skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand of CAP (and I'm no expert by any means), 'partition tolerance' is the ability of a system to reconcile itself in the event of the system being split into partitions.

In these types of scenarios, different sections of the system are still working as normal, and each have a different view of the network of available nodes.

In a scenario where a set of homogeneous nodes in a system is split in two, both are equally 'available' and so the system as a whole has to decide what to do in that scenario. If both sides present themselves as available then they will be making decisions based only on interactions with half of the nodes in the system and their view of the system as a whole will start to drift apart.

This is bad because at the point where they get reconnected again they may well realise that the system as a whole is now not internally consistent. If you think about a distributed database, then you can start to having conflicting commits and now your DB is FUBAR.

You are right in thinking that from the point of view of a partition that it can't know if the rest of the system is just partitioned away or has crashed and will never come back.

But what that simplifying assumption is saying is that if you can ensure that you are much much more likely to have the nodes go down completely rather than actually be partitioned, then things are easy because you don't have to consider diverging system views and how you might re-integrate them.

Or something like that, I ended up writing more than I was planning!
> loosening housing regulation is effectively a tax on the current, extremely productive people that live in the Bay Area.

That's an utterly ridiculous claim.
and whats the difference? how can you tell layoffs and firings apart?
In the UK we use "units of alcohol".

One unit of alcohol is defined as 10 ml of pure alcohol.

That's about 8 gm (I think).

In the UK the strength of an alcoholic drink is given as Alcohol by Volume, as a percentage.

Beer is typically about 5%.

To work out the unit you multiply the serving size in liters by the ABV number.

A 330 ml bottle of beer at 5% = 0.33 * 5 = 1.65 units. (The bottle would probably say 1.7 units.)

The US uses a different amount of alcohol for their standard drink. I think they use 12 gm of pure alcohol.

(EDIT: I didn't downvote you. I upvoted you. I don't understand the downvotes.)
Cheaper? They're homeless, the cost of living in SF doesn't mean much if you have no money and live on the streets.

As the article mentioned, homeless like SF because of how much the city spends on them:

> The city spent $275 million on homelessness and supportive housing in the fiscal year that ends Friday, up from $241 million the year before. Starting Saturday, that annual spending is projected to hit an eye-popping $305 million.

Also the moderate climate, and there's so much wealth it's excellent for panhandling.
How can UX designers benefit from data analysis?
The Monday Morning Macro: June 26, 2017
Trying to build a reactor in your home without asking for permission first does make further accusations about it significantly more plausible. He should probably have invited SSM over when he got his uranium glas, or at least told them by mail. But mostly he should have found some physics dude at technical museum or high school to play with instead!
Paid developer licenses, like iOS. Or daft handicaps like Windows unsigned driver "Test Mode" watermarks.
sure, but I wouldn't exactly call that a weather balloon.
I can also highly recommend it. My favorite tidbit were the diamond encrusted screwheads...
I wind up making lots of interim files when importing/exporting/munging/analyzing data–to help keep track of these things (CSVs, scripts and miscellany that I may or may not want to revisit in the future) I have a function I call today to auto-create daily scratch directories:

TODAY_DIR="$HOME/today/"
DATE_DIR=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')

if [ ! -d $TODAY_DIR$DATE_DIR ];
then
mkdir -p $TODAY_DIR$DATE_DIR
fi;

echo $TODAY_DIR$DATE_DIR

So you can do stuff like this with less thinking/typing:

cp somefile.csv $(today)

I've been using this for a few years and continually find it handy, both at the command line and in keeping files clustered when I want to dig something up later. It is slightly less helpful if you regularly work past midnight, though!
Wow. The city has allocated over $36,000 per homeless person to deal with this and it hasn't improved at all? That's actually amazing.
Tupper self-referential formula
> what's the point

I can think of two answers to that.

(1) Why does there have to be a point? How many of the other companies we discuss here have a point, other than the enrichment of their founders/investors? Personally I loathe the "financial performance is a company's only duty" attitude (which is contrary to the actual law BTW), but if we're going to say companies should have a point then we should apply an equal standard. Facebook should have a point. Google should have a point. Netflix should have a point. $random_startup should have a point.

(2) Every time Facebook or Google or anyone else does try to use their huge troves of data and powerful algorithms to be any more than a passive conduit for others' attempts to influence society, they get slammed for it. Some of that is happening right here, right now, in these comments. How do we reconcile "try to do good" with "don't meddle"? We need better answers for that, not just criticism.
I just returned from 7 months in Antarctica at Palmer Station during the winter (a "winter-over" contract). It was impressive seeing the divers stay in the water as long as they did. Typically couldn't stay in past 30 minutes, even in heated dry suits.
Sure, but if you do that, then your following statement doesn't actually hold true.

>If people wanted to, you know, tweak it themselves, then there would be no food services of any kind, not restaurants and not take out food and not meal-in-a-box delivery services.

Turn that statement into one about a minority's preference, and suddenly you discover an underserved market that likes preparing their own food. Kind of like the poster you replied to was stating. Kind of like everyone in the thread that has a different problem than you did that this service is a solid solution for.

Edit: I won't extend this comment chain any further. Please look at the comment I critiqued. I think you've glossed over your own statement.
It's like when Jamie Oliver cooks lunch. Of course it takes 15 minutes cooking only with nicely laid out and prepared ingredients.

But let's get straight. I can whip a steak from zero to hero in 15 minutes. Throw some Broccoli in and you have a nice tasty lunch in real 15 minutes ready to eat.

We are two working full time although my wife is currently at home with a newborn.
We always prepared a meal one day before and took it to work. There is always time to cook yourself. You just decided to spend it for something else...
Related: Network of Concerned Geographers, geographers who are against the use of their research to increase military force https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/network-of-concerned-geo...
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Scarcity results in rising prices. In general wealth creation comes from productivity. There are many in society including special interests that are not interested in creating wealth but taking it for themselves while harming society as a whole. That includes not only wealthy landlords but many other groups of people don't want competition.

Another example is limits on taxicab medallions (which we have in NYC) so that medallions in NYC were valued at $1.2 million each and higher fares for passengers but that scarcity was fixed by competition from Uber/Lyft so that now medallions are only worth $700,000 or less and fares are less expensive than they were.

Another example is labor unions. Various forms of tariffs also create scarcity benefiting the special interests over the needs of the general population. Many jobs have extraordinary educational or licensing requirements to create scarcity and limit competition.

When it comes to housing wealthy landlords want their land to appreciate so they lobby politicians to pass these regressive laws. Without spending a cent, simply reversing the artificial scarcity in housing means that renters pay less for rent and more for goods and services, the construction trades have jobs, etc.
Is a subway token a security? and other non-legal advice
Via anonymous prepaid cash service, like what Reveton used. Supposedly the attackers made millions; to your credit some were eventually tracked down by following the payments. Unclear if it's because of the way they laundered the money.

Fusob demanded payment in redemption codes for iTunes gift cards.
> loosening housing regulation is effectively a tax on the current, extremely productive people that live in the Bay Area

No, it's a tax on the landlords. How many producers of value are homeowners and not renters? (At least one person on HN, but I mean proportionally.)
There are basically two types of homeless people. Those who are healthy enough to work but cannot keep up with expenses and those who have serious enough issues that they can't support themselves.

The first type can be helped by better job opportunities and cheaper housing. All the cheap housing in the world cannot help the latter group because they can't function in society even if you make it that much easier.

We do need a federal (or at least statewide) solution for the latter group, though, because with local control it's too easy to for the "solution" to be giving the homeless person a free bus ticket out of town.
They are a quasi monopoly.

Ok, and? The idea that monopoly is bad - ipso facto - is silly and monopolistic abuse of consumers is largely theoretical. Governments don't like monopolies because they challenge their power, and don't forget nearly every "bad" monopoly was the result of a government license to monopolize. The whole "Trust Busting" trope that underlies the anti-trust act was not because consumers were being hurt, it was a pissing match between the Government and Northern Securities Company [1]. Milton Friedman covered this well [2]

Who's creating those desires?

Companies, friends, acquaintances, media etc... it's not Google.

Or is this just the ad-industry stealing the attention...

Sure, are we debating the existence of an ad-market or Google? Cause I can assure you an ad market will exist irrespective of whatever Google does.

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=klEeBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA6#v=onep...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLBzfFGFQU
I have noticed it too. I also believe some of the "hard news" articles have opinion on them in a manner that puts me off. WaPo isn't even trying to hide it.
The one who will build high-capacity, low-weight batteries will also build "super" killing and "super" spying machines...
This is very important.

Men should at least have some interaction with other native male speaker otherwise they'll talk like women and that will hurt them socially.
this is the second AV fiasco in recent months. is it safe to say that running an antivirus is actually increasing your risk instead of decreasing it?
Hassle-Free Forms for Designers and Developers
When was Facebook about improving society? Oh sure they'll do that as long as it doesn't jeopardize profits, but after all we've learned about their social engineering, social experimentation, pattern recognition and various mechanisms to maintain engagement, is it really right to pretend they are any different than any other large corporation? The dollar is the endgame, and if improving society becomes a profitable endeavor, then and only then is it safe to say they will pursue it.
A good PR representative doesn't want to get caught flat-footed, and usually gets all the information they need from inside sources so that they can bullshit properly without (accidentally) misleading the public and causing the company legal trouble. Microsoft can afford good PR staff. If they didn't say yes, than the answer is probably no.
> Microsoft is clearly going to pivot win10 into the mobile market

They've just pivoted out of the mobile market by giving up on Windows phone.
AMD's all-new Vega Frontier Edition graphics card is now available for $999
This suggestion by Michael Nielsen is also very good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666615
There is a long-standing problem in open source software, which is that there is no "business model" associated with funneling resources to people putting significant effort into it. Setting up a consulting business to monetize software creates the perverse incentive to make software harder to use, but there seem to be some examples where this model has worked out reasonably.

Open source projects are typically started by people working in the field, who have a strong urge to scratch some itch. Even if we find a way to find money for them to work full-time, they often don't have the desire to "productize" software, or to create/nurture/govern an organization around bringing together different stakeholders who might be able to use, or contribute to the software. (We got really lucky with Linus+Linux)
AMD mobile will be the future alternative. Just in time.
What sort of things ("Python development" is a bit nebulous) are you most interested in?
It's not a 100% match, but some years back Spain came up with a system where Google News would be required to pay money to the news sites they linked to. Google responded by simply turning off Google News in Spain, which immediately cost Spanish news sites to lose a sizable percentage of traffic and millions of dollars in revenue: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-...
Maybe the problem that needs to be solved is the amount of time that it takes to bring an invention from "proof of concept" to "widespread use". In fact, maybe there has been significant progress on that particular issue just in the past couple of decades. I see new technology adoption curves that outpace anything we used to see.
Have you considered the knock-on effects of minimizing human interaction with regard to actually creating an empathic community? That the people who you would like to avoid interacting with (sorry, "don't care" about avoiding, while you implicitly cheer it on) are a part of the local community around you--generally of a lower social class, which emphatically does not make them less important but does make them less visible and thus less considered to you when voting or suggesting policy?

That empathy that develops through knowing and understanding the people around you is what makes society actually work. The idea that "efficient = better" is one of the most profoundly dehumanizing pictures I have ever seen painted of the future and you do nothing to shake that. Monstrosities like the one you posit are what we should be working to avoid because it makes all of us mere grist for the mill.
Good point, I hadn't thought about that. But my point is that obviously cooking will happen faster you throw double the manpower at it, even if it not in a linear fashion. :P
Down with flying!

The cult of ground knows that a pious individual stands on 2 feet.
> At what point does a company cross the line and become one that the EU feels can no longer promote their own product?

Easy: when you have a dominant market position.
Curious how they used gpkit for the design, I found this: http://gpkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#simple-w...
There are a range of harms associated with alcohol, and binge drinking increases your risk of some of them.

So, even if it's fine your your brain (and I'm not sure it would be) it's increasing your risk for other damage.
>the entire scientific Python stack was essentially relying upon on the “free time” work of only about 30 people—and no one had funding!

30 people? I remember a time when a certain fruit company would enter a field, literally hire all 30 of those guys, and put them behind closed doors. Then in 2 years they'd dominate the field for the next decade.

Are these guys turning down offers? Or is the fruit company that poorly managed now?
"It is a poor poet that falls silent when he finds out that the sun is actually a massive sphere of hydrogen fusing into helium."
-Richard Feynman
Group Theory  Birdtracks, Lie’s, and Exceptional Groups
Also, it feels a little light on documentation and functionality for the Python agent considering it's the same cost as using the Go agent. It's hard to tell if I'm actually going to learn anything about what's causing the memory leaks in my app as a lot of the functionality seems to be Go only.
Also, Christian Science is not the same thing as Scientology.
That's what I tried to express above. I was also wondering what is more profitable in the ransomware economy: infect many, almost worthless machines? Or infect an order or two of magnitude fewer machines, but with a higher chance of paying?

I'd say with a higher chance of paying because people administering them are more likely to know how to buy bitcoins, how to send them and what to do with the decryption key.
I'd argue prep and cleanup are in there too which I enjoy less. Some kits help with the first and none help with the second :-)

But that's a good way of looking at it. Personally I like selecting (and modifying) recipes. I agree that getting the ingredients is often a pain--especially to the degree they invalidate the first step. My general philosophy is that if any of these services get people cooking rather than eating fast food that's a good thing.
Does anyone know where the US Airforce posted the challenge?

Is there a good repo for all of the US Govts challenges/requests (e.g. DARPA ones + others like USAF?)
Sorry about that. It was meant humorously but I can understand that it wasn't a good contribution.

I respect greatly the work you do here and I apologize for being "part of the problem".
Well they inadvertently proved once again just how energy-dense and how incredibly ridiculously efficient liquid petroleum fuels are and what a boon and a curse they've been to humanity during this brief one-or-two-century blip, and how difficult it will be to replace them with anything that could even come close to current levels of energy output/consumption.

(That's a problem statement, not an ad.)
time-travelling search can be done with recursion. Otherwise, i agree that they don't compose well with each other in some languages. However, it is harder to implement efficiently as far as i understand; time will tell if they are widely understood to be implemented in future languages.
We drink about 30% less alcohol than the Brits and the French (who drink about the same amount).
This doesn't hold true for the rest of America. Go build a chipotle meal at some other zip code.

South East:
1 chipotle burrito bowl, chicken, black beans, brown rice, guac, hot salsa, cheese
1 22oz drink
Total - $10.20
If you want something that doesn't require any other distractions (HTML, CSS etc) then Node.js is a good choice. How about writing a RESTful API or something else self-contained? A while ago I wrote a thing which tweets train delays in a few days https://github.com/dcrichards/gordon to try out some recent Node.js features and libraries.
Yeah, I thought there was also one in English. I may confused it with one of those: http://omegataupodcast.net/tag/fusion/
Link Building with Article Marketing to Improve SEO
Weird result: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others
Chicago in talks with Elon Musk for O’Hare to downtown high-speed rail project
There are certainly restaurants where you can spend less than $10/person but not for the quality of food in a Blue Apron box.
I never knew. That's quite interesting.
I wasn't attempting to be contrarian, I was saying alternatives exist. Even in a business context. Our company uses Google for many things, but there are alternatives. The switching cost is high, but that doesn't make Google indispensable in my book.
I do wonder how you'd really feel if you got your wish, and your "google.com" tomorrow resulted in a "HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons"
Good points well made.

I think it's safe to say that Google and parent company Alphabet have legitimately, and for the most part positively, changed the world. Just their search facility without all the other "fluff" gives me access to more information than I ever dreamed possible when I was still using Microsoft Encarta as a teenager. They definitely lose points for lacking in transparency and shoddy advertising practices though...no question.

I suspect it's very very difficult to do the right thing by the world and keep your shareholders happy. Shareholders care about profit, and that is very rarely aligned with doing good - especially on a global scale! With all due respect to everyone on HN, which of course includes me, I doubt the person who has the answer to that billion dollar question is sat reading this thread.
Honestly, I'm quite surprised about the strong reaction. I thought it was common knowledge that this kind of software is full of bugs.

During the last year, I discovered dozens of bugs in different widespread anti-virus products. Not all of them can be as easily explained as this one and only a few a as critical as this one, but still...

Concerning your question: In general, I consider it quite difficult (if not impossible) to give a concrete answer. The software, as it is now, is just in a horrible state. Depending on what your threat model is, how experienced you are as a user, it might very well decrease your system security.
It's to help you test out the script on the page
Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely
I didn't write the article with the headline about how this market is facing a "slow-motion trainwreck." I merely gave my opinion as to why this is an inherently difficult problem space. That's it.

It is pretty ridiculous for you to act like I think there is zero market because I wouldn't buy it. That amounts to twisting my comments in a way that makes it very hard to engage in good faith.
Funny but not profound.
> almost everyone I talk to immediately gets on the defensive when I say that I don't drink and never will

Choosing not to drink is your choice to make. But if _almost everyone_ you talk to about it goes into defensive mode, that sounds really weird. Are you around people that don't react normally to social situations? "No thanks, I don't drink" is a common thing to hear for anybody.
From the initial complaint:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4780_en.htm

> (...) systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its general search results pages. The Commission's preliminary view is that such conduct infringes EU antitrust rules because it stifles competition and harms consumer (...)

> (...) [Google] may therefore artificially divert traffic from rival comparison shopping services and hinder their ability to compete on the market. The Commission is concerned that users do not necessarily see the most relevant results in response to queries - this is to the detriment of consumers, and stifles innovation.

The EU is concerned with regulating the market to favour competition. It's true the underlying implication is that a Free market is a Good market - and so by defending completion it's theorised that the consumer profits. (in my opinion that's a non-seqitor - but that's the principle underlying the EU).

Now you could argue for other models, claiming that the proletariat will be better off - under a strict redistribution model, under an unregulated market, under a monopoly - but don't put EU's cart in front of the horse: it has one principle, a regulated free market.
Why Ransomware authors are not yet in jail? /cc FBI CIA BND MI5 FSB
> i mean since [bitcoin] [has] come into being, what has it done for you personally?

You mean, besides the roads, and the wine, and the aquaduct?
I agree this should be a major concern. How is an adblocker or tracker blocker going to work when the malicious ad is compiled? It might not be able to access your machine, but it can drain your battery and deliver malware through security flaws.