skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy was "doing something anyway because you might be told 'no'", not "my server behaves like a canine quadruped". Copyright infringement is also potentially criminal in the UK, it's not as simple as you suggest.

But whatever. It just saddens me that the internet is a constant "don't be a dick" battle with companies like the scraper guys.

(edit - understood :) )
There is no such thing as a measure of the health of a society. Inequality is one of many indicators that can help you predict the social stability and quality of life achievable in a particular society.

Inequality is important because of the studied link between peace and prosperity. Individual participants of a civilization give their social system power by buying into a social contract that their (mostly) nonviolent participation secures them the necessities of life.

When we have natural disasters, we sometimes see the rupture of the social contract. Now, imagine that there's a continuum of levels of nonviolent participation depending on individual cost-benefit analyses occurring all of the time around you.

When inequality shifts so dramatically over just a generation or two, there's reason to be concerned that people's buy-in on the social contract might shift, too.
1:05:39

Nerds do this a lot. It's annoying AF. I've had conversations about topics like zopfli or 'HTTPS in the 90s' where I was sure I was right (and I was) but the other person was so confident and loud I genuinely wondered if I was missing something.
The Kozai-Lidov effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozai_mechanism) causes polar and near-polar orbits to be unstable over long time scales.
> One could say the same for being in a high quintile of leisure time, but that doesn't stop all stressed-out rich people from having kids.

Which I consider independently from my main argument as a stupid idea.
Things we learned translating our SAAS product
It's in the article. In the 60's the CEO-worker pay ratio was 20:1. Now it's 354:1.

Do you think that this kind of disproportion doesn't affect the way the whole system works? I expect the voice of a CEO to be heard more than that of a ordinary worker, and at 20:1 maybe I can sort of keep up. But at 354:1, how will I ever keep up? That's stopping the CEOs of the world from banding up in a gang that distorts how democracy works up to a point where I don't matter at all?
Nothing in life is due to us. There is no "deserve".

Also, you are painting a false dichotomy between "rich" and "poor". A lot of middle and lower class people can raise healthy and happy children unless they have problems with mental health / violence / substance abuse & so on.

> taking away the only joy in some people's lives

Looking at children as a source of joy instead of a recipient of unconditional care and effort sounds very narcissistic.
Good. The states need to step up when the federal government isn't doing what they want.
I believe the strongest evidence that was not "bad manners as usual" is the reaction of the crowd. A genuine, spontaneous reaction of support to the "Let her speak". Obviously, the woman's description that everyone in the room was noticing the mansplaining was accurate.
Sending 10,000 Calls to Congress with Node.js and Twilio
If we suppose that the goal of society is to produce the greatest utility, and that the utility wealth provides an individual is sub-linear (i.e. twice as much money makes you less than twice as happy), then inequality is inefficient resource allocation.

However, we also suppose that some level of inequality can lead to greater productivity, and thus greater utility overall. The question is then what level produces the best outcome?

Personally, I don't think the current levels of inequality are remotely optimal. We could drastically improve thousands of people's lives for amounts of money that some rich individuals wouldn't get out of bed for, so I'm not convinced that reallocating that wealth would be harmful overall.
It makes the point of a click-bait headline :).
Try running a latest gen Intel i7 against the latest ARM chip on desktop workloads (high-end gaming, databases, compilers, video encoding, AI computation, etc.) and we will see a bit of a different picture.

And while these small devices do an amazing job, one should never forget that they are also extremely optimized for efficiency. Intel Desktop CPUs have different goals and you need to take the whole picture into account at which point you will see that comparing Intel & ARM is like comparing apples and bananas.
We're not talking generic "bots".

We're talking a custom scraper written for this site and this site only.

Yes, I am expecting the people who spend hours inspecting the source of my site, and then writing a custom scraper for it, to spend 30 seconds reading the T&Cs first.
That desktop CPU performance gains have slowed.
Ummmm.. false equivalence.

You're choosing not to have children. In wolfgke's description, he's choosing for you.

Big difference.
How is society becoming more feudal? I've heard this from so many people and the evidence doesn't seem to support it. For example, ~64% of Americans own a home. What % of feudal peasants owned a shovel, let alone a home?
A lot of pro-immigration people quote that figure about illegal immigrants paying taxes, as though paying even a single dollar in tax represents a new benefit to government finances. However, the government needs to collect more tax than they spend for an immigrant to be a net benefit.

The $11bn in tax revenue works out at around $600 / capita per year (there are around 17 million people living in illegal immigrant headed households).

For reference, the (limited) welfare state in the US spends around $3,000 / capita and total government spending is around $17,000 per capita.
Google’s Recent Investment in AI Embedded Devices
Google has recently invested in having its own Artificial Intelligence devices. The company is investing more and more in utilizing this technique to the maximum. It has started researching on the same.
I wonder if this is just a lack of knowledge on how to survive while poor. I'm in a good economic position compared to most of the US and certainly most of the world, but I can't see myself having much of an issue with this. Growing up there were times where my family was homeless, and my first job I was a carpenter's apprentice, paid under the table, for less than minimum wage.

It's not that being poor is extremely difficult in the US in particular, but rather that those born wealthy who have never been poor, have no idea how to operate in that environment.
y, increasing your rate is a good idea. Don't start with minimum wage though. For early clients I liked to try to do things at a fixed fee that I had a good handle on how long it would take. With a fixed fee they can't see your hourly rate and won't raise a red flag if they are paying you more than they make. Some clients are really sensitive when they hear things like $50 or $100 per hour.

For starting out I would target at least $20 per hour as your target hourly rate. Sounds like you have a bit of experience so you could probably go higher. Use this target hourly rate to set your fixed fee prices.

As you gain more experience and get better clients and projects increase your hourly rate. You'll get faster at things too. So you can increase your rates over time up to $50/hr and $100/hr+.

Learning Rails or Laravel to expand your skills and earning potential. Plus they make working on even small projects easier/faster. I'm a big fan of Laravel. Check out forge.laravel.com for setting up and deploying to VPS.

Also break projects down in to phases. That way you don't have a large fixed fee phase that takes up too much time.

For new/most clients get 50% up front and 50% upon completion for each phase.

Create a simple contract that outlines the scope of work for each phase. If there are changes or additions make sure to send the client an addition to the scope of work with a price increase to approve for that phase.
Mobile CPUs have many constrains to adapt to, but "size" shouldn't really be one of them.
It's funny how you complain about Arch being "needlessly complicated", then suggesting to use Debian instead. I'm building packages for Arch all the time (mostly for personal use). The one time I tried to build a Debian package, I gave up after spending multiple hours of going through all the ceremony that's involved in that.

I'm not saying that Debian is hopelessly overengineered. All the complexity is there for a reason, because Debian strives to cover 100% of what everyone needs. Arch is content with achieving 95%, if it means that you can avoid a huge part of the complexity that comes from catching the last 5%.

For example, some Debian packages use a dialog system to set themselves up during installation. Arch avoids that complexity and instead expects the user to read the wiki on how to configure the application in question.
G shop
Do you have access to the source?
When are they coming out?
Smart Inbox for Notifications, 0.14.2 released
I have an NFC tag on my keychain. When I'm out and want to remember my location--where exactly we parked, where I saw a neat building--I use Tasker to write my GPS location to my keychain.

I could just as easily save a note with my location, I guess, but I like that the NFC tag stores the data without power, without putting it on someone else's computer, and without making it casually discoverable.
The US went to the moon and back with relying on hand calculations, it has to be put in the perspective, innit?
Thanks! It's probably a special limited edition I'd bet (can't load imgur on my phone at the moment). I shall find it though :)
Productivity has been rising steadily pretty much since they started keeping track of it, while the median family income has stagnated over the past 40 years or so.[1] Productivity is defined as the ratio of the volume of outputs to inputs, or equivalently, the "money out to the money in." If the money is not going to the median families, where is it going? It certainly isn't going to the lower class. It is going to the upper class, and is seen as a "concentration of wealth" since the money is all going into more or less the same pockets (the fuzziness of the wording is due to the fact that sometimes people die and other people become richer to move into the upper class).

To come to the challenge posed in your comment, let's examine some other indicators of inequality.[2] The top 1% holds around 42% of the wealth. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% holds around 1% of the wealth. Doesn't that seem a bit ... unequal? Of course, to have valid concepts of "top 1%" inequality must of course exist on some level, but the disparity is staggering. There are 160 million people in the bottom 50%, and about 3 million in the top 1%.

The average person in the top 1% holds about $2240 for every $1 belonging to the average person in the bottom 50%. The price of a $1m car to the top 1% is on par with the cost of a current-gen gaming console (~$450) to the bottom 50%, on average.

Even without getting into the top 0.1% and their obscene amounts of money hoarding, this is a lot. We can go there too if you want.

We could also just ask the people who arguably have the best access to such data: the Congressional Budget Office.[3] The graphic on the front cover is enough to illustrate the difference, but you can also go through the findings in the body if you need more convincing.

All of this is freely available on the internet, and found with Google via "total wealth in the us". Either you didn't know this was possible, or you don't want to know the facts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Productivity_and_Real_Med...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._economic_variables_r...

[3] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...
Why should IS executives should continue to watch today’s Tech Oligopoly?
The bread analogy doesn't make any sense. Inequality is a relative metric, not an absolute one. If I only need one loaf of bread to survive, who cares if my neighbor has 100 or 1000?
I can tell this article is preaching to the choir because it doesn't bother to explain why inequality is bad. It just assumes that we agree it is. So why is it bad? Especially since most Americans don't even know about it, how can it be hurting them? Two possibilities I can think of:
A) Jealousy
B) Risk of revolution
Would be intresting to see what would happen if we turn of HTML.
It does rather imply that Get Smart was more of a documentary doesn't it
Well, while true, today many things are being hidden from browsers by doing them server-side.
There is another side of ToS in the Netherlands that I haven't mentioned: The ToS has to be reasonable. There is a blacklist which cannot appear in a ToS under any circumstance because it is unreasonable to ask from users. For example, it is illegal for a company to require users to agree that when they buy goods from their shop they cannot return it whatsoever. There is also a gray list: these are conditions that companies may ask users to agree to if and only if they can prove it is reasonable condition.
Notice that this a reverse of the burden of proof: normally a user has to prove that some terms in the ToS are unreasonable which is hard. Now the company has to prove that their terms are reasonable, which is also hard but better for the user.

For example, it is illegal for companies to document the religious beliefs of a person BUT if this is a service for certain religious community (e.g. a forum for a church) then the term that they have to disclose their religious belief is reasonable (given that they don't share this information with anyone, of course).

As for the ads, I don't know. It might be unreasonable to have users agree to subject themselves to third-party ads in order to use the service. But again, I am not a laywer.
Say what you will about jQuery, but it made graceful degradation easy (and encouraged).

I do miss the days when people considered JavaScript an enhancement and not a dependency.
On what basis do you think his odds of death on a given climb are less than 0.01%?
google at this point is "phonebook" of the internet.

it is understandable that you want to be in phonebook but also that you dont want somebody random to enter, use your resources and copy everything because of some other interests.

if there would be some official list of all "phonebooks" and you would allow those to scan your site but block others i would do it.

scrapers from my side, spam my logs/analytics, fake real visits, try to spend my adword budget, some of them sign up with spam data and screw your conversions and testing and so on. if it was only search engine i would allow them but its not.

at this point i have the whole aws ip range blocked.
Its definitely a noteworthy accomplishment. Not sure of all the benchmarks they used, but hopefully they tested more than just hardware accelerated operations or else it detracts from overall versatility a bit.
We were contacted as outsiders to come in and have a look. We managed to stop site from crashing with configuring but basically the site was bombarded with too many dynamic requests and having no cache it took its toll. Server did not wait for responses, it just sent us bunch of requests all at once.
Why are you focusing only on the financial aspect and ignoring the parents education, general behavior and mental health, and living conditions, safety and so on?
True, indexing content is not the same. But you can't index anything you haven't already scraped.

Indexing is simply the second step in the the process, scraping is the first step, and (users) searching the index is the third step.
For the "you have to update it every once in a while" problem, I built a small cronjob that automates the updates, but allows me to intervene. Source is at [1], and it talks to me via XMPP. [2]

[1] https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/majewsky/xmpp-bridge
Also, check your washing machine for bacteria buildup (especially if you use add "softener")
Options vs. Cash
It makes a big difference for cooling though.
I don't remember seeing this explicitly stated anywhere, but based on stuff I've read, I think there is loose / informal Unix convention that some command-line programs follow, about how they can be configured at runtime:

- command line options override environment variables, which in turn override config files (meaning applied to all three, for the same config setting).

I thought this was a good idea and can lead to flexibility, though also some complexity.

I think this might be a good scenario for the use of those three methods of configuration:

- config file settings for common values for options, or values that rarely change. So you set them to those values and change them rarely, when you need to make the new values permanent for a while.

- env. var settings for say, a session of work - in that session you want to override the config file value, and use it for (most of) the duration of your work session

- command-line options to override either of the previous two, say for just a command invocation or two (setting will automatically then revert to either of the two previous methods's values).

Interested to know if others have noticed this pattern (or think it is one) and any comments, since as I said, I don't remember seeing it written down anywhere.
This kind of thing is the least interesting application of AR in my opinion. I want high-quality information overlays about the real world. I do understand that some people just want Starcraft on a coffee table, but it seems like a low ambition for Apple to showcase.
It's not a strawman. This topic is now so fashionable as a news item (regardless of your view) that people will target any kind of inquality in western democracies as inherently wrong.

What counts as extreme? Has much really changed in the last few years since this became something discussed daily? Why do such articles ignore payments in kind and fail to address subtleties to do with the different measures (personal income, household etc).

I don't personally consider the existing situation extreme, and the fact that people underestimate it doesn't change my view.
I used to think like you.

I like Lua a lot, but javascript has a burden which Lua doesn't: backwards compatibility. Pages built 20 years ago must work on today's browsers. That is a huge commitment and is part of the reason javascript still has some of its bad parts. It can add new stuff, but deprecations are more difficult.

Lua has had the luxury of reinventing and refining itself on every version. Stuff has been deprecated. And that's how it has become so good and streamlined. I would not want it chained to browsers and subjected to their backwards compatibility jinx.
Google's security expert Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) explored this subject in his book "Silence on the Wire" (2005). He even described how to build a simple device to read these LEDs.

It's a great piece of the writing (much like the whole book). The chapter is available for free:

https://www.nostarch.com/download/silence_ch05.pdf
Hand calculations and 4% of GDP :)
Yes, we need property testing of this stuff to become the norm.

https://erlangcentral.org/videos/testing-automotive-software...
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/john-hughes/quviq-...
Lead (and other toxic heavy metal) contamination is so fucked up. I hate how much attention and fear has been given to nuclear power / radioactivity while we cheerfully spent the entire 20th century contaminating everything with bioaccumulative toxic metals. At least radioactive waste / fallout has the grace of fucking decaying.
Interesting points, but this is sort of a ridiculous statement: "it has not really invented or discovered anything more innovative than making the lower stages of their rockets land vertically", this is a sign that these first-stage launches have become so routine, that now people just hand-wave and say "so what?"

But I do think there's a lot to the author's point #4:

"Even if we assume that SpaceX is actually cost competitive, who will use their launch services? Here is a hint- almost nobody outside the USA. Here is why.. Countries such as Russia, China, India and Japan are going to use their own launch systems for a number of reasons such as ensuring national security, keeping their own scientists and engineers employed and maintaining national pride. Also, vertical integration of spacecraft and launcher programs create far more cost savings than using somebody else to launch your spacecraft using slightly cheaper launchers.Even European countries are unlikely to use SpaceX over their own ESA launch systems- even if they are a bit more expensive because it is about technology, jobs and security. Furthermore, countries other than those listed above are also unlikely to use SpaceX since countries like China already offer very competitive packages covering everything from satellite design and launch to post-launch support."

The government based space missions across the world won't use SpaceX because of all those reasons. Cost doesn't matter to them.

NASA will use SpaceX because it's an American company.
> We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

This is a completely false definition of "killing"
We gave the info to the client. We were in no position to report it.
There is another theory suggesting otherwise [1]:

Saturn’s mid-sized moons are like the monsters in late-night horror movies. Smash them into tiny pieces, and they glue themselves back together as new versions of the old moons. This new finding contradicts a theory that Saturn’s rings were caused by moons colliding.

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132906-saturns-moons-c...
Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On
This is also Arch, but I just yesterday reported a bug to the distro maintainers because the upgrade to Perl 5.26 broke my monitoring. A fixed package was published into the repo within 3 hours: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54322

I guess I got lucky though. A turnaround time that short for community projects also depends on whether the contributor in question happens to be at his desk at that point.
I'm curious why you say that. Circuit board real estate seems to be a precious commodity especially in iphones. What do you mean by size?
As in: the bigger, the better?? :)
Except now that Google shows the info directly in the search results.
Interesting thoughts. I guess as always with life, everything becomes a negotiation between what you want and what you must concede to get it.

Often this concession is a resource exchange - you pay, they provide - but one that has few other expectations upon you. For instance when I buy some breakfast cereal I don't have to prove I have bowls, spoons and milk. Market forces dictate that the widest market is desired and this is the one that expects the least from it's customer. The store just wants to sell cereal. However, for some things I might want, I have to demonstrate my suitability to society. It might be dangerous to sell guns as widely as cereal or fiscally irresponsible to sell houses to unknown parties. The management of your suitability for various things is often held by other, trusted structures within society - government records etc. Thus the task left to the individual is to prove their identity so that these 'suitabilities' can be attributed to the person present and to connect appropriate 'suitabilities' stored in disparate structures e.g. bank account and gun license. Therefore, the key questions as we journey through this technological transformation are 1) can I pay and 2) can I prove my identity?

To my mind this is why the mobile phone is such an iconic piece of technology as it looks like it is becoming the preferred mechanism for a person to answer both. However, in answer to your question I think what you may begin to experience is inconvenience more than exclusion.