skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a blatant lie. RBI allows you (a.k.a NRIs only) to deposit this money till 31st of March 2017 in it's branches.

Previously, we could simply exchange Indian currency to any other currency abroad. But now there is no way for us to exchange money in US.

My whole family will have to go to India to exchange money, one person can only carry a maximum of Rs. 25,000. So six members of my family would have to take time off from work and go to India to exchange 1.5 lakh Rupees. Moreover, it would cost us around Rs. 6 lakhs to make a trip to India.

> This rule was made to ensure that if/when you return to India you have enough INR for lodging/transportation/flight expenses etc. You don't need INR to transact outside India anyways so this whole thing of having a "significant amount of Indian currency in US" is suspicious to me.

We have a big family in US, and almost everyone have 20-25k INR for travel expenses. That makes a total of 1.5L in my household. All my NRI friends and relatives are suffering this loss.

> I would have believed this story if it wasn't prefixed with your excuse to not be able to deposit your INR stash just because you are an NRI. This whole thing sounds really fishy to me.

I just busted your propaganda of NRI's allowed to exchange money, but you ignore the fact that you would have to travel to India and spend over 1 lakh per person to exchange money.

Clearly, you have neither have experience exchanging money has a NRI nor running a local cash business. Yet, you accuse others of lying. From your post history, you sound like a BJP propagandist.
Thanks for reply. I like your idea of spacemacs. and what do you think of SpaceVim
I was thinking more of the android ones, gmail, google+, google maps, play music, play movies, play books, play newsstand, play games, google drive, youtube, hangouts, calendar, google docs.

All installed and unremoveable on my phone even though mail and maps are the only ones I use.
Reading is entirely different for the deaf and is far inferior when compared to seeing something signed. Take a look at https://www.jw.org/ase for an example of how a website can be tailored for the sign language community.
I'd prefer that they adopt a sane and reasonable growth strategy that doesn't depend on pump-and-crash cycles. There's a certain pernicious idea in business in general and in startups particularly that your worth is in large part how many people are working for you (I've heard multiple people answer "hey, how are things going" with "we just hired five people!" and my blood runs cold) rather than the efficacy with which you are achieving your goals.

(I'm a little less sympathetic in the case of engineers, who are an in-demand resource and so their opportunity costs are less, but the opportunity cost of your support people is higher and the recovery from the problems that that failed explosive growth phase cause is much worse.)
The highest level players play special variations against each other hoping that the other player doesn't know it. They CLEARLY play against what they think the other player knows, not what they know (since they have studied this variation on purpose to prepare)
Chromebooks are designed for everything to be in the cloud, always. If you're DOWNLOADING anything to the device, you're using it wrong.

When you buy a Chromebook, you're signing up for a cheap, lightweight cloud access device. That's why they (used to?) come bundled with 1TB of Google Drive storage.
Google has huge incentives to get this into everyone's home.
That third link is fascinating - not just for he insights into how Chinese censors indirectly guide producers, but also for the lack of ironic detachment and self-awareness shown by the American analysts, eg

Red Dawn, a remake of a 1980s action movie about a Soviet invasion of the United States, was originally shot
featuring China as the antagonist invading the United States. According to Mr. Shiao, however, the Chinese are
“not interested in their country being perceived as a violent military threat to the lives of average Americans.”

and

A 'Captain Phillips' executive identified the tone of the film as a source of discomfort for censors, particularly
“the big Military machine of the U.S. saving one U.S. citizen. China would never do the same and in no way would
want to promote this idea.”

While I think censorship an unwise and ultimately self-defeating policy, and also agree with the basic premise that a good many of the rules are just dressed up protectionism, I can't really blame China for declining to import overt propaganda. China makes lots of propagandistic films, but the propaganda is mainly about what China should be like. It'll be some time before they produce an overtly anti-American film like Brother 2 or Valley of the Wolves (as opposed to striaght-up propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8lSjcoSW8) and I doubt whether it would be well-received here if they did.
Except a movie could be totally subversive of the American government (the CIA or military is the bad guy, a national/state/local government is corrupt, etc...) and the movie could still go into wide production and make millions of dollars. Heck, it even is super easy to find examples of that (you want to know the truth? You can't handle the truth!).

Now try doing that in China. Make the PLA the enemy or portray a corrupt out of control official in Chongqing like Bo Xilai. Not allowed, because it is way too close to the truth for comfort, maybe.
We hope to implement optimizations like you're describing eventually. But the core functionality needs a lot of work before we start down that path.
For what it's worth, FreeCodeCamp.com has 1/3 the page views that Medium has, with only 3 full time staff. https://www.similarweb.com/website/freecodecamp.com?competit...

I love Medium and I hope it succeeds. It sounds like their headcount was substantially higher than it needed to be and that this layoff was the right move.

I wish Ev had mentioned all the additional facts that are in this article by one of Medium's investors: https://500ish.com/long-medium-b9ddfe2c3a0a#.ch2benant
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall
> you want to be writing Python2 syntax because that's where all the action is.

> This is Python3 as most of us wanted it to be.

> Valid Python2 is Grumpy already.

> It compiles existing Python2 AND offers a legitimate upgrade from CPython at the same time.

> As far as all of the lost C extensions? You won't need them

None of the statements are true. You seem to be very confused what Grumpy can and can't do, and what the need of actual Python developers are.

The only benefit of Grumpy is speed (I don't think go "interop" counts). Now, that's a pretty big benefit for some, but comes with significant drawbacks and probably always will. Even though CPython is only the reference implementation, many clever people have worked to make it faster. Getting rid of the GIL is also very difficult. The easiest way to gain speed is to limit Python to a subset of features and then optimise for that. While this is a fair approach, hailing it as the future of Python is terribly misguided.
As a proponent of this kind of program, I totally agree that $20k is much higher than we could presently afford. The numbers look substantially more practical at 1/2 or 1/3 that, despite replacing less.
The arguing will continue for years after Python 2 is legitimately dead, but the shift has been happening and will continue to happen. Python3 is the future, and more and more new projects are being started with it, and more and more legacy 2.7 codebases are being moved to Python 3 or deprecated in favor of Python 3 replacements.
> what is required today is a sufficiently deep understanding of all those procedures, and the underlying concepts they are built on

This has always been the case for mathematicians. People that just learn how to do computations are called engineers.
If it fails, I'm sure Tesla will spin the failure as Panasonic.

It's a huge investment. If it "fails", Tesla won't exist to do much spinning.
I'm always very happy to hear of companies using Rust.

I'm especially happy to see that they're using clippy. It's not a core piece of their infra like hyper, but it's still being used, which is nice.

How has it helped? Does it just keep the code clean or has it found mistakes and stuff like that too?

Loved the diagram, btw.
> i think they want the users to keep everything in the cloud and use storage as cache.

That used to be the case but now you're installing Android apps - which are often fairly hefty.
Right. And it is a gateway to future Google services. Car hailing, flight booking, etc.
[FREE] WordPress and Bulma.io what do you think?
A lot of the money held me the wealthy isn't competing with me for potatoes. I could be wrong but if ever single person had 1,000$ more, wouldn't the price of basic goods go up to accommodate?
How to Partition a Billion-Node Graph [pdf]
> Useless is a pretty relative term.

Definitely true. One member of my household has similar needs that you've outlined: somewhere to write, email, Netflix, web browsing, Youtube playing in the background.

I do all of those things sometimes, but also expect access to a few games, Amazon streaming, for anything that can work offline to work offline, and some kind of a development environment that supports whichever set of languages I'm tinkering with at the time.

It's easy for me to dismiss ChromeOS and similar systems because they don't do what I want, and easy to forget that other users honestly don't have the same requirements that I do.
What do you mean by constantly paged?
I split the difference and setup a custom domain for my Medium blog. I own the content URLs. If Medium dies then I'll pick a new blog format and new web host. It won't be the first time and it won't be the last I'll have to make such a change.
This is great, I've actually never seen the steps to compiling WASM laid out before.

What all does the Emscripten SDK provide?
It is hard to bootstrap a new O/S ecosystem.

Check out Google's Fuschia for an alternative
Say goodbye to Google: 14 alternative search engines is 3rd :)
Because that's how they're known, search engine is the colloquial term for them. It just seems disingenuous to call them that when their version of "search engine" is space-age while everyone else is palaeolithic era.

I thought it would spark an interesting discussion...
Sure, but it seems excessive to blame them twice ;)
Looks interesting. The Samsung seems to have some plusses and minuses. I suspect I'll be getting one or the other over the next few months.
I was thinking he has a lot of years before he'd be eligible to be president (has to be at least 35), but he'll be 36 in May 2020.

Not that Trump will still be president at that time... (Just like everyone said he won't win the primary, etc, etc)
beautiful poem, thanks for the pointer!
Those aren't mutually exclusive - Medium overhired but it is sad for the people who didn't make that decision but lost their job because of it.
The specific one I borrowed was from an American company called ZERO Halliburton[1]. They are very pricey and I'm currently looking to buy a used one since they seem to last a really long time. There are other companies selling these types of suitcases as well.

Like you I usually try and travel with only a backpack or large duffel as to keep my hands free but I had to pack too much stuff to make that possible this trip.

[1]http://zerohalliburton.com/
That would have helped a lot :).
"I was comparing "now" with medieval era..."

In that case you should compare properly:

English kept their children at home "till the age of seven or nine at the utmost" but then "put them out, both males and females, to hard service in the houses of other people, binding them generally for another seven or nine years"... most parents waved goodbye to them at about 14... Illiterate servants had no means of communicating with their parents, and the difficulties of travel meant that even if children were only sent 20 miles (32 km) away they could feel completely isolated... adolescents were a useful source of cheap labour for their masters. In 1350, the Black Death had reduced Europe's population by roughly half, so hired labour was expensive.[1]

Doesn't sound too awesome to me.

"In many countries, there are large amounts of fatherless children, for example black children in US was about 73% of them being fatherless."

And in Iceland over 70% of children are born to single parents[2]. I'm not sure what your point is - this isn't necessarily bad unless you are making a value judgement here?

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26289459

[2] https://www.fatherly.com/parenting-and-relationships/why-ice...
Can I email you instead of posting publicly?
Tweaking DynamoDB Tables for Fun and Profit
I thnk it makes sense - probably not many people are linking to Google wth the anchor text "search engine". Or rather, they would be more likely to do so with ant other search engine.
Anti-trust probably...Google doesn't want to be seen as a monopoly even though it has a monopoly on search. One less lawsuit. No ads at the top also. Since the user is looking for a search engine on Google, it could mean they're looking for an alternative to Google.
this is a strange acquisition, or majority ownership purchase, does dji use hasselblad lenses for their drones? i have the phantom 4, my guess is no. perhaps that's what will change, though it seems hasselblad is in the business primarily of making standalone bodies and lenses, it seems a bit orthogonal to dji's current business.
I would suggest starting off by reading the first few chapters of the official elisp manual https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html and experimenting as you go along.
-Last but not least, we are hiring summer interns for 2017 (SF): http://grnh.se/a4052y
I'll vote for "contextual ad engine". I suspect the r&d dollars are mostly spent there now that there's little incentive to improve the organic results.

My definition of ad is broader than Google's though. I would include all their various widgets that are displacing organic search.
TBH it's getting a bit much at this point. The rust advocates here (not sure if they're paid or just fanboys) really need to tone it down. The hyperbole, and the constant "rust solves this unrelated problem, and has no flaws!" is beginning to grate.

I've coded in it a bit and it seems like cool language, they get a lot right and have some new and interesting ideas. But it's not a panacea (or indeed "salvation" as one recent blog post put it) for everything wrong in software. We don't need to all immediately re-write everything we do rust. Not everything new needs to be written in rust. And your re-writes of programs that have already been written in other languages and work well aren't that compelling.

If you like rust, then write some new, interesting and useful software in the language, where what language it's written in isn't the main selling point. For example, I love the look of this http://nickel.rs/.

TL;DR - the corrosive nature of rust advocates on HN is starting to eat away at my patience, and I am tired of having to galvanize against them and their absurd claims.
before I started I am using Siri to type that stop it Siri…

Well I agree… I don't like having to say OK Google turn the light on… Or OK Google… Or everything… It does not feel conversational. But there needs to be a command otherwise the AI speaker will be doing thing every time I hear something… Maybe we can change the name that would be good
The article said "check it out at bestbuy" and the picture was this http://pisces.bbystatic.com//image2/BestBuy_US/images/produc...

Edit: I guess a lot of these convertible laptops do the upside down text thing. I honestly didn't notice before

https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lvGTn7xm3L_JOBhgUCMl3IYNM9A...

https://static.bhphoto.com/images/multiple_images/images500x...
This article is at least 3 years too late to be unique. I suggest anyone who feels the same way should switch to using the broadcast platform of the huge media platform they work for to opine to their many followers-- oh wait...

Promoting censorship is dangerous. Twitter is an option-- NOT a requirement. This is easily the 10th nearly identical article some arrogant reporter has written about their choice not to use a social media service.
Medium still has years of runway...
Speculation only, but this might be as much to prevent user confusion as for any other reason. Lots of people, especially lots of people who need to research the term "search engine", don't understand the difference between Google and an empty address bar. (That is, they haven't learned about addresses.) If they click a link and just go back to the same page, they'll be confused and frustrated.
> to a real language spec, compare to ISO C++.

No thanks. Written specs can always have interesting implications or undefined behaviour. Just because it's written in a more verbose language (English) doesn't mean it's less vague.

E.g. GGC is the de facto C spec for many. Code/platforms as spec makes more sense and is easier to maintain/update, with quicker iterations of language features (c.f. Ruby/Python to C++).
There's still a lot of room for improvement in distributed filesystems - existing distributed filesystems are nowhere near as capable as they ought to be and it's going to require new more or less clean sheet architecture(s) before we get there. There's a lot of hard problems that still haven't had really adequate solutions implemented in production code.

Hell, even network filesystems (non distributed) aren't where they should be.

To illustrate: there is no fundamental reason why a distributed filesystem shouldn't, in practice, perform more or less equivalently to a network, non distributed filesystem. That's not the case today; existing distributed filesystems have slowpaths - generally, things involving metadata and anything that requires coordinating servers - where they're drastically slower than say existing NFS or 9p implementations, and these aren't obscure corner cases, these are things real applications hit.

Reasoning from first principles, we know that:
- It's not going to be possible to create a distributed filesystem that doesn't have these slowpaths, it's probably always going to be possible to create an evil/pathalogical workload that requires lots of cross server synchronization, but:
- Most real world applications don't behave so badly. Imagine you just want a single filesystem that has a crapton of home directories, and you want to throw it all on a distributed filesystem instead of giant Netapp filers or whatever. We should be able to do that, and have it perform just as well (to with epsilon) as using NFS and explicit sharding. We can't really do that today.

In my opinion, we don't really have an architecture implemented today that's capable of solving these problems - that said, I'm not familiar with Ceph's architecture so I don't know how it tackles sharding. I have my own ideas about how it could be done (for awhile, I was working on something on top of the bcache/bcachefs codebase; I actually implemented working, fast distributed block storage, but not filesystem, and it didn't have nearly everything implemented that it would have needed to scale out horizontally very far). But I never got far enough into the filesystem aspect to really prove anything.

For network (non distributed) filesystems - again, those aren't as good as they ought to be either. But the problem there is much simpler - nobody's built anything to my knowledge that would let you really do cache coherency correctly: you can't do it by just using an existing local filesystem implementation and serving it over a new protocol, because you can't do cache invalidation correctly without storing fine grained versioning information that local filesystems don't need, and nobody's wanted to try grafting that onto existing local filesystems. A lot of the story of NFS is hacks to get around that problem.
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User-side filtration is fine, it's when you can't disable it that it become problematic. So not like China at all, in that rather crucial respect.
Even outside of that, I can override the bitrate in some instances. But yeah, I was mainly talking about the necessary replication, cache, and transcoding (and I actually forgot about the multiple codecs, which they also provide, in addition to multiple resolutions/bitrates)
See "Code: It's Trivial" https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/
Complex is being used in a different context here though. You are meaning complex as in strategic complexity. The parent (I think) is using it in terms of the games rules. Go is pretty simple in principle: place stones on the board one at a time, and remove enemy pieces completely surrounded by your own. But it's fairly complex to know what exactly constitutes being surrounded. Chess has 6 different kinds of pieces that have different movements, and different kinds of rules depending on the state, and promotion at the end, castling, and en passant. Checkers is a much simpler game because there's only 2 kinds of pieces, and 2 kinds of moves. Strategically, Chess isn't leaps and bounds more complex than Checkers since Carlsen has an Elo rating of 2800 in Chess, and Tinsley had an Elo rating of 2700 in Checkers and I believe it's the same deviation of 200.
Techincal Cofounder | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Tixit | Full Time or Half Time | Equity: 10-20% | REMOTE welcome

I'm Billy Tetrud, the Founder of Tixit. We're a small (8 person) team building a lightening fast extensible project management system that lets teams work on their terms. https://angel.co/tixit-1 We're looking for a 2nd technical cofounder to accellerate the development of our product, which will be released in beta this month. You'd be working with me (the other technical cofounder) in designing and implementing the core backend as well the web frontend. We value our test-driven development, clear internal and external documentation, and doing things right to build and maintain momentum. Our stack is node.js and mongodb. I'm happy to chat with you over the phone about what we're doing. Email me at billy@tixit.me and mention you're from HN, I'd love to hear what you've been working on.

Thanks,
Billy Tetrud,
Founder at Tixit,
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If something (a commodity) has limited supply and there is non-zero demand => it has a value.

Demand for fiat currencies is at least generated by legal tender laws (you need it to pay taxes). Demand for bitcoin is at least generated by the need to publish some information in a global immutable distributed censorship-proof table. Those two sources of demand are the fundamental ones (I would say intrinsic). There definitely are more. Some demand is for example generated by "store of value" function or "medium of exchange" function. These functions emerge as secondary functions when a commodity is selected by market for its favourable properties.

So I would disagree that "bitcoin is not backed by anything". You might have written "I don't see the intrinsic value backing bitcoin" or "bitcoin is not backed by anything tangible". Those statements would be correct.
That was a typo. I meant pseudo. I don't actually know that there is any difference in this case. I made that statement hastily. It transpiles, nothing pseudo about it.
Your battery might be shot or it might not be really sleeping. Either way you can try changing it to hibernate instead of sleep using a command line utility (pmset I think). Not nearly as convenient but if your battery is dying that quickly convenience is probably secondary.
Hopefully the rise of Chromebook/Android hybrids will give Google and App developers more reason to make Android apps big screen friendly.

Interesting to see where this goes esp with the price point.