skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things to make you go "WTF".

The part about handling lawsuits for their customers is a strong enough statement against (software) patents -- that getting sued is pretty much inevitable -- but it sounds like they'll let you use their patents to counter-sue. Which is even more fucked up, since the underlying assumption has to be that it isn't possible to exist without violating at least one of them.
Rule of law is(was?) precipitously absent in most South American countries. Only recently have things started to change. But its stories like these that scare away investors really and cause way too much hardship for the nation as a whole, down the line.

Something similar exists now in Russia and Venezuela, I imagine.
all valid points - I won't say but, so I'll just say: if you really want to be hands off you could consider a "WP hosting company"
It's about people getting to work in a reasonable amount of time and comfort from housing they can afford.

Rich urbanites having ugly roads in their field of vision is not remotely comparable to middle and working class people having to move in with roommates or triple their commute times.
Small towns used to be walkable, too. It's not like everyone lived in big cities before the automobile was invented.
It could be argued that the government should tax bikes and pedestrians instead, since they aren't paying their fair share of gasoline taxes that pay for infrastructure upkeep.

I think the best idea is for people who want to ride bikes to ride bikes and enjoy their contribution to the environment without trying to impose taxes on people other than themselves.
Why do you say so? I find them pretty easy to handle. Variant arrays can be pulled and pushed straight from/to Range objects, you have LBound and Ubound to iterate over arrays if you don't feel like you can trust the base, or otherwise you have For Each. And you have Collection and Dictionary if you have different needs - you can even define a class, instance it and push to a Dictionary, now you have a key-value store full of your Object.
There's a limit, as I recently discovered. I had very patient, forgiving friends. But they've given up on me, and I can't say I blame them.
Is this the way airhostesses should behave??
Some of the airlines (e.g. Alaskan) will actually rent you an iPad loaded with movies for a couple of bucks. Still saves on weight, and let's the people who really want a curated experience to use it.
He correlates the money to his problems as a ego defense mechanism. By blaming something external, he doesn't have to face that he is an "asshole," to use his own word.

It's the difference between "money made me an asshole" and "I am an asshole and always was one." The first one is much easier to live with than the second one. Same with "my money made all of my friends insecure whiners" vs. "I filled my life with insecure whiners."
People have a chance at a first impression once, and the name of your brand is a pretty fucking big first impression.

Cockroach was a terrible branding decision.
Any compound with a hydrogen ion that can dissociate in solution is technically called an acid, but that doesn't mean it's acidic properties are the most relevant.
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>no person with style buys $300 jeans

There's definitely some very nice made in USA or Japan, raw denim at or above that price. They're definitely not household name brands though.
If you stop subsidising driving then the amount of driving decreases naturally.
I'm certainly not saying that deep learning is fundamentally flawed. It's a great method, very powerful. (Excellent algorithm.)

I'm saying it's not reasonable to expect good generalization in deep convnets that learn mappings from static images to human labels. (Wrong problem.)
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Being able to install from USB Flash should be a top priority as CD's and DVDs are becoming less common and a lot of newer embedded boards (which would be a good target market) don't even have SATA or IDE connectors.

Windows Embedded versions (7 through 10) are impossible to get a licence for without jumping through a shit-tonne of hoops, paperwork and scrutiny (been there recently and its almost like Microsoft don't want your custom even when its genuine) so there is a market but more of us embedded people are moving to Linux so you need to be quick.

Anyway Watching with interest and keep up the progress
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He/She may have been speaking hyperbolically. There is no way (well, short of Korean War v2) that the Korean economy will be "burned to the ground" by what is going on. In fact, seeing all the thousands of young Koreans clamoring for accountability is just what the country and society needs. Remember that strong rule of law and impartial judicial system took a long time to sink roots in western society.

The patrimony that currently exists in elite Korean society must end to enable Koreans to better tackle the problems of 21st century.
The sad thing is no one was asking Ubuntu to rebuild all the system dependencies against OpenJDK 8. Developers just wanted the package to be available for installing.

The extra icing on the cake? They removed OpenJDK 7 from 16.04 despite it still being supported. :-/
Iridium GO has the bandwidth of a dialup modem.
> The costs of European political division into multiple competing states were substantial: they included almost incessant warfare, protectionism, and other coordination failures. Many scholars now believe, however, that in the long run the benefits of competing states might have been larger than the costs. In particular, the existence of multiple competing states encouraged scientific and technological innovation.

I wonder if this is still true today and if globalism will ultimately make us worse off?
It gives me faith in humanity that someone called this out.
You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSRPMFDTSs
If you want to specialize in javascript and html that's fine. The middle/backend/API then ought to be developed by someone knowledgeable in SQL - but it's still a developer, not a DBA. DBAs are sysadmins not programmers. If you want to specialize in middle/backend development and think you should be able to defer all your SQL problems to a DBA then no your dead wrong. You simply cannot be a good backend developer for web applications utilizing RDBMSs and not know this shit.
Just want to point out that you could be a bit more sensitive. You've recognized the author's insecurities. Pointing them out in this thread in this manner is something that one should consider whether it would do more harm than good. On the other side of the screen might be the author who is reading your comment and a bunch of other comments calling him out on his insecurities and then piling on.

You do not want to be the one comment that was responsible for a man suddenly folding in on himself and thinking "oh god I really am worthless. Why even be around?".

I grew up in an environment that made me feel insecure and then piled up on my insecurities. I know what it's like to run into a seemingly unrelated event that just makes you wander up to the rooftop of a building and consider throwing yourself off because you feel like a piece of trash that's always been as bad as you thought you were.

Please please please. I implore you and everyone else on this thread to consider words like this really really carefully. On the other side of that screen is a human. Flawed. Maybe deeply damaged. But human nonetheless. Let's take care of each other :).

Peace!
Or people don't like living on top of one another.

Give me a nice half-acre and a self-driving car to get me where I need to go.
I can't tell if this guy is a jerk or just pretending to be a jerk. But the tone is pitch perfect. Even the title is pure jerky clickbait. Here's a dude who talks about visioning as his main skill, is surprised when small groups of people don't want him to micromanage them, and falls deeper into solitude when he cannot discuss the problems of $400 boots with normal people. My heart bleeds. He should be transmuted into a parody for the HBO show. The really weird, deeper issue is that even when a totally un-self-aware human being like the author, or like the author is pretending to be, realizes they are totally un-self-aware, they still talk about it in an un-self-aware way where the reader is like STFU who cares... Lord protect us from what we want, and from who we are.
A million people dying... from driving? That is an astonishing claim that would likely get the discoverer a nobel prize. Please provide the citation to the peer reviewed paper in a major publication.
where is the list of 32 companies?
I was thinking that a few those can be found in http://secrets.blacktree.com/ and the boom the website is gone.

Thankfully the payback machine is there for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20150621044359/http://secrets.bl...

I should start donating money to those guys
GOOGLE IT ASSHOLE.
I have to agree with this. At the end of the post I was still searching for the meaning of it. What was the point of that article? "I have money, and they don't so I can't relate".

As Patrick Meagher would say: "Some people are so poor that all they have is money".
The correct answer is maximize the entropy of the universe, so both of those options work.
Most of your examples above point to money == comfort, which I would agree with. I would argue, though, that the line from comfort to happiness is not as direct as most people assume
Totally agree. This seems like a clickbait title to cash in on the "yet-another-cancelled-Alphabet-moonshot".
It's unfortunate that this particular article about this story is on the front page of HN when there are several others[1] that contradict this headline and actually even provide more information.

[1]
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/16/how-googles-project-loon-b...
http://www.businessinsider.com/project-loon-x-google-alphabe...
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/16/14640470/alphabets-balloon-b...
https://news.fastcompany.com/alphabet-uses-ai-to-expand-cove...
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/google-alphabet-project-loon-la...
http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/google-loon-balloon-internet-...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/16/google-pr...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4233028/Alphabe...
I'm not really sure what your point is. Jay Lee of Samsung also did his graduate work in business in Japan and later PhD at Harvard -- though he dropped out without finishing it.

So what explains her lucrative employment at NBC and McKinsey at eye-popping salary for someone did done nothing, but go to school and sit pretty as a daughter of influential politicians?
That was helpful, thanks!
That was a poor phrasing on my part. What I meant to say was something along the line of, "people are willing to take big hits to see reforms take place".

I don't think their world is burning. With all the turmoils going on in parts of the globe, world-burning would be a hyperbolic characterization.

I do feel that it's been on a slow roast for the past 20 years, with temperature steadily rising each year. At some point, the situation becomes intolerable for critical mass, and people will jump out without looking; some not caring if it is straight into frying pan. I think we are there now.

I've never seen this level of frustration since the late 80s.
"(which people think will be nice places to live, and cheaper, but that turn out create rather shabby quality of life compared to walkable cities)."

"Shabby quality of life" by whose standards? The people who actually live there? I think not.

If life in the suburbs actually sucked, people simply wouldn't stay there. It's not like they're given a one-way exit visa when they leave the city. They could move back any time they wanted. But, as a group, they never do. The reason they don't is because they find the amenities found in the suburbs (in specific, safety, cleanliness, room for their possessions, privacy, and better schools) preferable to those found in the cities. "Preferable" here means preferable by their standards, which are not the same as those of a single 22 year old programmer, or a single 30-something art connoisseur, or...
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/14/the-growth-pon...
Slightly off topic but with all the video expertise in this thread, I want to ask anyway! :-)

I'm currently selecting parts for my next computer, to be used for continued development of the Windows .NET software for the Web site for my startup and also for my first Web server available to beta testers and then to the public on the Internet.

So, sure, I need a video card. Of course, I will do some routine Web browsing, maybe watch a movie at YouTube or Netflix. But I have never played a video game and, trying to get my business going, have no intention of playing a video game.

So, looking at information on video cards, it appears that maybe the card should support hardware acceleration of Microsoft's DirectX version 12 and also maybe some recent version of OpenGL.

Question 1: Why should I move from just VGA, that is, get just a VGA card and not even get a graphics card? What will I get from a graphics card I really need and can't get from just VGA?

Question 2: If I get a graphics card, will DirectX 12 hardware acceleration on a graphics card help for some of Web browsing or movie watching?

Question 3: Same as Question 2 but for OpenGL?

Some people on this tread may have some good answers. As far as I can tell, good answers on the Internet are like hen's teeth -- it looks like everyone wants to sell graphics cards for the latest gaming experience.

Thanks!
The OP is right, and actually understating it if anything. Here's a report from the WHO [1] where they cite 1.25 million from 2013. If anything, that number has probably increased significantly since then given the rapid industrialization (and automobilization) of developing countries, especially China.

http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_...
Isn't it 50,000 in the US alone? A million worldwide doesn't sound too exaggerated. And that's directly killed, not taking into account pollution and climate change.
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Strong disagree. Every other sentence in the article is about scaling back! Which successful small developments did you see substantiated in the article? The Sri Lanka development mentioned in TFA seems to have been abandoned (http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/-Proposed-Google-Loon-proj...). The one in India seems to have been abandoned.

It looks like the project has narrowed down into a focused "small demo" phase that is no longer commensurate with the original scope of the project.

Remember how Google exited Fiber? It was the same combination of re-scoping and backing away from nationwide ambition, over years.

It sucks when novel, ambitious engineering ideas don't get the support initially promised (I could tell stories...), but we can't fail to see the directional information given in the article.
As a contrarian defender of driving in these threads, even I hate street parking.

Street parking serves no one well. Finding a spot near where you're going is unlikely, searching for one brings traffic to a crawl, and getting into one creates significant and dangerous disruption to the roadway, particularly for the bike lane.

People who rely on street parking are incentivized to oppose density in the places they park. Mandatory minimum parking requirements result in wasted space, or facilitates car ownership for people who don't care about/benefit from it at the expense of those who do.

Street parking for cars should be eliminated in favor of loading zones and motorcycle/scooter/bicycle parking, which packs much more densely. (Bias towards electric ones if you care to). At the same time, garages (with street-facing storefronts) should be only the list of things you can build by-right.

Drivers should booking garage spaces with dynamic, demand-based pricing from their phones before departing, and should know exactly where they're going to park before setting out.
How does supporting driving by subsidizing it help those people over spending the funds on, eg, public transit or denser housing in urban cores?

It sounds like it just increases their health risks and lowers the quality of their landscapes over those other options.
Maybe the first few times, after ~20 it really starts to lose its luster
I think if I got rich then I'd think very carefully about whether or not I wanted anyone else to know.
When density is so low outside a city's relatively tiny core, like in most American cities, it's no surprise areas with short commute times are so expensive. Maybe if we densified our cities prices wouldn't be so out of whack.

It doesn't have to be Manhattan like densities either. Many German cities, for example, are full of 4, 5, 6 story buildings. Dense enough to support frequent transit and common enough to not have astronomical rents.
>It's impossible to 'look at someone like a little girl'. It's mostly likely that these people either feel insecure, or, they project certain qualities upon the author.

What kind of person ends up surrounded by insecure feeling people like this?
That is quite contrived, off with you!
>> When you roll up to someone’s house in a Tesla,

So why turn up to someones house in a Tesla if you feel that makes you into a jerkey showoff? Get an ordinary car.
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Would this disproportionately hurt lower income earners who live in the cheaper suburbs and have longer commutes? Easy to ask for that pigovian tax when you've got that sweet downtown loft.
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That's not because of confusion over whether it's means the same as "Use By" so much as because some products, though perfectly safe after their "Best Before" in practice might be a bit yuck, while others are generally ok, and you can't always tell because often it's about "did the humidity get to it?".

That KitKat might have more bend than snap to it... That box of stale cornflakes might be a bit more chewy than crunchy...

And unsurprisingly, consumers aren't keen on the risk of getting home from the shops, only to discover that £1 product that's past its best before really is ickily unpleasant and now they have to walk all the way back to the shops again if they wan't something palatable...
And for a much broader look at artists' use of color over time, check out the book "Color A Natural History Of The Palette".

[0] http://www.powells.com/book/color-a-natural-history-of-the-p...
The selection of movies is one (useful) thing. Having the back of my head constantly poked from behind by less than delicate fingers is something I won't miss at all.
The environmental costs are one thing, and those could be served by carbon taxes. But that doesn't address the congestion costs or the infrastructure costs.

Ideally we'd separately tax each thing appropriately: Tax carbon to account for emissions, tax road use (per mile in accordance with vehicle weight) to account for road wear, and tax congestion (by time-based demand for commuter corridors, bridges/tunnels, or central business zones) to account for the congestion cost of adding another car to the road.
Exactly. We should be doing this, and then driving will fall away of its own accord. Not directly attacking driving before/instead of doing this.
No one is proposing forbidding your nice half-acre, just allowing the rest of us to live on top of one another if we so choose.
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On a related note, the Arwinss subproject (which restructures ReactOS a bit to more closely match WINE's architecture) is pretty interesting: https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Arwinss
What's with the tone? Think about the people you know who "died too young." They probably died in a car accident. Vehicular crashes are the number 1 cause of death in the US among people 15-45 (or thereabouts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision

>Road injuries occurred in about 54 million people in 2013.[1] This resulted in 1.4 million deaths in 2013, up from 1.1 million deaths in 1990.[2]

The citation: GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet. 385: 117–71. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMC 4340604 . PMID 25530442.
Few worthwhile efforts are ever successful on the first attempt.

Failures are essential to progress. They provide an improved understanding of the context and a guide to achieving a better outcome. Failure has nothing to do with guilt.

Failure is just another metric.
It seems to me that money isn't the issue here.

The issue is that this guy is a jerk, that's all.

Sounds like he has taken becoming rich as a license to set his inner jerk free.
The problem is that it's pretty much CBP's discretion whether you --- a non-citizen --- are being responsive. There aren't statutes for this stuff.
I think you said it yourself, "We have a dedicated engineering team who take care of this". I assume the goal of Floyd is to eliminate the need to build such teams and reduce cost of this type of effort. This indeed seems to be the goal of most SaaS/PaaS startups.
>Most assholes don't have that level of reflection so I'm not going to be too harsh

I think that's what differentiates your run-of-the-mill asshole from a sociopath.

While the author doesn't do a great job at eliciting sympathy (if that was even his goal?), I can imagine the weeks/months/years after an exit can be tough on someone who has invested so much of their personal worth in a single entity. I think certain personality traits thrive in the start-up founder world, but the things that make those people succeed also leave them susceptible to massive emotional lows once the story is over and the dream is realized.
I disagree, I applaud the effort even if in the current state few will use it.

Imagine a few decades from now, Windows has either transformed so much that it can no longer run certain things or it entirely disappears as a platform.

Something like ReactOS could become very useful to running legacy stuff or perhaps the code can be recycled for emulation/vm and legally offered for free. It can also be used on older hardware to bring back Windows applications/gaming, while also keeping it up to date.
Many poor people already can't afford to drive. In my city, over a third of households are carless and for most of them i can guarantee it's not by choice. Public transit is weak outside the core, the urban poor are by default locked out of suburban opportunities and job centers.

I imagine the situation is probably just as bad for the carless rural poor.

Car culture also locks out opportunity for other segments of the population - the young, the very old, the disabled.
ReactOS is the work of about 100 contributors, most of whom are volunteers. Its goal is to be compatible with an operating system that is the work of thousands of paid programmers. It's amazing to me that ReactOS has progressed as far as it has given its resources.
The description above is inaccurate: the four percent rule is the amount that will exhaust your principal over the expected length of your retirement. It's also a conservative number, in that over the period of time studied, the principal never ran out for anyone withdrawing 4%. You can often withdraw more.

However, if you're retiring at age 30, the 4% rule is probably way too ambitious (unless you're actively managing your investments).
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The US peaked at a little over 50k per year, but is down to ~35k (and was lower a few years ago).
Sure, and maybe promoting walkability in small towns is the right path.

This doesn't solve the problem that the low- and mid-level staff of downtown offices in major metros benefits immensely from the ability to drive to work (or to within a few transit stops of work) and would suffer immensely if that option were taken away.