skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep going back to comparing them to Google who only entered the market really to add some competitive pressure. It worked, nearly every company re-doubled their fiber/broadband efforts. It took a non broadband company to only hint of competition and it spawned the biggest movement up in download speeds and fiber rollouts than anytime before, yet you disregard that entire effort.

Again I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

We get it, you love Verizon, I hope you are invested with this much love for a broadband company that will take you at every turn they can. But have fun if you ever need a line installed from them or make a deal with them to do so across a city.

Do you have fiber from Verizon? If not maybe take a step back.

Fiber has been largely danced around by broadband/ISPs and even Verizon is far, far from coverage that people expected by 2017.[1]

In most cases they were offered monopolies over areas in agreement with them wiring it and offering good service to all, an immense benefit for monthly customer subscriptions. They have failed so far, it is 2017 and barely anyone in the US has fiber or gigabit (<10%). We are letting the broadband/ISPs drag us down, we should be leading the world in broadband/gigabit/fiber.

Verizon doesn't actually want to run fiber.

The simple fact is that Verizon has been trying its damnest to get out of the wired business altogether. Back when Ivan Seidenberg was in charge, he made a giant bet on fiber, which is why Verizon became such a national leader in broadband with FiOS -- a service that people really seem to love. However, Wall Street has always hated it, because it's capital intensive, and Wall St. recognizes that without any real competition in the broadband space, Verizon can avoid investing in such infrastructure upgrades, and just swim in larger profits while America's broadband infrastructure suffers and falls further and further behind other countries. Once Seidenberg left, the beancounters quickly took over and looked for ways to stop all that investment. Why invest in the future if there are no competitors to push you to do so? [2]

Verizon has tricks.

A decade ago, we wrote about how Verizon had made an agreement in Pennsylvania in 1994 that it would wire up the state with fiber optic cables to every home in exchange for tax breaks equalling $2.1 billion. In exchange for such a massive tax break, Verizon promised that all homes and businesses would have access to 45Mbps symmetrical fiber by 2015. By 2004, the deal was that 50% of all homes were supposed to have that. In reality, 0% did, and some people started asking for their money back. That never happened, and it appeared that Verizon learned a valuable lesson: it can flat out lie to governments, promise 100% fiber coverage in exchange for subsidies, then not deliver, and no one will do a damn thing about it. [2]

I am with the people that want fiber across the US, beancounters and investors of Verizon want the opposite. I guess you are in the latter category?

[1] http://fiberforall.org/fios-map/

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...
It seems more logical to pre-quantise the timestamps before insertion. (Actual solution I've seen practiced)
Eh, I think you're being too hard. Although PCB tools might be different, as far as IC design goes, most of the problems at the earlier nodes were solved by the EDA companies throwing legions of (very expensive!) PhDs at the problem.
I do agree that some things are annoying, such as documentation and UI, but a lot of this is because (scarce!) money is prioritized to solving problems and fixing bugs and they don't want to take a chance destroying the system. In particular, major customers tend to be extremely risk averse.
Thanks.

Based on firsthand personal experience of doing this sort of research for myself, I am thinking of posting a questionnaire and a price for finding X number of cities or metro areas that fit.

Here is my completely empty website:
http://personalizedrelocationresearch.blogspot.com
Supervisord doesn't respect pam, limits.conf, etc which is a deal breaker for most of the stuff we do. I'm not sure if immortal solves it, but I might look into it.
It's often argued that disclosure of the knowledge of the existence and location of the subject of a discovery demand is itself testimonial. Sometimes, a court will partly agree and require accommodations to discovery, such as production through the deponent's attorney and precluding any disclosure of where the item or information came from.

Perhaps a more likely outcome is sanctions, such as an adverse inference, costs, or even a directed verdict.
Planetary Initiation (TEDx)
Oh my god:

Lawyer: <complains about proceedings appearing in the news>

Judge: "Okay. The public will read what you just said."
Possibly related thread that I commented in last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039133
I'm surprised they were able to lock themselves inside and party even with the police trying to get them out. I feel like that wouldn't be possible in the U.S.
I dont hate ISPs in general, I hate ISPs like Comcast that leverage their virtual monopoly in local markets (they are the only high speed provider in my area) to avoid inestment in decent customer service while simultaneously charging exorbitant prices.

In the U.S., we permit some private parties to use eminent domain reserved property in exchange for the distribution of telecom infrastructure. I dont have an issue with that principle like some folks do (1), and I dont care if they make a lot of money, but I do take exception to these 'utilities' ignoring the needs of their custimers. ISPs refuse to run fiber to our area and they it took them 3 weeks to figure out that someone accidentally flipped off the switch to my house on the utility pole MDU. No compensation for lost time.

Personally, I long for the day when scalable mesh networks (2) allow people to take the reigns back, similar to installing solar panels and cutting the power grid chord. Yes, I realize there is still a need for such networks to tap into the internet backbone, but it's a step.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/12/06/telecommu...

2. http://guifi.net
Vector Institute is just the latest in Canada's AI expansion
>Any way

Bribes?
I think Family history fits in here too (seriously).
If campaigns were won based on the popular vote, and consequently optimized for the popular vote, this comment would be relevant.

But they aren't, and they don't.

Your idea that 'those numbers are comparable' is wishful thinking.
*reins
Just need a pissing contest between SpaceX and Blue Origin now and everyone will benefit
As you can see from your replies, it has more than one definition depending on where on the internet you are.
This is terrifying. I'd much rather they use frozen. As someone who heavily relies on freezing/thawing food, the difference in flavor between previously-frozen and never-frozen beef is non-existent (as long as it's not exposed to air or moisture in the freezer).
It is on Hacker News.
LiquidSky is ready to show off its modern take on OnLive’s failed cloud gaming
Encoding Tor traffic over real-time-strategy video games
Your Next JVM:  Panama, Valhalla, Metropolis [pdf]
I wonder whether we'll see a surge in on-orbit assembly if it becomes a lot cheaper to do two payload-X launches on reusable rockets than it is to do one payload-2X launch on an expendable rocket. Previously, economies of scale have tilted design toward the single-2X-launch approach.
A family member of mine needed a quick way to grade student work. After a few dozen hours I had a wiki-like format loading for them to try. With a few more features tailored to language learning it ended up saving a few hundred hours per year.

Probably cost me $5000 since I could have been consulting. Still, it was worth it for love.

Now certain students hate using it, though they do appreciate getting their grades back sooner.
The team I am on uses git because we want clean and linear commit history.

This means "master" and private branches are very different:

- private branches have lots of random commits which no one will care about once feature is done: "start on feature", "fix typo", "add test", "fix feature", "add interface to foobar", "fix a bug", "fix it for real", "add another function to foobar interface".. and so on

- "master" has a nice, clean history. The corresponding commits would be : "add interfaces to foobar", "add feature"

This means the developers are actually expected to squash/merge/reword their commits before submitting to master. The submit scripts also enforce ff-only merges, so the master is fully linear.

We like this workflow because it has advantages of both SVN -- linear, easy-to-read history, and of git -- you can commit as often as you want and you can share your work easily.

Now, we have users struggle with git periodically, but it looks that trying to use Mercurial in our workflow will be even worse -- most of the Mercurial references seem to disapprove of rebasing in general. Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2672351/hg-how-to-do-a-re...

I understand that this is somewhat unusual workflow; but it illustrates the power of git. You can have a huge variety of the workflows, while Mercurial (and many others) push people towards a single preferred one. And sure, modern hg has "rebase" and "histedit", but they just seem like second-class citizens, and they are much less polished than git's (for example, histedit's man page says " If you drop a change, it's gone forever". Scary! I think I will just use git instead)
Sorry for being a bit rude. And yeah, this is the most hair-splitting argument I've ever been involved in on HN :)

My work in linguistics and NLP is strongly related to ambiguity, so I tend to see things in those terms and I do not see resolving ambiguity as an impediment to understanding language (for humans at least, but for computers it is an enormous problem). We'll agree to disagree!
ECC and Ryzen: Not just enabled, but now tested working
Iranian woman visiting family on tourist visa detained in Oregon jail
Bit worried myself, One of those grid stabilisers on the first stage was definitely melting on the way back (@26mins on Youtube) just before first stage camera went on the fritz.
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook
Phishing with reverse proxies
> I think it's fair to say that someone with his political leanings is not considered "relatable" by a decent portion of Americans.

Yes, much like the commenters on this website.
Oculus is a company, not a product. The Gear VR is a product made by Oculus in collaboration with Samsung.

You're probably thinking of the Oculus Rift, which is another product made by Oculus (or Facebook, if you prefer, now that they've bought Oculus, the company).
You pay a FICA tax that goes into your social security fund. If you go on disability based on how much FICA you paid it determines how much disability you get.

I went on disability in 2003 and I have physical and mental illnesses that are well documented. I was discriminated at by coworkers and management when I had jobs and in a Post911 world they do medical background checks to screen out the mentally ill.

People who are contractors get paid with a 1099 and if they ho on disability they aren't paid much.

Disability I'd not be able to get by if not for my wife being a nurse. I don't know why people think that people on disability are rich, we are not, we are poor. I'd earn more money if I got a full time job at a retail store or baking pizzas or going back into programming if they'd allow me. But society rejects us and forces us to go homeless or go on disability.

It is not basic income; however, but it is a good start.

I have problems with social skills and speaking communicating, etc. I can't hide my illness.

When they talk about disability they think of the blibd or the deaf or someone in a wheelchair but never the mentally ill. I've never been arrested, never did drugs, I am not violent, and against these mentally ill people that do public shootings and end up in the news media to give them the attention they want.

Disability is hard to get off it, your doctor has to clear you for work first and then vocational rehabilitation tries to find you a job. You might be making sandwiches or something because companies don't want to hire the mentally ill for programming jobs.
> I suspect you can probably find a country or two out there with a tax burden and government services akin to the USA in 1950; perhaps you should move there?

If the welfare states of the world don't get their acts together, this will happen. And it will keep happening until they've lost enough of their high-tax-paying citizenry that they can no longer afford to sustain themselves and will collapse under their own weight.

The inevitable future is one in which taxes are priced more like a payment for a service provided and less like a protection racket. And in which citizens are treated more like customers and less like assets.
All About Smartphones, Tips for Users
Pretty neat. The code for this and the older submissions looks pretty clean & elegant to me despite my novice level skills with Clojure and Lisp in general.
If you haven't heard anyone address that point, you haven't looked very hard. It's an (IMO) important part of the left-wing philosophy to be intolerant of intolerance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Forbes & local Palm Beach news: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/local/island-rich-ter...

Homes in the Bingham / Hunters Island (south of Mar-A-Lago) and Manalapan areas of Palm Beach are some of the most expensive and outrageous in the world.

Fun to fly around there on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6676348,-80.0368289,548a,35y...
It'd be great to get all of DH's code online. Even the scratch and mistakes and half baked ideas and notes and...

heavy-breathing
If your going for a small processor, you should really implement a small subset of MIPS. It is really simple, and you can even compile programs from C and run them on your processor. Some Universities use this as their primary teaching tool for processor design.
This is true in many ways.

But as always it doesn't have to be that way, it has arrived at this point due to a combination of sometimes perverse incentives and natural human tendencies.

I was thinking for a while that having a mandatory retirement age could be a good idea, but retirement is becoming obsolete for economic reasons, and scientists are now employed in so many different ways by so many different institutions that I don't think it is possible.
And this is not a criminal trial. It is exceedingly rare for a head of a division and the former CEO of an acquired company to plead the 5th in response to litigation demands. Therefore, it looks damning and is damning to Uber's case, which is why their lawyers are in full damage-control mode. Having bought Otto, Uber has assumed its liabilities, including liability for Levandowski's past actions as founder of Otto.
I agree it's unlikely. However, they did privatize Roscosmos, so who knows. They might get their shit together.
That's the gag (as you can see in the punchline at the bottom): the specifics of the law is absurd and deeply hostile to the intent of the Constitution.
One of the more interesting ideas I've come across was for teaching reading. Basically you present the text in editable form and let the student rearrange and rewrite and add their own thoughts "between the lines".

It really doesn't require any new software or particular teacher training, only that the text be made editable, which is very much not the default now.

I don't have a non-university link, but the article I remember is Bill Bernhardt, "Reading and writing between the lines: an interactive approach using computers", Journal of Reading March 1994. (on jstor as a pdf composed of noneditable bitmaps)
Off topic, but I noted the coincidence of releasing Apollo Client 1.0 a few weeks after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 accident... I'll read that as a tribute...
I've read that the wireless options are coming tonRift as well. Why wouldn't they? Oculus just doesn't talk as much publicly. 360 tracking works for me with three sensors. The Rift is less expensive than Vive now too.

It seems like you are cherry picking your facts, which indicates you have technology religion. So no point discussing with you.
Reading that transcript, I'm surprised a judge that obviously biased and unprofessional would get through the case and not be overturned on appeal.
IMHO submitting to corporate NDA is wrong. Corporations should be exposed for their wrongdoings so other people can know about it and corporations made into changing their ways.
Well, you can combine cheapness and reliability by looking at total cost after launch insurance.
Uber's position is that Google's claims are baseless and Levandowski did not use stolen IP to build his autonomous vehicle. Firing him would would severely undermine those claims.

And yeah, it seems like that's probably not true, but it's the position they've decided to take. We don't know for sure that it's just Kalanick pushing that story; the board could be complicit.
I'm really tired of people being snarky for the sake of being snarky. I think it comes across as smarmy, like "hey, look at this joke we are all in on."

There are some people who are snarky in a way that is witty and thought-provoking. Those are the people whose snark I enjoy.

It's kind of like the difference between someone who has a very dry sense of humor, and the person who calls themselves sarcastic, but in reality is just a mean person.
> probably more self-driving tech

I probably shouldn't be sharing this but I know someone who is working on the Bolt and he told me they've been having a lot of trouble integrating self-driving tech that's close to Tesla's
I think part of it is that the cost of messing up and having an undetected design fault in deployed hardware can be so huge for the big players. The big players are where the EDA vendors make most of their money and so derive their mindset. You make money by being reliable, and the easiest way to be reliable is to be conservative. Once the design process works, don't mess with it in case something breaks.
I'd probably have security go through their "personal shit" especially any storage media too, given the background.
> Why is it an API?

It's not an official Studio Ghibli API. But it's exactly what you'd build if you were learning to build APIs.
The book uses "calculus" several times to mean "derivatives and integrals"
I have trouble seeing how the brands don't have the upper hand, ultimately -- at least the big name brands.

Walmart is not going to NOT sell Doritos. And a store brand imitation isn't going to substitute.
>[edit: reading this, I'm not sure his lawyer told him to do it, quite the opposite actually]

I didn't see anything in the article suggesting that, just that Uber's lawyers said they wanted him to release the information

[edited for accuracy given child comment, thanks late2part]
We actually built a similar version based using Braintree api. But somehow from all the hype of Stripe/Braintree, I thought it will be one click and go. But this requires continued time investment everytime I want to change something. Also, I am little worried that we will mess up money stuff. I just wanted to see what other people are doing. Looks like we should stick to our home grown solution.
get out while you still can with your sanity and reputation intact. You work for a bunch of dunces who will never have your best interests in mind. you have been given a gift of complete clarity into the stupidity of management. Don't waste anymore time trying to reconcile. Start actively seeking a better position & company.
In the Post-Mission Press Briefing [1] Elon Musk said SpaceX will gift the stage to "the cape" (so either NASA Kennedy Space Center or the CCAFS) because it's historic. Also, they don't need to keep the Block 3 cores, they want to transition to Block 5 as soon as they can to get the 7 flights of a frozen configuration of Block 5 to get certified for flying people.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3LQFpuzqs
in precisely what way?
> Also, is js really even the best tool for this?

For visualizing the Mandelbrot set? No. For writing an article on the web about incrementally building it up? Yes.
I'm using algo (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo) on an AWS instance, easy to set up and provides configuration across devices. Did find my iPhone struggling to use data sometimes when connecting to the VPN over the cell network. Can always disable that feature though.
People who grow up to attend graduate schoool in the study of mathematical methods of physics
I agree. They've already done it over and over and over again with AWS. The article is casting a premise that has never been the case: AWS has always been in the real application business. Practically every expansion of AWS has involved adding real applications. Even Prime storage is a 'real application,' that sits on top of AWS, that competes in part with Dropbox and others.

All tech platforms devour the surrounding territory if they can. The last 40 years of tech history is littered with the corpses of formerly successful niche products/companies/services that were wiped out by expansive platforms.

Just go down the list of AWS services:

CDN = real application

Database products = several real applications (just ask Oracle, who is spooked by AWS)

DNS service = real application

Analytics = several real applications

Chime, Workdocs, WorkMail = real applications

Messaging = several real applications

And on it goes.

So what, they won't get into CRM? Of course they will. Amazon will use AWS to push into high margin enterprise software, specifically designed to target Oracle, Salesforce, et al. Because why not, the margins are there to be attacked. Anything that AWS gets near is a target in the next decade.
I haven't tried the Oculus Rift, but I do own the Note 4 Gear VR, and recently tried the Vive. I felt the Vive was clearly inferior, with a much closer and much more obvious and shallow feeling of depth to it, what felt like a worse field of view, and just more primitive VR games.

I was severely disappointed, considering how great the reviews of Steam VR games were, how much I looked forward to finally trying them out, and how primitive and demo-like the Gear VR games and apps were. It felt like the Gear VR games set a relatively low bar that the Vive should easily exceed, but sadly the games for the Vive were even worse.

If the Rift is actually better than the Gear VR, as I have expectation it is, then the Vive must be really awful in comparison.

It is nice that the Vive tracks you as you walk around your room, but that doesn't make up for the poor game quality and other issues I mentioned.

Overall, though, I think VR as a whole has a very, very long way to go. I was stunned and blown away when I first tried the Gear VR, but that sense of amazement wore off after a few weeks, and after that all the fun was in letting other people try it and vicariously enjoy their amazement. That lasted a few months, and ever since my Gear VR has been gathering dust, as it's just too much of a hassle to use, especially for long periods of time, when it gets too uncomfortable.

The main problem, though, is that all the games and apps are way too primitive, and all feel like bare-bones demos. If any of them were great, all the hassle and discomfort would be worth it, but they're really not.. at least not after the novelty has worn off.
Why would anyone "settle" without you agreeing that you weren't going to seek further damages? That's the whole meaning of "settlement."
inspections might be easily automated
Your backyard is a forest? Looks awesome :)

btw, I suggest disabling sharing geo location of photos (https://photos.google.com/settings - Remove geo location in items shared by link).
If you want something that will feel more intuitive then quantum computing since democritus has a proof related to Turing machines that always seemed far more intuitive to me. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec3.html