skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Inflation adjustment doesn't take into account costs that are prevalent in an era but totally absent in another: like internet access, cellphone bills, and such. Nor how much one not puts into their retirement account / savings to spend on daily needs.

Yes it does. Have you looked at how the BLS calculates the market-basket they use for CPI calculations? It's determined by actual spending by actual people on actual goods. This information is public:

"Knowing that consumers are constantly offered new items to include in their market basket, how do changing market baskets influence the CPI? The answer is not unambiguous and depends on the importance of the change in terms of total expenditures by consumers."

https://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/st/st950200.htm
Probably a combination of bot behavior, lag ("eventual consistency") and deliberate probabilistic approach to user-facing analytics.
It takes relatively wealthy people (or at least big spenders) to make trendy upscale bars and restaurants work.

Museums, opera, symphony, most theater, etc. are kept alive by the philanthropy of the local rich.

High salaries are paid by rich VCs looking for return, or companies with more cash than they know how to handle commissioning prestige projects. (How many people at Google actually work on revenue generation? That doesn't happen at Joe's Computers in Nowheresville).

Concentrated wealth is the reason cities can have these things.
Sadly, I don't think it would have really helped. And I'm not saying that lightly.
Google Container Engine supports cluster autoscaling to automatically add nodes with load. It's listed as a beta feature though.

I've tried most of the Docker orchestration offerings and Container Engine seems by far the nicest. Swarm and Compose are really simple for getting up and running, but when we evaluated them there was still a missing piece required in that there was no neat way to do zero downtime deployments.

There's a tool called Kompose to convert docker-compose config to kubernetes manifests (https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kompose) although whilst it's nice to get you started we tend to maintain them separately now.
How is this different from StartCom except for size? Is the "too big to fail" enough of an argument here?

Edit: Oh wait. Verisign and Thawte. Okay, that's some massive excrement on a collision course with the ventilation device.
yeah, that is true of r/the_donald. I got banned for saying I support him but I have questions about some aspects of his campaign. At the same time, arbitrary banning for anything less than 100 % agreement and support seems to be a reddit in general thing rather than something individual to r/the_donald or Trump supporters. Reddit mods and reddit communities are ban happy, whether they are on the left or the right.
I build both web apps and Qt apps. TBH, doing something in Qt is about 1/10 to 1/100 the effort of doing it on the web. The web is a morass of confusing standards, none of which work well together. To get guaranteed, predictable behavior which is documented, and will continue to work properly for 10 years after deployment (with only minor maintainence), you simply cannot use the web.
Also, what happens to actual real ads? Are they blocked and replaces by their own ads by the browser?

Essentially yes[1], which is why I'll never be onboard with Brave or any solutions that rely on it.

1. https://brave.com/about_ad_replacement.html
Mashape Fuels Kong Growth with $18M from Andreessen-Horowitz
TensorFlow: Mutating variables and control flow
I also dislike forced tooling, which was the reason for writing domvm [1] which can be used as a drop-in <script> with no tooling. It's a practical mix of virtual-dom, composable components and OO (as needed).

Pardon the shameless plug, but the whole project started as an easy way for moving from jQuery spaghetti to a fast data-driven virtual-dom view layer so seems fitting to post here.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm
Well, good luck finding a 100% passive income, this is close enough for me, I might spend a couple hours a month with clients. Pretty dang close.
TL,DR:

- I explore the different ways to manually mutate Variables in TF (content and shape)

- I explore how to construct control flow like an "if statement"

- I end up and showing a weird TF behaviour when you mix those

- Bonus: a first try at animated GIF :D
Maybe it was related to the proximity to silicon valley which wasn't due to the computer science departments of Stanford and UC Berkeley, although Stanford did likely place a role.
Can you clarify what you mean by "copying everything"?

A good thing about BF, IMHO, is that its syntax is trivial to the point of almost non-existence, and that its memory model is C-like.
> Think about people without education.

I don't want people without education building my IDEs and other software I might rely on.

The VS Code team have done a great job, and this bug will die. But, I'd say it's more in spite of the platform, than because of it.
A little nitpick - energy is not momentum squared:
Momentum = mv and kinetic energy = 1/2 mv^2
So energy is proportional to mv^2 rather than (mv)^2
AWS Policy to Terminate Instances Based on Profile
No. Ownership of a good is acquired through homesteading.
There is a list of alt right accounts to be killed, supposedly leaked from a Twitter employee.

Some of them have in fact been suspended since the list came out. Just a coincidence? I do not know...

If they will suspend accounts, suppress auto-complete on certain hashtags, why wouldn't they mess with other things too?
> Actually, it would take one hour because you would use Poppler, and it would be cross-platform. It would also be faster than pdf.js.

I don't really know poppler. If there are Poppler bindings for the language you are developing in, I believe you that this is possible. This is only one use case though, I'm not sure you will find native libraries in your language for all features that VSCode can offer almost for free, like live markdown preview for instance.
The Cancer of the Great Lakes
IMHO [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression][Symbolic Expressions]] are... infinitely better.

Example:
'(iff (not (and (P 1) (P 2)))
(or (not (P 1)) (not (P 2))) )
How I Hacked Stress
My house. Can't beat real estate when you're strategically located.
For comparison, in 1976 (when paint and gasoline were still leaded), the average child in the United States had a blood lead level of approximately 16 µg/dL.

Source: http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article3772.html
This, plus the safety council and the pruning of trending topics is definitely a pattern. It's also probably counter productive - this lets activists like Milo campaign on being oppressed for their views, which widens their public appeal enormously. It also adds to the perception of SV as behind-the-scenes manipulative, even if that's not true. Finally, it heightens the idea that the modern Left can't take criticism and is quietly authoritarian, which is exactly the bogeyman these commentators want​.

If it were just this, I wouldn't believe it, but this is post #1000 about Twitter deprioritizing conservatives. I don't get why they do it, but then again, I don't get a lot about Twitter management. These people, and definitely Milo, would likely fade into obscurity if left alone.
Early to bed. Early to rise.

I started getting up at around 5:00am -- and going to bed before 10pm.

I'll never be a morning person -- but I'm able to shift the time of my first morning meeting to virtual-late-morning.

Works for me.
> 13" HiDPI display

Hope it doesn't need fractional DPI scaling, because as far as I know there is no desktop on Linux that supports it, while Windows has supported it for years.
LastPass: Security done wrong
SEC May Regret the Day It Allowed Leveraged ETFs
VSCode is free and feature-rich with a huge amount of extensions already.
Much easier to manage than UBI. I see a bright future ahead.
What is Agile methodology, the easiest explanation with real life solutions
First. Good luck

I'm all for trying new coffee. So far nothing has been worth the difference in the price which is why I still but store brand. (Bounty towels ARE worth the difference in price, e.g.)

Will you sell creamers and sugar and stirrers and cups?

I'm not sure what your product does - do I still have to heat up the water? I would love your product to be alka-selzer like in that I drop it into my cold cup of water and I get a hot cup of good tasting coffee. No need to heat up the water
Many aspects of Machine Learning boil down to optimization problems.
I'd be very surprised if Symantec doesn't have some backroom deal with intelligence agencies, and not just in the U.S. either, especially since they've acquired BlueCoat - a "security company" known for selling surveillance tools to authoritarian regimes - and after they made the BlueCoat CEO the CEO of Symantec.
I think it's likelier that Symantec will start a negative PR campaign, leading its users to yell at google to change things, perhaps calling this FUD. Whether that'll be effective is another question.
Maybe he was hosting his native editor via an xwindows server on dialup.
Same here - the lag with just doing simple things in Atom, like moving the cursor, became too much.

Since I made the switch I've found VS Code to be quite nice.
I miss having Hydrogen available but I can always run jupyter notebook if I need something like that.
"the failure of government efforts to affect or slow down negative developments has left an opening for conservatives to argue that government interventions make things worse."

Why does the author dismiss the possibility that the argument has at least some truth to it?

For a variety of reasons, some which are due to government policy, the necessity of marriage has reduced dramatically.

That's good in many ways, such as reducing abusive situations. But it also means that people who could get married peacefully choose not to, to the detriment of their children.
On the flip side, the new Windows "Metro" style calculator app takes several seconds to load ... and is less usable than the old calc.exe.
>Care to argue why?

Where do I start?

1) Designed for document presentation, not for apps.
2) Limited widget selection (native forms and that's it).
3) Different implementations between vendors.
4) Bad at layout (20+ years to get to Flex and Grid CSS layout which kind of resembles UI layouts but is still not supported everywhere.
5) Slow
6) Batter hungry
7) Too many un-needed UI layers (DOM over native widgets)
8) Extra language layer (JS on top of v8 on top of native execution)
9) JS is not the best language to write large scale software (to put it mildly)
10) Restricted access/integration to native platform APIs.
Coffee... lots of it...
This. Text editor can't handle openning log file. (no need to highlight anything, complete anything, scan the structure etc. Just show me the damn log!)

With the latest updates they are now able to open files up to 10Mb, wow.
What about the shared medium nature of DOCSIS? Do they share some infrastructure with the other cable ISPs or are these usually separate?

Usually this provider is very progressive [1][2][3] and because of these positive impressions I did not suspect them to hold back the cable IPv6 rollout due to financial reasons. According to [4] they even provide OpenWRT instructions for their native IPv6 and only their cable users are left without native IPv6. :(

[1] https://mirror.netcologne.de/

[2] https://www.sixxs.net/pops/netcologne/

[3] https://www.netaachen.de/ueber-uns/breitbandausbau

[4] https://www.netaachen.de/privatkunden/ipv6
Whats your use case for needing to know someones location and you must know within 5 minutes? or is the objection more about the full screen popup(i.e. if they are at the gym, does the request interrupt their music listening?)
Even though people are right about the license being a reason one has to keep in mind that there actually is quite a few other BSD licensed (often real time) operating systems targeting embedded devices, like Contiki, Minix, TinyOS and others.

I think the community and quality of documentation as well as not being controlled by single entities are a big part.

It's not just the license. There are quite a few ways to get around using Linux in many use cases without caring about its license. And there is Toybox.
Google report: only half of Android devices get security patches,improvs planned
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ask%20HN%20passive%20income%20...
I disagree. Over engineering does not relate to a particular framework. In fact, you can over-engineer with any tech. It's the design of the system what defines that (e.g microservices vs monolith for a small web app).

It's a simple monolithic application with a relational database. Does this sound like over engineering? I don't think so.

It's actually the opposite. Which one seems like an overkill, Server A or Server B (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CngB1sfWIAAbOFi.jpg)? ;)
This needs more work on the math side to be helpful. As it points out itself, the ecological example does not (in substance) correspond to the Lotka Volterra model.

Furthermore, there is no way for a species to go extinct from what I saw initially (perhaps there are options I'm missing?)

A lot of system-relationships are non-linear, or fractal, with time-ranges that are out of sync. Would be great to be able to model that -- i.e. introduce different "speeds" on how fast arrows can "travel" on the line, and to introduce functions that describe how x input arrows results in y output arrows, etc. It'd be great to be able to model how when a food source (or any input disappears), the burden shifts to the other sources etc -- now the arrows just go equally, sources/sinks can't disappear etc.
Intel Forms New AI Group Reporting Directly to CEO Brian Krzanich
Askew
ED-209 wants to have a word with Robocop + I decreased frustration and societal unrest by massively funding Entertainment:

http://bit.ly/2mwwO7T

Basically, "Running Man" was entertainment / fiction when I read it as a kid, and it will be a documentary by the time I'm dead.
Better UI testing in Ember
>I believe that many auto makers purchase their engines instead of designing then in-house because they are so complex to get right.

Citation needed. Engines are one thing the automakers tend to hold onto and not outsource often. There are exceptions, and there's cases of them licensing specific engine tech from each other (like with Toyota's Prius drivetrain). For instance, Mazda has a prototype car where they paired their 2.0L "SkyActiv" gas engine with Toyota's hybrid transmission/motor from the Prius. There's also cases of them doing joint ventures, like when Mitsubishi and Chrysler formed "Diamond Star Motors" back in the 80s/90s, or with the more recent Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S where Subaru makes the engine/drivetrain/suspension and Toyota makes the body (I think).

The only cases I can think of offhand where automakers simply drop in a purchased engine are with diesel pickups, such as Dodge using Cummins engines. Oh, there was also the Ford Taurus SHO with a Yamaha engine, but that was way back in the late 80s and Yamaha isn't exactly known as a serious engine-builder these days.
Interesting that they talk about their predecessors completely dying out. There was a fascinating Time Team special where they mentioned that Britain has had seven completely separate waves of inhabitants - with the predecessors apparently all dying out.

Probably a coincidence though as the timescales won't match up but fascinating to even consider that there was some historical truth behind those old myths.
When in university, I worked on a cubesat project; the first satellite apparently got stuck in its launch container, never getting out to deploy its antennas and say 'Hi, mom!'. Good thing we had built two; now all we had to do was wrestle ourselves in on a later launch.

The second, duplicate one? Oh, that wound up in a Kazakh field while still attached to the launch vehicle. I like to think that second one made some poor farmer need a new pair of pants, if nothing else.

Then again, as far as impact goes, it would have been a lot cooler to receive one's telemetry from space rather than just having a pair of soiled pants to show for it...
I wonder if adding

will-change: opacity

to the CSS would improve performance (by switching CSS animation rendering to the GPU)

https://medium.com/outsystems-experts/how-to-achieve-60-fps-...
Yea... I have lenovo laptops that use a similar connector. In the short term they're all right but a failure on there makes the port useless.
WPA2 is reasonably secure and has been the standard for home and business WiFi for years.

In any case, merely compromising WiFi won't get you someone's Netflix account. The Netflix data itself, including the credentials, are all encrypted.

As for taking over someone's PC, that's far beyond the average pirate, and you're talking about serious criminal offences on top of mere copyright infringement at that point.

And even then, we're not necessarily talking about being able to make exact copies of the stream. The whole point of hardware-backed DRM schemes is that just because you can run software on the PC, that doesn't mean you can access the unencrypted data stream.

So again, how exactly were you planning to do this? What you're talking about is far beyond the average script kiddie or casual pirate.

Remember, we were talking about convincing a court that it was more likely that someone did all of this and that was how a watermarked copy of protected content got out than that the person whose account was used to download that content then somehow shared it. A slight possibility that professional pirates who are also expert crackers chose that particular customer to pick on and left no evidence having done so isn't likely to be very convincing.
The deal-breaker on the Dell Precision 5510 for me was the keyboard layout. I work on the command line and I need the pipe key on the right side of the keyboard and directly above the shift key. I have a new Thinkpad P50 and I am happy with that.
> If you don’t have a human expert at hand, at the very least, check the date on that Medium article or tutorial or the last commit in that GitHub repository. If it’s more than a year old, it’s almost certainly not the way to go.

The logical conclusion then is to wait a year and ignore everything this article says. Saves a lot of time. :)
Fun fact: for radiocarbon dating and similar techniques, when something is identified as from "ten thousand years before now," "now" is defined as January 1st, 1950. Anything past that date is too screwed up compared to historical trends to use standard archaeology on.
There was a big new overhead -- in DOS you could write directly to video memory, and control the graphics cards registers directly. In windows you had to go through libraries. Until DirectX came along, it was basically impossible to write even reasonable performance animations in windows, hence the lack of games in windows 2 and 3.
Airbnb experiences
I came to the comments because I'm worried about just that kind of attitude. It strikes me that messing with this kind of thing could have some major impacts on the functioning of the atmosphere and magnetosphere, so I'd want to see very careful studies done by numerous independent organizations before we even remotely considered collectively giving Elon Musk a chance at something like that.
Theory says you'll be run over by the next VC-funded Facebook in your market, and will have to subsist by being a niche business (better service or catering to certain segments).

So, either the next Facebook or lifestyle. Of course, real world is not perfect so there's space for medium-sized businesses, but they're not an economic optimum (they're leaving money on the table either way).
When that single web server goes down, it's not so "fast" anymore.
Forgive the pedantry, but The Prince has /always/ been viewed as a how-to-manual, because it literally is one.
To be realistic, more automation does not lead to "more profit", because of competition. But, this is really great tool to actually visualize these arguments.
Amazing content! What issues have you found in using RabbitMQ as a message broker comparing to some other alternatives like Kafka?
> There are plenty tech companies that are profitable, well-capitalized, have moderate organic growth, and compete with similarly sized companies.

Sure, but that just means that they and their competitors have already grown to the point where the market is saturated, and any further growth they are experiencing is because the market is growing or to the detriment to their competitors. They probably already had an exponential growth period, although it could have been short-lived if the market is small (and if the market is really small, may not have looked like exponential growth at all, and may have just looked like becoming profitable and leveling out).

You're right that not all niches will attract VC funded competitors, but I think the number niches that meet that criteria are actually very small, in this industry. There's always someone that thinks they can disrupt it somehow, or market it better to show people the market is actually much bigger than it appears. Keep in mind, the VC funded competitor doesn't have to succeed in it's task of taking over or changing the market to have extremely detrimental effects on companies that aren't working with the same paradigm.

Having a market large enough to support a few small companies but not large enough to warrant VC funded competitors that stays that way seems a rarity.
Former Russian lawmaker shot dead in central Kiev
Frankly, I'd attribute this to a combination of "server farm" issues where lower-importance things like retweet counts may be pulling from slightly stale data and to actively nuking the apparently pretty massive "egg" bot networks that seem to be a problem on Twitter these days.
One thing I struggle with is measurement of progress. For example, what Google is allowing here with Howard U is obviously good for the AA community. However, is Google in general doing things that are good or bad for AAs in general? It's difficult to say.

Excessive advertising can be used to poor people's disadvantage by creating more debt by encouraging more unnecessary expenses. AAs consist of a disproportionally large percentage of poor people and have chronically low wealth levels [1]. One could argue Google is bad for AAs by making advertising more mainstream and accurate.

In any case, at least they're trying, PR or not. Some companies do nothing. I do feel strongly about this because the amount of segregation in Boston is ridiculous.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/27/news/economy/racial-wealth-g...
Given the articles on the sidebar, I am inclined to require independent corroboration of these claims.

If Twitter is taking the time to censor tweets critical of the government, then they're doing a bad job. Certainly, if I was Twitter and wanted to silence Dowd without people noticing that I was doing it, I'd just shadowban him.

> Either eleven people decided to un-retweet Dowd within five minutes of each other, or Twitter decided to censor a tweet critical of the government by limiting it’s visibility.

Or, Twitter, being a very large and complex distributed system, sometimes has to show an approximation of things like re-tweet and follower counts.

Or, Twitter, wanting to make it harder for spammers to game their systems, deliberately shows users delayed or only kinda accurate stats.

Or a mixture of 1, 3, and 4.
holy shit "sonic screwdriver" sounds a lot like http://thundergate.io
Does Religion Cause Volence
Perhaps conservatives attract more spambot followers. (Or as many as anyone else.)

If you believe the stuff about the Kremlin, that would make sense.
I've switched to VSCode as my go-to text editor and you understate the real impact the poor performance has on my workflow. It's not just startup, almost everything has a 250ms-2s delay; it's not a lot each time but it adds up and is frustrating.