skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is so much for both to lose if they delay - a settlement works better for the company and them
This is what it looked like before the change: http://archive.is/j8cns
Oddly enough Microsoft is the only company I can see bucking this trend right now.

I'll second that - both Azure and Surface are best-in-class.
I honestly don't understand the hate. If you're going to DV me at least take a sec to read the thread or let me know what your issue is. The thread has some good responses from Juan; that's really the only reason I posted it here. I thought of going decentralized because (at the time) I loved soundcloud. I used it as an artist and also as a listener. I've been around long enough to know that their model was not sustainable and eventually all the great content would disappear. Decentralized makes sense for something like SC. Let the people who find it valuable share in the costs of serving it a la bit torrent.
There's an assumption with induced demand that all the extra trips are mostly unnecessary, because there are slightly-less-convenient alternatives. It sounds like you're making the opposite assumption that they're mostly necessary: "critical shortage of parking".

It seems like this isn't likely to be settled via armchair reasoning in an online discussion; someone needs to look at the data (for example, at pricing), and that's likely to lead to a complicated economics discussion.
I've started reading the book this is excerpted from: A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
It's very well written.
I built a website which offers real-time statistics for Philadelphia's Regional Rail train system: https://www.septastats.com/

This lets public transit passengers answer questions like:

- "My train is getting later and later, is it actually moving?"

- "My train is getting later and later, has it actually STARTED its journey?" (sometimes the answer is "no", sadly)

- "Is it just my train, or are many trains running late?"

- "What was the on-time performance of this train like yesterday? 2 days ago? 7 days ago?" (Some trains tend to be chronically late)

It may come as a surprise that the backend of the system is actually not a database, but Splunk (http://www.splunk.com). DBs are nice, but Splunk is fantastic when it comes to data analytics and reporting.

I'm currently waiting for Splunk to make some of their machine learning modules available for free so that I can start pulling in weather data, train the machine learning component against both that and the train data, and use that to predict the likelihood of any given train becoming late.
ITS NOT A LOOPHOLE. This isn't some oversight. The tax law was written that way with intent!

People don't want companies to pay tax on revenue. And Amazon makes very little profit!

No company on earth spends $100 so they can save $40 on their tax bill. It is nonsensical.
> I'd rather see some interesting discussion around whether they should be paying more (or less).

You mean like this?

"If someone wants to argue for a 1% or 2% revenue tax rather than a much higher rate but only on profits, that's the argument to make."

Have the discussion if that's what you want, instead of whining about loopholes.
Explicit, explicit, explicit. I'll take readability over brevity any day (and twice on Sundays) and I believe relying on implicit behavior and various forms of "black magic" hurts readability. Saving a few keystrokes for the sake of saving keystrokes is a false economy if it makes the code harder to read for the next poor sap who comes along and has to read it (which, guess what, may be the poor sap who wrote it in the first place!).
It sounds like Autonomy. Or Palantir.
Actually its a problem with Visual studio, Ryzen utterly destroys comptetition when it comes to compilation. Unfortunately Anandtech does not test with GCC or Clang.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-kab...
Anyone have any thoughts about using block-chain for making/recording pension contracts and contributions?
Deliberate Git [video]
> Our platform uses Docker images to run the code

Hopefully you've already thought this through and you left out all of the copious complex security details of the sandboxing out of this announcement.

But just in case you haven't:

- containers don't provide the best sandboxing on their own

- if I get sufficient privilege in your container, I can read/write directly to the device nodes inside the container to impact the host

- you should also fear cryptocurrency miners burning your cycles

But, kudos to you -- this looks like a really neat feature. A quick skim of your homepage seems to suggest that sandboxing should be core to your product's success, so I'll just hope for the best. :)
just in case you had missed it, a discussion on this topic (roughly three weeks ago) could be found here...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825473
The key point of conflict appears to be the following:

The suit revolves around the June 2016 decision to expand the size of Uber's board of voting directors from eight to 11, with Kalanick having the sole right to designate those seats. Kalanick would later name himself to one of those seats following his resignation, since his prior board seat was reserved for the company's CEO. The other two seats remain unfilled. Benchmark argues that it never would have granted Kalanick those three extra seats had it known about his "gross mismanagement and other misconduct at Uber"

I never understood this practice of investors/founders having such wide discretion when it comes to controlling board seats. It always seemed to me that board representation should be roughly proportional to equity ownership. If a founder/VC controls 30% of the equity, he should be given control over ~30% of the board seats. Such an arrangement seems like the best way to ensure that incentives are aligned, and to prevent drama/shenanigans like whatever led to this suit.
Great news! I'm very bullish on digital currencies.
Crowdfunding is a HORRIBLE financing model for real estate.

Real estate is a long term investment, where risk is best reduced by diversifying risk across many real estate assets. Any crowdfunding model for real estate that seeks to raise funds in a non-diversified way is scammy and almost certainly going to harm retail investors who get sucked into it.
people and companies behind amazon's desicions to keep growing instead of making income are amazons largest shareholders and made billions from amazons stock price going up. if they cant tax revenue then tax the capital gains from soaring stock prices
Nah, I don't buy your reply but totally understand your perspective. My assessment and general advice stands as is, for most people (including US citizens) it makes a lot of sense to avoid any US or UK based VPN providers. I'd personally also avoid a company operating under French jurisdiction.
Friends of a Certain Age (2012)
Use EC2, set an auto scaling threshold on CPU utilization, do something dumb, you’ll find you ran “a server” x n.

It’s easy to burn tens or hundreds of thousands ‘accidentally’ on “server”, easier than on serverless.

If you’re spending real money, you should have an account team. Talk to them if such a problem happens.
What type of support?
Well, anything you can say you can also type out.
You must have missed this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Star_Trek:_The_Next...
There is nothing new here other than Benchmark Capital thinking they can choose and pick a shareholder decision to revert based on the recent Uber gates.

Seems very thin on the ground given there is no ruling in a court of law against Kalanick in any of those.
+ soundcloud redesign

+ merge the same shared track
> bob shared "sounds01"
> randy shared "sounds01" {at a later time}
>>merge names if the same track is shared
> Bob & Randy shared "sounds01"
>>ui animations if in real time change of merge, otherwise don't animate

+ make an artist collaboration area
> see Reestablishing Groups/Clubs

+ different subscription models
> free artist account
> paid artist account
[removes ads + more upload space]
~
> free listener account
> paid listener account
[removes ads + more playlists]
~
> advertiser account
[design fill-form ads that link directly to soundcloud track/album (all ads are in the same style, text and links.)]

+ less hassle create playlists - ui
> see old soundcloud, pre-redesign

+ no hidden ui buttons [download, buy etc]

+ having another subcategory called 'reposted/shared' along side tracks, etc.
> toggle reposts on paid accounts

+ groups/clubs readded
> Reestablishing Groups/Clubs to make soundcloud more open to collaboration and like minded playlists.
> Group playlists
That’s what he’s saying but that’s not correct.
https://www.iterm2.com/
Mac only, unfortunately.
Why do people constantly jump to the defensive when any study comes out saying marijuana is bad for you? Whether it is or not shouldn't be an issue. The true question is whether it matters and why should the government be meddling in what grown people decide to put in their own body.
All traffic is served by CDN sponsors for free.
But I pay for most servers, services and freelancers like designers and developers.

It costs a lot when I do changes requiring external help which is quite often.
No, I don't think so, assuming the manager also said something along the lines of "The check might run right up before your talk. Please make sure to check your phones before walking on stage so that if something happens last minute you'll know. I'll promise to text you either way."
The trading bot sounded fun. I was always curious about the bots that were apparently used on betting sites like betfair to perform arbitrage.
myNoise generators require a considerable amount of bandwidth.
In order to keep the service running for an increasing number of users,
non contributing visitors are restricted to one full sound every minute.
This limit has been reached.

Kind of funny. Tone generators: the biggest bandwidth hog.
The Design of Nothing
https://github.com/mini2Dx/mini2Dx - A simple API for writing 2D games in Java (originally inspired by Slick2D)

I've been extending and updating the framework for a few years now. There's a tiny userbase but I like writing my games with it.
It's interesting how HN have quite a bit of right wing extremist comment sprinkle here and there, I always thought it was a rare occurrence.

I also think you simplifying nuclear power. You still need to store the waste and it something quite a few people dislike. And no body is investing in Thorium R&D, at least not in USA.

> aquatic life and birds more

There are several country side plastic patches in the ocean which is cause cause of oil products that cannot biodegrade in a reasonable time.

The global warming cause by oil which in turn cause bleaching, killing aquatic life, causing far more damage than whatever you think wind turbines are causing.

Airplane and free roaming cats kill more birds than wind turbines. I know turbines do kill birds but they can move it away from migration paths.
> For example I doubt we'll see any benefits of decreased safe separation in cities where there are cyclists and pedestrians and other factors that are hard to predict.

Well, yeah, that applies to roads with exclusive use of autonomous vehicles, which clearly doesn't apply to roads shared with cyclists and pedestrians, but limited access freeways. But even within cities those can serve as arterial routes.
Not at all. This is a myth.
As an example, the Vestas V164-8MW seems to be one of the largest off-shore wind turbines, and has a rotor diameter of 164m and a rotational speed of between 4.8 and 12.1rpm. [1]

Unless I'm miscalculating, that means that the tip of one of the rotors will travel 515 metres per revolution, which at 4.8-12.1rpm is a tip speed of between 2,472 metres per minute and 6,231 metres per minute.

To put that in more common units, that's between 148km/h and 373km/h.

[1] https://stateofgreen.com/en/profiles/vestas/solutions/v164-8...
Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.
Public transit must be better there than it is in most of the SF Bay Area -- the biggest cost of transit for most workers is the time.

When I worked in SF, it took 45 minutes to drive there, and an hour and 15 minutes to get their by train+bus. Assuming I got on the express train.

On a bad day (missed the express train, had to wait up to an hour for a slow all-stops local train), transit could take over 2 hours.
In this presentation Stephen Ball talks about ways you can utilize git to be more than just source control. Not being able to speed up videos on Vimeo is a bit annoying, but still there are some nice ideas in there that makes it worthwhile to watch. The talk is given on August 17 2013 at Steel City Ruby in Pittsburgh, PA.
There's also time dilation but not much at that speed.

Some kind of sleep hibernation tech, might make it possible to kind of stop or dramatically slow down aging.
Fun programming story!
Yes. The article you are referring to has been to the top of HN. And I think the buzzfeed article did a good job by speculating on the reasons why Sound Cloud may be doing bad with CEO not being available. This TechCrunch article, however uses just the image with no context to explain something which is _completely_ out of context for what this article is trying to convey.
They did, it was a picture of the CEO at Burning Man iirc.
Two Leave-It-Anywhere Bike Sharing Services Aim to Transform Seattle
Wealth taxes are supposed to be paid in cash not stock so he would have to liquidate of the stock
SoundCloud looks like a UK company with a german daughter company to me:

https://m.soundcloud.com/imprint
And it works without enabling JavaScript!
> Bezos doesn't have to pay anything on the 10s of billions worth of unrealized gains in AMZN stock either.

It bugs me that you understand the gains are "unrealized" but still use it as an argument to tax him. What part of "unrealized" do you not get?

I value your HN username at $10 billion. Pay a tax of $4 billion you greedy jerk.
It's always nice to read the details of people building real applications, even if it's not a homerun.

BTW: just blurring people's names using a gaussian blur operator is not enough, if your radius is too small. From the screenshots of chats, you can tell names like "Arvind Sankar", "Manu Saravanan", etc.
I'm just getting started with Vue 2, these look great and I'll definitely be downloading to experiment with.
TensorFlow Optimizations on Modern Intel Architecture
"Employees told us the company is “a shitshow,” with a lack of product direction, talent leaving and employees secretly using Spotify."

Weird. I never really thought about SoundCloud and Spotify being actual competitors. I've always felt that SoundCloud did a lot better with indie/obscure artists, remixes, and the whole "soundclown" meme genre, whereas Spotify did a lot better with commercial/mainstream artists and albums. I use both frequently.
Security Team Weekly Summary: August 10, 2017
I dunno, it is hard to argue there was any meaningful political opposition from the Right when Senator Jesse Helms voted for the bill.
> Wealth taxes are harder to dodge this way and should make up more of the tax revenues.

Or estate (inheritance) tax which could be considered a special form of wealth tax.
Wow, 12 kHz is not audible to most adults? That's pretty surprising.
> Establishing harassment as something independent and impervious to truth creates the ultimate echo chamber that enables a post-fact world.

Why is harassment determined by humans in a court of law, very often using their gut instincts, if it has some ultimate test tube truth that can be used to decide whether or not it occurred? What's the lab test I'm not aware of? Ok, I'm being a little facetious, but still, can you even guide me to an written objective source of truth that describes exactly what harassment is and isn't? I can provide tons of concrete examples and we all know it when we see it, but I think it's incredibly hard to give an objective description. It's certainly never about words. One person's "nigger" is friendly, the other person's "nigger" is harassment and how it was intended and how it was received both have to do with what each person was feeling. Is there a way to to objectively determine truth about how people felt when they said or heard something?

> So anyone who comes to you with a fact or a quantum of reality you don't like should be considered a harasser?

I never said that. I did say that harassment is about human relationships and people skills and not in the domain of facts. You can lie to someone and harass them. You can tell them the truth and harass them. You can lie to someone and make their day better. You can tell the truth to someone and make their day better. There is very little relationship between objective truth and people skills.

> You create a strawman

No, it's an analogy. And a very very close one. The original document made sweeping generalizations about women. I simply replaced "women" with "blacks" so it's easier to see the pattern of how offensive it is to make sweeping generalizations. True generalizations, or false one, folks don't like being put in a bucket of "you tend to act this way because you are an _fill in the blank_".

> Truth is what allows us to move forward as a society,

Agreed. Scientific truth and emotional truth are two very different things. Relationships don't really have a "what's right" or an objective truth do they? It's always very objective.

> Good people skills has everything to do with leading us to better and positive understanding of objective truth.

And understanding of the objective truth is a goal for some people. Other people have zero interest in the objective truth and are more interested in their emotional life and relationships with others. Or something else. Maybe art. Or sales. Both of which have little to do with objective truth. Don't assign your personal values to others.

> but strive to be like John Milton

I don't know Milton. I'll check him out. Thanks for the recommendation.
Show me in their financials where they are hiding their massive profit.
capital gains are only triggered when you sell the assets....taxing capital gains from paper moves would be a very bad idea.
"Facebook uses an internal database to track rivals... The database stems from Facebook's 2013 acquisition of a Tel Aviv-based startup, Onavo, which had built an app that secures users' privacy by routing their traffic through private servers. The app gives Facebook an unusually detailed look at what users collectively do on their phones..." - More Privacy Concerns

Wait!.. you mean an app(like facebook) where users voluntarily enter the intimate details of their personal lives doesn't respect their privacy?
Sorry for the bias folks, but facebook users typically don't respect even their own privacy.
Agreed. Fuck Benchmark. Travis makes each partner $1 billion personally and this is how they treat him? They should be blackballed by every great founder out there. I had respect for benchmark but not anymore. They are greedy assholes.
goofys - https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ - like s3fs except a lot faster

catfs - https://github.com/kahing/catfs/ - generic disk cache for fuse filesystems
Re-unification was in 1991.

The Euro transition was stable.
I have a lot of projects like that!

https://f5bot.com - Social media monitoring. It can email you when your keyword (e.g. company name) appears on Hacker News or Reddit. I don't have any plans to monetize it. I just made it as a small fun project.

Also, like many here, I've made a bunch of open source software for no reason other than the joy of it. Don't ever see that changing. https://github.com/codeplea https://github.com/tulipcharts
That's called VAT. (excluding revenue from b2b transactions of course)
The government is far behind on ML/AI. I don't see any evidence this effort is going to help them catch up.

In fact, the department of defense is far behind even the department of energy inside the US government on high performance computing, algorithms and machine learning.
There seems to be a bug in the cost of living comparison. For "Restaurant" and "Transport" it shows "x % cheaper" if the first country is cheaper. However for "Accomodation" it shows does display "x % cheaper" when the second country is cheaper.
I think it's also worth pointing out that their argument just changed dramatically, and that what they said in their followup can't readily be reconciled with their original claim that studies showed "fewer high IQ women".
So.. I went reading the article, expecting something really ridiculously bro. The article was well written, good references, but yes, uses a few silly conversation samples (for which there were no sexist, racist or homophobic references).
Still no support for 4 column panes :\
A friend and I run https://www.brewnotice.com

It started as a project for us and a handful of friends, now we have around 2,000 users. All running on a $5 / mo Digital Ocean server.

We're not planning to ever charge for it. Right now it's just fun to work on, and it gets us into a handful of beer events. Win win!
Yeah this is a lot of suspension of disbelief, but Star Trek has a bunch of those, so it's not so out of left field.

One common solution in SF novels is for aliens to be in an atmosphere suit, typically very high tech (thin and floating). In extreme cases, the suit would encase the whole body in gel fluid and also inject it into lungs and other orifices to withstand pressures from different gravities or ship acceleration.

In essence, you need a lot of tech to allow diverse aliens to spatially co-exist.

Edit: All of this ignores food. Typically, stories solve that with some kind of nano-replicator that can make any combination of chemicals safe for aliens to eat.
What you're describing is called the Wait Calculation [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Calculation
>net neutrality is what makes it impossible for individuals with a public isp connection to get the same quality as corporations with their own private networks.

Right, its definitely not the ISP monopoly/duopoly
It's a good example of the problem though. Any drive that relies on reaction mass will take too long to cross the distance to even nearby stars. The rocket equation kills the plan unless you're willing to make an absolutely ridiculous starship.

So you need a reactionless drive, which thus far is entirely science fiction.

This is even before you start thinking about micrometeorites in the way (which long transits increase the danger from), and simply maintaining complex machines in perfect working order for decades or centuries in the harsh vacuum of interstellar space with no external power source (no solar panels).

And that's before you start thinking about how we don't even know how to colonize an alien world, and unless you're willing to wait centuries to get intelligence on the planets you're flying in blind.

IMHO the answer to the Fermi Paradox is the most depressing one. Interstellar travel is too difficult and expensive. By the time it's feasible you are already well past the point of needing it. You can build endless orbital colonies and mine your home system and it's nearly unlimited resources forever. There is no need to embark on a colossally expensive boondoggle to colonize a distant solar system when everything you need is at home.
"Wobble" is perhaps a imprecise term. What is actually measured is the doppler shift of a spectral line in the star. In other words, you are measuring the velocity of the star in the radial direction (towards and away from the Earth). By measuring how the velocity changes over time, you can get a orbital period for the planet. By measuring the magnitude of the velocity change, you can get a lower bound on the mass of the planet. It is only a lower bound as depending on the orbital inclination, some of the movement will be in the perpendicular direction (back and forth on the sky). We are unable to measure this movement precisely enough to detect (in most cases).
You can optimize step 3 away into step 2.