skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I became a really bad procrastinator after being a university professor (I am slowly getting over his). What caused this was being given tasks that changed 3 or 4 times before the deadline and/or were not missed if they weren't done.

Administration would give me tasks to do, then change them multiple times, and finally do nothing if I didn't do them 95% of the time. I got to the point where I could not complete any paperwork unless someone from admin was standing beside me saying this had to be completed that minute or else the university was shutting down.
Just because something is widely reported does not mean it's true. You can just as easily find reports which details the cost of the network at $220M, which is how much the city bonded for to build it. Furthermore the sources you cite yourself clearly states that of the $330M, $111.5M was a federal grant for the smart grid.

As to the smart grid project, that was a separate $232M project. https://www.smartgrid.gov/project/epb_smart_grid_project.htm...

Of those smart grid investments, only the Backhaul Communications part could conceivably (in part) be attributed to the fiber network buildout costs. In no way can 100% of the federal smart grid grant be seen as a subsidy to the fiber network. Even if you subscribe to conspiracy theories about the power side secretly subsidizing the fiber side, that 100% subsidy theory just does not survive the collision with reality. Given how litigated this issue has been, there's no way the opponents would let a hundred million dollar misuse of federal grant money slide.

Either way, no matter what dollar cost you peg the fiber network buildout costs at, your $5,000 cost per subscriber is plain wrong. The correct figure is closer to $2650, but it's still not even close to $5,000, even if you slap on an additional hundred million dollars in costs.

This obviously also makes your payback times wrong.

To give some context to EPB fiber's costs, ten years ago Verizon paid $850 per premise passed and an additional $880 per premise connected. These are in line with EPB's costs if you assume a 50% take rate for FiOS.

Just to rub it in on how wrong your estimate of $5,000 per subscriber is, the very source your cite yourself states that the average cost to connect a new subscriber to EPB fiber is $1,200.

But, wait, there's more!

Your analysis on the economics of fiber networks just crumble when you look at the annual report of EPB. Here's the punchline:

- operating expenses include debt service!

EPB fiber pays EPB $10M per year for the use of the fiber network. This is enough to cover the costs of the $220M bond. In fact it covers half of EPB's whole debt service. Incidentally EPB fiber's operating income would more than covers the remaining debt service with change to spare.

In other words your assumption of 60% in operating expenses excluding debt service is just plain wrong and all your calculations are wrong.

And that's even before factoring in the fact that service at $70 per month usually does not include cable tv. This in turn means that a large chunk of operating expenses for that service can be excluded, as cable tv rights are a major cost item.

All in all, even assuming debt service is included, 60% operating expenses for a fiber network is not a given.
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Yes, he did, unfortunately. Gasp. The humanity. Now get over it. You understand that he meant paying less for a flat, not for an OS. So stop pretending and go on with replying that you still think it's wrong to base the compensation on the location's living expenses, for whatever other new reason that you now need to come up with.
> I'll also DESTROY YOUR SHIT if you say so

That's the Unix way: The customer, eh, user is always right.

I once wanted to clean up backup files created by emacs (they end in the tilde character) by typing "rm <asterisk>~" - except what I did type was "rm <asterisk> ~".

(On the upside, I learned a valuable lesson that day.)
That's my understanding. It's a generic framework/interface for doing any kind of IO task without freezing the program.
Any recommendations for a book focused on AI in game development?
The society of mind and the diamond age !
Say you have such an exploit. How do you propose making money from it? Exactly what steps would you take?
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WikiLeaks will give tech giants CIA zero-day exploits
I definitely agree with that. Even though this was initiated by the Obama administration, they probably could have scrapped it as part of the drastic budget cuts they are making.

My guess is that they will remove everything that is to protect the environment (deregulation of anything oil-related), and spend what's left on creating federally-funded jobs in de-industrialized regions like this.
It doesn’t. In fact, I would be very careful using subshellsm in general, because it can lead to bugs like this one: ​http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/74642.html​ .
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Scientists Sent a Rocket to Mars for Less Than It Cost to Make “The Martian”
Docker allows a mere mortal like myself with only 20+ years of sw engineering experience and a physics PhD under my belt to run a setup in something that resembles production more than a few hosted boxed cobbled together do. I vaguely know about ARP and I can just about follow along this post. So what you seem to regard as just a toy is actually what makes my work possible and/or viable.

I find that pretty super hip.
But that's only a problem with the AMERICAN government. Lots of other governments around the world are doing amazing things, despite corruption being a constant stress on the system.
Pick up Witcher 3 - it is excellend and fun game compared to Skyrim. Plus it treats you like an adult when it comes to choices you are given.
So basically the head of APNIC is saying "we have a problem: private control of public services". A familiar issue.
I'm fascinated by consensus algorithms and would love to implement one myself to synchronize unreliable systems (e.g. a network of independent sensors with a common database running on ESP8266 modules). I didn't study CS, so I didn't absorb all the underlying theory with my breastmilk. So big questions remain unanswered so far.

How exactly do I know that the algorithm is correct? (Proof, of course, but how?)

How do I know that my implementation is correct? (Unit test, of course, but how? How do I simulate/test asynchronous systems with failing communication? How do I catch all possible edge cases?)

Is there an comparative overview of consensus algorithms detailing pros and cons? (A few days ago there was a post about Paxos/Raft having abmysal worst-case performance.)
Isn't that what mkfs.* is for?
Someone please please please make a modern refresh of transport tycoon. I still love that game but would love to see it brought up to date in the style of cities in motion and with more depth added.
"It's the same reason small towns are (I hear) less socially stressful. I am not convinced though. In larger society I end up dealing with relatively small groups anyway - friends, family, and co-workers."

There's a fundamental difference. In a small town, most of the people around you are usually known to you and friendly. In a bigger town, you tend not to know/trust more people directly around you. Kids spend much less time at the local park and more time indoors. I wrote a posting recently talking about social pressures of our modern day and part of my post was comparing the communities around us today vs 50 years ago.

I'm lucky that I live in a suburb where I know many people around me. My friends (who don't live locally) and extended family are both surprised and envious at how lucky we are being surrounded by friendly and generous people. Frequently popping in, bringing home made cakes, jams etc. I love it! As an example, I had a neighbour bring my wife some flowers recently for no particular reason.

I am fairly certain that our modern lifestyles and socialisation with neighbours is far more stressful than it used to be, judging by most people I know.
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cat doesn't care about file type either.
Uber has produce an 18 (so far) part series on why a union would be a bad thing
Market+share+of+mobile+OS:+Android+continues+its+slow+growth
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896065
It can be in your long run interest not to sell attacks on companies on the open market. That is shady stuff and not worth it for many people.
Probably the Israelis. Constantly living with existential uncertainties and surviving them will likely be useful down the road.
Scotland's contribution to Trident is ~£200m per year.
It can't be overstated. All metro areas need their actual residencies checked, because the lead service lines are everywhere.

There's been a lot more checking (under the Obama administration - goodbye EPA) and there are many million+ resident municipalities with very bad lead levels because of lead service lines.
Might be venturing into the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath.
Ask HN: Advice for my YC application?
Hi! I am 20 y/o programmer from india applying to YC for S17 and looking for some advice on my application. Would you mind taking 10 mins out to read it give some feedback?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FCG5c-X9jH9jCFSTdxiqEjMmwPybyCcPiTBNNYJwres/edit?usp=sharing
It is unreal to me that there's some "NZ has a robbery problem" thread here - of all the things one could come up with or complain about NZ I'm baffled that anything crime-related could be on the (otherwise tiny) list!
OpenTTD is basically Transport Tycoon, with added support for plugins/mods etc. Its actively maintained with a good community following.

Not quite a modern refresh, but theres enough new stuff to keep you going if you haven't played it yet.
'The language more beautiful than words'
Nobody needs the highest quality healthcare in the world. Did it get Steve Jobs or Satoru Iwata anywhere?

(The fancy book learnin term that applies here is "marginal cost")
But the poster never mentioned founders, he says leaders.
Even when talking about Microsoft, I think he is referring to Satya Nadella since both Gates & Balmer were not immigrants.
Teveel eiwitten eten beter voor onze gezondheid of toch niet?
Havas Freezes All Google and YouTube Ad Spend in the U.K
You cannot really go practical in AI without academic rigor. You can do recipes of what's already been done using a TensorFlow book, but that's how far one can go. If one is serious in getting in AI today, a great way to do is read the following books, in order:

1. AI: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.

2. Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio.

It is amazing how approachable both books are for beginners, but you will be diving a lot into academic stuff as you go along.
When I've gone canoeing in Dalsland I've done it (not easy to bring a weeks worth of water with you...), no ill effects.
> The cost of the water system ... [is] proportional to the population size...

Absolutely not - unless you assume every municipal area has equal population density.

You figure water pipe installation costs per mile. There are a lot more miles to get to people's houses in Podunk Nebraska. Overall - trivially disprovable.

> The ... ability to take on debt [is] directly proportional to the population size.

Absolutely not. Trivially disprovable. Compare tax revenue per-capita between Podunk Nebraska and New York City and see what you come up with. And then figure that out over the actual cost to deploy services to that population. Density of tax revenue per square mile is orders of magnitude lower.

Pro tip here: Podunk Nebraska doesn't have water service. They don't have sewer service. They have a well and a septic field, buddy. Because there isn't revenue to provide real services.

I lived in that growing up - and you don't have an accurate picture of what rural life is like at all. We had well water and septic, just like anyone who lived within 5 miles of us.
Don't think about horbito like an OS (yet), think about it like Google Drive on steroids.

Right now horbito is a great solution for teams, being able to work online with a much better user experience than old cloud (introducing windows and multitasking inside a website) and collaborating on real time while always being up to date on everything that's happening on your team thanks to Cosmos.

I really think Cosmos is a big revolution for teams because it's a well executed Yammer/Facebook for work due to being perfectly integrated with your workflow, you needn't stop work to report what your doing, as soon as you save you can share and post all the changes with your coworkers.
You should try out http://jsonnet.org, I love it.
Comprehensive Guide to Code Quality: Best Practices and Tools
I think this article is full of "alternative computer science" and reminds me other article, published here as well, about the obsolescence of Unix. The only good thing is this discussion thread.
Buoyed by Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Bloomfield Hills.

As with every state - the urban areas by and large provide the tax revenue.

With Michigan, the Detroit City Center is mostly a trainwreck. There are still strong metro areas, and in particular there is a buttload of money flowing into the U of M area from overseas.
All current economic statistics about Scotland are baed on origin. Anything made in Scotland is counted as part of Scottish economy, even if it travels to England to be exported—that is counted as a Scottish export even though it left via an English port.

The difference after independence would be that the export would occur at Carlisle rather than Felixstowe.

Most of the "Thatcherism effect" of the 19080s can be directly attributed to North Sea oil. If you remove that money from the economy Thatcherism was a contraction until the banks boomed (though that was mostly post-Thatcher).
Scientists Who Found Gluten Sensitivity Evidence Failed to Confirm (2015)
Why the "white" adjective?
I don't see the relationship between your skin color and the safeness of hitchhiking.
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For an article so concerned with intelligence and our evaluation and relationship to it (as a society), this article seems to purposefully remain outdated. It focuses on pre genetic views of eugenics and heritability and couches its arguments in literature as truth, or blatantly false assertions (such as the heritability of intelligence being negligible). Unconvincing.
The challenge I've found with books is the space has been moving so quickly in the past 10 years. By the time the book is out, the methods described in it are no longer state of the art.
All configuration management systems suck.

They all suck in equal measure, but each in a different fashion. You can only try to pick the one tool that sucks the least for your particular use-case and hope that two years down the line you made the right choice.
> People can pay to view other people's shortcomings.

Don't you think this will discourage potential users? What's my incentive to use this service, if you are basically going to sell my fears about myself for profit?
Shorter, as it doesn't include a stock market, but 1830 (msdos) is a good one as well (you probably know the java 18xx). For other train board games with a pc adaptation, see Eurorails (crayon type) and Wabash Canonball (aka Chicago Express). There's also American Rails (which imo is better) which I'd wish there was an AI implementation for.
http://www.railgamefans.com/ebp/
https://www.engadget.com/2010/10/07/app-review-wabash-cannon...
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Or maybe just privatize it? In France (one of the most socialist country on Earth) we've been privatizing more and more of our water infrastructure (we're around 30% private by now and it increases each year) and the quality of water is still one of the best.
Two points:

1. There's no reason to believe machines wont gain full autonomy. There's nothing that makes it impossible and some people are working towards it.

2. The AI apocalypse probably already happened, except we call them "insitutions", and they currently run on wetware. However, the corporate version have been extremely damaging to human well-being at times. The real question of modern AI is if the currently rogue AIs can transition off wetware. Once these AI no longer depend on wetware, we're probably not in for a happy time.

That said, nuclear weapons are a bigger threat now. But we've managed not to nuke ourselves too often for a while, whereas, we don't have a handle on the wetware-to-mechanical transition at all.
Hey, old timer! I used to be a junior operator in the computer room. I moved up from tape operator to print operator to console operator. Finally, I was the lead console operator during the Y2K rollover. What great memories! I didn't make any enormous mistakes like the one in your excellent lore, but I will say it was because I was never brave enough in that computer room to make a move that mattered. It got easier to be brave when the computers shrank, though. Thanks for the story!
‘Honeypot’ pages to try to convert people searching for cracked software
Thanks for the feedback. That's the exact reason why i posted the it as askhn. I am apprehensive too, want to know what the community thinks.
Hear, hear! Devops right now is in the Middle Ages, kind of like what web frontend programming was a few years ago. Remember all those weird cobbled down logicless DSLs that were supposed to save us from ourselves.

I am expecting the Renaissance you mentioned in devops shortly, just like how React transformed the scene.

In short, DSLs should be inside programming languages and we shouldn't be afraid to write code.
Yes, and the war in Europe ended before the Germans built a bomb (they were trying, but had not made much progress), and like you said many of their best minds were in the US.

I think in a situation where the Americans didn't build an A bomb then no one would have for some time.

Would it have made a difference to our world now? It's hard to tell, but the Soviets certainly would have taken more Japanese territory than they did in our timeline.

My opinion was Stalin was too pragmatic to start WWIII, Before and after WWII he only provided limited support to Soviet-aligned groups (see: post-war France and the Spanish or Greek civil wars) in other part of the world to avoid antagonizing the west too much.

The real answer is, who knows?
A very interesting read.

But why do I need to turn javascript on to read a load of text?
What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime
Never say never but Lua is pretty unique because of the vm size and language design.
Perhaps you are thinking about the conditional number of a matrix or more simple for f(x) a function with derivative f' the inverse g(x) has derivative g'(x)= 1/f'(g(x)), so using an encoding with a function with little variability means that recovering the original from the encoded value is not robust, any small error is amplied. The condition number of a matrix is a way to measure the difficulty of solving a linear problem. For a non linear problem one usually apply the above using a linear approximation near a point, so you have the jacobian matrix and the condition number of the jacobian matrix is a good measure of the difficulty of recovering a value encoded when there are errors, obviously one way to enhance the precision is to use redundancy or error recovery techniques.
There are various security broker companies that governments work with. An unscrupulous pentester could find one, email them, and ask them if they're interested.

The trouble would be how to prove the exploit works without also revealing how it's done. The best bet would be to demo one or two out of the three exploits required to work, then talk business in exchange for the third.
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Did anyone else play A-Train (looks like it was actually A-train III)? I loved it but have never found anyone else who has even heard of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Train
Astronomers observe a dying red giant star's final act
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Startups run out of cash as investors become discerning
An Attempt to Save South Carolina's Historical Documents Is Destroying Them
Personally I'd build a single AMI with a startup script that extracts any configuration for things like which partition group the instance is in from user data (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-insta...)
Functional setState is the future of React
If I can get cqueues running, then I can run lapis on that and get a webserver happening.. in my browser!
> We convinced our friends in the current Y Combinator batch to let us stay in a closet at their East Palo Alto home office for $600 per month. If we spent $1,000 a month we would have 25 months of runway, which seems infinite.

I'm all for frugality and cost controls, but this is ridiculous. It's things like this that brainwash a generation of fools into throwing their lives away at nonsensical ideas.

I'm not saying it's never right to put it all on the line and bet on your idea. I'm saying the vast majority of the time it's a terrible idea and doing something like this serially would make for a terrible existence.

> As we walked out we remembered the National Geographic magazines. We handed each of the partners their National Geographic Magazine from their birth month and year. I remember Denny handing PG his.

>> "PG, This is what science looked like when you were born."

> Jessica ran after us and asked, "How did you find my birthday?" It turns out we got her birthday month wrong and gave her the January issue. Luckily we came with the backup. She is a February baby.

If I were in their shoes (YC interviewers) I'd be seriously weirded out by this. Knowing the approximate age of someone and getting an issue from that year wouldn't be that bad. But this is just creepy.
> You understand that he meant paying less for a flat

No. If I understood that, I wouldn't have replied as I did, would I now?

> go on with replying that you still think it's wrong to base the compensation on the location's living expenses

But why is it a location's living expenses? If a company is paying people to work remotely, location should have zero impact on remuneration: they aren't asking you to live anywhere specific, so there is no business reason to use location as a cost factor.
A new study suggests 1 in 5 CEOs are Psychopaths (up from 4%).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel#Ecological_and_behaviora... store fat in their humps
Statements like these always remind me of the FUSSP [0].

I'm not anything close to a developer (scripting to scratch my own itches is the extent of any "development" I do) so I can't claim to truly understand the issues other than generally, at a high-level.

I've heard variations of this argument -- "Rust will save us!", if I may exaggerate slightly -- many, many times and it seems to be occurring more often lately. It makes me genuinely wonder, then, why isn't the first priority to immediately begin work to rewrite all of the existing "legacy" code in Rust? IIUC, Mozilla has been working on rewriting Firefox is Rust -- which is A Good Thing(TM), it seems -- but that's the only major piece of software I've heard about.

If Rust truly is this panacea that it's often made out to be, why is code continuing to be written in anything other than Rust?

[0]: https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
Not only that, but it seems many travel solely to take a selfie in the same spot as 10,000,000 others have, without actually stopping to take in the view.

But then, many went on grand tours not to have experiences, but to be able to say they had, so little has changed other than accessibility.
Order any list in O(1)
That's why it's important to understand the underlying math.