skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gah - thanks for pointing this out! I made an error that I'm guessing a few others' did -- I compared the $35USD against the $59AUD price. This makes a little more sense.

There are a few things that offset this, though. The eBay OptiPlex ships without RAM. The author points out that this adds a minimal $20AUD, but that offsets the sticker price difference. In addition, if Hacker News is the target audience and you folks are anything like me, I have a medium sized box filled with USB cables and power adapters -- more than half of which meet the specs to power a Pi, not to mention about 4 high-end multi-port units, one of which sits where my servers are and has available ports. Plus, on my nightstand next to me are three 16GB MicroSD cards that I could re-purpose for a Pi, so those costs are very efficient for me -- I'd just end up actually using something that's laying around.

Neither come with substantial storage, though. So you're going to be buying a drive to attach to either if you want to serve up video files or the likes.

This puts them about even at sticker price, but you're not leaving them in the box. You have to consider total cost of ownership with a PC just like with a car. The author states that these are silent but it has an HDD fan and it's unclear if there are other fans in the device -- these will wear. And then there's the cost of electricity. I couldn't find any data on power consumption at load/idle but a look at the specs indicates that this ships with a (rather economical/small) 50W power supply (it's 87% efficient). 50W for a PC is quite good, but it's awful compared against a Pi. The Pi is 1.4W idle and 3.7W at load[0]. Granted, more would be required for any external disks being added, but going SSD would be low power as well. Assuming the device will be 'always on', the Dell PC will cost substantially more.

[0] If this source is to be believed, anyway: https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption
Exactly. There's right wing welfare just like there's left wing welfare.
That's the fallacy GP is anticipating and parodying.
Might as well just go and sit at a bar with a computer. The library I go to you can at least bring your own coffee or any other liquids, except probably alcohol :)
I'd take a hackerspace, a bar, and a coffee shop over a general community center any day.

And what if we had nice narrow European-style streets, free of cars, connecting these places together? That would be even more amazing.
The bigger issue is that you need Google's incredible inter-DC networking, which in practice makes partitions very rare. Eric Brewer (author of CAP theorem) lays out here [0] how Spanner relies on those networking guarantees to be effectively CA.

Google's inter-dc traffic flows entirely on private links rather than on the public internet, which is very hard for any other company to match on a global scale.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
This is why free software is necessary.

Proprietary software makes you rely on a company to fix everything. It's like driving a car without being able to replace a flat tire.
I can understand the idea of worrying about government waste at the federal level or even the state level, but you can see exactly where your taxes go at the local level and especially in small towns, the politicians aren't some remote out of touch folks that you never see. I moved away from my hometown of about 100,000 people 20 years ago, but I could probably get in touch with most of the politicians there through family connections. In fact, the current mayor is the mother of one of my best friends. I go to her house almost every Christmas to see my friend.

On top of that, a lot of times like in the case of the library, you know exactly where the tax increases are going.
Well, this only proves my point I suppose. I did not know that-- but amnusingly... I live in Orange County, and believe me the recall is real and it is going to happen.
I actually do this :joy:
I read that to mean "somebody else's scientific (counter)claims", similar to how en_US might contain "according to person X's math". Took me a while to stop being annoyed by the latter, admittedly.
If the residents are happy with the change isn't it serving a purpose to them?
I don't know anything special that leads to this conclusion, but let's pretend that Russia is not only shadowbrokers(and I don't know that) but that this ransomware was also released by Russian government(I really don't know that...)?

In that thought experiment, what could be the possible reason for attacking themselves so hard? Well, to give themselves more plausible deniability(and the whole attack would be done as an attempt to discredit the NSA)... but also to justify an agenda of technological sovereignty. Russia is in a tug of war with American corporations over where data is stored and they've even blocked the Microsoft owned linkdin. It's impossible to find an alternative to Windows(considering Russia is such a big PC gaming country), but who knows in 10-15 years.
Per dstaley's comment up-thread, apparently they did send out a message explaining it.
What is your point? Do you want them to become a revenue generator for the county/state?
Show HN: Nginx Sysguard – throttle requests by load, average request time, etc.
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change."
- Milton Friedman

Age 45 and up comprises the smallest number of HN readers, the largest number of Americans, the largest quantity of American voters, and the greatest concentration of wealth in America. This, majority demographic will support real change when there is no other option, but not before then. Most refuse to admit their generations enacted public policies that have left most cites States and the Federal Government irreversibly in debt.

Milton Friedman also said, "When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around." Its critical that today's emerging leaders are well educated on what makes for sustainable economic and social policy, and what is required to dig ourselves out from the hole dug for us.
Nah. Uber and Lyft have left several cities that passed regulations they didn't like. In the case of Austin TX specifically there's now more choices of ridesharing services with significant market share, not less. The drivers also get paid better.

I think it's abundantly clear at this point that both Lyft and Uber use monopolistic anti competitive tactics.
I'm pretty sure Windows has had the ability to remember folder-specific settings since Windows 95. I don't know when window-sizing and location memory came into play, but it definitely worked in Windows 7+. Until Windows 7, if I remember correctly, folder-specific customization was all or nothing: every folder had individualized settings, or all folders were treated the same. The file-specific libraries (Documents, Videos, Pictures, etc) let you strike a balance between those two extremes (among other things).
My anecdata matches yours here (notably I know multiple people with both autism and anxiety issues who swear by weighted blankets for helping them sleep).
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That is pretty scary. Anyone know if there is any info on if it will only encrypt the c_drive folder that wine makes or the entire fs?
If it weren't for the train wreck that is the VA, and the problems with medicare/medicaid, a lot more people might be in favor of single payer/government health care. But if the government can't correct the VA problems after years of effort and billions in extra funding, how can the government suddenly fix the same problem only 100x larger?
A giant difference between the two, which goes unmentioned here, is that the FX160 runs on AC power at 120 volts. If you have a deployment scenario where you already have 5 volts DC but not 120 volts AC, the pi obviously makes way more sense.
I have my resume in LaTeX and keep versions of it tracked in Git, which works pretty well for me.

One thing I like about using LaTeX is that I can comment and uncomment bullets for various jobs I've done and modify the job description based on what I'm applying for.

I don't think tracking a doc or pdf file would work as well.
Would they run the coffers dry though?

The answer might be yes and I'd go with yes, but if they're for some reason on what they see as a death spiral, they could return some investor money and call it quits.
> Oh, and by the way Linux has similar problems.

Yes, but as free software, it inherently has better solutions.

Using a proprietary operating system is like driving a car only the manufacturer is allowed to fix. You don't get to fix the flat tire, and when the manufacturer drops support, you have to buy a new car. If you don't, these situations leave you stranded.
after reading all these comments now I want to buy a weighted blanket but not from kickstarter
AT&T being forbidden from patenting it's inventions was the innovation engine...
This startup solves a problem common to Netflix, Facebook, and Baahubali
I hadn't thought about that - the Atom processor might not be sufficient for typical transcoding tasks, either. While it may perform better than the ARM, can it do a full transcode to H.264 -> H.264 at different profiles/bitrates or MPEG-2 to H.264? If it can, that would cover a lot and I don't think the ARM processor in the Pi would be up to that task. If it can't, then the added speed doesn't really help any since it wouldn't be fast enough to reach the threshold of usefulness.

I'm guessing that the Atom processor in that device can't handle H.265->H.264. I'm using a two-year-old i5 (top-end of that class of processor at the time) and while it manages, it's pretty close to the edge with the version of ffmpeg they're using.
People doing ride sharing as their main gig in your area are likely desperate for every extra dollar.

I'd say they would be one of the last places to transition.
The top-rated answer is either defeatist, or just rationalization for the sentiment "I had to go through this and figure out everything myself, so you should too".

There is a huge amount of information encoded in the choice of exactly how to define thing, and which theorems people care about. This reflects a long process of trial-and-error as the field was constructed. For a famous philosophical treatise on this using the Euler characteristic as an example, see "Proofs and Refutations” by Imre Lakatos

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

Part 1: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kpmann/Lakatos.pdf

Most of that foundational information is lost when it's not written down somewhere accessible; contrary to the answerer, only a small fraction is reconstructed by students as they learn the subject.

It's a huge problem, it applies to physics textbooks too, and it doesn't have to be this way. Unfortunately, the problem has been known for decades and there's not much reason to expect things to change. (Lakatos wrote the above in 1976.)
Lesson 1: don't use proprietary operating systems.
Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction? (2009)
> Richard Feynman is the pinnacle of this

There really needs to be a version of the Feynman lectures for mathematics.

Although, this is what Arnol'd has to say [1]:

"Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap... In the middle of the twentieth century it was attempted to divide physics and mathematics. The consequences turned out to be catastrophic. Whole generations of mathematicians grew up without knowing half of their science and, of course, in total ignorance of any other sciences."

[1] https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html
At this point, some clients would be offended just for ordering an Uber for them, black car or not.
I've been thinking about the same sorts of things for a little bit. Crazy thought: What about CGI?

"It must be secure while supporting multitenancy" - wouldn't apache with suexec and *nix user permissions be enough?

"It needs to be fast" - process overhead is less of an issue today, although this would be my biggest concern.

"It needs to have an agreed upon data format" - CGI is an open standard

"It must be language agnostic" - Yep

"It needs to run anywhere" - Yes, including locally for testing

It also comes built in with process isolation and statelessness.
a lot of people kicking sand in MSFT's eyes for having such a vulnerability.. but come on, the code base for windows is enormous. The feat of engineering that is microsoft windows (and its many iterations) is pretty amazing when you really look at it. Yes, plenty of flaws, but show me some other software which has endured?

Further, all of the major infections are based on Windows XP. Windows XP mainstream support ended a full year before the first gen iPhone was out! It's seriously ancient and there are very few excuses for people to have this crap on a network in 2017. For the folks who dont run XP, but got infected because they didn't patch? No excuses.

If I booted a RedHat (5.2 came out in 2009ish) or FreeBSD machine from 2009 without patches, and put it on the internet, I'm pretty sure it'd be hosed just as bad (shellshock, heartbleed, ?). the difference is, everyone would tell me I'm an idiot for putting a machine online from 2009.
You're overlooking the fact that open access to the full internet would not be what a 75% price-reduced 'offering' would entail. We've already been over this argument in fact watching Facebook's 'free basics' attempt to lock India down. Paying less for something different is not really a reduction in price, either.
It's a non binding public comment period. I think you overestimate how much they care.
My librarian friends talk a lot these days about the changing roles that libraries play in their communities. There are certainly a lot of people who have less need for them purely as a place to borrow books and look up reference materials. But that's not all that libraries are, and for those and other services libraries are particularly valuable to people who aren't so fortunate.

I'm not even just talking about the range of community events that libraries often host: my kindergarten-aged daughter has enjoyed going to our local library for weekend read-along events for years, for instance, and I've hosted a local science outreach event there, and they're the location for a local arts festival every fall, and they're a natural space for a variety of community meetings. Some libraries even run their own maker spaces.

But it can be easy for highly educated and/or reasonably well-off people to forget how much of a lifeline a library can be. A lot of librarians I know talk about how library computer services are the only way for some of the poorer people in their communities to hunt for jobs, for example, because they don't have reliable internet access at home. (That's getting better as more and more people do have computers in their pockets, but there's a long way to go.) Kids growing up in families that are struggling financially don't have shelves and shelves of books to learn from at home: a library can do wonders to fill that gap if the family makes a habit of it. And librarians themselves can do wonders to help people sort through the oceans of available information to find the most useful and trustworthy sources: that's their specialized expertise, and it's not becoming less important as we gain increasing access to far larger and more comprehensive sources. Their training can be useful to anyone, but it's especially helpful to be able to turn to a librarian if (e.g.) you haven't gone through a high quality college program that's taught you the basics of that expertise yourself.

There's a lot more to say, and yes, libraries are going to need to transform in fascinating ways in the future. But there really does seem to be a role for something akin to libraries in our society. (And, as an aside, you'll rarely find a group of people more fervently dedicated to issues like privacy and freedom of information than librarians. That's valuable, too.)
A company fueled entirely by venture capital that has no proven ability to make a profit, valued at 69 billion dollars should be a surprise to everyone.
State taxes already aren't tax deductible for the middle class. The standard deduction for a married couple is $12000. If you have a mortgage on average price house* ($185,000), you're not clearing enough in mortgage interest and state taxes to make itemizing worthwhile.

I know there are other deductions, but I still doubt that the average middle income household ($60,000/year) is clearing over $12,000 in deductions.

http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/us/

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4957604
Ask HN: How do you approach learning a new topic?
I had an idea for a how to guide website, similar to wikihow or show, but with user driven curation. Sort of like product hunt for learning resources and how to guides.
actually that part is easy. You can use a fulfillment company and the costs are known and passed to the consumer. We are using www.Blackbox.cool to do it this time around. Last time we used Warepak
Then the loss of Uber won't matter. Basically every car manufacturer is looking at this along with countless others. The market for self driving vehicles is so, so tiny and new that literally any (and many) could jump in and "win".
The main thing I'm thinking about is robustness and lack of maintenance. One advantage of RTGs is that you could distribute power wherever it's needed. RTGs are essentially maintenance free (decades) over the lifetime of the fuel.

There are suitcase-sized power plants that NASA have proposed, but I have no idea how feasible they are - or what the maintenance requirements are. I've not been able to find any actual papers on the subject, just the usual gushing science press. Safety seems to be OK, but these are incredibly complicated systems requiring liquid metal cooling (for a start).
> If I booted a RedHat (5.2 came out in 2009ish) or FreeBSD machine from 2009 without patches, and put it on the internet, I'm pretty sure it'd be hosed just as bad (shellshock, heartbleed, ?). the difference is, everyone would tell me I'm an idiot for putting a machine online from 2009.

As a tongue in cheek (but totally true) correction, FreeBSD from 2009 would NOT be vulnerable to the shellshock vulnerability unless you explicitly install `bash` and make it the shell used by apache-cgi.

By default, FreeBSD lacks bash.
Sorry. I do not think people commenting on some document has anything to do with democracy that might be mob or troll rule but it isn't democracy (not that I am a fan of democracy either).

Personally I agree with FCC's stand and keeping governments and elites who want everyone else to pay more for their "fair use" out of the equation looks like a good thing for me. I don't have time to comment on that document because I agree with administration.
Weird. Is wine based off XP?
both of those costs are mitigated today. Marketing through social media channels is very cost effective. Amazon controls about 2/3rds of all book sales so go on there. And fulfillment and inventory is easily handled at a fixed cost per book by a third party... we're using www.blackbox.cool
Oh that's fair, if a product is unsupported, use it air-gapped or at least in a reasonably controlled environment...

Again, pretending and forcing upgrades is not the solution. The practise perpetrated by Microsoft has been described again and again as an "aggressive effort to push upgrades". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/15/windows-1...

The issue is not the upgrade per se, but the "imperfection" of the upgrade process (wanted euphemism) and the fact that many consider W10 a worse os if compared to W7.

Otherwise nobody would complain.
Isn't the entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine? I know there's some way to get to the user's home directory which is probably good enough to cause essentially the same amount of pain.
It also would send a strong message to everyone they ever partner with in the future.
Look at all of the open source software that is there for the common good, but is still hijacked with crapware by places like SourceForge and Download.com.

You can even search for Windows drivers and instead of getting drivers from the manufacturer, you end up with malware from a third party site.
How has Tesla positioned itself super well. Didn't they...just recently figure out that factories are more difficult than cars?

Or will they be a partner?

Please clarify.
> These have no ram or hdd.

The one the author links to on eBay has 2GB RAM installed. No HDD installed though.
Which parts of government spending do you consider 'waste', and what proportion of government spending do they add up to? If they are 'mountains' of waste they should be easy to identify, and if you have such a strongly held viewpoint on it, you should also have plenty of evidence.
Without the direct-from-Google links working for WSJ articles anymore, are there enough people here able to actually read the article, to make a discussion about it even possible?
> This reflects a long process of trial-and-error as the field was constructed.

A way to think about this process: "math" isn't quite a tower of abstract concepts; those only exist in any given mathematician's head, and die with them. Instead, "math" is a name for the novel pieces of language we invent, with the purpose of using them to talk about and (hopefully) share those internal abstract concepts, exposing to the rest of the world concepts that were entirely inaccessible (to everyone but the originator) before that language was introduced. Math is the attempt to communicate never-before-communicated epiphanies; to describe the shapes of never-before-pondered abstractions, with properties only describable using never-before-spoken words.

One thing that this implies, is that the first piece of language that lets us even vaguely point at some particular idea so that we can get to work on analyzing it further, might stick around long after we come up with some clearer or more coherent language, because the former one now has the momentum of historical use behind it.

Math, when done this way, then becomes a precarious pile of "just good enough to survive" conceptualizations, rather than a precise tower of "best-tool-for-the-job" conceptualizations. And that's no good for teaching.
The square root of two doesn't exist any more than two does. The ideas of the square root of two and of two itself, however, clearly do exist.
Local, State, and Federal government spending as a percentage of the GDP continue to creep upward.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2020...

It's surprising that the closing of some library branches is somehow the fault of overly paranoid tax-haters rather than out-of-control spending patterns.
Not to mention those are city miles, so the engine has been running for quite a long time.
US media is biased. Try this experiment: find a conservative friend and a liberal friend. Ask each of these friends which of the two papers in the parent and OP is more biased and which is more fact-based.

Your conservative friend will tell you the Washington Times is more fact-based and the New York Times is heavily biased. Your liberal friend will tell you the New York Times is more fact-based and the Washington Times is heavily biased.

Your first conclusion might be that one of your friends (whichever one whose beliefs oppose yours more) is insane or uneducated on what you know is true.

The more likely conclusion, however, is that each of these papers weaves heavy amounts of opinion, spin, and perspective on the "facts" it conveys, and that opinion and spin is invisible to those who share the same biases, while being conspicuous and grating to those who do not.
just get an AMD 5350 APU.

4 or 8 cores at 2+ghz plus a very decent gpu. with a high end motherboard you get it for $100! and there is one itx motherboard that cames with a 20V input plug to not even need a psu!

best part: mine with a ssd and a hdd streaming movies to the tv in 1080p (supports 4k but i get tearing) de will only consume 35W!