skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sonic 2000 calorie single shake is pretty nuts. I can imagine someone pairing it with a 2000+ calorie meal and not thinking they're slamming nearly 5k calories into their bodies. Although I suppose someone who drinking half a gallon of milkshake with a meal probably doesn't care.

Also personally I could eat 2 burgers at shake shack with fries. Such a fatty :<
I am extremely thankful for the robustness of SMTP.
> some people repeat as if it is as inevitable as a law of nature.

It's just happened every other time something like this has happened. For tens of thousands of years.

> wasteland/slums in the next 50 years or so

Standards of living are rising globally. Even if comparative wealth drops vs other humans, most people will still see significant improvement in their lifetime.
It also raises troubling implications for how much individual power a dictator or rogue actor could hold. In order to have military power, you currently need to be able to persuade large numbers of soldiers to follow you, and if this claim to legitimacy is violated, you'll have disobedience, or even a coup. If your soldiers are automated, all you need is a password, and they'll follow you blindly. Tech billionaires can't drift out in floating independent paradises yet, because they need military protection; if some billionaire builds a drone army, who could stop them?
I'm speaking to not just the cars themselves, but all the jobs that are a derivative effect. As a quick example, horses were quite good on variable terrain. Whereas, we decided to dramatically increase spend on roads with the advent and popularization of the car.
Well, I based my loose figure on the Linksys WRT54G which sold 50 million units in 11 years. So in a best case situation, there would globally be 100 similar models in that timespan also selling about 50 million. On top of that, you usually have a CPE provided by the ISP on which the open market models are added on top of, theoretically making the market twice as big. And then there's at least one chip at the other end of the line (i.e. a line card) and possibly more since there are multiple hops in between a carrier core network and the end-user.

In the past, a router might have lasted about 5 years, but currently, with the speeds almost getting an order of magnitude higher, almost any router that's 2 years old or more is no longer suitable.

So that's why my guess with the SoC sales for broadcom-ish chips is at 5000M :) And then there's the STB's, mobile phones, smart devices, TV's, modern DECT phones, cars etc. Even every 802.11 device (be it PCI, USB or otherwise) has a SoC, as the radio's can't work on the host CPU due to timing.
> if your’e thinking about developing a real, production-ready, data science project in ruby - don’t.

Why is this? Are there inherent limitations in the language that has Ruby taking a backseat to Python in ML and maths/statistical applications? Or is it just due to neglect by the community?

(I started leaning ruby about ten months ago and have only just started to gain some proficiency, so I do not know much about the workings of the ecosystem - or the innards of ruby for that matter)
Not to mention that the part of town this is limited to is extremely well covered by almost every train, which will virtually always be faster (and cheaper) than getting into an Uber Pool that's going to hop around and pick people up.
Try djb's qubes manager instead of the default one https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/qubes-users/7-gm_q...
It is confusing because in English it is almost always spelt AIDS. Before clicking the link I was thinking for a while wondering what the heck the article was about. I assumed they had just mis-capitalised AIDS.

If you look in google news, only the British media uses Aids and Opec. The rest of the world uses capitalised. I'm from the UK, and this is definitely not normal in the UK. It just seems to be some strange (and incorrect IMO) style that the British media has adopted. Their own exceptions (NICE, PC, SAD, UKIP) show the ridiculousness of their policy.
Scripts injected via JavaScript are implicitly async so you don't need to specify that (at least from Firefox 4.0 and Opera 15 onwards, all other browsers have always behaved this way).
What exactly is the opposite argument to BLM? That the statistical racial disparity in police shootings is justified and is as it should be?
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I've got mine setup at work in the meeting room

http://mos6581.com/pictures/commodore-64/desk.jpg

I keep my IBM PC setup at home

http://mos6581.com/pictures/5170-canvas/DCSF0009.jpg
As you always have to do in JSON, and sometimes have to do in YAML.
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Aren't most of those already down at min wage? At least a proportion of waiting jobs will be going away too.

Can they absorb another 10m (or however many there are) truck and van drivers who probably made quite a bit more? I know it won't be overnight, but it seems to be rapidly becoming a political rather than economic question.

Like must we learn to run at 20-25% unemployment instead of <10? We'd probably have to learn to stop viewing them as scroungers too and adjust welfare somewhat.
I think you're still missing the point. It's not the description of the logic behind them.

Comments are useful for conveying why a particular value was chosen in this particular config file by some person. For example:

# This is temporarily disabled until TICKET-432 is fixed.
# It should then be turned back on.
feature-that-should-usually-be-enabled: false
There was a lot of carry-over from the psychadelic 1960s where green and yellow were still in play, though oppressive levels of dark woodgrain and heavy use of brown were creeping in.

You wouldn't go all-in on that palette though, you'd have a colorful lamp, couch, or artwork to offset it.

Of course, those that played it very conservatively would go all-in. It just seems that more people are using a very restrained palette today for no other reason than bizarre conformity.
Maybe John is attributing more magic to the common free monad patterns than is actually there? Certainly I had stars in my eyes when I first read:

https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~tom.schrijvers/Research/paper...

> then you'd be able to build something like .NET LINQ on top of Free. But you can't.

You sort of can. You could build an interpreter of Linq commands and then have an executor interpret that. Which I suppose could be argued is making Linq. :)
> Is it just selection bias from posted links on HN, or has the PostgreSQL team been doing many (feature) releases lately?

I think more like the former -- as I recall, the recent articles have mostly been about specific work going on for the 9.6 release, prereleases of 9.6, and now the actual release of 9.6.
Ask HN: Blindsided by YC competitor after MVP and starting to promote, advice?
So a few weeks ago I pushed my startups mvp into production, and then I began to work on SEO to set the stage for promoting my startup. Shoftly after, I discovered a competitor(YC company) that I was blind to. This error in market research is due to them not doing SEO with the same keyword terms as I am, or else I would have found them long time ago when I researched the market.

If mvp is stage-1, promotion is stage-2, then they are on stage-3, they have executed what I envisioned the future iteration of my product would be, basically a functional api that is distributable to developers.

on one hand it's a relief to know you have competitors in a fresh market, which means my biggest hurdle and worry to date, validating product market fit, is gone.

It'd be encouraging to hear some personal stories of similar situation happening to you and what you ended up doing?

OP HERE, posting in comment below due to character limit.
To me, there seem to be two successful paradigms for running a business, being engaged by the administrative side of the business or being engaged by the operations side of the business...these of course can be merged into some single notion of being engaged. Plain old working for money is on the close end of the spectrum to the first. Putting up with the pain of running a business for the sake of the work is along the spectrum toward the other.

The biggest stressor for the owner's of most small businesses is not getting a regular paycheck.

Good luck.
This is from 2014 on swedish radio news (google translated):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A...

Governmental million to Facebook's new data center in Lulea

Scroll down to read it, basically taxpayers money went to Zuckerbergs pocket.
OP HERE, continuing post in comment due to character limit.

I see several advantage and disadvantages both of our startups have.

first they might be pressured to focus on profitablity since they are funded, I don't.

they have side projects, offering courses on growth, and doing case studies, which I think are being purposed to be potential loss leaders to drive the main business. however the confusing part to me is that they are already monetizing for these side projects, which leads me to conclude that perhaps their investors are getting impatient and are pressuring them for returns already? which means that they are vulnerable to anyone that can offer the same product for free can starve them to death with a runway siege. and it will be hard for them to raise additional funding because if current investors aren't seeing good returns, how will additional investors buy in?

they are also doing a lot of inbound marketing, not yet outbound, means they have no sales team yet, first mover advantage to reach all the potential customers in the market is not yet capitalized.

plus there is always room in other markets on the globe, and I do have the language capability and freedom, and if I were to launch to a market like china for example

They have SDK for android, ios, and maintain libraries in js and python, where I am only doing python and utilizing react(native). Which means I will have smaller potential clientele, but it also means I can iterate much faster.

I do believe both of our startups have numerous similar and different challenges to overcome. I do have a couple ideas on how I could execute better to one day lead the market, if not then at least forever be a barrier to them in their journey to capture the total addressable market. Hey, nothing to lose for me right.
This kind of abstraction layer is really challenging though unless you're totally aware of the extent of your imperative code's side effects.
Still a substantial contribution towards those thousand calories/day that GP was after.
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"2016 and beyond: the "abstraction level" of IT thinking has moved beyond "file & print server" and also beyond "app server" to the "cloud as the operating system"."

I think you forgot about WYSE, which did this back in the 90s and earlier 2000s.
its great that the hardware privacy front is progressing
> And I'm not necessarily against using that information to void the warranty too.

In the US a manufacturer can't use a simple indicator like "you broke the seal" or "that's not an Original Manufacturer cartridge" to void a warranty. A warranty may only be voided if the specific act involved was the actual proximal cause of the failure of the product.

Anyone who tries to use "that voids the warranty" is usually just trying to invoke FUD with no legal standing.
I don't think that's really a big problem if it's occasional. Once you're doing that a couple times a week is when it adds up.
It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin
>Half the population is below average intelligence

Assuming intelligence is normally distributed, which I guess is a commonly accepted thing :-D
I'm not sure if there are inherent language limitations (not that much of an expert), but know there's more momentum around Python for ML/data science work, mainly as a result of a few good resources specifically for it, which has encouraged more libraries and developer support to focus on it.

So perhaps less about neglect from the Ruby community, and more proactive-ness from the Python one.
"Can someone tell why one would use Windows Server? I can't imagine using it as an application server because of the OS's heft."

Well, back in the day, I preferred Windows Server 2K3 because I could actually address more than 4GB RAM on a 32-bit architecture, and worked great for running my Q3 servers (and games played quite well on 2K3.)
Last time I complained about this, someone blamed it on Apple Maps.

Some drivers have both, mostly so they can see the traffic data from Google Maps. I like those drivers.

Edit: I'd actually be surprised if it was Google Maps at fault, given that their Maps team has a large contingent in the NYC office.
Many service sector jobs are not minimum wage and not geared towards young people (any more than truck driving). They do often have utilization issues, but so do truck drivers. Generally that's probably more of an argument for those folks to organize themselves than anything else. Truck drivers certainly did (The Teamsters).
The problem is that applicative functors aren't powerful enough to allow computations that depend on previous results. I suspect what we want is something like free ArrowChoice, but I'm not aware of any work in that direction.
State of structured text for technical documentation
How APIs make build vs. buy irrelevant
$100 for a weird two-week initial period. Reads like:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Use your body, not WiFi, to transmit secure passwords
The locked-down hardware architecture definitely enhances security, as far as protecting the embedded firmware and IP. As a consumer, I don't want a clipper chip in my pocket. It's a sad situation for hardware these days, because if you don't comply with the unwritten rules, you'll go the way of Joseph Nacchio and Qwest.
ironically, it seems whatever function this C64 does isn't well-documented so it can't be easily ported to another platform. :)

I guess it's a question of "do you want to port the code or the platform" :)
They measure it many ways. They just report it with the lower statistical number so that it doesn't seem that bad. I would prefer all numbers to be given out. If I am the only person working in my family supporting 9 other people so that they can do other things we are not exhibiting 100% employment. 10% of the people are working to support the whole. If that works, great, but on the level of society as a whole you want to know all of the numbers.
> Robotics production, tooling, software engineering, and the jobs associated with whole new industries that are enabled by robotic manufacturing.

All of which employ far fewer people (And collectively pay them far less in wages) then the assembly lines did. If they didn't, the robots would be more expensive then assembly line workers.

> Also, the jobs associated with more cars being on the road and being more reliable.

More reliable cars arguably produce fewer jobs. More importantly, per-capita car ownership hasn't changed in the US in the past 35 years.

> More broadly, economists overwhelmingly think that increases in productivity lead to improvements in quality of life of people over time. Either by improving their labor situation (better, safer jobs) or their consumer situation (cheaper goods, more choice etc).

Have these economists ever considered that automation scales non-linearly? In the industrial revolution, if you wanted to double the amount of widgets you made, you needed to double your workforce. If you want to double the number of widgets you make today, you buy more robots - this does not double your costs.

If we take automation to its logical conclusion (Wherein robots can build other robots), then its clear that that claim is nonesense. Yes, the labor situation is improved (All jobs are safe, because no jobs are left), and yes, the consumer situation is improved (All goods are now made by robots, all robots are now made by robots). Yet, it's a complete disaster - as with no employees, nobody has the money to buy all these cheap goods.

For a capitalist, the best state of affairs is when he doesn't have to employ anyone to produce products. If automation is adopted, it's because it gets a factory closer to that point.

(And let's not forget that exponential growth in the production of goods will bring about an unmitigated ecological disaster... We need to produce fewer things - not more.)
How much of that thinking really comes from the mindset that believes govt is not doing a good job with the taxes they are already paying them. If our DMVs, EPA, Education systems are all working efficiently and in a modern way, more people will change their mind.
How neuromorphic ‘brain chips’ will begin the next era in computing
It just provides an accent to an otherwise uniform surface. The fake ones cost much less than real ones.

Why wear belts with dresses? Why do cars have racing stripes?
So this is great however I have a very large concern.

In a U.S. AWS data center, I am very confident (right now) that my encryption keys and encrypted data will never be given out to any governmental agency. Even with a warrant, they can not access my data unencrypted.

What will Amazon do when the French government says hand us all of your keys or else...

As our data is all extremely sensitive financial information, we really can not even take that chance until we know.

Clarification: We send all data over HTTPS with AES 256 encryption.
If authorities have a warrant for data, can we hand them the encrypted data and say the keys are in the U.S. and we can't give them to you?
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To be fair, avoiding the fries and shake (or chips and coke or what have you) seems to cut 50% or more of the calories. 760 calories on a burger is a fine portion. Then again, the macro ratio is probably not where you want it if you're counting that sort of thing.
Uber offers unlimited UberPool rides in Manhattan for $50/week
Doesn't everybody know that trees bring down the temperature?

We can resume the article in a phrase " on average, for an additional 100 trees in a census tract, land surface temperature decreases 0.3 degrees."

But it has nice graphics.
It looks that for functions as simple as that the RPC overhead should be pretty small, or it will eclipse the time / resources spent by the actual business logic.

E.g. I can't think of a REST service doing this; something like a direct socket connection (over a HA / load-balancing level) with a zero-copy serialization format like Cap'nProto might work.
If you understand who runs the country and how they operate then you will understand that they do not desire any serious conflicts with the west. West - is where they retire, keep their money and often families. They are not about to shoot themselves in the foot.
Can pgsql fts do stemming or more complex lemmatisation for languages other than English? Or ranking of results based on Okapi BM25 or similar? I was looking into this about two years ago and those were the features in favor of Lucene (basis of ES and Solr).
Somewhat off topic, but since CloudFlare keeps mentioning "routing the nearest data center" as one of its benefits...

I have a number of clients near ICN (Seoul) who have been happy with CloudFlare for some time, but now the vast majority of their users are being routed through LAX. Not Tokyo, nor Osaka, nor any of your other locations throughout East Asia, but LAX all the way across the Pacific Ocean! This detour adds about 300ms to every uncached request, and 150ms to every cached request. All the time I spent helping my clients shave a few milliseconds off their response times, now completely obliterated!

When the Pro plan ($20/mo) users contacted CloudFlare to find out what was going on, they were told to upgrade to the Business plan ($200/mo). Some of them did, but their users were still being routed halfway around the world. When they contacted support again, they were told to consider upgrading to an Enterprise plan. What is this, a cheap webhosting shop that tells people to upgrade whenever they're having a problem?

I don't know what happened around late summer that suddenly made Korean and Japanese locations off limits to all but the highest paying customers (local ISPs demanding more money?) but whatever it is, it has made CloudFlare barely usable where I live.
This interesting.

I regularly take UberPool in London, and I have company maybe 30-40% of the times. I don't know whether this is a general thing in London, or my experience is an outlier.
Why isn't there an outcry to regulate the fast food industry to prevent this kind of thing from happening? This is one of the biggest issues in North America.
I'm refreshing this tracker, maybe a dozen times a day
Discrimination affects biological processes such as stress hormones and sleep, which are important for health and daily performance http://qz.com/334366/why-black-americans-cant-sleep-at-night...
The HIV rates in South Africa are among the highest, so does that mean that it's evolution following its course? The ones that react to the Virus would die and the ones that ignore it survive, giving those people a (much?) higher chance of survival and reproduction. Similar to how the superbacterias that are popular now were created in the same place.
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Partially agree. I think big fleets will be first as soon as the bugs are worked out.

Long haul trucks are loading dock to loading dock, so you don't need the driver to do loading.

Uber is another fleet: they just want to do transport-as-a-service so they HATE drivers as overhead. They have signed up to buy 100,000 Mercedes (future autonomous upgrade). They've indicated interest in 500,000 Teslas.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a28508/uber-ord...

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/07/08/uber-tesla-self-driving-c...
> Relatively low margin, fragmented service jobs. Waiters/waitresses, fitness instructors, barbers etc. Those jobs are often still better than the jobs being automated away (truck driving)

No, they aren't. Many "low-margin, framented service jobs" of the type you list are often effectively sub-minimum wage (possible because they are usually independent sole proprietorships renting facilities from the entity that looks like their "employer") highly-saturated already, increasing the proportion of the population trying to work them will further crash wages.
Monad linearizes the call graph; the effects of f(g, h) have to look the same as those of f(g(h)). In particular your interpreter can't parallelize, because it can't tell whether there's a data dependency between one effect and the next or not.
The sprites...! Now there's a blast from the past - I've spent a good amount of time learning how to "draw" sprites with BASIC.
One of the things I wonder about is how many calories your body can actually metabolize into fat and glycogen in a given day. For example, if you eat 15,000 calories, how many of those calories will your body just pass right through your digestive tract? I could see liquid calories like pop or juice being metabolized easily, but do all the beans in a Chipotle burrito end up clinging on your thighs and gut also?
Many are, but not all. And I suspect waiting jobs as ratio compared with eating out gross revenue is shrinking (though eating out is growing and is more labor intensive than a grocery store still). Part of that is labor organization, the truckers have unions. And unions were (and are) a big political issue.