skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this would be a good way to frame an argument for a minimum wage in such a way it would appeal to a conservative. "Businesses: you must pay employees enough so they aren't eligible for (most forms of) public assistance."

Is it better to not pay them at all?

If the problem is that people can't afford their bills, the solution is to help them afford their bills (minimum income, negative income tax, cash welfare, etc.), not to distort labor markets.

We need to make sure that there is modest marginal cost to employment or else people will have limited ability to retrain or otherwise break into new labor markets.
[Disclosure - I work at Delimiter]

Thanks for the recommendation, slot hosting is a good solution if you need to get a disk online with a VPS attached to it.

We've had a lot of people asking how you did this so just to explain:

Slot hosting $120/year ($10/month) - that gives you one 3.5" or 2.5" slot to send your disk in. You can aggregate up multiple slots and aggregate the VPS resources into one large VM. This is great for things like ZFS and software RAID. The VM is KVM based. https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/

The server is this:
Dual E5420, 16GB RAM, 1TB or 2x500GB HDD $200/year ($16.66/month).
https://cc.delimiter.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=1718

Slot hosting uses dedicated (non-contended) CPU/RAM/Disk resources so you can run Plex directly on it if you have enough slots aggregated to give you the RAM.
Eh, I can't blame them terribly for introducing it. It was pre-Vulkan so they didn't have any open options when it came to a DX12/Vulkan-level graphics API.

There's a Vulkan-on-Metal implementation[1], and I'd have absolutely no complaints about the platform if there was simply an open source equivalent (well, maybe geometry shaders).

[1]: https://moltengl.com/
Building Single Page Applications on ASP.NET Core with JavaScriptServices
How sad that by now it's far easier to simply mail your stuff to yourself, pick it up on arrival to destination, and mail it back to your house before departing. I am beginning to hate my country so bad I can't wait to get out. It feels nothing like the country I grew up in.
Raph, did you ever look at this work? http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/
I don't know why you are getting so much crap. It seems entirely reasonable to me that mailing the games to you is a suitable way to solve this problem. And entirely reasonable to expect said packages to not get lost in transit.
> the welfare system in general needs to do better than cut people off past a certain point

Is the welfare system the opposite right now with that problematic gap? Make too little and you're on welfare. Get a job, make too much for welfare, and welfare cuts off, leaving this precarious middle area that many can't make, losing their job again, and then falling back into welfare?
>Also note that conservative politicians in the U.S. are increasingly applying ideological pressure on academic research

Conservatives didn't politicize the academy alone. Studies[0] have shown left-wing professors will openly admit to discriminating against conservative peers and students. From the abstract I quote:

"In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists said that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate."

Other studies[1] have confirmed that there is an incredible lack of political diversity in certain university departments and that it's likely caused by outright discrimination.

"This article reviews the available evidence and finds support for four claims: (1) Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years. (2) This lack of political diversity can undermine the validity of social psychological science via mechanisms such as the embedding of liberal values into research questions and methods, steering researchers away from important but politically unpalatable research topics, and producing conclusions that mischaracterize liberals and conservatives alike. (3) Increased political diversity would improve social psychological science by reducing the impact of bias mechanisms such as confirmation bias, and by empowering dissenting minorities to improve the quality of the majority’s thinking. (4)"

Given that these university departments are overtly discriminating based on political affiliation, is it any surprise to see funding for these university departments being politicized? Sorry, if you're discriminating based on political affiliation, you're not doing science, you're doing activism.

[0]: http://yoelinbar.net/papers/political_diversity.pdf

[1]: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...
I think there's a reasonable argument for Craigslist's aversion to offering an API and it's all down to performance and operating costs.

Craigslist manages to offer what may be the last free webservice that hasn't been forced to sell the personal information of its users and/or turn into an ad-infested mess. It manages to make a modest profit by running incredibly lean in terms of manpower and server resources. The incredibly quick and clean interface is a huge appeal for users.

The problem with building an API is that you have now exposed your efficiently minimized infrastructure to the insatiable demand of content scrapers. The resources demanded by a search on a site like Padmapper are greater than those demanded by the same search made on CL. While a smart API implementation isn't the equivalent to loading every relevant listing, some data must be pulled from every one of those listings in order to populate the Padmapper map and provide filters for its users.

My point is that an API would not only increase the demand for resources which CL must pay for, it would break their minimized monetization strategy that keeps the site cleaner and more usable than any other rival. While they could charge for access to the API, the amount they would have to charge would likely break the business model of sites like Padmapper. Padmapper was also relatively clean and ad free but require them to pay any sort of fee for access to Craigslist's data and they'd have to ruin their user experience in order to stay afloat.

Craigslist is minimal for more reasons than simplicity for the developers and users. It's minimal because that's the only way their business model works.
I'm surprised this wasn't upvoted higher. Having multiple servers without the ability to connect them in a secure network doesn't really make sense. Ofc you can DIY with VPNs but it is really a service that a cloud host should provide.
If you aren't planning on going to the US or to whichever other countries might try something similar, then I suppose it's a moot point for you, and you don't need to worry about your phone at all. But if your home government started treating you unreasonably, you might also be interested in having a discussion about possible reactions to the new policies, right?
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Trump Expects Russia to Return Crimea to Ukraine: White House
I would say that's a misreading of his intent - informing developers about the contract law governing their employment is to help people not get burned at a later date because they were iffy about the details of this or that clause.

Of course, being informed about it may very well discourage some people from pursuing side projects. But then this comes down to whether you'd rather have developers continue with their side projects oblivious to the potential consequences of doing so.
For those absurdly curious in trying to find an original source on the proposal/ruling, this is the closest I've found so far: http://bspcb.bih.nic.in/NGT%20Judgemt%20dt%2022.12.2016%20in...

- skip to point #23 on page 63 for the thing about banning plastic:

"We further direct that the use of disposable plastic glasses is prohibited in entire NCT, Delhi at hotels, restaurants and public as well as private functions. The NCT, Delhi shall take appropriate steps against storage, sale and use of such plastic material at above places and it shall stand prohibited w.e.f. 01st of January, 2017."

Note that this still mentions more about plastic cups, not bottles.
Youtube made a business decision not to support someone that does not fit into their corporate culture.

The jokes were done in poor taste, and it made bad PR for Youtube/Google.
Major report prepares ground for genetic modification of human embryos
Softpedia leeching bandwidth from FossHub
I did. Specifically this line

>>> Can't PayPal, Alibaba or Venmo just target these customers themselves? Duplicating these efforts seems like a huge waste of resources...

Which is enquiring about the service options ability to enter those markets.
Does craigslist's UI work really well without JS? I mean, sure, it looks lo-fi, but there's still a ton of script on most pages, and the submission process is definitely pretty dynamic. If anything, CL looks more like a relic of the DHTML era of 'designed for IE4' web design.
I'll repost what I wrote on a previous discussion of this article on FB:

Most versions of this discussion lament the fact that students come into graduate programs with little idea of what the academic job market is like. One could respond - and many do - that it's a "free market," no one is forcing them to choose this profession over any other. However, this rational-actor reasoning can only be expected to work if effective channels were set up to inform students before they've sunk in too much time, and cost (both in terms of money and lost opportunities). Do such channels exist? While I agree that the responsibility largely lies with faculty, there are few incentives in the system for them to lower the number of PhDs. And any system that depends on the uprightness, or clarity of vision of individuals (even liberal humanities professors) is bound to be leaky at best.

While this essay puts some numbers to the problem - approximately 1 job for every 4 PhDs per year, for example - I think this is one domain where more data and analysis could serve as a wake-up call. Those 1 in 4 odds, I'm sure, are far from evenly distributed. They are heavily skewed towards a handful of elite institutions. Go to school elsewhere and the odds stack up much higher. Consider the applicants who graduated in previous years but have remained in the market and the odds are even more daunting, and made worse during job shortfalls like that after the '08 downturn.

If informing graduate students of the magnitude of the challenge they are taking on is the best approach to the problem, then the profession needs to do better than trust this to individuals and institutions who have no incentive to scare away a large portion of their students. Does a dataset exist that makes this information accessible? I'd expect some resistance from departments to share detailed information, but the MLA should have enough information from their member surveys. When grad students send in their first $23 check to the MLA, perhaps they should receive a dossier with employment data for the last 10 years and a few choice graphs to scare the living daylights out of them!
You are forgetting enterprise space is a very capita/resource intensive field with very high CAC where lot of companies end up spending $2 to make $1. Part of the reason why you can't be a garage startup and expect to close a six digit contract after 1.5 years of trying to close it.

I wouldn't touch enterprise until you've hit some maturity with lower tier markets which are easier to sell to.
epaxos is not general purpose replication. It leaves the problem of reconciling multiple replication streams to another layer. I've heard that they do 20+WA (distributed, before you consider on-disk WA) for much of it. shrug
Looks like it, Jambeck et al in Science 2015 rank India 12th for plastic waste input to the oceans.

DOI: 10.1126/science.1260352
I never bring my main phone when going on vacations. I purchased a cheap phone which can run some travel apps (ie: TripAdvisor) and on which I can keep a cached copy of the maps I might need to use, plus some info. Once those apps are installed, I remove my Google account from the device.

I don't have my email account logged in (I do have my 2FA backup codes on a paper sheet in my wallet) and no personal/social media account logged in.

If they want to wipe out the device, so be it. I'll just have to reconfigure those things later on. And if the device is stolen, well that sucks but it's not an expensive loss.
Older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9152581
I don't think its ironic at all. Some American industries actually do attempt to pro-actively fix issues to insure long term profitability. Consider groups like UL or ESRB, no government intervention there.

I like the example of pesticides. The are some really nasty pesticides that aren't banned by law, but there are industry groups that work to reduce and effectively ban the ones that cause birth defects and obvious toxic effects. If you look at a list of pesticides India has banned and compare it to a list that the USA banned the difference and a few more are effectively banned by this group. Nothing is stopping someone from making these pesticides at home and using them on their garden but its like UL for pesticides, no one buys in large quantity without these guys approval.

I think they do this seemingly altruistic thing largely because trust makes for better customers.
Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh confirms separation from her husband
as a mac user, i always prefer to download the dmg directly. i only use the app store for OS updates, xcode and itunes updates.
One of my favorite scenes from Mad Men was Don and his family leaving their garbage everywhere after a picnic in a beautiful forest.

edit: panic to picnic
I think the idea behind intermittent fasting is to trigger some of the low-calorie processes, and then go back to high-energy diets.
> So it makes sense that something described with a different name changes the act in "God's eyes" -- the same way that e.g. killing someone to take their money and killing someone to stop them from killing you are not both "murder".

Which of course is not what's being discussed, so we're not going to go off on that tangent.
High quality of life for who?
they shouldnt be storing it anyways. thats not PCI compliant.
Creating 3 massive banks that the entire world gets to choose from would be terrible.
Facebook is coming to a TV near you
So it is hacker news.
They aren't exclusive, but one is essential and the other is not.

Especially in the age of internet, no one owes you a very specific particular type of entertainment.

I would argue, however, that the social contract does owe you at least some modicum of healthcare and housing assistance, which is why I see absolutely no problem with scalping, but for-profit healthcare abhorrent.

> I think most people would think it is unfair if only people who can pay 2-4x the ticket price are able to see an event.

It is still possible to get tickets by buying them as early as you possibly can. You trade your time for money that you would have otherwise paid the scalper.
Eg: http://mashable.com/2016/03/26/edible-spoon-bakeys/
The rule of thumb I have always been told is that you can push MySql to ~200 GB total and between 99.9% and 99.99% availability (between 1 and 9 hours of downtime per year). Your milage might vary, but these are probably the right orders of magnitude. There is also an iops limit but that's harder to put a clear limit on because it's workload dependent.

If you need more storage, availability, or iops, the current recommendations are shared relational stored or NoSql.

Sharding relational databases means instead of turning on 1 MySql machine, you turn on 16 MySql machines and store 1/16th of the data on each machine. It only allow queries patterns that can be responded to by a single shard (so if you are only doing queries on a per user basis, your golden, otherwise, not so much) and require that your hottest shards (e.g. most active users) should only be a few orders of magnitude larger than your coldest (Justin Bieber probably needs his own machines at Twitter because he has so many users). There are ways to get around this, but they are tricky and will require a lot of developer time.

With NoSql (riak, cassandra, dynamo, etc.), you have to give up many features that make developers lives easier in order to scale beyond a single machine. Each flavor has it's own set of tradeoffs, but the biggest problem is that you loose (1) committing multiple rows at the same time (atomic commit) and (2) ensuring queries don't overlap (isolation).

Spanner offers an alternative where the developer (for the most part) doesn't have to know that her data lives on multiple different machines. It gives you 99.999% availability and theoretically unlimited scaling to any size, with an API that is still relatively developer friendly (compared with NoSql or Shared Sql). One cost here is latency / performance. You need to write to multiple computers across the world so write speed will be bounded at a minimum by the speed of light between those datacenters.

Short answer, there are a lot of companies that could benefit from a system like this. It could give higher availability to a small Sql dataset or stronger guarantees to a current large NoSql database. There is even an argument to be made that the majority of problems companies face today are best solved with this type of system and relational or NoSql optimized workloads are the exception, not the rule.
I had no idea that Macs shipped with git, happy to hear it. :)
pcwalton is right, but specifically, you should install `libglfw3-dev` (which depends on `libx11-6`).
India poised to set new space record
The Leakers Who Exposed Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious – And Justified – Felonies
I don't think one should give any credence to those ancient theories. Greek philosopher Democritus came up with the theory of atoms, but it was a lucky guess without any evidence at the time.
Trump staffers using app that deletes their messages
I think it might actually be factually incorrect. I looked up the Times Of India article that OP's article was referring to [1], and could not find a source on the biggest plastic polluters in the world.

Then, after searching around, the articles [2] and reports [3] that I found all put Indonesia (not India) in the top 5 polluters in the world. They refer to an authoritative source from Science [4], but I'm not able to access this due to the paywall.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Surely the Times of India hasn't confused "Indonesia" for "India", right?

[1] http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/all-forms-of-disposable...

[2] http://www.audubon.org/news/these-5-countries-are-biggest-pl...

[3] PDF! http://www.oceanconservancy.org/our-work/marine-debris/mckin...

[4] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768
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What Are Your Rights If Border Agents Want to Search Your Phone?
Yep. I too tried to edit wikipedia, and then gave up. The experience was unpleasant and exhausting.

> Wikipedia is eating itself and is smugly proud of it.

Oh yes. The smugness cannot be underestimated, and in some ways is the worst part of the whole process.
The truth about cache hit ratios
> Given that CockrochDB is based on Spanner and F1, this DBaaS sounds like it will compete directly with them.

Except that it's not. CockroachDB uses MVCC. Spanner uses 2PL and F1 uses OCC. Not the same at all.
Skills needed for product management roles
That's just... ugh. Who thought ordinal numbers were a good idea for plan ids / instance types? Seems part of what you are paying extra for with AWS/GCP etc is competent engineering.
Forget Recounts. Next Election, Encrypt the Vote Instead
Sounds like a machine learning problem. The dependent variable is profit, not budget.
Given Vulkan is in some ways lower-level than Metal, AIUI, surely there's a significant cost that would make targetting Metal directly a better solution for things performance-critical?
> How have I hindered official action or lied to a federal agent by providing one of my passwords?

The same way that your child disobeyed you when you say "Go to bed", and they lay in yours and tell you "You didn't say which bed".

Clearly, the border agent wasn't asking for the password to your alternate, fake part of the phone, and they aren't likely to be happy if they figure out that you followed your own interpretation of the letter of the order, rather than an interpretation that conforms to the spirit of the order.
>What's happening for the next decade is the destruction of businesses hosting their own IT infrastructure and moving it to a couple of core centers.

Yes, and this will be disadvantageous over the long run for people that want to run things themselves. Ultimately companies like AMD/Intel go where the big money is at. As things centralize further and further, there will only be 3 customers they care about in the server market.
So they launched right after the holidays in the slowest time possible and are shutting it down only after a month? I think we don't have the full story here. It looks like a panic either on the investor's side or startup side, or both.
Take a look at Kate Bush for example. Didn't tour for 35 years. Most artists will perform but there was definitely an era where it wasn't necessary to putting food on the table.
A machine knows the difference between cats and dogs? How to code it
Facebook 'tests loyalty' by purposefully crashing app
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I think one can mix hinters and renderers from different libraries. If it's all about fast vector rendering I don't see why they couldn't just use freetype's hinter (maybe they do).
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Signed up. Would be hard pressed to actually supply any products/services in return for Swift coins though. Cool experiment!
Same goes for Eastern Orthodox Christianity if you can accept that religion is form of ancient philosophy, usually Tuesday and Friday are considered fasting days.
I think one reason could be because Delhi doesn't have it's own border control? But yea I get it, there are lots of things that can be done to enforce it.
We're venturing a little off-topic here, but I'll walk with you a bit:

I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me here.

My understanding of the current welfare system is that you get $Y from welfare as long as you make less than $X dollars from a "real" job, but as soon as you make $X dollars at your job, you lose the entire $Y from welfare.

That's a bad system. A better system would keep paying welfare once you make more than $X at your job, it would just start reducing the amount of welfare you receive, e.g. for every $1 you make above $X, your welfare payment reduces by $0.50. This ensures that as you make more money at your real job, you aren't actually suddenly reducing your take home pay.

Basically a negative income tax for those making less than some threshold.
This is a system which is guaranteed to be consistent and available as long as there are no partitions. If there are partitions, the system isn't guaranteed to be either.

Yes, it's a pretty much useless system.
Pathfinder's rendering is best-in-class, equaling or exceeding the quality of the other renderers. FreeType, stb_truetype, font-rs, and Pathfinder all use exact trapezoidal area calculations for antialiasing. Most GPU algorithms use lower-quality multisample antialiasing, but matching the system renderer in quality is one of the key goals of Pathfinder.

Regarding hinting, hinting is mostly a transformation applied to the vectors before rasterization, so it's (again, mostly) independent of the actual vector rasterizer. Note that many systems do no hinting at all. To make the benchmarks fair, hinting was disabled for the libraries that support it.