skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair. For the US, the top 1% seems to own 40% of all wealth, a little bit less but still a staggering number i.m.o.

My problem with this is not so much the wealth of the top 1% in itself, but the lack of equal opportunity in the bottom 50%. A child that is born in this demography has much, much lower chance on a successful life than a child that is born in a wealthy family. That simply can't be fair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
FastMail doesn't charge extra for multiple domains, so for two users it's just $5 x2 = $10/month.
How to Avoid the Three Biggest Productivity Killers at Work
Healthy skepticism is important in ALL facets of life.

You would join the union because the organization of labor gives you more power than individually. This is all pretty basic democratic theory here. Why would an independent state join a federation of states? Why not vote with it's feet by seceding when they don't get what they want out of the federation? Perhaps because the benefits outweigh the loss?

Don't like seniority pay, but what about the four weeks base vacation and the negotiated pay scale that benefits younger workers? The point here is that companies are by design dictatorships (or at best oligarchies) and unionization is not the evil that 20th century robber barons told you they are.

The UAW has done infinitely better things for labor in the US than most people could ever understand, even if their power led to a certain amount of corruption. Corruption of a democracy is at least marginally better than a dictatorship where you just hope the dictator is benevolent.
Funnily enough an electric vtol got posted to HAN. 300km range for the prototype and as fast as a formula 1 car.

Depends on how you define car I suppose.
Do you have a working prototype?
>suburban FVs make a lot of sense (assuming the physics work out).

Noise may be the ultimate physics problem.
It's true that hardware engineering and manufacturing were in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, while the corporate HQ and software people were various suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota (first Bloomington, then Mendota Heights and downtown Minneapolis, then Eagan, then back to Mendota Heights, &c...). But that's mostly because Control Data had set Seymour up with a lab in Chippewa Falls, and he just stayed in place in '72 when he quit.
> Your link doesn't infirm what I said.

LOL. Res ipsa loquitur.
You're thinking CIA and NSA.
You must be new to the internet. These numbers are very wishful thinking for some undetermined future date.
In... god, nearly[0] 20 years of reading and engaging in Internet arguments and discussions, I don't think I've ever seen a productive exchange with a certain flavor of common-on-the-Internet outspoken and confident market-focused libertarian, though it occupies an enormous number of bits (and person-hours) on the global network. The best case for these is that we discover (again, hooray) that there's more than one reasonable way of understanding individual liberty. The worst case is that some of us discover that (again, OMG can we please stop?), while it continues to elude others and they go on thinking people just don't understand their position because if they did they'd surely agree, leading them to start the whole thing over again the next time it's half-relevant anywhere they post, leaving a trail misery and mises.org links (sigh) in their wake. Let's all spend that time reading some IPE, game theory, comparative politics, and undergrad readings in political philosophy textbooks instead, shall we? It'd be far more improving.

These days it seems to have replaced arguing/trolling about religion (anyone else remember the distant past of the 90s?) as the most common waste of everyone's time in Internet discussions. It'd be best if we just recognize when this kind of thread is about to start and stop posting.

[0 EDIT] uh, whoops, that should be over 20 years. How time flies.
I will keep repeating that: The fact that Elizabeth house is not FBI raided and she is not in jail without ability to talk to co-conspirators just show how you can run your scam enterprise by simply having the right people on your board.
Jim Simons talks on life, mathematics, philanthropy and hedge funds
One of the things I loved about the choice of Scheme was that nobody knew it, so it helped level the playing field. Also, it's a small language, so we got through the "here's Scheme" part quickly.

That said, the rationale presented in the article is a really good one. Hm.
We definitely don't have all the facts and learning new facts could definitely change the direction of the conversation. I hope that we all understand that this arm-chair lawyering is, at its core, a hypothetical exercise.

But even if we are allowed to infer consideration, and I agree with you that we are, this contract isn't simply lacking the terms of consideration. It doesn't appear to contemplate consideration at all, which in my experience, is unheard of for these types of agreements.
Yes, it is passed along through the Referer (sic) header.
That thing's empty. It's a giant carbon-fiber drone. Cool and all, but that is not a test flight.

Initially I thought it was using those spinning-cylinder wings to produce the VTOL behavior! Decent approach, though.

No sound. I'd like to hear how noisy it is: the wind alone will be pretty loud, even if the electric motors are silent. And again, there's nobody in that: with a passenger it's going to work maybe three times as hard, depending on how light and dronelike it is empty. They might have next to no batteries in there, it behaves like it's quite staggeringly light.

Clever to use dronelike autostabilization to avoid having much in the way of control surfaces. This vehicle absolutely depends on having those fans working, and probably couldn't glide to a landing of any sort.
Bridgestone Develop Next-Generation Bicycle Tire Designed Using Air Free Concept
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I haven't used it extensively, but I've read some of the source code and I'm excited about where Minio is going -- the erasure coding storage capability in particular: https://www.minio.io/
For a speculative look at how a global network of flying cars might play out 'Too Like The Lightening'[1] was a pretty enjoyable read for me last year.

One of the consequences was that global borders essentially become worthless, and people instead join hives that best represent their ideals.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/05/10/476483675/science-fiction-and-...
If JS a problem for you, try Kantu. It works with screenshots and uses OCR for scraping. The beauty is that it works with any kind of site. But clearly, the speed can not match a node.js or perl based scraper (mechanize etc), so it is not suitable for high volumes.
> You have to know the truth will eventually come out? Right? Or, no?

You have to know, but psychopaths usually don't.
Sure, it's possible, but it's a much longer way off at the moment. There are all sorts of technical problems that need to be solved in that space for it to be viable. You need to be able to transmit in excess of 100kW through clouds without any dispersal and not set the target on fire. We at least have the groundwork laid for potentially very high capacity batteries (LiAir, LiS, etc).
Yes! Because this has worked so well in politics and on the internet.
>eg viewing a malicous email with the IMG tag in a webmail client

The article mentions it would occur even without opening the email.
Take a look at MooseFS -- it's been several years since I eval'd all these options and MooseFS was the best -- it is a very sensible system.

edit - this is distributed block storage -- if you
just need object storage, perhaps something else is in order.
Rest assured they work with a company that is really good at packaging [1]. However true, chemistry innovations will need to come from the lower end of the R&D pipeline.

[1] wrote my thesis with them, http://openbatt.org
The power grid does not work like that. See this tutorial, "PJM 101" for background.[1] All of today's events are in distribution, not the HV transmission network. The NYC event involves tiny loads by grid standards. PJM isn't reporting any major emergencies today. Neither is CAISO.

[1] http://pjm.com/Globals/Training/Courses/ol-pjm-101.aspx
The Legendary Thunderbirds Might Inhabit the US Even Today
The article makes it sound better than what immediately popped into my head, which was employee performance via metrics shown on a Chartbeat-like animated dashboard. Sadly, some media companies are indeed mesmerized by watching article performance via Chartbeat's real-time traffic charts.
Alternative, is it worth it to try to cater to users like "you" vs just leaving them behind?

Java and Silverlight I get, but not upgrading certs I consider to be pushing it. When we cater to users who have no interest in upgrading technology we hold everyone else back.

I prefer the technique of saying "It's done on this date. Ignore us at your peril". The view that technology can just be bought and then never maintained is ridiculous and should die. Nothing else operates like this. You buy a machine and you know it's going to include ongoing maintenance costs. Software is no different and trying to pretend it is just ends up with you paying stupid amounts of money and resources to maintain an ancient tech stack decades later. Or worse you have a stack where the people you are paying big money to maintain it are starting to retire or die.
Today it is not "many" students who come in to college with programming exp; for instance Berkeley's CS61A, which also moved to Python has over 1300 students. The overwhelming majority have not taken CS classes before.
Roughly as dissimilar as a sack of bricks versus a helicopter. Those small ducted fans will do absolutely nothing while you fall down. Maybe they'll spin a little bit to recharge the batteries, sort of a built in confusion generator for the people doing the autopsy: "Why didn't they just land the thing, it's got some charge left?".
> For starters, all the details on how that particular transaction was performed, timestamps, IP addresses, all the browser fingerprints visible in the logs of that request (they tend to be quite identifying), subpoenaed logs from the claimant's ISP.

Again, the IP address would obviously be associated with him and the browser because that's how the vulnerability works. The attacker just has to get the victim to visit any website with a browser which has the cookies for the bank. So proving that the user's browser/machine/IP made the request does nothing to show that the user did so intentionally.

> Motive matters a lot - if there's some way how that transaction would have been useful for a fraudster (i.e. if it was a money transfer to them), then it's one thing; but if there's no indication of why someone else would want to make the fraudulent trade (which is the case for most stock purchases/sells) and a clear motive why the claimant would want the trade to be reversed (i.e. the stock buy seemed good on that day but turned out to be bad afterwards) then if there's any technical evidence whatsoever pointing towards the claimant, it's hard to be convinced.

It doesn't have to be done by a fraudster. The motive for the attacker could simply be to fuck with people. They don't gain anything but satisfaction from the fact that they were able to successfully exploit this vulnerability.
clearly this was not a literal statement ..] but the elbow grease of the powerful will go a long way for the corp.
I don't think it's fair to assume that rechargeable batteries will ever have a higher usable energy density greater than Jet A.
Glitchy on Chrome 57. When I load a page to build, I'm unable to scroll more than 1/4 of the page then it jumps back to the top.
If you make a list of the top 10 things that are gonna hurt your company, a trademark conflict won't be in there. So, no.
Miller? He advocated turning off Athena in the 90s, because NT had obviously won. Linux must have been a Hell of a surprise.
I dropped out of college and never went higher than pre-calculus, and I went back to learn all of this stuff with Khan Academy in my 30s, as well. It's an amazing resource.
From the horse's mouth, this is their big bet in the long run:

> As our shareholders know, we have made a decision to continuously and significantly lower prices for customers year after year as our efficiency and scale make it possible. This is an example of a very important decision that cannot be made in a math-based way. In fact, when we lower prices, we go against the math that we can do, which always says that the smart move is to raise prices. We have significant data related to price elasticity. With fair accuracy, we can predict that a price reduction of a certain percentage will result in an increase in units sold of a certain percentage. With rare exceptions, the volume increase in the short term is never enough to pay for the price decrease. However, our quantitative understanding of elasticity is short-term. We can estimate what a price reduction will do this week and this quarter. But we cannot numerically estimate the effect that consistently lowering prices will have on our business over five years or ten years or more.

> Our judgment is that relentlessly returning efficiency improvements and scale economies to customers in the form of lower prices creates a virtuous cycle that leads over the long term to a much larger dollar amount of free cash flow, and thereby to a much more valuable Amazon.com. We’ve made similar judgments around Free Super Saver Shipping and Amazon Prime, both of which are expensive in the short term and—we believe—important and valuable in the long term."

From the 2005 Letter to Shareholders:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312506...
They toss out one advantage to gain flexibility to try to improve in other areas.

For a site that has people who go on and on and on about the innovators dilemma this argument seems pretty shortsighted.
Worst. Idea. Ever. Says I.
I'm taking issue with "everyone". Which can easily mean they intend to take up a sizeable fraction of the commuting traffic, I imagine up to 10%, perhaps even more.

The sheer strain this would put on air traffic controllers is unworkable, unless they change how air traffic control is made —'cause there's no way the air above cities is currently uncontrolled, and going through those zones take up at least 30 seconds worth of air controller's attention and talking. (Source: last time I got on a small plane for hobby purpose, we flew close to my city at some point.)
It's the only interpretation after the initial clarification.
Feel like I'm walking into a trap here.

Myself being near a half-century, I've watched the development of minimum wage, wage-limited welfare, and easy credit. As such, I have to observe that older people (of whatever income) have mostly lived their earlier low-wage years without those two institutionalized traps, managing to work up their income past that $12-36/hr (inflation adjusted) gap before it appeared, and acquired most of what they're going to acquire (non-consumables) with cash or have long paid off major debts. As such, they had more natural socioeconomic mobility, and regardless of income most retired into a scenario where income can be very low while maintaining a quite comfortable existence - ergo pegging them as bottom/second quintile can be quite misleading, as contrasted with the otherwise presumed "growing family" that does desperately need income & mobility.

To wit: those elderly I know who likely have such low incomes likely own their homes etc outright, know how to live well on a frugal income, avoided/eliminated debt, and are in a position to choose to cut their own income to maximize net revenue (extreme ex.: the "millionaire on food stamps" cases, rich but currently no earned income).
Apple users in a nutshell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbmgV7Oyp0w
> pure-bread

OT: I think you meant pure-bred. :) Reminds me of this section from Orwell's «Politics and the English Language»:

> Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line. Another example is the hammer and the anvil, now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase.
Go on, give us a snare rush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snare_rush
In case I'm not the only wanting to know what a "word vector" is: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the-amazing-power-of-wor...
> Most shoppers are extremely price-sensitive

They are quite sensitive to the prices of things they buy regularly, but not as sensitive to the prices of things they buy rarely -- unless they are relatively expensive.

Otherwise, price is only one factor. You also have to consider delivery times, convenience, support and other factors. I buy things from Amazon partly because I can reliably get them the next day, and they'll take them back if there's a problem, even if it's my mistake.

> there's no money in delivering groceries to people. Groceries are notoriously low-margin, one of the lowest margin businesses there is, so delivering groceries to people doesn't seem like it's going to make Amazon the trillion-dollar company some people think it will eventually become.

I agree about groceries. It's going to be particularly tough in areas where major supermarkets are already delivering groceries, which they do where I live.
OK, let the lawyers handle it. You don't make progress by catering to other people's ignorance and insecurities.
For backups, I have two git-annex [1] repositories,

- Personal files, stuff I can not afford to lose (photos,documents etc.) - Full archive on S3, full archive on a home server, 4 clients with partial copies.

- Big data stuff I can afford to lose (VM images, media files etc.) - Around 6 TB, each file has two copies split between 5 hard drives on home server and Hubic.

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Say you have a money back guarantee period (30 days seems reasonable), and if they push and you feel it's worth it still, offer to extend the money back guarantee period. If someone wants a thing but absolutely will not pay for it, that's typically resolved by them not getting it.
Garbage collection is troublesome for real-time processing(including game engines) because it doesn't allow you to plan around hitting a latency deadline. When the collector triggers, it consumes a lot of time, which can add up to missing a deadline even in very relaxed situations.

Historically, many game engines have a "never allocate" policy: Everything is done with static buffers and arenas of temporary data. The broad strokes of this policy are mostly achievable in a GC language that allows value type collections(fewer managed references = less to trace = cheaper garbage). The problem typically comes in little bits of algorithmic code that need their own allocation: Because the language is garbage collected, all your algorithms are using the GC by default. And if you want to reclaim it, you have to fight a very uphill battle.

IME, though, most of the problem is resolvable if you have enough introspection into GC configuration. If a game can tell the collector that it needs a cheap scratch buffer to process an update loop and then get thrown out, that covers a lot of the problem. The last bit of it is fine detail over memory size and alignment, which some GC languages do give you introspection into already.

Edit: Also, I should note that the relative value of GC changes a lot when your process is long-lived and unbounded in scale(servers) or involves a lot of "compiler-like" behaviors(transformations over a large, complex data graph). The advantage of doing without it in a game engine has a lot to do with the game being able to be tuned around simple processing of previously authored data, with limited bounds in all directions.
Paw is great, too.
imho - no

Unlike Apache which served me well for 14 years without failure or interruption, I've had 3 hours of downtime in 2 months with Caddy. I haven't dug into the code, and I don't know Go, but my sense is that it needs to do much better at compartmentalising and isolating failures, and providing meaningful diagnostics for things like configuration errors.

Two specific examples:-

- If caddy can't obtain SSL certs for a configured domain, it completely fails to load. As an ops guy, I don't want 5 virtual hosts down because of a problem with a sixth, non-critical domain.

- A missing "}" in my Caddyfile caused a load failure with a message "invalid email address". Took me 30 minutes to find the problem. An error saying "Missing } in Caddyfile" would have far more helpful.

The project has great promise, but from an ops perspective, you'd be pretty bonkers to prefer Caddy over the more mature alternatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y#Theory_X

back to the golden age of terrible ideas
Still, there's the problem of volume. "Everyone" has to mean "more than 1% of the traffic" to be at all meaningful. Air traffic controllers are gonna have to become bloody efficient to absorb that.
The parent and grandparent were talking about unilaterally developed tech, "At the end of the day all it would take is one of the 3 major browser vendors to offer an alternative." etc

The correct comparison there is Dart. WebAssembly is a joint effort being developed by a team comprised of folks from every major browser vendor, so it isn't really an example of what they're talking about.
Lots of automation executes on a schedule. If you control time, you can cause something to happen (or not happen) as you like.

Use your imagination. Don't forget to combine this with other attacks - if you compromise something your target talks to, for instance, or with non-technical actions - shorting a stock, maybe.

More generally, the two major assumptions that a lot of complex systems depend on are time and identity. There are a lot of games you can play controlling one of those. (Controlling both is better, of course.)
You've expressed your point quite clearly, and I appreciate it. Hacker News is not the place for every kind of discussion, and it's fair for users to flag this comment because the guidelines say that we're not here to have this particular one. If civility entails politeness out of respect and consideration for others, then surely it must also include valuing their lives.
This trainwreck is going to make a great movie.
Do you find it better than Phantom?

Just reading about Kantu now. It reminds me of http://www.sikuli.org/
C# has reified generics, which solve a lot of problems that would otherwise be addressed with metaclasses. For example, factories can be setup quickly by reflection over a generic type variable.
Yet it never does, unless maybe you have a $2000 microwave oven?
Non-deterministic performance. It can be fast, even faster than managed code in some cases. But it's not predictable.
Love hurts, actually
Maybe in a kitchen microwave oven. You're not accounting for transmission path losses and receiver conversion efficiency.
I have read the first one of those links previously. I thought it was very insightful.