skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is this concept, especially in enterprise level architecture which is similar to a separation of concerns; basically that you use tools to solve a particular need. Sure, one could get by using the built-in caching of nginx or Apache httpd (version 2.4.x, which is just as performant as nginx), but when the cache becomes a bottleneck, and it WILL at some point when using a "does everything solution", you need something that simply does caching and does it WELL. Varnish will simply beat the pants off of nginx and httpd in head-to-head caching tests. Plus, the level of configurability in Varnish is again much, much better than what exists in nginx or httpd.

It seems kind of nasty to say this, but nginx isn't the be all and end all. Now, yeah, you could say I'm biased, but this is because instead of being swayed by marketing, PR and FUD, I instead am swayed by real world scenarios. nginx is very, very good, but it is no longer heads-and-shoulders above httpd or anything else really. It is weird, and wrong, to take every other tool which does a part of what nginx does and immediately want to criticize it or say "nginx does that too! What do we need Foo for?!" When doing architecture, pick the right tools for the right job. And most of the time that means picking a caching layer, a TLS termination layer, dynamic content, Authn&Authz layer, etc...
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There's no need unless you need runtime-only concepts, like new string methods. Use https://babeljs.io/ to turn nice es6 into es5. (I imagine you already know this, if you're using react/jsx)
"Nobody will ever be stupid enough to stick debug data in TCP RST payloads on a production system"

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/200/s...
By direct analogy physical paper dollars cannot handle the transaction velocity in the NYSE financial markets or even the M1 / M2 accounts like checking and savings accounts, therefore the paper dollar cannot be the currency of the USA. I mean paper money at the small denominations currently issued would literally catch on fire if it moved fast enough to keep up with HFT.

You could get away quite easily with BTC only as a partial M0 currency or more interestingly as a (partial?) M3 reserve.

By partial M0 I mean we can abstract this "physical money currency" thing into paper bills and metal coins. Issue paper money down to thousandths of BTC as BTC certificates where theoretically one BTC worth of paper can be exchanged for one electronic BTC. Much like American Dollars used to be precious metal certificates.

People will have plenty of fun wat the expense of the BTC as M3 idea but fact of the matter is you stick something volatile and non-volatile together tightly enough and it averages out a bit. So the real question isn't what happens to Icelands M3 when it becomes as volatile as BTC, but what happens to BTC when its welded to comparatively non-volatile Icelandic economy. If that kind of welding happened, BTC prices couldn't vary more than a percent per month or whatever. That's likely to drive BTC traders nuts because they make piles of dough off volatility so the people most in tune with BTC will very loudly hate the idea for self interest reasons, even if it would be a good idea for a mere 99.999% of the rest of the population. As for the partial idea, much as large banks keep literal tons of gold tied up in vaults, its quite possible for the Icelandic treasury to keep a pile of BTC tied up as one of numerous forms of reserve and that would certainly kill price volatility of BTC or at least drag it down to precious metals levels of price volatility.

There's also the issue of putting on a show. The US Mint issues plenty of legal tender gold and silver coins, but those coins are not a major part of commerce. It would be trivial for the Icelandic treasury to allow payment of income tax in BTC or something similar that doesn't really change anything but makes some nice BTC related headlines. Frankly this is the most likely outcome. Perhaps you'll be able to buy a ticket for a tour of the Icelandic Dept of the Treasury with BTC, and this will be trumpeted very loudly, not much further real world impact. Yet it is a baby step along a path, and the result of buying tickets today might be in a decade everyone will pay taxes with BTC, who knows.
Would love to see Nate Silver discuss this.
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> renting has a guaranteed zero ROI

If rent < mortgage interest + other housing sunk costs and you invest the delta, renting can have a substantially higher ROI than buying.
Simply using it as a bog standard card in the UK it is head and shoulders above other high street banks.

Kudos for having the brass balls to actually execute a conversation that has probably happened a million times in every City pub.
It is in their interest; however the political integrity of the EU is more in their interest and the two are at odds with each other. Further, it isn't about isolation, rather the nature of the deal. The UK must trade with the EU at least in part because the current account deficit implies that we provide value add services: the initial value of which needs to be imported.
I'm guessing it originally said "no danger". That gouge looks like the right size for 2 letters.
That's called ownership: if it is yours, you should have right on it, is it?
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What would you suggest as punishment for murder then?
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I'm sure a lot of that is out of need rather than desire to do so.
"humans should not have to live like nomads moving here and there to pursue this or that financial opportunity, but instead should be allowed to grow roots in some place"

Why? It's a choice best left to each person, telling somebody what they should do and how to live their lives is patronizing at least.
>they took (real!) money off of my EC card

Technical limitation of the German debit card scheme, which doesn't support blocking amounts for security, but requires refunds...
Rent increases can only be performed every two years in Ireland from Dec 2015. And you must have 90 days notice of a rent increase. More info on this link:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/renting_a_home/...

The landlord's relatives issue is however the easiest way to get someone out of a property and increase rent.
I wrote this in response to a comment that was deleted, but I'll leave it here as it's my favourite criticism of the death penalty:

I like to give this as a counter [1] (from Franquins "Idées Noires", which shamefully I still don't think have been translated to English).

The text reads roughly (my French is rusty):

"The law is clear: Anyone who intentionally kills another loses his head. Let the executioner do his job."

"Over here my friend."

"And so a good deed is done."

"Sorry, but the law is clear: Anyone who intentionally kills another ..."

[1] http://www.funeraire-info.fr/journee-contre-la-peine-de-mort...
In Switzerland, this is even more extreme and there are even fewer home-owners. The Swiss can deduct their mortgage payments from their income, but you are taxed the virtual income of renting your house to yourself. Furthermore, the capital gains tax on real estate is up to 40% on short-term transactions (less than two years) and there is no capital gains tax on stocks. Furthermore, there's a wealth tax disincentivizing you from holding low-return assets such as real estate. And returns on real estate are very low (like 3% or so), mostly because it is seen as a safe investment by pension funds. All these factors add up.
But this maintenance would happen anyway whether you own or rent.
Why would eventual consistency be unacceptable in a banking system? In my experience people interact with social media on far shorter time scales than their banks.

When they post a new Instagram photo, they expect that their friends will see it basically instantaneously.

In comparison, when people use their debit card at CVS, they're not expecting anyone to log into their bank account seconds later and see the charge show up.

I would think correctness is more important than speed in a retail consumer bank.

Or do I misunderstand what you mean by eventual consistency?
In isolation, sure. In aggregate though, increasing demand raises the value of stock, which reduces borrowing costs and encourages companies to expand, which can sometimes create jobs.

Not just stock: companies are constantly comparing alternative sources of capital. Any increase in demand from investors for any particular source of capital (bonds, stocks, loans, etc...) will tend to make that capital available at a lower cost to the company.

I have not thought about whether aggregate increases in the demand for housing have the same positive effect on firms, though you could argue that increasing housing values creates home equity and the mortgage interest deduction encourages homeowners to borrow against that new equity and invest the proceeds in ways that will generate a higher return than the interest rate - marginal tax rate, such as stocks. But that happens a lot in economics, many seemingly conflicting forces can lead to the same effect.
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... unfortunately the labour pyramid is such that the unskilled workers are required in much larger numbers than the skilled workers. If they are not imported then the wages would need to go up very substantially before those from the UK would be willing to wait tables, flip burgers, etc. Labour cost inflation from bottom up kills margin.
>If you see no problem, how do you propose to revive those killed because trial went wrong and an innocent man was sentenced?

I don't. They are dead. They got unlucky. I reject the idea that we can't have capital punishment because sometimes the outcome of a trial is wrong. If you think this is a real problem then quantify it. Put down exactly what the percentage is (i.e. out of every X trials how many "go wrong" as you say). Then we can talk about a feasible upper bound. To say "If the percentage of people wrongly convicted is > 0% then we can never have a death penalty" is too idealistic. If it's 10% then it's obviously too high. Now we have a lower bound and an upper bound and can have a debate about what is an acceptable number of innocents dying. (again, 0 is infeasible).

> One person is one person too many!

This is the Blackstone principle. As I have said in the first post, I reject this. We both seem to disagree on a "first principle".
I would be curious to know or hear if anyone thinks this trend has been altered since 2008. For close to a decade now we have had extremely low or in some case negative(in Europe) interest rates. Thats a lot of cheap financing. As the article points out the data is from 2004.
Making people who are incapable of kernel work, drivers work, writing safe critical code, etc. capable of being safe, secure, and highly productive, if only by glueing hip new libraries, is a rockstar task.
It's just an editorialized presentation of the following:

http://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.htm
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There is this sad idea that "threads are bad" and that event is the cat's pajamas. But even nginx admits that there are situations where threads make sense, hence their semi-recent addition to adding them.

I encourage people to read http://capriccio.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/threads-hotos-2003.pdf. Yeah, it's old, but so is the 10k Concurrency paper which is still touted as the reason why people should use nginx instead of anything else. Threads will only get better.
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Writing this reply from Kubuntu on a MBP.
I'm only spending maybe 15-25% of my weekly time on these jobs as of the last 8 months or so. Sometimes less, sometimes more. Most jobs are in the $500-$1k range, though I'd say for about 65% of them I end up getting repeat work.
Wait wait wait...
"for elections since 1952 only the New Hampshire Primary has been used to measure primary performance."

How is that legit at all? I could probably pick another state and show no correlation, or even show that primary winners are general election losers. Especially if i can change which states are used half way through...
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Is anyone else irrationally worried about Chinese backdoors in this product?
Pretty sure NVIDIA is using LIDAR with sensor fusion..?
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No, the control key is in exactly the right spot. Don't use a finger to hit the control key, use the meat of your hand. This only works if control is in the far corner.
"The Primary Model relies on presidential primaries as a predictor of the vote in the general election. For the record, the Primary Model, with slight modifications, has correctly predicted the winner of the popular vote in all five presidential elections since it was introduced in 1996. In recent elections the forecast has been issued as early as January of the election year."

If I'm reading it correctly this isn't a new prediction; this is a new article about the Primary Model's existing prediction dating from March 7 of this year.
Is there any way of seeing the map of cameras nearby without downloading the app?
>No, there is no fee on that transfer. And please don't tell me "but the effort!". Small businesses gladly go through that "effort".

Well, there usually is a fee. At least here in the US, business bank accounts get cash handling for free up to a certain amount per month. After that you're charged a small fee (as a percentage) on the amount of cash deposited, because the bank sure as hell isn't counting your cash for free.
Compare with:

Suppose I can think into a tiny little device and someone can hear me from miles away.

That still sounds like witchcraft. Before one of them gets invented, or at least the basic underlying principles are discovered, how do you tell them apart?
The government doesn't subsidies home owners in the UK and it is considered very very expensive, apparently, by many.
My theory, many people are actually voting for Trump, for whatever reason it may be, but they will not tell others. Polls, friends, community, etc. It seems many communities, including SV, have tried to ostracize those with opposing viewpoints. Trump's strength is built on that, whether an individual will be public about it or not. I read somewhere (sorry no source) that this election has seen the fewest bumped stickers/yard signs in recent history.

Edit: Remember, this is HN, not Reddit, keep it civil. And also keep in mind, odds are pretty low you will change anybody's view at this point, especially over comments ;)
Anyone here using k8s in prod? If so, what's your use case? What parts of the stack run inside k8s? Even state? What kind of org do you work for? Mission critical?
You could argue that using it as a deterant doesn't work. But what if we did something like Shusterman's Unwind for criminals that have killed others? There are about 120,000 people needing lifesaving organ transplant and only about 12,000 donors (https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov)
Lethal injection used to cost about 85$ per person(apparently that cost has seen exponential growth).
Although, taking organs from people forcefully or from a prisoner in general may be considered wrong (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42667886/ns/health-health_care/t/k...).
It can be reasoned that since they unjustly took the life of someone else that they should surrender their body to the state to make up their unfortunate deeds. Simply put: why let good people die when bad people can save them? Clearly there are moral delimas, as well as legal ones, that can be argued either direction.
Possibly the biggest problem would be the people the organs saved having issues with having a murderer's organs save their lives. After all, who would really want a criminal's body parts? Would the only people doing this to and making feel better be vigilantes?
Perhaps it could be looked at from an economical point then: is it more cost effective to set criminals free or to extinguish their life? How many more people would murders hurt if they were let free from prison? Does prison actually reform murderers?
> business software pricing will rise by 13 percent and cloud services will see a 22 percent increase.

HN title was misleading.

The GBP was high early this year. Then it took 10% hit over time + 10% hit on the brexit day + 10% recently when some political idiot announced that they'd proceed with Brexit next year.

As much as I hate pricing changes, and find companies to be quick to adjust price upward but not downward. I have to admit that there is a bottom price window that will call for aggressive adjustment from international buyers/sellers. Maybe it's reached already. People will have to live with the consequences.
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Not specifically about this prediction, but he touched on the uncertainty factor in the latest Model Talk podcast episode: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-uncertainty-is-...
In practice, "black swan" is supposed to mean effects which we underestimate or fail to predict at all. The definition requires not just rarity but an event which hasn't been seen before, and is only only understood in retrospect.

You can try to leave a general hedge for unknowns, like never giving anything >99% long term confidence. But actually pricing black swan problems accurately should be impossible, pretty much by definition.
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Here in upstate NY, $20k/year for a mid-30s with family of four gets you a Platinum no-deductible, copay-only plan with a $4k/year out-of-pocket cap (my exact situation - 2016 premium is $1,700/month). Bronze plans are dramatically cheaper, and if you're doing a bare-bones startup you're also likely to be in the income range that gets subsidies.
From what I see, most people use the CB, but: "Euromonitor International, a market research company, estimated that there were just 34 million French credit cards in circulation" (0.5 per person, in contrast the US has ~4 cards per person).

Average credit card spending per French annually is $300 -- so quite insignificant compared to Americans (which would be almost half their annual salary if not more).
I'm guessing it has something to do with it being the second primary (and thus heavily watched as well as very influential)
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Reading those predictions with a history of getting it right, always reminds me of the Simpsons episode with Professor Pigskin: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Professor_Pigskin
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This is a brilliantly simple experiment:

- most HFT companies use microwave transmitters because they are faster than fiber;

- microwaves are disrupted by heavy rain and snow, so they fall back to fiber;

- one can observe bid-ask spreads when it rains to see how liquidity is affected.

Conclusion: spreads narrow, and liquidity is improved when the fastest HFT traders are slowed down.
> it gives people the message that murder, in some cases, is justified -- heck, even the state does it

Murder is not killing. Murder is unlawfully killing.
I'm quite happy with geany, which is free and oss.
var lst = [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6]];
for (var [a,b] of lst) { console.log(a + b); }

You could write a `zip` function to merge multiple iterables together and iterator them. Or use something like `.enumerate()` to yield indices along with the values.
FWIW Immutable.js is not deeply immutable. Seamless-immutable however is.
I guess it's just me.

I simply don't find Black Mirror to be that good. To me it's like a revamped and overhyped Tales of the Unexpected ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(TV_se... )

It tries to be smart by attempting to address social changes we see to today, but it's clumsy and overbearing and the writing is not up to the task. I look at classic Twilight Zone and I feel they did more with less. In some respects even the writing from Tales from the Crypt offered more believable characters.

Anyway one person's (clearly) minority opinion.
> Goldman Sachs economists in part blame the cumulative effect of regulations enacted since the Great Recession for reducing the availability of credit and raising the cost of doing business for small firms.

Huh? Haven't small firms pretty much always been funded by personal saving of the founders, sweetheart loans from friends and family, and perhaps the odd bank loan secured by the personal assets (read: homes) of the founders?

Banks aren't interested in lending directly to businesses until they are large enough to have concrete assets to secure the loans. And they never were.
> Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have surged past an important threshold and may not dip below it for "many generations".

Is this at all reversible? I presume not.

The real problem is that lots of people and putting a lot of effort and money into reducing emissions - where if the above is correct seems very very difficult (with a growing developing world) and likely a waste of time.

Surely we should be trying harder to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and spend less time on reducing emissions?
I don't understand. There were 15 people jailed who took part in illegal activities. But the vast majority of Icelandic bankers did not take part in illegal activities. They just did a really really bad job. Therefore they weren't jailed.

Unless you think that Iceland only had 15 bankers?
We would be, if it was officially for sale anywhere outside of China...
It could be self selection. There was a post on HN days ago with comments of people dissatisfied with the lack of movies leaving Netflix. The fans of the original content leave and the satisfaction indicator soars.

In order to take that as an indicator of the quality of Netflix original content one should poll the people watching pirated copies of Netflix serials and ask them how those serials compare with other content.
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What part of "unless they like doing so" you've missed? :-)
There my be international currency transfer restrictions based in US law behind Paypal's unavailability. If so, there is a very high level of complexity beyond ordinary fraud such a service must deal with and a likelihood that transactions without fraudulent intent may wind up with frozen assets.

Good luck.
> through "party discipline", another throughly undemocratic concept, all but unheard of in UK/US parties

Is that really true? Wikipedia's article on the subject says:

"Party discipline tends to be extremely strong in Westminster systems such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India...."

In the American Congress, votes are now almost entirely along party lines, which seems like more or less the same thing:

http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/04/24/poli...
Do you have any issues with battery life compared to OSX?
Why are the landlord's costs going up "at the market rate" (which we will assume is higher than inflation)? Because the plumber lives in a market rent apartment and has to charge twice as much as a few years ago? Why would their insurance costs go up that fast? It's not like their property taxes are going up that fast. ;)

I believe the arguments that rent control is distortionary and poorly targeted (maybe they should make it means-tested rent control! I'm sure that won't have any effect on poorer people trying to rent! :P). But I don't see how market-rate rent increases, that happen fast enough for people to reach for rent control, are because the landlords are maintaining the same margins and seeing their costs increase. I do get the opportunity costs and reduced resale value costs though.
What about warranty , where is a good place to buy with a reliable warranty , for someone out of china?