skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why I hadn't subscribed in the past: I figured it was pointless, because what I really needed was the gestalt from all the papers.

Boy was that dumb of me. I'm sure I would benefit from having perspectives from the WSJ and NYT to pair with WaPo. But my previous state was having no newspaper at all to rely on, just free sites like (bleh) Slate and (unbelievably bad) cable news web sites like CNN. Adding a single newspaper to that has helped enormously.

And it's not just, or even mostly, about improving my understanding of world affairs. It's that the process I use to bring myself up to speed every day is so much more pleasant than it was before. It's like a version of the blogaverse where everything is reported by professionals. It feels kind of like a miracle.

Like I said: it was worth the money. So much so that I'm kicking myself for not having spent the money before. I would guess I get approximately as much value from the WaPo subscription as I do from Amazon Prime.
Just saw a news story on TV yesterday saying that US DUI arrests are down significantly, mostly due to services like Uber and Lyft.
I've heard that many times but I wonder if it's true. The article cites studies but I didn't bother to check the studies themselves. It cites some contemporary anecdotes but I didn't bother to check if they were accurate. It seems to confirm my experience so I'll accept it as reasonable.

The article is clearly trying to put Trump in a bad light and other comments here are applying it to other politicians and corporations. I think the important point is that repetition doesn't discriminate truth but can be dangerous because it can seem like it does. On important issues there is no substitute for research and accurate methods to interpret new data.
Can I ask you a question? Are you trolling or what are your aiming here? Now it's of course downvoted to oblivion, but I'd like to know why even here, amongst smart people, we go down into so cheap comments and even try to defend changes that will eventually make lifes of people like me a living hell.
CPU opcodes have a different purpose. POSIX aims to be an API for general purpose application development.
Then subscribe to some other paper. You might like the WSJ. The point is not which paper, and let's not waste time litigating the choice.
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I still think it is the end of all classes.
Index funds, 401k and some stocks exist only in the USA.

They don't exist in most of the western world (e.g. Europe).

Please don't call that "western financial planning"
I take your point, but I think it's a bit of an overstatement to say that all persuasion happens through repetition. Maybe I'm a bit full of myself, but I like to think that with sound enough logic, I could be persuaded from my position by hearing an argument only once.

That would probably be the distinction I would draw between persuasion in general and indoctrination / brainwashing. Of course, generally indoctrination and brainwashing seem to have a much higher rate of success in changing minds, which is indeed depressing.
The current product is only considered by the creators to be alpha. They don't expect anyone else to found their business on it, and they aren't yet making their business rely on it.

Even if it does become more stable in the future, they haven't made the case that this is well suited for all businesses. It is designed to enable cooperation between stakeholders; a company with one major stakeholder has little need for it.
Because that's my experience. I investigate theoretical models but I don't have the math skills to develop the idea more rigorously at present.
I am trying to find it on Amazon, and failing. Can you please provide a link?
How do you get this deal? I'm having trouble finding it online.
Chemotherapy and radiation as cancer treatment will likely look barbaric when something better comes around.
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I'd have a tough time deciding between the NYT and WSJ next, especially since the editorial/opinion section of the WaPo is the least valuable to me (informed opinion is something you can get everywhere on the Internet for free).

(WaPo vs. NYT was basically a coinflip decision for me, but doing WaPo and then NYT would probably create a pretty significant overlap, and WSJ wouldn't. On the other hand, the NYT is a substantially better site than WSJ).
> modern, western, capitalist societies tend to be basically Huxleyan (HKP) and pre-modern, eastern, communist countries tend to be basically Orwellian (OKP).

Let's not jump to conclusions. It's not too late yet for countries like the U.S. or UK to become Orwellian. Unless you want to argue that modern societies can regress to being pre-modern, and that's when they become Orwellian...
Can you pirate legally? Sounds like a pleonasm.
How Canada is trying to capitalize on Trump’s immigration executive order
I think your reading more into my comment than is there.

If you're trying to write a portable app between all of those platforms, would you choose POSIX or would you instead pick a framework or language that has a better high level abstraction?
Are you also speaking about all those APIs in GNU/Linux that aren't part of any other UNIX clone?
A counterpoint to this interpretation of the Dowling verdict - http://lawtheories.com/?p=1881:

> This lack of “physical removal,” as required by the statute, meant that Dowling’s infringing copies were not “the sorts of goods whose interstate shipment § 2314 makes criminal.” But this doesn’t mean that Dowling’s acts of infringement in creating the physical records were not themselves acts of theft or conversion.
My latest working theory for why DMT elicits similar experiences across different users was actually inspired by Google's "Deep Dream" art: https://research.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-d...

"We know that after training, each layer progressively extracts higher and higher-level features of the image... The final few layers assemble those into complete interpretations—these neurons activate in response to very complex things such as entire buildings or trees."

I'm not an expert, but from the little I know of neuroscience, the human brain also has higher level interpreters inside of it. It is why, for example, that pareidolia (seeing faces in objects) is a thing (https://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/).

"So here’s one surprise: neural networks that were trained to discriminate between different kinds of images have quite a bit of the information needed to generate images too"

"One way to visualize what goes on is to turn the network upside down and ask it to enhance an input image in such a way as to elicit a particular interpretation"

So I believe that what DMT is doing is triggering our high level interpreters to make sense of thoughts and emotions that we have. We do the same thing when we dream, where we interpret an event of the day in a very vivid, novel fashion, sometimes even creating story arcs around it.
This makes sense to me.

In the MySQL monitor, you can terminate a statement with ; for tabular view, or with \G for a linear view that represents each row as a key-value list. This is super useful for reading wide rows in narrow terminals. I can very easily see the appeal of doing the same for wide tables on narrow displays.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I just subscribe to the digital edition.
About 99.99999999999% of people don't want anything to do with your code, your site, your work, or any project you will ever do. Someone illicitly copying your work sounds more like a goal than a problem cause of how popular it needs to be first.
I think we should start removing those regulations that require large parking lots for new construction. It's a little forward-thinking, but if the next shopping center/strip mall/whatever was built only with pickup/dropoff spots and not park-while-you-shop spots, that would both encourage people to ride share today and also build for the future.
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There's a whole lot of POSIX that they didn't mention. They concentrated upon the system call API and left out all of the concepts (character sets, locale, environment variables, regular expressions, command line conventions), the filesystem, the shell, and the utilities.
Their argument that cloud can't survive invasion of privacy is probably right, but ignoring government, cloud operators threaten the privacy of their own users.

G and MSFT both have stories from the early days when their employees went into cloud email accounts to check up on users. In G's case it was a rogue sysadmin stalking some high school kids, for MSFT it was looking at a journalist's hotmail acct to prosecute a leak.

The NSA has their own version of this, LOVEINT, where analysts stalk their significant others (or desireds or exes).

I can't think of any guarantee a company can provide to say this isn't happening, esp on social platforms. Crypto-based platforms might do it (see the danish sugar beet auction, which uses a form of secure multiparty computation) but that's not MSFT's argument here. Also unclear how crypto platforms affect the ability to roll out new features and debug.
And yet they didn't single out a specific figure, nor did the poster above. As you say, there may well be more than one party someone might apply this description to.

Apparently a specific comparison formed in your mind, though, for some mysterious reason.

Probably just "constructed media narrative du jour," right? Certainly not because the person might actually be a quintessential example that stands out from everyone else so well that you already knew who people were likely talking about without anyone being named (yet, strangely, apparently want to deny that person should be considered for such a comparison at all).

> Nothing obscures reality worse than moral concerns.

It's not really clear that it's possible to separate human concerns from moral concerns, and I can only imagine someone arriving at the conclusion that "nothing obscures reality worse" by searching a pretty narrow set of reality-obscuring hazards.
I suspect vaping might.
I'd say botox and silicone implants.
As a cat owner, I recently heard about this phenomenon and looked it up. Many of the Quora answers [1] seem to concur that cats would be startled by the sudden appearance of any novel/unusual object in their vicinity.

1: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-cats-afraid-of-cucumbers-1
Wow, I'm sorry you experienced that. This points to the importance of regularly testing your backups. I hope AWS will offer an automated testing capability at some point in the future.

In the meantime, I hope you've developed automation to test your backups regularly. You could just launch a new RDS instance from the latest nightly snapshot, and run a few test transactions against it.
Apparently nothing was ever more important than renewing the domain…
Only to the point where I don't put sensitive information in it. I can see theirs, they can see mine. Meh.
> ...which run POSIX.

More accurate to say, expose a POSIX compliant API.

I remember BeOS had a 100% compliant POSIX layer. Impressive for a non-UNIX.
Probably a good lesson for us all: anything can be learned on your own, but learning on your own is not guaranteed to highlight what you don't know and need to.
"You love asparagus! It's your favorite!"
I really like the first part of the paper and it describes a lot of their best practices, but the last 1/3 or so of the paper is more about Google's culture, no? IMO that opens them up for the snark here.

Google has some amazing perks and it's a wonderful overall employer, but I really wonder how much cash is left on the table by not addressing its shockingly low retention rate or at least explaining why it's not a problem.

There are a lot of articles estimating the cost of a departure is anywhere from 6-12 months of the lost employee's salary. Does that seem like something that should be ignored like they seemingly do? Why do shareholders even tolerate this?
I thought the same but those do work at some level.
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The only problem with display:table is that it still requires additional markup to organize elements in tables.
Consider this definition list:

<dl>
<dt>Term1</dt>
<dd>Term1 defintion</dd>
<dt>Term2</dt>
<dd>Term2 defintion</dd>
</dl>

and the task of organizing it into two columns table: dt's in first column and dd's in second. Impossible either with display:table & co. or with display flex.

At the same time in Sciter[1] I can define that layout as

dl {
flow: row(dt,dd);
}

- replace dt/dd pairs in table rows. The table will have two columns. Pure styling without changes of markup semantic and structure.

[1] CSS: Flow property and Flex units in Sciter: https://sciter.com/docs/flex-flow/flex-layout.htm
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True, but no one is pretending to never make a mistake. There is a huge spectrum between never making a mistake and making the most fundamental mistake because developers were ignorant to 20 years of industry knowledge.
How many times have you heard it? If a lot of times, then I guess it isn't true.
"interests of most people"(eg. shareholders) is not necessarily the same as"increase shareholder value", which is their legal mandate under corporate law. In this case, I have no doubt, and admittedly no proof, that this is posturing to salvage their perceived respect for privacy in the public eye despite their previous actions and the conflict to their prime directive.
They already sell the data to 3rd parties, their beef is they did not get paid in this/these instances.
Cold Calling and Cold emailing. I contracted maybe 50-80 businesses - 70% dont respond, 25% say no, 5% said maybe and 1 said yes.

A condition of the yes was that I had to transform some of the datasets to fit their format, which was about 2 weeks development work. I told them I would do that development work for free if they signed.

They signed, and this generated recurring revenue of 120,000 GBP a year, which gave me enough income to start my next startup
With RDS Aurora, any of your read replicas can be promoted to read/write master in the event of a failure of your primary master. This happens in 10-15 seconds, and is very fast.

So, you can get the benefit of up to 15 read replicas, and not have to pay for an extra standby server that is sitting idle.
It's good for American news. For a wider angle and a good website and app, Financial Times is great.
> And how would we know how much to pay?

It doesn't seem like an unsolvable problem. The drug companies themselves must have budgets, and the publicly traded ones have a stock price. So someone somewhere must be able to create estimates for this.
For extra realism, consider incorporating Trevor Blackwell's analogtv.c source code. It's a faithful DSP simulation of late 1970s television circuitry. You can see it in action in some Xscreensaver modules.
The 91 hour limit comes from the MLC:

"Rest hours: rest hours should be implemented in national legislation. The maximum hours of work in that legislation should not exceed 14 hours in any 24-hour period and 72 hours in any seven-day period, or: at least ten hours of rest in any 24-hour period and 77 hours (rest) in any seven-day period. Furthermore, the daily hours of rest may not be divided into more than two periods and, at least six hours of rest should be given consecutively in one of those two periods."

7*24-77 = 91
I'm not entirely familiar with embedded programming, but I don't think I understand your buffer example. A serial line adds to the buffer, incrementing an internal "current end position". You grab a drain iterator or a slice, incrementing the internal "current start position". At no point is there any manual arithmetic for any off by 1 errors.
Really? Do you have any source for that? (not arguing - genuinely interested. That's precisely how I lost my greencard)
It's ugly.

The stark contrast with the rest of the site hurts.
> but lean a little closer, stranger, and i'll whisper the truth into your ear: the "two sides" are unequal in their abilities for evaluative thought, self righteous zealotry, and dogmatism. an honest attempt at critical evaluation will go nowhere if your evaluating apparatus is garbage.

The very fact that both sides are convinced there are two sides suggests this is a false statement. The "sides", really the false divisions and classifications, are some of the biggest lies ever told. In any case, any inequality between them is not the problem. By way of analogy, if two glasses of water have unequal amounts of fecal matter with neither being even close to zero, wouldn't it be better not to drink either of them rather than suggest one is better than the other?
That isn't much different for most countries.

Countries have tax agreements that settle expat earnings and social benefit contributions.

The big difference it seems is the reporting obligation which is more or less unique to the US, in most other cases you settle the taxation once you return.
I agree. Many companies, including mine, run critical stuff on applications that are over a decade old that do just fine. Worst thing you can say about them is that some weren't designed well enough for easy extensions or integration with newer apps. They do their job, though. The backbone of ours is mainframe code running on mainframes and AS/400's with simple, terminal interfaces. Terminal stuff is ultra-fast & reliable but sometimes ugly. Some have GUI apps that basically hide the terminal details they interact with to be a bit easier to use. Those terminal apps, probably 20+ years old, still work and get periodically updated. New people learn them easily, too, since interface was well-designed for the time. Can't goof off on the thin clients either as there's no web browser or native apps. ;)

I've seen Google do some rewrites that make sense when one has the money for them. The shift from eventual to stronger consistency in their databases via F1 RDBMS was impressive. Worth some rewrites across the apps to use it to knock out major problems that could affect them once and for all. After developing Go, they also might want to rewrite performance-critical apps in, say, Python to it. There's definitely benefits on such rewrites. A lot of the other stuff I'm betting they could've done more long-term esp if using and extending FOSS solutions.
This article makes no sense.

The Google loophole only works half the time at best.

All articles posted on HN invariably end up with the same discussion:

1) "Behind a paywall. Can't read it."

2) "You need to use the google link"

3) "The google link also gives a paywall."

4) "It worked for me."

5) "Doesn't work for me."
Let's just say that Instapaper's outage was self-inflicted. You don't see them blaming their cloud provider, do you? People make mistakes, and even with a managed relational database service, you can still make mistakes.

The difference is that Instapaper was able to restore from backups, because their managed service performed them properly. The archive data is taking longer to restore, but that's due to design decisions Instapaper made.
Imagine, "The ends justify the means", emblazoned on Air Force One now, or on Lincoln's Carriage during the Civil War, or in the 2016 Presidential election for that matter. Its rare realpolitik is openly acknowledged and endorsed in the United States. Its pretty significant.
How would they check? They don't ask for name spellings.
Sadly languages with Algol like syntax are not fashionable any more, now being cool is having an ML like syntax, hence the momentum.
You can get 500K random reads per second and 100K random writes per second using RDS Aurora.

If you truly need more than 30K IOPs, I would recommend leveraging read-replicas, a Redis cache, and other solutions before just "throwing money at the problem" and purchasing a million IOPs.
Thanks. I should have worded the OP better. I didn't mean start a c-corp just to say I've done it, I meant go down the VC route (I guess that includes a c-corp, but not exclusively) once in my life.

Why do so many entrepreneurs seemingly default to VC if it's such a bad idea?
Of course it isn't just him, he's just the most visible and powerful such example.
Oracle appeals against Google in epic $9B Android legal fight
It's a valid question. There have been lots of grants given out for Blockchain applications. I'm curious why this particular one is receiving attention from Hacker News. For example earlier this year DHS awarded 6 separate companies for Blockchain solutions[0], each of which were awarded $100,000. Some of them will probably move on to phase 2 and receive $800,000.

[0]:https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2016/06/07/d...
It's automatic. Go ahead and launch a new instance, restoring to a point in time (that's how you do restores in RDS). Notice that it gives you a calendar day/date/time fields where you can select the recovery point down to the second. This is enabled by replaying the archive logs to get you to the exact point in time.
depending on your audience, most of the time you still can't use flexbox today due to ie9/10.

it's really something that after all these years, in 2017, microsoft browsers still find a way to hold back web features.
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"It's not a lie if you believe it." --George Costanza
Cycling (and driving) in the city is safer in part because the cars aren't going very fast. They aren't going very fast because they can't. There are simply too many obstacles in the city, whether speed humps, narrow roads, crosswalks, four-way stops, or heavy traffic. I believe this is why DC has the lowest traffic fatality rate in the US [1], despite the near-universal belief that driving in the city is dangerous.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
Flagged because of paywall.
100 % is a trap. Lots of games that require performance use c++ heavily. There's an NDK for a reason.

There's a lot of languages and many are used in different contexts. Just because people use Java and C# to write desktop apps doesn't mean a lot are not using c++ and Qt to do the same.
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Fantastic novel that'll continue aging well I think, esp. if we get more serious about putting civilians on Mars.
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The other side isn't exactly a bunch of careful scientists either [0].

Other people have visited the Pirahã and done experiments with them. It is true that they do not understand counting, for example [1][2], though I'm sure they could learn it if they had to.

Other linguists have also independently claimed that other languages lack recursive embedding, for example Riau Indonesian, so the claim about Pirahã is not isolated or crazy a priori.

The Chomskyan side of the argument has also been characterized by moving the goalposts and formal incoherence. See for example [3].

Basically, amidst a huge storm of verbiage and anger and inflated claims from both sides, all of which is about personalities and definitions and not at all about science, there are a few mildly interesting findings about Pirahã and language.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Hauser
[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5695/496.full
[2] http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2014-12.dir/pdf2Yb7JA...
[3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000114...
I've been in the most horrifying accident most people can think of... rollover at 80mph because some random guy chased me down down the highway and rammed me off the road.

I was scared for a while, but I still love driving. More things will be electric in a few years, sure. Maybe we need more stern punishments for distracted driving. Maybe we need some more assistance to prevent us from going off the road when we are sleepy. But I think people will enjoy driving for the same reason they enjoy tube amps, it's not perfect, but it has a warmth and human element of imperfection to it and people might just like that.