skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"III.5.1 (House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door); 7716: To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy."

This is similar to the modern-day "share this 30 times or you'll get bad luck" email chain that baby boomers send around.
The simple answer is that if you're working on a growing product, your engineering team is probably stretched thin. The why behind all these questions is most likely a short term optimization of time.

A $4B "valuation" isn't particularly relevant. It's just a matter of the actual (not potential) resources they had at the time, and how they were allocated. And I'd bet that was mostly allocated toward product growth and development, not stability. Because, well, of course it was.
While we're at it, one should use “Mi”, not “M”. M is still 1000 * 1000, while Mi is 1024 * 1024.

That amount of sloppiness in any other engineering discipline would just finish you off immediately.
In terms of language: yes, you are correct.

I had seriously contemplated switching to F# before Scala, and attended a full-day workshop for it, however the dealbreaker for me was the poor tooling support (this was around 2011). After switching to Scala, there was very little reason for me to come back to the .NET ecosystem.
The actual regulations are about 3 pages, 2 if you respect your customers' privacy. The previous 70 pages include historical context, rationale, explanation of related regulations, even an overview of the OSI model.

The FCC gave small providers a one-year extension and other concessions. And, as they pointed out, small providers generally collect less customer information and use it more narrowly.
X-ray takes care of macro internal defects. It doesn't reveal defects at the grain (nanometer) scale, outside of research labs. I think it'd be time prohibitive to scan at that resolution for every component of large systems.
I work for a biggish company and sit near the marketing department. They report similar results, if not quite so dramatic. Advertising isn't incremental. Sometimes there's only so much demand for your product and you can only change that so much with marketing or promotion.
You're begging the question (and yes, that's proper use): why should all the rewards go to those who've taken some risk?

What of the risks taken by others? Are there uncompensated risk-bearing activities?

Are there activities with low risk but high return?

Suppose, say, dropping a drill bit next to the guy who's just blown in a gusher? Or securing control of the pipelines, railroads, and refineries by which that oil must make its way to market?
Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity [pdf]
For whatever reason, it seems like basically all media outlets these days are devoted to pushing a particular point of view rather than just providing background.
Ideally they reach zero velocity the instant the legs touch the ground. There was only one hard landing (that didn't result in a fireball) so far, and the legs are designed to take the remaining speed (they are replaced anyway and not reused).

They also have no other option. Even one engine at lowest throttle (70 %) is powerful enough to lift the almost empty booster again, so they cannot hover (which would make things a bit easier, at the expense of needing more fuel).
I used snapper on Arch Linux before I eventually moved to ZFS, it worked quite well. Now I'm happier with ZFS and zfs-auto-snapshot though to be honest.
1 - agreed. A few days is nothing.

2 - The exchange would likely make more because the increased auction pressure from the same amount of advertisers trying to buy the same amount of volume (same demand) on a smaller list of websites (lower supply) would lead to higher prices being paid to show ads.
At the federal level: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/congress-rules-saving-em...

A local example from San Jose: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-public-officials...
Cool, I didn't realize it supported more than btrfs.
The Shuttle Orbiter (the reusable part) was not a complete stage as it used an expendable external tank. It did reuse the engines, which one would imagine would be a significant cost savings, but the Shuttle system was such a complex and compromised beast that it ended up being one of the most expensive launch vehicles of all time.

Vertical landing for the Falcon 9 made sense because it meant they only had to add a small amount of extra weight and new systems (landing legs, grid fins, etc.) in order to achieve powered precision landings. In contrast, adding wings, landing gear, other aerodynamic components, and potentially other engines (in order to achieve powered landings) adds a lot of extra complexity and weight. Additionally, the stage is already designed to handle vertical flight and forces, making it strong enough to handle strong aerodynamic forces while flying horizontally is no small change. And vertical landing enables barge landings out at sea as well as dramatically reducing the size of the landing facilities (a small pad versus a landing strip). All of which saves costs, complexity, and enables a higher percentage of the vehicle's performance to be used by the customer versus for recovery.
The problem is that without those pople up there we lose quote a bit of efficiency as a sosiety. Game theory does not work out without owners.
People have a natural right to the results of others' toils solely by virtue of having been born?
Typical pareto rule I've found. It'd be closer to 99% if all of their supply was sold into the exchanges, but most sites have a much more complicated waterfall to clear out their supply such that the premium inventory gets direct sold or sold into a private marketplace and only the remnant inventory goes into public exchanges.
Qualcomm Wants Your Smartphone to Have Energy-Efficient Eyes
Seven steps to remarkable customer service (2007)
Open Source License Business Perception Report
Samsung: Patent for rotary dial display registered
We'll have to deal with these things as they come, how it will play out specifically, along what sort of timeline, and how society will react is not predictable, there are too many moving parts.
Prohibiting the sale of individually identifiable information is a very weak protection. It's alarming how quickly multiple dimensions of "anonymized" data can be used to zero in on any target person, and it won't take long for amoral opportunists to start selling de-anonymized data to the highest bidder. See also k-anonymity.
I'm just about to buy a software whose ad I just saw on this blog post from Deck.

That was probably the first time in recent memory that I've clicked on an ad

So hey, the model at least works.
You can't use wings to land on a planet without a significant atmosphere.
No, even including Chernobyl (an inherently dangerous design that would have been illegal to build anywhere except the Soviet Union) nuclear has been far, far safer than coal. As mikeash pointed out in another comment, "Put another way: coal kills about as many people each year as nuclear has in its entire history if you include the bombs dropped on Japan."

>...Also, the radiation from nuclear disasters is highly concentrated, while that from coal is distributed at far lower concentrations.

The radiation emissions from a properly working coal plant are high enough that the plant would be shut down if the NRC regulated coal plants. But the real danger from coal plants is the massive amounts of CO2 that they emit which is one of the biggest contributors to climate change that might end up destroying our future. It is pretty obvious which power source is more dangerous.
I think when you have millions of people paying you all at once, you can drop your prices to be competitive. There are many people who would rather pay the membership fee for the year in order to have access to: Free 2 Day Shipping and Amazon Prime Video and whatever else they offer.

It is a win for Amazon: People who get free shipping are probably making more purchases on Amazon than those who hesitate because of a shipping cost.
It's crazy how many apologists there are for Big Web Advertising!

So many commenters are giving the customer a hard time for realizing, "99% of my budget is spent on zero value, i.e. fraud."

The biggest lie the online advertising industry has sold is aggregate statistics. Of course a handful of traffic sources convert massively while the supermajority (99%) don't convert at all. Advertising intermediaries rely on the statistical mean to hide all the garbage in the gold. It should surprise no one that for the vast majority of customers, like Chase, conversion as a function of source is skewed.

I suspect too many ad tech companies rely on the ignorance of their customers to make money. They monetize the basic math of "if it's more than break-even, it's working"—in other words, their objective is to take as much ad budget as possible while still delivering a profitable conversion for the customer. By simple math, ad tech uses garbage inventory until the customer's profit is close to but above zero. It works, and you'd have to be a real blowhard to believe that it's not how the ad tech ecosystem works.

That ad-tech does this by laundering e-mail spam, blogspam and other forms of spam into Google AdWords: that's the real fraud. All those Googlers then go on to pretend like it's not happening.

I mean, what 400,000 sites do you think Chase was advertising on? Ones that really have to do with banking? Or just ones that, by some idiotic metric, have a keyword that ".equals('banking')"?

I would love for someone at Google's direct navigation ads (or whatever ridiculously obscuring name they're called now) to come out and say how "Nobody clicks twice [on spam ads] by accident." It's like they inhabit a make-believe universe. The ad exchanges aren't ignorant: they're facilitating the massive fraud of their own customers.
> US citizens have the best visa options of western citizen to visit Russia

Do you know why this is ?

As an Australian citizen, I am a bit frustrated to have to limit my visit (planned for later in the year) to 1 month.
Instead of upvoting the story, you can favorite it. This will also upvote it if it can still be upvoted.

You can also favorite a comment - you can't do it directly from the comment thread, but click on the comment's date/time link and you can favorite it from there.

You can find all your favorited stories and comments from your user page.

The one caveat is that unlike upvotes, favorites are public. There doesn't seem to be a way to create private favorites other than keeping your own list outside the site.
Have you tried the setxkbmap -layout us -variant altgr-intl keyboard variant? See https://www.google.com/amp/s/zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2011...
The latest estimates are over $21 billion when you include financing costs. They go out of their way to hide these numbers since $10k/KW is just insanely, idiotically expensive.
Not to me, alas, although my name here is a variant of an ancient Roman joke. Nomen being latin for name.
It boggles my mind to think that a single individual is worth more than entire countries.
I think the JVM is a really good runtime, and somehow its poor reputation came from Java applet security holes and the verbosity of the Java language.

And no, I don't think you are crazy. I had a really bad experience trying out Spring for the first time (with ant task, etc.). I was pulling my hair out and it turned me off Java for a few years before discovering Play Framework v1 (the original Java version).

How long ago was your experience with the build system? These days you can bootstrap a new project with Gradle, Leiningen, or SBT pretty easily.
After using many Unix tools that have this convention, I'm ok with 10 M referring to 1010241024 bytes (10 MiB), contrasted with 10 MB meaning 10,000,000 bytes.
Isn't VMware in Windows rather a special case? They've been working together for so many years, after all.

Any known breakouts from Windows guests in VirtualBox on Linux?
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Fyi they added newer, (imo) better quality voices since alex debuted in 10.5. My personal favorite is Kate (english UK voice) and Tessa (english - south africa)
It quite easy to setup DNSCrypt with OpenNIC[1] and then a lot of the downsides that you mention go away.

Here is some background and setup instructions:

https://markbrown778.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/dns-privacy-us...

[1] https://www.opennicproject.org/
The Deck consistently presented the most sensible ads I've seen out there. Sorry to see it go.
(You dropped a clause.)
There are also pandoc[1]-based markdown extensions which can create both latex and html. Today I was looking at an R Markdown[2] derivative, bookdown[3]. And was amused by Tufte style[4].

[1] http://pandoc.org/
[2] http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
[3] https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/
[4] http://rstudio.github.io/tufte/
I'm not sure the same can be assumed for Apple based on several things such as internal secrecy, differing organisational hierarchies, their willingness to focus on things that aren't tangible metrics like end user file download size.

Between the org and culture differences I'm just not so sure Apple can be safely assumed as similar as you expect.
I'm surprised there aren't parachutes still involved.

Early on they tried parachutes but ditched them, iirc.
but it has to a large extent. 20 years ago I did linting by hand, efficient memory allocation was a key skill for a developer, and now that's all taken over by computers. Going further back, I used to be able to beat a C compiler in optimising assembly code, which now I wouldn't even know where to start. Even further back, things like compiling and linking were done by hand.

Most developers today use automated builds, packaging, test runners, app genertors and so on.

Automation in software development is already there, it's been present from almost day 0, but it has so far been aimed at assisting humans, not completely replacing them.
Is this only true for store downloads? Because the majority of our apps is delivered simply by a website download through the device via Enterprise certificates.
I don't see the problem with corporations being equatable with people. They are composed of people. Just like unions, nonprofits, social clubs, political parties. Making money is their interest, but there is nothing criminal (or even morally wrong) about that.

The reason why corporations have disproportionate political power compared to other forms of human organization is because we fund elections via private donations, endebting our representatives to their donors before their constituents. And whoever controls the most money gets the most representation in our government. It should be possible for politicians to tell major corporations to fuck off without endangering their election, but it isn't. So even the most well meaning politicians take the money, give them a few votes on their pet issues, and then try to make the best with what's left.
Impressive, it's already more intelligent than half the people in my apartment building.
Bullshit. The government bond traded for SS and Medicare funds is not sold on the open market. It has got zero to do with the risk free rate of return. The government can default on all SS and Medicare payments without affecting any bond holders.
But it also means that sometimes someone reimplements the actual VM! :) https://www.scummvm.org/
People are missing the point on the bill, it isn't just horrible for privacy. Really this is a jab at net neutrality, the open selling of data by ISPs is a power grab away from the FCC that helped to make net neutrality a thing by labeling broadband/ISPs as common carriers.

Republicans (this was a party line vote) say it is unfair that Google and Facebook have your personal information and use it for ads but why can't ISPs have that and also sell it? One big major reason is people sign up to Google and Facebook for the purpose of sharing and agree to their ads in exchange for a service. Google built the most powerful search engine and Facebook built the social graph. Google/Facebook built value and they only use your info to target ads to you, they don't sell it because others would do the same. They sell ads and people use them because they have info on you, not necessarily to sell off to others.

If you ask me it is unfair for republicans to legally allow ISPs to do the same because we expect privacy from ISPs in ways we do not from Google and Facebook. You can choose not to use Google or Facebook but you cannot choose your ISP/broadband provider. In my opinion this is like letting someone view your mail, read it and then sell information about you.

It is also an unfair competitive advantage for ISPs above all because they can place ads on any website if they want or track you across all sites not just like Google/Facebook which are huge but only see a portion of what you do. ISPs built no value product like a search engine or social graph for this purpose, they should do that if they want access like Google and Facebook. It seems almost like the GOP are harming innovative companies and rewarding/catching up non-innovators. I bet broadband companies/ISPs won't even use the profits to improve broadband and rollout gigabit service for real. It is a rewarding of lazy semi-monopolies over innovative companies and products.

Republicans also control the FTC not the FCC so they want all control to fall to the FTC instead. It is both a power grab and a bending over of all their constituents.

Most of all, it is also another step in dismantling net neutrality as FCC protected that by categorizing the broadband/ISPs as a common carriers and they want to sap the FCCs power in that regard.
The static fire yesterday was enough proof for SpaceX that everything is working as expected. After that the major undetected flaws will show up some time from launch through MECO :D

SpaceX will no doubt discover new failure modes that nobody has thought of up till now (and thus were not looking for, and thus did not detect).
I would also recommend front end design/development or a web language like PHP/Python/Ruby over specialist database roles
> you very frequently get non-integer numbers of bits per (character/unit/message/whatever)

That'd be an average, and it's like when you have 2.58 people per household. Presumably most people do not keep about 6/10 of a person around.

The point of a bit (in information theory) is that it is the smallest possible (read: not divisible) unit of information.
World's biggest solar-battery farm for SA by Xmas
It's puzzling to see the author call himself multiple times a scientist while lending so much importance to Occam's razor (which is spelled differently in the article, not sure if it's an alternative spelling in his language or a mistake).

Occam's razor is not a law. It's not a fact. It's a simple suggestion if you're looking for a starting hypothesis.

Not sure which way to start to investigate a phenomenon? Pick the simplest one and verify that one. It doesn't mean it's right, it doesn't mean it's wrong, just that it's a reasonable first guess.

But not a proof. Not a fact. Just a guess that's statically more likely to be right.
Are there any available C compilers for these?
Is this also true to user downloads from a website? The majority of your clients get our apps via Enterprise certificates not through the Apple store process.
This is all good and nice, especially if reproducible builds come true. But the devil is in the extensions. They are the weakest link.
It's based on some US-Russia agreement signed in 2012 [0]

But I hear what you're saying.

I met a German family who had a custom-made camper van in Georgia. They told me they drove in Russia but their visa wasn't long enough. I told them I had a 3-year visa and they wouldn't believe me until I showed them my passport with my visa on it.

[0] http://www.consulrussia.org/eng/visa-sub1.html
You may wish to tone down the condescension. Many people use their brains just fine and have, in fact, experienced violence from those in power.

Perhaps they knew or were related to one of the dozens of people murdered by police. Perhaps they were turned away from a favorite recreational activity by armed BLM agents and snipers violently confiscating cattle. (Why does the BLM have snipers?) Maybe they were affected by government murders at Ruby Ridge, or police peppering of Occupy protesters, or maybe they were attacked by trained dogs near the Dakota pipeline. Maybe their children were threatened when they spoke out about a tax hike to hire more police. Maybe their relative is in lockup for crossing an imaginary line that arbitrarily bounds Arizona. Maybe their property was taken from them because it could generate higher tax revenue if a strip mall were built there instead. Maybe they read about somebody who fled for their life after exposing illegal activity on the part of the government.

Maybe it is possible to use your brain and still be wary of the corrupt use of power in today's society.
Winged stage will not have enough kinetic energy at cutoff to allow it turn around and fly back to launch site, and landing it at the ocean takes building and operating a whole aircraft carrier - too expensive (and probably harder to safely automatically land than the way they do it now). So, that winged stage would have to redirect back to launch site the way SpaceX does it now - using fuel. And, it will have to always do it, not having the option of ASDS launch, severely cutting the payload on GTO and other high energy trajectory missions.

For RTLS launches, it would do approximately as good as their current approach, the fuel for landing burn+legs will approximately weight as much as wings and wheels. But would definitely cost more to develop.

A winged stage also having a jet engine, allowing it to fly back as a powered airplane, not a glider, would solve both issues, and will whole lot more efficient than current SpaceX approach for RTLS, and about as good as ASDS, but a lot, a lot more expensive to develop. They would have to become an aircraft company in addition to being a rocket company.
If you're doing direct downloads then there's no reason to be building with bitcode enabled, and so the size increase should not affect you at all.
> In the meantime, the two biggest campaigns have collectively raised nearly $140,000 for the purchase of web histories that will never go up for sale. It’s anyone’s guess where the money will end up.

Well, NSA staff did LOVEINT. Maybe some ISP staff will want to profit.

Edit: But I wonder how it'd be possible without self-pwning.
You need to be careful with this though, if you underpay throughout the year by too much, you will end up both owing and potentially have a tax penalty.
What Are the Type of Natural Links Google Expects to See?
The problem with scientific publishing
Context here for those who don't know: SpaceX' declared goal is to put humans on Mars. Mars has enough atmosphere to cause trouble (burning up in free fall), but too little for any kind of coming to a stop with parachutes. Cf. how Curiosity landed, which wouldn't have been necessary on Earth. In any case, SpaceX doesn't like to be constrained by things that only work on Earth, and while parachutes were considered for recovering the first stage they found it wouldn't really work (and dropping things into the ocean tends to not do them good). So propulsive landing (despite sounding more complicated) is actually a better option than others here.
Buffett should just buy a bunch of $AMZN so he keeps on par with Bezos. Buffett is not greedy, but he is ultra competitive. I look forward to going to my first annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting this May.