skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$3k/yr, right? So your loss offset in taxes plays out over a long period of time (like from 2001-2015, for your 2000 return)
I seem to remember that DOM Session Storage and Session Cookies are pretty big offenders. Other websites (e.g. Google Docs) use lots and lots and lots of hidden forms to remember lots and lots and lots of data.

Also, people who keep Session Restore tabs open (you know, the tab that lets you restore your session, when you have crashed) and continue browsing – Firefox needs to store several nested Session Restore JSON files.
Fanstatic article, that gets the subtleties correct. This is my favorite part:

> If we see the gap of management and scaling between Serverless FaaS and hosted containers narrow the choice between them may just come down to style, and type of application. For example it may be that FaaS is seen as a better choice for event driven style with few event types per application component, and containers are seen as a better choice for synchronous-request driven components with many entry points. I expect in 5 years time that many applications and teams will use both architectural approaches, and it will be fascinating to see patterns of such use emerge.

We will see this gap narrow.

I'm running tons of ECS workloads and operating the servers takes no effort. Amazon releases AMIs, CloudFormation automates AMI updates and scale, and ASGs keep everything running.

It took effort to learn these techniques and build tools that use them, but that's solved by open source software.

See Convox for an OSS project that sets it all up out of the box: https://github.com/convox/rack. Disclaimer: I work on Convox full time.

> containers are seen as a better choice for synchronous-request driven components with many entry points

Is absolutely correct, and describes ~95% of real-world software. For greenfield on AWS, I'd definitely see if Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB will work. For all those "old" Java, Python, PHP and Postgres systems out there, we have to run traditional containers, and load balancers and databases.

There's really no future where we are all "serverless". But there is a future where the resource cost and operational burden of both Containers and Functions is very very low.
Source SpaceX update at http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates
Unbelievable, they enjoyed year of free publicity from association with him, and this is how they repay him. Its bad enough that they couldn't handle the attack, despite all the bragging about their multi-Tbps capacity...
I think you're manufacturing the kind of PLA in your mind that you would like to believe exists, to see what kind of response you get back, out of curiosity. The PLA in your mind is a super well-functioning, well-oiled, "modern army," which obeys commands perfectly, has no competing business interests paying for different activities and agendas, and is a top-down command and control type of Army with a heroic Dwight Eisenhower type of guy, marching precisely 2.8 million men down into Hong Kong in these neat little columns until they occupy all of the streets, and start raising up Chinese flags or something. That's just not at all reflective of what we know. It's a lot more opaque and there are so many unknowns. We do know China is rife with corruption and there are tons of competing interests, and the military is in no way exempt from that. One can become a multi-multi millionaire if not billionaire working in the military in China, if that gives any inkling of how a better representation of what the Chinese military being used in such an operation may look like.
Elliot James Reay Singing Ben a Cappella.awesome
Top MA court OKs black men fleeing cops

39 characters
To be honest, I would much rather Microsoft buy Twitter than Google. Microsoft actually is showing they have learned from their mistakes...while Google quietly continues to make theirs.

Though to me it would make more sense if Twitter were a joint venture between various media outlets, sort of like how Hulu was funded initially. News Corp, Viacom, Disney, etc all buying large stakes in the company and taking it private to me is the best possible outcome.
Nice!

I think this is the other one you were thinking of: https://github.com/tsurai/xr3wm
The problem isn't that data is being written (that's desirable, in fact). The problem imo is that data is being written unnecessarily.

Firstly it shouldn't be backing up every "N" seconds. It should be backing up after every change, and for performance reasons coalescing changes in time interval bins (eg 1-5 second blocks).

Secondly, it should only be writing the information that changes. Sure websites contain a lot of data, but most of it doesn't change very fast. So it's a big win to only back up the deltas (and reconstructing it is fast on SSDs).

If a page does have lots of transient data... write lots of data! That's partly how the time coalescing parameter is tuned.

Ideally it would only write out the entire page of data when it loads, or when the size of the deltas exceeds some threshold (possibly different for HDD vs SSD).
> An analogy I've heard is that if it's possible for (in your example) yeast to evolve into a cat given enough time, then it should also be possible for a room full of monkeys randomly mashing on keys to collectively type a perfect replica of War and Peace (or insert other long book here).

Replace the monkeys with a fair random number generator, and not only is it possible, but once you have defined the keys available and the output sought and other parameters, you can mathematically calculate the average number of steps before the RNG generates the work in question. (The answer is not never, though it may be very long.)

But evolution isn't like that anyway. You aren't randomly generating a sequence until you generate the genetic code for a cat, for instance.

> And compared to an organism, 'war and peace' wouldn't even account to a single cell's worth of DNA which is insanely complex with so many parts that must exist simultaneously with others to coexist.

This is the classic creationist argument from irreducible complexity, which is basically an argument from a failure of imagination -- one of the things we keep learning as we understand more about the paths on which things evolved is that features which seem irreducibly complex in living things actually do have incremental evolutionary paths where there is function at steps along the route.
Sure, but they are also growing incredibly fast at ~50% yoy with over $2 billion in revenue. I think that they have a fantastic revenue generating capability which justifies the valuation.
Sabre to hold first global travel hackathon in Singapore alongside Web in Travel
> In that case, YC censors all articles about member companies with a script.

Holy magoly, that is 100% untrue. The truth is the opposite: when there are articles critical of YC companies, we are careful to moderate them less, not more, than we normally would. That's the first principle of HN moderation and was literally the first thing pg said when he was showing me how to moderate the site. I hadn't even had a chance to grab a chair before he blurted it out.

We wouldn't dream of doing anything like what you describe—not because it wouldn't work (though it wouldn't), but because as members of the community ourselves, we wouldn't want to be treated that way.

It's always possible to get an answer to a question about a specific post. It's better to send such things to hn@ycombinator.com because (a) they're off-topic here, and (b) we might not see them otherwise. Please note that phrase specific post. Without specific links, it's harder to clear things up.
Yes, especially given that rustc/cargo are appearing in distro's package sets already. Exciting times :)
The negative side effects are a way to get you to stop drinking. With none of the side effects people will have no reason to stop drinking.

This seems like the kind of solution that actually makes things worse.
That's why it's best to load up on the false information, tag random people as you, and generally create noise. Lots of noise. Kind of like what gets generated for the keyword searches which are useless due to all the noise.

Use those aliases.
Battle of funny people
Another good source of English-language news on HK is the Hong Kong Free Press run by Tom Grundy:

https://www.hongkongfp.com
> Oracle attorney Melinda Haag

God I hate that woman. When she was a US Attorney for SF, she went around and threatened to seize buildings where medical cannabis dispensaries were located, in full compliance of the local laws. Because she couldn't do any thing to the dispensary directly, she threatened their landlords. This was after Obama had said that DoJ would not interfere with dispensaries which were operating within the state laws.
Stress May Counteract Effects of a Healthful Diet
Mutt doesn't do networking well. It was build to deal with Maildir and mbox on a local disk, not IMAP over the network. aerc is designed to just support IMAP, and it does networking on a second thread so issues there don't lock up the UI. aerc also supports multiple accounts. It also has (imo) better configuration and commands.
The state of privacy in post-Snowden America
Yes, that is correct and thanks for pointing out that I had not included the "/yr" after the $3K. I have now corrected it in the comment above. So, yes, you keep carrying any capital loss of this type forward until you get to deduct the whole thing over time, either at $3k/yr or as an offset against future capital gains.
You apparently haven't seen some of the SPAs that are in use out there... I can very validly consider an issue with losing even a minute vs 15 seconds being considered in favor of the latter.

It might be nice if this was tunable via a setting though.
I think the author of the article didn't realize that all of those references were generated from the very subject of the article.

Very strange, I agree. It's an open secret now but it wasn't when the events happened, which is why there's a fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (a portmanteau derived from COunter
INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at
times illegal, projects conducted by the United
States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at
surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting
domestic political organizations.

There seems to be minimal oversight for employees of domestic law entities.
Nah man, it will be cultural genocide. It's already happened significantly...I don't know else how to explain it without being obtuse. Go to Hong Kong, talk to some people there, ask them how things used to be. Go to Shenzhen, look at how things are there, talk to some people about what they think about Hong Kong. Compare the robustness and informativeness of the type of response you get from the citizens from each side of the border. It's a sad state of affairs. That being said, I also love Shenzhen, for different reasons.
The Programmer Paradox
Very cool! I was hoping the author might have some thoughts about Clojure vs. Lisp to share — what he preferred, what he missed, what he'd use in the future.
I just checked Shkreli's channel and it is like a breath of fresh air (never imagined that I'd say something like that about Shkreli). The way he starts to talk about the finance and investing as a career choice - a skill that you sell to other people, instead of trying to money by investing your own money, is surprisingly rare angle in any popular take on investing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARrNYyJEnFI
What's wrong with that analogy? Coca Cola's exact formula is proprietary information, so saying it in court could cause damages (e.g. other manufacturers could make a perfect clone and undercut Coca Cola).

There's even an article on Coca Cola's supposed secret formula[0] which further validates the analogy by making it an archetype for proprietary information.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula
The number I cited was their claimed active users.

I'm not sure why you consider $29 per human user a steal. There are two sides to a transaction--what you pay and what you get for it. What exactly do you think investors are getting for their money here?
> A legal doublet is a standardized phrase used frequently in English legal language consisting of two or more words that are near synonyms.

...

> power and authority

Should that really be on the list? Power is the capability to do something, authority is the permission to do it. Sometimes power and authority are near synonyms, such as in frontier areas with little government, but generally in a functioning, civilized society they are quite distinct.
It has a user interface that civil servants and law enforcement analysts actually have a prayer of learning.
It's somewhat amusing that even the first IBM PC had a smiley character. It's character number 1, no less (in code page 437).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
Since pigmentation doesn't cause crime, we should find the root cause.
As background, this opinion piece by the lawyer in question may be useful in understanding the mindset of the players. Hurst argues that because API's are not copyrightable, the GPL is dead and Oracle's valiant attempts to defend free software have been foiled:

The Death of "Free" Software . . . or How Google Killed GPL
by Annette Hurst (@divaesq)

The developer community may be celebrating today what it perceives as a victory in Oracle v. Google. Google won a verdict that an unauthorized, commercial, competitive, harmful use of software in billions of products is fair use. No copyright expert would have ever predicted such a use would be considered fair. Before celebrating, developers should take a closer look. Not only will creators everywhere suffer from this decision if it remains intact, but the free software movement itself now faces substantial jeopardy.

...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-free-software-how-googl...

This wasn't an accidental "slip" by a poorly trained intern. This was a conscious disclosure made by one of Oracle's lead attorneys. She is one of the top IP lawyers in the nation: https://www.orrick.com/People/2/6/2/Annette-Hurst. It is in keeping with the "scorched earth" strategy that has been followed for this case. She knew what she was doing, and she (and her firm) should pay the consequences. If there are no consequences, it will legitimize and reward this strategy.
The 56GB and 120GB version of the Intel 535 SSD have even less, just 20GB of host writes per day [1].

[1]: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... section 2.6
> We've sent robots to Mars and the photos show it's just dust.

We sent boats into the Atlantic, it turns out it's just water. Guess there's no point looking any farther.
I did research paper on ecstasy for a chemistry class. It really isn't that bad for you, its pretty similar to taking a antidepressant. Most of the problem/concerns come from what is mixed in with the MDMA.
Critical DoS Flaw Found in OpenSSL – How It Works
Bootstrapping resources in CloudFormation
IIRC, AT&T has been throttling grandfathered unlimited plans.
Agreed, though interestingly, http://days.to/christmas does work.

There's also a /since/ for each one.

A simple fix, use days.to/next/christmas and days.to/last/christmas. Clean URLs, and they make grammatical sense.
found this stuff:

http://www.clean-rite.com/purplepower_driveway_and_concrete_...
Not all users are equal. A newsmaker, world leader, reporter, gatekeeper is worth MUCH more than $29.
What does Java have to do with big monolithic apps? I think you're confusing complex application domains with bloat.

Go is supposed to be a systems programming language. That means a very, very wide range of possible domains, where for many of them even network latency is unacceptable. For example, Photoshop would have a terrible user experience if it wasn't the monolith it is. A game engine wouldn't go above ~20FPS (even 60FPS games have a network loop that is capped around 20FPS).

If I can't do systems-level programming in Go, what's its advantage over real systems languages or higher-level languages then? Especially when you consider what Go offers (CSP) comes in opt-in libraries in many other languages.

I feel like Go should be put in the same category as C# and Java. They're just above systems languages but just below scripting languages; giving you the worst of both worlds. Not bare-metal, but also not that productive.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921208

And the day before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913463

And the day before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11910246
Yep, I rely heavily on kerl on macOS (will take a while to get used to that name). Great tool.

A similar tool, written by a former co-worker of mine: https://github.com/metadave/erln8
"These litigants have been entrenched in scorched-earth litigation for years now in which the working M.O. for both sides is to concede nothing and make everything the subject of endless dispute."

Sounds like Congress...
Why is there so much data in the session restore anyway? If the goal is to have the URLs of the currently opened tabs, I'd expect that just the given URLs should be enough? I think I've seen some unexpected stuff there like the images base64 encoded? Maybe there's enough users that would be satisfied just with the URLs? At least for them the "rewrite" would be seldom needed.

Or, maybe to reformulate, which wild scenarios does Firefox want to support now? I can imagine that the user's experience wouldn't match the wishes. Some people that use session restore claimed they "lost everything" from time to time, and I had to fish "just the urls" from their session store files which looked strange ("full of everything"), but automatically restored to nothing.
And when you just spent 10 minutes finding the link you need, and your browser crashes, you're going to spend a lot more time again. There are plenty of cases where I'm really glad my browser re-opens all the tabs, with cookies in play etc.

If your job includes having to use a web application for significant portions of said job, it's even more invaluable. I've worked on several applications that account for more than 40% of some employees' time per day... This was back in the IE6 days, they bemoaned having to close/reopen once a day because of memory issues (IE6 had horrible GC across COM boundaries).
We expect headlines to be "truthy" these days, but this bill does not actually authorize money for any Mars mission. There is no Mars mission. There is policy, and a strategic framework, and a critical decision plan, and a Congressional goal of new propulsion tech and a new spacesuit: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/334...
I think the 'advanced' users of HN vastly over-estimate the amount of information that the general public requires in order to apply common sense. As a member of the public, I have no real need to know about the protocols the Internet uses, or how Facebook and the Web are related, but it is useful to make a distinction between using Facebook (social interaction, sharing information actively, communicating with friends) and using the Internet (browsing Wikipedia, looking up recipes on Google, accessing Web sites on my laptop or tablet by myself) when communicating with others.
(I'm assuming you meant "travel and spend", rather than "order for shipment", since the latter is handled by applying sales taxes to imported goods.)

First, if they're traveling that often, they're going to be paying a substantial amount of travel expenses, subject to sales tax. Might also be worth considering if currency conversions should be subject to sales tax.

Second, who can afford to do the majority of their spending in another country, while not actually being a resident of that country instead?

Third, a country would get significant additional tax revenue from visitors and tourists, who don't make income in that country but do spend money in that country.

Fourth, where's the money coming from? The business they derive their income from has to pay sales taxes too.

And finally, a vanishingly small fraction of people could actually do that, and it's not worth making the tax code a hundred times more complicated to target a tiny number of people who will still end up paying a huge amount of tax in other ways. The administration alone isn't worth the additional revenue; you'd spend more administrating the more complex tax code for everyone than you'd have any hope of recouping.
> then why are the devs pouring time into it

The goal of Haiku is to revive BeOS in open-source so that it might never die again. It's simply a recreation of BeOS R5 with some modernness thrown in.

I think the developers are intelligent enough to be aware that their OS might not have a future of taking on Apple or Microsoft.

If you want a comparison, this is similar to how Linux came to be. Linus was frustrated at MINIX licensing, so he set out to make his own.
It turns out that one really good way to solve issues like sustainability is to set a bunch of really smart folks about the difficult task of creating a sustainable ecosystem without any outside help (e.g. an atmosphere). The payoff is a set of technologies, tools, and experiences that can be used in more abundant ecosystems (e.g. planet-side). This "spinoff" effect is very well understood and documented.
Yes, partly due to the way cuban cigars are sold (regional monopolies), partly due to the EU Single market and partly due to... how shall I say it... customs being very busy...

It's vastly cheaper to buy internationally in the UK, like 1/3 the cost.

As for storage, you don't really need a humidor especially if you buy by the box. You need a large tupperware container (or cooler) and some Boveda packs (self regulating humidity packs), to seal in the tupperware with your cigars.

If you want to get really serious, you get a wineador which is basically an electric wine chiller, put your cigars in with some humification device and it'll keep them at the exact temperature and humidity you need.
I think they did realize it, because they mention in the article itself that was the source of the information.... I think it is more likely the headline creator didn't realize it.
The feeds of both are whatever the algo thinks - which will be some compromise between what you want and what the owner of the algo wants.
10 years ago I believed this project had a great future. But instead focusing on a non-PC devices where it actually had a chance of success, they continue to trying to compete with other desktop OS.
Do you think it was her decision to do that? Or was she directed to by her boss?
Monday Sept 19th would've been the 34th "smilaversary".
I would pay $10 a year to use Twitter. It's just that good for live news.
There's another dumb law that says the opposite.

Has something to do with Gillette.
Go to any US jail. A large number of persons are in a form of indefinite detention awaiting proceedings that are regularly and repeatedly delayed. A prisoner in a prison can mark his exit date on a calender. Someone awaiting trial in a jail has no such definitive answer. Some could be released, but cannot afford the fees necessary to get a bail bond. Those are a real problem, people who are safe to release but too poor to afford it.

The only convicts in jails are those serving sentences of less than a year. Anything greater than that goes to a prison, give or take depending on circumstances. So yes, there is a very large population of persons in jails without convictions. That's what they are for.

The answer is probably a better-resourced court system capable of processing hearings more efficiently. Remember the tv-series Night Court? Night courts were meant to accelerate the process of hearings and get people out on bail more quickly. They didn't handle trials. They have almost disappeared today.