skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case it would stop being free software, which is likely not something that Mozilla wants to do.
here is the link to the mining company, you can watch the award winning documentary on their site about being the second internal lithium production company in the country, and how its closely linked to Elon Musks's ventures

http://fortune.com/2016/03/29/lithium-tesla-mine-nevada/

http://www.nevadamining.org/

http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/tesla-lithium-gigafactory-neva...

and on and on the source of information goes.

Clearly while its technically in the earths crust as an abundant element, economically its rare in production and worth the 4.6 billion in investment to bring it in for local production.
>"I don't think there's any reason for us non-US-Americans to care at all about the US internet. Just like we don't care about pretty much anything else that's happening in the US."

The "US internet" is the same internet that has allowed Google, Youtube, FB et al to flourish. Do you not use any those? Didn't all of those presuppose an open internet?

Can you really divorce Silicon Valley from you refer to as the "US internet"?

Heck even take a non-US tech company like Spotify. Do you think they would have been able to launch in the U.S 6 years ago if they had to pay ISPs not to de-prioritize their bits?

You say we don't really are about whats happening in the US, but presumably you do care what's happening in the US if you are interested in technology and read Hacker News where S.V. as well as other U.S tech company news features quite prominently.
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> there's not that much to worry about for us as ordinary internet users

But rising costs and reinforcing monopolies do worry me.
your users care
HBS and ilk define as fungible things that aren't. Time vs. money vs. opportunity. (People have limited lifespans, fertility, health, windows of opportunity.) Domestic labor vs. foreign. (Divesting from domestic labor hollows out your own society.)

Everything a number on a spreadsheet.

It's like trying to live your life based upon the rules of a game. At one time, a board game. These days, a computer game.

A very thin abstraction of real-world experience and the latter's diversity and complexity of values and relationships.
The apprenticeship and guild systems that states use to regulate them are awful though. Time in is not a great measure of skill and that seems to be a central feature of these systems.
The lag time, and probably bandwidth, on a mesh, especially a wifi one, makes it unacceptable for many uses.
Until the next 100 million dollar loss.

"The die has been cast"
Consider a split to H + OH as a first step, as opposed to H + H + O.
ok so I'm guessing you can't operate on more then one scope at once?

if let person1 = dashboard?.owner, person2 = selection?.organization?.owner {
person1.cloneProperties(person2)
}
Go beyond the code. Learn UX, DevOps, QA, look at other engineering disciplines. Improve soft skills. Learn management and laws. Learn design and arts. You may not become good designer or manager, and you'll probably never be a lawyer, but everything can contribute to your success on many different stages of SDLC.
> A good walk around the block will help you solve a problem faster than staring at code.

This has really helped me out with some nasty bugs.
This is the usual first thought of someone who's never used the language. A few hours after writing some Kotlin code, you don't even think about it.
Aptitude might be flat due to current methods of K12 schooling. Just a thought. I don't think people are any stupider now than they have been, just methods of schooling have changed significantly in the last 50 (even 20) years.

I'm not necessarily talking coursework, either -- how students are treated is very different.
At 5 different apartments in 2 different states, the only choice I've had for high-speed internet had been Comcast. There is no free market here. Starting a new ISP is a non-starter due to right-of-way, pile attachment, paid peering that the big players current force on Facebook, Google, etc.
>There's not much rent control outside a few major cities like NYC and SF.

Rent control, or other regulation, takes many forms. For example, my locale has regulations regarding the amount of window space is required in a basement dwelling, which goes beyond how most homes are built. Therefore renting out your basement becomes impossible without major renovations.
Go is just as fast, easy, and clean to write and is leagues faster.
But that begs the question why do you have two classes named string to begin with? The ambiguous name choice of string for an alternative to the standard is a terrible idea and all the problems associated with it should be the responsibility of the person making that decision. Putting using std::string in the header would at the very least make whoever is using your class strongly consider the necessity of 2 classes named string. They would be forced to use the fully qualified name for their type instead of ambiguously referring to their alternative string class as string. This prevents future maintainers from getting confused as to why there are 2 versions of the class string.
I thought that's how the majority of languages worked. It just means the variable cannot be changed to reference a different value. It does not make the value immutable.
I am a strong believer in static typing. But I enjoy dynamic types in, for example, Lisp for solving certain problems.

When working on a large codebase maintained over years and years, I appreciate static types -- especially when it comes to using refactoring tools, like in Eclipse or similar IDEs.
True. Good to remember the American Internet is not the Internet. It's fascinating how this debate plays out in other countries with a certain class of citizenry that don't have the capacity to think for themselves. Even if the ISP landscape is hyper competitive people who spend their time on American tech sites, actually believe they are under threat. They express it via the media, social media etc. The Americans anti net neutrality activists totally ignorant of local conditions show up in full support. It's like watching cascading exploding ignorance in real time.
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This is kind of interesting:

>It is black-and-white’s understanding that Etsy’s current search algorithm is scored to favor new sellers and other factors instead of trying to deliver the listings that are most likely to convert, leaving its marketplace drastically under-monetized. This is in stark contrast to other comparable online marketplace practices.

There's a delicate balance to be struck on a platform like Etsy between highlighting new sellers and concentrating sales into a smaller number of high volume sellers.

Etsy surely has a very long tail of inexperienced new sellers. Some will blossom into successful online businesses and some will falter and drop off, but the first step of that process is to get them hooked on the platform. An early sale goes a long way towards encouraging new people to keep working on their products.

Rejiggering their search algorithm to bury new sellers underneath all the existing, high-converting popular products feels like something that will slowly have negative long term effects on the breadth of their seller base and the kinds of products that you might find.
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Another BBC story on HN I can't read because I'm in the UK!

Here's another source for bemused Brits:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/knight-exemplar...
You could write dot files and have graphviz generate the diagrams for you.

http://www.graphviz.org/
Standard ML, rather.

It might have appeared in earlier MLs as an extension.
A year or two ago I would have disagreed and argued that NN is the only way, but recently I've realized that we're just going to keep ping-ponging between regulation and deregulation until the real issue is fixed: ISPs in the US have a stranglehold.

So if we actually get a viable marketplace for internet in most places in the US (internet treated like a public utility rented out to private companies), I would concede NN regulation.

Basically, short of nobody having any internet at all, almost anything is better than our current situation.
We go through this once a decade. The problem is a fundamental byproduct of the disconnect between humans, to whom mathematics and logic are foreign concepts that take consistent work to internalize and apply, and machines, for whom ambiguity, context, and perspective are foreign concepts that take consistent work to "internalize" and apply.

Call me a philistine, but I don't really believe we will ever get the natural->logical language mapping perfect enough to obliterate the need for developers on a massive scale. New languages beget new possibilities, which companies want to employ people to exploit, and so on.

Higher-level languages have "obsoleted" the task known as "programming" over and over again, to the point where there will often be 4-5 "automatic programming" layers between the code written by a person and the code that a physical machine executes. It's been 35+ years since your average developer would write machine code directly (i.e., without depending on an "automatic programming" environment (aka "a compiler") under the covers).

There will always be a need to translate natural language into logical language.
I have used Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack and Chef. In the beggining using puppet was annoying because you had to explicitly declare all dependencies or Puppet would do things in the wrong order. This has since the latest versions of Puppet been fixed.

Ansible is good but it has already been forked to Stonic, which for me is a sign of disagreement in the community.

A lot of the management tools tends to have their config agents crashing so you need to baby sit your agents instead of just configuring your servers. I tend to use Puppet, Ansible standalone pulling the configuration templates via git that avoids the crashing agents issue.
I can see where big companies are coming from with wanting the people they pay to do work, but if you can't tell if that's happening when they work remotely why would you be able to tell if its happening when they are in the office. The only thing they can tell accurately now is that people are in their cubes/seat/open office plan. They'd be better off coming up with some way to evaluate the output of their employees if this was really about that. However I am of the opinion that this is just layoffs with a different name, and that's why you don't see an effort to actually evaluate output.
> * If your 'let' doesn't propagate so that immutable collections are used, it's not very valuable.*

That's nonsense.

1. You cannot implement immutable collections without `let` / `final`

2. The Java Memory Model has special visibility guarantees for `final` (which does propagate), making it really, really useful

3. Having the guarantee that a certain reference won't change is still useful even if the object referenced is a mutable ArrayList; e.g. ref = null
What about nonprofit web sites that can't afford to pay the extortion fees?
I think my viewpoint here is more devil's advocate because I'm not entire sure I believe it myself. But it seems like a possibility so I wanted to share:

One thing to consider here is the large juggernauts in the tech industry would actually benefit to this type of legislation. Let's say Comcast adds a fee to get priority access. Google, Apple, Microsoft; pretty much all of the existing and large-enough companies would likely be able to pay for it without much issue. While this would cut into their profits to some degree it makes the bar much, much higher for competition to come into their space.

If competition springs up it'll likely not grow as fast in an environment with many paying for special access so the tech companies could buy them at a likely cheaper price if they see them. Alternatively this may help kill existing competition like Spotify who has razor thin (or negative, I can't remember) margins so they wouldn't be able to compete.

Aside from a, likely very small, cut into profits there isn't much down side for any of the big tech companies. Are we sure they will want to band together?
From a modern rational perspective, the "god hypothesis" looks more and more like the answer looking for a question.
There's still a lot of salespeople, they're just not a lot that individual citizens have to interact with everyday, usually.

Selling to businesses, for example, pretty much requires salespeople. For example, I know someone in corporate real estate, and you wouldn't believe the type of shit the salespeople get away with there or how ridiculous their compensation is (especially compared to her, who does just as much work trying to win business when putting together the proposals those salespeople present).
Is there any evidence anywhere that non-neutral net actually makes money for ISPs ?
German politics & media at its best: Creating (again) new laws to monitor its own citizens without them even knowing about it. The "free journalism" simply does not report about that kind of actions plus the decisions made by the government mostly happens at night so most of the public does not recognize it... The interesting part is that the executives are able to monitor your devices if you ever had anything to do with law no matter what kind of.

Is it normal that "progressive countries" nowadays give a sh*t about their citizens and their rights? What about innocence presumption?
Thanks. I noticed after submitting that star article is signed "By AMY B WANG The Washington Post". That is, the star posted the contributor.
I'm honestly not sure if "cryptographic primitive" is the right terminology (I'm no cryptographer), but I was referring to the ring signature scheme that comprises CryptoNote[1]; not ed25519 itself.

[1] https://bytecoin.org/cryptonote/
To be frank this supports the parent's argument.

> So now that we aren't avoiding that we live in and understand our feudalistic society let's be realist and figure out things in perspective.
A simple proof that: 1/2+1/3+1/5+1/7+ = ∞
Yeah, me too.

What if nothing went wrong? What if you just did something really hard with a stochastic 60% chance of success?
> There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened.

Stopped reading here.
That reminds me of in-law restrictions in SF that were widely ignored prior to the repeal. Is that effectively enforced?
> Put aside the fact that I can't live inside my
> stock options if I need to downsize my expenses.

None of this applies to your primary residence, the original post that I responded to was explicitly "real estate as an investment". I am very much in the camp that your primary residence should be evaluated against your current life goals and constraints. It is also why net worth calculations don't include it.
That's a misnomer, not a misgiving.

val/var/const/whatever only describe the reference, not the value. It doesn't really make sense for that annotation to, say, swivel a collection between ImmutableList and MutableList.

Now, you might be right that it's confusing, this difference between reference mutability and value mutability. I see beginners struggle with it in Javascript's new let vs const all the time.
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That sounds like an implementation-bound constraint. Many technologies start out unacceptable for certain uses and mature to competency.
Could it be that in the past, aptitude was the most clear distinction between college-goers and everyone else, while now anyone that can remotely afford it becomes a college-goer, regardless of aptitude? This explanation would require intelligence to not be too sensitive to income, which might be a false assumption.
The failing @nytimes is very fake news.
Someone ought to write a comparative study of Scully's time at Apple with the successful turnaround of IBM led by Lou Gerstner, whose prior experience was at RJR Nabisco.
Oh that's a good point. It would be almost free which I guess would go against what they stand for.
Rust uses jemalloc.
But the Central Planning committee of Economic Think Tank has computed that all available 5-year corporate plans will be a success and a great victory for the People in precice accordance with the scientific principles of Smithism-Keynsianism!

The honorable People of the Corporation would never dream of altering their annual reports to the Market by overstating production in order to recieve the Good Capitalist award and gain foreign travel privileges from the Corporation Planning Committee - you sir are certainly an imperialist spy for suggesting otherwise and should be sent for Reeducation!
It depends on how broadly you are willing to count as having made one. Super crude examples have already been made at home and can lift things. Power consumption and size are big issues but the largest one is that without really good software the person wearing it will have to fight against the exo-'suit' so much that normal movement will take more energy. One of the big improvements touted in the article is just that, the prosthetic got better software so that it predicted how the user wanted to move better.
I fail to see how this affects IANA or root DNS servers in any way (not to mention that IANA can be replaced by a non-US entity if it really comes down to that).

As for those companies, they'll work the same way as before outside the US internet. Regrettably, because the world would be a better place without them.
In the 70s 10% of people completed a 4 year degree and now it's 35%. So the increased availability of a college education has dragged the meadian of the cohort closer to the average IQ of everyone.
I second this. Not to mention that you end up using val most of the time in practice, so there really is no confusion.
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That's a good point, but system complexity and failure risk is also a liability that needs to be considered. A few meters of ice around your ship will be pretty much 100% reliable and require zero power, but for the considerable extra fuel required to achieve your required delta-vee. An ice-hull will also stop micrometeorites which I'd imagine a plasma shield would not be able to deflect.

Space is hard!
> and a large unmet demand for housing because those flat rents take away any incentive to add supply

Rent control generally only applies to existing housing, not new housing.
For a family of 5 that sounds like a pretty good deal.
That's factually correct but, paraphrasing Orwell's Animal Farm, some "yous" are more equal than others.
Is BBC behind a paywall in the UK?
I would love to use Heroku -- its tooling is better than anything else I've used, and integrated CI makes it that much better.

However, I run a machine learning service which requires ~3GB of RAM, which means I have to pay--at minimum--$500/mo on Heroku to get a single "Performance L" dyno. Google charges me somewhere in the neighborhood of $35/mo. I'm OK paying a little more for Heroku's convenience, but not 15x.

To any Heroku PMs here, are there plans to allow for custom-sized dynos or additional tiers?
Sometime in either the late 1990s or early-2000s (don't recall) there was a company that came out with a vestibular stimulator explicity for VR applications. They apparently sold units for game developers to use, along with a Windows API (hooked into Direct3D or DirectX - or something like that). It wasn't cheap - and ultimately they came into the market at the wrong time (dotcom crunch, and people didn't want VR stuff at the time anyway - the first VR winter was in full swing at that point).
43-inch is still to big for small rooms. It would be nice to have a smaller 1080 screen with the same features.
Why are Scala's "=" function definitions questionable? It makes absolute sense since a function should return a value.
That would make rent more expensive, due to artificially reduced supply, but that is not what rent control means.
Lovely piece!

The addictive element of chess reminds me of Satyajit Ray's movie "Shatranj Ke Khiladi" (The Chess Players). The movie is set in the 19th century at the onset of British colonization of the Indian heartland. It is about two noblemen of the Indian province of Awadh who are addicted to chess to such an extent that they have become oblivious to the dramatic changes happening in their households, the province, and the region in general. There's also a decadent dance-obsessed Nawab (provincial ruler). All three elite aristocrats are consumed in their hobbies and addictions while the British are maneuvering to subjugate their province.
Not to go all appeal to authority, but you might want to google the author's name. He has alot of credibility in this area.
>"To single out one strand, recall the stories of flippers who would buy a house, fix it up, and resell it within months at a huge profit."

You can sometimes see this in financial advice on forums like these: "buy rental property!".

TINSTAAFL. Economic returns tend to even out across asset classes. Of course your highly leveraged rental property looks good amidst a housing boom. Being a landlord isn't easy and has many legal obligations.
This way of looking at things has never been particularly convincing to me... Of all the work that's done, at any organisation, almost none of it can truly answer those questions affirmatively.

"That lightbulb is broken!"

"I was going to replace it, but I couldn't find a customer to pay for it, and nobody has threatened to change to a brighter competitor"
As someone who's a noob to AWS and is getting ready to launch a product on it, this is absolutely terrifying. As in what to expect in terms of billing.
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Thanks for the comment
One of the problems even in independent games journalism is that developers will maintain relationships with "reviewers" who are incentivized to only leave positive reviews, as not doing so will end their relationship with that developer and thus the supply of free / early released games. As a result, even small time streamers or youtube personalities are in on the fix.
A third option: Standard net, but everything end-to-end encrypted including what protocol is being used. If this information can't be discerned (easily), then priority cannot be given or taken away for any given data, only for certain data sources/destinations. If two computers (could be mobile devices, PC, server, doesn't matter) have an encrypted channel connecting them then anything could be transmitted across that channel without anyone but the endpoints knowing what it is.

Now, all this traffic could be slowed. But if it becomes near ubiquitous, then only source/destination would be useful for determining throttling/accelerating data.
The thing is there was enormous progress in natural language processing lately; it's now conceivable to enable some simpler forms of programming using your voice commands only (imagine webapp or mobile app builder controlled by voice) that would satisfy needs of 95% of population, putting many companies out of business. Even at top 5 companies there is a panic about it and many managers will tell you in private they personally think in 10 years there won't be many high-income sweng jobs unless you are in ML or related field, as they see demos from their research labs.

I guess we will see how this pans out in the end...
The risk was that you might end up with a code base that you cannot find developers that will work on it/maintain it in the future. The Android support should pretty much guarantee that there will be enough developers familiar with it in the future.
Or if you use Homebrew you might like: brew install --devel petere/postgresql/postgresql@10
The most useful result is that almost everything on the road can go uphill without slowing down. Even heavy trucks. This requires not just engine power but better cooling.
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