skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, in days gone past I would eat that much (and more) on a regular basis.

I've noticed that when I'm used to overeating, it can take a lot of food to hit that point where my brain says "okay, I'm done". When I'm eating a more controlled diet, I hit that full point a lot faster.
I'm wondering how this is all going to play out with ad-blocking software and plugins...?

Are we going to see where - if you run such software - suddenly you can't browse any sites, or you can only browse very slowly?

Or will running ad-blocking software be considered illegal or something - because you're depriving potential profit from somebody?

Will ads slowly take over the entire experience? To the point where you just don't want to use the internet any longer (or at least the web)?

Will people move back to gopher and ftp (oh, we can only hope)? BBSs? Door games and MUDs to the rescue?

My wife and I have considered moving to a more rural area of our state - we're both tired of the city and of people in general. I've lamented about how out in such areas, internet service would be spotty or non-existent, but you know what?

Maybe that's a good thing, ultimately. If I need internet for some reason, I'll just mosey into town, send an email or two, then mosey back home.

These advertisers, their enablers, ISPs, and the corrupt political machine that supports it all? They can go f--- themselves.
This is a good point. I think a real solution to the 'tax problem' requires both a) having the gubment send us an itemized invoice instead of making us file and b) having a transparent, simple to grok code so that we can validate the bill.

edit: this is obviously a huge huge problem to tackle, but dont we all feel a lot of energy around this during tax season? :)
Depending where you're located, it's possible to find options for eating out that aren't massive. At my favorite spot in Brooklyn, I get a salad with feta and kale plus some salmon on top, and it's about the perfect amount for one meal. There's also the "hot buffet" style meals where you can take as much as you want and pay by weight; there are some good businessperson-oriented ones in NYC.
Gruber already appears to do some inventory management himself (see the occasional posts about unbooked RSS sponsorship opportunities), so I assume he'll just have to take on the rest of it. He probably has enough relationships with advertisers for now that he won't have to start hustling yet, but I'd imagine he'll eventually want to work with a contractor to sell spots.
> And yes, I know the people who oppose nuclear power usually will say they don't like coal and natural gas either, but we are going to need a predictable, reliable form of base load power for a long time

So what does that tell you about the motivations of much of the movement that opposes nuclear and fossil fuels? They're not motivated by continued human flourishing, that's for sure.
A runway is not money that you don't need. That's my point.
Sorry, that was a bitchy question. I like PIA too, but their affiliates are notorious for spamming VPN review sites.
Well, it's open-source so I guess you could always self-host.
Any reason why the Rothchilds never show up in these lists? My best guess there is some sort of "who's the richest game" for some new money players (who's fortune can be tracked), where old money prefers obscurity.
Woot! Go go Seattle billionaire club!
Thankyou for that. I might contact Digicert and get one to test with. I can see a use case where tor proxy -> server needs TLS. Tor can not protect that last hop if it isn't on the same machine.
These aren't falsehoods that programmers believe. They are restrictions put in place by a business person and/or lawyer. What a horrible title.
Because they will need it. Hence my point. Raising enough of a runway is just responsible. But raising money you don't need, isn't.
I disagree on one point. Block and Intuit are also lobbyists against all sorts of code simplification programs. Anything that makes the filing process easier, and having fewer deductions and penalties available makes it easer, they are against.
Interesting in that it's written like an acquihire with no price published but they say investors are "extremely happy".

> Further terms of the deal were not disclosed, but “all of our investors are extremely happy with their return,” claimed DogVacay founder Aaron Hirschhorn.
> Amazon’s founder has added $10.2 billion this year to his wealth...

It's not even April yet...
We love what MapD is doing. We operate in different spaces. We have no visualization platform nor intention of making one. Instead of trying to solve problems in GPU RAM we focus on solving problems that require disk based storage. So whereas MapD will be able to perform faster queries on problems that fit in GPU Ram we are focused on problems that require orders of magnitude more storage than what can fit into GPU RAM. Think dumping a datalake into a database to make it all queryable.
Of course it is oppression, it is antidemocratic, was forced on the people and pushed heavily by propaganda. It is a project of the elites and industry, any benefits to ordinary people are far outweighed by the benefits of industry. For the longest time it was simply that: A number of economic treaties, the political stuff was added later on because people realised that it would be far easier to push through their agenda if they only had one semi-democratic negotiating partner to deal with. In the last ten years several anti-democratic "directives" were pushed down to national parliaments, cast into law and later found to be unconstitutional. The best example would be the "Telecommunications data retention" laws:

- They were formulated as an EU-directive in 2006 (which means every national parliament is forced to pass a law based on this directive)

- The corresponding German law was passed in 2008

- The law was declared unconstitutional in 2010 by the German Supreme court and in 2014 by the EU high court

- Of course the german parliament reintroduced slightly changed legislation in 2015
And if you add the fact that for a lot of people their intake should be more near 2000kcal and not 3000 you then already have consumed the recommended daily amount. I think 3000 is already on the high side for people of average size with average (low) physical activity.
happened just yesterday on the Go mailing list, in a thread about transpiling Go to C++:

Probably a weird and orthogonal suggestion : transpile go-->rust and eliminate the gc overhead without dealing with the horrible syntax, if that is even feasible..
You can try out the community version and comapre it to a small redshift instance.
> modular design also allows for ...

I don't think I've ever seen the prediction of such sentences bear out as planned. The word "modular" seems to have a way of taking big bites out a project's end performance and destroying budgets.
So is Bezos our modern day Carnegie or Rockefeller?
Unless Putin is on this list I doubt its veracity.
Most extremely wealthy people hide their wealth through corporations / trusts / etc and never show up on these lists.
How is Bezos making money? Amazon doesn't seem to generate enough dividends to reach this amount of wealth, or does it?
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Go to McDonald's and watch what people are eating sometime. The quantity of food they're putting away may surprise you. Pay special attention to the number of times they go to refill their drink.
> There's a fourth dimension to it - remembering why the hole needs to be guarded for 10000 years.

I can imagine some sort of post-apocalyptic copper age religion where the religious brotherhood exist to guard the 'cursed caves', without understanding why. But everyone knows that people who enter the caves either die at the hands of the strangely deformed beasts who live there, or of a mysterious sickness sometime afterwards.

Yeah, I probably played too much D&D as a child :)
End of financial year tomorrow.
Elon Musk’s New Company Plans to Make Cyborgs
No, the Republican Party. Policy for the last decade has been that Democrats mustn't be allowed to win elections, and should they somehow manage to win elections, they mustn't be allowed to govern.

Of course, the Democrats have themselves totally acceded to this scheme.
Many of these come with a clause that says if you leave before 1 year, you have to pay it all back. However you didn't get the full amount - you paid taxes on it.
Then people living off of investment income wouldn't be paying any tax. At the same time, if you mean, tax all gains at 1.5x the income tax rate, investors wouldn't be properly compensated for the risk they take + inflation.
It's primarily Amazon stock going up in price. Started year at 750, 874 now.
For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
https://github.com/eleme/corvus
This might be an option. Someone tweeted me this. Didnt tested this yet
Yeah, that's true. As far as I know he also did the ad management for his podcast himself, so maybe he can just do that for display ads too. Makes sense.
But that's provably wrong, so the article is incorrect in its entirety then?

Here's the executive summary:

1. Do not eat more calories than you need.
2. Exercise 3 times a week (or more if you have time and enjoy it), with moderate intensity
3. Ensure that most of your meals follow a good macro nutrient profile (but if you have to cut something, do it in carbs --> fat --> protein order)

Not sure why people have such difficulty grasping those concepts and will come up with statistically irrelevant anecdotes in futile attempts to prove the main concepts wrong.
Unix for Poets [pdf] – processing text via Unix CLI tools
Saved me a heck of a lot of time in assembler class with the decimal -> hex -> oct -> binary conversions and direct hexadecimal entry.

[edit: forgot about entering fractions directly - pretty good for a solar powered calculator]
They're not proposing a flat income tax, though. You can have a progressive income tax provided we're liberal with how we define income.
If you hover over something that points to a description that's not currently in view, you can't scroll to the description without unhovering and hence unhighlighting the line pointing to the right description.
Keep working on your ideas and try to communicate them to others. If we all refuse to give up someday we will make programming not suck.
Hmm he seems to imply that MWI is the "right" interpretation, and that the measurement problem is solved. Most physicists would not agree. If you follow the link to his MWI description, there's this gem:

> But fortunately, I knew computer science, which most physicists do not know, with the Church-Turing thesis, which roughly states that anything physical can be simulated by a computer.

But that is not what the Church-Turing thesis says. A Turing machine cannot mimic a truly random physical process, pretty much by definition.

And then:

> This means that observers can be simulated by a computer.

Except that nobody really understands what kinds of physical interactions qualify as measurements -- or even if that is the right framework to use at all.
People are usually including Amazon and MS when they use the metonym "Silicon Valley".
They may have it spread across a larger family and in opaque investment vehicles, etc.
aha makes sense. So basically the worth of his shares went dramatically up.
This sort of info isn't technically pure public knowledge, right? It's mostly estimated based on stock ownership figures where they're publicly listed I would guess? Probably less a matter of hiding than just not-public-info.
maybe they dont count corruption?
Is this your justification for why it's safe for you to drink?

While your "complex adaptive system" may have escaped addiction, others usually don't, and that statement is useful for them.
I'd assume the government should take full responsibility for who it appoints to receive the subsidies and what they do with them.

But we're not talking about slush funds for doing nothing, we're talking about who makes policy. And funnily enough in Westminster we also have a Cabinet and PM setting the policy agenda that are chosen not by some universal franchise but nominated by the representatives of different localities. The transfer of executive power from the MP for Witney to the MP for Maidenhead happened without the involvement of a single person outside the political class, and I didn't vote for any of the Bill Select Committees proposing new legislation or any of the individuals heading up any of the departments responsible for implementing it. And so yeah, I'm holding Conservative MPs rather than the public or the drafters of Britain's constitution responsible for how Brexit gets implemented

Weirdly, few of the people insisting that the UK must leave because of the terrible system of government the EU has are remotely bothered about similar democratic deficits in Westminster.
One post about how you actually rewrote a thing in Rust (like ripgrep or exa) is worth 50 that suggest this general idea.
Inverting the display of "5318008" on your seven-segment display was a rite of passage as a teenage boy in America in the 80's.
http://www.snopes.com/rothschild-family-wealth/

Basically, after three generations a single persons wealth is distributed out enough to get dropped from these sorts of lists. Jeff might be the 2nd richest in the world - it's highly unlikely his grandchildren will be ranked as such.
Keep in mind how small USA was 240 years ago. In 1910 it was 90m comparing to Germany 62m.
It's also dishonest to claim (Without any qualifications) that spent nuclear fuel will be deadly for hundreds of thousands of years.

Which isotopes? Deadly in what amounts? How many people do you expect our spent fuel will kill over the next ~100 years? ~1000 years? ~100,000 years?

How many people do you expect coal pollution/AGW will kill over the next ~100 years? ~1000 years? How many people will hydro dam disasters kill over the next ~100 years? Because that's the alternative we're looking at.
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The cost of pharmaceuticals isn't necessarily in manufacturing. If you spent ten billion dollars to get a new drug to market the cost of making the pills might very well be a rounding error.

You have to pay for that. How do you do it? You can't give away the product. And, not only do you have to recoup your ten billion investment but you need money for new product development and the certainty of supporting a constant flow of lawsuits and legal work that comes with the territory.

Making drugs in the US is incredibly expensive. Scratch that, doing almost anything in the Medical industry is incredibly expensive. Not only do you have to want to innovate and fund the R&D, you have to, from day one, get ready for lawsuits and build-up a war chest. That's a shitty position to be in.

The best thing government could do in order to reduce our medical costs is to enact sensible and fair tort reform. That, right there, would have a huge impact on the cost of medicine at all levels.
cause seattle never sleeps

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/)
Billing is not exactly the hardest problem to crack. I think it is harder to market your product and for that you will need to allow customers to try it first in the easiest possible way and only when they are happy and can afford to - buy it.

I am thinking that by eliminating the login it will be quicker to get to that point.
The 37% solution to the Secretary Problem is derived by letting n (number of candidates) tend to infinity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#Deriving_the...). Most of us are not that lucky in love affairs.
Bezos owns about 83M[1] shares of Amazon which are currently $875.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Amazon-does-Jeff-Be...
I think most sedentary people are in the 2000-2500 calorie daily range. When I formed my cached thoughts about this it was looking at a double whopper super-sized meal that would include large fry and large coke and I recall that coming out pretty close to 2000.
eh is it? I thought it's end of Q2 tomorrow only. The $10 billion is probably the addition of Q1 and Q2 so far this fiscal year.
It does becasue they did; well in a lobby sort of way so it is legal.
This is an excellent read, even if you're familiar with most of the material.
What are you talking about? I am talking about terabytes of RAM in the cluster. I would love to see some benchmarks of terabyte datasets. Everything I saw from your demo video was under 1b rows. Hardly qualifies as massive scale.
> the protagonist learns to reprogram his own mind

You'd want a backup before trying anything substantial.
I'm going to say this until I'm blue in the face: fix money in politics, and half of these issues will no longer be intractable.
By some measures Queens is one of the most diverse places on Earth, so that's not really a fair comparison.
Taxing consumption would rapidly explode into a vast array of categories and rates for different types of consumption, luxury taxes, etc.

Food, maybe no tax. But maybe there's some tax if it's ready-to-eat. Or based on sugar content.

Automobiles maybe taxed rather heavily, but the first $5000 is exempt so poor people can buy cheap cars, etc. It would become just as complicated as the current code.
"...The question is, assuming that this trend toward the networked automation of factories continues — and there is little evidence to suggest that it won’t — what happens next?..."

This is getting rather tiresome.

Let's see. My guess is that "Things that can't be created by automation" become more scarce, hence more rare. That means their price goes up, demand increases, and more folks start making that stuff.

Why do rich people buy expensive designer cars? After all, once the model T came out, the problem of people wanting to go from one place to the other was solved.
Metafilter used this ad network: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/24390/Fond-farewell-to-ads-fr...

So did Waxy: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/847188783724322816
That does not solve the issue of locks, just abstracts the mechanisms away (hence why std::atomic has member functions related to checking for locks).

The OP is correct, these tools are generally frowned upon in favor of better strategies.
Nope. Those guys managed to be quite a bit richer, by a substantial factor.
Perhaps. That's one story.

Another possible angle, we're so out of touch with our bodies, our emotions, our very selves. That we've essentially numbed ourselves to the signals that our body's constantly sending us.

Sitting children down in neat little rows for 16 years, while hammering them into preconceived form; no play, no socialization, no getting to know self, this seems to have a deleterious effect on their awareness.

Funny thing is that I subscribed to that often-repeated theory, and it may not be wrong, after all, that story does make sense. However, when I started to be mindful, I began to notice that sugar doesn't feel that great and it's kinda gross same goes when I ate too much meat. Just the simple act of noticing has led me to a healthier diet. The hardest part was relearning how to be present and aware, the rest is gravy.

Makes me wonder how much bullshit we've been fed over the years about ourselves.
This is cool. My dad threw away our TRS-80 when I was in high school, and I miss it. It was the one with the integrated monitor, I don't remember what model it was. My first computer.
I loved programming so much in high school that I would routinely hack in TI-BASIC on these things as much as I could. It was an excellent language to cut your teeth on.
I heard that solar panels are used on military satellites...

Some bombs use essentially tiny wind turbines to measure fall, and ready the fuse when far enough from the releasing plane...

Now who's the militarist? :)
From TFA:

A number of people on Twitter have taken the title literally. "This is about managers and lawyers!" they protest. But, of course!

All of the "Falsehoods" memes - including the original - are a shorthand for "Constraints placed upon a complex system by a mixture of ignorance, apathy, business requirements, or other legal constraints".
Shame to hear this... although I guess there is less demand now with hyper-targeted invasive social ads. Working with The Deck previously, Jim was always such a pleasure to deal with and it felt a lot more personal as a network vs. Google or the big social networks. RIP.
Yeah, only downside is that with 64-bit numbers these days things could get a bit painful to enter.

All we need is someone to add bluetooth and let you send your clipboard over to it :).
I guess that made the decision easier for you.
For examples in other languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator_spelling#Other_lang...
Ask HN: EA games and European market discrimination
I recently moved to Poland (I am originally from France) and I bought some games in the EA platform (Origin), to my surprise, although my EA account is configured to English (I prefer original language), the games I bough are restrict to Polish or Russian. I see 2 problems here: first there was no warning that although my account is set to English (all my previous purchased games there are in English) they delivered the games in a different language. Second, they restricted the content of the game solely based on my IP address (even my credit card is not based in Poland). Does someone know if this practice is legal and if not where could I file a complain against them?
The funny thing is, if I had just downloaded them from a torrent I would not be wasting my time about this.
Really meant San Fran. An extreme disproportionate amount of investment dollars go there considering just how much value has come out of Seattle with much less starting capital.
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That's a lot compared to Juncker.
Seattle* is an anomaly. Roughly the 100th city worldwide by size, yet has 2 of the 5 largest companies in the world by market cap.

* Technically Seattle metro area
I can't tell if you're being serious or trolling but using modulus in front-end is not all that uncommon. Especially when doing reporting or animation.

For years the only way to do zebra striped tables was that way.

Also, I never said...

1. We were taking about front-end.

2. We reject solely based on it. I just used it as an example of a type of question.

In fact we've hired candidates who didn't know what modulo was because when they encountered it they were able to reason through it.

Furthermore... this candidate failed far easier questions that that. I used FizzBuzz as the "hardest" question.

Does not knowing Fizz Buzz mean you won't be productive? No. But it is probably a good indicator you aren't commanding of $150k a year this guy got hired for.
It would be worthwhile to mention if multichannel audio is supported or if the application is limited to working with mono and stereo inputs.
How can you fix money in politics without making the whole system worse?
The business of H&R Block and Intuit came about in response to tax code complexity, they did not create it.
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Similar to how the term "Wall Street" isn't limited to the firms physically located on Wall Street in lower Manhattan.
Some fun facts: Jeff Bezos owns 80.9 million shares of AMZN (or did in September), which is about 17% of the company. Over 60% of the company is held by institutional shareholders, led by Vanguard. His annual salary is $100K. He appeared in Star Trek Beyond as a Star Fleet official. In his spare time, he runs a spaceship company.[1]

I've always admired Amazon and have been a customer of theirs since the late 90s when it was mainly a bookseller. For a while I owned a few hundred shares, but sold them for a slight profit. Had I held onto them... sigh...

Jeff Bezos is one of America's great entrepreneurs, along with Gates, Musk, Ellison, and a handful of others. This is America at its best. We could do worse than to produce such amazing and successful technology innovators.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
Doesn't OLAP implies branching/conditions? GPUs are terrible at evaluating if.