skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what course of action they would suggest. Should we stop trying to have a better economy for the sake of global concerns? I'm genuinely asking because I have zero knowledge of currency market. What is the right move to strengthen our economy with the least amount of global impact?
No, that would be illegal, it's up to you as an individual if you are prepared to work more hours. They cannot legally force you to.
And employees with stock options/RSUs/paper dollars.
most cable tv bills come bundled with internet which is half or more of the cost. the best internet provider where i live just so happens to be the cable tv company, so there's not much choice.
> Computer memory is mutable. For multiple processors to make use of the same memory requires contending for that memory somehow (else the processors are not communicating in any meaningful way).

That's a bit of a strawman. For example, content addressable memory and message passing will certainly permit "processors ... communicating in [a] meaningful way".
I was recently surprised that Django can handle object level permissions very nicely. The support is built in, but nit implemented in Django itself, but you can simply use django-guardian and everything just works.
And how much is the cord cutter market that isn't streaming any of their sports except NHL right now? All the cord cutters are just simply not watching it.

Good lord even Cricket is streamable from Willow. And few Americans watch cricket.
Here's to hope it's not just the brand they're going to slap on and into it.

EDIT: looking it up, it seems like HMD Global has been formed as a result of buying back parts of Microsoft Mobile and employs veteran Nokia staff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_global). Looks that much more promising.
> Then you have to give up other cool things like Google Analytics.

Alternatives do exist. If you want advanced tools similar to GA, a local Piwik[0] install will do the job. For much more basic options, there are lots of log processing programs available, I have recently tried and liked GoAccess[1].

[0] https://piwik.org/

[1] https://www.goaccess.io/
Music for people who hate music.
A draw is half a point. So with first to 6.5, you win the match if you have one game win and 11 draws.
I wonder why this makes sense. Isn't it more useful to get a few hundred snowballs and ship them via Fedex? You can transfer in parallel and should be at the same speed as with Snowmobile. It's at the DC next day and the data will be faster in S3 than by truck. Also, the economies of scale will never pay off for Snowmobile, likely more for Snowball.

At the same time, logistics (incl insurance and security) is handled by companies that are very good at it. Fedex, DHL and the like offer physical security services for goods if you need it in addition to encryption.

Think it's a PR move only. They will probably find a few clients to somehow utilize one truck, but I don't think it's more efficient than Snowballs.
this place is so stiff, i think you and i are the only ones laughing. cheers.
A true classic, I never get tired of reading that one.
Ask HN: Starting a code school for kids. Any advice?
I'm starting a coding school for kids in Canada and was wondering if anyone has ideas/experience getting started?
It took significant fighting (my original Pebble was 6 days out of warranty), but they replaced mine too, since it was doing some terrible screen tearing. I've purchase the Kickstarter Time 2, so hopefully it won't have the same issues (screen tearing is so prevalent for users of Pebble Classic, it's kind of amazing that it hasn't turned into a bigger issue).
To me it became clear that current global finaces are completely unhinged from reality at least 5 years ago, if not 10. I also am becoming more and more sure it was all fucking Thatcher and fucking Reagan who are at the heart of it all

Not to make a massive dissertation: just look at the debts everywhere, how nicely exponential they are...

So I'mm sitting here, waiting for the inevitable collapse, hoping it comes sooner than later (so there might be a slight chance that SOMETHING survives)
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Fat people earn less and have a harder time finding work
> Mining is awkward, since I believe mined coins are taxed as income on the day they are mined, even if you don't transact.

The IRS has indicated that bitcoins are property and taxed as such, so that seems unlikely. Do you have a source for this?
Economics is not called the dismal science for nothing
Chilling...
How is better than streaming over DLNA w/ Plex+Kodi? Nicer interface?
Regular, real/official, taxi's are easily recognisable by their number plate which is orange with black letters whereas regular vehicles are white with black letters.

You don't have to use fake taxi's, that's your choice. A regular taxi ride in Stockholm and a Uber ride (depending on the time of day) usually don't have a big price difference between them. Unless you want to take one of the Tesla taxi's.
> one could argue that they're just extracting payment in employee time instead.

Uh, they get a salary.
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It kind of feels like a five-year-old trying to make a song. Which seems good - now they only need to improve the mechanisms and who know, maybe we'll get to the point when it's a ten-year-old?
I absolutely love the clear, fast, no-nonsense and almost Pinboard-like styling and layout.
I wish we could find a way to get an economy that strives at equilibrium rather than mandating growth for prosperity as we do now.
Fair enough, a "potential decline in oil consumption of 90%". I get that. I accept that. It is a potential though; based upon existing technology. The oil and gas industry will be impacted (perhaps severely), but will it be a 90% impact? I doubt it. Few people have ever been able to predict the future. (Xerox failed, IBM failed, Yahoo failed, etc. - AT&T did a good job with "You Will" - Think it was a research firm that did it for AT&T.) Don't fall into the trap of thinking one knows how it will all play out. Odds are it will not play out like one thinks it will. The same technological advances that are removing industries are creating other industries. I just think the oil can be used for much more interesting things. 3D printing is really in its infancy right now. https://all3dp.com/biggest-3d-printers-world/ Imagine being able to print out whatever you want, including buildings and having them perfect. (not some nailed together wood done in a rush that has tons of joints where problems may arise) Raw material (oil) will be needed to do that. (unless of course there is other material to use, but it will have to be refined and oil & gas companies know all about that)

Now the employment of people is the other thing. Technology should make things cheaper and better. (cheaper either in initial price and/or the cost of maintenance) Fewer people will need to work and/or work fewer hours because things are cheaper and better. There was a time before there were two-income households. We could cut back to that without a huge disruption. An equilibrium will likely develop. If there is no income, there will be no consumers. Basic income may also be needed.

On a more funny note, those convenience stores had better well have some damn good restrooms like they have at Buc-ee's. Otherwise, why stop? The car is doing the driving. You're free to eat whatever you brought or simply sleep through the trip.
If any of you would like to experience something like that article but at book length here's a link to a PDF of "IGNITION ! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants".

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
Thanks for pointing out how to change currencies, that black link is not very obvious, I would change it to something else.
It wasn't a Senate effort to block, it was a Democratic effort in the Senate.

Otherwise the headline nonsensical - hey the whole Senate tried to block but it didn't work?
Really nice, indeed.

Very useful too the hints on each metric. I've not read docs in depth but I'd like to see also a compacted dashboard to avoid scroll for the latest ones.

Congrats :)
So I guess Uber is on the clear
Trump is a liar. A cheat. A bad person. He fueled rhetoric that pitted everyone against each other. He is a fascist. His rhetoric is a real threat to the continued success of our democracy and the republic(cause the US is a democratic republic). I think a large majority of his supporters got conned. When you look at it, he fueled the worst in everyone. He helped turn good people bad. I think we need to find love and be like watchdogs against his organization to protect the sanctity of the United States as a Democratic Republic.
Sorry, I don't want to sound like overly critic, but the final product has nothing to do with the Masashi Wakui photographs.

It's still an interesting Gimp tutorial though.
This is a great article. The biggest point here is unlike facebook, google and Amazon there is no chance to magically find billions of new users and scale up for Uber. So the chance of turning a profit can only happen with driverless cars, which is atleast a few years away. I did not realize they are desperate to get self driving cars. Wonder how long they can sustain if their self driving car project hits a snag.
Side project that I've been working on and off for the last... 6 years maybe. Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you, I'm definitely going back/forth between sticking with what I'm familiar with and learning something new (because that feels more fun?) hah
This is an absolutely wonderful series, one I find myself re-reading in their entirety every time a link is posted. I should set up a script to automatically book off an afternoon at work if I open one of the links at lunch.
I suspect it's an easy way to get something that won't sound completely dissonant, especially because you can use the same blues scale over multiple chords.
I think you may be mistaken about amounts of energy. Typical modern domestic-use light bulb (ccfl) are rated around 20 watts. 100 W was the typical maximum in incandescent light bulbs for domestic use, excluding some very bright halogen bulbs at around 200 W. 1000 W bulbs are mainly used in studio applications (as someone else mentioned) and for stage lighting.

On the subject of getting around the block: A kilogram of gasoline contains some 46 MJ of energy. Gasoline is a bit lighter than water, so one kilo is around 1.3 liters. 46 MJ is equal to, roughly, 13 KWh, so 4.5 KWh are around 300 grams, or around 400 ml. A Manhattan city block is around 80x280 Meters, for a circumference of roughly 720 Meters. An inefficient modern car might use 8 Liters per 100 Kilometers, so 400 ml (or roughly 4.5 KWh) will move an inefficient modern car by around 5 Kilometers.

In other words, it'll get you around the block. Not once, not twice, but slightly less than 7 times.
Do video games make us more cruel?
Yeah, nesting is a nightmare, but you can define your URL pattern any way you like instead of using the router.
This is a very strange comment. First, there is no indication that GP doesn't care about the other things you mention. But more importantly: why don't you care about Chinese government's censorship? Are you saying that the censorship is OK because multinational corporations doing something? How is it even related?

It may not be your intention, but you appear to be defending the practice of censorship and demanding others to share your disinterest in the matter. That won't work, not because google and fb tracking everything on the web is good, but because censorship is bad.

EDIT: I'd like to know what made my downvoters do their thing?
Plex is proprietary, right? No thanks, will stick with Kodi.
I read another comment on /r/machinelearning it's likely that this won't be for CUDA. They would have highlighted CUDA support instead of just showing OpenGL. Furthermore, they only showed Windows maybe Linux might not be available?
I just mentioned that in another comment, the fun of learning something new.
The dollar is only temporarily strong, because people think Trump will improve the economy. When that fails to happen it'll just drop again. Problem solved.
If they are billing customers in euros or dollars, the azure price stays the same - it's gone up because the pound has gone down.

UK wages in pounds will probably stay the same, so for an international customer the price of labor here will go down by 20%.

The losers are people here who are going to watch food and utilities prices increase much faster than their wages.
> then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck.

Between that was FEDEX-ing a NAS. That's pretty much the standard data-exchange format in astronomy, so you have a fast link and don't need to bother plugging a bunch of drives in, just plug the NAS to the power and network and off you go.
And Google. And Facebook.
Off topic, but the root site of this blog post is pretty awesome - "Pepper & Carrot: A free, libre and open-source webcomic supported directly by its patrons to change the comic book industry!"
Good timing for this product! With so many Macbook Pro users upset and looking for Linux (like myself), being able to find a laptop with excellent build quality will be really nice!
https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/bnd-inquiry.torrent is the torrent URL, magnet:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9047939638d2c5234e966367a2201291b57b5cbf&dn=bnd-inquiry&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzeroday.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969&ws=https%3A%2F%2Ffile.wikileaks.org%2Ffile%2F
The fact that there are still laws in place isn't that surprising, especially when you see the little colorful geographical map from NPR. It's another example backwards, forgotten laws that need to change.
The article does skip any analysis of the model with driverless tech.

I couldn't find much out there that breaks down what the cost difference would be. One article[1] suggests driverless would drop the cost from $3/mile to $1.20/mile.

I'm not clear on whether that's enough to counterbalance "Uber passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips"

I suspect it would require not just driverless, but also a fairly steep hike in what they charge. Especially to overcome X (5,10,20?) years of subsidies waiting on driverless to be viable...that's a pretty big hole.

[1]http://www.fuelsinstitute.org/News/AdditionalResources/2016/...
I did go through the entire process (3 tests in total, the first 2 were as he mentioned and the final test was a couple of coding questions - pretty basic stuff tbh)

However, I was disqualified for being out of the frame for less than a second (I grabbed a bottle of water and it was a bit further from my laptop)

I don't mind getting disqualified but I'd have appreciated either of the following:

1. mentioning that you should be in the frame at all times (this was not mentioned what so ever)

2. displaying the frame so you knew you were going out

Either one complements the other but there is no way to know what's being seen from the camera apart from the fact that it's recording (based on the camera light)

oh also, I think the author will have issues getting hired by Amazon again (when I took the test, they made me accept an agreement that basically stated that I could not share the questions with anyone - online or otherwise)
Thank you! Phoenix is definitely bouncing around over here and I'd heard about it before this Ask as well.
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Personally I suspect it was from earlier than that. I think you can trace it back to Nixon at least who fully severed the dollar from gold and thus removed the last bit of restraint that countries had against the US from inflating too much or too quickly.

But if you go back further why did that happen? All the great society programs of the 60s are what ran up the debt. The notion that we're so rich we can just government program ourselves out of very thorny problems by giving people money. I'm not necessarily saying that doesn't work or isn't good. But it does cost a lot.

Why did we think we could do that? The new deal maybe? I don't know. It didn't bankrupt the country and it did give people jobs.

You could probably keep going back further if you wanted. Presuming that you know the exact date and time that the fall was precipitated is fun but not intellectually honest. Everything tends to build off of things that came before until it all falls apart.
I did expect some response along those lines, but this is utterly ridiculous. They say it protects privacy and security and essentially getting access to all your internet activities. What happened to get a warrant if law enforcement need to start monitoring on some one?

I wonder what the debate would look like? It would probably be well rehearsed with all the appropriate dialogues which has the right amount of words "terrorists" and "pedophile" mixed with it and life made difficult to anyone who calls bullshit on these kind of intrusive laws.
Thank you! For a few hours there I couldn't believe I was the only one in the thread that understood this.
If it makes you feel any better, last week's issue of the economist was about how the future is bright for clean energy and the fight against climate change, even with Trump in the white house.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21710807-or-without-am...
Hah, some eternal truth right here.
The Tank Client will immediately publish to Tank (it doesn't buffer requests). You get at least once semantics /w Tank(exactly once pretty much means at least once but with dupes-detection).
Is there some reason Erlang had to be slow for single threaded things? Mixed language programming isn't desirable for many of us. I suspect Erlang could be fast, with just a few changes, but it never will be.
What about this proposal is in violation of your model of 'basic economics.'
No one is stopping Google from forking Linux, or using a different OS kernel.
"Musical sense" is a pretty subjective thing, which I suspect is one of the primary issues with artificial creativity.

That said, assuming training data comes from music with progressions that could be broadly classified as 'popular music,' you would expect to find some regression to the mean with more production and deeper training data. (to abuse a phrase)

One other issue that I think will come up is how insular and unevolving artificial creativity will be if it's based on present music for training data. What has historically moved creative trends is disruption; sometimes it's a slow burn and sometimes it's a few catalysts, but experimentation in artificial creativity will be hard to come by early on but quickly needed if it's to supplant human creativity.
That's silly. If they have your wife, your kids, your friends, your sister's cousin's aunt, they have you.
Are you sure this isn’t just the pantograph passing through the neutral section? They have these on long runs where the power is supplied from different sources (resulting in sync issues). There are circuit breakers at these points which on some trains makes a very loud ‘clunk’, which stops the train trying to draw current through . The other type of ‘clunk’ you get on some trains (although not the ones you are describing) is the pant going up/down on combined AC/DC lines.
I'm also curious. I'm using RasPlex (on an RPi3) as a client and it's working very well.
I don't quite understand that aversion to handling concentrated hydrogen peroxide.

Another opinion is here - http://yarchive.net/space/rocket/fuels/peroxide.html .
I'm one of the lucky 10,000 today :)
Multiple laser beams? That would scale.
Author here.

I've been working on a follow-up system called Alpenhorn that addresses the bootstrapping problem in Vuvuzela: https://vuvuzela.io/alpenhorn-extended.pdf

I will release Alpenhorn and a new version of Vuvuzela in January.
The first .NET recommendation! I was waiting for this one. :D
It was neither Thatcher nor Reagan. The answer has a lot to do with post WWII demographics, Asia's rise, and the ways in which liquidity and debt were added to the global economy without much thought given to how that liquidity and debt would be distributed and relieved. We will look back and marvel at the myopia of the global "boomers".
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Well even then - if i take my work-only laptop home it means i can reliably respond to issues on production. It's still a 9-5 job imo, because i have yet to have to respond to an issue, but an outage is an outage, and if i can't reliably work from home then i have to drive to the office. That adds considerable time to how quickly i can contribute.

I know that technically breaks the rule of "strictly 9-5", but i think nearly all jobs have people on explicit or implicit pager duty. Even if you don't have to do anything 12 months out of the year, it might happen, you might need to respond.

/shrug
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And imagine the inducements they must have offered MS to build a datacenter here.

UK.gov actually has a semi-inhouse cloud called Crown Hosting that might win new business from Azure. They don't offer the functionality needed to produce an infrastructure that adapts to load but that doesn't matter - gov clients don't really get cloud and typically want static computer systems duplicating an on prem infrastructure without the support costs.
I am a Swede and I kind of disagree with what you are saying. Maybe creating a company was considered "dirty" in the 80s but nowadays it is completely reversed.

I don't believe anyone is skeptical of anyone creating a business, in fact I think most people would be very positive towards it.

Also, I like Uber and have used it several times when in Stockholm. Altough, more often than not it's a normal taxi that picks you up. Why I like Uber is simply because of the app and that it is so much better than any competition.

Plus, I hope that soon I will get picked up by a robot driver and want to contribute to that happening asap.
I would use any taxi company that charged me the price up front, paid through the app, calculated based on distance from source to destination and some heuristics about time-of-day, time-of-year, etc.

The driver would be incentivized to get you to your destination quickly and there wouldn't be that awkward tension about whether the guy is taking the best route, driving too slow or whatever.

Even if they occasionally lost money because of freak traffic conditions, I'll bet they would win over a lot of customers.
I'm not sure that I would consider providing a fallback local copy of a library as going out of my way.
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Wow, I remember pulling a couple of these apart in third grade or thereabouts. Trying to figure out if some of the contents belonged to a fieldmouse or a vole or a chipmunk.
Only temporarily. I'm interning on the Go team, but still working on Vuvuzela and Alpenhorn in my spare time.
I keep thinking this will stop because there's a human limit to what we can generate.

But then I install another 60 GB game and realize not any time soon...
Feynman discusses computer heuristics
This guy got downvoted, but this is true for various legal reasons, especially with likely regulatory changes due to brexit.
some private taxi drivers will prey on tourists by overpricing their services by 3x and waiting at airports. Since their rip-off prices are displayed right there in the window, it's fully legal. Tourists don't know the typical price of a taxi, and fresh off an airplane are not sure what the local currency rate is (Sweden isn't on the Euro), and hence get ripped off.

Typically this should lead to more competition there. Is something preventing that? Taxi thug groups (i.e. cartels), lack of space, ..?

If the price and product are clear, and if there's opportunity for competition, well.. I don't want to sound too libertarian, but, you know... :)