skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying by the Mbps is a lot cheaper at scale than paying by the GB, so I wouldn't even dismiss the cost benefit for bandwidth either.

If all you need or want is hardware, power, and bandwidth I would say you should definitely go dedicated or colo. If your business runs on the value-added services than you don't really have that choice.
I've had similar experiences but I do seem to be impacted by minor withdrawal symptoms when I skip days/weeks. Just being mildly lethargic. But the way other people describe the feeling of taking much smaller doses than I do I wonder if I need much more to get equivalent experiences and if that also impacts how dependent I am.
Ok, that is priceless. Sounds like something Brad Bradstone would head up.
The claim that we will never have evidence that it exists says more about your need to not have your belief in its existence questioned than it does about the actual likelihood of evidence being found in the affirmative or negative.
I think that's hedging, not arbitrage.
> I was keeping it high level because the person asking the question is a non-programmer.

Well, I should have been more accurate: I'm not a programmer by trade, but I do understand the basic concepts of computer programming, and I've dabbled with both high level and low level languages. I've even done some assembly programming in the distant past, about 20 years ago, just to learn it, as well as a stint with SQL/400 on the AS/400 about 14 years ago. But these days the closest I come is bash scripting or dabbling in Python or Lua. I've never messed with C/C++ or Java though, hence my questions directed at those languages.

All that said, I do appreciate your response!
You must not have listened very closely. As noted below in the transcript, they confirmed the U5 form. Also she started in 2007 and it was noted she worked there for 5 years, i.e. fired around 2012 before shit hit the fan.

Her story is actually rather common for honest employees working at Wells Fargo, which is why they are going to get sued by many for wrongful termination.

Management mismanaged employees and created a culture of fraud. They profited heavily from it. If anything, they are the most responsible for creating the shitty culture. Why let them off the hook? They get larger salaries, while deflecting the responsibilities that come with the decisions they made to pressure employees into fraudulent activity while firing those that reported it? That's quite insane.
The culture surrounds the media. Changing the media changes the culture and even within sub-cultures those sub-cultures themselves have niches. Sometimes cultures even rise out of a singular media.

You can't just replace "Vocaloid Music" (Miku, Rin, Luka) with "other synthetic vocals". It's "similar" but it is not "the same".

The cultures around Gumi and other Megpoids differs from that around Miku and other Vocaloids.
I use Netlify to host a number of sites that get 40k visits a month for $9 a month. It's been a great service.
Ethereum's smart contracts were a good example of why this probably won't happen anytime soon...
I had an interesting experience recently that I think summarizes this whole problem.

I was in another city and rented a car and it came with navigation. I knew I could just use my phone, but I decided to use the navigation that the rental car came with, just for fun.

1. First, I knew the name of my hotel, but not the address. I tried to search the business directory. I had to input the CITY AND STATE, which is painfully slow on the pressure-based touch screen, but I did it and did a search. I couldn't find it.

2. So I took out my phone and found the address and went back to the navigation in my car to type it in.

3. I slowly input the city and state again before it lets me input an address starting with the number.

4. When it came time to pick the street name, it was ambiguous. There's one street name that looks right. There's another with a W in front of it. There's another highway number that could also be it. I pick one and I can tell it's not in the right spot. Now I have to start all over.

5. I start all over, input the city and state and address and I think I have it right. I start to navigate.

6. It can't find a GPS signal. Maybe it's the parking garage I'm in. Maybe it just takes a while. I sit there. I'm about 10 minutes in and I still haven't gotten any navigation instructions.

7. I get nervous because I won't even know what direction to turn when I leave the parking garage. I take out my phone and say "Ok google, navigate to the blah blah Hotel". It says "Ok, sure" and my phone has no problems finding GPS and I have navigation instructions pulled up in about 5 seconds.
I've always been puzzled as to why cars don't come with speed governing as a (default off) option. I'd love to be able to lend my car to my child with the max speed set to 60mph or govern my speed to 65 on long freeway trips so I don't have to constantly check my speedometer (this is different from cruise control because I could easily slow down below 65, just never go above it).
> ... and good luck ever getting a software upgrade after buying a car.

Nissan wants ~$800 USD for a map upgrade (which is just a microSD card, if I understand correctly) for my 2014 Nissan Altima and Dodge wants a little under $200 for a map upgrade for my 2013 Dodge Ram. Yet I can freely download updates and perform map upgrades myself on my 2014 Harley-Davidson motorcycle in about 10 minutes using just a USB flash drive.

Ironically, the Harley is the only one of these that I would ever actually consider paying for.

On the rare occasion that we find that the maps aren't up to date, either the girlfriend or myself will just whip out our iPhone and open up the Maps apps instead -- just as described in this article.

I'll probably stop paying extra for all of the "upgrades" the next time I buy a vehicle. I typically spring for every feature/option package that's available but they are becoming less and less "worth it" as time goes on.
Hey Oswald!

I saw that PyCon Jamaica is a go for November, that's awesome.

Hope to see you again in PyCaribbean come February.
$1k gets you a trip around the world
#Investing thoughts on the recent HSBC rate hike article
It makes sense if humans were perfect. When an employee objects to unethical behavior and acts accordingly, it makes less sense.
That problem is true of practically any language, even C and C++, and the solution is the same (and well accepted) for all of them: write a small set of controlled primitives in raw assembly, and let the "high level" language compose them. Obviously using assembly forgoes safety for those pieces of code, but being primitives they've typically fairly small, and have straight-forward memory access patterns/behaviour.
Unemployment is a very difficult number to define and calculate.

Do you count those that are not actively looking for work, and don't want to look for work? e.g. House(wife|husband)s, semi-retired people.

Do you count those that have given up looking for work?

Do you count those that are working part time, but looking for full time work (i.e. the underemployed)?

Do you count those that aren't really looking for work (for whatever reason), but occasionally look online at job listings (since it's a very low effort thing to do)? This is an interesting one, because Statistics New Zealand just recently decided that this doesn't count as actively seeking work, which seems right to me. I look at online job listings all the time, but am happily employed and not seeking other employment.

Do you count the self employed? Contractors? Are Uber drivers considered employed? What about Airbnb hosts?
Don't say anything about the company publicly. Hire an employment lawyer, let him/her go after the company. Assuming your first batch of options were going to vest at one year anniversary, firing at 51 weeks seems suspicious.

Once lawyer has extracted what s/he can from the company and settlement doesn't prevent you from further pursuing, send complaints to department of labor and state attorney general. While DOL and AG office most probably will not do anything, The complaints will go on file at both offices. If the company is pulling similar stunts with other employees and DOL/AG office sees series of similar complaints, they may go after the company.

Privately bad-mouth the company to your network (not intentionally), word gets around and will warn others. Make sure you never work for another company connected to founders and senior executives of this company. Unethical management and investors at the top attract unethical people and breed unethical culture, they will never change their behavior.
Honest question, if you're running at 10%, why have you gone with 12-core, 512 GB RAM servers? Couldn't you start with a more reasonable 4-core, 64 GB RAM until some threshold? What value do you get from such an early overallocation of resources?
@iplaw please clarify -- is the pdf have an image or text?
What Is the New Normal for U.S. Growth?
There is a huge difference between managing your own cloud infrastructure and letting clients run your big SaaS app in their own data centre. I think "on-prem" in the context of SaaS usually refers to the latter.
Exactly... tap whichever ones you want, cut the rest. Two birds, one insane stone.
Money-Losing Meal Delivery Startup Munchery Seeks New CEO
That quote just went into my permanent database...
Deutsche Bank's Bond Gambit Backfires
Bandwidth is drastically cheaper than AWS
Get ready for a 'severe fall' in the stock market, HSBC says
Okay missed one ;)
because the marginal cost of hardware once the chassis is racked is trivial compared to the public cloud, which is insanely marked up for retail on exactly this concept.
How could we not? Tons of consumers buy whatever they feel like based on effective marketing... they're not worried about consumer backlash from less than 5% of the population, which by the way, was always the hardest to market to anyway.
Another good reason to run something like Little Snitch. Of course it's also another good reason not to plug random USB keys into your computer.

It also seems to me like your OS should warn and confirm when a new input source is detected.
on [4] why not ovh ? They provide more features (load balancer,s3-clone) and still cheap.
Paper and $100 is still very public, we're just spoiled. It's also going to cost you less time contacting/accessing each website individually.

You might have some luck with RL social networking.

Or could settle for info graphic form(and link/contact info) at submarinecablemap.com
Billionaire tech investors support divisive plan to ban SF's homeless camps
Honest question: Why do you think that generalized and specialized AI are distinct things? Is it not possible that general AI is a specialized AI applied over the field of specialized AI generation?
I removed the request to Youporn. Sorry if it caused any trouble.
Funny he can build an EMP generator but can't properly bias an LED.
You need 1.21 Gigawatts for that.

(Seriously, though, you'll need to square the power source as you double the distance.)
If you value your health, you won't just be eating Soylent.
Sure, but then someone finds a crowbar, or smashed stuff... what obvious trace would this leave, and could it be scaled up?
Another company that does this - very little marketing - is https://www.replicated.com . I don't get paid for recommending them but they do great work (some of our clients are theirs etc).
"we found that most people liked the idea that the driver and the passengers could be sacrificed to save many people"
Understand morals? Probably not...
I'm a daily user of the marinetraffic site, and it's pretty fragile at any time.
We're talking about an alternative to new railways, so the issues are already on the table in terms of space and money.
His collected letters are priceless.

A close friend of various Mitford sisters, who are peerless in their own way.
i have to say, refusing/unable/lazy/ to learn is the most terrible thing ever happened to a developer. I'm always excited about new things even I have to learn them hard, even they start with poor quality, but I believe these are what make developers happy
Tesseract's Github Readme actually recommends upscaling for better results:

https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js#tesseractrecognizeima...

> Note: image should be be sufficiently high resolution. Often, the same image will get much better results if you upscale it before calling recognize.
Statistics suggest your view of Darwinism is incorrect.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884238.html shows avg household size has been declining since before contraception, and it doesn't look like contraception changed the slope.
Actually even more since some near-field components fall off at 1/r^3.
How do you accidentally jam a headphone plug into a USB receptacle?
Look up past proceedings in IJCAI or AAAI conferences. And look at logic-based papers.
+1, very cost effective
And you're responding to a point that I didn't make, given the whole point of the last two posts was to coax you into describing at exactly what point a random group of people is allowed to shut down major infrastructure without detractors being finger-wagged at.

The fact that you can differentiate Oregon from Ferguson tells me that you have a mental model, I just want you to elaborate on it. Kind of like I asked you, point blank, three posts ago.
Those tri-bar patterns are fascinating. I'd imagine that American surveillance equipment would be able to discern all but the smallest couple of squares.

They'd easily be able to read registration numbers on aircraft, probably almost be able to discern specific small arms (e.g. count the number of RPGs and AK-47s sitting on some tarmac somewhere). Amazing.
And those who are familiar with China under Mao will also find historically accurate connotations with Obama's quote.
Another aspect here is that people think writing contracts as code will eliminate errors. But just look at our software, it's full of bugs. The DAO episode is a perfect example of what will happen with contracts as code: bugs and loopholes, just like now, but harder to address.
Reality is a fractal, thus any language that precisely represents all the corner cases will by necessity be infinite.

(The law currently deals with this problem by only solving questions that come before it, not by solving every potential problem.)
YOu can extend GNU Emacs as much as you want, it is always single threaded. For a start. The UI is interestng, but fucked in many ways. That's how it is.
Note that he is referring to ZenPayroll/Gusto. I worked there as well, there was no debauchery. I think you're referencing the stories on Zenefits.
Isn't this a different feed from your personal account?

But still, I understand how it could encourage checking your Facebook account even more.
How do you address client concerns about lock-in to cloud foundry? Even as a viable solution it's still a hard dependency your clients do not control.
The article talks about something else: vendors should be able to run their big SaaS apps on customers' private servers as easily as they're doing it for public SaaS customers.

It effectively gives you, the SaaS vendor, the best of both worlds:

- Access to markets you can't serve otherwise.
- Development agility with frequent deployments.
- Scalable ops/support for cloud/private deployments.

We see Kubernetes as a key enabler of this model.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's because SD cards are half duplex, right? So there's no way to disable writing through a "disconnect pins x and y" because those pins are needed for reading.
that sounds like something Obama would do when you put it like that...
I wrote the first linked piece, was not fired and quit well after vesting.
And yet American citizens were unable to influence either party enough to have them submit a viable candidate.
The DMCA outlaws reverse-engineering. As usual, Wikipedia has some info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#United_Stat...
The idea itself is rather beautiful, I used to believe it was the only way things should be, but the more I think about it and its presentation here, the more I feel uncomfortable about it.

The contents of the article are fairly heavy on the technical side of things, but seem to hand-wave the human aspect of the whole operation, or tend to mostly point out human flaws and rarely qualities. I'm not sure whether it's cynicism or me reading too much into it, but it bothers me a little.

Should this idea (and others alike) ever be implemented, I personally believe they should only ever be decision-support systems that members of society (humans and possibly AIs) would ultimately decide upon. Such a system would be designed for humans first-and-for-all ; I think consistently making it decide for humans would likely remove the relative aspect of morality over time, leaving all your decisions to a "greater entity" and all that entails.

I did enjoy the article, if only as a very interesting thought exercise, but I sincerely hope not too many people take it to heart.
Would it make sense to share your experience on Glassdoor? That's probably the most widely read forum if you want to warn others of this company.
That's why the future, sadly, probably won't happen in the US: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?s=gongkai
The Early Days of Id Software (John Romero, GDC Europe 2016)
Strang's text is also great, and you can take the course via MIT OCW Scholar from the man himself.

For those wanting a more mathematical perspective (versus engineering/applied science), there's Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right.

For the programmers in the audience, another fun and illuminating (and cheap!) text is Klein's Coding the Matrix.
That would be in the same spirit as the food-replacement startup named Soylent.
Would those means leave a more obvious forensic trace? I mean... a hammer is going to leave a mark.
That sucks. My random advice from the internet is that there's almost certainly nothing to be gained by turning a termination into news on the internet. The experience is sunk cost. Rationalizing a marginal action as righteous is still rationalizing. And, unless you have forty four hundred followers on Twitter, the primary damage is likely to be to yourself...the company probably outguns you on social media and when it comes to employment networking. Besides, if you had forty four hundred followers on Twitter, there would have been a tweetstorm when it happened.

Anyway, success is very often the best form of revenge on asshats. Good luck.
Employment:
the condition of having paid work.
a person's trade or profession.

Just count those that want work or should have work (need to support a family/receiving government aid)
This is what a setup for testing airplanes for EMP tolerance looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS-I
Note that this isn't used anymore.

And here's an anechoic chamber for testing military craft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefield_Anechoic_Facility

Now I'm curious to see an A380 in an anechoic chamber... Are full airplanes normally tested in a chamber? Or only the individual systems?
This is contradictory:

- A system of law is needed to settle disputes happening in the so-called "real world".

- Often, these disputes involve what people say.

- The decision therefore needs to account for the meaning of what was said.

- If you could algorithmically derive the "true meaning" of anything people say, you could also derive the "true meaning" of any law, because both use the same medium, i. e. "language".

-> You could just use that system to derive the "true meaning" of laws without translating into any sort of code.
I think he knew the origin, but chose it anyway. It is an elegant phrase. Communists could be very eloquent.

How else do you think they managed to convince so many people to be communists?
> But I wholly disagree with your assertion that QM should be taught _how we know_ before what it means.

I didn't assert that, so you can't disagree with it :-) I think the how-we-know and the what-it-means should both precede the math, but I don't have a strong opinion on which of those should come first.

I have not read Griffiths, but I took a quick look at:

http://www.fisica.net/quantica/Griffiths%20-%20Introduction%...

and I was not impressed. It seems like a completely traditional presentation, and like all traditional presentations it completely misses the absolutely central role that entanglement plays in the conceptual foundations of QM. (In fact, the word "entanglement" does not even appear in the table of contents! Alas, the on-line text I found at the above link is not searchable so I can't tell you if he doesn't address it at all.)

[EDIT] I've now read more of Griffiths and I would like to revise and extend my above remarks :-) My original criticism still stands, but aside from that the book is actually quite good.
Same. And pinball machines and others.

Feel pretty bad about it now, because I probably destroyed a few IC boards.
Consider a broader timeline. It used to take humans over 500 hours of labor spinning, weaving, and sewing to produce a single shirt.

Automating textile production has "put more people out of work" than computers ever will. Do you think for a second we would ever want to go back to how it was? Do you ask the inventor of the sewing machine how they will start giving back?

These inventions free humanity for more worthwhile endeavors. Nobody will look back after the next great transition and wish we just had more humans driving trucks around the country. It would be utter lunacy. And the people who created the self-driving machines will be seen as liberators of human potential and ushers of a new era of productivity.

So it is, same as it ever was.
and also logging the bits forever so that they can reinterpret what is "interesting" at a future date.
Sweet! ... My EMP generator only works on Samsung Galaxy Note 7s!
Now imagine how buggy legal documents are when they're rewritten fresh each time, rather than using open source libraries and subroutines.
I remember thinking that this was a good idea, in my first year of law.

By the third year I had rather given up on the idea.

Legal writing is already well-specified. The problem is not with the language that the law is written in. The problem is that the world is irreducibly complex and the law cannot shrink its domain from "everything humans have done, do, will do, or could do; interacting with other humans, dead, alive, unborn; interacting with objects, in their homes, in public, on private property, belonging to them, belonging to others, belonging to nobody; on the surface of the earth, underneath the earth, in the seas, in the international seas, in the skies, in orbit, on the moon, the limits of human space; with ideas, owned and unowned, with multiple kinds of ownership; in concert with other legal systems, or in contrast, or in direct mutually incompatible conflict; without limit, forever".

Which is probably a fraction of it.

Quite aside from scope, there is ordinary fuzzy logic: in coming to a conclusion, judges must give consideration to concepts that cannot be crisply, discretely encoded: "the buyer without notice at arm's length", the "reasonable person, similarly circumstanced" and so forth.

These are all supported by cases. Mounds and mounds of cases. Case-based reasoning is a well-explored area of AI, but it hasn't been to any avail. Civil legal systems try to go without caselaw and have pure statute in the fashion that this kind of idle daydream typically tries to express.

And they've had hundreds and hundreds of years to get the "perfect" drafting. Bugs are still showing up. All that it does is shift the burden of adjustment to a slower, central bureaucracy from a self-correcting, distributed, multi-level system.

We still need humans to make sense of humans. For the foreseeable future this can be expected to continue. The law isn't going anywhere.
post-Kubernetes era

Is it?