skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know everyone says it's good, etc. I just want to reinforce the point. It is really really good. Definitely one of the best scifi I have read.
The story just gets bigger and bigger as the books progress as well as the imagined tech and physics.
I know it's cliche but it definitely caused me to think slightly differently when looking up at a night sky.
The idea is that if a main road has consistently high traffic, some road users will take narrower, less well appointed roads (through villages for example) at unreasonable speeds.

This leads to traffic calming measures as a way to counteract over-use of what should be largely residential traffic. This is also why "Bypasses" became very common - to get high volumes of commuting traffic away from residential areas where possible
Not the OP, but maybe he wanted to keep the install as simple as possible without requiring something like redis. I also haven't looked at the code, but a queue per process is still useful as long as the results can be accessed from any process. Not sure if this is the case. If not, you would seem to be right, in that subsequent requests after "queuing" the job could go to another process/server not aware of the queued job.
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Personally, I think it is blatantly unfair. It's like if we had a big bad of skittles and every time I took 1 skittle, you took 10 skittles.
> Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds was developed by LucasArts by licensing the Genie game engine from Ensemble Studios. The game, as well as the Clone Campaigns expansion pack, was designed and directed by Garry M. Gaber.

Taken from Wikipedia. Garry M. Gaber worked at LucasArts. Ensemble had nothing to do with SW:GB.

But yes, I agree about AoE3.
That's all good; but most users aren't aware of blocking Javascript on specific domains.

Privacy is opt-in, not opt-out.
Businesses are all too happy to use tactics that aren't 'fair', as long as they're legal-ish. Even then, they lobby for favourable laws, that are rarely also favourable for consumers, and more often hostile.

Make no mistake, only one side is concerned with 'fair'.
Ecosystem engineering
It's literally in the preceding paragraph. Notes about how the proposed healthcare law was essentially a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, how the proposed tax cuts mainly benefit the richest Americans, and plans to cut school funding.
Standing on the shoulders of those who came before so that we may focus on solving real problems ;)

I tease. I'm also a pretty big Python/JS developer in the robotics industry and I definitely live, to an extent, by that adage. Intentionally so, as I only have so much time in a day and optimization would be a sub-optimal use of company resources. Admittedly I have a comfortable baseline understanding of how computers work, but I do mentally map certain things as black boxes.
1. Any data collection at all deanonymizes the user, cf panopticlick.

This isn't true. Panopticlick collects a ton of data about your browser that this proposal will not. There has been a lot of research done in this area and we know how to collect anonymous datasets. https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6981
I've always heard people say if you can get in 3 hours of good development work a day, that's pretty much the max and you should feel good about the day. So if I get that done, I feel accomplished. I do consulting work and can live that lifestyle, you just plan for it in the contract.

I've found even when working on startup stuff I want to get done, if it's not just monotonous busy work style coding and requires thinking and planning, meanwhile the system is getting bigger and more complex, then yeah, you can only get done a good 2-3 hours of hard thinking work, then you are just braindead, and any more work just means fixing that shit work the next day, meaning you lose productivity. Maybe some people can push past this, maybe some people just think they can and don't recognize, but at least for some of us, that's just it.

I ask my friends about this who work for a living and they agree and say you get 2-3 hours of good work in, the rest is fucking around, meetings, facebook, whatever.

I'm not going to comment on non-dev work because I don't do it, and most of it probably doesn't apply to this, unless you are doing intense thinking. Most of the people reading this are probably devs or have hard thinking jobs.
Wikipedia disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
Check out https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome#printtopdf-p...
The default app from the Weather Channel? That's owned by IBM.
Digital Ocean is a far better alternative if you don't want to use the other bigger cloud providers, quite frankly. AWS dedicated servers are also far less expensive and you get more bang for the buck. m4.2xlarge, for example, is the most comparable hourly offering based on memory and CPU cores to SL base dedicated server and outperforms the hell out of it. See here:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/dedicated-inst...

http://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers%20

One success story is not enough compared to thousands elsewhere.
Have you not looked at benchmarks? It's one of, if not the fastest interpreted language. V8 is baked into Electron (and Node), which means Electron can also take advantage of this speed.

High memory usage I'll give you, but calling it a slow language is very misguided.
Another pocket knife?
What part do you consider inaccurate? You pay for hashes/s in their hardware pool. The phrasing seems pretty sufficient.

e.g. https://pool.viabtc.com/contract/
Was just saying Homeworld is really great, and that manual.

I agree with you.
Although bear in mind that class-action law suits, which are the focus of this article, are typically not a right you have in the EU in the first place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action#Class_actions_out...).
What's your favorite open-source browser?
Virtual reality for freely moving animals
wait, wouldn't scaling income by a constant multiple be the same as not changing anything? Your income and expenses are both doubled.

this would just kill the bank accounts of anyone holding cash.
I never said anything should be prevented. But you just illustrated my point exactly. Gold (and cryptocurrencies) cannot support a market economy because of the problem of hoarding a limited resource and the lack of representation of debt. Even the ancients knew this: they would require taxes be paid in the _coin of the realm,_ not just gold. Requiring this made it possible for monarchs to facilitate a market economy. They paid their soldiers in the coin. The peasants traded with the soldiers in order to pay their taxes. Markets emerged from this.
It looks to me that QE3 was a huge part of that later uptick.

its no surprise to me that if you juice the markets and inflate asset prices (mostly stock), that the richest benefit most. what was surprising to me is how bad actually making stuff did. I understand that juicing the markets might not benefit that, but it seemed as though QE3 actually hurt producing tangible things.
This depends heavily on the size of the customer success team. I used to work at a place with only one customer success person who managed and tracked content on an external facing community site (basically the combination of a FAQ and Forum). For questions that were unanswered, they would request somebody from the appropriate team (e.g. PreSales, Services, Tech Support, Education, etc) to answer the question.

The plan was for that team to grow so they were also doing the following
1) Developing tutorials and videos for frequently asked questions
2) Tips & Tricks - blogs, tutorials, videos
3) Better Routing of customers to the right group (e.g. tech support). Basically a second layer of defense after the account executive. This was really important for new customers who didn't understand the correct channel to reach out to for help.
4) Have scheduled public sessions (e.g. 2 hour chat sessions) where customers could get tech help, demos, etc. Typically this would involve one person from the customer success team and one from some other team with more expertise in the product(s).

On the one person team, the "manager" didn't manage any people. The managed the customer questions and site. As the team grew, there was a plan to have somebody who actually managed the team.
Im a lawyer, you may be one too as we are a dime a dozen, but if not here is a dirty little secret...

The courts don't care what your litigation costs are, the only thing they care about is having as few cases on their docket as possible (i.e. They care about their own costs and their own workload).
My subjective impression (supported by informal surveys [1]) is that most Gophers come from a Python or Node.js background, doing mostly network code, DevOps automation or CLI tooling.
Rubyists are less likely to fall in love with Go, given that the huge philosophical gap, though the pragmatist among them adapt go for what it excels at (performant microservices and statically linked binaries).

Still, most newcomers to Go seem to come from dynamic typing background, and it shows with all the buzz about Go being 'strongly-typed' and 'helping you to detect typing errors', which sounds crazy to anyone who played with C++ or C#, let alone an ML-family functional language.

And yes, Go also has a small but prominent contingent of C developers, and while some of them also do systems programming, this is generally not what they do in Go. This crowd seems to be mostly focused on tools and networking-oriented code, two areas where Go excels. The thorough standard library and top notch static linking support make go a hard to beat choice for this type of work, but its a less obvious choice for traditional systems programming, which usually still eschews garbage collection.

You'll rarely find Go being used in most of the traditional systems loads: drivers, kernels, high-spec graphic engines, emulators, JIT compilers, filesystems, browsers and definitely not in real-time programs. The one traditional systems realm where Go does see some activities is lightweight databases and key-value stores (BoltDB, TiDB), but databases performance is often dependent on concurrency no less than it depends on memory, and in fact Java has been long popular for NoSQL databases (HBase and Cassandra), and even way more niche languages like Erlang gave rise to popular NoSQL solutions (Riak, CouchDB).

[1] https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results
The ability to fork off from the main chain and create your own coin + the long-term economic interest of miners being aligned with the entire ecosystem acts as checks on these potential problems.
And reason #458 why I am skipping the whole "IoT revolution" in my home.

I consider this motivation for DIY.
I look for diversification of my positions and cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin seems to be a good option. All the other advantages of using it are just extra points. This seems to be the best protection against inflation and good diversification for 5% of the investment portfolio. Don't you agree?
I think logging is unrelevant here because it can be set up to log POST data too or not to log query string. But the problem with leaking data via referrer exists. Google encrypts (or obfuscates) search query in referrer for example.
Sorry, fell a bit into /r/games speak!
The worst part, as a non-American, it's always implied you should care and take action but there's practically nothing you can do or actually have to do so you're left feeling guilty, miserable and unfulfilled.

This was already pretty much the case before but coupled with the rise of outrage culture and the politicisation of Twitter, it's like a constant emotional drain. I find myself having strong opinions on topics I don't care about and have no stake in, just because people on the Internet should at each other, telling everyone they're a bad person if they aren't upset.
ML, even when perfect, learns the world as it is, not as people want it to be. There's nothing inherently sexist about a machine noticing that the background of an image can be used to identify a class label, e.g. noticing that a mug is more likely to contain coffee than tea in a coffee shop, but given how shitty we have been to each other, some correlations are considered taboo. The only way for machines to learn our taboos is to explicitly teach them.
Using personal branding to stand out amongst designers/developers
> with type inference though

That is what I was trying to get at - with type inference, one can omit many of the type declarations (thus getting more flexibility and shorter code) without sacrificing type safety.

Whether or not it is a good idea to omit type declaration is a different question, but in cases like "T a = new T(...)", the type declaration on the variable is kind of redundant anyway.
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> Mobile platforms don't have fine controls since they are touch based. Accidentally swipe or touch the screen the wrong way and game over.

There are a number of accessories on the market combating this problem. This one was showcased at a gaming convention I visited this past weekend: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKPB2VC/A/gamevice-contro...

It's officially supported by Apple (for iPhones and iPads), and Android production is in the works. I was able to play GTA: Vice City on an iPhone with virtually no issues. Phone-based gaming is getting closer than you think.

edit: formatting.
I assume they're waiting for Servo
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I'm not sure if they're planning on collecting every homepage domain here, or just asking something like "Is your homepage domain in the list of top 1000 domains?". In the former case, just having the domain listed could leak information. In the latter case, I can't see any issues.
I refuse to indulge the fallacy by which an element that exhibits one necessary but insufficient characteristic for membership in a set is nonetheless classified as being definitely a member of that set. He has posited views that certainly reek of sexism. He has appeared on the outlets that are also faux-sensitive to these issues. He is not, however, by virtue of these aspects necessarily an alt-right fanatic.
> but getting a local authority to take you seriously or even get the local police to 'visit' the speeders and have a word is hard to make happen.

Interesting, this isn't my experience. I think this is a size issue. In major cities probably. Out here in the 'burbs, I call the police about a speeder, and there's an officer with a radar gun out within the hour. Speeding tickets are nice funding for the department. Add a reckless driving on there and you got a nice doozy.

What happens more often than not though is you get two really annoying speed humps installed if enough calls about it come through.
I highly recommend "Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed"

reviewing the rise of top-down city planning especially in recent modern cities like Brasilia (which systematically removed public space & spontaneous street interactions by design)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
Sadly, all ocean studies are underfunded due to a general lack of public interest. "You don't see - you don't care", and pictures like these are the first steps to draw people's attention. Thank you!
The thing that bothers me about twitter is the approval seeking aspect of it.

In amateur photography there is bokeh to kick around, in Twitter it's throwing anything and everything to either get a rise out of people or to get approving nods.

It's been reduced to a popularity contest and the jocks and their fans only want their voices and no one else's.

Even simply informational stuff is presented as some big expose and we should be aghast at the realization. It's hard to keep on digesting this kind of communication. Nevermind actual politics which degenerates almost exponentially fast.

OMG, they've been putting wax on old apples to make them look appealing on market shelves!

This graduating class is having one if the most challenging times getting offers and it's because [reason].
If user privacy is paramount, then there are multiple ways to lower the privacy incursion that is caused by the data collection.

Only collect top-level domains of Alexa rank 1k. That users are using a highway is less sensitive than a specific street where there only exists 5 homes, and it reassures users that private domain names won't be leaked.

Send the data through Tor. That way you only get the data about the browser <-> site interaction, not user<->browser<->site interaction.

And make it opt-in and notify users of the purpose of the data collection. A good model to follow here is Debian installer and popcon. Follow the good practices of data collection in the free software world and do not use dark patterns.
Consumers exercising their rights through the courts is ruining American society? Wow, what a world we live in.
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As a user, I don't want to waste my time learning up on Differential Privacy. Am I really expected to read up on it and prove to myself that the theories work and are safe to use? Why should I take the risk that the mechanism might leak data? The only sensible secure choice is to not allow it. Let users opt-in, don't force them to opt-out.
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No, it's not fair. If you're an anarcho-capitalist, "what is this minimum wage thing?," if you're a communist "seize the means of production!"
When inequality grows, empires shrink and eventually disappear: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/05/inequality-...

And let's not kid ourselves. Those on top intend on staying there by growing the gap.
Opt-in inevitably results in data being heavily biased in favor of the small minority of users who go out of their way to opt-in. For some stuff that's fine, but for certain types of data you really do need a broad, unbiased sample of users in order for the data to be at all meaningful. (Usually to answer questions like "What percentage of users use x feature?" Or "What level of jank does the average user experience on facebook.com?")

They still _are_ planning to let people decide for themselves whether to participate (via opt-out), they're just using a default that's more likely to result in unbiased sample data.

Again though, what's your actual concern? Provided this feature doesn't compromise anyone's privacy even _if_ its enabled, what's wrong with having it be opt-out?
Oh, I'm definitely not condemning it. Honestly, I think it makes more sense when you are dealing with a GUI or desktop application where an object can be more representative of elements that a user is interacting with.

For server side projects is where I've experienced it causing problems over project lifetimes. The maintainability complexity is where I've been bitten the worst.
Do you think this programmable mouse jiggler might have done the trick? https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/mouse_jiggler/ By itself it doesn't solve the problem of cutting back in with the mouse when you need to work, but there's probably a USB switch box for that.
The prevailing narrative is that the court system is somehow constantly overloaded, so everything from settling out of court to plea bargains to private arbitration are favored.
Did you not understand the chart? Its a chart based on percent growth. ×2 across the board would be a flat line. Instead, the income of the ultra rich is vastly up, while for everyone else it is much smaller, not in terms of absolute numbers, but percentage.
> swipe it off of the list of program cards I want it to ACTUALLY exit

Swiping it away instantly kills the app unless it has a foreground service with an associated notification.
It doesn't listen for sound, it uses wireless signals and sensor fusion to monitor movements.
>> Semantically no, but in reality it is.

If you're still including French oversea departments in that statement, then you are out of your depth here, I must say. Do you know people from the French Caribbeans or Reunion? I do. If you had said they feel under-represented, not supported enough by their government (relative to other regions), or victim of racism, you would have been correct. But talks about being 'colonized'? I have basically never heard that. This is not even part of the discussion for them.

This is supported by their local political landscape: independentist-leaning parties are either anecdotical in size, or have changed their position on this topic. Hell, there are more overt secessionist parties on the French mainland itself (Britany, Corsica), which should tell you something.

This is also a weird remark to make, since France is known to still be very much a neo-colonial power that often interfere in their former colonies' politics, and seldom for the better. So if you're looking for nefarious colonialist behaviour, it's there, just not in their oversea departments.
>"The hybrid organism, M. thermoacetica-CdS, produces acetic acid from CO2, water and light."

I love bacterial and algal based approaches to fuel generation. Re-purposing nature's own highly advanced (relative to our own state of the art) chemical processing machinery seems an easier path forward than building our own from scratch.

That said, relying on a fuel source that requires CO2 as input seems just as potentially destabilizing to the global carbon cycle as relying on a fuel source that produces CO2 as byproduct.
Why is opt-in data not sufficient? Why can't Mozilla take the top-N sites and test them out for themselves?
That is not, however, what the chart in TFA shows. It shows the bottom 5th percentile with income going down, and income gains increasing in relative (as well as absolute) terms as you get higher up the income percentiles.

FWIW income inequality is normally reported proportionally (using the Gini coefficient or something similar) so even in your hypothetical case inequality would be reported as constant rather than increasing.
In defense of Solitaire: Mindfulness, video games and the importance of downtime
It's hard to find good information on the simulation, but the reference appears to be to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

The NYT reported many years later: "In the simulation, General Van Riper sent wave after wave of relatively inexpensive speedboats to charge at the costlier, more advanced fleet approaching the Persian Gulf. His force of small boats attacked with machine guns and rockets, reinforced with missiles launched from land and air. Some of the small boats were loaded with explosives to detonate alongside American warships in suicide attacks. That core tactic of swarming ..."

Thus, to answer your question, they did not go up the ship. The attack is generally reminiscent of the USS Cole bombing, which preceded the simulation by a couple years.
Yup. Seems common sense, really.

And click-through contracts are usually also void, at least in Germany.
So.. What is the machine doing? Is this like the button in lost?
It's limiting at the moment because it's not finished yet. And Firefox in particular has far outpaced any third-party or industry-wide standards in adding new APIs. They've been proactive and responsive in getting feedback from addon developers while designing the APIs. I would say security addons are one of the top priorities. For example here's a blog post by the NoScript developer: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/08/01/noscripts-migrati... "I feel that Mozilla has the most flexible and dynamically growing browser extensions platform"
I read it as it was a lower cost to the courts, not the litigants.