skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price differential doesn't really concern me. I've tried using different laptops, I always come back to Apple. I wouldn't call it insanely overpriced, it's just higher priced than everything else if you just went by specs. Being that the quality is superior, I do not begrudge them their profits. It would be a sad day if Apple ever stopped making hardware.
What's the alternative to rationalism and materialism? How can good science be practiced without rational reasoning and physical (i.e. material) evidence?
> Why would a county pay a bus driver, mechanics, and invest in a fleet of buses when it's less expensive to outsource it?

That’s a good argument. Especially once economics of scale come into play.

But that’s not the case in this example. The government is outsourcing something that would be massively cheaper if purpose-built for their town.

Uber has a lot of expenses and complexity to handle corner cases that will never occur in this town – outsourcing is wasteful. That’s like building a heating system into a house in Phoenix.
Not yet... i have too many angualr and F# and .net books queued up already...
Tax money is not necessarily wasted. There are plenty of places where outsourcing the work is the economical thing to do. The question is whether or not in a particular case if the outsourcing contract is economical. A blanket argument that tax money shouldn't go to private individuals makes no sense in an economy that isn't completely nationalized, since the government quite literally doesn't do everything.

While I don't know the particulars of the Autobahn privatization controversy, I do know about toll booth and parking meter privatization in the United States, and yes, they tend to be bad deals for the tax payers, because the government wants a quick hit of money, in exchange for multiple times that money over the long term. Take for instance, Chicago's parking meter privatization, where the city got $1.15 billion in exchange for all the revenue from parking meters over the next 75 years In 2015, the meters brought in $156 million, so we're talking at least 7x.[0]

[0] http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/parking-meters-garages-took...
I should of separated out those two sentences since just the presence of that tweet was my problem, and I wanted B2B to be a separate point. I've noticed if some CEO quotes Jobs it is generally suspect too.

That being said, I do agree with all your points. I tend to think no garage door company is going to have the cachet of any Elon Musk company. Frankly, only Elon Musk could send out that tweet and not get hammered.
Magisk used to work, but now Android trips as soon as the bootloader is unlocked, making it a lot harder.
My friend the idealist is way less happy than I am. I submit that he would be happier if he had more say, more money, and more flexibility at his job, but he threw that all away in the name of idealism. I agree, identity trumps economics, but there is such a thing as having more principles than sense.
Very cool. The partitioning reminds me of the way VoltDB does it. By splitting it across a set of keys it's able to ensure that queries can be run concurrently on their own node.

Are you guys familiar with it and I am understanding this properly?
70 metros?
I got the vibe it was for an individual. I'll ask my boss in the morning then send a tweet. Worth a try.
Amazon, NFL sign $50M streaming deal for Thursday games
Ah yes, with a good idea, the rest is just "a simple matter of implementation."
>In this example, that’d be cheaper.

I'm no particular fan of Uber. But the idea that some small city government could create a more economical mobile taxi app seems unlikely to me.

Now maybe this should be some shared local government infrastructure app but those sort of things aren't that common. I know I use checks to make various payments to my town because the online service actually costs me an incremental fee.
The protagonists are not "punk" but to me the setting contains many elements that I would consider punk. The vast wealth gap, the abandonment of vulnerable populations and the areas they inhabit, and the seedy underbelly of the cities all lurk underneath the gleaming chrome and neon surface. To me this is the epitome of the genre, the incongruity between the powerful corps and their government puppets and the misery of the general population. GitS feeds the dream of super wizard class hackers and street samurai but also pays homage to the downtrodden masses left behind by progress. With a nice dash of philosophy.
i am a die hard sports fan but i've cut the cord. Cable companies have the sketchiest, worst customer service I've ever experienced.
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Wrong, if the data is huge it is better to have it running totally on your machine. This is the most scalable as you can get, plus you get infinite bandwidth.
That's my mistake, I included a paragraph that wasn't relevant to this specific topic but was covered in the article itself.
I bought a roku. Plays both amazon and netflix perfectly with a great interface.
Only need to signup 500k people to break even.
The tough part is figuring out what's causal and what's just correlated.
Works fine on XBox though.
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$500+ iPhone 5 (2012) user checking in here, currently into the 5th year of updating to the latest (most patched) OS version. I wish android had something like this.
A modern twist on this. I'm really dismayed two people can't touch control an iPad at the same time. Just doing a puzzle with your grandpa on the iPad and you have to take turns moving the peices. Very unnatural.
> To mitigate this problem just stop generating code and doing automatic deserialisation.

No! WTF?! Just use generators that produce code that is resilient to a changing API. Why would you get rid of a huge productivity boost because the generator doesn't produce code you like? That's trading two hours of work to change the generator, for many multiple hours of reproducing the proper API, especially if you have many to support.

I stopped reading right there. My personal biggest issue with swagger is that they threw the baby out with the bath water, reproducing XSD in Yaml, for no good reason. The UI they produced was nice, and that is probably the best feature of swagger. But the data format doesn't solve a new problem IMO, it just created a new standard that we all have to deal with.

What is that now? Corba IDL, XSD, protobuf, thrift, avro, Swagger, Raml... I'm sure because of the flaws in each of those, we really should just use the new OpenAPI.

Or just get rid of them all and go bare metal with Cap'n Proto. Oh but don't use code generators for any of those, because that would make it way too easy to support all of them with a single API </sarcasm>.
Does that mean when a site links to "forum.i2p", then it's up to your own local address book where that actually goes? (Assuming people don't use the ?i2paddresshelper thing for literally every link, unless that is what is done.)
You mean namecoin.
I can't speak to that but any gift of $11,000 or more is taxed.
Perhaps the first pass of the doc is written by a developer but it is later updated by a tech-writer, or you need to produce a translated version.
They didn't need to sum up the full canon, they needed to like... have any part of it? The original animation accomplished more with the story in less time.
So Handsontable had an open source version that I could try before I bought. I had looked at kendo , but saw that it was packaged as part of a larger suite...Which probably I would overpay for and be useless for me.

Second - we use react and kendo had started exploring react only in oct2016 (we have our react HOT app in production since Nov 2015). I'm Not sure what's the status since googling for a react kendo spreadsheet component does not get me much.

But I would switch If you had a clean pricing for the spreadsheet, clearly showed by comparison where it was superior..And most importantly, react.
I cant wait to see the videos.
She said it could be for anything to "get your life moving."

Just think about getting many people's lives moving?

I urge you to apply!
If you have means of streaming from what appears to be an IP outside of the US: https://gamepass.nfl.com/nflgp/secure/packages

You can get everything for around $270.
> That mindset seems to have changed. I wonder if the companies are different (greedier?) now

No, its just that -- with the 1980s and beyond push for privatizing governments services -- we now have experience as well as pro-corporate astract theory. And while experience has sometimes shown some benefits, its shown a lot of problems with privatization, as well. (Including that it often promotes a particularly intense, single-beneficiary variation on regulatory capture.)
>The pedestrians around here are insane. It's amazing what they'll do just because they have the legal right of way.

Sometimes standing up for your rights looks like insanity to an observer.
They already rely on your 2nd point quite a bit between KERS and DRS. The former stores brake energy for a speed boost and the latter reduces drag on a straight to improve top-end speed. They haven't helped much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_syst...

http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/drs_wing_rear_movable.htm...
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You're assuming HTML, CSS, etc are created/optimized for conveying information. They are in fact optimized to sell books, conference tickets and generation of page views. Iterating on versions, technologies, etc is a wonderful way to make money without ever exposing yourself to the cruel reality of solving problems. You have to hand it to them - a brilliant, if obvious strat.

I can imagine the conversation in some disused conference room going something like:

Organizer: Guys, I think the jig is up, we literally have ran out of new ways to layout a page. I think the string is run on this con.

New guy: Why not just repeat things like they do in fashion? Y'know like bell-bottoms.

Organizer: C'mon these lemming-like developers are not that idiotic.

Old guy: We can always go more dumb. tables v2 it is.

I've often wondered if one reproduced a sample of web pages in OpenGL/C, and compared the compressed source to the equivalent HTML/CSS/JS source, which would be larger?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038324
I don't know what the OP's marginal tax rate was, but if he were a California resident, his taxes would be more around 15k.
What they should do is what Microsoft did - make hardware drivers independent from the OS version. I don't need Dell to recompile the NT Kernel for me every patch Tuesday.
> ...(Culture series is dying for a film adaption).

There was a recent discussion in /r/TheCulture about who Culture fans would like to see direct a movie adaptation of one of the books [1]. I'm dubious a live action film could be successful and at the same time live up to one of the books; it would take some mighty fine screenwriting to not slip into excessive expository minutiae about The Culture, and so much of the attraction of the books to many fans was the reader wasn't repeatedly hit over the head with explanations of the setting.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture/comments/62g6mk/if_you_c...
One of Fred Brooks's principles is that the manual is the spec, that there should not be any behavior in the software that is not in the documentation, and the documentation comes first.[1] A kind of old-school TDD.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_man...
you missed something important

> dogmatic belief in the supremacy of rationalism and materialism

good science absolutely must take a rationalist and materialist view. however, the needs of good science are not necessarily the supreme values which to make any and all decisions.
I hope Amazon markets this properly. My GF and I both struggled to even find the https://www.primevideo.com/ landing page after we signed up. They have two different interfaces... the amazon.com video section and a seemingly unrelated Prime Video site which was difficult to find on their site. I had to use chrome://history the following day after signing up for the 30-day trial.

Amazon is great at specific UX functionality but not so great at high-level information architecture.

Prime Video has a superior video player to Netflix thanks to the XRay feature which tells you which actors/songs are currently playing/acting during the current scene. I've used it countless times.

Speaking of Xray, for sports it would be great to see which players are currently on the field/court during a game, including which jersey number, and if possible the box score when you hover over the game. That would have been amazing during NCAA March Madness where I didn't know most of the young college players.

The only thing missing from the Amazon player which Netflix has is "skip intro credits" button.

I love this technology/product competition between the two none-the-less.
> since we haven't plateaued

I'd argue ICE is the ultimate example of that. I'll toss in monoculture, fertilizer/herbacide-powered farming; centralized banking (in the sense of Chase, not the Fed); commute-mandating urban planning; hydrocarbon-powered grid energy production; von Neumann architecture; electrical computing; and nuclear reactor designs to the list.

My argument is not that these things aren't efficient. Indeed, I'm saying they're so hyper-optimized that they're nigh impossible to unseat.

Maybe fusion power production is feasible, maybe it isn't. But where is the very substantial investment to see going to come from if it can't immediately compete against existing solutions?

And barring that investment appearing, we (as a planet) end up stuck on a technology that's globally suboptimal and impossible to improve further.

> Also, why is the incumbent suppressing a disruptive tech necessarily a bad thing? Since they're an incumbent they could also be in a position to evaluate the tech and know that there are certain downfalls to that approach.

I feel history is definitely on my side that large companies with a focused product are more likely to attempt to torpedo viable alternatives than incubate and help them. (E.g. MS/Lotus, MS/Netscape, MS/OSS, GM/Streetcars, GM/EV1)
You're still not getting the facts correct. I apologize for not being more clear.

I was at the right place at the right time. Uber assumed I wasn't because my phone ran out of juice.

Reality is that in a case of a literal network partition, Uber says, "Fuck you. And by the way, pay us 5 dollars."
From the perspective of finance and business, there are a lot of things that I do that are extremely shitty deals. Most things that I do aren't done because they're profitable or career-advancing, though.
I'm specifically talking about NYC.

It's definitely the people.
I have an idea for building tube guitar amps using solid state power supplies to save weight. Have a working prototype!
From the friendly article: Nigeria, meanwhile, spent $300m on a Chinese communication satellite which failed in little over a year. Its successor struggles to compete with commercial providers: its annual revenue in 2015 was a measly $3.3m.
The annual gift tax exemption is $14K for 2014 through 2017.

Source: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Having read the manga more than 20 years ago, I barely remember it beyond a few bits, so I've decided that I won't watch this movie until I've re-read the source material. To be honest I wasn't a big fan of further stuff like Stand Alone Complex and found the second film unintelligible (but it might have been bad subtitles), so I'm not exactly a zealot.
Here's my suggestion. Walk down the road to shops in your area (small, family run businesses) and ask if they have a business problem they think IT can solve.

You'd be surprised how little some of these businesses know. I have previously;
- Built a travel database in MS Access for a Travel Agent (long time ago)
- Ordered and setup ADSL connections and email for a water tank manufacturer and a furniture store
- Capture requirements, researched, ordered and installed an office (6 people) worth of IT kit for a not-for-profit (didn't charge them for this work).
- Designed and implemented a roster management system for an IT helpdesk for a university.

There are heaps of opportunities. Just have to know where to look.
Blood test reports of all kinds, images of smears.
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Which a patriots game will be.
The gift tax is accounted for by the giver, not the recipient, and is per-(donor, recipient) pair.

Person A can give persons C and D $14K each and that all falls under the annual exemption. Persons A and B can together give person C $28K and person D $28K and still be within the exemption (2 spouses giving to 2 kids is a common example).
Is anyone else finding some of these rules to be bizzarely tone deaf?

Recurring pattern:

"Don't do such and such that is obviously wrong."

Well, no kidding! I would never do such a thing ... on purpose! It's the not-on-purpose occurrences that I need help with.

Without a concrete plan on how to prevent or detect that situation, this advice isn't helpful. I know I shouldn't rely on uninitialized memory, and, believe me, I do not want to. Give me a coding strategy which minimizes the occurrence of uses of uninitialized memory. Recommend a compiler and its particular compiler options, or some lint or other static checking tool or run-time detection.

"Don't read uninitialized memory" isn't something I can turn into a concrete action to somehow improve software quality.

It's like a driver's manual which says "stay on the road and don't run over people".
I just want to say to you and the others in this thread, excellent discussion, comments, thoughts, and references.
Let the Design Decision Stand
I really liked it too. I wasn't comparing it to the original, I saw it as its own thing and I really enjoyed it. It's artsy, techy and there's a good amount of fashion and attention to detail involved.
I wish other people could take this into a recurring proceess. I've experianced that it's very hard to get research funded when you do not have a hard-science goal in the scientific community. For instance, right now I'm attempting to get funding to write software to do hard-science with but that is not fundable from normal sources (NSF) despite being a very good project that will enable researchers to study things that they were previously unable to.

Most grants today are "I want you to study X" not "Do something that's really worth the money" or "Build something that will genuenly help people or improve life for everyone".
Xray is powered by IMDB, which Amazon also owns right? Is there an entity they could buy to power such a service for sports?
Hi, good catch. We just had a new position open up.
I like the idea is being able to subscribe to other developers.

If you could like or down vote notes, and if you could publish notes to channels ( i checked and you already have that, dnote use, to make a book ), and subscribe to devs channels it would be cool.

I also think like a vim plugin that could bring up dnotes on Promise when you ctrl-something on the word Promise in your code, and a way to full text search, and if you automatically surfaced notes at intervals for learning, could be good ideas for this.
I think you should start something very very small and forget about the money part for now. For me, my most successful project ideas came from problems that I faced during my own site launches.

Since you don't have much knowledge of FE development, I would suggest you keep things Simple Stupid and try to do as much as possible with HTML and jQuery. I have created really complex websites using just PHP and jQuery (sites that have made me 6 figures over time), plus you will learn the real nitty-gritty like DOM manipulation, CSS tricks, etc - which you will need to use anyway at least a few times regardless of the shiny JS framework.

I would highly recommend at this time you don't get sucked into the React, Node, Vue, etc. You will only end up wasting months without nothing to show for it (but maybe I'm just too old school).

Whatever time you have left after that, use it to learn online marketing. Learn about list building, SEO, Copywriting, outreach and affiliate marketing. Because that's how you turn your technology into actual money.
Nice! I've never seen that subreddit before, will dive into that thread.

After posting that comment I spent a while wondering which novel would be best to jump start that sort of franchise and agree it's tricky to condense a novel into a movie. A lot of science fiction probably works better as a mini series or full TV series (could be interesting to have Culture take an approach like American Horror Story where each season is a self-contained story)
True. Twitch stopped working with Chromecast immediately after Amazon bought them, so the story checks out.
Right now in the UK a new controversy has hit the headlines. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone effectively said 'Hitler = Zionism'. Obviously Ken Livingstone is now painted as worse than Hitler and hell-banned from public life forever, banned from being a member of parliament.

With Ken Livingstone now thrown out with the truly crazy holocaust deniers into true David Icke world, the moral majority can then get on with the normal British fuzzy belief that 'Judaism = Zionism' (and vice-versa).

Ken Livingstone may have wanted to explain how it came to be that the Palestine Mandate was the only place accepting Jewish immigration, for that to happen people in places like the UK had to be persuaded to not accept Jewish people but send them on to this new and Zionist 'homeland'. This mini history lesson covering several decades of history would never fit into a soundbite so the 'OMG Nazi!' so let's go with the moral majority and condemn this guy before we hear him out, okay?

It is during these moments when we cast out some crazies that our own society digs deeper into things that become established cultural beliefs that can't be questioned. Right now in the UK that means more acceptance of blindly believing 'Zionism = Judaism'. It is easy to call out people for believing crazy things about moon landings but not to call people out for things like 'Zionism = Judaism'. Both are beliefs and also crazy misunderstandings of history.
"I haven't experienced the problem you're talking about, so it must not exist."
Since in America we no longer need kids to till our fields, pick rags or otherwise make a living, there's no economic incentive to having kids. So if you have a kid by choice, you probably feel at least optimistic enough that you'll be able to raise your kid under a roof.

But if you're always hearing that your generation is worse off than your parents and grandparents (in some way), that has to discourage a lot of people from having kids, and so there's less incentive to marry. Not zero incentive, but, one incentive has been weakened.

And then, if you actually are worse off than your parents, evidence being that you're living with your parents, that has to also discourage yourself from wanting to marry (can't afford to move out, don't want to honeymoon under my Star Wars poster) or discourage someone else from marrying you (don't want to honeymoon under their Star Wars poster).
The sample size is irrelevant, what people expect is to confirm what they already believe.
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