skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how much energy was transferred? The charging icon easily could come on under many different situations and also if the phone receiver pack was engineered to detect the presence of an ultrasonic signal that would then tell a battery pack inside the receiver pack to start charging the phone that easily could be used to fake the situation. So again one of these situations that easily can be judged to be good or bad with like 2 numbers but they refuse to publish those numbers.. Shocking...
So, to repeat, "I guess we have different ideas on what makes a community."

> tell me why BBQs are generally not open to anyone

Hence why I specified "local community", not "someone's friend's backyard".

In any case, you're missing the point of the analogy, and extend any analogy and it will fall apart. You're missing the human aspect of FOSS, instead interpreting it as a literal legal case.

And yes, there is expectation in FOSS that others will pitch in and help when your project is extremely popular. ESR, coiner of the 'open source' term we're talking about, explicitly promoted it with the term 'enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow'. How is that not seen as an expectation of kicking back at least some effort?
They are.

Bell used high prices on long distance to subsidize low prices for service. Their reasoning is that if Mr Rich Businessman wanted to pay top dollar to call grandma, they wanted grandma to be hooked up.

After Bell split, in the short run long distance prices remained fairly high, and local carriers increased prices 10-fold. The inevitable war in long distance prices that you're thinking of didn't really get going until the 1990s.

As for Standard Oil, http://www.economist.com/node/347251 claims that it was worth far more in pieces than together. the best figures that I can find are these. At the end of the year when it was split, the pieces were worth about $600 million. Over the next decade they wound up paying out $900 million in dividends and still wound up at a combined value of $2.9 billion. (See https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/05/15/the-day-bi... for a source.)
Snapchat could afford to build its own infrastructure if it wanted to. A similar sized Unicorn, DocuSign, has about 2000 employees and probably several hundred million in revenue per year (valuation is around a billion or two, depending on who you ask). They built their own data centers around the world.

But DocuSign derives a lot of money from B2B and uptime and location of the servers is important to other Enterprises. DocuSign also started building out its services more than a decade ago before a lot of the AWS or Google Cloud infra got built. So, the decision to build your own infra is as much a decision based on alternatives available. Few alternatives? Build your own infra.

By staying on GCP, Snapchat also guarantees its service and uptime will not change appreciably over the next several years. They built on GCP and migrating the whole service off would probably be a gargantuan task (how do you flip a switch and move all your compute overnight without hurting customer experience?). Staying with GCP allows Snap to maintain consistency of service while also buying time to build a transferable version of Snapchat that they could move to other infrastructure after the Google contract is over.

Investors on Wallstreet don't like seeing huge changes to company strategy too close to IPO. If GCP has worked for Snap thus far, it is far less risky to investors for Snap to keep on going "business as usual." It's better to overspend to guarantee certainty of service and business health over next few years than do a massive capital investment. Once Snap gets off the ground post-IPO, they can make longer term decisions about their infra.
Why Loading Bars on 80s Micros?
Thanks for the comment - I'm going to try it out. Want to email me your consultancy (email in profile) - I work with a bunch of diff companies who use Azue
Fire Emblem Heroes: Nintendo's Second Mobile Game Grosses $2.9M Its First Day
War and civil unrest has been extremely common throughout the world long before the industrial revolution. If anything war and violence have declined since the industrial revolution started (read Steven Pinker's Why Violence Declined). So I don't see how you can blame the industrial revolution for any residual unrest.
People care before they are dead about what is going to happen after, and this changes their behavior.

I'm not saying anything about your conclusion, but your reasoning is flawed.
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I do suffer from overload and have been tested. It's common to suffer the same symptoms as someone who has a deficiency when trying to bring those levels down.
Unfortunately, that ends up not being very comfortable for long stretches.
Yeah, doesn't bother me. Never bothered by the sound of my own eating.
> There are a lot of solutions for the problems you mention.

Yes, that's a problem right there, because often only one solution actually works, and you don't know which one unless you spend hours on training.
Super Mario Run received a lot of criticism on HN due to its lack of conformity to mobile game economics. Fire Emblem is much better, although there are a few rough edges around the feedback loop. (My advice: reroll until you get a 5* hero)
Yes, or the "bourgeoisie", but really we ought to be evolving our language to get the meaning across. Why bother repeating 19th-century cliches that cause more heat than light?
Ya sure, living in squalor without modern medicine or electricity seems like paradise to me.
They're incredibly annoying. I have a 1080p screen. The entire first page of results on every search is ads. I've stopped using google.com because of this.
Can you provide sources?
Working on a big legacy Java program spread over many dozens smallish files in deeply nested directory trees is very annoying without some IDE features (e.g. jump to definition). And I haven't seen a tool that can provide that kind of support for a classic text editor (Vim/Emacs). So you have to use an IDE (which necessitates a GUI).

To be fair, most other mainstream languages (except maybe Go) lack that kind of tooling too, but at least their cultures do not encourage liberal use of deeply nested directory trees and overengineered abstractions, the way Java does.
I was very expensively educated despite having lower-middle class parents (the government paid). I worked at Pizza Hut during the holidays while classmates went to private islands.

Simply put, if I had told my teachers I wanted to be Prime Minister one day, they'd have told me I needed to enroll in debate club and study politics, rather than laughing or doubting my ability. As a child at school, nobody ever doubted or questioned that me and my classmates would run the world one day, and lo and behold, many of my classmates at 33 are in positions of considerable influence, power, and/or wealth. It is generally very very easy to spot other people who went to expensive private boarding schools in social and work situations.
In the FCC doc being considered:

In the 2016 Lifeline Modernization Order, the Commission established a framework for the Bureau to designate providers as LBPs, eligible to receive Lifeline reimbursement for qualifying broadband Internet access service (BIAS) provided to eligible low-income consumers.
Statistical sampling works if the sampled people answer your question. It also helps if you can find the contact of the samples to begin with. Now, here's some ways the statistical sampling can be substantially biased: people who are still repaying their student loans are in Princeton's database, and they can be contacted; those who didn't take loans (the rich kids) are not, so negative bias. Opposite: Princeton alumni with kids, who hope to get their kids into Princeton, donate. So they are in a database, and they end up in the statistical sampling. This is positive bias. Back to negative bias: some Princeton graduates end up unemployed (generally not because they are unqualified, but because of burnout/depression/family problems). Do you think they are in the mood to answer the phone and disclose their (non-existant) current income?

In principle you can correct for a known bias. You can correct for several, but the more adjustments, the more noise in the estimation.

Now back to my original remark: do you honestly believe only 23% of the Princeton graduates are in the top 1% of the earners?
why is there no link to flagged comments so we can make up our own opinion (were all grown-ups here!)
"Impostor" appears to be as difficult to spell on Medium as "discreet" is on Craigslist.
AWS Lambda HTTP Proxy integration event bridge to Go net/http
It's perfectly realistic and more common than you think. There's plenty of evidence around which you can find with a simple google search.

http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/copper-zinc-imba...
> So I'm assuming you consider democracy to be useless? ... Because I don't see how a democracy could work without the media.

If I understand correctly, you are saying "the media" is vital for democracy, so anyone who considers "the media" useless must also consider democracy to be useless.

However, the GP does not say all media is useless. He is saying there is more information than he can possibly consume even if most media outlets go away, and that the media outlets specifically mentioned by the GGP aren't of value to him.

Democracy worked in the United States (even surviving the Civil War) without "the media". "The media" as we know it has only existed since the late 1800s and it was first used to influence the American public toward war with Spain (funny that you mentioned Cuba).

I do agree that a healthy, functioning democracy requires the free flow of information, but that's a different concept which does not, necessarily, require "the media" as it exists now.

> Even a low-information voter like you

His post suggests he receives more information than he feels he can even handle. He simply isn't reading outlets that the GGP considers vital or necessary. If he's selective about his outlets, that may even increase the amount of useful information he uses to inform his vote.

> from a vibrant and free press

I am unconvinced this describes the modern media. Many of the incentives are misaligned, profit being the largest one. It describes, perhaps, some subset of the media.

> by the decisions of more informed people in the voting booth.

Are they 'more informed' though? I know plenty of people who consume "the media" all day long, and they are very misinformed.
Sure, although I'd suggest that it's irrational to care about what happens once you're dead.
>and good for us software engineers

Wait till the software engineering jobs are automated away.
Jet is way better than Amazon for me. So much so that I rarely use Amazon anymore. Prices on Amazon are often worse than local retail stores. I find many products I want to buy are Prime only, Fresh only, or Add-ons. The last two packages I bought took an entire week to leave the warehouse even though they were fulfilled by Amazon. And Amazon has a horrible spam problem. It's difficult to sort out real products from knock-offs sold by a scam seller like SUPER DEAL PRODUCT WORLD or something.

Jet, on the other hand, has no spam problem, prices usually better than local stores, and very reliable free two day shipping. Hopefully they can scale up.
That's the type of writing that get excited about hybrid cloud
However, maintaining a project over the course of years is not effortless on the part of the provider, as explicitly stated in the article. The problem isn't in the software itself being duplicated, it's in the labour around providing the service.

To continue with the (now tortured) bbq analogy: as the sausages go cold (=software ages), someone has to cook up more fresh ones.
A lot of mental tasks have been automated away. Pen and paper to slide rule to electronic calculator etc.
As of 10.12.4 you won't need f.lux as the functionality for night shift is built into macOS.
I'm not making the case that Thiel's involvement may have been marginal - rather, simply that it could have been material.

But more so the general case: Governments do some things well - but not VC. And that if it requires collaboration with more aggressive VC's to spurn activity, well, then that's not so bad because it's very hard to do.
Many people with children that work incredibly hard do so precisely so that their children can live a better life than they did. Removing this motivation would definitely reduce economic activity.
I also recommend brown noise. It's much nicer than white noise. I use the `play` command that's part of `sox` for this.
There should at least be a decay function built in. People care before they're dead about the immediate future - but they won't care as much about 150 years into the future. Yet intergenerational wealth can last more than 150 years.
Roger Dicky (Gigster) on developing your pricing model
Whatever the dev wants to talk about, it's their meeting. Hopefully nothing project/team related. We have team meetings were we can talk about team stuff, we have daily stand up and possible meetings for project related stuff. They only time I want them to talk about project related activity or team related activity is if they feel they can't talk about with other developers.

But mostly, It's about them, how they are doing, where they are doing well, how they can improve, where they are going with their career. Hopefully feedback to me about me too.
Yeah no clue why these are all tied together.

Should have had Microsoft OneNote that's what I see most students + professors use.
Remember that sleep evolved very early on. Arthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc.) sleep. Worms experience a sleep-like state. It's even been shown that cyanobacteria experience circadian rhythms.

Fruit flies whose sleep patterns were disrupted were slower to learn new things and faster to forget the things they learned. I'm not sure there is a single purpose for sleep, but memory is certainly a critical factor.
Shame working from home is seen in this light. I tend to believe that a professional sets up a home office which has a door that can be locked. My wife and myself, in around 20something years of professional work, worked solely from home 15 of those. And the others were like 1-2 office days per week and then home. We always set up an office and work when we are there. We work 2x2x3 or 2x3x3 hours per day depending on load and the rest we spend with friends and/or walking and/or shopping. I never saw this lonely, porn watching, crap eating version of the home office. And people I know who work from home do not get this stigma either. Maybe if you live in SV, your rent only pays for one room with the bed in it and you live of ramen (that seems to be the typical home worker stereotype in the media). But why would one want to do that? Then working from home is only a pain?
The existence of ethnic cleansing is a compelling argument against diversity being a strength, and past atrocities, especially those afflicting Christians of European descent, serve to demonstrate why Christians of European descent should not allow themselves to be displaced and dispossessed through mass immigration, lest they suffer a fate similar to that of the Armenians.
So? Whats the issue? That's the point. I work hard to help my kids. They're supposed to be better off because of my work. That's the reason many of us get up in the morning. Dont take that away from me.

If my hard work wasn't reflected in the data, why would I work hard? Why would I care about bettering my kids if it had absolutely no impact on how well they would do?

Some people are acting like this is a problem. And to some small degree it is. But the opposite would be a much bigger problem.

Of course, a good parent teaches their kids how to fish, not just gives them fish. If anything this study just shows that successful parents are good at teaching their kids to be successful.
You realize that you could have made the same argument over the past 200 years? "Who'll buy all the farm produce when there are no fRm workers left?"
You would do on-prem and not cloud if your potential legal adversaries included the government because they would then have to come and take your emails from you with a warrant vs. being able to silently take it from cloud providers and compelling them to not inform you.

For any reasonably sized multinational, governments are potential legal adverseries.. and so they avoid keeping mail servers and financial transaction data in the cloud
> Unfortunately, the limiting factor for most projects isn't the JS library, but it's the availability of high-resolution DEMs (digital elevation models). These won't become widely available until we do something about the price of lidar.

You can cheaply generate approximate DEM from drone imagery. E.g. DroneDreploy.
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The difference is massive economic growth between the industrial revolution and today. Jobs lost to industrialization were quickly replaced as the economy grew exponentially in size and complexity.

Today growth is very anemic owing to market saturation and declining birth rates.
I'm an SDE and I do a lot of interviewing these days.

Unfortunately so many of them end up poorly :(
We use Cesium in a couple applications. We actually generated some imagery and terrain datasets using open-source tools in 2014.

In late 2015, I spent a couple weeks researching GIS data conversion utilities, Cesium's formats, and potential improved source datasets we could use to generate higher-quality imagery and terrain data. I can't haul out the relevant writeup atm, but I concluded that the EarthEnv DEM90 dataset appeared to be highest-quality free terrain source I could find ([0]), and the TrueMarble collection was the best free imagery source ([1]).

I generated our earlier terrain dataset using the Cesium-Terrain-Builder utility ([2]). It generates Cesium's "heightmap" format, but does not yet support the "quantized-mesh" format. I have seen a couple other tools that appear to deal with quantized-mesh tiles, though. On my list to dig into at some point.

As a related note, using the MBTiles format ([3]) for storing and moving tile datasets around is great. Multiple gigabytes in a single SQLite database file (or possibly a few files split by zoom level), rather than trying to move around millions of individual 10KB images on disk. Highly recommended.

[0] http://www.earthenv.org/DEM.html

[1] http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/dow...

[2] https://github.com/geo-data/cesium-terrain-builder

[3] https://www.mapbox.com/help/an-open-platform/
A small note, linear space lightning is important because the lightning equations are linear equations with respect to physical quantities (unless you specifically introduce materials with non-linear response, which are quite rate). So simply

intensity(pixel)=intensity(pixel illuminated by source 1)+intensity(pixel illuminated by source 2)+...

It's perception that is non-linear, so you can separate it as a last non-linear step instead of always calculating

perceived_intensity(pixel)=pow(x,pow(1/x,perceived_intensity(pixel illuminated by source 1))+pow(1/x,perceived_intensity(pixel illuminated by source 2))+...)
Their "promo code" deals are often excellent. Heck, I just bought TurboTax H&B at Costco yesterday, and today Fry's has it $6 cheaper.

I may be biased given that I've shopped at Fry's Electronics since their very first store, in a long-since-demolished, tiny former Fry's Grocery store on Oakmead.
Given the approach to the new administration, seems like the generic solution will be to just reduce the number of visas (ahem after revoking 100,000 of them).
"Unless you're exceptionally lucky as well as exceptionally successful, it takes more than one working lifetime to amass enough wealth to be in the top 1%, and so you will only get there if you inherit some significant amount of wealth."

Not really. In terms of income, it's $500K/year.

If you go into certain kinds of banking from a decent school, and do well, you can 'easily' earn that.

Again, this is 1% income, not assets of which I'm speaking.

But even then - if you spend 30 years in banking, and do well, you'll probably be in the 1%.

If you were to say the top 0.05% - I think I might be more inclined to agree with you.

Most of the 1% are not 'rich', they're really the upper bounds of 'upper middle class' - I'd say the 0.1% is where you can start calling yourself 'wealthy' in terms of economic class.
Taking time off can backfire with gap, he should get on the job hunting ASAP, focusing on java and php jobs. there are plenty of those out there. While he is hunting, he should learn javascript and react just for the resume.
It is, but thats not a bad thing (in the board sense of irrational).

A parent is willing to save a lot of money to give a bigger inheritance for his children, even knowing that his children will be much richer than he ever was at any point. That is irrational, but in the end is a huge part of the economic progess of society. Why would we want to deny some people the opportunity to do what they want AND benefit society as a whole at the same time?
Why is the opposite a "much bigger problem", exactly? The title is that "new data shows that joining the 1% remains unsettlingly hereditary."

The opposite of this would be that joining the 1% has nothing to do with heredity. How is this bad?
Taxing wealth instead of income solves this, but creates many different problems.
That's a much better term, and I agree, with one caveat - more and more the owning class don't invest in production (the 'real economy') but in financial instruments that really at the heart make money by extracting value from the productive sectors.

Michael Hudson has some interesting writing on the subject, such as this journal article, 'Finance is not the Economy' - http://michael-hudson.com/2016/08/finance-is-not-the-economy...
To make this even more effective, the current Congress wants to repeal the "death tax".
About (4) ... Facebook is a big company. Here's what may happen in real life.

High up person X, gets that notice and takes it to his boss, and they talk about it. They agree to ignore it and just let the lawyers deal with it. 10 minutes later a lawyer assistant storms in, demands an immediate meeting with the accused and tells gives them a list of 10 things, including data retention, to immediately do. They get started on item 1 on the list, then tell some junior team member to do the remaining 9, and get back to work.

Two days later, lawyer finds out the net result of all this is that several computers in use and under discovery are lost. Several others were used in a manner totally ignoring the order, along with an angry high up VP complaining that complying with this order "effectively shut down the department" (read: inconvenienced a few people involved in the lawsuit). An employee that's due to be interviewed in preparation for testimony in 15 days just took a 14 day leave, another that's on the list of experts left under bad circumstances. And of course, all of this is the fault of the legal department.

Lawyer spends the next 30 minutes under his desk fighting the urge to buy a gun.

Mind if I give people a bit of advice: whilst deleting stuff once it's under discovery is of course very bad practice (it is not simply illegal though, the situation is more complex), limiting the amount of time you hold on to files, mails, chat logs, browser history, ... is a good thing. I would advise no more than 2-3 months unless there's a specific reason. If you're part of a big company, do this especially for your work related files. Oh and of course, whatever mechanism you put in place to do this, needs to be deactivated once you do have a discovery order and reactivated afterwards.