skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David Holmgren - one of the co-developers of Permaculture - produced a book a while back called Trees on The Treeless Plains[1].

The developing of arid lands into something productive (without requiring massive or on-going inputs of energy, nutrients, water, etc) is a common theme among a lot of the big names in Permaculture - you could review some of Geoff Lawton's publications on the work he's been doing in Jordan[2]

FWIW, my experience trying to grow productive trees in areas of Australia with (annual) 3 metre evaporation rates and average 600mm rainfall (with some multi-year droughts) and frequent 45C weeks through the summer period -- the single biggest requirement for success is native animal exclusion while trying to get pioneer trees established.

[1] https://holmgren.com.au/product/treeless-plains/?v=3a1ed7090...

[2] http://permaculturenews.org/2013/11/19/rough-ready-real-nove...
Judging by how much people currently pay for cable, there is more than $35/mo worth of programming there. Perhaps not to you, but that just means you aren't the customer for this product.

> As proof, after watching an awesome trailer for some new sci-fi show you may be totally pumped up to watch it until at the end when they announce, "only on ABC!"

Legion is pretty good. Legion is on FX. FX is on YouTube TV. To be honest I'm struggling to come up with too many recent sci-fi shows that don't entirely suck, irrespective of where they're being made.
Why would anyone want to pay $35 per month to access tired old ad supported programming when they can get subscriptions from 3 streaming services for that price.
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I don't understand your criticism. How do you propose a bad-actor could control such a large number of accounts? even supposing this malicious figure had that much influence, the problem is just one of how Twitter bills its users. It is the platform's responsibility to determine how it bills and whether or not it is billing fairly. this is a technical implementation detail of the platform, which is beyond the scope of this discussion.

finally, suppose those are "malicious followers". who cares? you pay for reach. if all those supposedly malicious followers stay as your followers they're still seeing your tweets. isn't that the point? I don't see how this is an abuse of the system. A view is a view. Are we suppose to now distinguish between friendly vs. hostile views? This is getting ridiculous.
MS could have also chosen to push a fix that crippled CSS on table header rows or whatnot. Web rendering would break and users would complain, but at least users wouldn't have been intentionally exposed.

It's a false dichotomy to suggest that MS's only options were an actual fix vs. do nothing. There are always other options.
Sell their fancy ML team ('Twitter Cortex') before all the heavy hitters leave (some have left already to Google Brain). They are working on video super-resolution, a pipe dream product.
Microsoft missed their February patch release cycle. It's likely due to that.
Even where there is, there isn't a standard "put this in the password field" API. You'd need to modify both apps to cooperate, which is basically a no-go unless you control both.

But I would love such an API, for reasons like this. Clipboard / custom keyboard / etc are horrific alternatives when you could e.g. do an oauth-like app-redirect. Both sides can validate each other, and the user just has to hit yes/no/choose the account.
Everyone always talks about antenna, but it's not for everyone. Living in an apartment in NYC, I never, ever got decent coverage with an antenna.
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Whiteboard programming isn't very relevant to day-to-day programming.

Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant.
Why Amazon's data centers are in spy country (2016)
> For example asm.js and WebAssembly have branches don't they? Does the JIT always compile both branches even if one has never been taken in practice?

WebAssembly is treated just like other "real binaries" produced for the "real" OS. Whatever survived the static optimizations while producing the binaries is converted, at the end, to the pure machine code, you don't "trace" it in run-time by the user.

> even very static languages like C benefit from speculative optimisations which may need to be reversed.

I'm not aware of "speculative optimisations which may need to be reversed" in C, and I'd be very interested to read what you mean when you write that, possibly with some links and references. Do you mean run-time, by the user, or something else?
Sling's does have a DVR function, just not with most of the 'mainstream' channels, for whatever annoying business reasons.
Looks like a great tool for ad hoc testing of HTTP clients. Exactly what I often need during development of the client you use in the demo :)
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How is that not the point? The point you are making is that you are OK with them sacrificing principles to reach a larger audience, is it not?
The article says 40 coal plants were shut down last year.

Global warming skeptics like our current president want us to stay on fossil fuels forever. They don't seem to realize the issue has already been decided, and fossil fuels are going to be increasingly replaced by renewable energy.

Does anyone really think that, fifty or a hundred years from now, our electricity will still be produced by coal and natural gas, and our cars still powered by gasoline?
The post described a situation in which a government could do anything with or without evidence, in which case it doesn't matter if they have evidence.

And I also think without us rolling our own isps, the government will always have a back door.

And truthfully I think Amazon has a better chance of fighting invasive government behavior than I do as an individual.
PayPal is likely using these US government lists: http://apps.export.gov/csl-search#/csl-search

Companies like PayPal aren't doing this because they honestly believe it will catch terrorism. They are doing this because the US government tells them to, and they risk onerous penalties for non-compliance.

"Aleph" is on that list as an alias of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult responsible for the Japanese subway Sarin attack in 1995.

These regulations are somewhat pointless in that the list is public so anyone on the list can easily find out the fact they are on it and use an alias / front company / etc which isn't – so they only catch the truly incompetent terrorist funder/sanctions-buster/etc. But I don't think we can blame companies like PayPal for the existence of government regulations like this–I'm not aware that PayPal, or any other major corporation, has lobbied for these regulations to exist–although if PayPal take a month to remedy a false positive, that is unacceptably slow and it is fair to criticise them for that.
The ESP8266 is somewhat flexible with what voltage it'll accept, but it's not recommended
> I realized that I was being mean, but why was that disclaimer relevant?

Because:

- transparency is always good

- adding a small disclosure to the bottom of a post is very low impact

- someone who is interviewing for a job at a company is likely to have a set of biases that influence what they say even if they think that they're being honest and objective.
I think you're underestimating the number of businesses who could be convinced that $12 a year is like the marketing equivalent of Pascal's Wager.
Great leaders cause their staff to grow personally and professionally; they do this by finding out what keeps the staff from becoming all they can be, and removing those barriers. This causes companies and the industry at large to grow.

E.G. We used to have a general manager at where I worked some 30 years ago who handled a time theft case this way; he brought the guy into his office with a manager, laid down the time theft amount and days time theft occurred and gave the guy two options. Walk out the door, or work and pay it back; if you choose to be dishonest we have no use for you, leave. If you choose to be honest, pay it back, show me you can be a moral person, we're even. That person chose to pay it back, and they stayed with that company some 20 additional years.

Any other quality is secondary. You don't have to know a library of algorithms or what the latest and greatest API is to be a great leader or even a competent programmer. Those things are distractions from understanding the fundamental theories and best practices of computer science anyway, and a lot of it is technological imperialism delivered through marketing to management already very aware technology needs to be inhibited for them to stay employed.

Another very large organization I worked for had a standard software they had deployed all over the organization, and one department, a lab, had a bar-coding requirement for data entry to eliminate very costly problems that traced back to the lab. It wasn't my department's job to build infrastructure for them, and they had budgetary constraints that kept them from updating. I suggested they ask the staff to change the font of the text to a bar-code font which is something after doing 5 minutes of google research, I discovered the app allowed. I closed out the ticket and referenced that as a suggestion, and gave them the ticket to reference later. Lo and behold, 2 months later, they get a estimate for $50,000. This organization is one of the biggest employers in the US, and routinely mergers with another company about once every other year. There is no leadership in their organization, and we all suffer for it.
That doesn't explain the zero's price. They are making a loss on those, and a quite big one at that. It is not possible to make something like the Pi Zero for less than double it's retail price.
Also, the bandwidth calculator seems to be broken, I can't add bandwidth charges for services through the calculator.
People have always moved to towns/cities for better opportunities. Cities may breed disease - but being a subsistence farmer is a rough life.
I suspect that's no worse than minified JavaScript or ASM.js.
ah, 6 users means the service costs as little as $5.83 if you do it right.
That's a dead Mozilla project called Shumway
What do consider lacking on iOS?
I kind of assumed that at $35/month, there were no ads. You have to skip them? Seems to me that YouTube wants to have its cake and eat it too.
I'm pretty new to Arduino and the ESP8266, but doesn't this involve breaking out all the pins to another board to do the level conversion? I was hoping there'd be a converter in shield form.
There are other Amazon services that were affected. For example, we're still not seeing auto scaling groups working correctly.
We let the kids run the show and turn a platform for interactive documents into some sort of VM.
We were on GCP for around a year, it was my decision I really wanted to love GCP and I initially did. But we recently switched to AWS.

I think there is little GCP does better than AWS. Pricing is better on paper, but performance per buck seems to be on par. Stability is a lot worse on GCP, and I don't just mean service outages like this one (which they had their fair share) but also individual issues like instances slowing down or network acting up randomly. Also lack of service offerings like no PostgreSQL, functions never leaving alpha, no hosted redis clusters etc... Support is also too expensive compared to AWS.

Management interfaces are better on GCP and sustained use discount is a big step up against AWS reservations. Otherwise, I think AWS works better.
The brilliance of open sourcing Borg (aka Kubernetes) is evident in times like these. We[0] are seeing more and more SaaS companies abstract away their dependencies on AWS or any particular cloud provider with Kubernetes.

Managing stateful services is still difficult but we are starting to see paths forward [1] and the community's velocity is remarkable.

K8s seems to be the wolf in sheep's clothing that will break AWS' virtual monopoly on IaaS.

[0] We (gravitational.com) help companies go "multi-region" or on-prem using Kubernetes as a portable run-time.

[1] Some interesting projects from this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738916)

* Postgres automation for Kubernetes deployments https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon

* Automation for operating the Etcd cluster:https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator

* Kubernetes-native deployment of Ceph: https://rook.io/
From what I've read (http://www.gremwell.com/ssh-mitm-public-key-authentication), if you use public key authentication with SSH, the MITM will break the authentication (forcing ssh to ask for a password). It's the same as with TLS client certificate authentication: in the same way the server certificate authenticates the server to your browser, the client certificate authenticates your browser to the server, and the server will reject MITM connections as unauthenticated.

While unfortunately for TLS client certificates are not a solution against MITM due to their awful user experience and privacy concerns, for SSH public key authentication has a good user experience, and is very common.
It's difficult to get single numbers for these, due to the difficulties that you're listing. I'm not sure that it's stranger than any other analysis out there, such as EIA. I believe it's slightly more focused on where to invest if you wanted to build one more of something, which fits with Lazard's other focuses.

It's not surprising that residential PV is so expensive. First off, it's all small custom jobs which means that labor is high, which is one of the larger costs of solar. Second, residential PV is all behind the meter, so it can still be a cost win for consumers since they pay transmission costs from the utility.
It is possible that there is some connection between being a psychopath and being a CEO, but I have no good evidence of it, and it is also possible that being CEO of a large company increases anti-social behavior patterns (as a lot of people are out to get you). The interesting question is whether psychopaths are more likely to become CEOs. Your second link didn't seem to appreciate the main message that Ronson described in his book; they just made passing mention of it.
To be honest, I was having serious trouble parsing through Chrome's absolutely terrible docs relating to paywalling features. I just gave up and decided I should validate a market for something like this exists before I invest into bothering to slog through the entire monetization process.

If you hit the limit, let me know, I'd love it if you love it that much, and would love your feedback! I think I'll be looking for other venues of monetization, or bumping up the limit a bit. That being said, I use the Chrome store version of my extension too and I haven't hit the limit myself (yet!).

tl;dr I'm still figuring out a lot of the aspects of this, but wanted some validation before moving forward with more iterations.
>has grown up to be this thing that might actually replace Java entirely.

Java is just a language that runs on JVM, there have been many many attempts to replace it with languages brand new ( scala), existing languages ( jruby) including javascript( nashorn/ringojs ect), but no language has even come close to dethroning it. Its unlikely that javascript will replace it just because jvm is rewritten in java script.
Claiming a statement is false when it's demonstrably true is something that will likely get downvoted every time. It's misleading to others and fills the board with noise.
> WebAssembly's big strength over asm.js is it has smaller executables

It's not about the "smallness" as measured in the number of bytes, the minimized (that is, short variable names, no comments and whitespaces) asm.js code with the "bracket-fest" can actually be quite compact.

It is about the form which does save some lexing, parsing, searching and allocation steps in the run-time. Which matters when the code is measured in megabytes and the goal is to run it as soon as possible and save as much battery as possible on the mobile devices. From the FAQ:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#why...

"The kind of binary format being considered for WebAssembly can be natively decoded much faster than JavaScript can be parsed (experiments show more than 20× faster). On mobile, large compiled codes can easily take 20–40 seconds just to parse, so native decoding" "is critical to providing a good cold-load user experience."
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shocked I didn't' see bitwarden in here?

I use Bitwarden for some things (lots of testing, nothing serious). Given its OSS nature, i thought it might have had more traction.

For reference: https://github.com/bitwarden
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Then you would have the problem that something like mydefault=3, def f(default=mydefault):... would change it's evaluation if anyone ever defined mydefault=4. That would leave users unable to define any variable thats ever mentioned in default values of any function in any library they are using without causing very unexpected behaviors.

What languages are you thinking of where default values set to a references are set to a copy of that reference as it was at definition time at every evaluation?
More entry level nonsense, pure empiricism was undone by the problem of induction. Philosophy has generated several theories of probability, your "science" is contributing towards ruin risk with advocacy of GMO's and via Taleb && NESCI I know GMO's are not safe. Your "science" has done little progress without industry following a profit motive, of which science owes it's progress to industry and also much of it's credit.

"Universities are good at claiming credit, and little else."
YouTube Live does have an unlimited DVR and works on 6 accounts. I wonder if the service can be shared?
Yes I know that last line is the only socially acceptable thing to say. But when the money meets the real estate contract, most people won't live that way unless laws are passed to force them to live that way, to prevent suburbia, to destroy existing suburban areas.

We both agree there is only one politically correct opinion for the only "correct" lifestyle. Pointing out that most people don't like it, don't live it, and will not tolerate laws to annihilate their current lifestyle, is useful in that there's no real point in talking about legally working to destroy the suburbs when so many people like it there as opposed to the very small number in the city.

No matter how many people post on HN about how they love the city and the burbs must be destroyed by any means necessary legal or otherwise, meanwhile ten real estate contracts were signed by people upgrading to the burbs. Obviously whatever strategy is being used for urban boosterism is socially popular yet in a practical business sense is a complete economic failure.
Wait wait wait, a mosque isn't an individual. What people want Twitter to do is prevent certain individual users from pointing objectionable content at other users; based on those certain users patterns of behavior. So, Uber not picking up a certain cleric because they're known to bite their thumbs at drivers. Maybe a better analogy is a restaurant patron sitting in their own both, but yelling across the room at other patrons. If you own the restaurant, you'd consider silencing them or booting them so they wouldn't detract from the other customer's experiences. (Or maybe I just like analogies.) The complaint I hear from Twitter users isn't that people are broadcasting things they disagree with, it's that Twitter makes it to easy for people to broadcast directly at a specific person. Bearing in mind that anyone has the opportunity to leave the platform if they don't enjoy it. When I was in college I wouldn't have tried to prevent my institution from letting (for example) Milo, speak, I just wouldn't have gone to see him. But if my university let him show up in my dorm room, or gave him my cell phone number, or required me to attend his talk - I'd have had an issue. To be clear, the idea of Twitter being an entirely open broadcast platform has merit, and maybe it would be a better strategy (I assume that's sort of what Gab is trying to be?), but I think the people who say Twitter would be more successful if it pushed back harder on patterns of perceived harassment have a valid point too. I suspect any platform that opens the door too wide to one user bothering another is going to suffer in acquisition, retention, and referral - not a great start to any path to revenue.
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In a large company it simply doesn't work like that, if everyone can come to the CEO with every little problem they have then he or she is going to be fielding complaints 24/7. Griping goes up in steps - you gripe to your manager, they gripe to theirs and so on.

EDIT: Spleling
James Burnham's 'Dante: Politics as Wish'
Search for 'mobile app revenue by category'. I'll wait.
I really hope web assembly takes off and becomes a thing wide implemented in all the major browsers. The web is such a fantastic application platform (despite its frequent misuse...), and removing the javascript performance tax will be huge.
Are you using Hyper Backup? That seems to support S3-compatible destinations, including GCS, at least in DSM 6.1 -

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/HyperB...
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The very first Twitter clone I remember came up with the killer feature - infinitely long Tweets. How many times did I hear this dumb idea? It is not a sandwich, longer does not mean better! The scarce resource is not the number of electrons you send, the scarce resource is the attention of the reader.