skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice that we get glimpses from many different people in this article on what they believe is the greatest risk cities face. It's important to contemplate what future cities will look like, and especially important for us to be critical (but not rejecting) of the negative impact of technology on our lives so we may have time to divert some of those negatives.
Top 6 Usability Mistakes Killing Your Conversions – Mockplus
I see. I didn't mean to make too much of a point of my experience -- more to use it as an anecdote to frame my point of reference.

Still you answered my question to an extent -- your experience has included situations where it seemed everyone must either drink or not drink? Does that include the desire to hold a social event in a bar/pub/restaurant vs. another locale, or is the pressure more directly focused on having everybody actually imbibe?

I'm sorry if it's starting to seem like the 3rd degree, but I'm sincerely curious.

Frankly, I have a hard time understanding why any adult really cares too much about anybody's consumption habits in any reasonable world... yet here we are.

Thanks for your responses
Let me hazard a guess, study done mostly with American subjects and majority of them being white.

I would love to see a qualifier like "How to make a friend fast in America?"
Has anyone used RDS from lambda? Don't want to use Dynamo but perhaps for some key Val store.
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Thanks for the long reply patio11.

I can see where you are coming from, and I wouldn't be surprised if the same argument is used by the company. If that is the case. O well, I wish them well but I would never be this naive again.

There is just one point that you might have missed.

The patent work doesn't stop the moment you finish filing. In fact, almost all valuable patents will be challenged in court, which can cost a LOT of money. In those cases, the company would have to hire back the original inventors to defend them in court, for which the original inventors can charge almost an arbitrary amount of money for.

In my personal opinion, it would not be wise for the company to argue over pocket change amount of money if it risks destroying the relationship between the company and the inventor. If that is really the case, when the day comes that the company needs help, the inventor would not hesitate to charge exorbitant fee just to spite the company. I honestly believe this is why @smoyer in the other comment is still getting paid by his company even though he is no longer employed.

Last but not least, on a human level, I feel it is a bit unfair given how much extra I worked for these patents, above and beyond my call of duty. I'm not going to cry over it but it will leave me in a pretty bad mood. If I end up getting screwed over, well... let my experience serve as a lesson for rest of the aspiring inventors in similar situation in the future.
These Technologies Are Changing Farms in Some Surprising Ways
Are they really running Exchange 2010?
You're wrong because the marginal propensity to consume is significantly higher for a person of lower income.

I.e. Costs of daily living may eat up 90% of a person on $30k a year's income whereas they may only be 30% of a person on $120k.

Therefore most progressive taxation systems offer an income free tax bracket. In Australia this is around 20k now; so up to 20k you pay $0 in tax.

That acts to protec the living standards of those on low or minimal incomes whilst providing tax revenues that allow the government to supply the services people on higher incomes need to generate their higher incomes (roads, rail, water, safety etc)
That's just silly. The internet was supposed to have no single point of failure. Now the Big Five have centralized everything. Why do you need to build centralized services on giant AWS server farms?
Attract more users to install your app via buy app reviews
Wouldn't be surprising. As it turns out, lots of businesses run on Microsoft technologies.
I don't have a single use case where I'm publishing a map on the web and it is not interactive. Someone could make the case for a PDF file - if it is static, why not? I can even browse it off-line!
Here's an example scenario:

1. Your PR is tested with the merge against Master. All green!

2. Another PR is tested with the merge against Master. All green!

3. The other PR goes in first. All good!

4. Your PR goes in (merge happens, but introduces a bug). Oh no!
Sometimes you have to operate in the system that exists. The way reddit is setup allows companies to blast their Coke ads and Bill Gates PR pieces to the frontpage. A campaign trying to limit a money for influence exchange in one context that uses a money for influence exchange in another is just doing the exact same thing their opposition will. This seems more like a case of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
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As developers we're allergic to marketing. Well, most of it. So when I make comments like this every once in a while I anticipate a bit of blowback. This is also a really competitive space with a lot of new players that check HN frequently - so keep that in mind.

I can tell you it's pretty difficult as a founder to draw the line around self-promotion; on one hand, you don't want to be an ass, and on the other, you're genuinely excited and passionate about the future you're helping to create and have personally poured your blood and sweat into for thousands of hours.

I hope that "real recognizes real" at some point in the communication chain and we're able to maintain that with our developers. I appreciate your post here, definitely.
That's both disturbing and sad.
There were tons of skeptics of Google+ from the get go. Their way of getting users was dubious at best. We don't know how many users were ever true active users vs people who signed up because of having a Google/Gmail account already and checking out Google+ once or twice. Or creating a Google+ account and never coming back or coming back accidentally. Those all still counted as active users. It isn't just hindsight. People including me were calling this from day one.

IG has grown around 45% in the past year. Snapchat has grown half that, close to 23%. IG is the more established social network and growing faster. That's the worry. Sheer numbers make it look so much worse. Snapchat added around 50M new MAUs over the past year. IG did over 4x that at over 200M.

I remember seeing charts similar to the one you posted and dismissing it as BS back then too. As did others. It's a vanity metric. Without knowing the engagement, it is mostly meaningless. And most signs pointed to there being weak actual engagement. Especially if you look past those user's first one or two enhancements of G+. Most prob never engaged again. The same can't be said for the others. FB's first 50M users were by and large engaged. All the others were too, to different degrees. All far above Google+'s.
seL4 so far makes a lot of sense for what we're working on. The hardest part is finding seL4 expertise.
Having never seen the umbrella pot at my local bar go below 5 umbrellas, I'm going to safely disregard your comment that goes against everything my Japanese friends have told me over the past 2 years since I first set foot there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Go get butt hurt somewhere else. You have no idea whether that is true so why can't you leave your mouth shut and enjoy the potential implications of the study.
Ah, yes, back in the frothy days when your Series A money was spent exclusively on the launch party.
Does that mean I shouldn't buy a car because they might decide to raise gas prices?
What were you expecting? GMail?
Hahha oh come on - Weldon makes a strong case.
>Umbrellas are too cheap to defend with technology. Something like GPS wouldn't help recover umbrellas in a cost effective way, maybe in some future where GPS receives are a penny apiece, but not today.

I wouldn't go as far as locating them, but keeping track of them using technology seems feasible. How about having an NFC tag implanted to the umbrella to make sure it is returned?
Thank you so much for your valuable inputs. A lot's of you suggesting full stack.However, I would like to know what is the opportunity for Mobile Dev? How do you see a mobile developer in upcoming years? Although, the app markets are full of apps and revenue is going downwards for both iOS and Android platforms.
Who else is creating exciting companies such as Tesla, OpenAI, Neuralink, and SpaceX? I can't think of anyone else who has started such exciting companies. No need for a PR firm at that point.
If cost is a factor then you could use batch testing as your default mode of operation and not bother testing individual commits at all unless a batch fails.

Using batch testing as a default would both reduce costs and increase merge speed, assuming that your commits usually pass testing.

The downside of using batching as a default is that it wouldn't test every commit in isolation. That means it wouldn't necessarily be safe to roll back to a particular commit if that commit was tested as part of a batch. E.g. if patches A, B and C were tested together, then it's not certain that patch A by itself would pass the tests.
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In a unikernel, how would you even detect you've been hacked ?
There's an IOT population? I thought it was just a dumb trend everyone hates?

I'm not trying to diss anyone, I just thought the whole "IoT" concept was dead in the water?
Imagine when some AI gets smart enough to start trading in digital currency...
There's a price trap here. The good FPGAs still cost $10K or more each and if you're intending to ship that hardware, which is how the Bitcoin and Litecoin ASIC platforms bootstrapped themselves, you're going to be in trouble if your FPGA solution can't beat the equivalent spend on GPUs. Bitcoin lends itself to FPGA acceleration extremely well, SHA256 is trivial to implement in an absurdly parallel way. Scrypt is a bit more messy but not impossibly hard. The Ethereum one is a beast by design, so it'll be a true challenge for any implementor.

Ten R580 cards can really crank out hashes for Ethereum. For a GPU to keep up it's going to have serious memory bandwidth issues as that's one of the limiting factors in this brand of mining.

What you might see is someone getting a license to make "OEM video cards" and then produce a line of mining-optimized cards. Given the constrained supply across the board on any AMD GPU this would be an easy win for a company like MSI or Gigabyte that's already making GPUs. Strip off the useless ports, tune the memory bandwidth, and make them work over USB-C instead of PCI-e so you can really pack a system full of these things.

Making an external GPU that comes in a nice housing with USB-C interconnect would also sell well in the machine learning market where you wouldn't have to worry so much about shoe-horning GPUs in your case. You could just stuff them in a rack.
All this ultramarathon running looks like a cake walk when compared to the "Hell week" in Navy SEALs training.
It helps that his name sounds cool as hell, or at the very least it's quite different.

Of course, being awesome enough to have Robert Downey Jr. model his portrayal of Tony Stark in Iron Man after you accounts for most of it.
Thanks! Someone pointed it out in a sibling comment afterwards too. Kind of sucks, I wish they had a "do final check and merge" button that would merge PRs sequentially into master after re-testing when there's a collision like this. Any idea why they don't?
Totally agree; I was most interested to hear how he cultivated his fortitude. What a letdown.
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Thanks! Though I'd rather read yours. A couple of hundred lines seems less intimidating than a couple of thousand. Though still I doubt I'll get around to it.
> tuning the prices to insure profitability

Highly offtopic, but thanks to anyone who helps me with this: wouldn't ensure be a better fit here?
I had an equal and opposite experience getting an MRI. I also have a high deductible plan. When I was told I needed an MRI I went on my insurance provider's website to find MRI locations that are in network nearby. I called the first 5 on the list. I found that some place that was basically MRI-R-US was several hundred dollars cheaper than going to the local mega-hospital.

Pricing isn't transparent because people usually aren't paying with money they perceive as their own. What do you care if your insurance company pays $200 or $2000 for that MRI? Eventually that difference shows up in the form of higher premiums, but that's far too complicated for people to respond to intelligently.

Let's go one step further and imagine a world in which we completely replaced Medicare with a catastrophic coverage system. If you have a heart attack or something we'll take care of you, but for your day to day healthcare we'll just cut you a check for however much the government was previously paying. You can choose to use that money on anything you want whether it's healthcare related or not. You want to see price transparency and the power of competition to lower prices? Boom, done.
Ideally so called rendering tree should reside completely on GPU. Or at least all heavy rendering components that it represents shall be there.

In this case each animation frame will be just a set of commands sent by CPU to GPU: render thing A at coordinate Ax,Ay, render thing B at ...

So animations that do not involve relayout will cost almost nothing for CPU. And even with relayout ( transition: width 2s; ) it will not be that bad as relayout is partial as a rule.

At least this is how it works in Sciter: https://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/ (demo of Sciter HTML/CSS rendering integrated into DirectX scene)
Unfortunately life and economics have no concern about the initial intent of anything, only the current utility.

Systems, at scale, especially when run by biological processes (read: all man-made systems), have a tendency to centralize. Economies of scale dictate that this is just more efficient. We don't have to do anything. The "evolutionary reward" (i.e. your business thrives and moves quickly) of building on AWS far exceeds SPOF issues for small, medium, and most large players. Yes, we get fun references when S3 goes down [1], but it's not as bad as literal water pipes taking down your webservers like what happened with Stats Canada [2].

The fact that Azure and Google Cloud exist maintains a competitive market. I liken it to Darwin vs Linux vs Windows. Optionality, but fundamental components of the cloud.

[1] http://funender.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/amazon-aws-is...

[2] https://twitter.com/StatCan_eng/status/873285710094233603
If you plan on using tesseract definitely try out their 4.0 beta, which uses LSTMs.

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0-with-LST...
What's the consensus on paying a lot for .com these days?

It's seems like it's just not as important as it was before Google did their thing?

Just curious as to what HN has to say?

In the back on my mind, I keep hearing founder of HN, saying, 'a .com shows confidence in your business.', or something like that. Sam Altman. Today, I'm lazy.

My preference is a .com, but I'm a nobody.

If I had a portfolio of .com domans, I would sell now, or a few years ago.

At one time I had the idea of buying rich guys legal names, and wait for that email. The ones that actually give back, and are truely altruistic would get it at cost.
The cloud will look different in the future. Adopting the locked in model puts all of your eggs in one basket. What you gain in ease you lose in flexibility and cost while increasing your risk
> I was charged $1200 to get my daughters arm cast changed (no xray, just a nurse changing the cast),

I hope the nurse got paid at least half of that.
Yeah, they do. Turns out the product actually works, who knew!
As someone who works on Instagram Direct, I can assure you we have ephemeral messaging.
I'm so glad I left that place. I've never lived in a place that was so obnoxiously proud of its past, all the while so completely hypocritical about its present situation. Great school, shit town.
This post is pure victim blaming that adds nothing of substance to the conversation ("The Times describes some founders who put up with unwanted sexual advances"... clearly the people who have come forward precisely DO NOT put up with the unwanted sexual advances?!?!?!?!). The author should perhaps realize that they are privileged to have never experienced the distresses many have reported, instead of smugly dismissing it with an argument that amounts to "well I'm old and I see no problems here" (EDIT: never mind, turns out the author was born in 1982, not worked in the valley since 1982, which makes her argument just "I'm a random person and I see no problems here", even less forgivable).

I have a very hard time understanding what kind of mind, when given the choice to support rich powerful people who abuse their power or women who just would like to get their work done and build a career in a professional environment, chooses to believe and stick by the former.

Given that this is on the front page already I expect my post to be heavily disagreed with, but at least people who have experienced discrimination/harassment can see that not all of the HN users think it's their fault.
That's because many people have been looking for FB's demise for many years now. And generally people are pretty pro-Google. Especially the tech community. Including places like HN. So of course there would be articles and talk of Google+ being a threat. But it was always fluff.

There's articles to this day spelling the doom and gloom of Tesla. Just like there have been many for the past decade. It has always been one of the most shorted stocks. This isn't directly analogous, but just because a large amount of people believe this doesn't mean there aren't also a large amount of people who don't. Aka these people won't have hindsight bias either.

Many people also did not think Google+ was ever a threat, myself included. Google+ was always the butt of jokes with my friends with their inflated user numbers. So there isn't any hindsight bias from me or my friends or many discussions and articles I read during the time that didn't take G+ seriously.

IG stories isn't identical to Snap stories yet. IG is starting to think about allowing you to limit who you post content to. I assume this will be done with nice UX. Then the direct comparison of Snap and IG stories can be made. For now, IG stories main ground it has taken from Snap is unlikely to go back to Snap. People or companies with bigger audiences. IG makes more sense as a place to post your stories for these users.

It's likely that IG stories ratio of users who only consume stories is much greater than Snap. And the avg IG story has many more viewers. But Snapchat likely has many more stories posted.
Love the idea and I'm looking forward to what you find for us!
Remarkable similarity between the '39/'40 logo and the logo of the Swedish wooden toy company BRIO used until quite recently: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_BRIO.svg
> Once you've taken on the role of a victim, any number of injustices that are just part of human nature can be attributed to whatever you perceive as the source.

Why do you think this is happening? When a woman is ignored in a meeting, she doesn't think "it's because I'm a woman". She thinks "every single day people make jokes about me sleeping my way to the top, they try to hit on me while I'm doing my job, they criticize my outfit even though they've worn the same suit every day for five years straight, they refuse to meet with me alone, why would this meeting be any different?"

Next time something bad happens to you, don't just imagine being female or black in that moment. Imagine if you've been female or black for your whole life, and have direct daily evidence of people not respecting you.
Cmder is a package of Conemu (already mentioned by ZenoArrow), Clink, and Unix tools with a nicer theme. It's the best that I've tried on Windows.

http://cmder.net/

Hyper also has a Windows port if you're into that kind of thing.

https://hyper.is/
Now there's a fire risk in San Francisco's leaning, sinking Millennium Tower
isn't it more like Richard Branson or Larry Ellison. I mean I can't imagine Elon spending so much money on such poor things like Yacht or private island. :)
Mickey was my mentor and didn't get a chance to directly work with Sean and Harold. My project was to build APIs in Vala to control the hardware (volume, screen brightness, etc) through DBus. Was a great learning experience but could see the ominous signs towards the end of my summer.

Got a device to hack on and the fact that I could SSH into a phone and have a shell to goof around was exciting back then. Android was just announced IIRC and getting it work on Freerunner was so much fun.
Mostly stoked about serverless because I won't have to deal with grumpy backend devs anymore
I am thinking of Monero and CryptoNight not Ethereum for FPGAs for that reason. I am thinking of ideally something like Virtex-7 or Vertex-8 with 32Mbit or more of memory.
Finally someone points out the situation in another light.

These women (and men) that get unwanted sexual advances from the rich and powerful only go public LONG after they can see they will not get money.

How many of these men and women are a little "extra" friendly or dress a little more beautifully, or just a little extra flirtatious at the beginning of asking for A LOT OF MONEY?

For these so called "scandals" there is not a single text message or conversation thread as evidence or shared publically.

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm just saying that an outsider reading the conversation thread would realize it's a lot more nuanced than a lot of alleges victoms are proclaiming. The truth is usually messier than the lie.
So this looks like the AMD alternative to the Intel DAAL libraries?
Its a despicable situation for sure, but leaving emotion aside, the assertion that the victims are putting up with sexual advances in order to get money appears to be factually correct (in this one case - i.e. seeking investment - not in the case of just trying to do your job).

Is it so easy to say that's totally different from prostitution?

Of course that leads to the observation that many prostitutes probably feel trapped, and would prefer to have legitimate ways to get the money they need/want.
Don't use this unless you want to see your insurance rates go up
That's a good point that I didn't consider. You could squash commits to get that property back, but the results wouldn't carry much meaning.
Some ends justify some means
2: We are currently working on a compiler to automatically delineate tasks, assign domains etc. given sequential code. As part of that effort, we are looking at SPEC workloads, yes.
If you do not respect work that don't bring money, like parenting, spending time with children, preparing a family gathering, that's your prerogative. Don't project your disdain for these activities on me.

You define traditionally feminine activities as disrespected, poorly paid, cheap, and then put traditionally masculine activities on a pedestal by calling it a metric of success then tell everyone who is doing the former they are prevented from doing the latter. Who is creating the inequity here?

And is equal material wealth your highest value? What about love?

And I am unequivocally against barring women or minorities from economic activity. Just in case, you thought I am.
The writer is just hypothesizing.
Right now I spend $240-600/mo for 192TB of bandwidth. I just used AWS's calculator and they charge $38,876.48/mo for the same thing.

I don't subscribe to the theory that this is "the future".
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