skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Demanding a warranty for instance would be a softer approach.

That already exists, and it leads to many companies just throwing products away and replacing them several times over the warranty period. This increases prices, and is worse for the environment.

Yet, companies try to use DRM and copyright laws to prevent people from repairing products.
Very easy to do. You can even automate it with Let's Encrypt since you can serve whatever DNS records you want.
Herzner do look good, thanks for the suggestion.

Any thoughts on distributing the renders across multiple smaller servers compared to one large one?
3D movies are mostly just irritating to me, because I have strabismus and only process input from one eye at a time, so I can't see stereoscopic 3D. With the glasses on, it just looks like a normal movie to me. Everyone gasps when something flies at the camera, and I don't get it.

Though I am glad they upgraded to polarized 3D glasses from the old red/blue kind. I couldn't watch movies at all with those--I either saw just the red or just the blue.
At 300 000 units, I'm sure they can have them custom made.
I think the situation is not comparable at all precisely because Facebook did not have a larger network strangulating their growth.

I wonder if there is any precedent for a social network (or any large application for that matter) having their growth stalled to single-digits and then it picking up again.

To me, it looks like there is a very real possibility that facebook already killed them in the sense that they will never go beyond 250 million or so users, which does not support their valuation. So share-wise, they might end up a second Twitter, just with a much faster turnaround this time because user growth has already come to a grinding halt.
cat /proc/self/maps is a better way to see that. If it's built with PIE, the executable base is randomized. Some distributions use full ASLR across the board (Alpine, Android, ChromeOS, Hardened Gentoo) while others don't yet enable PIE globally or have only recently started and it isn't all pushed out yet (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian).
The core difference between the American health insurance model and the Japanese model (which costs half as much and has better outcomes) is fixed pricing. In Japan, a government commission sets prices for every medical product and procedure, tuning the prices to insure profitability, while preventing profiteering.

In America, price negotiation is done between providers and insurance carriers. This has a few obvious effects. First, it gives us the in-network/out-of-network distinction. Second, it introduces complexity in the math sense to pricing - providers aren't charging one price, they're charging a wide array of prices, although those prices don't really vary much.

The network thing also has the effect of reducing consumer choice in providers. I can use whatever doctors/facilities my insurance has in-network, unless I'm willing to cough up the difference out of my own pocket.

Of course, fixed prices would be that wicked socialist government control we're told is ruining everything.
Fair enough; it's rare that I see movies with anyone other than my wife.
gawk has a debugger:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Debugger....
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I think it is safe to say that the IPO was a total scam. The company was never profitable, and numbers never made any sense.

I have a bridge in Brooklyn up for grabs (cheap) if you still think the valuation was based on ridiculous data points such as active users, etc.

People already lined their pockets up and you will be reading another P.R piece on how great of a businessman Evan is within the next couple of months.

Spend all of the funding on aggressive marketing to get the numbers up pre-IPO, file for an IPO and cash out. Rinse & repeat.
You already trigger Travis tests for PRs before bors does an auto run, right?

In that case, it wouldn't double expenses. Assuming batches are slightly effective, it should reduce expenses-- with >50% success rate with batches of >=3 PRs, you don't have to do individual testing for the later PRs in the batch.
I still question why Jawbone felt the need to go beyond their core products. The Bluetooth earpiece worked very, very well, and I loved it so much I've lost four of them. Did Jawbone really need to expand into other products?
I might not have put it like that myself, but it could well be the case that as a graphic designer in a rich country, the most effective way for you to move the needle is to earn lots of money and give it away efficiently:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw83ak/effective-...
Did you try to subscribe to the IPO? It was not hard at all. I'm an "average" investory with a standard Charles Schwab trading account and subscribed to it with a few clicks of my mouse. I imagine anyone else could with their brokerage. It was oversubscribed tho, so I got half the quantity I wanted and sold shortly after opening.
There is a more detailed followup today: https://news.gandi.net/en/2017/07/detailed-incident-report/
This would be a true gesture for the environment...
Bothers me that institutional investors and other insiders get preferred pricing while retail investors get less favorable pricing.
Well, a fork bomb doesn't really use anything except it makes the process table management extremely time consuming. Not quite the same, but still conceptually similar
It's a joke from stupid buzzwords - kind of "serverless". You don't define routes with pro-router - you just use a store which serializes to url.
still waiting on that Donner Party DLC
Super useful to keep checking the compile status when going out dancing :)
Well, in some sense that's true of most businesses, right? Some customer interactions take up more overhead and resources than others. The trick is to aggregate that uncertainty over your customer base and come up with a price that incorporates your expected average costs. There are a lot of businesses that do this successfully because they have to in order to participate in the market. The reason health care providers don't seems to me because that are isolated from competition by heavy regulation. (I'm not saying the regulation in the health care space is necessarily a bad thing on balance, but it means that change can only come through additional regulation rather than depending on hamstrung market forces.)
I agree that the pricing model is wrong. Fee for service creates perverse incentives.

Having said that, though, unlike developing a new piece of software we have vast stores of data about procedures, complications, and outcomes from other patients who have already undergone the procedure. Surely there's a pricing model, if we are bound to fee for service, that could use this trove of existing data to provide more transparency.

I'd be happy with knowing pricing within half an order of magnitude.
I find it painful to the point where it's probably harmful. I bring earplugs.

Then, with the earplugs in, the dynamic range of the audio is sometimes so great that I have trouble with quieter conversational passages (low voices, whispering).

I also agree with other comments, here. The people who treat the theater like their personal living room (phones, conversation, meals...).

And these days, if you follow the news, you have to worry about bedbugs.

The only time I find the movie theater worthwhile is for a social experience (viewing with others) that doesn't fit into someone's home. Maybe combined with a nice dinner out or snack afterwards or some other additional social component. Otherwise, the home viewing experience is better.
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It really depends on what you're using citations for. Peer-reviewed papers don't necessarily need a transitive property where they only cite other peer-reviewed papers (which only cite... etc.). Norms vary by field, but in most fields, it's always been acceptable to cite various kinds of non-peer-reviewed literature, such as technical reports. Even popular press articles or blogs are fine, as long as they're cited appropriately, not to back up critical claims. Ultimately the single paper under review is peer-reviewed for whether it demonstrates its own claims, and that depends in part on the reviewers judging whether it uses citations appropriately, meaning that it can cite anything it wants, as long as it doesn't cite things to demonstrate claims that the citation can't really support.

In mathematics my impression is that citing arXiv papers is usually done appropriately. If a surprising proof of a longstanding open problem was recently posted on arXiv, people won't usually cite it as authoritative right away. Instead a citation will be worded with something like "a recent claimed proof by so-and-so...", making it clear that it's still preliminary and not to be treated as a sure thing yet (how strongly to add this caveat is a bit of a judgment call).

As a reviewer that's usually what I look for. If someone cites an arXiv paper (or tech report, or even blog post) to give context, to credit other teams who are doing related work, to point out alternative approaches that the current paper isn't investigating, etc., that's perfectly fine. Those are more like informational "see also" citations. If a paper cites an arXiv preprint as authoritative evidence of something that is really critical to the current paper itself being correct, then yes, that's where it can be more iffy and I'd ask the authors to either qualify that claim more, or bolster it with another more solid citation. There is a little bit of a problem with this currently in machine learning, where some people make overly bold/general claims in arXiv preprints that their methodology/data can't really support, and other people sometimes cite these claims a bit too credulously. Important to push back on, but not to the extent of banning arXiv citations.
> And so I set about fortifying my sense of self-control, based on the following factors: [Standards, Monitoring, and Strength]

> Strength: ... I built my mental strength by running even when I didn’t want to—when I was sore, stressed, or sleepy.

He built his will power by doing things he didn't have the will to do? One of the pillars of his self-control is that he has self-control? Maybe I'm missing something or jumping on the easy mockery, but this seems circular or common-sense.
Heh never touch the gun subject in an USA forum... it won't be taken kindly
I know, but I am sending this link to any JS related thread in HN ;)
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"charged customers 19 yuan ($2.90 USD) per umbrella deposit and an additional half yuan ($0.07 USD) per 30 minutes"

"an umbrella costs the company 60 yuan ($8.82 USD) each to replace"

They have just sold 300,000 umbrellas. This is a brilliant sales/marketing/distribution disguised as sharing. The cost of the umbrella is for sure lower than 19 yuan. They save money on not having stores and sales personnel. Distribute the product via sharing and collect the money via the app. That's why once they have "lost" all the umbrellas, they will do it again with another batch.
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Talk about double standards, if seimens thinks a regime is untrustworthy they should not give them their technology to make money.
Despite being in tech industry I went to film school back when it was still very common to be taught to shoot film so I'll have a go:

> I've seen analyses that suggest that 70mm is roughly equivalent to 8K resolution, once digitized.

It's tricky to give an exact number because it's an analog format, but in most cases it will be higher than that. You can get a good 4K transfer off 35mm, and 70mm is four times the area - so 8K would be very conservative.

Of course, the big advantage of film is you get the grain, as well as what some people consider to be a better look (although that's subjective).

> Given that 8K cameras exist, and would presumably allow as much shooting as you can attach auxiliary storage capacity,

When shooting digitally your ratio would usually be 10:1, even 20:1 (as in, you shoot 10 times more material than you end up using). You're right that lots of directors see that as a great benefit.

But when shooting with film - and especially 70mm - you have to be really conservative. A ratio of 3:1 would be much more common because you just can't afford any more. And that means you have to be very careful in layout your shots up, getting your actors prepared, etc. There's a minority of directors who appreciate this.
This moral judgement is mistaken because its premise is false. The moral blame lies on the company that allowed the problem to happen, not the person calling attention to it. It's not at all the same as "if I leave my door unlocked..." type scenarios. It's perfectly legal to register .io's nameservers.
So this isn't true. Any average Joe could open a standard trading account and subscribe to the IPO.
Ask HN: How can I get over my lethargy, lack of focus, and other problems?
I see myself as someone who's really interested in programming, and computer science more broadly. Like the kind of person who's into it more as a hobby than a career choice; I was almost one of those kids who start hacking when they're eight. But while I know I am really interested in that stuff, most of the time I just stare at the wall when I take my laptop to Starbucks.

Again, it's not that I'm not interested in it. Most of the time, I just have this insurmountable mental block. I don't know if it's depression, or what, but it's not merely a lack of energy. Many days I can barely even read; my brain just won't process the words on the page, or on the screen. The occasional, completely random good days I have are marked not only by energy, but mental clarity. Most of the time there's like an ugly fog hanging over my head. When that fog isn't there I'm a twenty-five year old version of that curious eight year old hacker, but when it's there I just stare at the wall.

I've tried all kinds of things, except professional help, which I can't really do right now because of reasons: vitamins, caffeine, no caffeine, exercise, meditation, not eating carbs, getting more sunlight. None of it works. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
Pick something and go. If it doesn't work, pick something else.

The demand for web developers will not dissipate in the near future. It also depends on what level of job you're seeking: if you want a senior position, you'll need senior skills: how you acquire those skills isn't terribly relevant if you can show that you actually have them. For example, I don't have a portfolio of any kind save for some minor GitHub stuff.

When I interview (or interview others) I don't look too much at their commit history, and people haven't looked much at mine. If you know what you're talking about that will come across in an interview. If it doesn't, then it's a social, not technical, issue.
>In general, you should only comment if it brings something new to the discussion.

This has been said already, so should you be commenting this?
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I'm no expert, but I understand you have government licenses to carry (even concealed) so how can a private entity interfere with those?

Anyhow whatever...
Yeah, it misses a few months. I'm going to fix this and make the archives go back a few years.
I think that's exactly the case. From the picture there seems to be a mechanical password lock on the umbrellas. I guess how it works is: You can the QR code -> pay thru app -> received password, input the password on umbrella -> unlock umbrella. But since it's mechanical lock, I assume the password doesn't change every time. Then whoever returns the umbrella knows the password and can just take it away directly. The company can't prove they steal it.
Re: Gas Cans

There are (in my opinion) only two good gas cans out there:

1. The standard US/NATO steel gerry cans with the welded seams (not the crimped seams that you see on the new versions today; you have to do some searching for these nice older cans that were built properly); nozzles can be found at army surplus stores and online.

2. RotoPax - seriously, if you want a modern solution made from plastic, and price isn't an object, RotoPax is what you want.
The idea that there should be a breakdown of domains by country is a bad one. There's this situation. There are many other situations where countries don't have the resources or drive to maintain what they have been allocated. And then there's the fact that there are enough domains conflicting with this structure that it makes no intuitive sense.

The fact is that there is nothing that can be derived by an end user from most top level TLDs. EDU is one of the few, but then anybody can have a subdomain in an edu environment for any purpose.

Maybe the time isn't now, but somebody should be thinking about how to replace the current domain management system and with what.
What Knuth said:
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"

What most developers hear:
"Optimization is the root of all evil"
When you work to help Apple lock down their operating system, you are helping an oligopoly (Apple along with Google and Microsoft) to control the future of all software development. The mitigations that are put into the operating system serve two purposes: sure, they lock out invaders... but they also lock out the user and rightful owner of the hardware.

The moral costs of the latter do not pay for the benefits of the former. I look at people who work for Apple on security as similar to people who work for the TSA: yes, they are probably in some way contributing to the safety of people... but they are actively eroding the liberties of people in such a frightful way that the benefits are not worth the cost.

So when I see people working for either the TSA or for Apple, I ask myself "did they really really need this job? or could they have gotten work elsewhere"; and if the answer is that they didn't absolutely need to work for Apple, I model them as someone who has left the Resistance to go work for the Empire because they thought laser guns were cool and the Empire happened to have a larger laser gun for them to work on, and hell: the Empire is managing to maintain order on a large number of planets, right? :/

In case you think that this is just some future concern, it is a war which is already playing out today in countries like China, where the government knows that Apple has centralized control of what can be distributed on that platform and uses that knowledge to lean on Apple with threats of firewalls and import bans to get software and books they dislike redacted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/business/media/new-york-t...

> Apple, complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month.

> The move limits access to one of the few remaining channels for readers in mainland China to read The Times without resorting to special software. The government began blocking The Times’s websites in 2012, after a series of articles on the wealth amassed by the family of Wen Jiabao, who was then prime minister, but it had struggled in recent months to prevent readers from using the Chinese-language app.

Having a centralized point of control at Apple is not helping the lives of these Chinese citizens, at least according to the morals that I have (and I would have guessed you have, but maybe you are more apologetic to these regimes than I; we have never really spent that much time talking as opposed to just kind of "sitting next to each other" ;P).

So, yes: I absolutely am against security experts "helping Apple secure iOS" when what we know is actually happening is that they are "helping Apple enforce censorship by regimes such as the Chinese government on their citizens". There are tons of places in the world you can go work for where your work on security will actually be used for good: go work for one of those companies, not the oligopoly.
Most of my machines have more than 1 wired interface, and guess what? Those predictable names have caused me way more problems than they ever fixed. And those problems have always been harder to fix. Just stable names, like udev used to do were enough for nearly everything.

> why would I want to have NetworkManager on a server, which never switch networks and need to set up a VPN connection?

It's funnier because NetworkManager must wait for the filesystems to be mounted, but then, networked filesystems (that are, those ones, important there) need a functioning network that NetworkManager postpones to after it's up.
Why can't a library be part of the OS and updated frequently? If it is critical to update, why shouldn't all apps benefit from it? Why can MS update code in Edge frequently, but shouldn't be able to update a .dll as frequently?

Ideally, I'd want critical code (encryption, code signing, bootloaders, kernels, runtimes) to be from a trusted vendor, and preferably simple and open source. I trust the MS, Apple, Google of 2017 not to completely fuck it up. (We already trust them as browser vendors.)

I don't care if the keep calc.exe stable for 10 years, but I expect them to patch crypto.dll immediately. You could do that stealthily, outside of major updates, as it has no user facing changes.

The benefit of this model is that it allows third party apps from small vendors to profit from the up to date security that only the tech Giants can provide.

The downside is of course that it is quite hard to maintain perfect backwards compatibility while pushing updates, but if the components and APIs are small enough I think it is possible.
> not stealing the keyboard focus when I'm typing, up to the point of rolling back any popups that opened just before I started to type

That's a wholly separate issue. On Linux, at least, this is configurable to an extent, although I haven't used it recently enough to be helpful. Dedicated cores are irrelevant, though.
Thank you for all advices. I'll host it properly. But what do you think about the library?
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Facebook is >$200 per user.
When it rains, 7-11 always gets out the cheap ass umbrellas that it charges 40-60 kuai for (> $5!), they were definitely into gouging. Compare this to Japan where you can always get an umbrella for 100 yen.
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Im sure those snake oil supplements he peddles on there make you smarter too. /s =P

EDIT: I was just halfway joking when I made this comment (I vaguely knew that he sold supplements for body building)... However, I had no idea about the "Alpha Brain" supplement that he sells. And yes, the punchline is that he claims it provides "cognitive enhancement". And No.. there is no solid science behind it and certainly no doubleblind clinical trials. I only know to care about stuff like this from listening to other podcasts such as "This week in microbiology" and "Skeptoid" that perhaps did make me smarter. (at least I don't fall for supplement scams)