skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I care less about the download pricing for backups, and more about the storage pricing. I wish you had a comparison for your storage versus Glacier storage, because all of the claims that it is "cheaper than S3" just seem non-credible when I factor Glacier into the picture. It is true that Glacier is a different service from classic S3, but you can't just ignore it. Or at least some of us can't. It does exist. I wonder how it compares. If you don't have a chart, can you tell us here?

I understand download pricing can get complicated. But again I'm not asking about that. I realize download pricing also is important, but right now I'm just asking about storage pricing. Not sure if you are answering questions here but if yes, please share what you know.
Great mentions.
In my case, this is appealing especially for the <20mA power consumption for battery-powered nodes to place and leave for 1-2+ years.
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Currently I don't really use cloud storage, it's cheaper for me to colocate a 2U stuffed with disks and buy transit.

Primarily though I store media. I have (for a home user) large amounts of high resolution (lossless audio, RAW images, high bitrate (even ProRes) video) media that I like to keep for archival and transcoding but don't need for playback. I want to store the original media somewhere safe and cheap but have the ability to transcode it to a format suitable for playback/streaming on demand.

Actually it just occurred to me that it might be worth you talking to the folks at Plex (https://plex.tv) about this too, as they're working on their Cloud product and need more places for their users to store media.
> But, as Derwin’s order worked its way through Tesla’s manufacturing backlog, he had second thoughts. Elon Musk, Tesla’s co-founder and chief executive officer, was meeting Trump and joining committees in the new administration. The more Derwin dwelled on this, the angrier he became. And so, after receiving an email in February saying his Model S sedan was finally ready, Derwin cancelled the purchase.

> He’s going to offer to pay people who sent in deposits for the upcoming Tesla Model 3, if they cancel their orders.

Anyone know how to get in touch with Doug Derwin to discuss this? I cancelled my order back in January for the same reasons mentioned in the article. I would hate if I cancelled my order too early to benefit.
is Laura a US citizen? when the US invaded Iraq what laws were in place? Seems like a pretty big leap to say that "A female was videotaping us" to "she knew an ambush was about to take place"
I've got a Asus C201 (4GB, only $185) and it runs quite smoothly. This is with Redis and Postgres running in the background.
10000. Whew!
Suddenly I don't fancy my chances of getting in any more!

Seriously though, some of the founder videos I saw on YouTube were very very good.
Here are current stats about shielded and unshielded transactions in the last hour/day/week/month:

https://explorer.zcha.in/statistics/usage

And here historical stats about shielded and unshielded transactions in the most recent 100 blocks over the life of the blockchain so far (about 6 months):

https://explorer.zcha.in/statistics/timeseries?supply=false&...

Note that a big part of the shielded transactions is because coinbases are required by the consensus rules to be shielded when first spent. This was in order to provide a guaranteed privacy-set. If you make a shielded Zcash transaction today there is actually a very large privacy-set of possible previous transactions which could be inputs to your transaction.

In the long run we intend to improve the functionality of Zcash shielded addresses and to deprecate Zcash transparent addresses, so that all transactions are shielded and so that the user experience is simpler.
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That’s correct. See also https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5xgf8u/gokrazy_a_pu...

Notably, the Raspberry Pi Zero W has a different CPU (BCM2835, like the original Raspberry Pi) and hence architecture than the Raspberry Pi 3. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-zero-w/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11
Not sure why you're being downvoted for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
> What harm is caused by using non-gendered language in commit messages?

It wreaks violence on the English language. I love our language (and others: many languages are beautiful in their own different ways), and modern denatured, bureaucratic English is an atrocity.

> But if it matters to other people, why complain about it?

Because I want more beauty in this world. Because I don't want the sort of people who desecrate my mother tongue to win.
Excited to be working with Mux. I've known the team for nearly six years and from Zencoder to Video.js to Mux I'm continually blown away by their ability to build great technology and be great people.
Personal attacks are for the small minded.

Pot meet kettle.
Google long ago released Snappy Start, a tool for snapshotting processes, saving the full state to disk, so new instances can be launched faster. This is a more general Checkpoint-Restore capability than V8's impl and a bit different, but definitely somewhere in the same field of computer technology.

https://github.com/google/snappy-start
Texas has tried pretty much every piece of trope certain political parties like to trot out to "fix" medical care, including tort reform. It hasn't done a damn thing.
(Also a Mux co-founder) For anyone interested, we just rolled out new pricing tiers that make the service more accessible, including a $50/month starter plan and free Lite plan. https://mux.com/blog/announcing-self-serve-pricing-signup/

This is compared to our prveious entry level price of $1k/month when we were focused only on developers at larger media companies.

Happy to answer any questions around pricing.
There are people in this very thread calling for perfection and calling the vegans and vegetarians who relapse into eating meat as described in the article as "failed".

Even you're falling into the trap of labeling people as X or Y or Z.

Why can't the goal be "eat less meat" ? If you want to quantify it, make the goal "eat ~50% less meat" than you used to.

Alternatively, bring down the meat consumption to the level of Norway or Switzerland or Japan, countries just as prosperous as the US, but with even better health outcomes.

Even something as simple as "order a mostly vegetarian dish every other time you eat out" would go a long way.
Because people often think that acting rationally and empathetically are two distinct actions, and that's not the case.

For example, someone gets caught with some crumbs of weed. You could make the empathetic argument for fining that person rather than jail time because, "They're not hurting anyone. It's just a little weed.", so on and so forth. Or you could make the logical/rational argument that the punishment and what stems from it (housing a person in jail, the economic aspects of ruining this person's life for what really is a victimless crime) does not fit the crime.
Just read it in a kiwi accent and all is fine.
I prefer the way Android does things for layouts. You write XML (yeah it's XML, but it works) and Android Studio will generate a preview on the other side of the screen.
I searched for "social security" and found nothing meaningful. Or social-security-related.

Search UI needs work, I guess
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Noted. Thank you

edit: Does this only work when browsing "new", and not the front page / more posts? In other words, I don't see this post, or any posts with the [dead] or [flagged] tag when paging through more from the home page.
Civilian deaths from fires had a big anomaly in 2001.... I assume that was 9/11?

http://usafacts.org/metrics/15818
What city is the microbrew capital of the US?
High-rez satellite cameras don’t film videos.

Satellite cameras don’t have a 2D sensor you can find in a traditional camera. Instead, they feature a long narrow sensor. As the satellite flies over the earth, the sensor records a single row below the satellite. That row is oriented perpendicular to the satellite’s velocity. As the satellite flies, it scans a long strip of land underneath.

It works similar to a flatbed scanner. Can you film a video with the scanner? I don’t think so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_broom_scanner

About Bin Laden, the live satellite feed was not filmed from space. The feed was recorded by an on-body camera of an American soldier, transferred to a telecom satellite, then back to Earth, at Obama’s place.
As a local I would agree that 1) most KC barbecue joints are unremarkable, and 2) even done right it's good, but not "OMG I've never had meat so delicious" good. Still, though: good.

I recommend Q39 and Joe's KC to people visiting who want the good stuff. Just picking any ol' place that says it serves KC barbecue is a recipe for disappointment (goes double for anything at the airport or Crown Center). You'd be better off picking a random Mexican restaurant here than a random barbecue joint. YMMV.

[EDIT] incidentally we have a surprisingly decent food scene, and most of it's not barbecue, so don't limit yourself to that if you visit.
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My friends' daughter was encountering bullying and cliques and all that fun middle school stuff to a very concerning extent. So, they pulled her out of public school and put her into a private program whose name I can't currently remember.

There are classes, sure. They also manage a garden, and their own cafeteria. There is a week or two class trip every year -- a trip they are partly responsible for and that actually works well rather than being a horror show.

And there is emphasis on social skills. Not some simplistic "zero tolerance" punishment policy, but, well, I guess, real understanding. Anyway, my friends say it is night and day compared to what their daughter was encountering, before.

This is in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota -- say, a nearby town. My friends are in construction and health care. They do ok, but are not rolling in cash. But, they made this work for their daughter.

I can only think, if I'd had the chance, I would have jumped at it. My school system was far from "bad", in the demographic sense. But their daughter's experience is night and day, compared to mine.

Kids should be learning how the real world works. Something families and home circumstances don't always provide. And I see no reason for schools to be prisons of boredom and the lowest common denominator. They should be able to harbor diversity, including but not only academic diversity, just like the real world does.

Learning by doing, indeed.
Yeah, Sirlin covers that really well in his Layers of Yomi on Playing to Win:

http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/7-spies-of-the-mind
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Thanks for the feedback. IMHO the report is unreadable for most ordinary people. Also PDF is a very problematic format, difficult to search, impossible to scan-read, not always possible to copy/paste to a table. The data itself is not the problem, but the form factor is.

The other things are not meant to be a criticism, just suggestions for what the ideal solution could look like.

OG tags define what image and description Facebook shows when you share a link. If you are in a middle of an FB argument you want to reply with a specific fact, ideally with a picture and description, not a link to a perplexing PDF.
Vegetarian for 12+ years. I happily eat quorn or other good veggie substitutes as long as they are healthy (ish) and taste good. Being vegetarian doesnt mean i have to give up on the good elements of the food industry/convenience. I'd probably also eat lab grown meat but I'm not sure as i didn't have a chance to try yet.

For me it's an ethical argument to be vegetarian, i still love the taste and smell of meat (but contrary to the cliché repeated in this thread have never lapsed) - why give up on it completely if i can get something similar that allows me to still enjoy a bbq or spaghetti Bolognese. Most veggie substitutes taste like crap though - but that's a matter of trial and error (my advice is to avoid any veggiemeat that's egg based, they all taste disgusting and probably come out of the horribly cruel egg mass production.)

I'd be vegan but with small kids, a non-veg partner and an area that's not very veggie friendly that will have to wait a bit longer.
It sounds to me like they are testing it on slower machines (specifically slower hard drives), as they specifically call out one of the "smaller" optimizations as having a significant impact on machines with slower hard drives.
I don't follow the path of reasoning there. Can you elaborate?
I think there's a pretty good analogy to be made between legislation and software. The Constitution is the "operating system" of the US government, and the laws are "applications" that run on that OS. If an application attempts to do something not permitted by the OS, it should be an error.
> There is massive anthropological and biological evidence to suggest that animals and "stuff you pick up" (seeds and so forth) are the original human diet.

I feel like you should post some links to all that evidence. As far as I'm aware, we've been eating plants a lot longer than we've eaten animals, and the human body also suggests that being that we look (appearance and anatomically) much more like frugivores than carnivores.

> On a personal note, I was a vegetarian and later a vegan for a decade and I am familiar with the sort of "I feel it must have been this way" appeals to emotion (like referencing a baby and a presumably cute little animal) of the sort you're making. Arguments like yours are simply not supported by science.

It's a logical as well as scientifically agreed upon conclusion as far as I'm aware. Humans don't have an instinct for eating animals like carnivores do. A lion cub has the instinct, a human baby doesn't, it has to learn it. If you have relevant science, please link it.
How will the government assess who has the top skills? Considering that the industry has a hard time doing this in fairly intensive interview processes, I can't imagine the government will fare as well or better.

I, cynically, assume they're just going to be like "PHD is better than masters, is better than bachelor's" etc.
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The way it works in most workplaces, if someone is obviously visibly impaired or reeks of booze.
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I remeber flipping through some spy tech book a while ago and one photo, allegedly quite famous, stuck with me - it was of a wrist watch on a hand of someone lying on a beach and while it was on a blurry side you could still tell what the time was. From the context it was taken in the 70s and from what I gathered it was a satellite snap.

Now thinking about it, it might've been a high-altitude plane (U2) photo instead, but I'm not sure.

Has anyone else seen this photo?
Um, no, the tax payers pay for it through Medicaid.

People seem to have very strange ideas about how the healthcare industry actually works. But it's not a secret, you can go look at their SEC filings and see the numbers in black and white. Most insurance companies are enjoying record profits because of ever-expanding government funded health programs like Medicare [1]. This is just a fact. Now combine the "limitless pockets" of the Federal government with the total lack of price controls and you get exactly what you would expect in the USA -- prices going straight to the moon.

I very much expect this is not going to change any time soon. There is no political desire or will to limit Medicaid and/or institute price controls. This makes investing in health insurers very lucrative. The industry has been enjoying record profits since 2009 [2] and this will continue until the American public learns to do math...

[1] https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2016/03/01/no-obamacare...

[2] https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/health-insurance-indust...
I have made a project with the SigFox network and I absolutely love it.

I have also worked with LoRa and wrote a blog post comparing working with both networks: https://raed.it/blog/iot-network-sigfox-vs-lora/
That is for higher education. You don't think that 41% of people drop out of college / post high school education? My gut says it seems correct.
It seems like many substance alter empathy towards others. I remember that acetaminophen was found to reduce empathy. What other common substance would affect the jury that we don't know of yet?
Thanks :)

I think CL's biggest influences on Clojure are in: the namespace system, support for multimethods, and macro system (and keyword lists). Now that you mention it, CL also has sequences, and I can easily imagine Clojure's `into` function to be Rich's answer to CL's `map result-type ...` problem with the generic (but in the meaning of "generic function", not generic multi-method, as noted in [1]) interface. But you're right: in Smalltalk Dictionary is a subclass of Collection, and Clojure collections are famous for working with lists, vectors, sets, and also maps.

I think only Rich himself could say which, CL or Smalltalk, had a bigger impact on Clojure's collections. I know from Wiki that he worked with CL and Java (so maybe, Java collections? I don't know Java...), but don't know what other languages he learned. I now see Ruby is listed among influences on Clojure: how close are Ruby's Enumerable to Smalltalk collections? The inspiration could have come that way :)

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node141.html
>Product market segmentation is a very reasonable thing to do. Why do people make it out like a bad thing?

Because most of us would rather pay a price that mostly reflects costs + some reasonable profit, not some artificially created segment, not fuel extravagant profits, not pay for future research, not pay for the company to have cash reserves, etc etc.
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I hope you mean sleep deprived!
I recognize your point but want to raise an issue that I think many of us do not recognize.

Skin color is an easy way to classify people, but the advent of DNA sequencing affords us a lot more data into a person's ancestry. In the early 2000's, there was some debate about the value of race in biomedicine, even to the point of NEJM running two contradictory articles back-to-back [1].

The current consensus view is that human beings vary much more within our 'races' than we do between them - in other words, our skin color does not capture a lot of our genetic variability. I'll look for a good review on this topic and update if I find one

1. http://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/348/12 - Search for Cooper's and Burchard's articles in this issue

EDIT:

Here's an article that discusses the difficulties of using race to infer ancestry, with some examples of populations in whom 'race' is an especially poor marker:

https://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic185351.files/RAC...
did all the international founders were called for a pre-interview ?
Get a load of the tuition!!

8s, 9s, 10s, 11s, 12s : USD $44,300/yr for 2017/2017
https://www.cityandcountry.org/page/admissions/tuition
Just tell them. Most of them would be proud and happy to show you what good veg* cuisine looks like but they are worried to be judged and are feeling horribly guilty about the (largely false) sense that they constantly inconvenience others so want to do anything to avoid disappointing :-)
Nothing new for those of us who've been well convinced progress isn't limitless, and some of whom might even have heard of Tainter. What is new is that a fairly mainstream news outlet is actually addressing the issue. A longtime litany of complaint in the "doomer" "community" (grains of salt needed) is that there's no mainstream consensus about or attention to these predicaments at either a root level or a big-picture level.
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I think what you are looking for is here with Blockstack: open, completely client-side and decentralized, and for the user you don't even need to use a password...experience is like login with facebook, except without supporting the hegemony :) https://blockstack.org/blog/serverless-sign-in-with-blocksta...
You're the one who's muddying the water by using a second sense of the word discrimination when everybody else is talking about the first.
I don't particularly agree with him, but Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom wrote a book called Against Empathy [1].

I think his definition of empathy is narrower than what many people think of when they think of empathy, so in some ways his argument struck me as a battle against a straw man. But TBH I haven't read the whole book (just coverage of it, and some of his related work).

There's a counterpoint here [2].

1: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/paul-bloom-makes-a-weir...

2: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201310/wh...
Vegetarian here, no plan to return to meat... ever.

Got to love the anti veg propoganda though by the food industry heavily lobbying (and worried) about their profits.
The people who care most about that list of issues aren't reproducing biologically, and the progressive memeplex is having trouble finding new willing converts, since most of the people with a foundationally Christian belief system have already converted (and progressivism does not spread well to anyone else).

The world will be inherited by the people who show up - Amish, evangelicals, conservative Muslims, orthodox Jews, etc.

So you may be right about the 50 year time-span, but looking onto the 100+ year span, your list of issues should likely look more like:

-Public blasphemy

-Public acceptance of homosexuality

-Lack of God in government

-Allowance of abortion

etc.

Just because things have gone one way for a while doesn't mean they'll keep going that way. For better or for worse.
Tell me more please... is support for the S3 api because you use a product that you want to use with B2? Or you've written your own code to S3 apis?
To correct a minor point, none of the current Zcash code comes from the Zerocash academic prototype. All of the code that had come from the prototype was rewritten before launch (mainly in https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/625 ).

Much of the performance issue comes from a single design decision made in Zerocash: to use SHA-256 for the Merkle tree, PRF, and note commitment hashes. We'll be changing this for the Sapling update.

-- Daira Hopwood (Zcash developer)
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I know how excited we all are to board the moral outrage train, but there's an actual answer to that: http://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/1/19/14266230/empathy-...
>I tend to say that FP is good at adding new operations to existing things, while OOP is good at adding new things to existing operations.

What you described is exactly the _expression problem_. And it has some solution.

See https://oleksandrmanzyuk.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/from-objec...
> Please explain how flat tax rate across any income level, while removing the current tax code, would be considered regressive? I have not heard that argument before.

It's regressive in that it causes the poor to pay more than they do now. With regard to taxes, progressive and regressive have specific meaning.

> The proportion of tax paid is the same at any income level.

I don't believe this is true. You'll have to back up a statement like that with references, rather than just repeating it continuously.

What you are talking about is the effective tax rate. That said, you might find this table of effective tax rates by quintile[1] interesting, as it directly disproves that point.

1: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-average...
So 71% of the predictors are actually correct.