skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I guess if you're the type of person that can't stop hitting themselves in the face you may be in the market for one. Limited market though however.
I think most people would agree with that statement. But how do we decide if they are a criminal in the first place? Therein lies the rub.
I've been using Camel^3 for a few years and never had any problems.
We all have the ‘right to disconnect’ – but only some of us can afford it
In the article comments, I find it amusing that there's yet another argument about boot times. Boot times really don't matter anymore for desktop use - they're just not rebooted that often, and long gone are the days when your (w98) OS would crash several times a day. Boot times under 30s or so really don't matter these days for desktops. VMs that you're stopping and starting, sure. Resume from sleep, sure.

But saying that one OS is better than another because it takes 5s to 'boot' instead of 10s is bikeshedding. (windows cheats here anyway, because it shows you the desktop before it's ready to be interacted with)
Half a million for 600 square feet. C'mon man
No. There are lots of stories about various very long versions of Dune. The most common story that is Lynch had a 6-hour version and that the studio forced him down to 2. It's a myth. The theatrical cut is the only cut Lynch did.
In my experience most of the places that tried to pull the "no good people" card were also the places that refused to pay even 20% above the market.

If this were true people would be poached a lot more frequently than what we can observe now.
What happened to downvotes?
Again with the Robotics-is-good-for-the-ruling-class thing!?!

Jobs are wealth creators and taxing them is illogical.

How about we at least don't subsidize them: don't let corporations amortize the cost of the robots. I realize this has a lot of the same problems that "tax the robots!" has, in that what's a robot and what's not? is a damn good question, but still...
I believe LaunchDarkly (https://launchdarkly.com/) is trying to solve that. Still seems like a strange problem to apply a catch-all solution too however.
Tesla's video contest
Because it fails to mention any downsides of running an ios based phone, and I'm sure that a balanced discussion would find many. Security is complex, and paraphrasing it this way may be fine as casual advice, but when you add "journalists" in the title of your post, it falls short.
Thanks for doing this. As much as the conclusion may be unpalatable to me, I think that's where any honest evaluation will end up.

Worst case, this will make people with sensitive information and without technical expertise more secure. Best case, it will compel Google and Android device manufacturers to step up.
Windows 7 is supported until 2020, in case you liked that one. That should at least give you time to think things over :)

How has your experience with Elementary been?

I've been thinking of getting a MacBook for my mom in a few months. In the meantime, I had to reinstall her linux laptop, so I thought I'd give her Elementary because I heard good things about it, and from the screenshots I figured it would be like halfway between linux and mac, so might ease the transition a little.

But in the end, I got so frustrated with it I switched it back to Xubuntu!
What did you do for them? Management or programming?
if you are thinking of monetizing this, you may run into trouble emailing links with affiliate tags (see the Associates Program Policies [0])

you might be able to circumvent the problem by linking to your site for some kind of landing page, and then linking off to amazon with an affiliate link.

[0] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies
Proper strain relief goes against the 'make everything thin' ethos.
> Have fun, be wild, enjoy life

Absolutely love and agree with this.
My takeaway from the article is that the author completely missed the point, which is that centralised bureaucracy and decision making can be very harmful.

Why are we reliant on an economist to pick up on this irrigation issue? You at least need people from industry to be consulted before regulations like this. Lucky that this particular person noticed the problem, but there probably shouldn't be a lawyer, a scientist and an economist making centralised farming regulations.
Why am I always reading that Uber is not financially viable? I haven't seen anyone proven this to be true. Take my trip tonight for example. Sunday night, 7pm, 5.17 miles and 16 min ride cost 17$. If you calculate the the cost, gas: about .50$, driver time: at 50$/hr fro 16 min ride is about 13$. The total cost 13.50, Uber gets 3.5$ for my ride. This sounds very good to me.
What was the IT job like? I never heard of anyone going from cook to IT. Congrats.
I'm not in SRE but I'll say what I've seen us do for Compute Engine: every component is testing for roll forward and roll back as part of qualification in staging. This makes it more hassle when you write the code (first add your new field, then rely on it only once it definitely won't be rolled back), but we absolutely use our "rollback button" frequently.
> automation (for example a Jenkins task)

I think there's value in this, but I want to point out that often time Jenkins becomes a collector of tech/security debt itself. It has very high privileges, and often time accesses/changes are not properly auth & audited.
That, and people started transitioning into data science from other fields where Python was already more popular.
No, I want Apple to do what they've done in the past and get Intel to do something for them. http://mrob.com/pub/comp/mac-models.html#intel_special
I'm scanning the documents.

Basically, group nodes and map/operate on them.

It seem like that would be fairly simple if you are dynamically creating kernels.

-- Edit: Which implies you're doing a pretty "bare metal" interface to the GPU which still lets you do that and there's interesting story there, if I'd not totally off-base.
What does fast internet have to do with silicon valley? Senseless article.
This article seems fishy as fuck.

First, the author:

1. The author has no other articles attributed to them on Medium.

2. I would think a 'Freelance Journalist' who can live in 'Paris, France' might have some level of social networking buzz or name recognition across other networks, but I couldn't find them on any major social networks.

Then, the actual site:

Forget all of the bullshit you see on the page and go straight to the dev tools.

The Typeform URL is: https://vegasjets.typeform.com/to/ZdIJg1?typeform-embed=embe...

I thought "vegasjets" was interesting given that the author mentions Las Vegas and private jets in the article multiple times (which seems oddly specific given the gravitas they place earlier on exposing this exclusive underground app).

Let's also recognize the user who submitted this link:

vegasjets

A LinkedIn search returns "Vegas Jets, Computer Software, 1-10 employees" with the following description, "One Tap books you a Luxury Private Jet. Instantaneous. No waiting. Price Guaranteed. Simple One Tap search, booking and payment via our app." Sure seems like what the author advertises this app to include...

Remember the sparkling reference to Berkshire Hathaway? Yep, that's some bullshit:

Visit the Vegas Jets homepage and we see below the copyright text at the bottom, "Vegas Jets does not own or operate the aircraft on which customers fly. Vegas Jets is not a direct or indirect air carrier. Currently, all Vegas Jets-arranged flights are operated by Executive Jet Management Inc. (Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate# CWQA061D), a subsidiary of Netjets Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Company."

Now, Executive Jet Management Inc. is legit and registered with the FAA. Vegas Jets seems to be just a middleman. In fact, there are multiple apps that do exactly this: a Google search on "CWQA061D" returns other sites exactly like this one (charterpad.com, jetrequest.com, charterbroker.aero, etc.) all with the same disclosure.

Finally, the people:

Who is the CEO of Vegas Jets? Thomas Schneider (as reported on LinkedIn). Investor in Vegas Jets as well as a very interesting 'Crowdfunded Silicon Valley Venture Fund' called KXTER (http://kxter.com/members/) which sure seems a hell of a lot like what Stratos claims to be.

tl;dr this thing is so bullshit that I regret writing this comment at all
Expa Labs? Does anyone know anything about Garrett Camp's accelerator?
Was curious if anyone knows anyone who has actually been through this program and whether startups really spend time working with Garrett himself?
At the end of the day, the FBI has to win cases in court. What are they going to do with this elaborately orchestrated secret? "Your honour, everyone thought we could not extract evidence from an iPhone but... Psych! We totally can!"
What cities/towns are the enterprises located in? What was the most difficult thing you encountered so far?
You make good points, but it is hard to imagine a tech boom taking off in an area with poor internet access.
vultr takes paypal - it's the only way I've ever paid them.
If the site mentioned in the article had 150,000 members as they say, that's a lot of people to lock up for years for pointing a browser at a url.
Hi, I really liked your post and your comments about your experience with each provider, but I totally disliked your answer and the one below. I didn't see anywhere that your benchmark was only about hourly billing providers so I find your reply disrespectful. Maybe you should update the title or the text if you want to take such stance?

Moreover, to me, regular VPS == openvz and not hourly billing (openvz would also disqualify ssdnodes).
Funny you call it a right click...
Thanks everyone for the great discussions and interest. I'm going to get back to this thread later, but won't be actively commenting for the rest of the day. Please feel free to continue discussion and continue asking questions and I'll get to them when/if I can.

Also, feel free to contact me directly to discuss anything at a higher bandwidth level. And as always, see the GitHub repository for more information on the project and ways that you can contribute (help out, fund the project, contribute code, bug reports, or patches).

https://github.com/arcfide/Co-dfns

If I can "shill" a little bit, you can fund the Open Source/Open Work aspects of this project through micro-funding at Gratipay, which helps to support and keep the Open Source and community aspects of the project going. Dyalog is a great company, but ultimately, as some have mentioned, it's the community that helps to keep these ideas moving forward and improving.
I have seen some albeit more simplistic rice art when I went to Japan. I had to climb a little tower to see them, it was such a cool idea at the time; the one I saw showed that popular Japanese woodblock print with the waves on it, which I can't seem to find.

Unfortunately I lost pictures of it in a hard drive crash, but it's really nice to see IRL and I'd recommend it if you're visiting nearby one. Mine was somewhere in Iwate prefecture.
I know but I was just there last week. Its shocking to see, especially when you fly through it.
I'm sorry to call you out on this, but when I click on the link for your username, I see lots of info you've listed to communicate your status as a successful and accomplished member of the tech community. Presumably that info is there because you think it is relevant and of interest to the technology people here on HN.

Oh, and yes, if you or someone else clicks on both our links you'll see that you have far more karma here than I do, suggesting that perhaps your opinion on these matters should be valued over mine, and/or that you can both dish out and weather down-votes more than I can, both because of your higher status here.

[edit: slight grammar tweak for clarity]
On the non technical side - A LOT of multiple people's time inside our small NFP org inspecting logs, rolling passwords, keys etc, expiring sessions and communicating with clients.
I understand that speed may not be an issue here but I still like to ask: won't so many nano-passes affect speed?
> As for the worry about combining open source and money... forget it.

I dunno... I've done well. Offices in Canada and France, 6 people working for me (not all full-time).

The key for me is to sell services around the software, and also sell support. If it takes people 10 days to figure out how to do something, a decent percentage of them will pay you to do it for them.

But it has to be the right market, too. Selling to consumers is a non-starter. You need to sell to people who have money.
Everything you said is much more complicated than the simple directive I gave (as an example of functionality).

You should not accuse others here of trolling, you can read the guidelines here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please be civil on HN.

I further gave you an extremely difficult functionality, which I phrased as " 'analzye this library and include a logically simplified version that only needs to address these cases:' (a list of conditions.)". You ignored this.

This is obviously not functionality any language includes. It is not easy or anything like that.

If you don't like my examples, you can come up with your own. Pick something hard that programming languages don't do.

You are correct that most programming languages have most of the same functionality, and differ only in their syntax: this was my point. For this reason there are transpilers (source to source compilers) which output a different language.

If you don't like my examples, pick your own. Anyway in this comment I have already quoted myself saying such an example, which you ignored.

My overall point is that most languages don't strive for such features. They most markedly just differ in syntax. You confirmed this at the top of your comment.

Thanks for your additional thought, and please remember to be civil.
Thanks for giving me a chance to chat a bit more!
I would advise against Google Drive for document sharing. Recently I tried to share a trial build of an application (an exe I built) with a client. I zipped everything up and created a share link. Google auto-flagged it as a terms of service violation and blocked the file. No way of getting round it, and no way Google will bother to remedy the situation in time.

There's also OneDrive for business which seems to work well for sharing, though syncing options are totally broken. There's no way to selectively sync a share folder, so either you have your entire filesystem downloaded or you go online to get files. That sucks when your backup is terabytes of data.

I ended up sending a Dropbox link instead. So far it seems to be more or less foolproof.
I use https://calendly.com/ for scheduling and https://appear.in/ for the actual meetings.
I can't check without the article, but some mistakes I've seen - ignoring reinvested dividends (~2%/yr,) and unrealistic tax figures

on the other side, you've got people who ignore inflation and assume 10% a year returns promising ridiculous growth
Absolutely this would have an effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail#Trajectory_correcti...

Presumably, though, some of the power generated could be used to accelerate propellant to compensate.
See Andy Keep's dissertation on using Nanopass to reimplement the Chez Scheme compiler. The short answer is, not really. Nanopass can add some constant factors, but is essentially a linear/constant addition, whereas the majority of compilers are quadratic or greater in complexity. Chez Scheme was/is N log N in most cases, and even then Nanopass did not significantly harm performance.

It actually has benefits on the GPU beyond just the CPU, because the passes tend to be smaller, and thus more readily executed efficiently on the GPU, meaning that you would likely see a large net gain in performance by using Nanopass. Since I believe this might be the only compiler of its kind, it's hard to say for sure on that mark, though.
The central problem with regulators is you need people who know what they're regulating, meaning industry insiders. But then you have conflicts of interest.

Centralized economic planning never works well, anyway, regardless of how many trained economists are at the helm.
Sure, phones are computers. Also, most people use phones as their primary way of connecting to the Internet.

But what does that have to do with me (or, it seems, the GP poster)?

I want a great computer on which I can do what I usually do on my computer which is mostly programming, but I guess I could be fancy and say "content creation" instead.

The fact that phones are computers have exactly zero relevance when it comes to me choosing a new laptop.

I used to be a hardcore Mac user, because the computing environment was superior to any other choice, but that's not the case anymore so my next computer will be a Linux laptop.
Thank you for heads-up. Didn't find anything related to "not emailing affiliate links"... Would you be able to point me to the section you're referring to?
This list of places with 'Silicon' shows just how much people try to create Silicon Valley in other places and how they have not succeeded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_%22Silicon...
/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know
It outlines many of the limits of the advice, describes a specific case in which an activist was targeted by multiple iOS zero days, etc. What are the downsides you think it omits and in what ways does Matthew Green misunderstand the complexities of security?
Considering it was a Tor site, it's not like a user who didn't know what they were doing could end up there on accident. Also I'm not sure users means "only browsed the website" (could mean they had a profile, etc.).

EDIT: It appears that they did do more than just visit the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13799213
After a quick search on prefabricated homes and reading the Wikipedia article, I'm really not clear on what their limitations are. Most of them seem optimized for warmer weather? I would really appreciate some links describing the current state of prefab housing and it's practicality.
Inbox of Forgotten Emails: All those messages you wrote but never sent
This is not new. China already has company that can 3D print a real two-story house. See this https://3dprint.com/138664/huashang-tengda-3d-print-house/

This article also mentioned another Chinese competitor can 3d-print 6-story apartment and a mansion.
Yes. It's flexibility of both talent and capital to flood the most promising ideas and starve the worst ones. In areas where companies are more stable, and people more risk-averse, it's harder for the giants to emerge. Adding super-fast internet does nothing to change this.
You can transport food around, so there is competition. You can't conjure up land in the middle of a city.
That's for photographers and (static) graphical artists. I guess I should have clarified that by graphical workloads I primarily meant rendering.
There's no reason the factory cannot build walls for custom houses. The jigs and all will be computer controlled, anyway. Nor does that imply cheaply built or poor materials.

It's got to be an industry ripe for disruption.
For insurance to be workable you need to be able to collect more in premiums than you pay out in claims. I suspect we'd already be seeing something like that if the numbers worked.
But even 25Mb/s (the current US broadband standard) is enough to start a tech business. As long as you don't experience any interruptions, you could readily host your systems on the cloud, and then migrate your business to somewhere more internet ready / pay for better internet when you get the cash.
What is the outcome of housing this cheap? This is one more option in a growing list that includes inflatable concrete structures, and Tumbleweed houses, prefab cabins, etc etc.

Is this cheap enough to house people in third world countries. Probably not yet, but could it be on the way? And I'm sure construction costs aren't even the primary economic factor to solve...

Is it possible this trend could make vacation housing for affluent people disposable?

I love the idea of having a tiny house or even two I can move around, but I suspect, knowing me, that it wouldn't get used and would take more maintenance than I'm really truly interested in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my2I5ge8bqY

even 4k is workable, although not quite as smooth.

Desktop Safari is also notorious for not being as smooth and fast as other browser because its primarily built for (battery) efficiency, not performance.
Is parallel programming really that easy in Dyalog APL? Could someone provide a trivial example?
>let's throw huge financial incentives at them to get them to move their offices to the suburbs

Aren't companies already highly incentivized to not locate in the downtown core, simply by the astronomical cost of real-estate downtown?

It seems to make sense that highly specialized industries would locate downtown, because that gives them access to workers from virtually the entire metropolitan area, since all transportation infrastructure points downtown. If a company were to locate in some arbitrary suburb/exurb, sure the people in that area would be knocking down their door to work there, but people cross-town from there probably wouldn't even consider it, since the commute would be even worse (assuming they can't move).
At the same time, Windows 10 on my Dell laptop will heat up, spin the fan noticably and something called "Service Host: Local System" will consistently use 48 - 52% of CPU when the laptop is sitting doing nothing at all, with no applications open. I really can't understand what it's doing but have a hard time taking it seriously as an operating system.
That was my thought as well. Especially since they dismissed the case in such a way that they can bring it back later. Might as well use it to collect evidence while they can, and then bring all the charges when the exploit is fixed and it's not useful any more.

It sucks that the pervert in the case is going free (for now), but I would guess the experience scared him enough that he won't be doing it again any time soon.
I agree. Fast internet is necessary but not (even close to) sufficient.
Switching the Iphone to USB-C would definitely be the best choice for the consumer.

It is, however, not the best choice for Apple.

I think it should be pretty obvious what I believe will happen.
So is electricity and water. Can you make a good silicon valley with kick-ass water supply? The article's premise is broken.
Get a job.

There's no way for you to reliably make even 20k in the next year off of an investment of 50k unless you are going to be personally involved in it. You will also almost certainly make at least 20k at your job in the next year, and can probably figure out a way to increase your salary by 20k.
Here's an English reading of the above code:

Filter the numbers from [2,R), removing any number that is a member of the set of products of pairs of elements in [2,R).
You can return to this comment in 20 years and compare the state of languages then with the features programming languages implement in 2017. Today it is my opinion that languages differ most markedly in their syntax and some of the primitives, but generally speaking implement largely similar functionality.

For this reason there are source-to-source compilers (transpilers) and it is very common to host one language in another, in the way that Wordpress was ported to .NET: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753445 The way in which this was done was to expand .NET to run php.

Languages just don't do very much today, in my opinion. Everything is hard. If you disagree with me then we ca return to this in 20 years and compare the state then and now.

I am not designing another language at the moment. The above is just my opinion.