skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The percent of the US economy invested in startups is very low, so I disagree with the premise of this headline. If every startup went bankrupt tomorrow, what would that represent in GDP decline? If the US GDP is 18 trillion and the total VC investment in 2015 was around 58 billion, then if only last year's investments all went to zero, it would represent a decline in .3% of US GDP. Of course there is more capital at risk than just last year's investment so let's say last year's 58 billion is only 10% of total capital deployed. OK still just a 3% decline. I think what the article should highlight is how few high growth and cash flow positive startups there are, which I agree is a real problem. Maybe completely eliminate all fees and taxes for LLC formation?
To which they would then have to spend on their own, more expensive health insurance plans?
At what point should the media be biased against a person?

How bad do they have to be before the media is given a free pass on being against that person? Is it never acceptable to you?

If it's never acceptable for the media to be against a candidate, they're going to be completely worthless in a variety of situations.
You're actually somewhat right! ATMs are an (sometimes) an example of eventual consistency. If an ATM is offline, it'll often allow you to make a withdraw anyways and once it's back on the network report back. That could mean an overdraft for you. Caveat here is that these are often low-traffic ATMs on the periphery, ones in the city are usually making calls home to check balances.

However, the buck (no pun intended) has to stop somewhere. Overdraft limits have to be consistently applied. Even that is somewhat up in the air. Take this with a grain of salt as it's second-party information, but my wife works in fraud prevention at a smaller credit union. She says that transactions are collected throughout the day and overdrafts are only applied at the end of the day to allow for bills to drain your account beyond its capacity and then payroll to land without applying overdrafts unless you're in the red afterwards. In some sense, that's even "eventual consistency" on the scale of 24 hours.

The most important thing in banks is that at the end of the day, the balance sheet, well, balances. And they limit their liability by preventing too much overdraft and applying daily limits to ATM withdrawals. I pose that general eventual consistency fits that pretty well, as long as "eventual" isn't "hours" for the most part.

A little more on eventual consistency in general as I understand it, eventual consistency systems come in many forms. In a leader/follower setup (think MySQL w/ async replication), usually "important" calls are made to the leader in a consistent fashion and changes are asynchronously replicated to the followers for general read fanout. There are a lot of different kinds of systems with different guarantees. In a dynamo-style system, writes/reads are usually done to a quorum of replicas (e.x. 2/3 replicas), and only if the read from the two replicas disagree are the values on all three replicas "repaired" via last-write-wins. Facebook has a model they call causal consistency[1] which models causal relationships (e.x. B depends on A, therefore B isn't visible until A is also replicated).

You can consider any system with a queue or log in it that doesn't provide some token to check for operation completion to be eventual. For example, imagine you fronted DB writes with Kafka. Lag between writing to Kafka and commit into the DB may only be 100ms, but that's "eventual". However, if you provided back a "FYI, your write is offset 1234 on partition 5", you could use that as a part of a read pipeline that checked that the DB writer was beyond offset 1234 on partition 5 before allowing the read to proceed. That'd be consistent.

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2610533
So very much this! Not only that, but folks should have a chance at life when they get released. Most folks aren't serving life sentences - it is in the best interest of society that we release folks that can be a good neighbor and good member of society.

It definitely isn't impossible to have that as the average standard.
Rocket Data: Faster Model Management for iOS
Definitely due in large part to the algos IMO. At one point they flat-out told everyone they were changing the algo because /r/The_Donald was consistently taking up half of /r/all. Since then it seems like they're probably limiting how many posts from a single sub are allowed to be on /r/all at any given time, so it's now half porn.
Prosperity == higher living standards, which means more resource consumption per capita. So you merely substitute population growth with increased living standards as driving factor for emission increases.
It's generally recommended best practice to force the user to change the password on setup, and/or to ship with a randomized password. At some point not making your product conforming to established best practices means you share some of the responsibility. (And customers have more lee-way in being uneducated than manufacturers).

One would hope best practices don't have to be turned into laws (because they quickly become outdated and are easily miss-applied), but there is going to be a push to do that.
Oh awesome! I didn't get to visit Germany this year so I missed that news... this will make stocking up on my Rammstein / Oomph / Unheilig CDs so much easier next time :D
"a complete disregard of facts" ERROR: false premise
Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled

I think it's kind of troubling that "the vast variety of information services that comprise the internet" apparently means "Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook" to laymen now.
http://history-computer.com/Library/

some choice links Blaise Pascal's Privilege http://history-computer.com/Library/PascalPrivilege.pdf

Ada's Sketch of the analytical computer http://history-computer.com/Library/Ada/Sketch%20of%20The%20...
How much of that is by factories producing things for consumers in the west?
If anyone wants to visit, you can find Site A pretty easily via Google Maps, as someone has added a Historical Place marker for it (41.702199, -87.912165). It's about a 15 minute walk from the nearest parking lot (41.709995, -87.914131).

Plot M is about half a mile away from Site A, and is easily missed. If you look on Google Maps for a small clearing just northeast of Site A, that is where Plot M is. (41.707279, -87.910550)

The Forest Preserves of Cook County website has some good information about the history of the site: http://fpdcc.com/site-a/
Man, I only have one thing about the pseudo-AI craze that I'd like to hear from Apple to get my business: Seeing how their current top end SoC is so powerful, stop sending all sorts of data to external parties to offload the compute requirements to make stuff like Siri work.
Underwriter's Laboratories should start including basic security hardening in their tests.
Its mostly charcoal cooking fires if I understand right.
I wouldn't say it looks like that. Ive very rarely makes public appearances or speaks on behalf of the company. We know he's a brilliant designer, but this doesn't necessarily make him a good fit for CEO.
Done. Thanks for posting. Can't believe this guy's experience. I used UpWork for a few gigs earlier this year but stopped browsing for gigs when the new fee structure was implemented. This is enough for me to say no thanks to ever using it again.
LibreSSL has removed SSL3, so I'd guess it doesn't do "SSL3_AL_WARNING"
Sorry for the late reply.

This is bullshit. Yes there are some people who praise him as a hero, and quite a number of those who does not see him as a hero, but does not view him as a murderous dictator either - it's more like "yes, he did horrible thing we should remember through our lifes, but he did what was necessary for the country". This view is very debatable\questionable, but still has it's right to be.

Most of the people view him just a historical figure without giving in to some deeper thought. Same as for Ivan IV The Terrible, or Peter I The Great (yes, he did much for the country and basically made it up to european standarts, but still was what you'd call a bloody dictator)

>The actions of USSR in Prague are viewed in a positive light

Same as above - this can be applied to 10-15% of population at most.
You should't assume that airbnb conversions would turn over 20x as frequently as the existing apartments. So it wouldn't 50k vs. 55k, but 50000 vs. 50250.

Sure, there might be a big spike in supply on airbnb-banishment-day, but then those apartments get rented and we're back to approximately the place we started, as far as long-term rents go, only without airbnb the tourists and property owners are worse off.
It is easy to use Windows Firewall to block XBox, Cotana, etc from access Internet. I blocked all windows 10 services (svrhost) layer from Internet except DNS and NTP. In my windows 10 system, only firefox get to the net unrestricted.

After that, windows 10 is actually a joy to use.
Unless you're in the habit of cleaning your phone after every single use your fingerprints are already on the device. Case 2 has different dimensions than what is stated.
"Let me list some of the less than stellar top-level comments from that thread. "

Most of those suck but two are OK since they indicate a history of sneaky behavior. This could help readers wondering if this is merely a hiccup or part of a recurring problem that justifies switching vendors. This particular company puts quite a bit of effort into things that negatively impact some of its users to boost profits. Some companies do less of that. For those users, at least two of these comments like a few I found before would justify switching away from Lenovo regardless of what their motivations were.

"The claim was that the whole thing was due to a secret deal with Microsoft, and the only evidence (apart from historical crap that MS pulled) was a community support guy's post."

What I saw was a claim that the problem effectively blocked an install of anything but the OEM version of Windows. Microsoft negotiated secret deals to do that in the past. They also publicly pulled it with Vista and a recent one. So, that's how you partly test the Microsoft hypothesis. Was the only working image available only the latest version of Windows that Microsoft was pushing? Did it lock you in?
Jetbrains has a Swift IDE, and they're not a $600 billion company.
> […] the data owned by another app.

This makes me sad. I don't want my data owned by an app, I want it owned by me.

(This does not imply allowing all software running on my behalf access to all of my data all of the time.)
That question is pretty close to home for me. Our family's highest yearly billing was about $3M, and we've hit $100k every year in the last 8. If you were writing a textbook about healthcare outliers, we'd be in it.

The closest thing I have to an answer for you is single-payer like the rest of the developed world, where they pay substantially lower medical costs for similar health outcomes.

I do hope to see our society mature a bit on end-of-life care. Dying is disproportionately expensive (http://time.com/money/2793643/cutting-the-high-cost-of-end-o...) and that money often results in little benefit to the patient (and at times, probably causes active harm).
That's the point, though - a government could indirectly subsidize a product to increase its adoption, exploiting the fact that "people are voluntarily buying those, because they cost less".
Then... don't? It's not like you can't use any other keyboard. Mine is still wrapped in plastic somewhere in a box.
No it shifts our priorities. Once people realize they can't access 90%of the internet unless they reinstall their OS or unplug all network devices, people will become more vigilent.
Ulillillia: http://www.ulillillia.us/sitemap.shtml

Useful sections include the one on tips to speed up mowing the lawn. Less useful ones focus on things like how to open soda bottles.
http://everything2.com is (kinda) still going strong.
Show HN: A calendar for all coworking retreats
That's even more impossible, especially if I want to do something like ctrl-z to undo, or ctrl-shift-z to redo.
Sounds like something local press might be interested in, if press in the UK still has sections for that kind of thing.
I have in other subtrees of the discussion. Hinkley C is guaranteed about 100 €/MWh with raising fees according to inflation. This is roughly the same cost as offshore wind, onshore wind in Germany is around 60€/MWh, solar 100-120€ MWh, there is a solar project in Dubai which promises to be better than 30€/MWh.

Here are some numbers given (in $, not €): https://www.neueenergie.net/wirtschaft/markt/wind-schlaegt-k...
I thought Apple specifically didn't send your data to external parties. That's one of the reason Siri is behind Google, which does send you data to their servers.
negative ROI on investment is the risk component of your investment. This is true of any investment. Stock being certainly higher risks than housing and still people invest a lot in stocks.

But I should have said renting is a sunk cost. There is no investment component at all in renting.
Your frequent reminded that people have said "They will coast for a while on their dominant mobile market share but eventually the stagnation and lack of new products will catch up to them" about Apple -every- -single- -year- since about 2007. And yet, they endure.
I did that, but it meant I couldn't use Bing anymore (I like it because I can use the "ip:" search operator to find domains hosted on a certain ip address).
I really wish people would stop saying we're screwed. I know it's a compensation for climate denial, but I think it's terrible rhetoric. If you say, "it's too late, we're screwed," then the message is that nothing really needs to be done but deal with the consequences.

This is a big, scary situation and it's easy to feel hopeless in the face of it. But we are faced with multiple potential futures. Our outcome is tied to our action and the outcomes could be anywhere between mild and catastrophic. No invisible hand is going to swoop down and fix this one for us. This one's on us.
Yes it's tricky.

But it's also quite nasty that in some police sieges the perpetrator has absolutely nothing to lose anymore, except his life. So if he kills several policemen and manages to escape, it's still good deal. If that doesn't look likely, surrender and get the exact same life in prison you would have gotten anyhow.

Knowing this dynamic, the police is incentive to use sharpshooters early in the situation. Which is essentially death penalty without due process.
It's cheaper for manufacturers to blame non-official firmwares for bricking a phone and saying "I told you so" as a big fuck you
I liked his other answer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/58zaho/the_...

It makes me wonder how big reddit could be internationally without major changes. Reddit has over 40% of their traffic from the USA, probably 99% of what is written is in English. The concept and the laws of free speech in America is different from other countries. I do not know if there is a long-term plan, with clearer and universal rules that could be easiest to moderated.
I thank you for your nightmarish work (by the way, what's your sub? It sounds like you do a good job!).

But yeah, they're all awful. r/KiA just keeps getting worse and worse. They're at the point where some of them are actually attacking John Bain, who is one of the symbols for ethical journalism in games, just because he has clearly stated that while he's pro-ethics, he's not going to involve himself with, or put up with, the r/KiA BS.

All of them have gotten far beyond the point where they stand for something, if they ever did: their only purpose now is to perpetuate their own existence.
I think she's more alluding to something like the EU common market. NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP and TTIP don't do anything about freedom of movement, and do a lot about a ton of other things that have nothing to do with that.
"[...] all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. [...] There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global. I am not saying that the warming does not cause problems. Obviously it does. Obviously we should be trying to understand it better. I am saying that the problems are grossly exaggerated. They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important, such as poverty and infectious disease and public education and public health, and the preservation of living creatures on land and in the oceans, not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans."

Freeman Dyson, heretic thoughts about science and society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xFLjUt2leM

https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-heretical-th...
You should be using babel to serve all your target browsers. But you can still use ES2015 during development; it's an absolute joy.
I don't have anything personal against Ballmer. Would be interested to know more about his role in building MS.
That doesn't mean much if the carbon does not get bound to the soil. If plants just take up CO2, die, release it again then it stairs in the atmosphere. This applies to crops and rain forests, algae.

Only few systems tend to fix the CO2 over long periods of time, such as boreal forests or permafrost tundra. And guess which ecosystems are retreating due to global warming and releasing their previously fixed CO2?
Magic Mouse happened on Jobs' watch.
Hahahahaha true!
A lot of what's great about Black Mirror is what it doesn't show you. It's great at showing you enough of something to know what's going on, but not hammering it home to make sure you got it like a lesser show might.

As an example, in the first episode of Season 3 (no spoiler here I think) a character leaves an area where there's a billboard with her and a guy on it, and her image fades from it. Personalized images in ads are something we've seen in other media so I'm not claiming the idea is novel, but a lesser show might still have felt the need to show someone else walking up and their image appearing on the billboard, replacing the one that had been there. Black Mirror is content to show the image fade, then cut without replacing it. This is good taste and confidence, and it's one of the show's greatest attributes. It manifests in many small choices like this in every episode.

Similarly, it sometimes uses what it doesn't show us to carry most of the weight of an entire episode's central theme (Fifteen Million Merits does this, for instance). It may also throw sensation at the viewer as a bait, as it pointedly does in The National Anthem, revealing this when the camera chooses to entirely ignore the sensational event toward which the episode has been building to instead show us something both more mundane and far more disgusting in every way that matters. The subjects of that scene push the viewer to reflect on themselves—showing us the watchers when we are watchers—which is one hell of a smart gut-punch.

There are a couple bad episodes, though (well, there was one, but now season 3's out and by my reckoning there are now three), and if I were walking a n00b through the series I'd probably show them the series' first episode last because it's both structurally different from all the rest and I think easier to appreciate when you've got a better feel for what the show's doing. It's a bad introductory episode, IMO.
You can prove it to yourself by asking what happened to all the carbon in coal and oil extracted since the 18th century. It tracks the rise in atmospheric CO2, as you would expect, since we burned it.
First steps towards the touch robot
"he has shown time and again"

It should be very easy to list examples, then. I found the most stunning thing about the debate topics was everything Trump was being accused of was at most shady but legal, and everything Hillary was being accused of would send anyone but a Clinton to prison.

The IRS is happy with his taxes therefore he must be a crook. His lawyers followed every bankruptcy law and the judge agreed he did nothing wrong therefore he must be a crook. The amount of money he paid in taxes is legal but Hillary thinks any tax rate below 100% is morally wrong therefore he's a crook. He should have known that in a decade he'd be running for president and made sure that a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a general contractor bought USA steel instead of perfectly legal Chinese steel therefore he's a crook. A billionaire supposedly molests a dozen women for as long as Bill Clinton has been in the news for doing worse, but they all forgot about the tremendous billionaire payday for decades until three weeks before the election, all at the same time, huh, what are the odds of that, I'm sure it must all be true? Oh and he might have used a naughty (but legal!) word a couple times in his life.

Luckily we have an incredibly sanctimonious holier than thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead, is above campaign finance law, above confidential documents law, is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney, her death count in the middle east must be a million or so, but "Hillary" so that makes it acceptable and magically somehow she's not above the law nor a dictator nor a madwoman because she's a globalist elite pawn. Clearly she is on the opposite of a law and order platform, we agree there. If she were a law and order candidate, to be self consistent she'd have to put herself and her husband in prison...

So where's this "time and again"? An unpaid parking ticket, perhaps? An overdue library book? Anything at all?
Humans are not the primary source in the tricky sense that someone looking to deny the evidence couldn't deny.

But they are the primary source of the net emissions or, in other words, the increase of CO2 levels.

It's a bit like if your neighbor produces just enough grain for a year's worth of food for his family of 10 and you steal just enough for yourself. Technically, you aren't the primary source of the decrease in food, but you are the primary (and only) source of the fact that your neighbor's food supply are lower than needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU

http://whatsyourimpact.org/greenhouse-gases/carbon-dioxide-e...

https://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natu...

https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/coal/carbon-storage/carbon...
True, but /pol/lacks tend to ruin derail discussions outside of their space. This is not only true of 4chan, but a metaphor for the internet in general.
Sure, but there still might be an investing opportunity.
Just try to eval a sample of ES6 syntax you use, and if it throws error, load ES5 code. You'd need to feature check all the features that you use, to cover the browser versions with incomplete ES6 support.
In the U.S., anti-discrimination laws sometimes differ among the states (and counties) when it comes to public and private jobs, particularly with respect to sexual orientation and sexual identity, and it's problematic. Good luck writing a law that attempts to define which jobs are "commodities", nevermind coming up with the legal justification for removing anti-discrimination law on non-commodity jobs.
If this were true Apple shouldn't be able to sell computers for a premium, and yet they do. 40 years should have been enough for commodification to take effect.
Every few hundred days... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=boycottdocker.org
I didn't say it was reasonable, just that it was a big reason: not everybody agrees with you.

>Reddit as a whole seems to struggle with recognising feminism

I mean, I guess, but the phrase "reddit as a whole" doesn't make a whole lot of sense: Reddit isn't one community, it's a collection of disparate communities that really aren't all that connected to each other.
Yeah ok. Do you really believe that you're not a commodity as well. Hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of devs out there who can do the boring, mundane work that is most software development. You're not special.