skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one hit very close to home. I too was born in Iran. My family too emigrated to the United States with my father staying behind. Our family too grew up poor in the United States and managed to work very, very hard collectively and individually to realize common measures of success in this country.

I want to address an aspect of this piece that seems to be a bit controversial in these comments. Many seem to be sympathetic to the father and feel that the daughter is unappreciative and uptight. I completely understand where she's coming from here from my own experience.

One very vivid memory I have as a child was my brother, a teenager at the time, yelling at someone on the phone like I had never seen someone yell before in my short life. He then slammed the phone down and ran into the bathroom crying – one of two times I've ever seen him cry to this day.

Only a couple years ago I shared this memory with him, asking him who the hell was on the other side of that phone call to generate that sort of reaction from him.

It was our father. He called to see how everything was going. He was being cheery and asking how everything was going. Things weren't going well, and he had thrust a teenager who lived a very comfortable life back in Iran a couple years earlier straight into the role of "man of the house." We were poor, my brother was bullied endlessly, and my mom had become depressed.

When you've been abandoned by a father, you don't have the patience for the "fun uncle." The abandoner wasn't there for the hard times – the bankruptcy, the eviction, the teasing, the depression, the canned food your classmates would donate that ended up on your table, the toys they would donate that would end up under your Christmas tree. The abandonment is a burden that follows you throughout life. It manifests itself in the form of insecurity, anxiety, and/or a shitty attitude.

Sorry if that's too deep for HN, but this struck a chord with me. Dug up a part of me that I bury way deep down.
You're asking how the apology would sound coming from someone who understood what he had done?
Corporations didn't murder a hundred million of their own customers in the last century alone. It takes a government to do that. Consequently, governments have to be held to higher standards, not lower ones.
Their AI knows what you are thinking anyways. The singularity is here!!
Before you start trading, do extensive back testing, especially on the risk management... also please note, you'll allways have losses, but if you control them and have a system with slightly better winning percentage, the compounding will make you rich in the long run...
Provisioned/guaranteed IOPS.
This is one of those fun arguments that can be refuted with simple anecdotal evidence.

I have fun in VR games every day. I know many others do as well. Therefore, your statement is false.
This is so important it deserves its own article
Right. It should be SQL sanitized (parameterized) going into the database, and and then HTML/PDF/whatever Santosh when it is put in one of those formats.
Actually, a pure 16 bit processor (like the TMS9900, MSP430, Z8000, etc) can only address 64KB (with byte addresses) or 128KB (with word addresses). Just like a pure 8 bit processor (like the Kenbak-1) can only address 256 bytes.

The solution is to either have a hybrid, such as 8 bit data and 16 bit address, or use some kind of memory management unit. So the 8088/8086 had a segmented sort of MMU built in while many 8 bit computers added external MMUs to break the 64KB barrier (MSX1 machines could have up to 128KB of RAM while the MSX2, still Z80A based, could have up to 4MB per slot).
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This is a great idea. I wish there were such a device for Bluetooth! I have earbuds that seal quite well and, at least on my Android device, there's a volume setting around 20% that's slightly too loud, and one around 10% that's slightly too soft. The rocker buttons do not seem to allow me to reach any intermediate setting.

Meanwhile the entire upper 60% of the volume range has zero utility. I cannot imagine the pain that max volume would induce.
You could click on it, and then look up what BGP is...
That is bizzare. Is there any way to view historical justifications of this? Ulrich Drepper is undoubtedly worthy of a Wikipedia page.

I'm starting a draft page now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ulrich_Drepper
Machine learning libraries practically assume some sort of GP-GPU will be available these days. And most software developers are unwilling to go back to being tethered to a desktop for work.

A lot of developers are using what is essentially a "portable desktop", this card fits in with that ethos.
This is an awesome wealth of videos! Check out the Data Visualization section for some Tufte inspired lectures.

These guys really know their bullsh!t :)
Wow, that's awful. The orange line is completely constant. Why is the right axis labeled with 16 different values?
This is why I hate services that offer "unlimited" of some resource, like Dreamhost and AWS, so I will never use them. Everyone is worse off. People who use less than a ridiculous amount are paying for a few outliers using 100x more. People who use a ridiculous amount can no longer be sure whether their service will be active the next day because an employee deems their use "ridiculous".

And I don't think they're at fault like you're suggesting. Suppose I have a legitimate use case for storing 17TB of data and need to do it on a budget. During my shopping, I discover ten $1000/yr services for 20TB storage and three $100/yr services for unlimited storage. To me, the $100 services seem like scams or that they have no idea what they're doing. Amazon, Backblaze, and Dreamhost are literally giving off these vibes! Regardless, I'm on a budget so I purchase Backblaze and upload my 17TB. But in the back of my mind I'm nervous that they will shut off my service, despite the contract I entered with them to keep an "unlimited" amount of data for the price I paid. Or, if the contract says they have the right to terminate my service if they deem the amount to be too much, that would make nervous even as a normal user of the service, since the definition of "ridiculous" might be decided by some judge in a court if the service decides to cancel the contract and my company decides to sue. Would you really want a judge to decide that, or would you prefer a hard limit to be placed on the website and the contract in the first place? I truly don't understand the appeal of "unlimited" plans compared to simple hard limited, tiered plans.
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Honestly, it wouldn't make a difference.

Some VCs are sleazy, but their money's still green. I know with certainty of at least two firms with predatory/creepy partners, but that wouldn't stop me from including them in a round.

This behaviour is inappropriate, but it's not nearly as bad as what we learn to fend off at the average final club/frat party.
Such rumors have been around for quite a while -- Amazon is not talking -- but their relevant patent https://www.google.com/patents/US8769186 has

> For example, in at least some embodiments, a representative logical local block data storage device may be made available to an executing program via use of GNBD (“Global Network Block Device”) technology.
Really, Who has the cash for a legal fight with any large corporation, let alone Uber?

In Ubers case, add in an alleged toxic employment environment for some employees/staff, and what motivation is there?

Like many other investment vehicles, Uber has truckloads of other peoples money to spend, to protect the investment, and those lawyers are only to happy to help them spend, regardless of the rights or wrongs.
To be fair to the person you are responding to, I don't think copypasta developers are going to create secure applications anyway.
> Corporations didn't murder a hundred million of their own customers in the last century alone.

Yes, they did. Probably just tobacco companies alone.

> It takes a government to do that.

Since corporations are creatures of government, that's true by definition of everything corporations do.
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For what reason do we need yet another dialect of JavaScript?
If you want to debate the numbers, there are 4 big options. Do you use households or individuals? Do you include capital gains or just realized income. Who do you exclude from the measurements ex: military, prison population, etc? And do you look at pre or post tax numbers?

So, yes you can get rather different looking charts from what I said. But, honestly I don't feel like getting into a debate about this stuff.
This article is from Resident Advisor, a website focused on (electronic) dance music culture. Most of the audience go to clubs and festivals with massive speaker systems much louder than your average wedding. It's a pretty central part of the culture - this article exists because of the number of people who enjoy standing in front of loud speakers for extended periods of time.
that's still not sexual harassment, there are plenty of stories of men chasing women and eventually marrying them.

human sexuality isn't that cut and dried.
My guess is that with Google Drive, they are getting way more information on individuals and companies than they ever got via email.
I'm sorry that I was overly accusatory of you directly. I tend to have a belief that what people spend their words on in a comment thread is an indicator for how much they fractionally care about a particular thing. I recognize that this is not always true for everyone. Mea culpa.

R.e. tangents, there are of course cases where they are just fine. But as in real life, sometimes they are less appropriate, and sometimes they would be considered quite rude. I think it's easy to lose sight of that online. I think it's worth asking yourself whether this particular topic might not be the time to be bringing up tangents about the permissibility of/avenues for dating people who are seeking investment with one's VC firm. At least one person has found it off-putting, and while I'm an oddball and as unique as any other human person, I know several others who would likely feel the same way.
There needs to be a word to describe the practice of arrogantly explaining a researcher's own results back to them on HN. Maybe HNsplaining?
So you're saying idiots can't sexually harass people. Is that your excuse?
How is this different from Typescript?
If you develop WINE or ReactOS do NOT look at any of this code.
An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech
Everything is about speculation, so you cannot prevent it, unless you have a large quantity of reserve tokens and act as a central bank...
Developing Lambda is an absolutely terrible experience. Tightening the integration between CloudFormation, API-Gateway, and Lambda would really improve the situation. For example, a built-in way to map requests/responses between API-Gateway and Lambda which didn't involve a janky parsing DSL would be pretty nice.

The strategy Lambda seems to suggest you implement for testing/development is pretty laborious. There's no real clear way for you to mock operations on your local system and that's a real bummer.

A lot of things you run into in Python lambda functions are also fairly unclear. Python often will compile C-extensions... I could never figure out if there was really a stable ABI or what I could do to pre-compile things for Lambda.

All of those complaints aside - once you deploy your app, it will probably keep running until the day you die. So that's a huge upside. Once you rake through the muck of terrible developer experience (which I admit, could be unique to me), the service simply works.

So, if you have a relatively trivial application which does not need to be upgraded often and needs very good up-time.. it's a very nice service.
> Also, email is transmitted in plain text. Sending an email is more like shouting to your friends in the street, rather than putting a letter into an envelope mailed to the recipient. Thus, I don't think an explicit consent is needed.

These days Gmail will transfer your email protected by TLS if possible. Not shouting at all.
> 1. How would Microsoft prove that they saw the code?

Get the court to order discovery on all of your computers. They could probably also get subpoenas for the source code hosting sites to reveal relevant access logs. Or someone could admit to reading the source code someplace public, like a bug tracker. Or they could argue that the choice of variable names and minor details of algorithm details are too close to be coincidence. A jury convicted Google because of rangeCheck, after all.

> 2. If microsoft sued wine devs it would be horrible for Microsofts public image. They won't do it.

No it wouldn't, particularly not if they had a strong case (e.g., someone bragging about it). If you think MS looks bad for suing people for stealing the code, then you'd have to think the FSF looks bad for suing people for violating the GPL and stealing the code of, say, Linux.

> 3. I hope the WINE devs don't listen to you.

I hope they don't listen to you. The repercussions are quite large--it's not unimaginable that shutting down the WINE project could result from a lost case. These cases do happen, and defendants do lose (Oracle v. Google is a notable recent one, and that's based on IMHO fairly weak evidence). There's a reason that projects that do major reverse engineering for interoperability have rather elaborate procedures for doing so.
If this is the [name redacted] I'm hoping it is - not everything can be as clean as OptiRoute!!

If you're the one that used to own your user@gmail, please drop me a line, email in profile.
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Jokes don't work on HN for some reason (I liked/upvoted it)
I didn't think your explanation could be right, since VR headsets are very close to your eyes. Try closing one eye and putting a finger close to the other. You can't see it in focus even if you don't look out in the distance.

The bit I was missing is that VR headsets use lenses to adjust the angle of the incoming image to simulate the image being farther away (this is completely different from the depth perception created by sending different images to each eye). This video is a great explanation: https://vr-lens-lab.com/lenses-for-virtual-reality-headsets/

This does make AR much more difficult, since a lens that adjusts the simulated image would also adjust the real image behind it, but I don't think it makes it impossible. There may be a way to simulate a Fresnel lens just for the simulated image or use miniature one-way mirrors to do so.

Edit: I think hololens actually accomplishes this, but its very complicated: http://www.imaginativeuniversal.com/blog/2015/10/18/how-holo...
Think this way: Imagine is "What every scientist should know about relativity" and it point to the most complete book about it (which I don't know what is it).

Obviously is not about know every detail, but read the whole book will be more beneficial that read a small summary like: "This 10 weird tricks about relativity will make you popular!"
I am using Telegram for such notifications. I made a simple Telegram bot, it does not do anything itself, I just use it as a sender of my messages to my phone. And I have a particular web address, which collects requests from any of my scripts and it just resends it (it is a simple python script) through the bot to me.
They said on hacker news.

Personally I don't really see the problem. If you want to argue for a different state of things after some event, "post" seem like the correct word. Just like you would say "post war period". You might of course think that the statement itself is pretentious. But at least they argue their case, i.e the importance of her actions, in the article.
Beliefs ~= identity. Cite "Democracy for Realists".
> Could you sell it on the open market?

surely the profit would be too small to fool anyone
You'll need to publish extensive back testing maybe 20 years to prove to the investor the system actually works, also you'll need to live trade it as well for few years and have audited real results... and check with your financial regulators what exactly you can advertise to avoid getting sued by SEC and the government...
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> The canonical example of the limits of free speech: You can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater.

That's the iconic example, but from what I've heard (IANAL) lawyers and judges mostly don't consider it an especially compelling rhetorical argument, let alone representative of an actual legal standard.
How do you "ask them"? Do they have an email address for this? Or do you have to find the right guy on the team somehow?
Backblaze supposedly has B2 storage, which is $5/TB/month, and they claim it's redundant.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
This war against leakers claims another victim /s
https://youtu.be/Pt9i2ABe_mE

http://ifdl.jp/make_lsi/

http://hackaday.com/2016/10/13/blinking-an-led-extreme-editi...

http://www.slideshare.net/junichiakita9/intorudction-to-make...

There some projects to realize low-cost, short turn-around-time LSI fabrication at slightly old process, such as 1um, in Japan, whose name is Minimal Fab.
This will enable the (commercial) LSI fabrication service at a few hundred USD cost and 1-week TAT.
I believe this a revolution similar to that happened in PCB world in ten years ago.
Looking at the data (https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/#region...). The major Chinese players QQ and 163 do employ TLS, while the worst offenders of security are mostly Japanese.

The Chinese government can just ask QQ and 163 for your email such that they don't need to see it in transit. Less work, too.
The power of e.g. matlab for engineering disciplines is in the profound library. The optimized performance of the core language not withstanding, optimizing the library takes many people, often enough graduates, doctorates and professors.
Personally, I prefer to perform such optimizations on 'load' rather than on 'store' (as recommended by dgelks). This is particularly useful if you may want to change your optimized image format.

You would have a canonical lossless image stored in S3. When a user makes a request to your CDN, it calls an origin server (assuming a cache miss) that transforms the canonical images into an optimized form.

Any basic WSGI, FCGI, CGI application behind NGINX will probably be sufficient.
How is he an asshole? He was sold the service, and he used it properly, the terms of service were followed. If anything, this story shows that Backblaze sucks at providing said service.
Trucker wages are not low. It's a middle class job in many cases and a decent semiskilled job in others.

Most of those roles managing bullshit at the head end will go away as the robot fleets consolidate and the current carriers die off. Customers will have to take or leave on whatever terms the carrier demands -- just like the old railroad days.
No worries, I heard this guy on an electronics podcast predicting that we'd all have chip printers. It's only a matter of time…right?
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Bit.ly, goo.gl, etc?
Also from what I can tell, he didn't lose any data - he just lost the ability to continue his backup, and had to start it again.

I mean it's not an ideal circumstance, but not the end of the world. He really just needs a faster connection to support that much data.
> there were details that would have otherwise just been a blur that became distracting

That's a good explanation which fits with my experience. I wonder, could that aspect of 48fps be mitigated by bumping up motion blur (i.e. lowering shutter speed) during such moments.
A framework for conceptual ideas is provided, but within this lengthy quantity of words, not much else is accomplished other than to admit that consiousness is safely a material reality.
I don't know about the TMS99 series, but on the 6502 memory read could be as short a single cycle. The 6502 had a concept of a "zero page" which treated the first 256 bytes of memory specially, with single cycle access. So they could be used as a kind of register.

But of course there was only one ALU, and to use it you had to use the Accumulator register.
The reason is simply that while textual languages all use the same glyphs (ASCII characters), each visual language uses its own glyphs. Also, the design of visual languages hasn't reached the level of maturity textual languages have reached. When they have, sharing of editors might be possible to some extent.

Until that happens, when you design and develop a new visual language, you also have to design an IDE, which makes it considerably harder than designing a new textual language.

Perhaps VIM isn't also a programming language (I don't know how advanced its scripting language is), but EMACS has a built-in programming language (Lisp), and TECO, its precursor, actually was a programming language.
And then Google gets inundated from angry customers who forget their password or key for the encryption of their emails.
You can really tell how much cleaner modern cars are though, when you pass a "classic" 1950 - 1970s model on the road. You can smell the unburned fuel/exhaust distinctly. And back in the day you'd have gotten a dose of lead along with it.
Gmail ads were no just contextual. Advertisers were able to target people who received email from a particular domain. Can you imagine the power of being able to target customers of a competitor that has been developing their customer relationships for years?

This is 100% conjecture, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was this domain targeting (which is what many advertisers were using) that was the thing that Google's big clients were complaining about.
I'd almost rather not know.
> And yes, I recognize that this hasn't been "proven", but really what's the chance [...] Occams razor is that he's at the very least doing something that's inappropriate.

Occam's razor is a tool to winnow down proven scientific theories, not to bypass the need for evidence. I'd rather vest power in the courts than outrage media.
Maybe a binary order of magnitude.

Sia = $2/TB/month.

Amazon Glacier = $4/TB/month.

Time4VPS Storage = $4/TB/month.

Backblaze B2 = $5/TB/month.
I had one too. The really shocking bottleneck though was this: just 256 bytes of RAM were CPU-addressable; the 16k bytes it was advertised to come with were video RAM. If you bought the "mini memory" 4k expansion and coded in assembler, the speed seemed competitive with other home computers around then. Apparently it was coding in BASIC through the video memory bottleneck (and iirc an extra level of interpretation? I think I read somewhere that their BASIC interpreter was written in an interpreted VM code) that made your programs so slow on the TI-99.

(Added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#VDP...)
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That can be an asset though, and ideally you want to have both "longitudinal" testing with the same group of testers as well as frequently testing with people who are fresh to the game. The former can reveal trends that the development team is otherwise blind to. It can also help to exercise subtleties of the gameplay that a new player wouldn't discover, or aspects of the "elder game" if the game has a linear progression that takes significant time to unlock.
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I don't know why this was considered an improvement on structured programming.

In contrast, dataflow can't be adequately represented in text and so a 2-dimensional visual respresentation is better.
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