skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The prosecutor said Tipton will serve no more than five years, if he behaves and makes parole.

Well at least he didn't sell drugs.

Slightly relevant story: A few years ago I was visiting China and my colleagues there were discussing a city official who had just been found guilty of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from the local government (which is more or less what this guy did). Me: "How much time did he get?" Them: "Three days." Me: "In prison?" Them: "To live."
Value is based on what investors expect the firm will be able to do in the future, which may differ from what they are doing now.
If you consider discussing policy changes you don't like "harassment", I can see how your daily life must be a true struggle. You have my condolences.

I hope you don't consider this online disagreement "harassment". If so: recurse, see above.
Planes work wonders for development too. After several trips and being on a deadline, I built my dev environment to be offline friendly (cached data, local libraries, etc.). Airports became the most productive locations for me because I could shut everything off and just focus on finishing the development work. Not having an answer at my fingertips ended up being a fun constraint too.
Google Glacier, aka G2. I checked it out.

I like that I don't have to do calculus to understand how I'll be billed, or write my own retrieval software.
The legality of riding your bike on the sidewalk varies by state, county and town.
In a couple of places in Portland there are signs specifically directing cyclists to use the sidewalk because of streetcar tracks.
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Trees are for chumps. People should be planting grasses, and bamboo in particular.

The larger bamboo species grow faster than any tree, and can be exploited by the human economy on a shorter timescale, thus making people more likely to plant bamboo forests on their own initiative.

Grow bamboo. Cut it down. Use it for building and consumer products, such that its carbon content does not quickly return to the atmosphere as CO2 (and hopefully never as methane).
Doesn't matter. Teslas are selling, Bolts are not. And the Model 3 is not a status luxury car.
Got rid of my car in 2015 since I was living in a big city and working from home.

Uber and Turo have been great.
downturn? compared to what? was there an upturn?
Sennheiser HD 650s at home, with an Asus Xonar Essence STX for the amp. I love them, pretty much exactly what I wanted since I can't imagine myself going more expensive than that unless I had far more expendable income.
Actually.. Original money was just a highly marketable commodity. Salt, spices, gold, cigarettes in prison. I highly suggest a better biography of currency. Maybe something authored by one of those pesky Austrians.
I know it is a stretch, but there is enough unexplainable error that is not uncommon in past events to indicate the possibility of a bit more going on behind the scenes. words are worth their weight in gold, and double from the mouth of a non-expert. Regardless, if some malicious software had found its way into the navigation system causing an accident like this, i would do my best (were it my responsibility) to hush up the whole thing, up to and including unfair firings and forced resignations. I know this feels wrong, but i am reminded of the brave and morally ambiguous members of Ultra during WWII. Time and again, they did not act on good intel that would have saved lives because keeping the enemy in the dark was the most important objective.

Nonetheless, this is little more than daydreaming. The US Navy is in a very hard place to be. The US Navy is about the size of every navy in the world combined. It is the second largest air force in the world. It operates concurrently in every maritime zone on the planet. It is supposed to be able to provide humanitarian relief as well as the fire of god at a moments notice to almost any location. Accidents happen regardless of training. I think the author is dead on in terms of institutionalizing bad habits, but at the same time we do not know the whole story.
And, of course, so can the fork with all changes of merit that the mainline project produces. In the end, the decision between the two will be based on momentum and politics (as in: will the fork produce enough shiny Medium posts and HN buzz to get people to switch to them, or pressure Node into backpedalling and getting rid of Vagg?), unless the fork actually can't find enough competent technical people to just keep track of and merge the mainline changes.
Growth companies are valued on future expectations and not on current financials. You have to believe that the economics will improve for Uber.

The $68 billion Uber valuation is also not real in the sense that investors have liquidation preferences and multiples. Employees don't and have the inverse of what is given to investors. The real value is some fraction. They have also stumbled like no other company before them. This probably has some impact.
> isn't the whole lottery system a tax on lack of education

If anything, it's a tax on intensity of endorphin rushes.

Aside from people who buy them for "fair" reasons, like... the "joke" factor, for example.
It wasn't his brother. But it was a friend who lived in Texas that tried to claim the Iowa lottery winnings.
I wonder if there's a way to use civil legal proceedings to punish these exploit-trading firms. Maybe class action lawsuit representing victims of these exploits.
As a thought exercise, what do you think the minimum distance between the cheater and the payout would need to be in order to avoid detection?
What was your reward value?
I don't see why you say that. I'm quite happy as a customer. I pay a low fee (by Canadian standards) to have my money automatically balanced between ETFs. I could do it myself, but A: I might make mistakes, and B: I have to pay attention to it.

They don't claim they're doing rocket science.
Is this so much more stupid than throwing your money away on useless consumer junk?

No, but so what?
Facebook also maintains a JS codemod tool that React uses: https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift
I don't even know what planet you're living on. In particular, Russ Allbery of the Debian technical committee gave some of the most detailed evaluation of systemd vs alternatives that I've seen from anyone from a user and maintainer POV. (He noticeably said, beforehand, he didn't think it would be a huge deal at first, but it turned out it was a big difference.) Many people did not like their decision, but suggesting that the Debian committee in particular didn't take the issue seriously and were strong-armed by Red Hat -- makes me think you have no idea what you're talking about, honestly.

I'd like to read this part about RHEL throwing their weight around on the Debian lists. Given your implication is that Debian was clearly "forced" to adopting it, I imagine the relevant evidence shouldn't be hard to find.

(Alternatively, you could actually ask other Debian maintainers yourself, like Josh, in this thread how it went. But you already did that and it didn't seem his narrative aligned with yours, so...)
Does anyone expect their information not to be monetized from any "free" application?

(with the possible exception of an open-source application built and distributed by an open-source advocate, e.g. Firefox, K-9 mail, sipdroid, DDG, etc.)
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You got downvoted because the issue is not that fastball doesn’t have Roboto on their computer; it’s the website assumption that everyone has it.
Time to switch over to provably fair lotteries!
The median sentence for sale of narcotics (state charges, like the lotto fixer) is less than three years. In some jurisdictions the average drug sale sentence is less than a year.
I once read the lottery is a way of buying hope.
> The prosecutor said Tipton will serve no more than five years, if he behaves and makes parole.
“This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”
Most the people I see buying lottery tickets are in no position to throw money away on anything.
This is nice, but I don't see the upside over using the tools provided by the IDE or editor of your choice. Some of the additional flags are interesting, true, but I can't really say I've ever felt a need for something like it.
Anyone know why these lotteries stopped using the traditional bingo ball machines in favour of a black box?
>The Bolt wasn't even available in most states for the first six months of the year.

It's been nearly a year since it was released. If they still can't ramp up production, then the whole project is pretty hopeless.

Besides, the article says they are halting production because it isn't selling.

In any case, are you predicting that in another few months it will be selling tens of thousands a month and finally be a real success? Well, we will see.
I've been using Arcus on Android, which uses the same data (from forecast.io) as the Dark Sky app on iOS. And I voluntarily installed PressureNet to report barometric pressure from my phone, because they're very clear about what data they collect and it's never been a battery drain. I believe they've been bought out by Sunshine https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunshine-personal-accurate/i...
I will add to your thorough rebuttal the fact that all of this manifests in very concrete ways. I live on a river that flows into the Chesapeake Bay. TDMLs are not some abstract concept--they directly affect the muddiness of the river my family swims in. TDMLs go up and that saves the surrounding farms a lot of money on land management. But I'm directly and negatively affected by way of a muddier river, and receive no compensation for that. That is the negative externality both liberals and libertarians recognized needs to be eliminated.

Nor is it an issue that can be addressed at a state level. The Chesapeake Bay watershed encompasses New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia. Water flows to the ocean. The mining industry in West Virginia and the farming industry in Pennsylvania dump pollutants into waterways that affect the tourism industry on the Eastern Shore. The former have every incentive to maximize the externalities they can dump on the latter; the latter has no ability to control how much pollutants are dumped into waterways by the former.
> Sure. I'm all for learning ML, Scheme, C/C++, Python, Ruby, Java/C#, etc.

Personally, I prefer to dig into 1 or 2 programming languages deeply instead of shallowly hop around half a dozen. I seem to retain the deep stuff a lot better. Even when coming back to languages I used heavily years ago (Bash or Perl, for example) I end up having to look up basic things like how loops or functions are defined when I pick them up again.

> The reason is called dumbing down the curriculum.

Do you feel the same way about SICP's choice of using Scheme? One of the innovations of SICP was that CS courses spent too much time explaining the details of a programming language [1]. That was 30 years ago. There are orthogonal discussions on the goals of CS changing over time.

> In an idealistic world, people go from Java/Python to C/Assembly, but that's rarely the case.

Maybe there's no business need? My wife works in video games. That's one industry where programmers often have deep knowledge of hardware and use assembly--but, there's still only a couple of them at each studio. Most people programming are doing game scripting or content creation.

> CS should begin with Math

Your argument seems to be against abstraction. Math is all about abstraction. So is programming. It's been interesting to see programmers tinker with hardware as things like Arduino and Raspberry Pi have become more popular. When writing software they take things for granted, but when interacting with hardware they have to account for things like debounce.

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html
Last I checked they still did firing line executions in China occasionally.
Ah I see, I assumed it was a penalty for only mis-guessed, not the number of cycles required to evaluate the statement. Thanks!
Let's start the betting on the answers...
This is explicitly against the App Store terms of service, so yes it's unexpected.
Agreed. When I worked in IT it was 75% of my job.
The FAA certification has a lot to do with it. Little parts you'd think would be cheap (say, a lightbulb) end up costing a ton of money because they have to go through a rigorous testing and certification process.

Here are some LED landing lights for a C172 for the low low price of $227: http://www.knots2u.net/categories/cessna-single-engine-model...
at minimum a bacon number of 2
Reading the title I agreed, but consider that his lawyer says he expects him to serve only three or four years, so it's not that bad.
> Keynesian economists triumphantly point to the massive QE that has occurred and the seemingly minimal resulting inflation and claim victory for stimulatory monetary policy.

Every Keynesian I’ve heard from seems to think QE was, at best, the least bad option given the complete failure of those empowered to do so to adopt stimulatory fiscal policy, and that it in many ways demonstrated the weakness of monetary policy in isolation.

I've seen none cheering QE the way you describe.
They could also do that. The point is that git just lets you do whatever creates the least friction.
The real problem is that there is no way to reliably know just how far your connection goes, without pinging. You might be able to connect to URLs on a university WAN, but not to the rest of the internet, for example. In this situation, as far as uni websites are concerned, you are online, but for Youtube, you are effectively offline. The concept of "online" does not have a trivial boolean definition.
In 2015, Uber passengers were paying only 41 percent of the actual cost of their trips.

Uber is unusual in that, for once, it's the big investors who are the suckers.
Nice project, but a less powerful version of vim's :argdo.
I think I've reached a plateau in my career, where the next step up requires more Alpha tendencies that I simply don't have.
I use Dark Sky for the nice design (easy to read the forecast up to a week at a glance), and NOAA Hi-Def Radar for drawing my own conclusions from Doppler radar.
We need that global effort to happen yesterday. It's going to be much easier to get the carbon out of the atmosphere by leveraging the already-existing carbon cycle through accelerated silicate weathering than it will be to artificially reduce atmospheric temperatures once huge amounts of methane have been released from sea ice.
That's my biggest wonder, how can the economics change for the better?
Yeah, the key reason Rust is necessary here is that there is an insane amount of complexity in the heart of modern web engines. Injecting concurrency into the intersection of DOM and Layout is only realistic with some kind of static guarantees against data races, and Rust is the only tool I'm aware of to do that.

One neat thing is that we use rust-bindgen to walk C++ data structures, which extends Rust's concurrency guarantees into C++. We also have an FFI layer for invoking C++ code, and we have some careful static analysis of that callgraph from the entry points to be sure we're not mutating anything.
Appliances.
I got it working on mobile, too. I don't get why he choose such a nom-standard way of doing it.
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Not totally during the 2008 recession, there was support for cutting taxes, but not increasing spending. "Austerity"
This article is based on the iphone app. Does anyone know the situation with the android version?
I'd be shocked if WxWidgets weren't supported, maybe even Qt.
Well, you're wrong about Haskell but in the general case you are right.

The idea that the creator of Haskell tried to put forth when he said he did not want the language to be popular was that it would mean losing the freedom to change things. As soon as a programming language achieves general adoption you immediately have the issue of technical debt and backwards compatibility to contend with, which would be a huge drawback in a research language.

It says something about the qualities of Haskell that it achieved substantial popularity in spite of this.
FLIP is the most Kerbal ship we have right now.
Interesting observation.

You know when I saw that map it made me wonder which nation (or nations) those two large point of presences represent in the Gulf. It's Iran, isn't it?
> getting large groups to agree on things isn't a scientific thing but a problem for society

Sadly true on so many levels.
I think there will be a big pivot from car ownership to rentals... maybe add up insurance, maintenance, and leasing fees to get to $600-1000 a month for unlimited car-service.

Automated cars will be summoned by phone, arrive when you schedule them, and go pick up others when not needed..

Pretty sure a lot of the car companies are planning something like this, I know tesla is. Uber wants to hold out till their self-driving cars pay off, but I think it'll be a much more crowded space by then, and they might be dead in the water before hitting pay-dirt.

I think uber's in a death spin, not sure it can pull out.
High bandwidth costs also make it more costly to move some of the data processing to companies which offer very cheap dedicated servers.

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But it's not fair to say that price from Google is high just because some random hosting company gives you unmetered 500mbs for $99/month. As we have seen with many unlimited cloud storage offerings, some companies do unsustainable offers to attract customers. There are different strategies behind this. Some just count on that majority of customers won't use everything they could. Others know the price hike is inevitable, but believe customers will still stuck.
Yeah, I'm living this now. It sucks.
In that case wouldn't a set of gyroscopes and/or gimbal solve the problem in a cheaper way?
You don't buy bytes, you buy pipes. Typically, you buy say 1Gbit of transit and you can put as much or as little data through that pipe as you want.

You can get a gigabit pipe from Hurricane Electric or FDCServers for $400/month. In a month it can take 327TB of data, so the cost of 1TB is ~$1.20.
>but I think people know what a longshot is.

Gambling addiction and various mega-jackpot ticket-purchasing fervors are an indication that many people can't really comprehend the odds. A human can easily visualize 1 (the number of jackpot winners), but less so the scale of the 292,201,337 chances you have to lose (Powerball odds)

If you had a contest where you asked someone to pay $5 to correctly choose a single grain of rice out of 10,000lbs of rice... I doubt you'd get many takers because you're confronted with the physical reality of the odds.

It would be harder than picking a random year between now and when the first dinosaurs existed.

>Is this so much more stupid than throwing your money away on useless consumer junk?

"Junk" in the form of physical goods still holds some level of value. If you bought $1,000 of random physical goods in a year you'd more likely than not have something >$0
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We need to invent fusion like yesterday and use that to power efforts to extract CO2 from the atmosphere.
I imagine TheSockStealer was wondering about India to Iran ping time through Google's private network (the one in the diagram upthread), which doesn't appear have a connection from Chennai to Amsterdam.

The packets in the trace you posted were presumably routed by someone besides Google. Or did you run that traceroute from inside GCP?

Or I could be misunderstanding the diagram and maybe Google has some connections that aren't shown. I don't really get what the ">100" in "edge points of presence >100" means in the legend.
If, for example, Uber crushes all competition, then they can raise fares and lower partner payments and make a bigger profit.
Interesting, but premise seems to be that UI code should be done outside of Lisp. Whereas, at least in my experience, this is where most code and trouble lives.
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You're in the discussion about Apple's self-driving cars.

Do you think Apple is going to create a car for the 15% of the rural people?

This is why your limited market is irrelevant and worth exactly 0.

It's your responsibility to catch up with the world, not the world's responsibility to cater to you.
Essentially, I dont because i used to live with a lot less and now i like my life the way it is, so i gamgle comfort againts security. A lot of peoe have valid reasons for not saving. I don't have excuses, i take a risk in echange for a life style.
Hey! Just wanted to mention that i pushed a deploy a few hours ago that changed it to a 400 font-weight.
I use the http://weather.weatherbug.com app on Android. It appears that they have an iOS version as well. I'm pleased with it and the "Spark Lightning" feature is fun.
I run a service called Tesults for test results reporting. It's fairly new, I went from idea to first release in two months, releasing last October. I wanted it to be fast because I've spent 8-9 years launching a bunch of stuff and each one took far too long for an initial release. With Tesults I discovered users expected far more features than that first pithy release and so work has never really stopped and I think that's part of the 'improving the core product' you are referring to.

I find it fascinating how little love this part of software dev can get with respect to both developer time allocation and department budgeting (hence making free to use important for most users) so Sauce Labs revenue is all the more impressive. Tapster is very cool - working on something with a cool factor like that makes it easier to get attention as I'm discovering now with a new project I'm working on (unrelated to testing).
This seems like a novel approach to development. Really moving away from a traditional IDE toward one that considers the modern development and deployment stack. Will be cool to see how a growing community can better support intelligent code sharing
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Hmm, it definitely wouldn't be a deposit per bank account, that would be deeply unfair and biased to the extent it would be politically infeasible. The intention, realistic or otherwise, is for the cash sum to be awarded per citizen. Yes that may be via bank accounts for those that have them, but I imagine there would need to be other mechanisms in place for those that don't have an account.

Also the payments are fixed amount, not erasing of whatever debt you may have. A key aspect is that for those with debt the bank must use the cash towards paying off the debt first, whereas those with no debt will just get cash appear in their current account (or a cheque in the post, or whatever). Not saying it's practical, easy, or without ways of gaming the system, but those are the baseline intentions.
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I built up a list of early access users for www.sanitycheck.io from a small Twitter following, small podcast listenership, and two seo Facebook groups I was a member of. Got about 50 users in total. 9 months of being in beta and then switched on pricing and got first 10 customers from that.