skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These systems can be at the very core of the company's operations, so you're talking not just a revamp of a bunch of COBOL programs and mainframe servers, but a significant portion of the company's workflow would potentially need to be refactored or replaced. The mainframes themselves sit in a box, but many other systems rely on their data and their guaranteed processing. And all of those connections and data structures are custom. Even if you were to figure out some way to completely emulate the system (and that itself would probably take several years), you would then need to integrate your emulated system into other real-time systems. A bank just can't shut down for a day. And if they screw up a few minutes worth of transactions, then things get very bad. So your testing and integration will be slow and methodical and expensive. And even then, you're still emulating a crappy, old system. If you wanted to actually replace the entire system, how would you do it? These things aren't modular. They were custom-built with no intention of ever being parted-out. You would have to completely re-architect the company's infrastructure and workflow.

Or you could not do any of that. You could just accept your situation. Mainframes are essentially a subscription service. For a yearly cost, IBM has offered you guaranteed performance and guaranteed hardware (they fix it immediately if there is a problem). So, all you have to do is pay your subscription and pay some people who like to have a steady, unexciting job and your business will continue to run like clockwork.
Kashmir (India) blocks Facebook and Whatsapp (among other social sites)
So if you make your money working for some company (say Google), do you owe working for Google something? Do you owe them say, free tutoring classes after you retire for new employees? Free bathroom cleanings after you retire?

Why do you think someone owes someone else money, just because they are rich?
> How exactly do you propose to get that electricity from the desert to say Finland?

You don't. No one said it has to be all solar everywhere.

> there are many difficult issues that remain to be solved before they can become a core part of the energy production.

Wind and solar are already core sources in some places.

In many places, a decent solution to the night-time solar problem is natural gas power stations. We built them already.

Finland will use Finland-appropriate solutions. That has very little to do with the appropriateness of solar in Mumbai or Phoenix.
Is that Base Rate something specific to them? Because it's a goddamned travesty for a pretty well secured loan.
That's the capital cost. You pay it up front and never again for the lifetime of the device.

The marginal cost is the price of producing one extra kilowatt-hour on your already-purchased panel.
nice catch. I've implemented libphonenumber on several production websites. Good to know. :,)
As someone who has looked into but not actively used Robinhood - the main benefit of the Gold subscription is for day traders. With a free account, if I decide I want to sell AAPL and buy GOOG, I have to wait 3+ days before I get the money from selling AAPL credited to my account. With Gold, they basically let you float, so you can immediately get into a new position after getting out of the previous one, without having to wait for your previous position to settle.

I believe that is far and away the primary use case for Gold.
Interesting tool, I like that it works with GitHub and the repo support will be cool to see.

The design is neat (I generally like dark themes) although the fading animations got a bit annoying after a few minutes using it. Some of the dialogs could do with supporting common shortcuts (e.g. enter to create a new track, escape to close the dialogs). Sometimes I managed to click outside of the presentation view without realising, and then left/right arrow keys stopped working. Sometimes I wasn't sure where to find certain functions (e.g. I looked for "Edit" on a presentation item on the context menu, but then realised I had to click it and then click the pencil icon). I couldn't get the Share functionality to work, and wasn't sure why it was in its own context menu with no other items.

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the tracks/channels distinction. I can understand creating a project to store presentations (items) in, but why is there another level in Kobble?
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Fuck yeah bud. Have you read the power broker?
First and foremost, Bitcoin could have (still could) fail. So in our version of the future, where bitcoin was not taken over or destroyed by now?

There is literally nothing like Bitcoin in 2009. Maybe the idea of paper money, or the idea of using money at all. Perhaps space exploration is similar but has a much longer time scale.

I do not think it is too much to tell you, there is literally nothing like bitcoin, it was and is revolutionary.

If you do not believe/understand this statement, I would say, first spend more time learning about Bitcoin and my guess would be that very soon you will realize why it is such a big deal and not just another investment vehicle for the wealthy (you) to get more wealthy.

If a teleportation devices was invented, if e-mail could be monetized, life-extension, antibiotic resistance proof antibiotics... all WOULD have a similar outcome to Bitcoin.

If you are just talking about which "alt-coins" do we think will pump up in price the fastest and the most in the next year or so, I would say, only the ones with some new tech. to add on top of what bitcoin does, and there are not very many and mostly have already been pumped into what many are saying is an "alt-coin bubble" right now (I agree).

Ethereum - Decentralized computer

Monero - Anonymous transactions

Zcash - Different kind of anonymous transactions

Steem - Decentralized Social Media Platform (like Reddit)

Decred - Decentralized Organization and ~25% APR on locked away coins.
My guess is that it makes more sense when interactive query latency (hundreds of ms) is of the utmost concern.
Utah has traditionally had plenty of negatives, but a handful of recent innovations (particularly their direct housing initiative) have put them at the head of the pack. I don't think it's fair to chalk that up to "giving a crap" so much as "trying something new".
> "Just cut the cables" isn't trivial.

Well, how many towers do you have to knock down using explosives before the lines fail?
I haven't talked with anyone, unfortunately. And I have thought about moving to a different industry but I don't even know where to start with that. Despite my total, and growing dislike, for this industry, it remains the sole thing I identify with (which is also a problem).

I do recognize that the first step is talking with someone but...it's a tough first step.
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Seems a lot easier to fix a cable cut than a sabotaged nuclear power plant. I mean if you are the point where a nation-state is detonating fuel-air explosives over solar farms then there's probably no power plant design that is going to survive.
It's sort of like your neighbor having an automated lawnmower, and you knowing that with a careful placement of rocks the image recognition will fritz and it will happily start mowing into your yard, over your petunias and possibly your small children and animals. You're fairly certain that there are other problems with it you don't know about as well.

Do you force the situation and make it mow into your yard and over a bunch of rocks to destroy it, or do you live with the danger?

I don't have an answer. In this situation you could at least talk to your neighbor. Without the ability to feasibly do that, I'm not sure I would fault either action.
I did it few weeks ago - Windows still doesn't like having either IPSec endpoint behind NAT by default.
So that is what you'd say... to this guy the day before he did what he did? uh...

What responsibility is he addressing now? What money is he bringing in now?

Exactly. Nothing.
> not likely that Amazon is going to hack their own devices to make them into spy cams

No, there's no way anyone would do that.....

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/pennsylvania-school-fbi-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/0...

https://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0111238/58000-securit...

Even if it wasn't intentional, unknown bugs are a thing, and trusting someone like amazon, who clearly does not have their customers best interests in mind, seems foolish to me.
Two of the most forward thinking folks I believe are Bill Gates and Elon Musk. While Elon wants to carve way into science fiction, Bill wants to ensure no one gets left behind. Exciting time to be alive.

In this case big kudos goes to Narendra Modi and the Indian govt to ensure this happens. I believe such fundamental things are the most effective when govt pushes for it rather than individuals.
...but he put radio on the internet!
"Additionally, Robinhood earns revenue by collecting interest on the cash and securities in Robinhood accounts, much like a bank collects interest on cash deposits."

I wonder if selling (or using) data from their customer is more profitable than the Gold plan.
It's interesting to think about this decision in the context of Nassim Taleb's writing. If you have a large sample of investors, some of them would be good just by chance. It's possible that Chris Sacca is not good just by chance, but we can't really know, and that is an excellent feature of walking away at this point. Most people will just tell themselves that Sacca "beat the game" and left. It could easily be that he got super lucky and realized it.
1% of all deserts is only correct if you are talking about only today's electricity use. Even moderate growth and actually solving energy, not just the electricity subset drives these percentages much higher. To get US centric again, NREL published an optimistic 2016 report suggesting that the maximum rooftop solar capability could ever meet is 40% of electricity. That's 15% of today's energy use in an electricity heavy country.
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That is practically America's motto: work hard, get rich. The poor are fed a steady diet of shaming and ridicule of this very sort constantly in this country.

Most people don't even connect that capitalism is related to the condition we are all in.
Something like this? https://github.com/jimpick/lambda-comments
With so much going on about instant articles (or whatever FB calls them), and some institutions pausing, and thinking if its worth handing over their content (often for free) to these external entities - whose goals may/may not be in alignment, I make a prediction:

* In 5 years time, large organizations (e.g. NY Times) will look far more into self-hosted, often open sourced alternatives. Maybe now, they post to twitter, soon they'll refer users to their own mastodon instance. Now, orgs host comments on disqus, in the future self-hosted platforms like Commento will be used. In some ways, it will go back to the independent way in which things operated back in the late 90s/early 2000s; though hopefully better in other ways. That's my prediction.
high performance ones are as complex as tracing GC ones, while having the burden of forcing the developers to explicitly deal with cycles.

I bet there are plenty of game developers who would be only too glad to arrange their references as a DAG, if they could have guaranteed low latency.
With sufficient cash flow, margins aren't that dangerous, even in a downturn. For example, if you have $24,000 and invest $500/mo into an account, getting a $6,000 margin loan in january that you pay off throughout the year isn't really that dangerous.

The problem with margin trading as a retail investor is that they interest rate on the loan is ridiculous, between 6-9%. Making it almost worthless.
As rhetoric I would compare it more with "I will be giving everyone free balloons all day while supplies last!" and the supply is one balloon. Sounds great but reality is vastly different.

Again though I dont expect everyone to see the rhetoric I see.
I assume these are meant to be ordered by year of introduction? If so, shouldn't telephone be ahead of radio?

Also, according to this site [1] it took telephone 75 years to reach 50 million. Several other sites agree, such as [2] and [3].

[1] https://www.techworm.net/2015/03/to-reach-50-million-users-t...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/it-took-75-years-for-the-tele...

[3] https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/03/13/it-took-the-telep...
Most desktop computers aren't in space.
Heh, I think Gates might have inadvertently DDoS'd the dashboard detailing toilet coverage in Rural India. I won't post the link here but its at the end of the article.
I don't think anyone here is being fooled by the "rhetoric".

This is a forum for people who are inclined toward entrepreneurship, who understand basic economic terms like marginal cost without additional explanation.

Marginal cost is the only appropriate measure for discussing what even becomes a challenge where/when electric energy approaches non-scarcity — for example you may not have a use for it, but it requires resources if you wanted to sell that energy to a far away aluminum smelter.

I've had a discussion before where some one was convinced that "servicing debt" was a misleading term, because the debt wasn't being paid down at all. Hopefully we can agree that that is an absurd argument. Terms either mean what they do or not.
Does it include a CAPTCHA? Comment sections seem very susceptible to spam from experience.
Yep. You'll only get fairly low resolution until you install.
Blast from the past! Distributed is a bit of a stretch, I think you need to coordinate all of that yourself. It is no more distributed than Lucene (I think).

Their fastutil stuff is pretty interesting though for creating highly optimized algorithms. Lot's of primitive based data structures that are fast and memory efficient.
I'd probably take a look at Touch Designer or Unity for sound reactive stuff now.

Keijiro Takahashi at Unity Japan has a great github repository full of relevant libraries.

https://github.com/keijiro
France is a natural experiment for that, they have a lot of automated speed traps.

They really ramped up automated radar deployment in 2003-2007, I spent 10 minutes trying to find data that would let me see at a glance if accidents went down more than usual starting in 2003 but didn't find anything straightforward.

Anecdotally, most people who speed just slow down at the traps, then accelerate back. I'm not sure that's much safer than going steady at the higher speed.
While your witty retort made me laugh, unless you are suggesting that coal power stations are weapons designed to kill people living near them, I think you are missing the point.
I used Disqus previously, but eventually dropped it because I didn't really have a need for comments and all they entailed. Having a comment system means having to ultimately setup a way to combat bots and spammers, and probably having to do some moderation (depending on the subject). Linking to whatever discussion happens on Hacker News and Reddit is usually good enough. I think that's what pingbacks were supposed to be for?
I'm a current robinhood non-gold user and they actually eliminated this restriction around 6 months ago. Now as soon as I sell a position I can buy my next with the funds from the sale.
You are handwaving away huge issues here. As Bill Gates said in the same interview I quoted from before:

>"...It’s kind of ironic: Germany, by installing so much rooftop solar, has it that both their coal plants and their rooftop solar are available in the summer, and the price of power during the day actually goes negative—they pay people to take it. Then at night the only source is the coal, and because the energy companies have to recover their capital costs, they either raise the price because they’re not getting any return for the day, or they slowly go bankrupt.
There are many people working on storage—batteries are a form of storage, and there’s a few others, like compressed air, hot metals. But it’s not at all clear that we will get grid-scale economic storage. We’re more than a factor of 10 away from the economics to get that."
That's true.

Altough i wonder: why didn't someone with deep security expertise, maybe ARM with it's mbed,created something developers can't harm, and on the other hand, issue a product label saying:"this is protected by our stack..." ?

I could see that be attractive to some b2b buyers, attracting devs, further strengthening the value of said label , increasing marketshare and reducing costs, and creating a positive feedback.
I think the four objections here can really be summarized as two:

1) there are energy/fuel losses involved in operating a fusion reactor which aren't present in other types of power source.

This doesn't seem fatal to me; either we get the losses down low enough that this system is cost-competitive, or we don't. There's no way to know in advance where this tech will end up, and it doesn't seem like a reason to stop investing in R&D now.

2) Fusion as currently designed produces lots of neutrons, so there is the same sort of waste and proliferation concern as a normal (or fast breeder) fission reactor.

I think this is actually the interesting one; the international community will not permit this tech to spread beyond the current nuclear powers if there's a strong proliferation risk. I hadn't realized that the current design of fusion plants were basically breeder reactors, and that's very significant; look at how the theoretically-appealing fast breeder fission reactors have been hamstrung for a prequel to this fight.

Of course, if fusion gets to an integer factor cheaper than the next-best source, then it will be hard to keep a lid on this tech, but development is currently relying on many billions of dollars of research funding from the very countries that could be turning away from it out of political/security concerns.
>>Trump can slow the decline of coal consumption but he can't reverse it.

He doesn't want to reverse it. He doesn't give a shit about coal. He only wants their votes, and the votes of similar industries who will view him as a defender of old-school industry.
> Adults in poverty often need intensive counseling, psychiatry, substance abuse therapy, and a support network of caring individuals.

You have assumed poverty in adults is caused by mental health problems and, in general, that is false. What about the rest of the adults, without mental health issues, in poverty? Poverty is caused by lack of gainful employment. There are a great many people able and willing to work but do not have gainful work and that puts them in poverty.
Even the white paper doesn't clearly identify the source data on financial crimes, and it's hard not to suspect that the locations used for the crimes are just the locations at which people charged with financial crimes of the type included in the not-well-identified FINRA data set used worked.

And it's useless anyway; a violent crime heatmap is useful for deploying police or avoiding violent crime. A financial crime heatmap is not, because police patrolling the neighborhood doesn't deter or detect financial crimes, and avoiding the locations where such crimes are "located" doesn't actually protect you from the crimes.
> Kobble is the only app available where you own all of your data.

What? I find that highly unlikely. In what way do I not "own" the texts I write in–for example–Apple's Notes.app?

And what is even meant by "own"? Even for something like Facebook, I'm pretty sure that I still own the copyright for texts I write in their app.
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Why wouldn't an African nation want to charge rent to some European country for vast amounts of land that are otherwise literally worthless[1]? It's not like they're strangers to private company security forces that are basically just extrajudicial mercenaries. History says any company that wants to do this just needs to apply some bribes to the appropriate officials.

[1] In the sense that nobody is willing to buy it so it has no price.
And "Fashion" is highly dependent of the location.
Trendy in Tokyo is maybe not so in Paris, and vice-versa.
From what primary facts does such a moral imperative arise? I would suggest that there is no such moral imperative at all and no one should accept that there is until the foundation of such an imperative is clearly and rationally stated. Many make the presumptive leap that morality must necessarily be altruistic with little rational basis for that leap. I disagree that genuine altruism is a moral necessity and will do so until I see substantial, rational arguments as to why altruist moral systems are superior to egoist moral systems. (note that benevolence != altruistic and exists comfortably within egoist moral systems).
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Phantom 3 standard is about 330 bucks. You can use the DJI SDK to program it.

At 150 its going to be quite hard to get all the features you are looking for. Even with DIY route you will need Motors, Controller, Camera, Transmitter etc. Easily 300+ bucks.
I don't know if it'll be as big as you think. It takes a fair amount of power to actually refine gasoline.
For static sites, a service that takes comments and pushes them to the source repo for the site (or an extra comment-only repo for security and build-performance) could also be interesting.
What does this guy's family think now that he's gone? His child?

I'm sure your worth is more than just Alimony.
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I understand what you're implying, but no one is "allowing" their hardware to be used criminally. At least in the U.S., our personal property system is permissive i/e you may not use my things without permission. So, using an IoT device as provided by the manufacturer is "allowing" its misuse so much as leaving my backyard gate unlocked is "allowing" criminals to park their stolen goods in my backyard.
Uh-oh. Did somebody take my advice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612539#12612809
I don't think so. Investing (i.e long term investing where you believe in a company) is usually a legitimately safe strategy, whereas speculation is more or less gambling.
> You have assumed poverty in adults is caused by mental health problems and, in general, that is false.

No, GPs argument is valid if mental health, etc., issues are correlated with poverty and complicate escaping it, even if they don't cause it.
To be sure, it is a combined effort. The part I really like about this is that they are really serious about solving the problem and are thinking outside the box in many situations. If it was a purely government directive, I don't think it would have made much difference.

But yes, it does help immensely when the country's leader declares it as a top priority.
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It's the kind of feature that should honestly be required for most applications.
I think "you can write C#, but you can only have your references form a DAG" would be acceptable in a lot of contexts, like game programming. (Existing libraries would still require some form of tracing, but I think there are ways that the tracing could be handled by another thread.)
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Yeah, it's kind of annoying. I thought it was something similar to Easypost