

https://www.google.com/patents/US6247169

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070016894A1

I'm not sure about the last one since it's an apparently abandoned application rather than a granted patent...

Interestingly, US6247169 reports "lapsed" on the google page due to non-payment of fees...

I'm really not sure what to make of US5628016 - it's filing date is in 1994, but there's a report of a 2015 "Assignment" legal event.

(edit - fixed links)
Except to the White House.

("Indict" means to charge with a crime. "Indite" is an archaic synonym for "invite". The joke I make about this confusion of terms originates with Shakespeare, so I think "indite" must be pretty archaic indeed!)
Quotes here: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect
Soooo a meta-analysis of meta-analyses?
California doesn't allow citizens that live in major metro areas to carry concealed weapons, unless they are employed as armed security, or are politically connected.
I have yet to see a single example of Trump's racism. It's an oft repeated cliche that has yet to be demonstrated by anyone. As much of a "clown" as trump might be, half of his labels are completely pulled out of thin air.
Aha, yeah, that was it! Thanks. soemoea's "tipping point" is close, too.
It's not "undocumented immigrants", it's "illegal immigrants".

If you enforce the law, they should be deported. Now they probably have very good reasons for immigrating, but the fact remains that they broke the law and our borders, and the job of the executive branch is to enforce the laws.
"getting noticed" ? As an indie game dev, I really don't make sense of that one.
Wasn't it July 24, 2014?
> Was it the case that they were just going to hand over the whole DB regardless

According to Wikipedia, they turned over 30,000 pieces of paper.

I'm amazed that it isn't a requirement that documents be turned over in an electronically searchable format in most legal scenarios.
It's getting late, but I'll happily pick this up tomorrow.

In a nutshell, the we're not using the word "integration" in the same sense. Roma reject the "host culture" (for lack of a better term) to an extent that is difficult to fathom, and much, much more extreme than anything in the American Black community. The Black community in the US has legitimate grievences and understandable trust issues with White America. Roma do not (except, perhaps, with Germany, but you'll note that they behave the same way everywhere... even in Romania!)

- They don't send their children to school

- They force their children to beg on the streets

- They force their children to steal (pickpocketing, stealing from yards/farms/public-utilitlies/etc

- They force their women into prostitution

- They force their children to spend their days running scams (the most well-known of which involves harrassing people for signatures on petitions for government subsidies. Typically, at least in France, they start fraudulent "associations" for deaf/mute people, collect a certain number of signatures, and cash in)

- When the police come to their shanty-towns to make arrests for anything from petty theft to battery to murder, they hold knives to the throats of their children and hold them hostage (I know you don't believe me so I leave it as an exercise to the reader to look this up. Examples abound.)

- They get into knife-fights between themselves and with locals, go to the hospital, and don't pay anything.

- They set up camp in agricultural fields, preventing them form being exploited, and leave behind mounds of garbage, requiring substantial cleanup efforts before the area can be exploited for its intended use once more [0]

The list goes on.

Suffice to say that there is very little about Black Americans that resembles Roma. Black Americans resist integration in a certain sense (as you have shown illustrated), but not nearly to the same extent.

Black Americans aren't, for example, forbiding their children from going to school in order to have them turn tricks for the benefit of elders.

I spent about half of my life in the US and half of my life in France. I've seen Black America (spent 6 years in an inner-city school in Wilmington, DE) and I've seen Roma. It's very hard to explain to a non-European what the deal is with Roma, but I implore you to believe me when I tell you the two have nothing in common. Roma are not bad by nature. I am not a racist. That said, Roma (by and large) do not share ours (i.e. yours and mine) values of tolerance, integration, and mutual respect. As a community, they are nothing short of abusive, and the strong reactions you see from Europeans reflects this.

I completely understand your skepticism, but I don't know how else to put it. This is different.

[0] https://youtu.be/_2ezoPFtC3Y
The first paragraph of the "Art Style" section seems like overstatement to me. Chinese seem to accept western styles just fine (WoW for example), so I just do not think art is really worth putting as the first section along with more important design decisions like world background.

The image caption "Popular Art Style among Game Players in China" could be much better phrased as "The Art Style of popular Chinese games" imo. The original caption gives the impression that the art style led to popularity, which is not true: it is probably because the settings of these game, of ancient China, fill a niche that few foreign competitors are interested in.
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As it will remain until a bleary, hungover morning in November.
I agree that this makes sense for a lot of people. E.g. I have clients that I recommend use AWS simply because hosting is a small cost item for them and it isn't worth their effort to optimise it for cost (at least not until they grow huge) vs. spending effort elsewhere.

Moving to cheaper services quickly becomes a big deal for people with low margins and high infrastructure costs, though, where moving to cheaper infrastructure can make the difference between being able to match competitors on price or not.

The key is to understand your hosting needs well enough to know whether or not you can afford to build a dependency on AWS specific services.
>popular but false

Why have you decided it's false?
I use firstinitiallastinitial@<mynamedomain>.com.

It's not as redundant as firstname@<mynamedomain>.com. and still seems like a personal email address as opposed to "me/iam/contact".
I don't think he's said anything about having a problem with legal immigrants.
You should have had them mention Mars v. Oracle to the salespeople!

http://houseofbrick.com/mars-vs-oracle/
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What range do you mean when you say "boat load of money"?
This has been my biggest problem with suggesting LPTHW to people. Not just that it was Python2 oriented, but that it was explicitly opposed to Python3.

I'm glad they're finally moving on to Python3.
On the football game analogy: yes, there are two teams. One of these teams will win. Both teams suck but at the end of the day, most people will want to vote for the person who made the most points.

It's actually exactly what it is.
As opposed to the actual Nazis that sent them to the gas chambers.

The entire point of universal human rights - which grew out of the aftermath of that same Holocaust, incidentally - is that you don't waive them, ever.

And it's particularly abhorrent to suggest that the rights of an entire group can be collectively abrogated by the actions of some - or even many or most - of that group.
The question here is competence, and lack thereof.

I think that skill in shadiness is transferrable across motives. If you can't plan a robbery of a convenience store for your own wallet, why should I let you plan the robbery of a bank to give it all away to charity?

The ends (sorta) matter in a moralistic sort of way. But the means matter much more. You're playing for higher stakes here, not just criminal prosecution, but a low level brush war in the middle east if you mess things up.
What do you mean by breaks?
It also makes sense if you don't assume that GOP is a monolithic hivemind.

Historically, though, that's exactly what they are. Party discipline usually prevails over everything else with those guys.
For those who are wondering (I was), doubling your money in 8 years is about an average return of 9%. So pretty solid, but not absurd.

Although I imagine such returns, with acceptable risk levels, become harder to find when you are dealing with 11-figures.
I agree this is a problem, however I don't think it is unique to prisons at all. Very expensive contracts are common in all sorts of government programs, and large corporations as well. The general case is the "principal–agent problem", where the person making a decision is not the person paying the bill.
I host a résumé (and most recently, a blog). I used to be pretty discoverable on Google by linking my StackOverflow, LinkedIn, Github, and website together, which seemed to have worked well. I think it was something like three of my links in the top five results, although I don't remember.

(Then another Waleed Khan made the news and I'm still struggling to regain my search result spots.)
/r/TeslaMotors dug up this video[1] of MobilEye CEO talking about the Autopilot, so if they really disagreed with the usage of Autopilot, shouldn't they have brought that up prior, and not included it in promotional material. From all indications on their end, I believe that they said that the Tesla Autopilot shouldn't be driven hands-free. I have no qualms with that, but why then use the Autopilot as a promotional feature for their products? Not trying to fanboy with Tesla here, as I do think that MobilEye was right in pulling their products away from Tesla.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMXXXmxG-I
Deporting Syrian refugees (the most recent target of Trump's rhetoric) would be breaking a major international law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Sta...
Rather than just hoping for critical mass for one candidate, it would be nice to switch to something like ranked-choice voting (it's used at the local level already in some places like San Francisco I think). It's hard to advocate voting for 3rd parties with our current system, where causing the least-preferred candidate to win is by far the most likely outcome.
How accurate is this? Asking because Trump not releasing tax returns made some news.
Honestly, this exists in the West, too. "Who you know and not what you know," and all that - this is true from hiring and firing to lobbying. I'm guessing it's not the social networking that is different, but the rituals around connecting and how you take advantage of those connections.
> but false

Any citation for that?
Worth mentioning that Jacobin approaches things from a very left of center perspective. There may be many HN readers who are Libertarian and disagree ideologically with the Jacobin view of the world (I happen to agree with it)
This is an important distinction, I obsessively avoid the overwork culture but I'm far from someone who just idles in my free time. I freelance and optimize my schedule to make a comfortable amount of money but not the most money I can possibly make. Then I spend much of the time I'm not working for a client on creative projects. So even though I may only properly book 3-4 days a week of client work, I'm working because I'm writing or filming or editing, or a client has a need that stretched outside of our booked hours that I'm taking care of or I'm just relaxing going to a museum or watching a movie. But the important thing is that I can choose what I do with most of my time. It's free as in "I have options" not free as in "I'm doing nothing."
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12536086 and marked it off-topic.
I usually do like the Libertarian candidate better than the other options... but not this year.
Should know better than to be locked into products and services online. Buying a hairdryer from Amazon is one thing, as the hairdryer is 'immutable' but relying on a product for a workflow at work or your day to day life and having it pulled is a danger. That's why I'd use Jira or MS Word over something offered by shiny new startup. Even better use markdown files on your local drive. Back it up at Dropbox sure but make sure it is backed up somewhere else too(!).
Man I wonder what drill rig they are using for the holes!? 2 to 4 mile is roughly what? 3 to 6.4 km or so. That's a mighty deep hole! I have worked as an offsider on a prototype deep hole surface core rig and our deepest were 1600 metres and they took ages to drill!(I heard stories of the rig drilling 2.5+ holes earlier in its life) The complications you start getting down hole at those depths are pretty weird,the ground can chew bits in 10 metres. Which then take 24 hours to change.

Also wonder what gauge the holes will be, I assume they will leave them cased with the rod string but christ they can't be planning to drill HQ that deep could they? Maybe even 8 inch for the first leg? Anyone seen anymore hardware details?

Edit :fix phones autocorrect.
You mean your moderating servants? At the time, there were multiple posts of the same story competing for attention, so a mod marked all but one as a dupe. But then that surviving one got heavily flagged. We reduced them at one point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534542) but the flags kept coming.

I think what's going on here (and what I just told the other moderators) is that this is one of those times when our standard practices around things like dupes and downweights—e.g. for political controversies—don't apply. This doesn't happen very often, perhaps once every couple weeks. In such cases the community will is unmistakeable, the story will keep coming up until it gets an airing, and our job is to let that happen.

I like it much better when we call these right from the beginning, but what are the odds that an r/conspiracy Hillary investigation would turn into a solid HN thread? Too small for the human eye, and no set of moderation rules can operate at that fine a grain.
It's one of those blanket cliches that gets applied reflexively. For a not insignificant sliver of the population, "Republican" == "racist" is an axiom, all evidence for, against, or sideways be damned.
Using iam@domain when your name sounds like Ian seems like it's just asking for confusion.
Microsoft have the head start on enterprise and SME sales, AWS have the head start on total customers.

But Google are quick studies, have a vast amount of already-paid-for infrastructure and software, and as much cash as the others.
That's because you can find that here:

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
>At least Nixon had the moral decency to resign when it was clear he wasn't right to lead by example.

Yes, it was because Nixon had moral fiber. Not because he negotiated a deal with Ford to pardon him immediately and preemptively, thus saving him the humiliation of impeachment and legal repercussions.
That's interesting - though it doesn't disprove the theory in the US. For example, the declines coincided with the dates individual states legalized abortion as well (some predated Roe v Wade).
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> because that's really all they have left at this point

It's really not, the reason why they keep hammering it home is because his vocal support among the fringes is unprecedented in the modern era.

They've got plenty of things to attack him on - which they do.
That's not true. The returns in happiness are just logarithmic with respect to income (diminishing returns but still positive at each level). The story about no benefit beyond a certain threshold was generated by journalists misreading the plots in those studies.

See, eg, http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/entry/the-truth-about-money....
Curious, can anyone comment on how fair NPR is in terms of covering 3rd party candidates? How about covering all candidates during a primary? I'm sick of great candidates being steam rolled in the popularity contest we have in politics and I wonder if we have anyone that covers them all adequately.