skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telcom companies are actually given government incentives to provide servies in uncovered areas. Sadly they can also monopolize the way they get some of the incentives by applying for and thus blocking out other competitors from getting the same funds for the same areas. They also manage to tie up the gov't in application processes (or rather the the gov't allows itself to be tied up in these applicaion processes for incentives). It's true these companies would rather continue collecting more money for less services, increasing profits. Dosen't make capitalism so dark a concept. These are unique situations because telecoms get to operate within the framework where they can fight and get cancelled a homebrew ISP project in a community. Spending resources fighting rather than actually building services with their profits. Pretty sad.
This can be quite inconvenient, that's why there's a way to make it more user friendly by using 2FA authentication or Google based SSO with your SSH:

http://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/admin-guide/#openid-o...
List of available trusted root certificates in iOS 9
Mind if I asked what exactly happened in your life that led to this?
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I just wanted to say that the clojure ecosystem is littered with the carcases of half baked libraries. Including some of my own. Its not a JS problem, its the beauty of open source & low friction sharing.
Glam did traffic roll ups with and packaging for publishers -- amongst a bunch of other things. If you were on the revenue or ad-ops side you would know Glam.

Edit, here is some more info: http://digiday.com/publishers/rise-fall-mode-media/
I am reading DFW's nonfiction right now, before i jump into infinite jest. I am almost through Consider the Lobster, and ive managed to piece together the duality of DFW's cynicism and desire to not be so. and then all his literary critique which is exciting in and of itself.
I've always wondered who created that site. I've used it to search for cars and parts for years! Thanks! :)
in the states it's almost exclusively rural area

i consulted them on biz and sales side so i don't remember their gear, but i remember both had quite a basic setup that worked pretty well. mind you, it was in urban areas (a 600k city in bolivia and a 2m city in serbia). serbian guys gone as far as building a file sharing network and setting up game servers
Except these are FOIA requests regarding Palantir and (so far) are legitimate queries.
Either the author of this article is extraordinarily mendacious or horrifically uneducated (neither would surprise me given the shape of journalism and the media, nor are these two mutually exclusive). First of all, Kosovars are Albanians. Many people in Albania have/had family in Kosovo. The comparison with the migrant crisis is completely off base. Furthermore, the majority of Albanians are Muslims. This would make them culturally closer to migrants. However, as we know, most migrants aren't interested in settling in poor countries. Second, many migrants (per statistics) are not refugees from Syria. Many are merely taking advantage of the cluster fuck that is EU policy and exploiting the Syrian refugee crises to get into Europe. The Kosovars were exclusively refugees. Third, Jews were also killed by Albanian collaborationist forces, but the Jewish population was negligible in Albania before the war (between 24-300). In other words, they were largely unfamiliar with Jews, making antisemitism difficult. After the war, when communist leader Hoxha came to power, religious oppression caused many Jews to leave and move to Israel. Worth noting is that Kosovar Albanians were not as kind to Slavs, Jews, and Gypsies as Albanians in Albania, declaring jihad against them. All in all, somewhere around 600 Jews were killed in "Greater Albania". Give credit where credit is due, but let's not exaggerate. (Look at Poland for comparison: largest population of Jews in the world before WWII, no collaboration with Germans in general populace and certainly not at the official or state level, largest number of recognitions among Righteous among Nations, only country occupying Germans made harboring or aiding Jews punishable by death for entire household, etc, etc).

So perhaps the author shouldn't use Albania as some kind of fabled Shangri-La for shaming everyone else. The false comparisons and false characterizations are really in poor taste. If the author is so hospitable and open, then why doesn't he open his house to some migrants? This isn't a joke. Perhaps a posturing member of the white upper middle class divorced from the consequences of his politics has the luxury of moralizing irresponsibly, but for anyone with a clue, this migrant crisis was a complex and disastrous failure in EU policy and governance. Warm feelings about some simplistic straw man refugee won't fly.
China should give him a job hacking the US.
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Any time I hear someone talking about liberty I presume they're a nut. It's unfortunate that word has been so wholly owned by crazy self centered people.
I suck at studying. It's boring, I have a short attention span for words on a page. And I'm not a good listener, so someone explaining things to me verbally is the fastest way to fill my brain. I used to try learning this way, failed miserably, and then told myself I couldn't be a programmer.

I'm good at grinding away. I'll bite onto a something I want to learn and not let go until I frikkin' get it. I learn with my hands, by asking questions, and staring at the screen until it makes sense. I've learned to push through it, and just write crap tons of crappy code until I come up with something interesting.

As recently as a couple years ago, I had a hard time finding ANY work as a developer. 6 months ago, I finally landed a dev gig that doesn't suck, and my coding mojo has been skyrocketing ever since. I've had code merged into the Elixir code base, I've got another PR waiting to be merged into Systemd, and I'm accidentally discovering use cases for those algorithms that bored me to death when I tried studying out of a book.

If you want to chat, my email is in my profile. I was a technical recruiter for 9 years, and now I'm Sr. Software Engineer (at least in title!). If you have some foundation level skills, there are plenty of ways to hack the interviewing process.

Good luck. If you can't climb someone else's ladder, build your own.
Why require the number? So you can send an activation/recovery code over SMS? Virtual numbers and pre-activated SIMs are easily accessible nowadays. You'd mitigate but not prevent abuse nor spam. In terms of security, SMS is NOT recommended to communicate sensitive data.

That being said, only a tiny few of us are concerned about privacy, most app users aren't, otherwise FB wouldn't have a billion users.
> Many illegal markets are highly monopolized, often coercively (e.g. "if you try to sell here, we'll shoot you")

I don't find this to be true, given that most are online markets.
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Some kind of an equilibrium has been reached involving the transfer of billions of dollars, not easy to change.
Participate in 401k plan - yes, 99% people would benefit from starting as early as possible. Max out your per-paycheck 401k contribution (including in order to maximize employer match) - not always. The farther you are from retirement age, the bigger your opportunity cost is going to be (your 401k money is locked-in into retirement account).

There are also certain 401k rules that may play very hard against you. For example, take a look at mandatory withdrawals ("required minimum distribution" - RMD) for some types of retirement accounts in the US at certain age + how your retirement account suffers disproportionately if market is down when you start mandatory withdrawals.

I know the math you are talking about, it does make sense conceptually and that's why it's cited in all 401k materials, real life with its rules and uncertainty is bit more complicated.
Also https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets
The freedom for an individual (a minority) to out-buy popular, widely held, value-backed ideas (the majority) with one's own money is about as American as it gets. What is the government's role if not to protect minorities from the will of the majority?
Only in jest.
A classic in those situations is "My doctor said I'm not able to ..." and then drink water.
I agree. The reason why insurance is so profitable, companies don't actually incur huge expense.
Computers and the internet are relatively new, compared to advertising. The ad-blocking era is only about 5 years old.

Give it time, you will see that I am right.

Again, facebook is not a social product. Facebook is a portal product with a social feature. They're not competing with Twitter, they're competing with Google and Microsoft. It is apples and oranges.
There is "reading asm" and there is "debugging millions LOC compiled with an optimizing compiler". The later is possible but the time requirements would be just impractical for game development. Even having the source without the ability to modify is almost useless.
Couldn't get into Infinite Jest. Still sitting on my bookshelf; ~50 pages in, I really just didn't care.

DFW's Kenyan commencement speech is what got me interested in his writing. I'd like to go back and finish Infinite Jest at some point, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
If your biggest concern with work is how many hours you are doing, then you have bigger problems.
Try https://archive.org/details/EastLangtonUax13TelephoneExchang... That's a standard UK rural exchange. Capacity 100 lines! The last few decomissioned went, in full working condition, to museums.

Background noise is the motors for the tone generator, probably the cable compressor too. The louder noises are the call routing and reset. Background noise would normally be a fair bit louder - I'm guessing he had mic right up against the rack for this.

Or a town exchange: https://youtu.be/xUOh9fCSgqw

Towns had much larger exchanges, and they were loud. Probably enough to have hearing loss if you worked there. Only visited one once, decades ago.

Also had a distinctive smell - machine oil, burnt electrics (50v), solvents. Lovely.
Might depend on the "class" of prison. For example, at a more local level sometimes people are allowed to serve their time by working all week and spending weekends in prison.
I've used R and Python. I stick with Python whenever possible because IMO it supports the non-modeling parts of data science more effectively. ETL scripts, API creation, Flask for hosting simple websites, etc. yHat makes python-ggplot and Rodeo, similar to RStudio. I explore and develop algorithms in Jupyter notebooks, documenting along the way, while running "hardened" code from the command line, often nohup'ing it on a Linux box, for services that run perpetually, keep me updated via Slack/SMS/email, etc.

For visualization, almost everything I do is in D3, p5.js, or in Processing (Java), which has a Python interpreter, for those interested. There are some great Processing books and Daniel Shiffman is the Hadley of that world. Tons of engaging resources from him. There are tons and tons of good D3 books and online resources. bl.ocks and Mike Bostock's other online articles are wonderful.

Every organization with data scientists defines "data science" differently. People with a modeling and stats focus probably should stick with R. If you find yourself in a position with a wider scope, you simply must have more tools in your tool belt, and in my opinion, R, Python, and JavaScript all are part of that package. For me, personally, Processing is, too. Have a look at Ben Fry's work to understand why. I also use openFrameworks when the volume of data to visualize and performance concerns require it.
To be fair, tripe packaged clearly as "tripe" is fine, and has a place in my kitchen.
And set the encryption to use pkcs8 with a million iterations.
The problem isn't pinning, the problem is that it's routinely accepted for dependencies to disagree about which version of a library is ready for production use, because npm doesn't treat that as a disaster that should block deployment until the community coordinates their acceptance testing.

Basically, if lib1 and lib2 each use lib3, I don't want to upgrade anything until both lib1 and lib2 agree that a newer version of lib3 works.
Don Buchla, modular synthesizer pioneer, dies aged 79
I see it differently (and have used "true" ride sharing services in Europe, like Blablacar). There is spare capacity in cars on the road, if you fill it up, regardless of the dynamics of how it happens, it's ride sharing. I might be the one sharing my taxi ride, or it could be a driver going to work. In both cases, the effect is one less car on the road for that trip. Most importantly, in the Uber Pool case the car I've just ride-shared does not then go park in the centre of town and take up valuable space, it keeps moving.

The problem with Blablacar-type apps is flexibility, unless you're doing a very common trip you'll find yourself having to be very flexible with hours and pickup and drop-off points. On the upside, it's much cheaper than alternatives especially for trip between cities.

Uber's model of having drivers basically work at as close to full capacity as possible most of the time is excellent and a great way to reduce congestion at the heart of cities, or even just the demand for parking lots.

Vans get us into the implementation, rather than the model. The model is that if there are spare seats they should be filled. The implementation is the type of car being used. I suspect that if vans were profitable for Uber Pooling they would be much more used by now, but the optimal size seems to be the family sedan or the small SUV, at least in Singapore. They might make more sense in frequent suburb -> CBD type trips where there is a lot of demand for the same trip at the same time, although in the situations where I've needed to do such a trip, there's always been frequent express buses or direct trains provided by the city (e.g. in Sydney from the North West suburbs to Darling Harbour).
Yes, net neutrality is not fairness, it's an attempt to use more regulations to fix a problem caused by previous regulations, that monopolized the whole market.
iPhone7 using Intel's LTE modem is slower than previous models on TMobile
What an awesome quote! I've added it to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup (my fortune database .. have a browse)
I love small government. But if certain infrastructure makes more sense at a municipal level ideology should go out the window. We don't have a lot of private roads because it just doesn't make sense, the normal competition driving efficiency model falls over because the most efficient solution involves only one road per route ( over simplifying here ). I think the same maybe true with the local loop of consumer level internet connections.
While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby (2014)
The speaker list on this thing is absolutely mindblowing.

I really wanted to go, but having just gone to a roguelike conference last month and this one being on the opposite coast, I just couldn't swing it. But it will be streamed!
They actually do work like that in Postgres, and in general for secondary indices. Like, I'm positive there are some btree variants that deal with duplicate data better, at the cost of slower writes or more locking (just an example), but we're talking about normal btrees.
It's pretty funny to read this headline.

I interviewed with them about 3 months ago for a Senior Engineer position. I aced all the design, coding and algorithm questions and then spent an hour brainstorming the ways that Uber can improve the quality of life in a city. The brainstorming question was super ambiguous, so I explored lots of different angles and kept the conversation pretty high-level. I was rejected because "We have a really high bar and we expect good problem solving at the business level". Really? You want Senior Engineers to implement business initiatives? Yeah, ok. I'll say this much, burning through a billion dollars doesn't sound like good problem solving at the business level to me.
Further thoughts: choosing an unstable library and then criticizing it for being unstable seems silly. There are two sides: library authors need to value things like careful design, real world testing, and backwards compatibility. Library consumers need to advocate for the same things, plus learn how to identify risk (semver isn't going to save you), and take ownership of their choices.
To me this is sort of like WebGL versus GL. WebGL is a security risk, but I'd still trust browser vendors to lock it down better than I trust the authors of video card device drivers who probably weren't even thinking about the possibility of hostile API calls.

Similarly, I'd expect Facebook to be thinking about Internet attacks due to real-world experience with hostile users all the time, versus a database company where the typical use case is logins from authorized employees and DBA's. They may try to get security right but it's not going to be top of mind and they have other concerns.
'lobbying' just means individuals or groups speaking to their government reps. There's nothing wrong with it.

It's when there's a disproportionate power imbalance that we run into problems.
I think it depends on the company you're applying to. Big companies routinely get thousands of resumes and may use some form of automation to screen them. If the software can't pick out the basic details, the whole thing may be skipped.

On the other hand if a human is reading your resume, creativity may be a plus. So that might apply to small businesses, start-ups, etc.
I'm not seeing references to robo advisors, or evidence to support that they underperform direct index funds in either of those two links.

I don't believe said evidence exists, here's why.

First, the robo advisors distribute your money directly against and amongst several index funds.

Second, the money-saving benefits robo advisors provide that direct indexing doesn't, like very frequent automatic rebalancing and automated (aggressive) tax-loss harvesting.

Third, the ability to diversify any amount of money. You can put $1k into Wealthfront and diversify across five Vanguard index funds. But directly on Vanguard, this is impossible because the minimum investment in most Vanguard funds is $3k [0].

With that, take their Total Stock Market Index Fund as an example. If you can only invest $3k in it, your expense ratio is 0.16% [1]. If you can invest $10k in it, your expense ratio is 0.05% [2]. Through Wealthfront, I can hold the VTI ETF at 0.05% expense ratio, which I don't have to pay directly, only indirectly out of the standard Wealthfront fees.

The best possible claim I can imagine then is that for very large accounts, excluding tax-loss harvesting benefits and any benefits of rebalancing, it is cheaper to index invest — for example, if you have a $100k account and can spend less than $225 worth of your time [4] in the entire year keeping up on it, rebalancing if you wish, etc., then in some cases you could beat the robos. The tradeoff of going direct is arguably not free though. I also don't believe this level of investment applies to most people, at least most Americans.

In fact, for accounts under $10k, the Wealthfront fee is zero. I can't think of a good reason why everyone shouldn't take advantage of that.

[0]: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/fees

[1]: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0085&...

[2]: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0585&...

[3]: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FundsSnapshot?FundId=0970&F...

[4]: https://www.wealthfront.com/our-low-fees
Also the overprovision of fiber-optic network capacity in the U.S. telecom market in the late nineties: https://www.princeton.edu/~starr/articles/articles02/Starr-T...
Silicon Cowboys
I wouldn't use untrusted computers to access my servers.
I don't think the larger society has glamorized Asperger's at all.
No, it's simply replaying the favor. He's a political operative through his investments and involvement with Palantir. He is fair game for this activity.

Here's another example of how he's engaged in manipulating political dialog: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/conservative-facebook-inves...
Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT
I'm curious, do you have an opinion about Stephen Wolfram's idea of graph/knot theory being the underlying principle of reality? To me, it seems much more ontologically acceptable than string theory and many-worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics. I remain unconvinced that pilot-wave-like non-local, hidden-variables interpretations are flawed; they certainly seem the most ontologically tractable. From that perspective, a graph/knot basis for the explicitly non-local hidden-variables theories seems like a reasonable solution to the ultimate basis of physics.
Schizophrenics do not seem to be able to make more accurate predictions about anything than non-schizophrenic people. This suggests that schizophrenics do not have any particular additional "senses".
6. What percentage of the company do those options represent, and can I see the cap table?
True. In our insular world, including some businesses, it has been though yeah?
Probably. But the market is not free by any means.
I keep it on my phone.
Propose changing the link to the event page [0]. This "blog post" doesn't add anything.

[0] https://roguelike.club/
Nothing saved for the short term should be in stocks. That would be an easy way to lose 30% of your vacation fund I'd you needed to sell on a dip.
Yes, it is my site. If this was the wrong medium, I can delete the post if I have the ability (no idea as of writing this).

Regarding your feedback, THANK YOU! I like getting feedback from more technical people.

Yeah, that date (format) is really annoying to look at now that you bring it up. Makes much more sense to have it like you state (5 minutes ago...).

More links - I thought I had WAY too many links (been trying to figure out the SEO stuff also). Just about anywhere in the site where you see either a wrestlers name, or a school name, they are always links (except when they are in headers). I can definitely add the links in the headers, the side-effect to that is then they'll be underlined.

Cool idea on the photos and links to registration sites. Be fun way to interact with each of the "events" and feel more like you were there.

Thanks again for the feedback, I'll definitely work on most/all of those!
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Most 401k plans are commission free (just a flat %)
Probably true, but I would also assume most readers are not putting all of their investments into one single fund for retirement.
You realize a huge part of basic is getting people to be capable of functioning for an in stressful situations?
Land of the free
Gatsby is not about being a metaphor for anything in particular; it's a snapshot of a particular time and place, an account of what a certain society was like. It's just an intriguing (and quite beautiful) story that captures the spirit of a certain era.

By analogy, what you wrote is like saying:

> The Mona Lisa? Roughly 75% of it is just kind of blurry. I can see her face in the middle, which I guess captures her likeness, but a photograph would've probably been better.

It's easy to miss the point or merit of these books in class: often they're forced reading, you read them too early, etc. I would strongly encourage you to pick up 1984 or The Great Gatsby again, and read it one of these days. You'll probably get much more out of it.

These books are considered among the greatest ever for good reason, and I'm sure you'll pick up on that if you give them another try. I think that Gatsby is so good that I re-read it once a year.