skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication is that the company that serves public data could impose conditions on the use of that data, for example they could:

1. ban the use of ad blockers when accessing the data
2. ban users making an offline copy to view later
3. ban users from disabling auto play or other features
4. otherwise control what you do with data once you get it, which is *huge*.
E.g. what if they want a 1% share of any revenue you get by using the data, etc.

I think this really restricts freedom and has some scary implications for the future of the web.

Of course now, they have a technological option to try to force each of the above, but users also have a technological option to try to outsmart them. But I wouldn't want to give them a legal right to force the above.
It is jarring at first, especially if you set it to too much red. If you sloooowly ease into it, each day changing it the lowest amount you might get used to it. And when you get used to it, there is no going back.
Nothing was learned, apparently, from the massive misidentification lynch mob on Reddit in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.
"Do not tolerate the segregation that has made it illegal to sit non-violently in a public place."

Let's see... whose speech is this organizer advocating intolerance against? It appears to be the business owners who say "some people cannot be here, because they are black."

So, the business owners are violating the social contract I outlined: their actions are intolerant. The organizer is, therefore, not breaking the contract.

Someone who followed the principle I argue for would land on the side of the protestors in this case.
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And for those who care, unlike Rocket it runs on stable rust. IMO that is useful as I personally prefer running on stable than nightly.
This represents a willful misunderstanding of the issue. The problem is not that the statues are feting slaveholders, it's that they are celebrating people who went to war against the Union because they didn't want to give up being slaveholders.

Not to mention, most of the statues were put up decades after the war as an explicit message against civil rights and desegregation. Just a vile reminder all around, and there is no good reason to keep them in public spaces. If you want a reminder of history, museums exist for a reason.
I think the problem wasn't that Castar wasn't cool or neat, it was just...dim. Literally dim. They relied on pico projectors which just don't have the lumens to really throw out the brightness you need.

It had some fun demos and the eyewear wasn't awful, but it was, in my opinion, just not enough. Not enough brightness, not enough library/game support and it required you throw the retroreflective material around wherever you wanted your game surfaces to be.

If you could have a completely enclosed room, in the dark, with surfaces like you mention, that would be an ideal usecase. but ..sadly..this is not common and isn't the kind of customer base that makes a company successful.

I wanted castar to succeed too, but without a huge war chest to incentivize content/studio support and distribution to lots and lots of users, they were doomed.
Spark trade-offs are reduced range, doesn't do 4K video, 2-axis gimbal, etc.

I'm not sure what suitcase you have, but a Mavic doesn't even take up half of a hand-luggage-sized bag. I have a 40L backpack I use as carry-on when flying. In that bag, I can fit the Mavic (inc extra batteries, cards, controller, iPad, etc), sleeping bag, air mattress, stove and cooking gear, clothes and food for days of hiking.
> the obvious differences in scale and effect

What do you mean? More people were killed by communists than by Nazis.
Ok great. I understand. But what statues get taken down is about 999,999 on the list of important things in the world. Certainly not worth buying a plane ticket and playing KKK with a night time torch march. That just kind of proves the point the people who object to the statue are making. Get a fund together and rent some lawyers or something. Or buy some land and put up even a bigger statue. You can all go meet there every year and celebrate your whiteness. That is effective. What is being done is something else and it isn't effective.

On the other side, if people do want to protest who cares? Let them march all they like. Why the need for a counter rally? With clubs and sticks and shields? Over a statue? It's ridiculous. Inconceivably so.
I'd assume that we'd need to keep squeezing it or it would just revert to its current state, but I'm pretty much guessing now.
Didn't he release a statement decrying the racists and suggesting we come together? I've seen it quoted over the past two days. I suppose I could seek an official source.
Looking at a young woman and the first thing that clicks on my head its asking and answering "is she attractive?" in a matter of milliseconds; its annoying as hell... why can't my first through be something more interesting? or at least why can't it be nothing at all so it doesn't interrupt my thinking? but I have come to realize that this is a more of a hormonal reflex than what we usually consider "a thought"; an annoying reflex which exists in a lot of other species as well, not just humans. I have noticed this reflex only weakens when I'm feeling depressed or other strong negative emotions; which I guess makes a lot of sense in an evolutionary context.
Original posting is ambiguous on whether the $30k cap is yearly, or for the whole duration. Thanks for the correction.
What's especially cool about this is that most homes in the U.S. have a 240v outlet in or near the garage, meaning it's easy to recharge while visiting friends or family.
If you're jailbroken you can use f.lux on iOS. I've been using it for years.
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That one is def in poor taste, but it is private property.
oh wow ok
What is this ?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/gallery/virginia-gop-...
Just to pile on: I'd love to know what happened, too.

The gear seemed very "not vapor". There are a lot of hands-on demo stories out there going back several years. I heard that dev kits were shipped for the v1 product.

I was really, really looking forward to this gear. I don't think anything else on the market fills the multi-player tabletop gaming niche. The entire concept (and particularly the LED-based tracking) seemed novel. I really hope somebody buys the IP and produces a product.
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Unikernels are not being held back by lack of a killer app. Unikernels are being held back by lack of required support from big cloud providers.

Unikernels are a natural fit for building FAAS function as a service applications.

Much of the imperative for Unikernels has been reduced because of the rise of serverless functionality on the major cloud providers.

Unikernels are a great technology, but they have a future only if the major cloud providers implement millisecond boot and teardown times for instances, along with suitable pricing.

Until this happens, Unikernels will remain a niche technology and unless cloud providers come on board with millisecond boot times, Unikernels will fade away. Technologies that meet a real driving need get propelled forward. This is not happening with Unikernels, despite the technology now being mature enough for real world applications - the reason is lack of cloud support for millisecond boot & teardown with suitable pricing.
The fascists never really went away. They've been quietly biding their time, building up their propaganda machine, sabotaging the educational system, disrupting civil society, and waiting for their chance to strike. Now that the World War II vets who experienced fascism firsthand are dying off, they see their golden opportunity.
> I doubt that creating a new competitive search engine is quite as hard as Google would like us to believe.

MS, Yahoo and many others would disagree.
I was explicitly talking about American communities, which is the context in which the comparison between Confederate statues and the one of Lenin arose.
Most small shops don't have the expertise -- or appetite to develop it -- to do an OS and kernel comparison in depth. Larger shops like Netflix do (and Facebook, etc). So if you want a detailed answer by a systems/kernel engineering team who have spent weeks studying it, you need to ask a larger shop.

I'm one of those people. I'm on the Perf and OS team at Netflix. We're very familiar with FreeBSD -- we use it on our CDN. We're also very familiar with Linux -- we use it on our cloud. We're very familiar with a lot of other OSes too (Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, etc).

So why don't we use BSD everywhere, or Linux everywhere? There's no single reason -- it's many reasons -- and it's serious engineering time to document them all and do the topic justice. I'd like to, but I don't have that time right now.

But I wanted to point this out because I do see it commonly asked, and it sounds like a question that can be answered simply, but isn't. You're asking for engineering work, even to just summarize all the factors. I've written up an explanation of why not Solaris before on HN, since that's easy. But Linux vs FreeBSD is much more work, since they are both compelling options.
This is only the case in a minority of neighborhoods with very old local distribution infrastructure [1]. Most other local distribution grids can handle the load with little or no upgrades.

Even still, between time of use rates and smart charge scheduling, much of the EV charging load can be dispatched in such a way that actually postpones or mitigates altogether the need for grid upgrades.

[1] http://et.epri.com/Communications_Potential_Impacts_of_Vehic...
The president of the us has multiple white supremecists and literal nazis working in the White House.
Is it because the scale of the demise he caused, or because he caused it to non-americans?

If it's the former, Lenin is no saint worth a statue: http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Quotes/leni...

If it's the latter, it's a sad example of US-centrism. By that token, <insert any other non-US dictator here> would be acceptable.
Are legitimate “institutional investors” really coming onto Bitfinex’s platform?
FWIW, I routinely throw many GBs of pickled dataframes into Redis all the time, and then cluster the workload between multiple processes that are coordinated as a sort of namespaced job queue, all via Redis pubsub, blpop, l/rpush, and set/get. There are much faster and more efficient serialization formats like msgpack or protocol buffers however, compared to pickle, if you really need to squeeze out performance. You just have to chunk your bulk out into pieces and spread the bulk across multiple workers. You have an orchestrator class that puts things onto the queues, pulls things off, loads any modules you need, handles exceptions, etc...

Then you can namespace your queues (and workers), and have separate queues for results handling to push data to the next stage of the pipeline, etc... With stacks of workers, configured as needed. It's all pretty high level from there. GIL has no effect here, and as a side-effect, now you can utilize a massive number of parallel processes for heavy lifting and crunching, even on different machines over the network, where-as that wouldn't be possible with a traditional threaded architecture.

Not saying this necessarily covers your use-case, but it seems strange to use dataframes as a sort of in-memory database, vs using dataframes as the framing to do the munging and heavy lifting. What are you wanting to put multiple cursors on it or something? You could do this with greenlets, for what it's worth... But as someone who has gone down that route (multiple greenlets working over shared stack) I promise doing it with multiple processes and a queue is better, and ultimately way more flexible. Especially if you use something like msgpack or protocol buffers... Then you can have any workers from multiple programming languages and development paradigms doing different work at different stages, all orchestrated and working together via Redis.
The difference is that with Khan Academy, Coursera etc. you need self discipline. With Lambda you have a coach who expects you to be at your computer at 9am every weekday, and who has a strong financial incentive to ensure you learn.

Plus in time a Lambda qualification may become more respected by employers than a Coursera degree.
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Apparently they've never heard of rsync and -t (--times), which is implied by -a (--archive), which is recursive and copies all relevant data for archival purposes, and is the first flag I use with every single rsync command? There are plenty of file copying/syncing techniques that preserve timestamps, and if the files were previously copied to/from a device that did not (such as a thumb drive to the computer they were eventually stolen from), then it would stand to reason that the modification times would represent the times of that prior copy operation.

I mean, file timestamps have been used by some really smart people to make intersting assumptions about what's going secretly on in very interesting ways, such as Tsutomu Shimomura reportedly looking at library access times while covertly on the same remote system as Kevin Mitnick to make assumptions about what he was compiling (I don't recall the source, it may even be made up), but this isn't one of them.
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Do you think people have a right to organize protest against the removal the statue though? That's the key question in this. Not the "righteousness" of having the statue removed.
No, they were the ones with bats, rebar, and other weapons.

Before you try to assume my politics, I'm pretty far left.
We should probably include the leaders inspired by Lenin as well, which leads to significant communities of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Cuban, and other nationalities as well as the Russians.

Also the Eastern Europeans who escaped the Iron Curtain, or who still had families behind it.

The number of Americans whose families suffered because of Lenin and his followers is hard to count.
It's the latter, and it's not because of US-centrism, but because of the context in which the question was asked, which is the desire to remove statues to Confederate soldiers.
>Why does funding a company have to mean that you are forever beholden to the CEO's bad decisions?

Huh? It doesn't?
I agree with you on the call for peace.

But you're insane if you're comparing a student protest at Berkeley with a bunch of literal neo-Nazis and alt-righters celebrating white power with symbols of racism and genocide.

Not for the level of violence. But for what the violence was in service of.
Even the language used in this article is misleading: “hacked the election”. The actual allegations are that Russia was behind the hacks of the DNC servers. That is not election hacking! Hacking the election sounds like the Russians found some vulnerability with voting machines. There is no evidence of this.

In either case, Trump won the election because he won more electoral votes than Hillary. And he did this by winning more popular votes in key states. It’s that simple. The Democrats had an unappealing candidate who ran a weak campaign in key states. And lost.

What the DNC leaks do show, however, is that the Democrats ran a fraudulent primary election where they colluded with the Clinton campaign and suppressed any opposition from the left. This resulted in an unpopular candidate in the general election, and a public even more untrusting of the Clintons and the process. The Democrats needs to look in the mirror instead of playing to fears of Russian boogeyman.
Night Shift on iOS isn't terrible, I feel the benefit from it watching some streaming as I lull to sleep. But when I had f.lux on my iPad, I had shorter times to get to sleep. The screen would become so devoid of blue...everything was extremely red. Like weird red. The weird thing though, my brain adjusted to it after about 2-3 minutes. Science officer uniforms (Star Trek) still looked blue to me, even though they were more akin to a reddish-block in actual color.

IMO Apple chose the aesthetic of less red shift and traded away the sleep-assisting benefits of a more pronounced shift.
Is that really true? What for?

I'm remodeling a house and putting in 240 just for the dryer an an unusual French range. Why would I need that in the garage? I certainly won't have that long an extension cord.
But the same year the movie was released, Japanese people in America were put in .. special camps.
This is an interesting analysis, but determining download speeds (and the resulting conclusions about how the data was moved about) from zip file metadata is still basically guesswork. You have to make a number of assumptions for this to work out, and yes, they are reasonable assumptions, I guess, but they are still assumptions.

I would also point out that this article is mostly revolving around whether _some_ portion of the DNC emails were purposefully leaked, but it doesn't say much at all about the remaining incidents and data. It certainly doesn't disprove the "russia story."
My question would be, has Julian lied about sources before, and would he deviate from that if he didn't?

His claim is that the source is not Russia --people who were happy to see Julian leak things (and believe his leaks) while Bush was president are now calling him a puppet of Putin. I have no idea if Putin has goods on him. Or whether Julian is just a medium. It is, however, interesting to see people shift along political axes though.

If there was a Russian angle, I think their aim was to cause uncertainty regardless of winner. Be it Trump or Hillary, whoever the winner was, the voters of the opposition would question the results --despite there being no actual election hacking (altering the vote count).

One interesting thing though is that since the media writ large expected Hillary to win, had she won, this same evidence would have been "page 6" news and would have been rather quickly forgotten but for a few "sore losers".
A lunatic with access to firearms?
It's true, LaTex is for smarter people with better tooling. Sorry you missed the boat on that one. Good luck!
Oh?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143499-ships-fooled-in...
I also find that my tolerance drops very quickly when I quit. When I'm on vacation, I don't drink much coffee because my schedule is different. I find after 2-3 days, I no longer am in withdrawal and when I come back from a 1-2 week break, my tolerance is very low.
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@falumi Where to send them?
I've also been off of caffeine for about two years, for a few reasons (anxiety reduction, desire to be free of chemical dependencies, and especially sleep improvement). It took me about three weeks of depression and lethargy, but was totally worth it. My sleep especially is much-improved, and I'd say that my anxiety levels are generally lower.

The main thing is that you need to get enough sleep at night.

If you're interested, I found some support on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/decaf.
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My thoughts:

a) Lenin didn't fight wars to preserve his right to literally enslave people.

b) This is still irrelevant to the issue of whether statues of Robert Lee should stand erected in public spaces.
It's very easy to copy files preserving timestamps, in which case the timestamps would not represent the time to copy the files during the break in, but the time to copy them to the medium they were stolen from. Did anyone bother to check whether the files were created on that system, or copied originally from some USB disk? Or even copied to the server from some workstation across a gig network but that workstation was copying directly from a plugged in USB drive? There are so many ways to have timestamps originally sourced from USB type transfer speeds in the chain of file management at some point that this is ridiculous.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Don't get your hopes up that things will ever get better (though I've read and agree, racial division in US was lowest in Bush Sr years, so perhaps a little better is doable), though do continue to work so that it doesn't get worse (here and elsewhere, it's been way worse).
For those who are interested in going down the rabbit hole, watch the Netflix documentary "Hot Girls Wanted".

It's not exactly the same; skeezy old school porn producers have made way for young amateur porn producers, but it's still relatively the same as what OP refers to.
My reaction: wow 46,000 sold in q2 seems pretty good for a niche product.
It's not that I don't like narrative or couldn't appreciate opinion. But I want them seperated from the facts.

If the title of the article promises interesting news and facts, then that is what I expect. When I want narrative, I read a novel. I want to form my own opinion after seeing the facts. Then I can compare my opinion with others.

This article strikes a good balance between a blunt bullet-point list of facts, and too much talking. When in doubt, I prefer the list of facts.

When I see an article starting with "It was a long and rainy summer day when John McDoe..." I stop reading and close the tab.
False although I grant some will.
You left out my last sentence, on purpose I suppose.

The context was that scraping doesn't always get a free pass because "facts". This specific case may skirt it because of the user generated content. Doesn't mean it's not worth mentioning for the larger context that copyright isn't black and white.
mikeash was asking, can you also charge it at home. It's a fair question, since most of the time the overnight home charge is all you need, and even more convenient than going to a gas station. So an EV that can do both is great, an EV that must be filled at a gas station only, that's actually a tricky trade-off, and reasonable to assume a large number of current EV owners would not make that trade-off.

In otherwords, if you're adaptable to home charging, then you really want home charging. Makes perfect sense to also observe all current EV owners are adaptable to home charging, by definition.

So strictly speaking adding it expands the market to different kinds of EV owners who would treat it like a gas car, just with no direct emissions. If you can add this feature without sacrificing anything else, I'd say that's a very big deal.

I assume that in reality this tech is a decade of hard work away from even being usable in an EV, so we'll never see it made.
> The problem is you're basically saying to re-train every person who uses the internet to behave in a way completely different from what they're used to.

When did we ever teach people that you can control where your data ends up on the internet?

Aren't we trending towards teaching people to not even share data on "closed" services like Facebook and Gmail precisely because they are a single source for a lot of data to be misused by the company, or hacked by a malicious actor?

Regarding data that is accessible without "friending" someone or logging in as the user themselves (e.g. Gmail), I hope people already realize that this data can easily be re-used.

> But don't be surprised when you find out that your expectations and their expectations were different, and you're the one they blame, and they outnumber you by a lot.

If the majority of people think that they can share nude photos of themselves on their own blog or twitter and that this won't be re-used elsewhere, well... I must be living in a different reality, or I misunderstand your point.
The real risk for the amateur doxxer is the assumption that the other guys don't know how to doxx them.
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