skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few definitely are trying to adapt with the jr dev saturation problem. I went to one in San Diego called Origin Code Academy and they're trying out extension courses and have already succeeded with final project internships rather than letting students come up with their own app. I don't know yet if that'll help them survive but the latter gives their graduates a leg up in the job search.
Short but annoying answer -- you are not buying a widget, you are executing a contract of carriage with an airline, governed by a multi-page written contract and hundreds if not thousands of pages of associated government regulations.

That contract gives both you and the airline a number of very specific performance requirements, and also a bunch of outs in situations like weather delays.

To get into the longer answer -- seats on a plane are a special kind of commodity, because they become completely worthless the minute the door closes. If you really want to treat them as widgets, 99.999% of the time the result will be worse for the airline (they fly a plane with empty seats, which they do not get paid for), and worse for the consumer (people don't get where they want to go, because planes are taking off with empty seats).

I will argue that a world where airlines overbook, we all get lower fares and better flight availability, passengers can change their tickets with nominal penalties, significantly less than 1% of passengers are compensated to change their flight plans, and 0.007% of passengers (that's 7 people out of 100,000) are involuntarily bumped with compensation (source: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2017/03/20/hold...) is better than the alternative.
The best writing on the subject of temporary businesses is by Ted Goranson, especially his short monogram "Whale of a tale", now out of print (I've suggested to him that he simply upload it to Amazon and self publish it, but he has not yet done so).

Of businesses that exist for a specific job he calls them Agile Virtual Enterprises. He traces the history of the AVEs to the whaling ships of the 1600s. He points out that the laws created then continue to shape modern AVEs, and countries that did not do whaling in the 1600s generally don't have AVEs now. He focuses on industries such as film to look at how AVEs evolved during the 20th century and how that culture helped influence modern startup life.
I'd welcome tags but they'd have to be heavily moderated. Over at Lobsters people commonly use the wrong tag (in purpose or not), and the site has far less users.
This reminds me to re-read Coase's "The Nature of the Firm." 80 years old and still brilliant.
> Science fiction almost universally assumes the speed of light is not a hard limit.

Not at all, you need to look at other sub-genres. The social, economic and military structures that form around slower than light travel are a mainstay of hard science fiction. "A Deepness in the Sky" is a great example. So is the first half of "Neptune's Brood" or the second half of "Accelerando". Any story that uses a generation ship as the setting, like "Hull Zero Three", also assumes sub-light travel. Or what would happen if present-day society discovered an alien race next door, like in "The Sparrow". Or maybe we need to make ourselves slightly less human to survive sub-light space travel. "Blindsight" and "Echopraxia" explore the philospohical ramifications of that. Even "Ender's Game" doesn't have FTL travel.

Now space opera almost universally assumes that FTL is possible. Though there are exceptions, Ian Banks "The Algebraist" is my favorite sub-light space opera.

edit: Some hard sci-fi will still use wormholes, either as a normal thing or a macguffin. FTL communication is also common. Though FTL comms are getting less common in modern hard sci fi. Us readers like this and it makes for convenient plot devices as comm lag leads to misunderstandings.

TV and movies are almost always space opera, with "The Expanse" being the only sub-light TV production that comes to mind, and "2001" for film. But I don't know as much about film as books.
> it then increases exponentially with warp-10 being infinite velocity

No, no, no. That was only in the Voyager episode Threshold. It is widely regarded as one of the worst Voyager episodes, and the entire plot of that episode doesn't make any sense. There are questions of if this episode is even canon.

In any event, there are other Star Trek episodes where warp 10 is not a hard limit. All Good Things has ships traveling at Warp 13. The Kelvans modified the TOS Enterprise to travel at Warp 11. Even within Voyager, transwarp conduits allow for travel faster than whatever warp 10 would be if you disregard Threshold.

Warp 10 is not infinite velocity. It's just a line in a terribly written episode.
I think the TN actually helps the Canadian tech industry. It might be a bit counterintuitive but as an engineer in the Bay Area on TN, I can see myself spending a few more years down here and eventually move back to Canada to set up shop.

I would take what I've learned along with the connections I've made and start a business in a country that's more immigrant friendly, has universal healthcare and is very close to the US.
This really depends on what is the driver of the current rise of neural networks and other similar machine learning techniques... whats the contributions of data and method toward the new improvements in performance? If more data is main contribution I would venture to say that China can indeed beat USA.
The Paradox of Suspense
> Poor black people kill poor black people for being poor and black.

White people mostly kill white people, for the same reasons - crimes tend to be committed in the perpetrators' own communities. This little dog whistle tidbit of "black-on-black crime" people trot out is mainly an indication of how segregated American society still is.
It would be nice if that were true I agree, but in fact for many people a major part of the journey is getting to the point where you can teach yourself effectively. Some of those people benefit from these sorts of horrific social environments.
soon as i have some funds i will be getting one but only if ECC is supported -- what would be even better is if one could do a mild OC on the part but also have ECC
Would love for the down voters to explain why.
The one that has seemed reasonable last I checked, was gore [1]. Then, you might want to check out the Golang Jupyter kernel as well (gophernotes [2]), which mentions gore as an inspiration.

[1] https://github.com/motemen/gore

[2] https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernotes
Is there any chance in the world that Craigslist has not been continuously updated and maintained behind the scenes, regardless of the stability of the UI look and feel?
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Sure, but if it's a feature that's increasing performance without a bug, it's something that should be fixed, otherwise you are paying for broken hardware.
Huh, I thought this was going to be about Taylor Series.
The market seeks asset price inflation through supply constraints.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/608w97/asset_p...
I had always thought of this as Newton's Method too, but that's because I was simply misremembering the fullness of Newton's Method [1]. I'm grateful for the education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method
> that flat-top junk

Recently we had to stay in a series of short-term lets: every flat-top electric range was hot garbage. Turning on the elements for more than 10 minutes caused the electronic controls to flake out & not recognise fingerpresses, so we couldn't turn off a burner without disconnecting the whole unit from mains.
Open-sourcing del.icio.us one line at a time
"seems like a Chinese front if you look at the team."

...you mean it's Chinese people? What on earth makes this a "Chinese front" rather than just a company with a Chinese team?
Wow, in my tests everything seems to run fine, fast and bug free, congratulations for that!
Because in dystopian movies (your comment reminded me of 'The Fifth Element') they never show the 'but it's just so convenient!'-part.

Not arguing for these things, I'd never get one either, but I'm just saying there are (probably?) positive sides to having one as well.
ZFS isn't clustered

The ZFS storage appliance offers clustered configurations: https://www.oracle.com/storage/nas/index.html

It's unclear what your requirements are when stating "clustered".

and has no concept of HSM, so migrating hot blocks from NVMe to SSD then disk and tape isn't an option

Oracle HSM integrates with ZFS:

https://www.oracle.com/storage/tape-storage/hierarchical-sto...

Also stuff around disk rebuilding is still pretty old. Modern FSs can detect a failed disk and rebuild the array in minutes based on FEC and even distribution of data.

ZFS can detect a failed disk and rebuild in minutes as well depending on storage and system speed, etc. so I'm wondering what you're referring to?
Mind that there is no need for estimates and backtracking when doing it in binary!

Since the term q for solving the remainder r for any step as in the binomial r = x2 - 4p2 - q(4p + q) is either 1 or 0 in a base-2 system, evaluating the "fit" becomes merely a matter of testing a boolean value. (Therefor we can go for a straight-forward algorithm. No need for interpolations, here.)
When I'm doing a new C project I usually go out of my way to make sure it compiles clean with GCC and clang. Each compiler has its strength and weaknesses. GCC tends to produce faster code in some situations where clang has great static code analysis tools and asan is amazing. I've heard GCC has made major improvements in build speed since the last time I've started a new C project from scratch but that used to be on my list of reasons too.

C can be a hard to wrangle beast and the more checks I have on my code quality the better I sleep at night.
It is equivalent when applied to the function f(a) = a^(1/2) - x. Also, one needs to divide by 2 since if a is the square root of x, then a+x/a = a + a = 2a.

n-th roots are not quite as nice, but still work fairly simply:
((n-1) a + x/a^(n-1) )/n

You can see that the fixed point (a = nth root of x) works out as it should.
I'm pretty sure Botox was originally used for Strabismus.
Node.js: Constant HashTable Seeds Vulnerability Explanation
I have a Ryzen 5 1600 with a pair of Crucial ECC UDIM. It works perfectly on the ASUS Prime B350M-A/CSM uATX board. Stress tested. Errors are logged and halt behavior is confirmed (ubuntu 17.04).
I agree with the points you made:

1. It is good software

2. It looks the same as it did 10 years ago

Although I don't know for sure, I suspect it has been updated, modified, debugged and so on quite actively over the last 10 years.
Most of the time, secrets and other forms of protectionism are techniques used for covering up incompetence, or hiding bad behaviour.
One important question too is, "When did the housing market in SF shut down new development?" I address related questions here: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut...:

Oddly, cities began to freeze in earnest, via zoning laws, in the 1970s. One can see this both from the link and from Google’s Ngram viewer, which sees virtually no references to gentrification until the late 70s, and the term really takes off later than that.

Moreover, the book Zoning Rules! discusses how this actually happened: https://www.amazon.com/Zoning-Rules-Economics-Land-Regulatio.... The fact that it used to be relatively easy to build new housing as demand increases means that we could make it easy again. This is fundamentally a legal problem (we should not allow so many property rights to be violated by non-owners) and a political problem (we are not addressing housing and issues at the right level of government).

It's striking how few affordable housing discussions have a historical view of the issue!
I appreciate the follow up. I think where we disagree is that a priced round is a disincentive to the founder. Instead of a disincentive, I think a priced round is "fair." A few quick comments:

- are there any other areas where, as a buyer/investor, you buy at a discount to a future price instead of an estimated current price? For example in places where houses appreciate quickly, people still buy houses at a fixed price. No seller ever says "this house might be worth $2m-5m in 10 years, so instead of buying it for $1m today, which don't you buy it for a 20% discount to when you sell it 10 years from now?" Same thing with paintings, stocks, etc.

- the $5m -> $30m mark-up is not a mispricing. For public stocks, pricing is based is based on expected cash flows. For example, if a company is expected to make $10m/year for 30 years, it might be worth $300m today, minus an adjustment for inflation (so maybe it's only worth $200m today). For startups, the valuation is based on "% chance of a huge outcome." So when a company goes from $5m to $30m in valuation, that doesn't mean its revenues jumped 6x. What it really means is investors think the company made enough progress so that instead of a 1% chance at a $1b exit, there's now a 6% chance at a $1b exit. In that regard, the company is worth $30m today, but it was also not worth that at the seed round.
Odds are you carry one with you everywhere you go.
Didn't downvote, but curious: how do you know the Chinese VC's are fake?
repl.it's Go REPL is quite good: https://repl.it/languages/go
Yeah, i agree with most of that, particularly the utility of having your projections be pure functions. You can go a really long way on ES by doing on-demand projections (with or without snapshots as you describe). However, I stand by what I said earlier in that you don't query streams—though whether you subscribe as a live projection or request the entire stream (or perhaps the entire stream from version number X onward, to be used with snapshots) is definitely a YMMV kind of question.
Several members of the Go team have invested significant effort in studying generics and designing proposals, since before Go 1.0. For example, Ian Lance Taylor published several of his previous efforts, which had shortcomings he was dissatisfied with.

I believe your impression of the Go team's position has been corrupted (likely unintentionally) by intermediaries.
Not having generics makes it hard to do proper type safe functions and libraries.

My specific problem when i realized it was an actual problem was when i tried to connect to a sql databse and working with a proper ORM.
More people applies to many applications. Drug research, for example, would greatly increase if China got into that business.
So we start from bad thing X, ISP monopolies; we patch that with bad thing Y, net neutrality; and then we fix THAT with bad thing Z, exemptions for businesses. And then we get the tax code :)
They should look up the usage of empty interfaces [in the wild or in-house].
You are indeed right, this was once in the Catalyst center, but the radeon controls never got the feature: https://community.amd.com/thread/195561
I see performance increases in every row there, so it must be beneficial in most cases.
Congrats!

Great people, great product and great contributions to OSS. Well deserved and keep rocking!
I hope by now you have discovered the contradiction between your two paragraphs. People know, they just don't discuss it publicly.
I don't know this for sure, but as someone who lives in SF, I would guess that's less the case here than in LA. The city is much less supportive of private vehicle ownership (for good reason imo, but that's a bit off-topic) than most cities in the U.S.
Sorry, maybe legit is too harsh a word, but in many cases I've seen privacy policies and terms of service to be a requirement to do business with the likes of Amazon and Google etc...
If nothing else, send a report to soc@ren-isac.net. If NEIU is a member, the folks at the watch desk will have te ability to immediately get in touch with someone in security there.

I'm no longer at an .edu (and so no longer a member of REN-ISAC) but this was a great, quick way to get ahold of someone at another institution quickly.

(n.b.: This goes for pretty much any .edu.)
How Can Drones Be Used in Making Our Lives Better?
We used Segment for application analytics and exception reporting in an enterprise setting. Their .NET libraries were abysmal and had some show-stopper bugs that we wrestled with, particularly broken dependencies. I eventually had to fork the Analytics.NET repo and fix them myself. It was months before I heard any response to the issues or PRs, although they did eventually get merged in. It was just disappointing overall. I don't know why they'd release .NET tooling but have it be broken out-of-the-box, or maintain an open source project but not respond to any contributions.
> For example, I've been examining generics recently, but I don't have in my mind a clear picture of the detailed, concrete problems that Go users need generics to solve.

This is sampling bias at work. The people who need generics have long since given up on Go and no longer even bother participating in Go-related discussions, because they've believe it will never happen. Meanwhile, if you're still using Go, you must have use cases where the lack of generics is not a problem and the existing language features are good enough. Sampling Go users to try and find compelling use cases for adding generics is not going to yield any useful data almost by definition.
There is nothing inherently wrong with the idea of overbooking as it allows for more efficient use of planes, but if the airlines screws up and has too many passengers at the time the flight is to leave, involuntary bumping should not be allowed - it is the airline's responsibility to fulfill their contract. If they think paying people to give up their seat would be too expensive, they shouldn't overbook.

I agree the system in the article sounds like a good start - making more efficient use of planes is better for everyone.
It's pretty clear...

- When you say the wake word it starts.

- The light is on when it is recording.

- Once you say a phrase to activate an app it goes to that app.

That last one is a bit fuzzy. "Open APP_NAME", "tell APP_NAME" and a few other phrases will trigger it which may not be all that clear.

This change only effects stuff you say after you trigger the app.

And if Amazon doesn't obey it AND somehow no one can reverse engineer and detect that they aren't playing by the rules... someone at Amazon will whistle-blow and it will cost the company millions if not billions.

Sound the alarms when I developer reports receiving logs of conversations that weren't with their app. There are thousands of developers. One of them has to be honest.

The only concern I possibly have is if the governments orders them to activate it as a listening device, but this particular article is not about that.

This article is distorting the truth to get clicks. Period.
There are all-flash based and hybrid ZFS configurations from some vendors, so I don't understand how that's a point.

As for the rest, I was looking for more concrete comparisons, and third-party software integrations don't seem relevant to this conversation.
Insticator raises $5.2M to help publishers make their stories more interactive
Yes -- 0.007 percent of passengers, or about 70 ppm.
I think it is the other way around. Many known Jewish caricatures were taken directly from this book.
Sounds like heavy parallel compiling hits it pretty often. Or you mean even that doesn't happen with every chip? Is it some kind of random hardware defect that's not always present?
Go 2, codename "Hell with generics". Just kidding of course. I am sure some useful form of generics will eventually find its way in.
What happened with your experience there?
If you select the hardcover, they are close to $300 usd. Perhaps that is what was meant?
Look at the Received: headers.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity
There's barely any pedestrian-safe areas in Southern California where people congregate. And they say the malls are dying. I wouldn't know, I haven't been in one in years.
Ok, you win that round :)
I'm an engineer at Rover and we're definitely hiring. If you enjoy writing python and want to work with a great team of people (and dogs), you should totally apply.
Okay, if downvotes is what I get then here's an answer.

No, ISPs do not fit under Title II and it's not the way to go to ensure net neutrality. Even congress agrees that Title II was never meant for broadband.

Power grab? The above. It was never meant for broadband.

Quote from the EFF:
> But Congress has never given the FCC any authority to regulate the Internet for the purpose of ensuring net neutrality.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-per...
I'm skeptical of the meter of that limerick.
If you perform the algorithm described in the article in base 2 rather than base 10, you'll get binary search. Instead of (10 A) do (2 A), etc. Each step is easier (no guessing and checking), but there are more steps because each step gives you one bit rather than one decimal digit.
If you are willing to believe that a smart speaker is compromised to a degree that violates your privacy, why would you believe your cell phone can't be compromised to the same degree? You cell phone is also likely to be present for every "conversation with a friend" at which your smart speaker is present so I think the "intimacy" issue is a red herring.
No. Read the output of the date command and the aforementioned Stack Exchange answer again. The Epoch was the same physical second in both the "right" and the "posix" systems. It is 1.5 Gs (not Ms as I mistyped) since that second at 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000.

The fact that you've got a difference of 37 between your two values should be a clue that you've got this wrong. The current difference between UTC and TAI-10 is 27 seconds. Again, read the Stack Exchange answer for details.

And 1.5 Gs since the Epoch will be 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000 on both "posix" and "right" systems. A "right" wall clock reads the same as a "posix" wall clock, except at leap seconds of course. 2017-07-14 02:39:33 "posix" is the same point in time as 2017-07-14 02:39:33 "right": 1.5 Gs since the Epoch. It is not the same point in time as 2017-07-14 02:40:10 "right"/"posix", which is 1500000037 seconds since the Epoch.

jdebp % TZ=right/UTC date +"%s %F %T %z" -d "@1500000037"
1500000037 2017-07-14 02:40:10 +0000
jdebp %

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294715/5132
The free basics plan proposed by Facebook was rejected by the telecom regulatory authority of India due to the protests from people. This was a standadlone incident which happened in 2016. Later 2016 saw the introduction of Jio 4G service provider which began to provide super cheap 4G service for the masses (approx 5$ for 28GB and it was free when it launched) which made other telecoms to drop the prices massively. Apart from some sites which Government has censored I have experienced no major problems with India's Internet. I even traveled from the southern part of India to the northern part in train enjoying uninterrupted 4G Internet earlier this year(Around 2400Km). We are happy how India's ISPs are going and don't have much to complain. Thank you.
They own a minority stake in an entity that has to pay Yandex for infrastructure, licensing rights and advertising which Yandex controls.

So this entity racks up a lot of debt (to Yandex) while making transfer payments to Yandex and then in a few years: "whoops, bankrupt!"

Now the equity holders (Uber) get wiped out and the company re-organizes and sells its assets (to Yandex) to pay off its debts (to Yandex) and Uber gets nothing.

Oh, NO! That's not legal! That's not fair! Good luck in Russian court buddy.

They are losing everything. They are burning another $225M to forestal the inevitable and pretend like it is not a complete loss but it is only a matter of time.