skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Isn't this what in linguistics people call 'code-switching'? It's a contextual and cultural thing. Just like when people go into formal settings like an interview for a white collar job, they tone down the swearing --but ight turn it up once they meet with colleagues at a bar.
how many do you have? and how large is it? I think Dreamhost will ban you one day.
> I wouldn't quite characterize the excitement as giving up

To clarify, the excitement comes from knowledge workers who think they have something in mind that will satisfy displaced laborers. I don't think most laborers would be excited about not working for a lifetime and relying on government payments. I think they'd be concerned about getting scammed at some point down the road.

> work/labor does not have to be the primary way in which one derives a sense of self-worth and purpose

It doesn't for everyone, but it is for some people. UBI is a one-size-fits-all that would replace individually tailored programs.

I don't think "work" is so terrible. Money is just a paper form of trust. You did some work for me, and I know you did that, so I convert your contribution to society into special paper that you can exchange elsewhere for stuff.

A small community wouldn't need money. They'd all know each other. In a larger society, where we each have a specific role, it's one way to ensure people are pulling their weight.

Work connects us, and money smooths the path. We're all working together on something. Some people need more than just money to keep going, so, I don't feel UBI is the right solution. My 2c.
If the caching server fails, the infrastructure automatically switches to use S3 directly.
Ok you really don't know how Cloudbleed works. Go read up on it. Every single vulnerable site can and did leak the same information. The only way to "cherry-pick" it would be to literally throw away the responses that you saw and didn't like, or in other words, by lying.
>it's "zero-rated sites or no internet at all"

Or the money spent providing Wikipedia data could be used to provide a limited amount of free access to the entire internet. Or on better infrastructure so service doesn't cost a months salary.
> battery life is bad as a portable gaming device

Though it still has better battery life than the Sega Game Gear! And doesn't require six AA batteries to recharge. :P
Don’t confuse educational technology that helps kids learn
Thanks for the info.

Is the next step locally cache uploads so that works while S3 is down?
I think that's a great mindset to have and to encourage. My main argument is that "as little as possible" -- especially in Silicon Valley -- is usually much closer to 20% than 10% dilution at seed. E.g. an FTE salary might be $125k-150k/yr, and selling 10% at a $5m cap gives you enough capital for 3-4 people for a year, which is a very small team and very little time to make enough progress to raise a Series A.
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Let me bring this a bit back to were we - or I - started. My point is that I consider it unfair that wages are hugely different between low-skilled work and high-skilled work even if both require similar amounts of work. This only works because the market exploits an imbalance between supply and demanded low-skilled work and is empirically unable to correct this imbalance, for whatever reasons.

We of course need some differences in wages to steer the market to match supply and demand and to encourage better education. I certainly have no desire for a society where everyone is happy flipping burgers because it pays good money. But as long as there is low-skilled work to be done, I want those workers to be compensate for the work they are doing, not punished because of an excess in available work power.

I also hope that people doing low-skilled work would still strive for better education for the sake of it and to become a »better« human, no matter if it is required for the job or not. And they could do this more easily if they did not have to work three jobs to survive. Finally higher wages for low-skilled workers would also encourage automation and therefore reduce the amount of work humans have to do while not reducing the wealth.
These are mostly for government structures, military etc.
No one is using them (or, say, Elbrus) at home for PC's/workstations. Maybe only some geeks and just for fun.
Usually you can't even buy them in normal computer stores (at least I have never seen any).
I have tons of experience with Varnish and a long history there. Varnish is really bad for this since it's memory only. I wanted to use 750GB of disk space, not the 32GB of RAM we had. 750GB of RAM is significantly more expensive.

And in our case, performance between reading some bytes from disk vs memory isn't significant. A disk seek is still many many orders of magnitude faster than a round trip to Amazon.

With that said, Varnish does offer the ability to use mmaped files, but the performance is really appalling out of the box, and just not worth it. Varnish is way better if you want strictly in memory cache.

Another benefit of nginx is the cache won't be dumped if the process restarts, unlike Varnish.
This looks cool! I initially thought by the title you'd made a new grub, but was pleasantly surprised!
WhatsApp is the most used messager with 90%+ market penetration. It has more than a billion users globally. Snap is nowhere near that user base.
The new terms do not grant permission to Github to do anything that they weren't already doing. If you take the view that this agreement is not compatible with a particular software license, then publishing the same software on Github prior to the changes logically must have been a license violation.
Do you think the 'Series' format of storytelling released by Medium.com today meets your expectations of a "chronicle" feature?

https://blog.medium.com/welcome-to-series-a-new-type-of-stor...
Looks pretty sweet, nice work!
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Snapchat already has 2 forms of ads (paid filters and sponsored stories), and $400m in revenue on "only" $450m in costs. Saying SMS will replace snapchat is like saying horses will replace airplanes; anyone under 30 with a smartphone is way past that. For me, only a little older than the main snapchat demographic, it's replaced most of my use of Hangouts (which replaced SMS, but is basically interchangeable with whatsapp/whatever as far as I'm concerned), and completely replaced Facebook. If I used twitter, it probably would have replaced that too. I have several snapchat friends that I literally don't even have their phone number.

Get a few big celebrities using the snapchat glasses courtside at an NBA game or from backstage at a concert or something and watch snapchat explode. I was at a wedding with those glasses and you should have seen how much everyone of all ages loved the glasses.

If their valuation was <$10B I'd be all over this IPO, just $24B seems way too high to me (I also think the whatsapp $19B was ridiculous). Their only risk is being replaced the way I think snapchat will replace Facebook (although I don't think Facebook will completely die), which as the evolution of websites and smartphone apps has shown no one can predict.
I get that, but Luxembourg could probably do the same. We're talking about the world's other erstwhile superpower here.
You might think that, but someone else might think differently. It depends on whether you have a spatial sense of the code, or symbolic.
wow even this is a bit hard to parse (and I work with John!)

Basically, Gustafson's law says, "yeah but really what you're going to do with massively parallel computing is you're going to run more copies of the same program, which has a linear scaling factor".
NASA Releases New Edition of Software Catalog
http://urbit.org/
That's one hell of a busted test. So a page fragment could leak my name and "hurts when I pee" but if the universal standard ID was cutoff it's not a health record?
> they are being paid small amounts because they bring very little value to the organization.

This is entirely incorrect. They bring nearly the entire value to the organization. They bring very little marginal value to the organization, because they can be replaced by other desperate people.
Yeah, one of our goals was to not add a new/weaker point of failure.

We gracefully fall back to S3 directly if our cache server is down without a hiccup. So there is no operational overhead of this additional cog. If the server has a failure, we'd go back to slightly degraded performance by talking across the country until we brought it back online.
> The real problem is self-neglect, whose root cause is low self-esteem.

I'm not sure if I disagree with you, or if my perspective is this same perspective from a different angle, but: I would say that it's more that men tend to (expect to) derive their self-esteem from things they do, rather than things they are—so they invest much more time in doing things, and much less time in being things.

In order to "be" beautiful or to "be" athletic, it's usually a pre-requisite to be healthy—to take care of your body. In order to do things like building a successful business or finding cures for diseases, you don't have to be anything in particular, other than, perhaps, stubborn. So you tend to see things like your own physical health as distractions from "doing."
That's why I wrote cache.

I would imagine that on average a page is retrieved more than it's edited. So even even in the case of poplar pages, there is potential for saving bandwidth.

But I don't know the actual statistics for wikipedia.
Oculus Price Cut and ‘Robo Recall’ Launch
Yes, exaflop, I'm so used to writing "FLOPs" that I wrote it xD

You may have a background in parallelizing simulations, but I beg to differ about parallelizing deep learning training. There is a lot of communication involved. For one, your model is very likely to be enormous (perhaps even necessitating model parallelism) and second, there is a LOT of communication involved even with data parallelism.
And should you lose, face a criminal counter suit. (False testimony and potentially forgery. Depending on the licence, also breach thereof in a civil suit.) Trading a civil suit for criminal one is a Bad Idea.

You generally will have to produce evidence of incremental development at least, if not more.

Not A Lawyer.
I agree. Ironically, this was the advice we got while going through YC (yours, not Sam's.)

Specifically: don't worry about valuation because success is binary. You either make enough money that you don't care too much about percentage or you make zero dollars in which case you don't care about percentage.

The idea of constraints helping to focus a team sounds true, as long as people have enough to not worry about money. Note that this advice comes from Sam, who literally got scurvy from eating too much Ramen while a founder of Loopt.
> Rendering from the command line uses the cpu by default.

I don't believe this is still true. When I render from the command line, it will use the GPU if my user preferences are set to GPU. (confirmed by render timings)
Nope, you don't have to overreact.
> And yet nobody expects ethics and morals from those

Not true, many people expect that and criticize them if they fail to meet this standard.
Money is simply wind in the sails.
As one example, "display" isn't made contingent on attribution.

That's fine, but in general these software licenses do not cover "display", they cover _distribution_. If you consider "using code in a movie hacking UI" to be distribution, then you would already have been bound by the license. If you don't, then you're not. Nothing changes.
Maybe some places. They're $40 on Amazon and $48 on Newegg.
This seems like it is exactly what a blockchain is for...
I'll have to look into this. I wasn't aware. Either way, I don't think that'd replace our current setup since the original intent wasn't to increase our availability. But good to know!
no. code switching is mixing multiple languages, often in a single sentence.
> I imagine if a company becomes enormous, I'd care less about whether my net worth was $200m or $250m as a founder

As an ex-founder I never understood why people make this argument because it's completely symmetric. I.e. I could rephrase it as "I imagine if a company becomes enormous, I'd care less whether my outcome was $200m or $250m as a VC"

I agree with the advice in the article but would phrase it slightly differently -- work hard to structure your company such that you can get away with raising as much as you need and still give away only 10%-15% each round. (Or, yet another way to put it, build a company so successful that you can dictate the terms)
> Unless you're wealthy enough to afford a dedicated physician

I think it depends on your doctor.

My GP is fantastic. He's always running late because the company he works for slots patients in 30 minute intervals, but he takes as long as is needed for his patients.

I'm not even close to wealthy ($50k/year) I can go to him for anything from the flu to broken bones to high cholesterol without thinking, "this is pointless".
More likely to be legally upheld in court though IMHO
Spot on on everything, except the "assumes" part. I'm writing a utility that will convert to/from PLS/UPL without the infrastructure (granted, it will do it on the fly, and it will require some tags to be in the files):

https://gitlab.com/universal-playlist/pls2upl/
> Or the money spent providing Wikipedia data could be used to provide a limited amount of free access to the entire internet.

Could be. But won't be. So it's not really a choice.
Exactly, this exploits an imbalance between supply and demand. You pay low wages for getting your office cleaned because you can get away with it, not because cleaning the office provides no value. This is what I want fixed and the market is empirically unable to it itself.
Never trust the sanity of anyone that can't go through life without a gun.

Your heuristic works in at least one case: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/2/nra-lashes-mi...

dinging him as the “ultimate hypocrite” for lobbying against Second Amendment rights for average Americans while maintaining his own personal armed security force.
for many applications, consider randomizing in [1,2) and then subtracting one. Although many of the fp values in [0,1) will be inaccessible, you are guaranteed uniformity, and also the lattice that you're drawing from will be fixed.
Fair enough. I erred low due to many sites restricting symbols. Also considered leaving out symbols entirely and going with 62 for that reason. Fewer possible symbols just means extra characters, and probably doesn't even have a huge impact on that number. Nine alphanumerics (62 possibilities) beats eight characters with 95 possible values, and if you want something easy to type manually, could be preferable. Depends on usage and site requirements.
> signs that Nintendo didn't know how to adapt to the Internet age haven't exactly been mitigated by what we know of the Switch so far: no web browser, no Virtual Console nor movie services like Netflix at launch.

The Wii (not Wii U but the original Wii) had all of that though. A web browser, multiple on demand services including BBC iPlayer and Netflix, an online store that allowed you to downloadable games direct to the console, etc. So it's not the case that Nintento "can't adapt for the internet age", they clearly did already. This is more a sign that Nintendo don't want the Switch to compete with living room entertainment systems nor general purpose computing tablets.

This actually makes some sense when you consider both of those markets are already saturated. eg most living rooms already have several streamable devices such as:

* other consoles (eg Xbox 360 / P3 and newer),
* XBMC/Kodi devices,
* Amazon Fire Stick and similar,
* or even just a smart TV with that stuff in built.

And who doesn't already have a smart phone and/or tablet?

So instead of chasing after saturated markets that exist on the fringe of their business, Nintendo are focusing on their core market.
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Nonetheless, CloudFlare caches sites and may serve a cached version of you site when it's down, assuming it's "static" enough to be readable from cache.
Which competing service, can you name a couple?
Counterpoint: if you're running out of money, the next investor you try to raise from is going to be tough to negotiate with. If you have years of runway left, you're in control when talking to investors, when you have 6 months, they're in control. Another point is that when everything comes down crashing, as it did in 2008, and you can't raise money anywhere nor, in many cases, make a profit in the near future since demand for everything also crashes, then if you've squirreled away enough money, you don't have to fire anyone, nor close shop.

This is not to say that too much money can't cause the problems you mentioned. The cure is to keep the money in the bank and not spend it.

All of the above is what my employer did, not my own personal idea. (Also no VCs, these gut the company if it's neither public nor profitable in 5 years, or at least they used to.)
fantastic support! looking forward to it. VS Code is the new de facto IDE.

One killer feature might be something from LightTable, where you can highlight a chunk of code and see the output printed on the same page without leaving it.

That's probably one of the last features that makes LightTable valuable but VS Code is killing it! I ditched Atom and SublimeText as well.
This incident lasted for three hours. The last incident was in 2015 and was also a significant amount of time. Sentry can likely provision a new HAProxy node in minutes.

Most importantly, while S3 is relatively stable it's a black box. If you really care about high availability, you want to bring all of the points of failure under your direct control. On the other hand if availability is just a nice-to-have, relying on S3 is probably a better use of time.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but the common response to this is all about timing.

With AWS you don't have any control over "higher risk" times. If you have a massive launch coming up, or you are nearing peak usage for the year, or your clients need you to be stable for the next few months, you can't put updates on hold, you don't know to get a few more people on standby, you can't choose to not make changes to your system, because it's not your system.

With an in house solution you can choose to lock it down for a month, or do the risky upgrades/changes at your lowest traffic time, or even give your customers a heads up if needed. Hell even just being able to mak e sure that your best sysadmin isn't out getting hammered when you go to make changes could go a long way.

There is some merit to that idea, but I personally feel the track record of many of these services is so near perfect that the chances of unexpected downtime is still smaller than most could realistically manage.
>Session cookies can be reset much more easily than asking a user to reset their password.

This statement is making an assertion about the behavior of vastly different software backends and the skill-set of the people administering the systems. Things that may appear trivial to you may not be for the sysadmin in charge of servers running healthcare applications that have an opaque internal state.
It's not just a costs thing. I have never, ever, ever, ever noticed a loading screen in any Nintendo game in my entire life, which is astounding. Lower-fidelity assets must be partly attributable to this, along with clever design to effectively hide whatever loading screens they do need. I have plenty of time to ponder this curiosity while waiting for Bloodborne and FFXV to load...
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Thanks for your feedback!

Certainly... at times. However, I have spent hours before trying to find an answer or needed a good answer quickly. Was there ever a time where a service like that would have been handy for you?
That's another problem that'd require much more work than just a few hours of hacking around. :)
Visual studio code is also the best option for writing Rust on any platform these days (imo!).

Haven't noticed myself buying more microsoft products, but have noticed how much more interested I am in what microsoft is releasing these days (.NET core for example)
To me it's about the control more than it's about the money. If preferred shares got half the voting rights as common then the difference between a 10% seed and a 15% seed isn't as bad, but after accelerator / angel takes 7%, seed takes 15% and possible bridge + series A takes 30% you're down to raising a series B and admitting that you're no longer in control of the company.