skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 472 stops in the MTA subway system alone. Theoretical JFK and La Guardia stops would get more daily riders than the majority of the existing ones.

Airport connections tend to serve higher value riders too, so you make back more in total economic value to the city from airport riders than from riders at some random stop. This study is treating all riders as equal.
Dunno, I think talking myself into a Ryzen, but I wanted ECC and not some hand waving that it might work. Intel's coffee lake i7 6 core/12 threads (i7-8700) is looking like it will beat the ryzen on single thread and multithread workloads. At least that's the leaked benchmarks so far.

I'm hoping that the Xeon E3 flavor of the i7 is out shortly afterwards. Should make for a great workstation and guarantees ECC.

I was shopping for ECC threadripper boards and they often don't mention ECC. I'm hoping AMD fixes that and brings out a threadripper down to $350 (with the Intel x-series starts).
If no states did these tax breaks, Apple would still need a data center. This is nothing more than corporations playing states against each other for the result of corporate profit and public loss.
They certainly are, but I think it's foolish to think that a regime change would play out the same in NK as it did in countries with very different cultures. I'm skeptical that NK's ideology would be able to sustain an insurgency after too much contact with the outside.

Also, the Viet Cong were supported by a state, North Vietnam. They also weren't able to defeat South Vietnam; that took a withdrawal of US support and the actions of the regular North Vietnamese Army.
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Big companies make a habit of pushing their tax liabilities to the most favourable jurisdiction. As the other comment said, they would take the piss.
Job switching doesn't have much to do with starting families. Well educated people tend to get together with other well educated, career minded people, and children get deferred.
I'm reasonably sure that hydrogen bombs are the most feasible way to accelerate an object to ~0.03c. We know how to build bombs, and concepts for big-shock-absorber-with-bomb-shute spaceships looked feasible with the tech from 1960.
This is the new, cheaper Nest Thermostat
It's a prisoner's dilemma type of situation. The best strategy for all states is to cooperate, making a deal like this is the "defect" option in the prisoner's dilemma.

Playing for a single win at the expense of others in one round of the game is near sighted.
Yes, see http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/812/ for details
Humans have been staring at fire at night for our entire evolution.
Curious if you deal with a lot of float32 math (the usual sin cos log tanh) and if so what do you use.
I don't think the original got enough attention for this one to merit a flag. Also, the guidelines here say that "when you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
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Are you saying you don't think frequent job hopping & moving doesn't strongly affect the choice to deffer starting a family?
Google's and facebook's european customers must be compliant too. In case google or facebook don't comply, then they will be liable too.

Whenever you sell to an european company, you must be compliant, as otherwise the european company is liable
> Another note: looks like its ok for US government to have database of people inclined to protest in opposition while it isn't ok to have database of gun owners. That poses interesting question : what if a gun owner intends to use it for a protest in opposition - would such a case fall under the former or the later?

More "legal" than "ok", I'd say.

But for your question, I don't think it's particularly interesting. It's a gun registry if the information recorded is "XXX has a gun", and it's a dissident registry if the information recorded is "XXX is up to no good".
You don't have to go too far to find dark skies.

My wife and I rented a cottage at Sheep Dung just outside Boonville, CA, a few years ago. Ukiah was on the far side of the hills to the east, another range blocked the coast to the west, and the next closest big city was Santa Rosa -- far enough away not to cause light pollution. I got lucky because the Labor Day wildfires were east of Clear Lake and blowing smoke east toward I-5. It was the first time in my life I got to actually see the Milky Way with my own eyes.
I think they got that, but customers can be difficult and the impulse to launch them can be strong.

Thank you for your helpfulness, regardless.
Migrating to a new social network is harder as an individual than a group.
Relevant part:

"Each storage server contains 36 hard drives, each with 6 TB capacity. These are configured as three 11-disk RAID 6 arrays plus 3 global hot swap spares."
It could cause some very strange behavior in minified code. JS allows chained assignment like so:

a = b = c = 4

Is totally valid, and assigns 4 to all three variables. It could cause all sorts of undefined behavior, and plenty of interesting, almost undetectable obfuscation. XSS is just the tip of the iceberg.
As a new school developer with an interest in languages, compilers and runtimes, I'm impressed as hell by what they've achieved with JavaScript performance. Doesn't make me dislike JavaScript any less though.
Really happy to see the figures :), stories like this are highly inspirational to me. I am sure it's not going to take a long time to touch $1M in profits too. Keep up your hard work!
Perfected the feed? its worse than ever. And the new reskin of youtube is also the most lazy hack job I ever saw from Alphabet, its quirky even in chrome.
Put 50 inches of rain on any populated coast in the world, and you're going to see mass destruction.
"Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions."

Yet it took up all these years until clang for anyone to start taking static analysis seriously in C, and even now many still ignore it.
Friend of a friend situation - a guy I worked with at another company had a friend who we game with once in a while (board games and miniatures games), and she works for this company. She let me know they had an opportunity and I made the cut :)
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High towers have got the same land footprint, so yeah, it would work
And the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05256
Except these aren't particularly valid issues. Even with a pristine Katy prairie Harvey would still have caused total mayhem. 800 year floods are an insurance problem not a zoning problem.
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I have ditched google almost entirely. The only two google services I use are search (via duckduckgo bang encrypted searches) and maps. Honestly...OpenStreetMap and Apple Maps simply do not compare. It is very hard to not use Google Maps. I also use Waze but it is my understanding that the two are of the same. Even so, I prefer to use Google Maps.
I never claimed to have their P&Ls, I was just pointing out that that $20M is not 'pure profit'. Exactly how much spoon-feeding do you want?
I have done that countless of times and I still get The John Oliver Show queued up after the most unrelated videos like videos about retro computing etc.
I mentioned to an academic computer scientist that I worked with blockchains. He immediately asked "So these blockchains, how do they do consensus? Isn't it some kind of majority vote?" I said "Well, kind of, in combination with economic incentives to follow the longest chain." He just said "Well, come on! That's the whole problem! That's not a solution!" or something like that. Not impressed at all!
Vivek, I remember following your assembly tutorial back in 2009. It's great seeing you again, Good luck!
I think it's mainly because you can't find a Yoshinoya in a town/road that isn't even on google maps but you can find 3 lawson's and a famlymart. (convenience≠cheap)
I think the difference in perception would be huge.

SOPA felt like a gift to Evil Media Corporations at the expense of The Internet People.

If Facebook goes dark as a protest against GDDR, people are far more likely to side with the EU, than with the Evil Corporation That Avoids Taxes.
Did you get a refund?
They are the owners of a company that ignores EU law. Good luck for the board or the major shareholders doing business in the EU again when they allowed stuff like this on their watch.

Plus, they need the cooperation of governments. Their patents are just pieces of paper without governments enforcing them, for example, and their data centers need special power solutions. Governments don't trust companies that ignore government regulation.

And, even if they hope that the US government is more lax with their restrictions and will turn a blind eye, the US is very heavily dependent on the OECD working, and not helping the EU prosecute blatant criminals would be a big problem for American credibility.

This is not even getting into the fact that the EU is a much larger market than the American market is, too.

In practice, just pretending regulations doesn't exist (depending on the regulations in question, of course) can be stupidly expensive for the company in question. Share holders don't like stuff that's risky and expensive and would replace a CEO that mad.
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> People in the comments seem to focus a lot on google itself, but this is the way the game is played.

Just because something is commonly done does not mean that behavior is right. A reason this post is so popular is because people are becoming increasingly aware of the power & capital concentration occurring in this country.

Google has for years successfully gave an image of a company capable of rising above the typical sociopathic behavior of other large multinational corporations, and this story helps expose Google for what they really are: just another large corporation.
I am pretty sure instagram had revenue, even if no profit.
It was a paid app, the money must have gone somewhere.
This is part of the iOS HIG. This chapter about AR is purely for the kinds of AR that iOS devices would be suited for.

There's probably a wealth of related information for head mounted displays in something like the OpenVR/Oculus developer documentation.
So keep a backup of your hot database in S3 or something, and make a workflow by which you can periodically update it. Or make a write-only backup of your encryption keys every day and only keep the backups for a week (or a month, or whatever the legal requirement is).

Complying with this requirement will require us as an industry to make some changes to how we store user data. But the amount of work each company needs to do is proportional to the complexity of our existing backup system. If you're a tiny startup and don't keep offline backups at all, you can just delete the user from your database. The more complex & rigorous your backup system is, the more complex your user deletion system will need to be.

Its a hassle, but no moreso than any other requirements we deal with on a daily basis.
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As a resident Houston for 25 years, I can count on one hand the number of times flooding has caused anything but minor inconveniences to the city as a whole. There will always be a slightly inflated risk pool here but it's not nearly as bad as you make it sound.

And I will gladly go on record as willing to subsidize 800 year floods in any part of the world, the inevitable Big One in California, the next Mt St Helens, and so on. Expecting the market to manage black swans is unrealistic.
> it does nothing to help the other businesses who will continue to fall victim

Why should Kaspersky pay for invalidating the patent and for helping other businesses? They didn't issue this patent and they didn't pass the law allowing to issue such nonsense patents.
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As I understand invalidating a patent is not free so it makes no sense to spend money on that.
For anything more complex than a + b, I find RPN to be superior. I'll speak specifically about a calculator like the HP50g. Pardon my rambling.

The first advantage is that you calculate in the same order you'd do it by hand. Not only is that more natural, but it also encourages understanding the problem because you don't just blindly copy/paste some convoluted formula.

Saving intermediate results is not only incredibly easy, but can be very organic and spontaneous. As I'm solving the problem, I can recognize an interesting sub-problem and simply run off a copy (pick or dup then rotate the stack).

The infix issue is that you generally don't know what parts are interesting until you're mid-calculation. By that point, you'll be scrolling side-to-side to strip the outer parts and then doing a bunch of paren balancing. Even worse, because there's the temptation to just write everything and mash enter, you may not even recognize that it's of interest.

Integrating new functions is also seamless. Functions are just small forth programs that manipulate the stack. Once I add a function to my function row, it's a single button press to execute it.

For a simple example, let's say that I'm doing parallel/series resistor calculations. I would add a rule (lets call it para) for calculating parallel resistors that would be something like `inv swap inv + inv` assuming I just entered the two resistors (swap flips the position of the bottom two stack items and inv is inverse).

Now, to calculate a circuit with two sets of parallel resistors in series with each other and in parallel to another resistor, we do `r1 ent r2 para r3 ent r4 para + r5 para` (ent is the enter key). That reads "enter the first two resistors and find the parallel. Enter the second two and find the parallel. Add those results. Enter the last resistor and find the parallel." That is exactly how you'd think through the problem if you didn't have a calculator.

In infix that would be `para(r1, r2) = 1 / ((1 / r1) + (1 / r2))` and then `para((para(r1, r2) + para(r3, r4)), r5)`

From a mechanical perspective though, the RPN version has 5 keypresses to program the function and is very short while the infix version is much more complex. For the final calculation, only 6 non-number keypresses are needed in RPN. For infix, if you had the complete foresight to predict every single paren, you'd need 20 keypresses, 25 if you want sane spacing, and many more if you missed something. As this illustrates, RPN is generally faster and easier.

I'd finally note that RPN and forth tend to become confusing for complex reusable functions, but I'm generally going to do those on my desktop and input/output from a file anyway.

tl;dr RPN calculates in the order your brain does. It's faster and less error prone than infix (due to fewer keypresses). It encourages comprehension of the material and makes recognizing/saving partial solutions organic and easy.
It will make flood insurance costs rise.
We ran Rainbow Trout, Silver Perch and Barramundi :)
This interesting article also reminded me of another HN story (comment really) [1] about Carmack's interest in providing Plan 9 with great interactive graphics. It's IMO a great pity they didn't consider his input more seriously.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523222
It's literally the third paragraph.
Would you please not post rants like this to HN, regardless of how tacky other people are?
/s/due to/worsened by/
The western US has some large areas with almost no lights. Northern Nevada and Eastern Oregon are almost empty. North of Winnemucca, when starting to head west on highway 140, there is a sign, "Next gas 179 miles".
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I'm sure there's some reason this isn't the answer, but haven't we had ngen since time immemorial? Aren't all of the assemblies that get shipped with Windows actually compiled to the native architecture?
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> a risk of draconian penalties if you make a mistake, even if you have perfectly sensible reasons for working with that data and you're not doing anything at all surprising or dubious with it.

GDPR explicitly mentions that "warnings" and "periodic data audits" should be considered measures to take before the fine is applied.

It also says[0] that when deciding on the fine, due regard shall be given to nature, gravity, and duration of the infringement; degree of cooperation, intention or negligence, actions previously taken by the authorities, previous infringements, nature of data etc.

It seems unlikely that anyone in good faith would get screwed by this.

[0] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...
I was expecting some thin e-ink-paper (Kindle like).

E-ink supports colors and videos nowadays. (unfortunately the ebook readers still use the older monochrome e-ink generation. e.g. Amazon has little initiative as the went with LCD Kindle Fire for video and colors)
Put differently, a set of binary choices: amusing, interesting, sad, ... It's a bit difficult to come up with a good set to rate any thing, but I can see it working for specific topics, like movies or games.

Or, one could just let users tag the subject and the interface would display the "weights" of the tags.
They're service applications for O&G companies to help with government regulation compliance, ISO auditing, and well performance, among other things. There are a lot of automated and manual processes that have to be dealt with by the various applications (including some old-fashioned straight-up data entry from graphs made by on-site equipment that get couriered to the office into spreadsheets that get imported).

Some of these are pretty large companies, and they want their tools (even 3rd-party ones) to work certain ways, so some of the workflow logic in the various applications we provide gets pretty hairy. It's impossible to avoid customizing things for some of these clients without losing them.

I was brought on to do a code-review of the newest (unreleased) version of their flagship product. The overseas developers didn't read the spec and management didn't bother enforcing it (hell, they barely bothered to plan it). 2 years of development wasted and it literally doesn't meet a single business need yet. My job then became to lead the rebuild of the front-end and work with the back-end team to make everything awesome again. I get to do proper planning, some nice enterprise architecture and deployment planning, some really cool front-end coding (Angular), and bring some modern (and even current) development practices and tools into a traditionally stodgy corporate development environment :) All with the full blessing and support of the technical lead :D
What do you mean by "social ownership"?

The traditional definition of socialism is that it has public ownership of the means of production (i.e. shared by society as a whole). What you describe wouldn't achieve that, because, even with market regulations that prevent monopolization, means of production would still be privately owned - there'd just be more such private owners. But the basics of private ownership of the means of production - the ability to extract economic rent from them - wouldn't change, and that basic ability is what defines capitalism.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15135049
After a certain number of years is the key difference.
TestingBot.com has been offering this service (Automated/Manual testing) via Selenium since 2011
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Moderation works by random sample so it obviously isn't going to be consistent. But if you post like that repeatedly, you're eventually going to get asked not to.

Whatever the definition of unsubstantive is, snarky generic dismissals are certainly included.
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Really? I find this fascinating, because people who have had PII leaked have been doxxed, physically threatened, had money stolen, their identity cloned. Lots of real world harm.

Leaked info to governments, especially in places in the world where it can mean imprisonment or death is a real issue.

Processing of PII may gave people the willies, but being annoyed by targeted ads seems like #firstworldproblems compared to people who've experienced real attacks via PII leaks.

It also creates opportunity costs for improving human society. How many human diseases could be cured if "processed" PII health data, anonymized statistics or case studies, were used by researchers freely? How much additional burden does it incur if each time this data is transferred to a sub-processor everyone must re-opt-in again?

Would a world of perfect privacy be a utopia, or a nightmare?
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> Pressure to eliminate them is good and the state that best eliminates them wins

This is nonsense. By this logic, corporate pressure to eliminate environmental regulations is "good" because they are "ineffective programs".

You assume, wrongly, that the benefits of public investment realize themselves within a timeframe that matters to the bottom lines of individual corporations. In reality, markets reward short-term orientation and externalizing costs. Traditionally it has been up to the public sector to take the long-term view.

This is true especially in our industry. The majority of very-long-term-oriented investment in high technology that has no immediate ROI prospects comes not from VCs, but rather the U.S. government through agencies like DARPA. Corporate tax avoidance has nothing to do with seeing DARPA as an "ineffective program".
Your understanding covers the basic intent of U.S. trademarks, but it got much more complicated with the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trademark_Dilution_Act. Nowadays, impairing a famous trademark's distinctiveness can be an issue, even in the absence of confusion or competition.
It worked for Microsoft to impose hardware designs on PCs, the big difference was that OEMs did not had the source code of MS-DOS and later Windows available to them, to do whatever they felt like it.
Isn't that what a reservoir is? You build a dam and everything behind it floods. (Typically anyone living there already gets bought out.)

Apparently not all the land behind the dam was bought when it was vacant, people built houses there, therefore these reservoirs can't be allowed to fill all the way during the storm, and they have to release water sooner than they would have otherwise.

(Or at least that's what ProPublica seems to be saying. Other news reports say differently.)
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There's also Better Touch Tool Remote.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/btt-remote-mouse-trackpad/id...
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Please don't post supercilious rants to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your information is interesting, but your inference is incorrect.

The Birthday Paradox has absolutely nothing to do with procreation, and everything to do with statistical probability.
That's what TestingBot offers; a cloud of browsers to run automated tests. Pricing depends on test duration and concurrency.

We secure all VMs with a firewall, every test runs on a new VM which gets destroyed after the test.