skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aggressive enforcement isn't how you do that. And it's a lot harder to do it with speeding than drunk driving because it actually is a lot more dangerous to drive drunk than to drive the 85th percentile traffic speed even though the speed limit is set 10MPH lower than that.

In most of the existing places with a culture of respect for the speed limit, they have a higher speed limit.
Absent regulation like a carbon tax that would change the economics substantially, coal is pretty unlikely to disappear completely in our lifetimes. In the short term, there is a lot of regulatory risk involved in natural gas from shale fracking - prices could suddenly skyrocket and having coal as a backup is absolutely essential for power generation companies. In the long term, there is a lot of uncertainty about when utility-scale battery tech, molten salt nuclear, or other base load generation tech will become cost effective on a TCO basis.

It's much easier to assume those that disagree with us are ignorant than to assume that we are ignorant of something and seek out alternative explanations for their beliefs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/opinion/nicholas-kristof-...
Yup. I gave up and replaced my 2006 Mac Pro with a 2016 5k iMac once I realized the prices were sub-$2k instead of the $3k I was expecting. I've always hated all-in-ones but lately have found displays and computers last roughly as long as each other so it's less of a concern. That GORGEOUS 5k display sure doesn't hurt, either.
Typical margin rates for professional traders are far below 5%. See https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1595. And IB is basically the most expensive professionally focused brokerage. If you've got a million bucks you can probably get Fed Funds + 50 basis points.
> 1. Amazon builds the service such that brands loose their power. All the negative psych/social phenomena of brand culture are gone, and with it, btw , all the ads.

This is extremely naive. Amazon's goal is to sell you more stuff, including clothes. In the long run this device will regularly tell you that you need new clothes because your outfits are no longer fashionable. Even if that's not a feature now and even if this version was created with the best intentions someone in marketing will see the power of this thing to sell people more stuff. It's their job.

Edit:

> Now, if Amazon could do all of this, it would be really great for their business, so why wouldn't they try ?

How would what you listed be great for their business? Selling more stuff is great for their business and the best way to get there is to tell you that the stuff you already have is not good enough.
Price comparison between Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, ElasticSearch and SlicingDice using the same dataset:

https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-pricing-model-and-c...
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I don't think the science is ambiguous as to why carbs can be problematic.

The problem with carbs isn't that they are necessarily bad, but that the bulk of easily available food is mostly non-fibrous processed carbs, which leads to overeating, reduced nutrient density and less appetite satiety which makes overeating very easy.

Walk to any grocery store and most of any boxed food provide energy as carbs. At 2000 calories a day, that's a ~500g (4cal/g) budget for protein & carbs. 4x nutter butter packages burns through 1k+ calories, which I've seen family member teenagers do while junk fooding it up, then eating multiple 1k+ calorie meals. There's a ridiculous amount of inadvertent overeating that is occurring with the types of convenience foods available today.

Most naturally occurring carbs (rice, fruit, wheat, quinoa) are generally loaded up with fiber which satiate appetite, reduce insulin/sugar spikes, etc. Most people don't eat raw or minimally processed carbs through. It's generally consumed as soda, bread, chips/snacks, etc, + whichever meal is being consumed that day.

The body's metabolic process is pretty straightforward. Sugar is stored as glycogen in muscles & liver. Fat/Lipids are stored as fat in the presence of insulin. Protein is used for tissue regeneration and also converted into sugar through gluconeogenesis. Caloric excess means extraneous fat is stored, with an additional burden placed on the heart to support the additional blood flow to having more "body" (more capillaries), while caloric deficit leads to the consumption of the fat reserves.

People would be healthier in general by merely consuming higher nutrient density foods and staying at a proper caloric maintenance. Weighing food out for a week usually opens people eyes to the portions they are consuming. A serving of cereal seems okay at 120 calories, but in reality, a "bowl" is like 3-4 servings when actually measured out.
Judging from the amount of it the sending email portion is not what spammers struggle with. It's the "maintain your own IP with a great reputation" part. How would Postal help?
Well from the install directions they recommend 8GB of memory for the server. A simpler SMTP server like Postfix or Exim can do with much fewer resources, and a spam operation doesn't care about abiding by protocol for redelivery attempts, they just fire and forget and mostly opt for direct SMTP delivery.
How do you know?

Amazon says their camera only records you when you ask it to, if you don't trust them, then how do you trust that your cellphone or laptop isn't recording you illicitly?
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Renewable power is very much going to be a distributed more than our current power generation. Further, you want redundancy in power transmission so you can do maintenance anyway and many countries are already dependent on foreign sources for a significant chunk of there daily energy demand for economic reasons. Any actor that can destroy thousands of cables can cut the power systems we have now.

Further, outside of city's you can generally get solar panels from a roof to provide power for the building under it making the grid a lot more redundant vs cutting cables.
Remember LendingClub which was a money lending business that touted it's machine learning KYC & AML process would automate the overhead but what happened was it just let a ton of people with non existent credit to grab money...that they will never pay back. Techcrunch, news, tv, they had it all.

I'm not saying Robinhood is bad or anything but the business model and the valuation built on top of it is very questionable.

It's almost like gravity does not exist anymore. It's all about making it across the IPO finish line and then it's like fuck what happens to everyone else because I've already got Monssack Fonseca shuffling my untaxable money.
Please don't. With some funding from China, I'm currently running a massive worldwide operation, which allows me to spy on hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Master Lock users; allowing me to track, among other things, where every bike user is at all time, as well as record what they are doing.

If only it weren't for you meddling kid.

Analogies, aren't they great?

(Since it's apparent that sarcasm can't be read: "Stealing bikes" isn't the same bloody thing. Why even make that analogy?)
I read through my code to debug it.
Ditto, BTDT, got the t-shirt. Slackware diskset downloads over 14.4k in '95, used Linux exclusively until 2002, bought a Mac, haven't looked back.

I use Linux ALL DAY EVERY DAY at work, but IMO the desktop environments still suck, and the Mac is my desktop.
I'm not really sure how you know my friend, or even which friend I'm speaking about, so I don't know how you'd know her situation. She's handcuffed because she's put in years of effort and hoping for a liquidity event before she leaves, lest she leave with little or nothing. She's miserable for entirely different reasons -- due to treatment she receives at work from what she tells me.

Not sure why this would be surprising -- this situation is very common across startups. I am a co-founder also, and I have equity vesting agreements, understandably, as I want retention; I don't want employees constantly leaving with the next wind that blows. At the same time, I'd hate to keep a miserable employee who isn't fully productive. I'd like to think I set a good enough workplace culture that there wouldn't be harassment/bullying, but who knows...

What is more wicked, and beyond me as a business owner, is US tax treatment on illiquid equity. That really needs to change.
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Reading the comments here, all I can hear is:

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

My wife's reaction:

"That looks pretty neat. I wonder how well the styling advice part works, but the camera is cool. Fashion bloggers would probably really like it. There are so many people that do a “outfit of the day” type thing"
Yes, I believe in this whole technology "koolaid" thing. I'm sure you don't use anything created by startups in your daily life, like products from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Tesla, Ford, Amazon, etc.
(not in the USA, so things are a bit different, we can't do credit checks or criminal records for example) The tenants I have in my properties were relatives of people I knew. What we do here is we have a concept (fiador) where while you sign the lease yourself, another person/couple (usually parents) are financially responsible for any non payed rent/damages. This has the 2 benefits, a) the fiador knows he will be liable for any crap the renters do, so if they know they will trash the place they will refuse to sign (big warning sign) and b) you have 2 separate entities to go after for damages.
A more elegant solution in my mind, barring price fixing, would just be price transparency. Let people see the costs and use their own judgement to pick what they value more.
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Do you have any plans on offering MapD on Google Cloud Platform? (They have their own "Marketplace".)
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Yep.

High cholesterol foods contributing to high cholesterol is another one of those myths that continue to linger.

Modern research is showing that high cholesterol folk are high because their bodies are producing high amounts of cholesterol, not because they are consuming high amounts of cholesterol.
Never seen a marketing video with so much disclaimers and fine print before as the one on the robinhood site
> vet tech opportunities

Sorry to snark, but the ability to vet opportunities isn't necessarily a skill that allows individuals to gain such a staggering list of investments. It's worth noting he improperly "vetted" Snapchat[0]. On the other hand, getting proprietary deal flow is. It would be easy to rank him at the top on that.

[0] - https://twitter.com/sacca/status/837400028352151552
Are you telling me I'm not allowed to ask questions?
This seems like it would be a good companion Alexa product at around $100. I'm afraid the use-case is too specific for $200.
Fixed. Lets figure it out.
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My usual answer to that statement is that the quality of the local school system has a direct relation to property values. Consider school taxes as a form of home improvement!
> PowerShell has interesting (if not very applicable to unix) approach: cmdlet parameters have some standard annotations attached that can be queried with reflection

Yeah, I think that's a tremendously useful feature. The status quo on unix of having 3-4 different program related files (man/info page, shell completions, i18n files) could really cleanly be replaced via a few standardized flags and pipe compositions. Take for example `man`:

man() { ${1} --man | less }

That's not feature-complete, of course, but IMO that's even more unixy than a bunch of out-of-sync /usr/share clutter.
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Enticing millenials to "trade" individual stocks is quite possibly the most anti-Robinhood thing I can think of. The only thing more ironic would be to encourage them to take on margin...which as it turns out is literally Robinhood's business model.

99% of users on the platform will ulimately end up participating in a direct transfer of their own wealth to a more sophisticated trader or algo (i.e. The banks and hedge funds who aren't just doing this for "fun" and have the financial and political backing of the world's elite). Side note: even those hedge funds can't consistently beat the market.

If you are reading this, for your own finacial future I beg of you, please take your money to Vanguard instead and buy some index funds. Scratch your "trading" itch by trying to game your asset allocation instead. Future you will thank present you.

If you don't believe me, please look into any of the academic research that has been conducted around efficient markets.
Could you explain why you think that's a misrepresentation?

Why do you think "essentially free" marginal renewable cost is a falsehood? The difference between lettings the electrons flow and not letting the electrons flow on an installed plant is what, exactly? That's what's being referenced.

Though there's lots of data to support the article, they do leave out the cost of extracting natural gas from the "practically free" wells. What is that cost?

>unfactual propaganda isnt good for anyone.

As I see it, the article's thrust is true. I'd love to be proven wrong though, with some facts, if you can provide them.
Sorry, still not seeing the good-and-evil story here. Look at the graph here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/10/26/epipen... (possibly what you meant by prices in line with EpiPen) - Sanofi was matching the price increases of EpiPen dollar for dollar for years, and was always a little bit more expensive. Then it went away from the market for some kind of quality control problem, and returned as a $4500 device manufactured by another company (but with a weird pricing scheme which supposedly lets anyone who needs it to buy it for low out-of-pocket costs). Honestly that graph looks like both companies conspiring to corner the market together, if anything; but who knows with the insane prices and regulations of healthcare.
I've been using it for a while. I think it's best for longer term positions (2+ years at least). I realize it's ironic, because in theory, I could trade all the time with Robinhood, but I find that I don't do that. (Though that may be because I've learned over time that trading often is difficult, a recipe for me to lose money, and draining.)

It's really just good, from the customer perspective. It's the brokerage that needed to exist.

My uncle, who lives off of trading, gave me his transaction list and I saw that like 12% of his profits were eaten up by trading fees. Ouch.

I think more sophisticated individual investors don't jump on because you can't trade options. For me, that's a good thing, I'm not tempted to speculate.
It's for 2 pens I believe, last time I checked on their website. The company is trying to get insurance to cover the costs, so cost for you wouldn't technically change, but it just increases healthcare costs all around for no reason other than profit.
Does recursive ptrace work elsewhere?
Can you quantify why you think 1-3 are more important than 4?
>>If you want to drive like a maniac...

The whole point of this article was that driving those speeds isn't driving like a maniac. Because if that is the flow of traffic the maniac thing to do is drive at the speed limit.
Taking a photo of yourself is probably not a privacy intrusion like having someone else take a photo of you might be.
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At what point do you think starts making sense cost-wise to use MapD (or GPU in general) instead of Redshift or BigQuery?
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Pitchbook, it'll cost you a few grand a year though.
That's terrible but also kind of awesome. Remember, these things are unsecured and they're going to get owned anyway, it's just a matter of time. That doesn't make this right, but it is important context to keep in mind.
Google owns Nest and their cameras.

Beyond the basic motion detection where you can define areas of interest in the Nest camera's field of view and it will notify you when it detects movement. They've started using machine learning with them so it can distinguish people and notify you when it sees a person. It is also pretty good at not notifying you of false positives. I have one watching my front yard and early on it would notify you of motion from cloud shadows or wind shaking trees but it seems to have learned to ignore them now.

I look forward to them being able to identify UPS, FexEx and USPS delivery vehicles dropping off packages.
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> manually approve every customer to ensure our entire CIDR ranges are clean

This is probably a key element of good performance. To keep my mail admin duties part time I simply whois the IP of evil senders and drop the resulting entire CIDR block into the our local blacklist.
I'm not looking for a hobby, but thank you for the hint.

I was just pointing out that your analogy with Perl was not a very fortunate one. What was being criticized about the language is that it is so simple that it needs too much composition to express ideas (which in my opinion should be the main goal of a language).

In your analogy, you make it look like if the problem was that this (hackernews? an internet forum? written language?) is not the right medium to communicate using Toki Pona, as a phone is not the right medium for Perl programs. My question is: what would the right medium be?
> How exactly do you propose to get that electricity from the desert to say Finland?

High voltage DC transmission works fine for this problem. All of the engineering challenges have been credibly worked out and priced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec). The main problems with this approach are political, in that it requires massive cooperation between many countries over very long time scales (decades).

Why is there a security risk with putting solar in the desert? It seems like a relatively easy to secure location, and solar cells are hardly high value-density targets for theft or vandalism.
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Very interesting. Something new for me. Thanks for the link.
Most places in western countries provide citizens medical and food/shelter security without being wealthy.
Yes absolutely. We were part of their launch and are just going through the process now of adding MapD to the marketplace.
Thanks for pointing this out. 5% is probably more representative of typical major retail margin rates. I removed the statement in question.
Yeah, and fusion is just around the corner...

I wonder why the tech community has this infatuation with nuclear power. Ever since I registered my three-digit slashdot account, I've been reading exactly this post, just that the type of reactor people dream of seems to change every five years or so. Good to know it's "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Breeders", right now.

Meanwhile, solar power has lowered prices by a factor of 10 or so and is on a clear trajectory to beat fossile fuels on costs, without subsidies.

I'm suspecting there is something cultural going on here–maybe some instinct to seek out what others perceive as dangerous? Beats me...
I'm the author of the Gizmodo post. Having covered IoT hacks for a few years, it's obvious that drastic measures would be necessary to convince manufacturers to build more secure products. While I'm not necessarily endorsing this hacker's methods, I do salute his taking a stand. It might land him in jail. But still, the mission is worthwhile.
> He's in the extremely privileged position...

When you achieve a position by working very hard and risking nearly everything you have, I wouldn't consider that a "privilege". He earned the right to do whatever he wants.
Yes, of course it's his right to do whatever he wants. I'm just suggesting there's a moral imperative to do something when you can.

"With great power comes great responsibility."

"To whom much is given, much is required."

That kind of thing.

It's amazing how few people in Silicon Valley make a billion dollars and then go on to do anything useful with it at all.

This criticism applies to the ten thousand people, like Sacca, that made a fortune off Silicon Valley and then "called in rich."

What would you think of Bill Gates had he not put his fortune to good use?
It has to do with how people/companies called "market makers" make money. Let's say you want to buy a share of stock. Generally you don't end up buying it from another random person who happens to want to sell a share of stock at the exact same time. There might not even be another random person that wants to sell right now.

Instead you are likely buying from a market maker. For pretty much any stock there are many market makers who are offering to both buy stock and sell it at the same time. The trick is they'll buy for, say, a penny less than they are willing to sell for. So if they can keep their buys/sells even they make a penny for every share they move. They're middle men.

Make sense so far?

OK, but there is a problem. Say that REALLY BIG HEDGE FUND has proprietary knowledge that some company is probably going to go up in value soon. So they go out and buy a lot of stock from a market maker. And then the stock goes up. Uh oh. The market maker sold a bunch of stock at PRICE and now instead of buying an equal amount at (PRICE - 1 penny) and making money the market maker has to buy an equal amount at (PRICE + the_stock_went_up_amt) and loses money.

Basically market makers would prefer not to trade with sophisticated investors making big trades with proprietary knowledge. When that happens and they lose it's called getting picked off. They want to trade with people like you and me who aren't trading because of any special knowledge but because we're just putting our regular $1,000 in our 401k for the month.

Retail brokerages like Robinhood are a good source of these types of trades.

(As with a lot of topics, there is a lot of nuance and detail underneath this relatively short description, but this is the gist of it.)
Please use a locally hosted js in your example code. rawgit does not even have a privacy policy.
I have no legal knowledge, but since that has never stopped anyone on the internet from speculating in the past:

1. Seems like it might be criminal to walk off the job if you're a surgeon in the middle of a operation, firefighter at a fire, etc.

2. Otherwise, it seems possible that you could be sued by your employer for walking off the job but criminal, probably not.

3. If my employer tried to physically prevent me from leaving work, I'd call the police immediately.
Gotta vote this one up so that everyone who reads the article knows it's Chris Sacca.. since his name is nowhere on the page and I'd venture most people don't know he's Lowercase Capital.
Red Pill theory is basically that women are like cats and men are like dogs.

If you give food to your dog, he thinks "WOW this guy gave me food HE is a GOD".

If you give food to your cat, he thinks "WOW this guy gave me food I am a GOD".