skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the smallest (I've used ones with 16 bytes RAM) you simply don't have room for doing much at all so you pretty much only use registers, none of this fancy pointer stuff and you can easily fit everything its doing into your head as its program space is only big enough to fit 64-256 assembly instructions (a paper pages worth).

It can be hard to pin down when something switches from a fancy logic circuit to a microcontroller on the low end of the spectrum.

In my opinion, it stops being a microcontroller when the RAM is external to the CPU or it needs to be provided multiple voltage rails.
I think that's a little pedantic. The point he was making is that, conceptually speaking, the cloud is comprised of servers not unlike the servers you run yourself. The difference, obviously, is who runs them, the manner in which they're run, the exact manner in which they're utilized by you, etc., but they are still just servers at the bottom of the stack.
"In Valve's eyes it's quality/quantity of available software, rather than price of entry, that's keeping a lot of people from buying into the VR market."

This is absurd. Price is absolutely the limiting factor. We're talking - bare minimum - $800 for the Vive (since, IMO, it's the only PC-based VR experience worth buying) plus $600 (again, bare minimum) for a PC capable of running it. AMD has probably done more than anyone else with regard to dropping the cost of entry, with the RX 480.

Most people don't have $1400+ to drop on a gaming experience. That's a lot of money. A down payment on a car, maybe.
It does not use one. Every thing seems to be developed in-house by their front-end engineers.
Easy, they live on a planet of dark matter :)
American in Norway here. The amount excluded depends on the tax treaty and is different for each country. Right now, if you make above around 100k USD in Norway (adjusted each year for inflation), that amount above is taxed by the US. But, that is only for regular employment.

If, for example, you decide to start freelancing, you still have to pay all of your self-employment taxes to the US, on top of the similar taxes here, even if your income is well below 100k.

Also, if you decided to start a company or start-up (i.e., anything that is not a sole proprietorship), you get into a hell hole of other compliance regulations that makes it VERY expensive. It effectively mean no one wants to cofound with you or invest in you. Having US citizenship while abroad is terrible for entrepreneurs. (source: conversations with other Americans who have tried and failed to launch startups here for these reasons)
Actually Eritrea harasses quite a few ordinary people through a Stasi like network of regime loyal expats tasked with gathering intel on their brethren.
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/adding-16-bit-pointer-supp...
In such layout-block languages (without curly braces and semicolons for denoting blocks and "statements") it shouldn't be a big deal one way or the other anyway..
You have recent competition in the race to kingship.
Hasn't Microsoft flew in Ballmer back then to convince Munich, and they now placed a pro-Microsoft minded mayor, relocated Microsoft Germany office to Munich and lobbied to replace Linux. Not surprising. Lots of comments https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Von-...
Meh. There are only two ways to brand a campaign: "Change", and "Back to the Good Old Days". Obama's was just the penultimate successful iteration of the first.

He had a chance to make changes in his first two years, and he did - the ACA was a pretty big change.
Can't reply to taek, but https://blendle.com/ lets you pay per article. There's an HN sign up code somewhere but couldn't find it on my phone
AAA+ comment.
> under Bill Clinton and led by Hillary Clinton—at a time when there was majority public support in public polling for national single payer

Also a prime example of corruption and nepotism. Bill handled Hillary that task when he was in the White House. She was not qualified for it and botched it basically.
Open chrome load a local file edit in the developer tools, profit!
Go for it! Competition drives innovation on all sides, and the world is big.
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As a 12 year old I lived on a ranch that had not been fully purged of rattlesnakes (in central California, if your property has water near it and not too many roads, you probably have a few rattlesnakes).

My most terrifying experience was going into the horse barn to grab a lead rope coiled up on top of a bale of hay and not seeing the juvenile rattlesnake coiled inside the lead rope.

I grabbed it and the lead and by pure luck I had it right behind the head. It was rattling and writhing and trying to get a bite on me. No one was home, and I had no idea what to do. I have no recollection of anything other than holding the snake in a panic, but my parents found me holding an exhausted snake trembling violently, it was at least an hour after I had picked it up.

It stands out as a totally singular experience in my life, nothing ANY degree of chemical stimulation has ever replicated. My fear was so intense I basically blacked out in place with my arm locked rigid for an hour.
See, I look at this the exact opposite way - if I have to decide whether each individual article is worth paying for, I'm probably not going to read any articles. Its much easier for me to pay $10 a month and know that I can, with zero friction, read whatever article I want from the publications I respect. We're talking about the Wall Street Journal here; odds that they're going to only occasionally publish something I'm interested in are pretty low - I'm either interested in subscribing or I'm not.
I posted this somewhere else on this thread, but I've seen a lot of the "I just want to pay 25c per article" comments. Try https://blendle.com
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"Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere." - Anton Ego
I don't think most of your points really apply though. They were setting up replication in production, so they had to work on production boxes. Setting prompt to say just "production" wouldn't help for the same reason. Production was intended.

Peer review though - yes. That could help. I wouldn't say "I'm unlikely to make that mistake" - it's likely to go on the famous last words list...
Fuck the Journal then. Above everything else, I will never reward their bad behavior by paying them money.
If you want to up your cron job monitoring game there's a link in my profile.
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Most paywall newspapers already keep track of how many articles you've read this month, and count it down for you; this would just add a timer, too. Which their analytics code is surely already reporting.
>In the end, it seems he was more gridlocked then any of the prior presidents in recent memory and had to resort to more executive orders than previous president.

I doubt that's true - I don't remember Bush having any less trouble getting things done domestically.

There's nothing nefarious about executive orders - the president is the chief executive, and he directs his subordinates in the same way a corporate CEO does with memos. EOs are just directions on policy implementation. And it's all written in sand, since the next president can arbitrarily cancel or modify EOs.
Out of curiosity I searched for the Wall Street Journal subscription page. I selected my country (UK) and then clicked on the subscription offer. I was then taken to a Hong Kong page with no obvious way of changing it back to the UK.

If they want subscribers, they're going to have to do a better job than that.
It actually works quite nicely. Most of the google software is built internally. Ensuring everyone is running at head is a blessing (rarely a curse), because when you make a change you immediately see if it breaks something. You can also be sure everything gets all the bug fixes in their new release. This is good for various reasons, including the fact that it makes security audits significantly simpler.

Some google orgs, like android, don't use the existing infra, and they kind of struggle and have to reinvent most wheels, because of that.

Edit: added second paragraph
And obviously to total $2M at 25c requires 8M customers rather than 50M if you actually divide by .25 instead of multiplying by 25, so that's even easier.
Actually the UN tends to complain about slightly different issues rather than taxing of expatriates:

> In 2015, a 500-page UNHRC report detailed allegations of extrajudicial executions, torture, indefinitely prolonged national service and forced labour, and indicated that sexual harassment, rape and prolonged sexual servitude by state officials are also widespread.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Eritrea
Translation files, xml files, some data files, images, and lots of other things.

Ps: goog employee
Microsoft has an interesting stance here. As EU entities are major customers for both Windows and Azure, they're working quite hard to make sure to assure these parties that the US Government doesn't have undue influence over them.

They're adding secure links and solutions they cannot eavesdrop on to Azure, and getting pretty aggressive with pushing back against US surveillance.

The US benefits from EU privacy laws even without being there.
You gain Rust's memory-safety, but also you gain all of its meta-programming facilities. Which means all those #define macros become a thing of the past.
A snapshot could be a backup depending on what you're calling a snapshot, but yeah, in general, to be a backup things need to have these features:

1. stored on separate infrastructure so that obliteration of the primary infrastructure (AWS account locked out for non-payment, password gets stolen and everything gets deleted, datacenter gets eaten by a sinkhole, etc.) doesn't destroy the data.

2. offline, read-only. This is where most people get confused.

Backups are unequivocally NOT a live mirror like RAID 1, slightly-delayed replication setup like most databases provide, or a double-write system. These aren't backups because they make it impossible to recover from human errors, which include obvious things like dropping the wrong table, but also less obvious things, like a subtle bug that corrupts/damages some records and may take days or weeks to notice. Your standbys/mirrors are going to copy both of obvious and non-obvious things before you have a chance to stop them.

This is one of the most important things to remember. Redundancy is not backup. Redundancy is redundancy and it primarily protects against hardware and network failures. It's not a backup because it doesn't protect against human or software error.

3. regularly verified by real-world restoration cases; backups can't be trusted until they're confirmed, at least on a recurring, periodic basis. Automated alarms and monitoring should be used to validate that the backup file is present and that it is within a reasonable size variance between human-supervised verifications. Automatic logical checksums like those suggested by some other users in this thread (e.g., run pg_restore on a pg_dump to make sure that the file can be read through) are great too and should be used whenever available.

4. complete, consistent, and self-contained archive up to the timestamp of the backup. Differenced backups count as long as the full chain needed for a restoration is present.

This excludes COW filesystem snapshots, etc., because they're generally dependent on many internal objects dispersed throughout the filesystem; if your FS gets corrupted, it's very likely that some of the data referenced by your snapshots will be corrupted too (snapshots are only possible because COW semantics mean that the data does not have to be copied, just flagged as in use in multiple locations). If you can export the COW FS snapshot as a whole, self-contained unit that can live separately and produce a full and valid restoration of the filesystem, then that exported thing may be a backup, but the internal filesystem-local snapshot isn't (see also point 1).
GFiber Wifi Data [pdf]
> I don't think it's fair that people can make money from having 'perfect' knowledge of the market. I don't buy into the efficient market hypothesis.

These two statements don't seem related. And I don't understand the first one anyway. Where does "fairness" come in? It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that one person who has perfect knowledge about a financial market would be able to make money that someone who doesn't have perfect knowledge wouldn't. And it seems quite "fair" to me that this would be so; why should the person with better knowledge not be able to benefit from their better knowledge?
That the free speech arguments are going ahead is nice, but the judge also hammered another nail into the coffin of the 4th amendment:

Robart rejected the tech giant’s argument that the so-called sneak-and-peek searches amount to an unlawful search and seizure of property. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had argued that federal law allows the Justice Department to obtain electronic communications without disclosure of a specific warrant if it would endanger an individual or an investigation.
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It might be simplifying it a bit here, but are cities well-planned because they're rich, or are they rich because they are well-planned?
I always thought he used processing. The fact that he built all the animations with his own library makes his videos way more impressive now.
I wouldn't want a single cent of my money going to that bottom feeder Rupert Murdoch
This raises an interesting question: On clouds where you can provision baremetal instances, is it possible for the tenant to modify/corrupt firmware/hardware in such a way that the machine is subsequently "owned" and untrustworthy after it is returned to the pool of available hardware?
Well, this is definitely going to cost me a few hours of sleep. Great find.

Off topic but if I had the time/money, I'd love to remodel my bedroom as an old power station control room, or maybe the Apollo CM. There's something so satisfying about twisting or turning all of those physical switches.
It was not the managements job to prevent the engineer from typing "rm". It was the managements job to make sure that typing "rm" would not result in big data loss. This is, assuming the engineer was not already the highest ranking technical person in the company.

I am very happy about their open post-mortem, so that anyone can learn from it. Reading it, it looks to me that the "rm" was not the cause of the disaster, it just triggered it. The real problem was the whole setup, which failed. And that is something, which falls under managements responsibility.
Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf]
Netflix is $9 a month here in Australia.
Only those who aren't paying attention can seriously claim nothing has gotten better wrt Wall Street regulation. It's in the same court as "both parties are the same" memes from intellectual laziness.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has helped make sure that banks can't outright lie about their conflicts of interests. Various Dodd-Frank stuff has helped along that.

Billion-dollar fines for 2008's behaviors have meant that banks are losing money. And as an end result, banks are taking the rules more seriously! Hiring "boring" CEOs to help reign in the craziness. Anyone paying attention can see that the financial industry has been preparing itself for a new normal of "not crazily dishonest" (Obviously Trump is changing that posture a bit).

It's possible to believe that not enough was done, without saying they're the same.

Now... pitchfork sharpness is more connected to impressions than fact. Maybe that's the impression of people. But it's not the reality.

PS: who would you rather want in any regulatory body? someone who's worked in the industry before, and understands the issues at stake? Or someone who doesn't understand anything about the industry?

Hiring regulators from Wall Street (to a lower paying job) isn't sign of "the power of the lobbies". It's like saying that hiring a former programmer to be a CTO is a conflict of interest. The objective isn't punishment, it's making sure that the financial industry serves its purpose to society properly.
> I don't have an article on hand, but even Democrats criticized Obama for having trouble forming cross-party friendships in a way someone like Bill Clinton did not.

When Obama came to office he made no attempt to form cross-party friendships. When a new president responds to criticisms with "I won", you know he's in for a rough ride.

The extent to which Obama made enemies, both domestically and internationally, when he didn't need to was astounding. When he was on top he made sure you didn't forget it, and people tend to look for ways to return the favor when you do that.
Is there a place where we can out bad clients?
The main reason Bill Clinton had no trouble forming those relationship is because he was a conservative Democrat, leader of the conservative Democratic Leadership Council, an organization that consistently reinforced Republican economic policy messaging while undercutting the Democratic left and the party's relafionship with its traditional base (particular the working class) by advancing neoliberal policies that were barely distinguishable from contemporary Republican policies.

Being a white rural southerner probably helped, too.
> hunger is never a reason to leave

But good luck finding a free restroom at 10am. Is this an issue at other companies?
Mr. Snowden would like to have a word with you...

(not what you meant but I couldn't resist)
Obama had trouble with intra-party relationships, as your third link points out:

> “You and Mitch work it out,” Mr. Obama said coolly, cutting off any discussion.

> Mr. Reid seethed quietly for the rest of the meeting, according to four separate accounts provided by people who spoke with him about it.

…

> But nearly six years into his term, with his popularity at the lowest of his presidency, Mr. Obama appears remarkably distant from his own party on Capitol Hill, with his long neglect of would-be allies catching up to him.

Great campaigner. Willfully bad politician.
$16 a month for The Australian and the WSJ for 3 months, then $32 a month. That is a bit steep given we all already pay for http://www.abc.net.au/news/
Due to legal wranglings over the 2008 senate results and Dem senator illness the Dems 'controlled' government for about 75 days. Outside that time the Republicans simply fillibustered everything and the Dems didn't have the 60 votes necessary in the senate for Cloture.
I'm curious whether or not there's even a test for the presence of this drug or it's metabolites in the blood of a user who has taken it within say even just the past hour, due to its purportedly short lived effects...

Not curious enough to consult the literature, but curious.
When I was 17, I had a cold and the doctor prescribed some homeopathic remedy containing Atropine. Now, the whole point of homeopathy, of course, is to dilute any ingredients to the point where you are lucky to find even a single molecule of it in a given pill. (In my defense, I did not know anything about medicine back then.)

But I think I must have gotten a package from a batch where they forgot a couple of dilution steps or something. Also I may have misread the instructions. Anyway, it took me about six days to go through the pills, and during that whole time, I could not help but grin almost the entire time. Also, two or three times, I very clearly heard someone talking to me who was not there. I did recognize the voices, they belonged to people I knew. Then again, I looked around, did not see the person and figured that it must have been in my head, which apparently people hallucinating from Atropine are rather incapable of.

OTOH, I had none of the side effects Atropine has according to Wikipedia, so who knows what was going on with me back then. But I understood something was off, and the only thing that had changed from the weeks before were those homeopathic pills. (Just to be clear, all in all the experience was pleasant.)
Coming from companies that use reasonably-sized git repos, I absolutely hated Google's VCS.

Here's some of my painpoints with it:

* No branches. If you want to make a temporary code branch, you create a CL (Google's version of a pull request), but never submit it. This means nobody else can collaborate on it with you, and it must be manually updated to HEAD.

* No CL collaboration. Unlike Git branches, CLs can only contain changes from one user.

* No stable branch. Since everything is essentially on one long branch, it's a real hassle when a project is broken at HEAD. Sure, integration tests should ideally prevent this. In practice, HEAD is often broken. Teams have created bash scripts and mailing lists to determine 'stable' old versions that can be checked out for development.

* Single versions of libraries. Any library that is used is also checked into the VCS. However, only one version of the library can exist in the codebase, which is rarely updated. However, there are exceptions to this.

At one point, Sergey mentioned bringing Google "up to industry standards" regarding VCS's. However, that would be a monumental task and I doubt it will happen.
What if you want to change the first item of a list? If you're going for smallest diff (which I'm not even convinced is a worthwhile consideration in language design), then allover's example is clearly superior to Elm's current convention.
Great idea. I will start by developing my to-do app...
Check out Mautic.org. Quite polished for OSS marketing automation platform.

For some reason maintainers insist that form submissions are a working substitute for events, but otherwise it's interesting.

Anyhow, check it out.
They would be far too easy to game.
I was going to type something like this and gladly found another person with similar thoughts. I firmly believe this is the right direction to go.

Of course, it's easy to suggest. I have to wonder though - what could really be the need for so many expenses? Is it impractical to cut down significantly and ride the success of the tech itself and sustain it with a much smaller set of teams?
That's ignoring the wishes of millions of people who wanted Hillary to win because they think she's more qualified.
A good example would be the ESP-32, powerful enough to run MS-DOS (520 KB hurray!), dual core with extra modern peripherals.

Which means every programming language we used to enjoy back in the day are possible to target such environment, assuming someone would bother to port them to it, that is.
That movie was very exhausting to watch, but it was well worth it!
Then don't read articles on a site he owns.