skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a rage item for me.

Not only did you get "paid" in Tickemaster scrip, but redeeming it is some onerous process that requires all sorts of nonsense. After that, much of the supposed payment is limited to a tiny list of shows and venues. Last time I checked (October), the closest show was a punk band playing in Maryland. (I live in NY)
I was a recipient of those vouchers, they were only good for a certain subset of shows and then they didn't work when I tried using them.

That said, I never felt baited and switched by TM, the fees are ridiculous but they've always been right there in front of you when you buy the tickets. It was a shock the first time but hundreds of shows later you just kind of accept it. In any case the market drives the show prices for the most part.
Thanks for the explanation. I can see it is understandable, but you see it's not obvious?

If I'm at a store and I see a i7-6700 and a i7-7300 which one is better? a i7-6735 or a i7-6720A? It doesn't make any sense for the general public.

Intel used to have one segment, then two segments: the Celeron and Pentium. Then it went for the Core 2, and then other lines

Especially today, that clock speeds are pretty much immaterial, they could take all those models and turn it into only a couple.
VBA (Visual Basic for Application).

Can't seem to ever lose it. Financial Institutions -- think Hedge Funds, Banks, Brokerages) -- are still drowning in bloated complex Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with 1000s of lines of hard-to-maintain-and-source-control VBA code.
Counter point; I have 3 RPis (an original B, a B+, and a 2) and in 4 years have never had any data corruption. I use the 2 every day running OSMC as my media center and the B+ sees very frequent use in a variety of projects.
Yes but the later models can be clocked even higher. That's one of the benefits of a smaller lithography node - faster transistor switching times.
I don't think that necessarily follows. People deciding to make a new system with different security would factor that into the cost of the system. It's just as likely to result in fewer systems due to increased cost.
There are plenty of benefits to desktop over laptops that go beyond the CPU.

From the article:

> Elsewhere, there are the usual array of Asus enhancements, including its excellent 2X2 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac MU-MIMO Wi-Fi, SupremeFX Audio S1220 solution (featuring a ESS Hi-Fi Sabre DAC), Intel I219-V Gigabit Ethernet chip, dual M.2 SSD slots, and enthusiast-friendly features like dedicated water pump headers, PMW/DC support across all five fan headers, and SLI support

Having a top of the line wifi card, a sound card with a DAC, and dual M.2 SSD ports, tons of cheap ram, etc, etc. Not to mention the video card potential.

The only thing that makes these less appealing is those recent thunderbolt boxes for external video cards that also act as docks with DACs and USB-c ports.
I'm more excited about the possibility of creation in VR: sculpting and CAD. Tested had a pretty good demo and discussion recently about how it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf8sKAuzR0k
But user agents already identify the browser, right?

I agree that implementing this first in Tor is probably not a good idea, but if Firefox were to do it first, then I don't see the problem. "They're a Firefox user" isn't nearly as specific information.
Rust actually uses algebraic data types. This allows for relatively easy and reliable type inference.

But ADTs do not support inheritance, so Rust uses Traits instead (comparable to interfaces or typeclasses), that support inheritance of sorts, but without the usual perils of class-based inheritance, like the diamond problem.
That includes one line per architecture / platform (i.e. OS) combination. I only count about 14 architectures, though my rustc is old (GCC has 23 major, 24 minor, and 30 legacy as a point of comparison).

Last I checked, some of the popular IOT architectures (atmega, etc) were not included without some 3rd party plugins.
"3D" has nothing to do with VR. Period.

In fact, 3d is nothing but a marketing scam, it is not really 3d, but a fixed stereoscopic view. When I tested the "3D" on a TV, it was clear that it was going nowhere.

Why? Because "3d" does not update your view depending on the movement and rotation of your head. As simple as that.

VR has been used successfully in the world for decades in CAD, simulation, the different armies, and they spent tens of thousands of dollars that used to cost the device for a reason.

For example, the NASA uses it to train astronauts to move in the space station, the army uses it for training pilots or soldiers to navigate using the stars. Engineers use it to collaborate on designs, like a plane or a car.
I posted your site on reddit, someone is complaining that many patents are renewed and potentially not listed on your site.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5lta71/patentse...

If you can do something about it it's cool otherwise well, still not bad.
Yes, your metabolism declines as you age. It's not that 18-year-olds can eat whatever they want and not gain weight, it's that 18 is the age where most people settle into eating habits based on their equilibrium at that time. As their daily expenditure slows by roughly 150 calories per decade, they don't adjust their eating habits and slowly gain weight.
And like taxis, they operate in a space where creating legal competitors is incredibly difficult. They just get their legal barriers at one remove - you can't get zoned for new venues, and so by getting venue lock-in they avoid competition.

There are a few groups like SoFar Sound doing the Uber thing of creating safe-but-quasi-legal competition, but it's not a simple task.
Yeah they've been disgraceful to deal with for me too. They once double-booked seats I was in and I was given the option of being seated elsewhere or leaving with a refund. I opted to be seated elsewhere, but the venue took so long to do it I missed the first few songs and ended up seated where the show wasn't even visible. I was then refused a refund because it was too late to choose that option, and the venue insisted it was Ticketmasters fault, and Ticketmaster I had missed my chance for any compensation by entering the stadium to see my other seats.

I eventually only got an offer of credit for Ticketmaster, so I just informed my credit card company that they had not delivered what I had paid for and did a charge-back. Only remotely satisfactory outcome after spending hours on the phone with them. Not even an apology - just constant passing the buck.
Isn't transporting all the water likely to cost more than distilling it on site?
For my 30th bday, some friends and I walked around the perimeter of Manhattan. It took just over 20 hours, but that's mostly because we stopped several at bars along the way.
What would be fair is an auction. Then the price would be more representative of the market value.

The reason those tickets all sell out in 30 seconds is that they are too cheap.
And if it was diesel, they can make their own fuel eventually too. "Early experimenters on vegetable oil fuels included the French government and Dr. Diesel himself, who envisioned that pure vegetable oils could power early diesel engines for agriculture in remote areas of the world, where petroleum was not available at the time."
Also--do you have a way to search more than one tag at a time? If you don't currently, is that something you might consider?
TM uses venue lock-in to prevent this. Multiple artists have tried, but they quickly have to choose between dealing with TM and abandoning fans in smaller cities that only have a few venues available, all of which are TM-contracted.
While universal genetic sampling probably isn't on the books in the near future, there's an obvious risk of mission creep with samples already collected for another purpose.

Here in Norway we've got an ongoing case in which the police (in Bergen, the same precinct which got the Isdalen case in the parent article in their laps) collected DNA samples from any male who volunteered to provide one to be checked out of a rape case. (They used cell phone position data to determine who had been in the immediate area around the time of the rape).

Anyone who provided a sample were assured that the sample would be destroyed once they were checked out - as would any data derived from it.

Guess what. The samples still exist, the unexpected twist being that the police wants to destroy them to keep up the populace's trust.

The national archives are the ones trying to preserve the samples on the grounds that they are, by law, material which fall under the authority of the national archives.

If the samples are in the end preserved, guess what:

a) Noone will ever volunteer DNA ever again, and:

b) Someone will at some point cross-reference the samples against other unsolved crimes, just in case.
I think it would be easy to DDOS the proposed system and yes, I think that would be bad. Feel free to explain why either that would not happen or why it would not be bad.
Better yet, get them a big stack of these:

https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/expedition

They are pocket sized, "plastic paper" water and dirt proof field notebooks. And a stack of pencils to go with them.

Because really, someone running a two-acre farm in some developing country has enough time to make manual adjustments to the irrigation system, manual notes of minutiae etc. They will be manually going through the fields to pick weeds, inspect crops etc. anyway.
I assume the functional language you used was a Lisp or something not statically typed?
I actually want to explore patents whose protection expires in the time I need to implement them.

Perhaps 6 months would be a good compromise.
Agreed. I go to small gigs with max 200 people. I don't miss the overpriced crap beer, half a kilometre from the stage. I like the fact you can talk to the band after.
Bands are in a fluid negotiation with both Ticketmaster and the venue for how much of the proceeds of their shows they get. It's different for different bands; you can't look at any breakdown of Ticketmaster's fees or the ticket price and know what it is. Moreover, to whatever extent the bands themselves aren't getting fee income, the venue sure does; the venues might have more market power than Ticketmaster does. The split between the venue and the artist is one of the oldest business negotiations in entertainment. Why are we alarmed about it now?
Thank you so much for smooch! I would highly recommend smooch.io for anyone looking to handle conversations on multiple platforms. The implementation with Facebook Pages is brilliant.
10min from the beach. Great schools. If not here, somewhere in the mountains.
I've repeatedly experienced this frustration when trying to buy tickets to see big bands. It's impossible to buy a ticket for a major band these days, I just stick to small bands at local venues now.
This is spot on. A KPI is not a number, but rather a number, a direction, and a target.

Also, gauges are almost always a terrible visual indicator. Even car dashboards are starting to understand this. Fuel gauges are good, speedometers are not.
> In 2002, there were 665 million internet users, now there are 3.4 billion and growing

A significant part of that 3.4 billion are on mobile, which is even deeper prone to the overused JS problem.

> terrible standards implementations

Ah, you mean IE6. In it's prime time, it was a brilliant browser, standards or not; it was a necessary evil to forcefully move things ahead. It has XHR, webfonts, a gazillion things none of the browsers had yet. It indeed stuck around for too long, but this was not the case in it's initial state.

> lack of processing power

https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastes... -> Read the paragraph "#2 Do mobile first. Like, really do it."
We do lack processing power on mobile, so for that 2-3billion people, who are using mobile _only_ or mobile first, we need economical solutions.

> why not take advantage of the device requesting the service?

Because you can't assume the device is powerful enough to do so.
Why do you think https://mbasic.facebook.com still exists?

> Set aside the 5 second delay user experience annoyance

You go against one of the initial hard rules of the web with that. I wonder if is the importance of speed had changed, but judging by the grouchy voices all around, it did not. People only keep using the services because they deliberately made it hard to leave or because they learned tactics from Microsoft and are constantly eliminating competitors.

> and realize that as a business there is no way to scale your services profitably without offloading as much work as possible to the web client.

Now, this is complete nonsense; there is no money you save there. How is generating all those React apps, shuffling all that data is better then generating HTML? :)

Of course, there are exceptions, there are always exceptions, but most of the things would not need mammoth sized invisible JSONs to be parsed in the browser while the pre-rendered HTML could be served and manipulated only when needed.
I could see their idea of a parts kit working better for specific tasks than for "farming in general".

In my limited experience with mushrooms I almost instantly went from too much wood and sawdust to know what to do with to the opposite. Even in the field of mushrooms there are the wood varieties and the animal waste compost varieties. And I suppose the psychedelic varieties. I grew my own shiitake with some modest success. The people who burn their scrap woodworking wood are on to something in that a fire turns scrap into heat with 100% success which is a much higher success rate than I experienced with mushrooms.

Surely a veg garden kit would look wildly different than a grain farm kit. Ditto orchards and berries. Then you get into cash crops, I can't live off peppers directly but I can certainly grow a lot of them, and I can trade.

There is an aspect of specialization that I've fooled around with most of the above or have a family member who did, but my green thumb is container-style-garden pepper production and given a marginally functional economic system I'd be better off maxing out my pepper production, selling almost all of it, and buying a nice balanced diet, than trying to grow my own "everything".

In a grid-up normalcy situation my mint production is economically worthless, but in grid-down crash situation I suspect my mint would be quite valuable for flavoring. Grid down in USA is unlikely but has Ethiopia been grid up at any time since the 60s? Perhaps now? If so good, for them. But the point remains that not all of the world is booted up in the world economy and for areas that are not, some weird stuff like sunflower oil probably would sell pretty well until the world economy boots up again in that country. It might not matter if you can't get a shipping crate delivered intact to a down-grid situation country.
Emacs Lisp. In the past year, I finally switched from vim + a boatload of custom .vimrc stuff using tmux for running random repls to Spacemacs. For both contributing to Spacemacs as well as the few customizations I want, emacs lisp is a welcome departure from my usual vimL. At this point, I can't imagine not talking to my editing environment as part of my daily workflow.
it's a testament to you weak cowards and your inability to properly wield weapons and rise up against your oppressors in blood.

you're all idiots.
Oh but it was -- a great opportunity for the recruiter to make a few mortgage payments, that is.
I think the main issue is not having a different way to buy tickets, but actually signing deals with bands/venues to sell them. There have been many companies that have tried to compete against them, and typically they only get bands that want to move away from TM (Pearl Jam).
White collar workers being replaced by AI
In France we have Legifrance, which is government run, and give you access to every France law, code, etc, and let you see modifications over times and where the article is cited (the "links").

Eg. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do;jsession...

It's probably made simpler by the fact that we are not a federation with law making bodies everywhere...
Hey, first off: chillllll out. Choose your battles carefully. Ticketmaster is not a great company, but it's become a lot better than it used to be. Truth!

Anyhow, you need to be aware that venues absolutely will charge a venue fee. Even purchasing tickets at my local club in Toronto from the front bar there is a 10% markup or $1 minimum, whatever is greater.

You don't have to get tickets printed and mailed to you for $2.25. It's 2017 and virtual tickets work very well. In fact, they have advantages like being able to electronically transfer them to your friends in a way they can verify. That is better in every way except that you don't get a stub for your collection.

Anyhow, your post is a sign that their business model is working: you think that TM exists to sell you tickets, but their actual and entire business model is to provide a layer of abstraction over the venues+radio+promoters so that they absorb all of your bad vibes. It's literally the only thing that they add, and they do it really well.
I was going to say, I am 30 and have been an avid FPS PC master race gamer since I was 16 and in college, and since I have had the HTC Vive, its been only to play with friends I miss that I do any traditional gaming. Other than that, I am either working on my VR game, or playing/testing something in VR.

This is going to change everything from music production and video editing, to gaming and entertainment.
Embedding and delegating don't deal very well with virtual dispatch afaik. Declaring different implementations for arbitrary sub-classes seems harder and less elegant without inheritance.
No. Your point is?
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Explained in Layman Terms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

For a city that was "intended to not be dense from the start", it sure is up there as far as density and would be #16 on the list if it counted as a part of a state.

DC is incredibly dense by American standards and is actually one of the very few places in the US that you can get by without a car (which is, of course, priced into exorbitant rents and property prices)

I guess what I meant to say is that the grandparent comment is blatantly false. DC _is_ a high density city and is much more like a European city in that it combines decent public transport and medium-rise developments.
In addition to squiguy7's point, I'd add that A: it may not be clear if this is your only contact with ntpsec.org [1], but this is actually a fork of the classic ntp, so they may be more willing to abandon some older architectures to produce a more secure product going forward than the core NTP project would and B: the older versions will still be around even so.

Also, it has been suggested by some experiences that older architectures often end up getting supported past when they really should be stopped out of sheer inertia, though I'm not having luck digging up the articles that prompt me to say this. Are there that many systems out there running ntp that can't run Go and/or Rust, and if there are, are there enough to be worth bending the project around? If the people running those things care, perhaps they should fork the project and maintain it themselves. Which is less harsh than it may sound, because they can still pull from upstream, and they probably just need to tread water rather than stay up with the latest & greatest.

(I should emphasize that the operative question is are there enough to be worth bending the project around, rather than whether there are any. Because there certainly are non-zero numbers of systems running ntpd that can't run Rust or Go. But who's going to pay to maintain them? Especially if classic ntp is still available?)

[1]: https://www.ntpsec.org/
I worked on a project to create affordable, electric vegetable graters for rural farmers in Ghana [1]. For comparison, the price point of our grater was $150USD and was still seen as too expensive by a substantial portion of our customers, some of whom opted to purchase the graters on an installment basis (3 x $50 every 6 months as our group traveled to Ghana bi-annually).

The main problems our rural customers faced were much more basic in nature and cannot be solved by a $60k farming kit: uncontrollable and sometimes devastating wet/dry seasonal cycles that could decimate an entire crop, making financial planning very difficult. Subsequently many of our customers lived day-to-day off whatever they sold their produce for at the market, making securing loans/financing to invest in capital (more land, equipment, livestock) impossible.

At one of the farms we visited, I noticed a half-built brick house next to the main family house. The farm owner explained that they were building a second home, but that they had to do it literally "brick-by-brick", purchasing a few bricks with extra income when they could afford to buy them. He explained this investment in bricks was their form of saving for the future: the small amounts of extra money would get spent otherwise on food or other necessities rather than put into a bank account or stashed under a mattress.

Other basic problems included a relatively high marginal cost of transporting goods to market and little access to market price data. No agricultural education info. Communal access to heavy farming machinery (graters, plows, etc.) with no accountability for these devices (they end up breaking and nobody wants to pay to fix them). Unreliable electric grid, and no chance the cellular service would be reliable/affordable enough to get an IoT system up and running on a small farm, even if the farmers did have time left over after planting, harvesting, and processing their crops, and looking after their families. Everything is harder and more manual when you lack scale, and you can't order a replacement solar panel/battery/raspberry pi off amazon.

Since the goal of our project was to get the grater into the hands of as many cassava-grating women as possible, at marginally-above-cost, we decided to sell into restaurants and explore other cash-rich markets to cross-subsidize sales to small acreage farmers. We also wanted to sell direct, or close-to-direct (at least in the beginning) to build a relationship with our customers, get to know them, get feedback on the products, and spread news of the product thru word of mouth.

That said, maybe we should have looked to sell our graters to governments/NGOs so we could have scaled up faster.

[1] http://www.olin.edu/academics/experience/engineering-capston...
I'm with you on that one. The current patterns of human consumption are too slow to change in the face of the type of climate change we are looking at. Even simple things like the obscene volume of packaging used for marketing and antitheft measures speak against real reform occurring soon.
Is there some general Business Networking group local to you? Perhaps BNI: https://www.bnifrance.fr/

I spoke to someone who says this is a great way to find small companies who need IT services though I would take care to avoid coming off like someone who just wants to take from the group and not give back.

I have no personal experience with this, but maybe someone else here does?
Why are speedometers not good? Speed is analog, seems appropriate to display it in analog. And you can tell at a glance if speed is increasing or decreasing by the direction the dial/indicator is moving.
Re: the time ticker. Is that true, because if you let that timer expire, you are indeed kicked back to the "Select Tickets" page and have to browse again.
Huh. Work firewall won't let me access. I'm assuming that the problem is the domain: "patent sex piringtoday.com".