skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is quite open ended as to whether it means backup, or something else.

I use IPFS. IPFS is great for sharing multi-gigabyte size files between machines in a cluster, bit-torrent style. In my case it is a couple of hundred Amazon spot instances that can come and go very fast and need to get the data ASAP to start some calculation, the same data for all nodes.
How I Replaced Social Media Addiction with Productivity
Annuals are at least $1000 a year, with insurance, taxes, and other costs you'd probably spend $8K a year to have it sit not flying. Add in flying costs and engine reserve you'd spend $10K or more a year.

Source: Am a pilot.
I'm thinking about snipping out regions, creating views, and propagating indices across sheets.
Because it never recovered from the 2001 crash. Nortel is gone. Corel moved it's HQ overseas. The Adobe offices in Ottawa were having major layoffs in 2012.

Shopify came out of Ottawa, but it's the only one. A Rails dev in Ottawa is usually either working for Shopify or is unemployed.
Products funded by Juicero’s VCs
Even still, you would need to have the thrust to lift it in addition to your regular operating equipment and some way for it to be recovered (more weight, complexity, operating and upfront cost)

I'll pass on sitting in the tiny plane with a 100kw laser pointed at it.
I was once informed by someone working at a major energy company that if the utility frequency dropped to a certain specific value it could cause uncontrollable systemwide cascading blackouts. I don't remember the value, but I wish I did.

A large outage like SF, if it wasn't done in a controlled manner, could be grid overload. Or to prevent grid overload, utilities might need to shut down a regular on a high voltage supply line, which causes an overload somewhere else in the system, and automatic cutoff switches force a blackout.

Similar events have happened over the years starting in a remote state and ending in a California blackout. Often it's due to aging infrastructure which goes down unexpectedly, which then causes a chain reaction that hits other parts of the grid. If winds took down power lines in LA, this could cause a backup which could take out SF. It's possible that either LA or New York could have caused the SF blackout, or vice versa. If one part of the grid starts to go down it puts pressure on the rest, and things start to pop.

Note: I'm talking out my ass here, but it's based on news reports of previous outages.
I do this all the time. There's nothing at all weird or embarrassing about it. 10 years ago I was sure I'd remember and have an intuition for the trig identities, but I'm still looking them up every time now.

Also, even in pretty advanced CS (at least in my field, security and, particularly, cryptography), most of the nuts-and-bolts math is high school math.
It's "broken window" community policing.

The more unpatched vulnerabilities there are in existence, the more lucrative it is to be involved in any part of the computing crimes community.

It's like reglazing a broken window in your neighbor's garage at your own expense, because you don't want burglars to see it and start casing other properties in the same neighborhood based on the conditional probability that a visible broken window indicates a higher incidence of other exploitable vulnerabilities.

It's also important to pursue the very easily exploited vulnerabilities, because when you get rid of all the low-hanging fruit, the people who can't already climb the tree won't survive long enough to learn how. You're cutting a lot of bootstraps so that immature criminals can't pull themselves up by them.
I think you're exaggerating the actual cost. I really don't think Google has a deductible plan, and I'd be surprised if the copays are more than $10 or $20. And remember, we're comparing this to Canada where you still have to pay for prescriptions (or at least a co-pay depending on your situation). Very, very few countries in the world actually cover 100% of healthcare costs.

All in all I don't really think it's a useful point of comparison when considering compensation between the two countries.
If you are stipulating that I am correct, you still consider truth to be "noise" rather than "light"? I guess I am not following your point.
not the three most economically significant

I don't think SF ranks in the top 3, I'm almost certain that Chicago would rank higher in economic significance, and I'd guess that Houston is above SF, probably Boston too.

Despite SF being so popular in the technology space, it's really quite a small city -- only around 800K people, compared to nearly 4M in LA, and 2.5M in Chicago.

EDIT: I found a ranking from 2010 and SF is #9

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/america...

New York
LA
Chicago
Wash DC
Houston
Dallas
Philadelphia
Boston
SF
Those kids whose parents don't invest anything in them? Some of them start stealing packages off of my front porch. (Yes, that literally happened to me. I know which kid did it, too. His mom caught him - so maybe I shouldn't list him as a kid whose parents weren't investing anything.) Some of them start breaking into houses. (Hasn't happened to me... yet.) Some of them start mugging people. A few of them get frustrated enough that they decide to kill as many people as they can.

At some point there, do you start seeing reasons for us to start caring about what happens to those children? If not for the childrens' benefit, at least for our own?
I guess I don't have enough karma, as I did not see that link, although I did look for it.
D also has nice opt-in reflection as an advantage over C++ (though there are C++ tools to make up for it, to an extent).

The reflection is IMO the killer individual feature (well, hand-in-hand with the codegen to actually use it). The rest is just the benefit of 1000 small things that all add up to a greater whole.
Looking at the store page, "app" seems like a reasonable choice that seems like it would make sense with most people.
There's a service called Synack that does something similar to what you describe
Yeah, one of my very, extremely backburner (dead?) projects is called The Memome Project. The idea was to try to develop the architecture of ideas more solidly. Words and ideas have real value, meaning and power. I think Startups very much operate in the realm of ideas. Some ideas are really solid things, based on good mental models and rubrics and good data. And others are basically hot air. They are cheap and insubstantial and don't mean much of anything.

We need better ways to talk about and think about and measure the difference between those two things. The difference can be the difference between brinkmanship and outright fraud.
Do you know much about the Gigafactory? How do you expect it to affect the price of batteries?

Also on that note, are there any limitations on the number of batteries we keep creating? Eg, Lithium supply?
We're using LinkedIn's Ambry ( https://github.com/linkedin/ambry ). Its an easy to use distributed object store. It's basically a self hosted version of Amazon S3.
Wow has it really been more than 20 years!?? I feel old now...

I do get what you're saying but if you have to implement "appropriate measures" anyway then the robots.txt file becomes completely redundant.
> what the hell is wrong with Theranos that they seemed so focused on attacking anyone who questions them, rather than focusing on actually fixing the problem

The problem is unfixable because it's a complete fraud. There is nothing. They're holding the fort for as long as possible, and it's amazing they've been able to hold it for so long.
The Retail Apocalypse Is Suburban
> would the 45 minutes of reserve fuel really be necessary if you're not constrained to use an airfield?

Yup. High winds in an area would make it unsafe to land anywhere in that area. Ditto for low cloud cover (need a minimum of 1000') or low visibility (need more than 2 miles).

From an overview of the differences in regulations that cover Helicopters (which are likely more maneuverable at low speeds than this aircraft):

>>> Helicopters must complete the flight to the first airport of intended landing, then fly from that airport to the alternate airport; and then fly after that for 30 minutes at normal cruising speed. Normally, other aircraft are required to have 45 minutes. <<<

http://www.cfidarren.com/hpart91.htm

Long story short, batteries are heavy, heavy beasts. Generally available electric vehicles have trouble going much over 300 miles on a single charge; aircraft are going to have even more problems.
> Despite being the runaway leader in cloud service, they make very little money in it

From a year ago: "The biggest source of the company’s profits is Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing business that started just over a decade ago and is now on track to bring in more than $10 billion a year in revenue."

"Cloud computing is also much more profitable than Amazon’s North American retail business, which runs on thinner margins, and its international retail business, which runs at a loss. The operating income for A.W.S. more than tripled in the quarter to $604 million."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/technology/amazon-q1-earn...
For what it's worth, same here. It's easier to shard files than it is to admin these systems.
Federal income tax isn't the only tax out there...
Most campuses call this "challenging" - I did it several times. In city college, I successfully took courses without their prerequisites by speaking with the professors and showing them my work/experience. It wasn't test-based, just portfolio review.

In university, successfully challenging also gives you credits for that course (though there is a small fee per unit). I successfully challenged four courses (all in graphic design) - three of which were based on portfolio review and the fourth was based on completion of course projects in an accelerated period. Additionally, though not quite a challenge, I was able to speak with a couple CS professors and get them into admitting me into their courses despite not having the prerequisites (though was doing them concurrently).

The course requisite structure is more a guideline than a rigid computer system that works one way and only that way.
> I'd guess that if people knew then what they know now, they'd do things differently or not do them.

How I wish that were true. Many problems of humanity are very predictable - climate change is an easy one, but probably we can all think of some problems in the tech industry - and yet people do it anyway. If it were true, we wouldn't fight any wars.

> If the coastline changes were significantly caused by climate change/rising sea levels then the other Gulf coast states would have problems too.

That's not how it works. There is a lot of coastline in the world and the effect of climate change varies greatly. Look at just the East Coast of the U.S.: Miami is facing big problems; New Jersey is seeing some problems; New York is not (yet). Holland, with its low-lying reclaimed land, is likely to face problems long before the cliffs of Dover.
I am super interested in more details on this. Can you do a blog post?
> There is no guarantee that the GC won't run when calling GC.disable.

If you have called GC.disable, the collector becomes `return;`. Sure, the GC function is called, but it doesn't do anything, it just immediately returns.
This was so impressive that it compelled me to finally make a Hacker News account instead of lurking. In less than a typical paragraph of space you have created a masterpiece of efficiency. The music is catchy too. Bravo!
That's totally unrealistic. Low altitude flight is extremely dangerous due to the risk of hitting trees, towers, power lines, hills, etc. Military helicopter pilots are well trained and have good equipment but they still have frequent crashes during low-level training missions. If anything goes wrong you impact the ground and die with no chance to recover. The general public won't tolerate that level of risk, and the FAA would certainly never permit it.
I thought the conversion efficiency for microwaves was 80%.
This is another example of "I have nothing to hide" strategy not giving good results.
I'm curious on how they get "less noise than a motor bike". There are plenty of quad copters that i feel are more loud than most bikes, let alone the weight this thing has to put out some significant thrust requirements...
You seem to stumbling into the distinction between functional and non-functional requirements. Netflix spends massively more on content then tech so that's consistent with what you're saying. To use you're Disney example though, yes it would effect their success if they weren't able to deliver their content because their Bluray mastering expertise was lacking.
This headline is funny. North America is only three countries. One is already its startup center which leaves only Mexico or Canada or both as its up and coming center.
It taxes an equal amount of utility-of-money, I suppose.
Parsing your own language with ANTLR4: a quick intro (with TypeScript example)
I said it was time to re-think anti-trust. You brought your own issues to the table and assumed I was calling for a breakup.
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How Google Crushed One Small Publisher
I'm not quite following the timeline: why did he end up under an NDA and the too-long wait to get it fixed? Why not say "I'm publishing this on my blog in 30 days so it better be fixed by then"? Would you risk getting in legal trouble for publishing a way to do bank fraud (for example) - assuming you gave some reasonable timeframe for disclosure?
I went to Stanford (hence the screen name) ...

Stanford students are generally sheep that know one thing for certain: That they are smart enough to get into Stanford and that they now have pretty much zero excuse to not be successful.

They assume that other things (vision, relentless lifelong obsession) are means to ends. It is a fertile breeding ground for what Trungpa Rinpoche most accurately describes a "Spiritual Materialism"

Their logical conclusion is that the key to success is not relentless pursuit of practice, but rather playing tricks like the ones you describe.

Bob Noyce, Bill Gates, Marc Andressen all succeeded as a result of their passion and relentless dedication to a narrow problem space over years of effort. They saw "the truth" and thus were able to make those leaps. "Truths" are always present in every society ... and are hidden. Unfortunately it requires dedication to uncover such truths and most stanford students would rather re-use the same hammer that got them into Stanford on real life than to truly seek "truth".

That's my 2 cents.

EDIT: I can see how this was condescendingly phrased and discriminatory towards a large group of people. We should all note that the person who outed Ms. Holmes was also a Stanford student and did something very brave. I was just annoyed with seeing this pattern everywhere and even partaking in it myself -- something that impacted me very negatively.
Right, most public computers I've seen would be trivial to bug with a key logger. Though with 2fa, I suppose it wouldn't be quite as bad (but then again, those using public computers might not be using 2fa).
If you can borrow money at X% and put it towards a productive use that generates Y% returns, then it is worthwhile to do so when X < Y. The government can currently borrow money at around 1-3% interest [0], depending on the length of the term.

Presumably, the return you can generate from borrowed money diminishes as you borrow more money, so "good debt" is some amount of money that you have borrowed that allows you to be more productive and pays for its own interest, in a sense. But borrowing even more than that would start to become less useful, and drag down your overall return.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...
What happens when consumers learn that they might have ended in a high price segment? Can they trust any seller to give them a good price anymore? You have to start comparing every item with a dozen web sites to make sure you're not being gamed. Seems like a huge waste of time and trust for everyone involved.
Not to be patronising, but you should try tech support. You'll quickly understand why arguments like this are futile.
Yes, that David Boies:

https://www.forbes.com/2003/05/28/cz_vm_0528sco.html
Assume the expertise. A whole semester of university dedicated to contract law: Consumer contracts and B2B contracts in the national law, then the specifics when dealing with a party in another European country and internationally.

You'll see what a contract needs to be valid during these courses. There is simply nothing about both parties requiring to gain something.
As time goes by
Very Bridgewater-eque

...and the employees "wanted" this? I doubt it.

Seriously, did I misinterpret this? Not trying to be a troll.
Palantir's Relationship with America’s Spies Has Been Worse Than You’d Think
Professional association of security researchers?

Come up with a good set of guiding principles for members. This would help avoid waiting 7 years and then sticking it online. Not criticising, I'm saying the situation here is pretty screwed up.

Members pay dues, the association provides backing. Company threatens to call the FBI and the association is the one they can deal with.

An organized group can help to provide the needed political pressure so that a properly disclosed vulnerability doesn't ever lead to the FBI and trumped up charges.

A respected group can lend credibility to a researcher. A bank may not give 2 shits about even a well respected member of the community. They will care if it's a group well known for finding and disclosing vulnerabilities.

This seems like an easier problem than the general case of software engineers because the community is smaller and you don't have the conflicting interests of "I can negotiate better on my own". Plus things like membership can be handled more easily, start with a small group of people who absolutely should be members. Extend via application and invite.
Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? (up to date thread)
There are many similar threads with the same idea, but unfortunately most of them are over 2 years old. I'm opening a up to date thread, so you can share your newest side projects.
> the law enforcement that prevents him from being robbed is paid for by tax revenue, but not federal tax revenue

Not only are his financial institutions protected by federal law enforcement, but state and local law enforcement recieves federal funds, so the above claim is false on several grounds.
I'm not convinced it'd work. Not to be mean at all, just realistic.

The huge bulk of this tax bill was from exercising stock options. According to another commenter here, 44% on $1.34B earnings from these options.

So given a $1.5M cap, these options simply wouldn't have been exercised. You'd use your options up to the $1.5m earnings ceiling, and then stop. So the tax 'purse' would receive the pre-ceiling rate on $1.5M instead of 44% of $1.34B.

A 100% ceiling sounds very straightforward, but the end result would have been that Musk would have paid over $592M less in taxes over the same period - and I'm pretty sure that wasn't your intent.

(sidenote: With regards to the morality - under your proposal, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wouldn't exist. I think I'd rather any proposal allowed for such altruism.)
Is Online Learning the Right Choice?
That may be. I don't recall the karma required for vouching. Similar to the flag link, it's visible in the individual comment view which is accessed when clicking the comment timestamp.

In the meantime, it looks like the comment you referenced has since been vouched.
Advice on meeting new people at conferences
The BBC Micro game `Exile' used a mostly-randomly-generated map, with some manually-created areas here and there: https://www.stairwaytohell.com/gamehelp/MAP-Exile-BC.png (very large PNG)

The patterns are quite apparent when zoomed out, but on the actual BBC Micro the display area was 128x128 low-res pixels (a 256x128 area on the map image), making it more difficult to spot.
Looking at what happen to the Abhishekh Guttani case in Santa Clara court I believe SV courts are a joke in giving any serious punishments.

I am willing to bet she wouldn't be charged jail time for more than six months. She would have enough contacts and money to may be totally avoid it.
More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science Research
I watched someone who wouldn't make the runway (pilot error, didn't switch the fuel tanks fully on approach) dead stick onto a perpendicular highway.

With a light plane, you can do a lot with a dead stick. They have remarkably generous glide slopes (nearish to a mile horizontal travel for every 1,000 vertical feet). Not to mention being inherently stable whether under power or not.
> It's amusing to watch lucky people on HN make comments like this (taking their extreme luck for granted and attributing it to hard work) and then watch them get down-voted by equally hard-working people who have the opposite experience.

It's less amusing when you realize these same arguments are used against minorities/the disadvantaged to keep them down.
If it were common for rich people to pay 44 percent of their income in tax, it wouldn't be a newsworthy story.
You should demand your tuition money back.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/consideration-every-c...
In case anyone is reading this from a search, I thought I should clarify, the wifi sucks in Ubuntu or Win10, so it doesn't appear related to linux.
In some places it's a felony to record someone without that person's knowledge. Just be careful with this.
> Are you asserting that the FBI is keeping muggers and highwaymen away from Elon Musk's money?

Assuming some keeps some share of his money in US banks, or invested in firms which keep their money in US banks, absolutely. Well, "bank robbers" instead of "muggers and highwaymen", but I'm assuming that Musk doesn't carry enough cash on him that the latter are nearly as important as the former in terms of risk to his money, though they might be a bigger threat to his personal safety.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/bank-robbery
what you see flying it's an empty shell.
This doesn't even remotely provide a last mile solution because even if they get the aircraft working the landing pads will be more than a mile apart. Just because it's a VTOL aircraft didn't mean you can land it on a city street. A large, securely fenced area free of nearby obstacles will be needed. Where are you going to put those in a dense city? And don't try to tell me that they're going to land on building roofs; most roofs are unsuitable because they're too small or not flat or full of ventilation equipment and antennas.
I say they will. Autopilot is so much easier in the air than in the street, especially if the system is created with that in mind.

I would hate to have flying cars with people behind the wheel. We would have cars falling from the sky by the minute. If car drivers are bad, flying cars would be so much worst.

But if it becomes a mechanized system then it works. It's coming. I'm guessing 30 years. It won't be cheap.
Trump can't legalize marijuana. Only Congress can do that. If Sessions is enforcing the law, well, that's his job.
I'd be interested in trying to do something like this to put image vectors and word vectors in the same space. It might be tricky because some images would look similar, without being similar to each other at all. However, you could probably get some interesting results.