skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read all the comments here yet, but I'm going to throw this out anyway...

My confidence in the author took a hit at the point he called a PDP-11 a "mainframe". One would think a computer scientist would know what computers fall into what "generation". I guess "history of computation" is just not taught as part of such a degree anymore...?

But...I decided to read on, thinking maybe things would get better, and to give him the benefit of doubt. I think somewhere in there was maybe a few points to think about, but ultimately it almost looks like he has some weird problems with "separation of concerns", and maybe doesn't understand why that would be a bad thing for scaling...

...which again, I find odd for a computer scientist.

Furthermore, he seems to ignore the great amount of improvements and changes which have occurred in the database software/engine and server world; today's DBs and DB systems are -nothing- like they were back in the early 90s when I started my career (as a fresh high-school graduate). Yeah, we still used VT-100 terminals (then quickly transitioned to PCs - running VT-100 terminal emulators, of course), and things were starting to transition to PC apps communicating to the servers - and I am sure there were SQL injection issues (and no, we didn't think about that) - but things have, over the decades (yeesh - getting old here!) have changed for the better!

Could they be better? Certainly! Are there things the DB server could be doing to make life easier for the app? Yes (and some of this has been implemented - ie, when developed properly, your queries can be "sanitized" at the DB server level - but you know, you should still do this at the app and browser level too - just in case). Realtime updates and notifications? That's pretty much there as well - but ultimately, a lot still has to be done at other levels.

...and that's not a bad thing, imho.
It baffles me that all those JS physics library never provide proper docs or even an API reference and always link to the C++ Box2D manual as if it was an acceptable alternative. Always have to guess what the JS equivalent is but even then you're in for a surprise: https://github.com/shakiba/planck.js/blob/master/CHANGES.md
If you Google "user is losing money" there's a whole crap ton of results. Here's one - https://news.vice.com/story/uber-is-losing-money

There was a really detailed breakdown posted somewhere on HN a while ago but I don't have it offhand.
> I just want a pipe.

Mobile providers don't work like that though. Even when roaming international, there is a tunnel back to your home provider. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Tunnelling_Protocol
Since these types of projects are way outside my day to day I've had a hard time keeping track of them and also could have sworn I've seen something similar. I rather enjoyed the additional pockets. But I also enjoy bumper pool.
People are narcissistic by design. Social Networks were created to harness that narcissism to make money. I argue that there are a lot of other 'social networks' on the internet in a technical sense. You had profiles and added friends and then sent things to them/chatted with them on AIM, LiveJournal, any of a number of message boards, blogs/comments, etc.

The deciding factor between what came before and facebook and twitter is the ability to broadcast to the entire social network at once, so all of the world can see your brilliance! Feeding into that narcissism is the killer feature of modern social networks.
Those sound like pretty unavoidable, and often acceptable, drawbacks.
So you're using a nonisolated power stage to avoid the transformer and diodes? The transformer also provides isolation from line voltages. Are you sure there isn't a reason the trade-off went the other way?
Investors are always focused on the rate of new subscriptions, if they can't be profitable they can at least say they are growing subscriptions in new markets and possibly save the share price
Actually it feels like the trend you are starting to see is that AAA studios can't even keep up (aka Mass Effect Andromeda, and other recent high profile releases). The graphics burden just seems too high that everything else suffers.

But it's not all bad. I feel like, especially on the PC, smaller indie studios have been flourishing and some of the best games in recent times are not AAA nor graphical powerhouses.
Exclusive Video Leak of New DJI Spark Drone
No offense but outside of our little HN/YC bubble I think it's the other way around. LLCs seem far more common than Delaware based C Corps for tech companies. For tech startups looking to raise venture capital (a subset of tech companies) a Delaware C Corp is far more common though.
It seems clear that its not a mistake of one party or the other, clearly its a mistake on both parts. The Sheriff should have checked better and the bank should have double checked.
Damn, the 2016 Titan X was confusing because the 2015 Titan X was named the same, so people nicknamed the 2016 one as Titan XP and they fucking went ahead and one-upped the confusion by making an actual Titan Xp.

Bravo Nvidia LOL

I had to check if my hacker news app wasn't updated with the newest post list since April Fools.
Oh dear, what were they thinking with that name. First they released the Maxwell-based GTX Titan X, then replaced it with the Pascal-based Nvidia Titan X which nearly everyone called the Titan XP to disambiguate the confusingly similar names, and now Nvidia goes and uses that universally accepted nickname as an actual product name for a different product.
Companies to register more “new” domains
I use Chromium 99% of the time, and Firefox 1% of the time (only when I need to use a plugin that doesn't exist for Chromium).
unfortunately, you're not going to get very much machine learning mileage out of an AMD GPU like Scorpio is using
it sounds a lot like you just regurgitated Republican talking points
NASM home: http://www.nasm.us/
I also use(d) the old mobile.twitter.com site on my original iPad because the app would not run (memory limit)

See this new mobile.twitter.com has me wondering: What did they change?
The Wiretap Act may prevent ISPs from collecting and selling private data
Eh, that's not the biggest deal, it's basically always been like that on consoles, and that's the whole point of Mantle/Metal/Vulkan/DX12. ie. the fact that GPUs have MMUs these days, so user space can just write raw to the command buffer without being second guessed by the kernel drivers.

The switch to DX12 is just that you can write the same sort of code on Windows and Xbone (the 360 had enough extensions that you sort of had to have separate rendering backends for 360 and Windows, despite them both potentially being DirectX 9).
Interesting.

Should humans interact each other over HTTP or REST too ?
very very cool.

although forking a website so easily also makes spoofing very easy...
It's an apples to oranges comparison. One of the two companies manufactures O(100) engines per year, flies them to orbit on a regular basis, and has had the opportunity to examine and test O(50) engines that have flown and were recovered. That counts for a lot, even if the other company is going to test-fire a full scale methane engine sooner.
>Sure, I don't know a better way to organize all of it but that does not mean that there is no need to, or that we can't or won't.

Who are "we", though?

Employers aren't likely to change their job requirements unless profits increase from doing so, or unless a government or union forces them to. A desire to improve the human condition alone probably isn't sufficient to convince businesses to change their status quo. The people capable of making such decisions already enjoy a very high quality of life.
National Geographic Articles in the Year 2030
I did when I was a kid, but I crashed pretty badly and almost died, so dad sold the dirtbikes :(.

I've been meaning for a long time to get a new one, but live in the city, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to have one here.
"Now you can get our legendary Comcast customer service for your mobile phone too!"

I should offer to help them write ad copy.
What I remember from Box2D is that the simulation wasn't deterministic but rather dependent on frame rate for example. Is it the same case for this?
Blockchain and the Future of Tickets
If you can confirm to those constraints, you can securely ship UI code that automatically runs on computers all over the world, which wasn't a thing before the web.
Currently space is a $330 billion a year industry providing things like pictures of the Earth, communication, etc with a bit of science thrown in. And there are a bunch of other useful things people want to do in space which are currently infeasible because access to space is too expensive. If access prices go down we should expect the dollar value of the off Earth economy to go up and more people up there to do things like repairs.

EDIT: And Blue Origin and SpaceX both use liquid fuel rockets exclusively which cause very little ozone depletion. There combustion byproducts are entirely made from oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon with no nitrogen or chlorine mixed in.

EDIT2: Also, apart from the danger of ozone depletion there really isn't any harm in "poking holes in the atmosphere". The atmosphere is a fluid, it flows back together just fine after the rocket passes.
The TCO of a company depends heavily on your situation, which is one reason we find it difficult to have an official answer on that.

As a single data point, my personal tax situation involved US LLCs last year, as an American living in Japan. I spent about ~$10k on accountants to file taxes in both countries plus bookkeeping services. That's towards the high end among my friends; that's nowhere near the high end for "total amount spent on accountants in a year." For comparison, Atlas would have introduced me to an accounting firm offering the US side of that for ~20% of what I ended up spending on it. (This is difficult to do an apples-to-apples comparison even in this case, because C Corp vs LLC, but trust me when I say "I was pleasantly surprised where we got the numbers to.")

We're working on having an even better offering here for next year. We'll have more to say that closer to tax season 2017.
They use ncr7900i.
> ...while many people use their words to sing the praises of [hunting-gathering] their actions suggest they don't really want that, since they could still have it if they wanted it enough.

I think you're overestimating how much you can have that if you wanted it. I realize many people would reject that life (or at a minimum want modern medicine alongside it), but basically no one actually has the choice.

Hunting-gathering became steadily less 'appealing' as it became impossible to do effectively. In America, start from the near-extinction of bison. Add the privatization of most land, mass agriculture destroying the great plains habitat completely, fenced cattle farming destroying western spaces. (That also destroyed the semi-hunter-gatherer vaquero lifestyle, which people were mourning mere decades ago.)

You can do this anywhere - urbanization of the American East, desertification of the Southwest, the list goes on. And if you want a less-nomadic version, since the open spaces for nomadism are gone, you run into more modern laws actively preventing it. I know people who grew up (not at all as hunter-gatherers) in houses out in the woods that are now completely illegal because electricity and running water have been mandated.

I'm on a soapbox here, yeah. But I know people who do want this lifestyle, people who've tried for this lifestyle, and the simple answer is that it's not actually available. For most people, that choice is gone. It can't coexist with modern civilization, and that might be a price worth paying but we ought to admit we paid it.
http://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/how-banks-create-mo...
Tell me about it - Reddit's app does the same thing. I'll be browsing for an extended period of time and will get the "storage full" message. I then check usage settings and it's up over 600 (whereas normally it's ~200)
How Machine Learning May Help Tackle Depression
>Is this a result of net neutrality rules being over? Or net privacy rules being over?

No, people have been speculating about cable providers jumping into the MVNO game long before the current administration. It was logical once there was a lot of hotspots deployed. You need to look at more recent developments, like LTE-U getting approved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_in_unlicensed_spectrum

> Also what are the implications of Comcast subscribers already using Xfinity hotspots for free?

Maybe/likely the voice traffic is QoS'd, maybe hotspot service gets a little slower when lots of subscribers are on the access point.
you should edit your post to more specifically say "certain popular sects of Evangelical Southern Baptist Protestant Christians" instead of just "Christians".
Scorpio made simple: the next Xbox's tech explained
And the smell! Some combination of the oil burning and the smell of the seat. Man I love that smell.
I see media as being at least partly behind this. They can't advertise toys and games to kids on PBS. Regardless of how much time kids spend watching ads on non-PBS channels, there could always be more. The broadcaster hunger for these ad dollars can't be greater than now, when kids and their parents have other media vying for control of their time (internet video, I'm looking at you). It's completely in the wheelhouse of broadcasters and cable providers to try to meddle with policy through lobbying and strategic placement in policymaking positions. If only our government were transparent enough to follow the money...
I am familiar with MVNO, and reading "mobile virtual network operator" would make me stop for a moment to figure out what they were talking about.

When an acronym is in common use, not using it will cause trouble for people who are used to it.

As long as it's something easily googleable, it really doesn't seem like a big deal either way. If you don't know what MVNO stands for, it'll take two seconds to find out. This does not apply for cases where there's lots of different meanings, or the acronym is spelled the same as a common word.
Funny to see this on HN. I am currently reading a book that details the recent history of economic theory and how it has been in bed with neoliberalism. It has much to say about Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society, a think-tank that he founded to develop his ideas.

What surprises me about Hayek was that he had a radical conception of decentralization, managing to talk about human society as though on-par with an ant-colony. IMO, this sort of anti-humanism is a necessary ingredient for overcoming anthropocentrism in our current thinking and pivoting towards ecological thinking, rather than purely rational thinking.

However, I think Hayek makes some tremendous mistakes in his thinking. Firstly, by reducing the Collective Brain to merely the market/price-discovery, he ignores the possibility that price-controls and/or social-demonization could themselves be components of that brain (perhaps fulfilling the function of an OS's kernel). Hayek talks much about there being no one person who can understand everything, but fails to critique himself. Secondly, he fails to see how the setup of a market has an influence on the kind of information that gets processed. In order for some thing to be exchanged on the market, it needs to be commodified in some way. This transformation of /thing/ into /commodity/ is where the social slight-of-hand happens, necessarily discounting some aspect of it's worth. An example is having two identical mugs, but one of those mugs being /mine/ and therefore special to me. That specialness doesn't exist if the mugs are a commodity, and perhaps that specialness fulfills an informational/computational function. In the end, the price is a result of a collective brain, but the market itself is a human construct. Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit and 4Chan all structure their 'markets' differently, with incredibly different results.

Hayek had some good ideas, but he was too much of an apologist for the existing economic order for those ideas to really be useful. As technologists resurrect his ideas to apologize for the existing technological order, the same will likely be the case.
Scorpio is console hardware pushed to a new level
Napoleon was 5'6", and that is short. I don't care about 'average height for the time', that just means the average guy was short.
I guess rude is in the eye of the beholder? :) Your response seemed rude to me (challenging the use of a pretty common phrase to elicit elaboration), which is why I suggested you were upset. Subtleties and true intention are often lost in written communication... :)
> So, the implicit assumption of markets as the 'natural state' of human organization has not real basis.

I would agree. I don't think such a general statement is valid.

> Even money is an invention of the state.

This I highly disagree with. I think the evidence is quite clear that money was independently arrived at both by state and by trade. It depends a bit on how you define it, but I think no other conclusion is possible.

> It's the idea that markets know what is better for us what many reject.

I don't understand who is making that argument.The hole point of Hayek is that you can follow your own goals and as long as you are in a market structure you will be helped in doing so.

If with 'us' you mean a state by democratic rule then the matter gets more complicated because its not at all clear that the outcome of the democratic process is a better 'aggregation of wills' then a market process.
It's a general technology website, not a telecom-only technology website. The baseline level of understanding should be of technology in general, not the baseline of a telecom specialist.

If the telecom discussion ventures into specialized territory, then it is fine if the non-telecom people have to do some research to follow along.

In this case, though, if the words "mobile virtual network operator" are written out I think most HN readers will be able to figure out what they mean in the context of the comment without needing an external reference. There wasn't really anything going on that a non-telecom person wouldn't be able to follow, except for the expansion of the acronym.

It doesn't require research to make the comment understandable in this case. It just required mindless expansion of an acronym. Making multiple readers all do the same mindless task to understand the comment is inefficient.

There is a widespread, long established, endorsed by many style guides convention for handling this in technical writing: write out the term in full the first time, followed by the acronym in parenthesis, and then use the acronym in subsequent uses. I can see no reason to ignore this long standing convention in this particular case.

(For purposes of that convention, I think it would be OK to consider replies to a comment to be part of the same document as the comment, so if the commentator write "mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)" once, replies could use a bare "MVNO").
Why not find a credit union instead? Even better than a local bank because their goal isn't to profit off of their members.
Major citation needed on that one i'm afraid. Pretty much worldwide, the public sector and government are regarded by many as slow, excessively bureaucratic and failing the youth.
i would hope it has a few questions about Machine Learning.
The great thing about the practice of economics in the U.S. is that its just political ideology masquerading as a science. So the degree to which my language conforms to the practitioners of a pseudoscience is irrelevant.

>Its kind of funny, in economics we talk about how oligopolies will move prices up. So if all our 'real world markets' are 'monopolistic oligopolies' why are they not moving up? In the majority of markets and globally speaking this simply is not the case

Because the models themselves are fictional games, with little relation to the realities of global history or politics.

>Also the term 'Late Capitalist' sound like you not only believe that history moves in stages, but also that you know when one stage will end.

Marxists did a better job predicting the trajectory of Capitalism than any one else, so this doesn't bother me.
Yeah, I understand for the general public, and I wasn't trying to imply there's no place for the new consoles, just that I figure most the people reading HN could probably get away with putting that money towards their main computer platform more effectively. That does, of course, assume mostly single use, and that's a rather large caveat I didn't cover. I have three kids, and for a set-top box, ease of use is extremely important, since it's not just me using it.
This Is the Tesla Model 3 Way Before You're Supposed to See It
scuttlebutt has sneakernet options it appears. Email is just another transport mechanism.

So your approach should work in theory within the described framework.
How would that change if you had, say, 5,000 friends – the fb limit, which some people do reach – who were posting multimedia content multiple times a day (which happens on fb)?

Is the protocol set up in such a way as to enable easy, automatic deletion of old data from local devices, while still storing them for easy search/scroll-based access on the Pub servers?
These "issues" are all bullshit.

It's a presidential appointed position like secretary of state of course it's got no accountability to congress.

Lack of financial transparency? Vague and propogandish.
Excessive travel costs? Vague and propogandish.

Expensive renovation of headquarters more than GSA? (Insert random agency that it cost more than here.). THE GSA SAID THE COSTS WERE IN LINE WITH OTHER RENOVATION PROJECTS.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-10/republica...

Take your republican astroturfing brainwashed conservative zombie rhetoric somewhere else or at least have something (non-Breibart) to back up all of your bullshit claims.

The CFPB is critical organization to help the little guy and one of the only resources they have to fight massive organizations taking advantage of them.
Show HN: A Subreddit for Those of Us Following YC Startup School
I was hoping for more of a community when I signed up for this MOOC. It seems instead it's mostly a lecture series.

If you're interested in joining a conversation around the lectures every week, sharing progress reports with eachother, and seeing what other people are up to, come join us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ycstartupschool/
This is THE BIGGEST MONEY MAKING IDEA IN TECHNOLOGY full stop. The money that will be made around this will make Adwords look like a cute hobby. Messaging on all channels needs to be assigned a variable cost. ...and this implementation is thoughtful/interesting, as is 21.co... Google, Facebook and Microsoft have understood this is coming for a long time. That's why Microsoft bought Linkedin, and FB bought Whatsapp. Companies are spending billions to prepare for this future, but I have yet to hear anyone elucidate how this paid communication future will actually work. Further, since the patent system has been eviscerated there isn't any incentive for an entrepreneur to solve the whole problem... and Google and many other tech companies only know how to copy good ideas... not generate their own. So your reward for starting a company that solves this will likely be lawsuits, poverty and personal and professional devastation. Who is gonna step up ;)
Very obvious? Could you elaborate? I don't mind changing my opinion, but it looks like the web is a mishmash of poor implementations made possible by increasing bandwidth and ram.