skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that headline too, but the actual story didn't provide any evidence to support it. Schumer's 'Leather Special' was your usual tedious progressive lecture disguised as comedy with a few laughs and a lot of porn, and was modded appropriately, but that doesn't connect it to the Netflix rating change as far as I can see.
Capek's War with the Newts [1] is a little better read (I have only read it in translation, admittedly).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts#As_satire_a...
Controversy at Mayo Clinic: Patients with private insurance get priority
Perhaps a bit less snark and bit more "here's some books to get you started"?
Why on earth would you use Netflix as a rating service? First of all their library lacks a lot of great movies, or info about the movies they have. Netflix isn't IMDB.
Which city, if you don't mind me asking?
Good to see more leaderless consensus protocol implementations and that RAFT isn't be all and end all of all consensus problems.

One advantage not mentioned in the article, of leader based consensus algorithms is the ability to more easily implement read leases for faster reads.

Read leases can allow for fresh reads without having to run them through the quorum protocol, by trading off availability (due to leader failure) and also correctness in certain edge cases (since read leases will depend on ability for individual machines to measure time delta with reasonable accuracy, which may not be true on some weird VM scenarios).
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So what? IBM was a synonym for success for long times, and although I do not completely agree with their recent strategy, they still create value for their shareholders. Should anybody be ashamed for wanting to be successful?
I've seen the CLR used in low-level, performance-critical code. Performant game engines in XNA were better than a lot of critics gave them credit for. (Schizoid, a game nearly no one purchased, for one immediate example of a very performant game built in the CLR that didn't get enough credit.) The failures in XNA were more market segmentation failures (XBLIG versus XBLA, alone; though Schizoid and a few others passed through into XBLA) than engineering. With the UWP the market segmentation failures are disappearing, which is good for sales, but also means that successes in the CLR are less visible too: at a glance you can't tell if a UWP app is a CLR app or not. (Plus, .NET Native further blurs the lines.)

In a different domain from games, there were some very interesting apps I've seen that were very low-level, performance-critical written for the IoT before IoT was a term space in the old Micro-CLR.

I still of the opinion that a lot of the reason people don't use CLR/JVM and other runtimes more for low-level/performance-critical code has a lot less to do with "overhead" of garbage collection/bounds checking (whether it is as bad as critics often perceive it to be is another debate), and as much to do with stubbornness and job protection ("Of course my C and Assembly skills are still needed, because the CLR will never compete with my hand unrolled loops that are nearly impossible to debug and segfault the machine sometimes, which you should pay me to fix.").
I'm not Michael, but I think I can answer that. Moving to CA for the 3-months of YCombinator has traditionally been non-negotiable. After the 3 months is up, you can move wherever you like, and many do.

The only exception to this I'm aware of is that, in light of recent US immigration policy, YC is optionally holding interviews for S17 international founders in Vancouver, and is reportedly planning to "experiment with allowing founders who can't get visas for the duration of our 3-month program to participate remotely." https://blog.ycombinator.com/us-visas/
Actually, I think his whole point was that it wasn't really justifiable, but it wasn't the US Army that did it (I am curious who it was). Totally agree about the proximity thing.
Instead of discussing a grammar issue, why not go back to the intent of the law and apply it as... intended? What were the lawmakers thinking when they wrote that law? Are they still around? Are there any notes or recorded sessions discussing this?
I am telling my Democratic friends that instead of whining about the popular vote or talking about resisting Trump in general the Democrats should develop a spine and actually stand for something. If they had had a compelling message for the working class they could easily have won this election.
British Police Net a Butterfly Killer, and Now He May Face Jail
Is DHH really banned?
Depressing. A similar technique is used for local problems, but it's usually a refusal to start measuring or messing with the definitions of problem levels rather than removing measurements.
My position as a materialist (and a practicing scientist) is that propositions are not magical transcendental objects. The idea of "refutation" rests on the presupposition of a given linguistic exchange being inside a self-consistent system of argument. In reality, language behaviors, including writing and argument, are always material, contingent and underspecified. Language is a "reef of dead metaphors". Utterances take place in a cultural and historical context, and their meaning, both at the level of reference and argument structure, is always dependent on that context, <i>including what I am writing right now</i>. You run into this kind of boring infinite recursion refrain when you remain attached to the idea that "proof" and "truth" operate at a metaphysical level above material. It's unfortunate that this is so widespread.
>Why the arbitrary restriction on bulleted lists? Situations like this seem ideally suited for a simple list.

Exactly. Laws are generally drafted as lists of clauses anyway.
I've always liked Rotten Tomatoes ratings more than IMDB star ratings. Rotten Tomatoes rating is basically, what percentage of critics gave a thumbs up.
Cross-compile and link a static binary on macOS for Linux with cargo and rust
Your statements suggest that the "immoral" behavior of Wall Street is inevitable and therefore ridiculous to fuss about and I have to agree with you about that. -But there's an underlying question which you're avoiding here.

Should society, invested with the power to regulate and control behavior, regulate and control this behavior?.

At the end of the day you can still think about if the world be a better place if things were different and, if you think it would be, take action to enact that difference.
The belief in self-consistent logical systems of argument must also be accepted on faith, without logical proof. There is no falsifiable theory that proves falsification as the final criterion for distinguishing science from non-science, etc. It's your faith-based attachment to the the falsifiability demarcation theory and to a metaphysically "laden" notion of logical validity that causes the impasse. All of these "defeater"-style logical arguments ultimately rest on a kernel of faith. Foucault, or any other decent theoretician, would recognize in this the expression of power that comes out of a particular historical tradition of knowledge rules. The empowered popular discourse they are rooted in is exactly what Foucault would call an "episteme". (Which again, few thoughtful practicing scientists would claim they "believe" in. Rules are always provisional frameworks for the complicated objectives of science, which themselves exist inside a sort of network or market. Nothing is simple or linear.)

See my other response above about the materiality and contingency of linguistic utterances. Like all other physical phenomena, the scientific approach views language as an event, a behavior, a material process that is always context-dependent and, at the "lowest" levels, pervaded by uncertainty, even in our best attempts to model it.
It's intellectually dishonest to draw a comparison of IBM helping the Nazi's commit a genocidal action to the US government deporting illegal aliens, and then say "well I didn't _imply_ anything"

Either that or you're being deliberately obtuse and are trolling.
True! Hmm. I retract my statement: Penrose/Hawking predict that all GR black holes contain singularities.

In our universe, it looks like inflation is the fly in that particular prediction: The universe is going to tear itself apart instead.
> As I recall, Clinton cooperated with a fiscally-conservative Republican Congress to get the budget in line.

Your memory is very incorrect. In Clinton's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, he said that he wanted to raise taxes and cut defense spending (aka, right wing welfare).

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=47232

Newt Gingrich then rallied+campaigned against this and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 received zero Republican votes. The fiscal conservatism was all Clinton; but the conservatism was all Republican.

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

Gingrich went on to campaign against this in the 1994 midterms. He went on to shut down the government twice to say nothing of the impeachment nonsense while he was cheating on his own wife. Gingrich was booted out by his own majority and was reprimanded by them for his own (lack of) ethics.

No, Republicans get zero, nada, no credit for Clinton's budgets and his ensuing surpluses.
Wha? Why CA? Las Vegas is way closer.
Not totally true. These scientists do make quite a lot of money. Also, their life is well set - they get cheap housing, cheap food, cheap consumer goods, free healthcare, etc., Even in terms of Indian standards, these scientists get ridiculous subsidies for everything so much so that they can simply put all their money in a bank without any living expenses. Not to mention other benefits like an official car with a driver, VIP status (if you are level E or above), etc., If all you measure is money, maybe they can't match up with any scientist working in the US. If you measure by living standards, they are much better off.
I really have to just start rolling my eyes at this point. I'm just waiting for the official meme, and the cycle will be complete. Get to work making your infrastructure resilient to a simple accidental deletion, and restoring some faith in your product.
Okay,so outside battle, what useful things could we do with this?

For instance, stick it on a drone and use it to weed a field from 1000 ft?
Well said. I sometimes hear complaints that US healthcare is more expensive, that (perhaps just by mistaken reasoning) treat healthcare as a commodity. In Economics terms, that's a pretty hefty simplification: sort of like complaining that US phones are so much more expensive than Finnish phones.
Is this a print of "the book" or is there some additional content here that we should be interested in?
And more insulating, dryer and safer. Couldn't a dwelling, room or bed be shared if loneliness was a problem?
They're not criminals until they're found guilty in court. Imagine if the local police were able to use CIA records, including phone and location data, to prosecute you for, say stealing a car.

Entering the country without permission is illegal, but let's not act like it's a crime so heinous that law enforcement should be exempt from due process and warrants and such when prosecuting people for it.

Keep in mind that ICE does sometimes inadvertently deport US citizens, and that there is no central database of who is or is not a US citizen, nor any single canonical way to prove citizenship.
I think it goes even deeper. People simply can't comprehend that health care in Germany or France (the countries I know) is fine at lower cost. They can't even consider this.
"For most startups the model should be grad student, not law firm. Aim for cool and cheap, not expensive and impressive. For us the test of whether a startup understood this was whether they had Aeron chairs. The Aeron came out during the Bubble and was very popular with startups. Especially the type, all too common then, that was like a bunch of kids playing house with money supplied by VCs. We had office chairs so cheap that the arms all fell off. This was slightly embarrassing at the time, but in retrospect the grad-studenty atmosphere of our office was another of those things we did right without knowing it." http://paulgraham.com/start.html
Is there a list of Democratic officials that oppose him and have big donations from lobbyists?
Is the IoT Just Too Expensive?
I agree with the mentality that this is a team effort, and when it fails, a team failure. And that when something goes wrong what's important is to understand it, and put in place a way for it to not happen again. Kudos to GitLab for their forward thinking way of working.
Blanket dismissal of a comparison because it uses include Nazis is not useful. The point of learning from history is to actually be able to compare current events to the past. Putting Nazi Germany on a pedestal as uniquely evil is harmful, in that it prevents us from learning from those mistakes. Using it where unwarranted is also harmful, but we should not got to such lengths to avoid that as to reduce this historical period to uselessness.

Comparisons to the current administration are likely overblown, but are not entirely without merit. Comparisons could also be made to past administrations. The important thing is to consider how well the comparison matches, how problematic the features being compared are in each item, and how that works within context.

If those that cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, so too are those that refuse to consider the past.
Modern operations with Instana and DC/OS
I'd be very surprised if this actually came via credit card. I'd believe a loyalty program.

You also never searched for anything related to slow drains or how to handle them on any of your machines? Or anyone else in the household? Anything in browser history that would have identified a page.

This just seems like one of those areas where credit card companies or banks would be opening themselves up for some pretty large lawsuits.

/me rushes to cancel some purchases of goods he doesn't want his kids to see him being retargetted for
I guess, in closing this thread, I'm just going to admit that fundamentally I do not recognize the moral right of a minority of disabled people to demand that video lectures be produced in any particular way. It's great that steps are being taken to make things accessible for as many people as possible, and that new technology is constantly being developed that helps that happen with less effort/cost. But, the video files can be distributed: they are computer files; that is what the internet does.

At the end of the day, for any given resource, there will always be a subset of people who can benefit maximally from that resource, and everyone else who is impeded in some way (can't understand target language, don't have appropriate education; suffer from a mental or physical disability that is relevant; don't have personal freedom to view resource, etc). And though it may seem childish to you, in fact the people are absolutely correct who say "This is political correctness gone mad. If you take your arguments to their logical conclusions we'll never be able to distribute anything because some minority group will be saying it's unfair."

I've spent quite a bit of time over the last few weeks following this saga. I get the impression that national-level organizations like the National Association of the Deaf approve of the sort of selfish, spiteful litigation that was carried out. It doesn't make one think positively of them at all.
History is repeating itself once again with the open internet
>Get to work making your infrastructure resilient to a simple accidental deletion

I'm sure they've been working on that since the deletion
The Cult of DD
Wrt the first link, I'm going to be taking a distributed systems course next semester that (hopefully) covers the same material. Nice to know what I learn at school is somewhat applicable.

My question is learning about design ideas like having Redis keeping a list of "work to be done" and such. Using modern tools to combat 'modern' problems. Is it just something you figure out after knowing the fundamentals (i.e. when you can identify a problem you know what the solution needs to be)?
They're not saying "reductions appeared during specific time periods, therefore they weren't real."

Reductions appeared during specific years, and Utah also changed the way it measured chronic homelessness in those specific years, in ways that we'd expect to reduce measured chronic homelessness. Specifically:

- in 2010, Utah stopped counting people in "transitional housing" as chronically homeless.

- in 2015, the Salt Lake region implemented a "new process for confirming whether individuals are chronically homeless."

> If you want to challenge research, you don't do it by suggesting someone is lying, you do it by using the scientific method.

If you want to challenge research, you don't do it by attacking the motives of the researchers or by brutally misstating their arguments to make them look ridiculous. You don't pretend that the research is just "suggesting someone is lying" when it's not. If "anti-science" means "willing to look into potential methodological issues with data provided by the government" then sign me up.
Do we expect the truckers to do said research in order to know how to interpret the law? Of course not. The whole point is that the law should be explicit and unambiguous as written.
Show HN: React-perimeter, create a perimeter and know when it's breached
This is how modern society works (not that I think it was ever not the case). Many people have 'strong arguments' that 'fair' is defined by things that benefit themselves. Another large portion pays lip service to this by supporting "progressive" causes, while acting in precisely the ways they rail against.

Libretarians are as guilty as progressives. While the stereotype of zero regulation is untrue, most would argue only for regulations that benefit them, and believe that regulations that detriment them are the one that are unfair. (As a defense of myself and my position - I do the same, but I also acknowledge that, and consider the fact that most people are arguing in their own self interest an important part of how we achieve 'fair')

This is a sardonic and mean-spirited view, but it is a necessary devils advocate - Too much is done with 'hope', not strategy.
MIT lectures are already mentioned in the end.. and from your link, one of the tutor is same (one with pony) and the content also looks the same..
The enemy I was fighting in particular violated the laws of land warfare by default. Had they NBC weapons I have no doubt they would have used them.

Taking the high road comes at considerable unrecognized cost was all I was trying to say.
Nevada has been caught shipping theirs to CA, so that's still shipping them to CA, just less directly.
> Moreover, CTIA claims that Section 222's use of the phrase "customer proprietary network information" demonstrates that the regulation doesn't necessarily cover "personal" information. Section 222 provisions "apply only to commercially valuable—not personal—information," the group said.

Since the ISPs are planning to sell that personal information, it sure seems commercially valuable. It's a shame that, instead of ISPs simply not being dicks (er, "unlocking value"), we will have to waste time and money to encrypt everything and route it through TOR.
Public Domain Is Not Open Source
Well, yes. Not everything the government does is supposed to be about efficiency. The legal system is very deliberately inefficient. We make police and prosecutors jump through all sorts of hoops when investigating and prosecuting crime, because the goal isn't to make their jobs as easy as possible, the goal is to ensure that innocent people don't get convicted.
Yes-ish; but maybe not the other way around.
Doesn't that break down if the cloud of gas is expanding at such a rate that the particles have enough momentum to escape the gravity well?
It's not a problem with the investment itself but inability of economics to evaluate such investment decisions. A lot of externalities like positive PR for the scientific progress of the country, research outputs that can benefit in other areas, etc., can't be evaluated with just money. Not in the least in the timelines that investment firms (and movie industry) usually work at.
Except undocumented immigration(·) is actually not a crime. You don't go to jail when you're caught by ICE. There's no criminal trial. You're sent out of the country. So, it's not really logical to apply the analogy of criminal database use.

(·) Edit: Unlawful entry (border hopping) is a crime, punishable by $250 in civil penalties, but no jail time. Essentially a jaywalking ticket. Unlawful presence is not a crime.
So what happens when all that stuff starts melting?
The matter's temperature increases.
Antpool Gives 75% Hashpower to BU While Exchanges Confirm Listing a Split
I don't have any specific limitations in mind, but I'd review the idea to see what problems the union is intended to resolve. Unions originally existed to resolve exploitation by manufacturing companies. Is the group of engineers you are considering unionizing being exploited?
> How does this perform in adverse weather conditions?

One could ask the very same thing about WWI era aircraft. Look at where we are today.

Presumably there would other defense systems to fall back on during adverse weather. Even if this first-generation laser system worked well only on days where it wasn't raining, that would still represent an enormous cost savings.
> I think Peter Thiel is a monster

Genuinely curious what you base this opinion on. If it's based solely upon his support of Donald Trump, this is a ridiculous statement. If there is something else that would make a reasonable, politically neutral person agree that he is a "monster," I am not aware of it, so I would be interested to hear what it is.
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US colleges and universities are way overpriced leaving US students in crushing debt that cripples their lives.

Plus lots of federal research funding gets spent on foreign born post grads.
I find your comment highly condescending and your attempt to take the higher moral ground is laughable by pretending to be an adult which you failed at by doing the very same thing you criticized due to differences in opinion.

Stop projecting.
I am sorry your supervisor was a jerk, your project sounds cool! And even if it weren't cool, it was his job to make sure you stay motivated and keep learning. He clearly failed catastrophically.

With latest developments in ML/AI space this is a very interesting period to be living in. A few decades later they will probably say: "remember when there was no artificial agents and the computers were those dumb boxes?" I hope you find your way back and join the fun!
Google Employees Have to Waive Right to Sue on Pornography
It's pretty obvious why he's saying the hardware is mediocre. It can't run a 1ST party launch title consistently @ 30FPS, the console industry standard of minimum acceptable performance for probably at least a decade. I've heard lots of people say the drops in frame rate don't bother them. That's great, but lots of people are bothered by it. In my experience, 30FPS seems barely acceptable and when games randomly fall below that performance feels very choppy.

It's not enough to make me not want a switch. I'm planning on getting one as soon as I can find one, but I'm frustrated by the fact that there's no way to play BOTW smoothly on any system, and when it does play smoothly it will likely be in an emulator on a PC.

It's not just about how Zelda plays, it makes me concerned for the long term viability of the Switch.
Where are you getting that ratio from? We've had about 50k sign ups, and hope to serve at least several thousand in the Founder Track.
Your narrative omits that gdb added Python scripting support in 2009.

Of course, as astute readers will already have guessed, Python is permissively licensed.