skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because in the long term you spend dramatically more money.

Doesn't matter if I don't have the cash on hand to afford to replace a dead AC unit in addition to having to make a mortgage payment that month. A fixed monthly rent payment is easier to budget for than having to worry about every unplanned maintenance emergency, even if the rent payment is larger over the course of decades.

I looked up my friend's post about his AC problems... he was looking at $3-6k when his compressor died ($6k for a new unit; if he can just replace the compressor, $2k for parts, another $1k for installation), and that was after his AC broke three times the previous year.

We live in Texas. Air conditioners break all the time because the massive heat we get in the summers (100°F for several weeks isn't uncommon) places a huge strain on the AC.

> You will constantly have to move when rent increases.

I've lived in the same place for a decade. My salary has risen with rent.

If I ever move, it'll be because I want a change, not because I'll be priced out of my current place.

> You will raise a family with children never having a single frame of reference for what "home" is or was.

See above. Also, I'm childfree (I've even chemically sterilized myself), so I'll have no children to raise in any kind of home. On top of that, I've seen homeowners who sell their home and move every few years because they keep taking jobs out of state.

> You are at the mercy of the market.

So are homeowners. Remember the subprime crisis a decade ago? Remember all the people who ended up with underwater mortgages because their property values fell? Can you imagine being stuck with owning a home that's worth significantly less than what you owe after you've lost your job and can't find a new job that pays enough to afford your mortgage payment?

> You own no land.

That's an awfully medieval way of thinking, and it doesn't apply to the modern world. You could say the same thing about people who own luxury condos in New York and San Francisco.

"You own no land" is just as relevant to me as "you own no cattle".

> A sub-commoner among commoners.

And that's just unsubstantive rhetoric.
> Internet infra in NYC is terrible

Optimum are decent. Or rather they were decent, until Altice bought them. Not sure how they fare now. They plan to upgrade their whole coax network to NG-PON2 fiber optics, but it can take a long time.
KIDNEY STONES if they contain the tea leaf. Now green and white teas have catechins which may help break down kidney stones but those are break down when exposed to oxygen or sunlight.
Perhaps instead of reinventing each tool that already does well in its own space, one could build a platform that allows users to link all these tools (if API is available) and customize with their own workflow and dashboard. I wonder if there's anything similar already existing yet? I feel in some big corps they may have developed their own proprietary homegrown tools for these.
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Rust's 2017 Roadmap
"slight loss of edge in the long run odds."

Tell me what casino you go to?
If you fly to Vegas, put it all on black at roulette, then yes you have 47% chance of doubling your money. But that's a very short vacation with little entertainment value.

The more independent small bets you make, the lower the chance that you will come out ahead.
That would fit the definition of 'freely licensed'
I miss waking up in the morning and checking the news and not seeing some story about how horrible the H-1B is and how I'm stealing an american job for a shitty wage.

Such a nice thing from a site that freaks out if you call someone illegal instead of undocumented. So much love for immigrants, except lets still shit on them because DEY TOOK R JOBS.
Yeah, sure, when you already know idiomatic Rust. The point is that many developers never even get close to understanding the borrow checker, let alone writing honest-to-goodness idiomatic Rust. This can be improved by showing them the unidiomatic stuff that they can use to suspend or shift guarantees.

Besides, unwrap() is also terrible in this regard but it's the single most used feature in tutorial code. You need to teach someone Rust before they can learn idiomatic Rust.
You reminded me of this article...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/the-man-w...
Seems like it may be better to link to the Google blog post on this?

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/02/whats-in-amp-url.h...
Sure, they're features. Some people like the features. I'm getting old and cranky. My thinking is that I have a program to index and play my music library...I don't need the desktop to know anything about my music, except which program to load when I click a music file. (I've been amazed at how awful this experience still is on Windows...every time you install an application, it'll seemingly try to take over as many file extensions as possible. Microsoft apps, in particular, are egregious about this practice.)
I had fifteen 60 watt bulbs in my basement lab/workshop on tracks and that's 900 watts. And in my living room I had two three hundred watt torchaire style halogen bulbs, that's 600 watts. I don't think my house was unusually bright.

My LED replacements are actually brighter in terms of lumens which is very nice, but only recently could I theoretically afford 1500 watts of LEDs. I mean there was an early adopter time not long ago when LED bulbs were like $30/watt. I think 1500 watts of modern LEDs would be quite the searchlight. An eighth of a million lumens seems within reach for one fifteen amp AC power cable. That's about a square meter of bright noontime sunlight, which isn't so bad.
>However, there has been some misunderstanding about how AMP works. One widely circulated blog post written back in October claimed Google was stealing traffic from publishers via its AMP pages.

I am really happy to see this change, as the author of said blog post :)

> But that wasn’t true. Google does display the AMP URL in the search results, which serves up the page content from Google’s cache, but the traffic remains the publisher’s, and the content is served from the publisher’s site.

So which one is it? Does it server content from Google cache or from publisher's site ;)

Link to the original blog post: https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-...
Agreed. One of the big problems in perception, I think, is the fact that, since a market economy can support a fairly substantial non-market fraction (socialized housing, roads, etc.) people imagine that you can just indefinitely extend the non-market system to encompass the whole economy. But you can't - and if you try, you end up not having enough of anything that you want. But it seems so simple, so people keep trying to do it.
Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
And that's how echo chambers of thought develop. Only listen to the sources of information that you wish to and disregard others without evaluating what they are providing.

Sorry, but Spolsky is normally extremely insightful and if you read the article, he makes many excellent points that are worth considering no matter which angle you're approaching the problem from.
Not really transactional. RethinkDB only has document-level atomicity, and even then, not all writes are guaranteed to be atomic.
Your reply is pretty far off base, IMO.

Creative Suite has evolved leaps and bounds since 1991. It has even evolved leaps and bounds in the last 10 years alone. It's strange to me that someone who really uses Adobe's products would say such a thing. Creative Suite is the only one in the game because it's SO good that there isn't a chance for a competitor to step in. They are also constantly adding new tools to the suite at no additional cost.

As for DAWs, I happen to produce music and have used most of the major DAWs over the last 15 years, though I've settled on Ableton Live. I have zero problems with VSTs crashing, and I often run projects with 50+ VSTs running simultaneously. Stolen VSTs can have stability issues, of course. Hardware dongles are also fairly rare. Only a handful of companies use them, and they aren't really a problem at all as long as you aren't in the habit of stealing software. They typically install in the USB port, not the parallel port. Parallel port dongles were used by Steinberg and were phased out long ago.

I'm curious - what DAWs in particular have you used, and which VSTs are you having problems with?
Actually I don't I don't know why you assume I do.
I never have processed anything. I cook my own food. And of the red meat I do have in my diet it's ~80% grass fed bison which is very high in CLA and the other ~20% is wild. Wild boar, elk, venison, dove, quail, pheasant, and turkey.

As well as 3000mg of wild sockeye salmon oil daily.
> Readers complain that ebooks cost too much, and then readers complain that publishers don't want to spend money on technical stuff.

To be clear, I'm complaining that the standard overcomplicated certain desirable feature to the point where publishers would have to spend money on technical stuff, when they shouldn't have to.

I fully get why publishers don't want to have to engage in fiddly, expensive bespoke development per-title.
So basically they just add a button on the already obnoxious banner on top of the page?

This article also claims that the speedup is partly due to loading the content in a hidden iframe on the search results page. So it's potentially using more data in order to be perceived faster?
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"The Masters in US is gamed too. Many of those students are the ones who could not clear the campus interviews of Infosys, Cognizant or Accenture when they were in the college for Bachelors. So they come to "study" MS in the US so that they can get into the H1B system easily."

I don't mind a bit of cynicism but this is absurd. Why the hell is "study" in scare quotes? It's a pretty standard thing for fresh graduates to better their chances for employment by getting higher degrees.

"As far as I know, the MS hires do not posses any special skills."

Maybe you should keep your speculations to things you do know.

I think you're being making the classic mistake of using your narrow experience range into making far larger proclamations based on speculations and innuendo. As an employer in silicon valley myself, I would definitely look upon a resume from a person with a Master's degree from US more closely than someone coming off of the infosys/wipro train. That is not to say that there's a clear yes or no either way but having an MS from a US university is at least one positive signal among other signals I'd look for in a resumé.
That is a surprisingly detailed and reasonable requirement for the most part. Some of those side channel attack resistant requirements are wishful thinking in some ways, but it is also probably obvious in general, if someone is say, performing DPA in the middle of your casino.
Interesting.

I only met FastCGI in PHP. All NodeJS apps I saw used HTTP.

Is there any benefit of doing it that way?

How does it work with WebSockets?
Try using scihub
I've always wondered whether a datastore built on an immutable architecture could be designed to cope with an expectation of receiving court orders to delete data. I think you'd arrive at a somewhat "DRM"-like design. That is:

1. the datastore system would be designed as an "appliance", intended to be installed directly on hardware, and would mandate (and check that) the hardware it was installed on provided both a TPM to store disk encryption keys in, and a full Secure Boot trust-chain granting only its bootloader boot privilege;

2. the datastore software would maintain a mutable index within the store (in the Merkle-tree-ref sense) of all data that is to be "considered deleted"—a master "tombstone" record, in the DBMS terminology—and would prevent anyone from accessing said data through the system's API.

With such a design, the data is effectively "gone", just as if it was really erased from the disks; the only way for a company running such a datastore to "recover" the data would be to find an exploit in the appliance allowing them to modify either the tombstone list (somewhat easy to thwart by choice of data structure), or the code that applies the tombstone policy.
Too thin and too bright. I couldn't read it at all on my phone without using the safari readability feature.
Without. I think sweet tea is unnatural :)
And I don't "get" milk in tea. Odd.
The problem is, the GOP's rhetoric is free markets, but their reality is crony capitalism. If they were serious about illegal immigration, they would go after the American employers and corporations that exploit illegal labor, first.

You are right that politics is a war and ideologies are shouted but policies belie them to be empty promises. It is ironic that a libertarian is cheering on a protectionist administration to attack economically libertarian/neoliberal corporations (in the SV mold - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology) who are aligned with a center-left liberal/socially liberal party.
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/behavior/game_theoretic/...

Playing chicken with an opponent who time after time demonstrates highly rational, self-dealing behavior is the opposite of insane.
But that's not the only program. You can get Supplemental Security Income without even being a citizen or ever having paid in.

https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm

Also you can generally get Medicare if you're old and you've paid in for a few years.
Ask HN: Is Windows 10 Mobile dead?
I'm in the market for a new mid- to low-range phone, like a Lumia 640, but I've been wondering whether to even buy Windows phones or to use Android. I currently have an Android phone but have used Windows in the past and was satisfied.

The main drive for me to buy a Windows phone is that they're much smoother and faster compared to Android phones of the same price. I do not want to buy a Chinese no-name phone because they send the data to servers of the company or the government, be it either Chinese or whatever, I'm not comfortable with doing that.*

And I don't care about custom ROMs, because at that low price point nobody even bothers making a custom ROM like Lineage OS or whatever, because the phones are designed to be disposable and used only for 2 years and most models are custom to a country, for example I have a Tesla Smartphone 3.2 Lite, which is made by Tesla (which infringes on Tesla Motors' trademark for the name) in Serbia for the Serbian market, and is actually a re-branded Ulefone U007 Pro, and it sends data to servers in China, and has some shady apps installed.

In the past, I've had the Nokia Lumia 520 and 720 phones, and I liked the 720, it's a great phone and all but I broke the USB charger off the motherboard in a fall and the repair was the cost of a new 520, and being me, I wanted a new shiny thing even thought it was slower. The 520 was unremarkable in every way and I kept it for some time then selling it for a similar price that I bought it for.

Also, of Android phones, I've had a Huawei Ascend y210, which I hated, Prestigio Muze C3, which I liked, and my first phone was Alcatel OT-990 in 2011.

Help me make a right choice.

* - (to clarify, I say I don't want to buy a No-Name Android phone which is faster than the branded Microsoft Lumia yet costs the same)
I think the point of the article is to establish the point that we should be purposeful about allocating funds for growth. Time and resource utilization shouldn't be ignored, they're just outside the scope of the article.
The team behind RethinkDB has been a class act. Thank you for creating a fantastic product and doing what's right by your users even as you were winding down.
Inexplicably? Let's take a quick look at some history.

Russia has attacked & occupied the baltics multiple times. Imperial Russia occupied Estonia during 18th - 20th century, and Soviet Russia once again occupied for half of the 20th century. During this time they sent the natives to Siberia, while importing Russians here and imposing other forms of russification [1] to obliterate our culture. It's more than just about land, it's about the survival of our culture which has been under systematic attack by Russia for the overwhelming majority of the last 300 years. The current Russian regime isn't much different and holds a strongly anti-Estonian view, so of course self-preservation is the #1 political issue for us.

Russia still celebrates everything Soviet as the biggest heroes that have ever lived, and have an amazing number of Stalin statues/paintings everywhere. Then they fund & organize attacks on Georgia [2], and annex Crimea [3]. Then, as recently as 2014, the FSB came into Estonia and abducted one of our intelligence agents. [4] This agent was denied contact with anyone, and was given premission to only use a Russian appointed lawyer. In a charade of a trial he was quickly sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was later exchanged for a FSB agent who was sitting in our prison. [5]

Then there's the fact that Russia keeps flying their military planes into baltic airspace on a regular basis. [6] They have been doing this ever since the collapse of USSR and they keep doing this even today when we have NATO fighters patrolling the skies. It might be easy to say "liberal media is pushing propaganda" if you live far from the Russian border, but we are actually living here with regular Russian war plane visits and seeing events like Crimea where they go even further.

So you see, it's not only about precedence, but it's also about the continuation of the theme and actual real events that keep happening.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eston_Kohver

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Dressen

[6] https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+plane+estonian+airsp...
I am always a little nervous when the status of a project I rely on changes, but I'm pretty confident Sandstorm.io as a platform is still just beginning.
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576921
Agreed that there isn't really any harm in a generalized way. You might be surprised to learn that movie theaters (as they're currently operated) don't really get much from the ticket sales, however.

I have a friend who used to be a supervisor at movie theater, and he told me that ~80% of the theater's ticket proceeds went directly to the movie distributor. This is apparently normal in the movie industry.

If concessions went away, theaters would probably need to raise their ticket prices a lot. Even if you drastically cut the employees, there's still rent/taxes/insurance/cleaning. The last two could also conceivably go up in price if it became normal to bring in your own food.
Nothing really changes. The URL in the bar is still from the cache.
This made me think of an earlier study performed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Strategy&, a business unit within PriceWaterhouseCoopers, has been publishing an annual report of the top 1000 most innovative companies in the world for over 12 years. In that time, they have found that there is no statistically significant relationship between R&D spending and sustained financial performance[0]. This finding applies to total R&D spend, as well as R&D spending as a percent of revenues.[1]

Spending on R&D is not related to growth in sales or profits, increases in market capitalization or shareholder returns.[2] In every annual report that Strategy& have published, the top 10 most innovative companies are often not the top 10 spenders on R&D.

[0] AlisonSmith(2014 ). R &Dspendingunlinkedtofinancialperformance,studyshows. T heFinancialTimes.
https://www.ft.com/content/cdfe1b2c-5abf-11e4-b449-00144feab...

[1] BarryJaruzelski,JohnLoehr,andRichardHolman(2014). T heGlobalInnovation1000:ProvenPathstoInnovationSuccess.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00295

[2] BarryJaruzelski,JohnLoehr,andRichardHolman(2012). T heGlobalInnovation1000:MakingIdeasWork
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00140
I recently got a Vizio 4K 'tuner free' tv. Basically it's just a chrome cast built in to the display and you just plug your dish/cable tuner in if you have it. Everything runs off your phone or cable box remote.

It's nice because I don't have to worry about stuff like the Netflix app aging out and not supporting X,Y,or Z feature. Is my phone up to date? That's it. I'd like to take it a step further and have it COMPLETELY dumb and plug my own chromecast/Roku/whatever in to it. No WiFi, no anything. Give me a good 4K display with whatever processing capabilities make the experience better and then get the hell out of the way.

I feel like this one is ALMOST there, just need to go one more step or two- and then quit spying on me would be nice too.
> Why would I ever want to own when I get free maintenance and don't have to worry about a down payment?

You don't get free maintenance, the whole cost of maintenance, as well as all other costs of ownership of the unit, as well as as much profit as the owner can get away with, are already included in your rent.
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Don't you think it's a bit unethical to collect email addresses with the promise of a download, only to tell the user that the download isn't even available. But hey - thanks for giving us your email!
Does Rocket have subdomain support? I didn't see it in the documentation.
Small happy news in frog form.
Table 3 and division.

And I presume you're in the US, but from an external observer's perspective, 'poverty' in the US is extreme and is almost incomprehensible...

I spend about half my time in the US, half in India. So as a semi-external observer, all I can do is laugh at you. Most middle class people would love to live as well as the American poor do. Actually so would many Europeans - Bulgarian GDP/capita is about 1/2 of what the average poor American consumes.

No matter how much you might scoff and sputter, most poor American adults chose not look for work even once in the past year. That's just the basic fact of the matter.
I believe it's pretty common practice; not just the amount of power being used as a red flag, but obvious patterns too - for cannabis you normally have it going for 16+ hrs of light for it's vegetative cycle, then switch to 12 hr of light for flowering, so they can use that pattern too.

Presumably this stuff is only checked post-suspicion, and not automated and parallel construction stuff done.
There's no thin veil here, that's how these things started and why they're called space buckets. Indoor gardening w/ grow lights generally isn't economically viable for most readily available varieties of produce.
That's a good point. I wonder why the big brands have not gotten together to create standardized sizing scheme.
This is a pity, as Cloudflare could serve a much larger niche otherwise. I suppose there's no such thing as "free". Oh well...
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