skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but for non-live broadcasts you can do this too, but do it asynchronously, and indeed, Netflix does. If you're watching reasonably popular content (Luke Cage, say), you're not getting it from Netflix proper, you're getting it from a a Netflix point of presence colocated with your ISP. It's the exact same "fan out" model, but for most of the transit (the whole part that crosses the open Internet) they can take as long as they want, transfer during off-peak periods, are tolerant of congestion, etc.
Where I come from, everyone holds open the door for whoever is coming after them. Once the community you live in gets over the hump that all gestures must be gendered or have hidden layers of intent, it's pretty easy to be kind for the sake of kindness itself and not worry about being perceived as chasing chivalry as a way of getting something. Keep holding the door open and imagine you are living in a post-patriarchal society?
The purpose of high minimal wage is to decrease inequality. It cannot become equal tax on everybody, unless you inject money into the system. The ones who are at very bottom would gain a lot, a lot more than increase in the cost of a latte. For example, for an apartment to become less affordable for a software developer, it has to become more affordable to a janitor. I am not even talking about the goods from Targets and Walmarts, which cost exactly same across the country.
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I.e. "don't pay for art school yourself"
I wouldn't say that. For many people (especially women), unwanted sexual attention from strangers is a problem. When in doubt, it is probably more polite to leave people alone.
I think it's fine in that case, since Macbooks never mix USB port types. As far as I know, all the USB ports on any given Macbook have identical capabilities, so there's no need to distinguish them visually. You just need to be informed when you buy the device what port type you're getting.
They still have an office in Pleasanton, CA.
A few years ago, when i was a grad student at Indiana University, I was told that one of the dorms required students to use a specially wired ethernet cable as recently as 10 years ago because the building had been wired before the ethernet standard was finalized and they chose the wrong wiring order.
Not within an urban context, and not much elsewhere. A donkey or ox required grazing access -- which meant either owning your own land or having access to a commons, as well as a stable. Bicycles, despite many other issues, don't poop.

A horse was a major capital investment. And a donkey can't carry all that much weight -- a light adult, perhaps, but only just.

The US horse population in 1915 was 20 million, contrasting with about 100 million people. Keep in mind that most of those horses were in commercial use -- drayage, farm traction (a large combine would be drawn by 40 horses), etc.

Numbers for England/UK are harder to come by, but a Google Answers thread gives 3.3 million for late Victorian Britain, and 14 million in Europe in 1800, the latter against a human population of 203 million.

The typical person, or family, owned zero horses.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=144565

http://www.geohive.com/earth/his_history1.aspx

Though you raise an interesting question: what was ownership of draught animals throughout time, and how did that compare with bicycle sales in, say, the US, England, France, and Germany from 1880 - 1920 or so. Keeping in mind that mass private automobile ownership wasn't really a thing until the 1950s, even in the US.
GPL specifies no duties for those who use software, just for those who "propagate" software.
I was actually rather careful to address ideas specifically rather than individuals. I only used the poster as a passive subject in an accusation of an MRA agenda.

> I see this as fundamentally problematic, regardless of your agenda, and quite counterproductive if you want to end rape culture.

That is your opinion. I think shame has its place. We are on a curious website where we can actively call people names if we are discussing technology and it is considered par for the discourse. But once the space of "politics" (read as, "fundamental human rights") enters the equation then suddenly we must all suddenly respect everyone's right to any opinion no matter how oppressive or facile. I reject that notion.

I will not be able to respond to you anymore today. I am rate limited and I'm fairly sure this is my final post for the day.
Be careful with using your own domain, there have recently been a number of high-profile attacks based on hijacking the DNS.
"As a freelancer, I start a new project every other week or so."

Yeah - I'm not sure if this is representative.

Moroever, if you're staring a project every other week, you may not be working at the scale/resiliency that most entities need, not even considering legacy etc..

The toolchain churn in JS is too much, especially relative to other platforms.
you can have my ethernet cable when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
As a fastmail user for the last 3 years, I would say fastmail.

I pay $130/3 yr so about $3.61 a month. Considering how integral email is to my day to day life, the cost of a drink at Starbucks seems reasonable to pay per month.

The flexibility in configuring aliases is excellent - I maintain a couple distinct email address domains but can send all my mail from a single account. Not to mention my wife and I now share address books, calendars, and domains which has all been exceedingly easy to setup.

Honestly, I think FastMail is absolutely worth it. Give them a shot - it's a great service that I'd pay twice as much for.
Postfix.

Not a miracle of simplicity to set up, but so far it's been bullet-proof while running.
Not Dreamhost, their spam filtering has gone from mediocre to nonexistent over the last few years.
Why use chemicals at all in your robots? Why not mechanical means like punching them into the soil?

Microwaves might also be an interesting approach. We should chat.
Scott Aaronson wrote an essay titled "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" which talks about the idea of, depending on what level of detail would be needed to simulate a human brain in a way that reflects consciousness, the no cloning theorem could maybe prevent such a copy from being made. It might be impossible to make copies and thereby see what the person would do in the different situations.

And so, due to states originating in a way that we can't possibly know, this would maybe allow/explain/whatever free will.

I'm not endorsing that idea, but I thought it was relevant to what you were talking about and worth considering.
Thanks for posting this, I love Harold McGee and wasn't aware of his posts here. I've now got a bunch of browser tabs open with his other articles, can't wait to read them all...

He used to write occasionally for the NY Times, but it's been awhile. He's also an occasional guest on Dave Arnold's podcast "Cooking Issues."
Dude, there are like...10000 other places on the internet to air your right wing safe-space violation grievances, probably to greater sympathetic effect. Why bring your crybaby whining, conspiracy theory, all blacks are being trained to hate whites, cops are under siege stupidity to hn?
It has been like that for years. Look at this partial list https://dcs.rutgers.edu/dcs-faculty-resources/classroom-tech...

For every button apple removes they add at least one dongle.
Even if that were the case I would think learning powerful tools over the span of a few weeks would be worth the effort if you had the reliability that these tools would exist for years to come.

It seems like the rapid change and throw-away-ability of the tool ecosystem reflects the final product as well -- and maybe that's the large difference which is emergent from web technology? What is the average lifespan of a web application?
Depends heavily on the house and where you are putting computers. A surprisingly large number of people have their computers right next to their cable modems.
I am fairly sure the same applies for my company as well. Very little I can do about it, since I singed the contract I am obligated to consider the best interest of the shareholder.
Okay, so what did the High Way Patrol (is that seriously a thing?!) do about it?
You might not regret one second but did you pay every dollar? If you can afford it an education like this might seem worth the money but for most an education must have a good return on the investment or you're broke for life. Lateral and critical thinking are great but you still have to find a way to put food on the table.
Well shit, I thought doing the challenges there would actually reflect my ability. Now it kinda seems like a waste of time.
That wouldn't be the TB15 dock? I have one and it has issues even on windows sometimes.
A compliment probably shouldn't be sexual. Just a simple "I like your hair" or "I like you " even (though not really a compliment) but with no further content.
> A static platform, set it & forget it, is the benefit I value.

Wait, you just said above:

> It doesn't have to be crap if it is modular and upgradeable. Executive controller, hardware controllers, sensors and switches need to be serviceable/upgradeable.
You mean a green light? That can trick human drivers into seeing a green light.
bengal famine, laotian genocide
I'm gonna pull a Zuck on Harvard Connection. Am I a dick?
OK, so... 1st, this is a throwaway account. 2nd, this is the story.

For the past two and a half years I've been working on a project in a full stack capacity. Asides from implementing my principal's every wish and request, about 60% of the code and functionality of the platform derives from my input and engagement. It is fair to say that my engagement has boosted the platform's value tenfold. I am being super conservative about them estimates.

Our closest competitor in this segment is valued in the tres comas range, and we do shit like, way, way, WAY better than them. And we're a three (well, more like 2 and a half) man detail.

Here's the rub. Instead of chasing enterprises that would value our platform, my principal is focused on pursuing only local businesses that have zero potential of generating ME any revenue (I was strictly hired for coding, zero equity, because of previous shitty deals I was involved with, that's what I went with) and double zero potential of generating any repeat business (he handles all comms and sales and doesn't give a as long it generates monthly revenue).

So, here is my long winded question to y'all.

If I would decide to write Shitty Project 2.0, without copying any code, without using any of the infrastructure at my disposal, if I would do it in my own time and dime and launch, would I be a dick to my principal?

I am NOT asking if this is legal, I am only inquiring if I would be a dick if I reboot this thing as a project of my own.

Muchas gracias for all your valued input.
3Blue1Brown is creating animated math videos
Indeed. I was hoping to elicit some clarification and left out some of my own: if JS, CSS & HTML are part of the GPL'd product, I'd agree that those parts qualify as being 'distributed' to users.
Is this satire or this guy is feminazi?

I can't tell from his writing.
I read a blog post from someone at Xamarin with some test cases graphed, a bit before Xamarin started suggesting SGEN as the default. I'll see if I can find the one I'm thinking of.
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> Most people need the discipline of having to show up in a physical classroom

Went to UC Berkeley and literally did not show up to class except for finals. Nobody forces you to go to class when you hit a 4 year institution, esp public ones. For a lot of people, the value of going to college is going to college itself, not the actual education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
This puts it better than I ever could!
Because 'writing code that somehow works from business perspective' and 'writing well-designed, readable, maintainable and optimized code' are two different things.

I have similar situation when Team and Tech leads in our company write shitty and unmaintainable code. But they've spent N years in the company and became leads because of that.
It won't be able to focus on something so close. It'll just slightly darken the whole image uniformly.
"You need almost all these tools in other environments -- they're just typically chosen for you in advanced."

+ I don't think anyone is complaining about what the tools do, or necessarily their quality.

The fundamental complain is 'churn'. The stack you see today may be replaced in a year - moreover - it's really hard to tell where the community is going. There are few resources (or rather too many) that can tell you what 'works and what doesn't' etc..

Also - many of these problems should not exist in the first place, and kind of illustrate the underlying failures of the web-browser platform in the first place.

Again - great stack. But it won't last long, and it's very expensive to churn.

Recent comment at a JS meetup form some guy: "I just left a startup where I was the key Angular guy, it was all in Angular 1 - I have no idea who's going to support that now that I'm going considering everything is Angular 2 now".

Reasonable assertion.

Also - I'm not so sure the 'do one thing and do it well' theory is always an advantage. There are many solid platforms where things are really well curated by company ABC. I'd suggest that if they do their jobs well, it's better than a community approach.

Obviously - community vs. monolith is not black and white, and there are advantages to each side, but it would be unwise I think to ignore the problems of constant churn.

Another example - just at MS HQ in Montreal for a preso on React. 100 devs in the room were not particularly excited. They seemed more resigned to it than anything. The consensus was 'yet another thing'? I think there is really a big gap between those pro-shops on the cutting edge - and 'everyone else'. And React is by no means trivial.
> "Monsanto pitched them as a way to curb the use of its pesticides. “We’re certainly not encouraging farmers to use more chemicals,” a company executive told The LA Times in 1994..."Figures from the United States Department of Agriculture show herbicide use skyrocketing in soybeans, a leading G.M. crop, growing by two and a half times in the last two decades"

As a child, I dreamed that I would grow up to a world where genetically modified organisms were the key to sustainable agriculture. We could have plants that eliminated the need for petroleum based fertilizers by enriching the soil like clover does and that are resistant to disease and insects. Instead we get Monsanto. Where they’ve turned large tracks of fertile land into a barren, sterile wasteland that can only grow their GMO crops. And lie to us about their GMO's reducing the use of chemicals.

It's a shame Monsanto has abused the potential of GMO to boost profits by selling more chemicals instead of using it for good.
I recommendation yandex domain.
Colour is one of the easiest communication methods we have with 'Regular users' as they already use them as a natural key elsewhere - even things like credit/loyalty cards (Chase, Virgin) or games consoles (green vs blue vs white)
I remember a famous academic study in the nineties that questioned whether PC's really produced any appreciable return on investment.

Course that would be so laughable today that no scientific journal would publish it. This article is similar in quality. Got to give it to the anti GMO folks they never give up, even after its clear that they've lost.

I worked in agriculture for over twenty years as an agronomist. I wasn't in an ivory tower, I was on the ground walking farmers fields. My customers used less insecticides with the introduction of GMO seed. They used much safer herbicides. Farmers work in an extremely low margin business. They continued to buy GMO seed because it made them more money. Farmers are the original environmentalists and the use of GMO seed was cleaning their community.

In America we spend around 11% of our income on food. In Europe it's more than double that number. In Europe a small but loud group of activists prevented the adoption of GMO seed. They destroyed research crops so that tests could never be completed on the efficacy of GMO seed.

https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/06/11/bbc-panora...

Europeans also convinced a starving Zambia to reject the generous US gift of life saving grain. Let people starve cause hypothetically something could be bad for them is the height of hypocrisy.

http://www.economist.com/node/1337197

If they [the environmentalists] lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 60 years, they’d be crying out for fertilizers, herbicides, irrigation canals and tractors and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

-	Norman Borlaug, inventor of the green revolution and winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace prize
Is this satire or this guy is feminazi / hyper-sjw?

I can't tell from article for sure.
Voter Intention Collection System (VICS)
"Is this the kind of discourse we want on hacker news?"

It's pretty unavoidable if we are going to deal with topics like ESPN and the NFL in today's climate; polling outfits are actively investigating this matter and discovering just how badly ESPN/NFL core demos are reacting to the SJW lecturing being foisted on them.

Slashdot ruined itself the same way; posting controversial topics that produce huge flame wars. If you don't like it then see that more care is taken regarding which stories appear.

"So black people are not oppressed in America because some are allowed to play football? Not convincing."

That's ironic. An earlier response quoted some ESPN anti-Trump propaganda lecturing its dwindling white viewership that blacks aren't all "oppressed" ghetto denizens: "Did you know that not all black people live in the inner city? Did you know that not all inner cities are ghettos?" Other clever folk are claiming that ESPN has nothing to worry about because there are plenty of minorities that can afford $100+/month in cable bills despite all the terrible "oppression" they live under.

BLM grievance mongering is bad business if you want white disposable income. All that's left to discover now is just how much damage professional sports is willing to self-inflict before they figure this out.
I think the Surface Pro is still pretty competitive, though the Book and Studio are really out there on price. But that's the great thing about the Microsoft side... You have choices like buying the HP it the Dell.
That's relative to other Hotspot collectors. It's still generational with bump-pointer allocation and lighter write barriers than Go, so it is still geared heavily towards throughput relative to Go's GC.
As developed and used by the Vote Leave campaign during the UK's EU referendum in June. Detailed here: https://dominiccummings.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/on-the-refe...
They do not require auction winners to pay immediately. Thus, as I said, auctions are the problem.
Javascript development as you see it today started budding with Mootools, Prototype, jQuery, YUI, etc. Wasn't until the early 2000s that the concept of unobtrusive javascript was even a thing. Then bundling assets came, asset pipeline concept from the rails world got popular in javascript land, then you had all the grunt, gulps, webpacks come into the picture -- Point being .NET came out in what, 01? So Javascript has a few more years, I think we will be in a good place in a couple of years. Besides that point, how much work behind the scenes before .NET was even ever released to us was going on? How many man hours of development was put before that first public release? My guess is a lot more than we think.
And the HN user that reported them did the right thing IMO. Ethical research is a thing.

The user reported them to hi-po not because they were 'hacking', but because they intentionally created a dangerous situation on a highway by stalling a car, which could have gotten multiple people killed.

It's similar to the guy that decided to connect to the turbofan with his laptop on a populated passenger airplane in flight.
Exactly. In this case -- working from antique memory here -- Solaris binaries were normally stripped, while the compromised versions placed by the hacker weren't, which was an immediate red flag. The system was compromised as part of a very large-scale, probably North Korean, attack that exploited an OpenWindows buffer overflow bug that was fixed many patch-revs ago by the time I saw the system (and shouldn't have been exploitable over the Internet anyway, but the firewall was also not properly set up at the time of compromise). Drive-by hacking, in other words. Luckily their compromised binaries -- specifically a 'ps' that filtered out the hackers' background attack processes -- weren't particularly robust to arbitrary input.
This is how companies ensure they "only hire the best".
It is important to think about it, because you may be helping hijack society, what would put you far behind your initial (and inspiring) intent.
Doesn't logic on trying to time the market apply here?
I swear to god, please stop comming up with fucking hyped beyond belief bullshit all the time. Have you even looked at fuel consumption of a tractor or a combine?

Those use tens of litres of fuel PER HOUR. A combine could probably run on a biggest Tesla battery for about 15 minutes...

Next time maybe propose solar powered tractor? /s
I still don't get why the configuration for something as simple as mail has to be such a hassle.
Apple definitely seems to have a larger software surface area than hardware, where they tend to discontinue more frequently. Keep in mind the companies Godin compares it to are focused on web services and only have one user-facing product. It's an unfair comparison. Apple provides some of the best developer tools and APIs. An essential software suite that just works is what I'm looking for, and for the most part it's delivered.
These Numbers Prove the Sports Television Bubble Is Leaking
Coming back to my project from 6 months ago and upgrading dependencies and finding out nothing my tooling is obsolete os awful.
I thought what the author really meant to say is, don't go to art school, in the US.
I've never met a great architect that didn't also understand how to code. It's hard for me to imagine being unable to structure code and design solutions at a micro level but had a good intuition for structuring code and designing solutions at the macro level.
Can you elaborate on your privacy concerns with Gmail? Google Gsuite (formerly apps for work) has some fairly strict privacy controls.

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/how_google_protects_you...
Using Minecraft as a level editor
The content on ESPN is just plain bad. I don't watch it, I don't read it. The on my thing I goto ESPN for is to see various game and match scores.
What kind of privacy concerns are there with email providers based in Russia?
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