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> So, What did your mom say?

"Paid house keeper plus all supplies and food. Helped her family also."

While I have no proof, I'm inclined to believe her. It's hard to imagine my parents owning a slave AND the US Military allowing it's personnel to keep slaves AND word of that not making it back to the US Mainland.
Ask and ye shall receive... just a couple of hours ago I asked on twitter if such a thing has been done and I've been bombarded with prior attempts.

Interesting how many different ways people have come to this idea. It's a powerful one: if architectures are where we can make a difference and architectures is a trial-and-error kind of thing at the moment that makes it a perfect candidate for automation.
You're correct.

It could actually be having an effect and I could just not be noticing it because there are many other variables in play.

I suppose my comment was inspired by seeing posts about soda and weight gain and seeing comments of anecdotal evidence for people who have cut out diet soda and notice their weight dropping significantly.

I merely wanted to provide an anecdotal data point (however useless scientifically it may be) to try and give a perspective from the other side of things.
"I once heard that carbonated water is bad for liver"

The biochemistry sounds rather improbable.
This is an amazing idea. Right now my laptop is my PC, I want my phone to be my PC, but I don't want to use android. I want MacOS
hahah beat me to it I was about to say money.
While I also strongly disagree that Netflix's originals are "mostly terrible", I also think that awards shows are not as objective a judge of quality as I (and I imagine many others) would like.
When evaluating the coordinate-invariant length of [x,y,z,t] (where time is just another number), we use the minkowski metric: xx+yy+zz - tt, where time is treated differently with the minus sign. (By xx, I mean x*x=x^2.)

So, that's essentially where, "time is a dimension" comes from, and that's where it goes.

Aside, if you're wondering what coordinate-invariant length really is: just think about the fact that looking at a house from different angles will not change the distance between the doors. This length is calculated with the Pythagorean theorem involving xx+yy+zz, and when you extend it to lengths which are also invariant under different choices of the time coordinate you arrive at xx+yy+zz-tt.

To complete what has turned into a brief introduction to SR, note how differences in the most natural choice of the direction of time might arise:

We want the path of a stationary object to involve no movement through space, only the required advance into the future (through time). So, we note that time is parallel to the path of a stationary object. However, people moving relative to each other will disagree about which objects are stationary. Therefore, they will end up thinking differently about which way time points.

Returning to my earlier analogy, this disagreement about which direction time points can be compared to the different viewers of the house, who may disagree about which direction forwards or left points.

It isn't too unnatural when you think about it, which is a good thing because it is, well, natural.
> originals are mostly terrible.

... are you from some kind of parallel universe? They're incredibly successful from an awards and audience perspective.
That's an odd definition of "ethical" they have there. Something like "ethical means attacking the people that we think should be attacked".
Hunger? That's it? OK. Thanks. For me, CW mostly causes me to... drink more CW. Whereas if ghrelin were to do more than cause hunger, that would be rather interesting then.

Oh: "Besides regulating appetite, ghrelin also plays a significant role in regulating the distribution and rate of use of energy.[6]" -wikipedia
I've found LIME extremely useful. When I'm doing ML consulting projects, my clients very often value more the ability to describe why it was such prediction than improvement in accuracy of the model by 0.05%
Oh that's cool if your problem is that small. But if your weights are that tiny then do you even need an accelerator? Or is it still too slow on the CPU?

The application NVIDIA targets their TPU at is clearly vision/robotics and while there are probably many vision/robotics tasks that can be done with very small nets I think the majority of them will require something a bit more beefy.
This isn't an integration of screen hero, this is a noninteractive screencast.
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Right. Just wanted to provide an anecdotal perspective (for those that have similar goals as I) showing that it won't necessarily prevent them from reaching those goals.
haha is that the trick to get on the front page?
My God, what an amazing article.
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Bodies are complicated I completely agree with you here. I have an extremely bad habit drinking about 2L of diet soda a day (on a good day). I also exercise 4-5 days a week (powerlifting and some light cardio) and am in great shape.

people who read these studies and change their habits to drinking less diet soda, hoping they lose weight, are missing the forest and seeing trees. It's a healthy improvement, but not going to impact their life significantly.
I don't know how common it is in the Philippines, but it's very common in rich parts of China and Taiwan [0].

Although they probably do get paid something and have freedom, the situations are very similar. Dropped into a location without the ability to speak the language or financial resources to escape.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHNSDKK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
I'm not buying it without a comparison of water to carbonated water.

Its long been understood that soda w/o carbonation isn't palatable because its too sweet and animals stop consuming it. However, when carbonation is present it masks the sweetness which result in increased consumption.

So I think they're probably measuring a secondary effect here.
No problem. It's just that I recalled some cell counts from bloodwork and figured that had to be off.
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No, just avoid junk food.
I agree - and she is! It's always a pleasure to see her in something that lets her show off her chops.

I think I can skate up to the edge of spoiling, but not cross over the line, in saying: the character beats, especially late in season 2, are clearly drawn directly from the novels, and in the novels they work - but in the show, the way that they're misordered, compressed in time, and exaggerated in intensity to the point of excess makes them really hard to take. It's not that the show does everything wrong, by any means - up until roughly mid-season 2, it did enough things well enough that I was willing to excuse the missteps. Since then, though, while they haven't started doing more things right, they sure have started doing more things wrong, and at this point I'm all out of forbearance - I only watched to the end of season 2 out of an urge to finish what I'd started.
Seems like he's so hypnotized by being rich adjacent he couldn't ask some questions about something that weird.

HN is the closest thing I have to a portal into the private lives of people with nigh infinite money, and eeeevery so often I read something like the gp that makes me want to gulag the rich and seize the means of production.

Now I know there's evil people at every income level, but infinite money really increases the ability of a person to project evil. My intuition tells me this story isn't even that exceptional. I bet the evil rich hedonism spectrum has some real nightmare fuel.
Let me restate, so you can catch it: I'm not saying be good at everything. I am saying be bad at nothing relevant to your work.

Security is without exception and in all circumstances critically relevant to web development. You cannot be an adequate web developer if you cannot look at a system and break down its security impact and how to mitigate it. You can be a bad one, but you can't be even an adequate one.

Less excuses, more practice. It's what you signed up for.
Apple already offers busses to their current campus, and I can't imagine those would go away when they move.

Still, not being able to find a parking spot in the morning is going to irritate a lot of people, and tank productivity.
That second reference doesn't cite anything concrete.
Can someone explain why slack web app always turns my MacBook video indicator light on when I'm on a call even when I'm not sharing video? I don't like them accessing the camera unless I actual want to share video.
Right now the U.S. still has the best universities in the world, which is the heart of the non-manufacturing IP economy.

If the U.S. cuts off their universities by following the lead of the anti-knowledge conservatives, and if Asian countries decide to develop their universities to compete fully - not just in tech (which they are doing), but in things like the arts and business - the U.S. is completely fucked over the long-term.

Another comparative advantage that the U.S. has is that the U.S. still attracts migrants. During the 90's economic boom, immigration was wide open, bringing in millions of people. Each immigrant drives demand. For example, they need a place to live, which causes someone else to sell their house to them for a nice profit, leading to further economic activity.

If the U.S. follows the lead of the dumb working-class Trump/Bernie voter that incorrectly thinks migrants are a bad thing, and therefore reduces immigration, then that turns into another massive economic loss.

A good way to be poor is to close your borders.
Yes, my goodness, do something about this!
Really?? How much does a person cost per month?
You could avoid lots of fiddling for many people just by using appropriate tools.
Applies for everything, not just this.
we loved Screenhero too, but now switched to aws chime and find it even better (except for funky UI) because you can have multiple video calls and control presenters screen.
Actually, we'd fight like crazy legally — as we've demonstrated repeatedly and successfully — and have implemented our technical systems to make it difficult to reveal anything even if we were ordered to. Moreover, we've included warrant canaries in our Transparency Policy so you can know if anything has changed:

https://www.cloudflare.com/transparency/

See section "Some things we've never done."
And once you've spent all of that time making reddit meaningful... there's virtually no new content, because you realize that the site is basically an echo chamber (not that HackerNews is much better in this regard, but eh.)

Reddit was done once they refused to put the jackboot to the hate communities over fears of the Digg-like user revolt, letting them fester and take over other subreddits. It's literally impossible to go a day on reddit without running into some racist diatribe, even if you go to the far-flunged reaches. Even /r/linux is completely unreadable.
Tangentially related: Being out of touch with the podcast scene for quite a while I was interested to follow the 'Overcast' link. Unfortunately that turned out to be for platforms I don't own.

If there are some passionate podcast listeners here,

1) do you have recommendations for an alternative to Overcast (ideally cross-platform, Android/Linux required, Windows desirable)?

2) can you recommend HN related (overlapping with the content here) podcasts?
I guess I would have taken her to the authorities and helped her get whatever help she needs as soon as I determined her situation.

And your friend is no feminist or idealist.
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People have been drinking carbonated water for over a hundred years now (maybe even two hundred years actually). If there was a strong link between carbonation and damage to your body we would have seen it by now.
I've been using Lync for so long that I'm just used to all the little stupid things it does. Teams is a definite improvement.

Someone (on hn maybe?) compared Teams to Google Wave and I can't really get that comparison out of my head now.
Biz is a board member and investor of Medium.

https://angel.co/medium
> So why do slaves, who are are capable of empathy, speech, and everything that make us human get treated worse than a mechanic's favorite wrench?

It's quite simple -- if you think of your slave as a human deserving of empathy, you have to recognize yourself as a monster. If you think of them as a creature less than you, you're cruelties are unimportant,
This reminds me a lot of WordsEye[1], but not even WordsEye lets the human user interrogate the machine about the created environment using natural language.

[1] https://www.wordseye.com/
oh, i am all for efficiency and destroying cubicles, but my point was you can't just make walls of cubicle higher, put there door and call it office, office most have normal size, window, i think 3.5x3.5m is the minimum i could call room/office and that's like 3 times bigger than 2x2m cubicle (generous, world not be surprised even by smaller one), which makes it at 215$/m2 per year 1700$ additional cost per worker, not including building cost, but yeah you are right i guess, it's relatively negligible because you were in some extremely cheap place while paying devs quite reasonable salaries, so there is discrepancy

i just checked some prices and even in very cheap European capitals you would be looking into like 120$/m2, in bigger few times more

https://www.statista.com/statistics/431672/commercial-proper...

though after reading this it seem relatively cheap, seem actually cheaper than apartment, i am surprised people don't form together fake company to rent office spaces instead of apartments, they can get better deal with location and price, just kitchen and bathroom won't be so accessible
Not everyone is productive using vim.
Because regardless of the reasons why, most of their engineers are going to drive. And not being able to find a parking spot would put many of them in a crappy mood, which would hurt productivity.

Yes, it would be great if people didn't have to drive. But we don't live in that world yet, and it would be foolish and stupid to impose that on your employees.
Humans rely more on 'inferred' visual objects than 'real' ones
I don't know where the $9/month number comes from but as someone else said, I edited my post (added a bunch of things) so maybe I edited out something that could be read that way.

Basically yes, I'd like a shared Spanner. If $648/mo gets you 10k read/2k write, then for ~$9/mo you should be able to get roughly 140 qps read and 9 qps write, so long as cost scales roughly linearly. Assuming you can spread this over the month (1000qps here, 0qps there), this would be super appealing to a lot of smaller projects I think.

I think the way it is, it's exclusively a business tool but it has potential to be so much more. Imagine if it was possible for anyone to set up a distributed, fault tolerant, scalable Wordpress instance using Cloud Spanner, Cloud Functions and Cloud CDN any pay per uncached pageload? You could even set it up with a single click in the Cloud Console. Running your own scalable cloud service would be no more difficult than setting up a Tumblr blog.
With regards to gravity affecting time, by this interpretation is it then saying time is itself constant but the movement/perception of object A within a stronger gravitational field is slowed compared to object B within a weaker one?
Put it in a Cardboard with some type of virtual keyboard, and you've solved the looming laptop airplane ban.
The study says that carbonation makes you more hungry, but you don't necessarily have to respond to that hunger.
Linux caught up last year: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux...

Thanks for getting the book! DTrace is invaluable for solving a set of needs, and we're using it on our FreeBSD CDN. Over time, Linux has been adding capabilities that can solve the same set of needs, although using different technologies.

Right now, the Linux kernel (4.9+) can do the same things as DTrace, but the interface we're using (bcc/BPF) is currently 10+ times more verbose and much more difficult to use. Who does that hurt the most? At Netflix, me, as it's my job to add advanced observability to our analysis GUIs, and actually write the bcc/BPF.

So far I've given conference talks on bcc/BPF at Performance@Scale, USENIX LISA, linux.conf.au, BSidesSF, and SCALE. Next is Velocity Conf.
Yes, you have no objective evidence that this layout results in improved productivity, yet casually throw that assertion around as if it were fact.
Have you ever received a legal order not to change your warrant canaries?

Have you ever received a legal order to not disclose that you have been ordered to not change your warrant canaries?

And so on.
The point where things break because of it.

It hasn't happened with Netflix on any large scale, yet. But it has happened in the past. There are videos games that are single player and can't be played without an active connection back to the publisher. What happens when the publisher doesn't like you or mislabels you as a pirate? What if you just want to play the video game you bought and payed fro without an Internet connection?

There were music stores that only played music through special software after getting decryption keys from an active connection to the Internet, and some of those stores shut down. What happened with the millions of dollars paid into those stores? What about the songs? Did you know that decrypting a song you bought and paid for is a crime?

Consider: https://xkcd.com/488/

I would rather get out in front of this entirely artificial problem before I have to support my friends and family who don't understand the nature of this problem.
I don't disagree, it's not exactly a uncommon practice. I think Raspberry pi for instance does this. Not defending it, totally stupid, just pointing out they aren't alone in this.

The fact passwords are on by default for sshd on most distributions is crazy.
I'd say C[A-Z]O
Note that the pictures in the post seem to be binary trees, rather than B-Trees. The latter is what postgres actually uses. For indexes in database systems b-trees usually are vastly preferable, because they're far less deep, and the lookups for the next tree level are usually more expensive. That's especially true for disk resident cases, but it's also true in memory resident cases (locking overhead, more cache misses).
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Too bad.
Discord is awesome. The Reactiflux dev community migrated there after getting kicked off of Slack for having too many users (we hit around 10K before they froze signups). We've been on Discord since late 2015, and love it. It's not _perfect_, but it's a great service, the devs are responsive, and it works great for our use case.

(Obligatory plug: the Reactiflux invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com . If you have any interest in React, Redux, or related technologies, Reactiflux is a great place to come hang out, ask questions, and learn. Drop by and say hi!)
Where does the industrial demand come from with a population primarily operating under bare subsistence living conditions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352942
Stop being deliberately obtuse. We don't want companies using their leverage to change city regulations, even if it's something we agree with.
You need to take a look at yourself in the mirror.

It's still not too late to talk to your friend and express your utter disgust at how that lady is being treated. Why haven't you done that?
I hate this counterpoint quite a bit. It's vastly different in terms of employment and who is able to be employed selling 1,000,000 widgets for $10 or 1 widget for $1 million dollars.

It's simply not interesting to me to know we've increased the total dollar amount of production - largely based around extremely large ticket items to the detriment of everything else. This is even without getting into the fact rent-seeking is much more profitable the larger the deals get. A single 737 sold for $50M is not equivalent to $50M spread around 10 small manufacturing suppliers building tens of thousands of devices. I would argue anyone saying otherwise is missing the forest through the trees.

It's in-your-face obvious if you actually try to manufacturer or design/build anything as a small company in the US. The velocity and simple ability to do so is an order of magnitude better in China - where design shops can literally run down the street to have a custom part made for deliver that afternoon. If you are directly competing with anyone from China in such a space - you simply are going to lose. The competitive advantages this gives cannot be overstated - and HN should really understand the network effect here.

Simply put I think manufacturing base is something you either build up, keep, and continue to think is important - or it's something you lose. As you lose that base, you also slowly bleed the design talent that went along with it, as it naturally migrates to where the manufacturing happens. I just don't find it interesting that the US can assemble components made in china into high-margin complex devices. It's simply a matter of time until other economies move up the value chain. And there aren't many places for the US to move even further up - we're already at the top and have completely lost our ability to compete any lower. I would posit this is an extremely dangerous place to be, and if it continues makes the US existing largely at the sufferance of others.
Depending on how you bin it, motor vehicle accidents are one of the largest causes of death, particularly of younger adults [0].

> we are on the verge of eliminating the vast majority of accidents

That is purely speculative; in fact motor vehicle accident deaths are going up, not down, in the past couple years [1].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/business/highway-traffic-...
The paper includes carbonated water, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352563
And the reason you cannot have no events is that these events are what create (or, of you prefer, define) time.
I work for a 75-staff company on a pretty tight budget, and we have office 365. For us to use slack with SSO and have more than 10k messages, we'd have to pay about $11k/yr. Teams, we're already paying for with o365 (and even if we weren't on o365 yet, E1 plan is approx $7k/yr and includes teams, exchange... sharepoint (not that I'd use that)). That's what's going to prevent Lync/s4b from going down the drain.
I usually refrain from telling people who they are instead of what they do, but your friend is not a feminist or a left-leaning idealist if they have a slave, full stop.