skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-npr-and-pbs-should-stop-ta...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets $450 million/year.

PBS: “less than 1%” of its “operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments.”
If a business doesn't have enough employees to open seven days a week, there's nothing stopping them from picking the most profitable five or six. (Or, for that matter, providing a product that's sufficiently better for your store to do more business in six days than the competition does in seven.)

In the UK, small businesses (as implemented, by floor area) are exempted from this particular blue law to give them an advantage. In practice, either they don't take advantage of it to open for a reasonable duration on Sunday (or any other day, for that matter) or they're too big and get screwed (as with the independent grocery stores mentioned in this article).
Oh. Seems I completely failed my part at reversing the images I browsed. That is my bad.
Mainstream journalism being fast-and-loose with weapon definitions again. I'm not sure if the NY times can't get it right, or they don't want to.

"Assault-style rifle" has no definition from what I can tell, other than getting used repeatedly by the news when "assault rifle" is technically incorrect but it looks like an assault rifle and they want to use the word "assault" near the word "rifle".

And "semiautomatic AR-15-style assault rifle" is just wrong. Semiautomatic-only rifles are not considered assault rifles.
> I also think that this is a strong case of genetics at play considering that the shooter didn't even spend time with his bank robber father. The psychopath apple didn't fall far from the psychopath tree.

Wow doesn't that fit nicely into some narrative. His phrenologic profile was off the charts too and a Virgo on top of that!
The underlying problem here is that the cost of making an SoC is enormous. So to make, say, an ARM desktop class machine you have only a few choices:

1) Make your own SoC designed for the purpose. You can tailor it to meet your requirements precisely, but given the low volumes you'll be selling, your system will be at least $10,000 a box, likely more.

2) Use a designed-for-mobile SoC. This will hit your $200-$300 price point pretty easily (perhaps even sailing under it by a big margin), but the IO options will be bad, because mobile SoCs don't neeed SATA or PCIe. CPU performance is likely to be underwhelming because mobile SoCs are designed to hit a power consumption level that won't drain mobile batteries or make mobile devices overheat. Almost all the cheap devboards you can get today are in this category.

3) More recently we're starting to see server or networking SoCs, which gives you an option a bit like 2 but with different cost and expansion tradeoffs. Generally a bit more expensive than 2 because networking won't hit mobile volumes, but better I/O capability. CPU power may still be less than you might like. Examples here are the Macchiatobin board and the dev box that Socionext announced last week.

I don't think anybody disagrees that a proper desktop class machine for these architectures would be great; but there are huge economic barriers to getting there. Personally if I was looking at getting a new ARM setup I'd try something in class 2, likely the Socionext box when it becomes available (end of the year, I think they said).
It's pretty remarkable how fast Facebook scaled their business. The criticism in the early days, in hindsight, was dramatically overblown.

They did $777m in sales for year six ('09), with $229m in net income.

To put that into amusing perspective, Netflix did $186m in net income for fiscal 2016 - their 18th year in business.

It's more net income (again, just in year six) than all of these following companies combined have produced in their entire histories: Uber, Didi Chuxing, Lyft, Zillow, Pinterest, Yelp, WeWork, Snapchat, Twitter, Groupon, JD.com, Zynga, Spotify, Reddit, GoDaddy, Pandora, Blue Apron, Quora, Shopify, Angie's List (could add a lot more to this list)
I think the definition of "creativity" is very vague when we try to explain that in terms of computer or AI. Generative artwork/systems, which are highly random tends to appear "creative" and not just any "imitation".
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On our ops dashboard we see stuff like number of ID syncs, number of events processed (by type), etc. - I'd argue that is something is truly "broken" you see it.

If you're using funnel analytics to decide that the product is broken - i'd say you probably do something wrong.
In my experience with growing companies, even compay-critical code bases get rewritten within 3-4 years to account for flexibility that the previous strongly-typed system just can't handle. A well designed system uses strong types for the "knowns" but allows changes via dynamic types for the "unknowns". Those are the systems that last.
Convenience in the modern music industry means being able to access virtually any song for virtually free on virtually any platform.

Bandcamp rules but it's missing like almost all music.
How is being ~80% under quota not news? Such a large miss means that either Tesla is being unrealistically optimistic about their production capability, or they have serious production problems.
In my experience with growing companies, even business-critical code bases get rewritten within 3-4 years to account for flexibility that the previous strongly-typed system just can't handle. A well designed system uses strong types for the "knowns" but allows changes via dynamic types for the "unknowns". Those are the systems that last.
Having spent an entire summer as an intern doing little but study the dynamics of batteries, I'm well aware of the failure modes of lithium chemistry batteries.

If they get too hot? Cut power. If voltage is too high? Cut power. If voltage ever goes below X? Permanently disable battery.

It's not complicated. It's a few thresholds to keep track of. Every laptop does it without an Internet connection and as laptops are used, they're very capable of burning your house down just the same as a powerwall. It's just going to be code on some computer across the Internet watching the battery metrics anyway, adding a network doesn't add any value.

I understand that companies really want constant telemetry from every product they produce. It's certainly possible these days, but it's ridiculous when a basic human necessity depends on your Internet working.
I'd like to preface this by saying that yes those modifications should be illegal. However, would that have made difference? I am not that knowledgeable on the subject of gun modification, but aren't those things that would be added after purchase? And things someone could create themselves? They seems like fairly simple mechanics from short descriptions of them. So sure, outlaw them because they certainly aren't something any gun owner needs. But I don't think that would have made a difference in this situation. I doubt he had all those guns in the hotel legally. It is not like he waltzed in with his guns out in the open, he was hiding them already.
TeamViewer should work fine.

Minor grammatical note: "e.g." means "for example", so the phrase "for e.g." does not make sense. I used to make the same mistake quite a bit!
15 commits 4 years ago, 121 commits 8 months ago

If these things are so good why does no one use them? EVERYONE using Erlang is using the same hotswapping facility. This sort of dynamism is just fighting against the language in an environment like Haskell.
Guacamole is awesome! I highly recommend it.

I used Guacamole + a 1st gen Chromebook as my laptop for several years of college work in 2012-2014.

Tasks that worked well:

- writing code in IntelliJ

- editing in Adobe Illustrator

- working in the terminal

- basic CAD in Sketchup

Tasks that I’d wait to do at home on my desktop:

- drawing, especially in Photoshop

- 3D work in Maya

- sound-latency sensitive work like MAX
I understand everyone is upset about what this terrorist did, so am I.

However, we should be cautious about making statements about genetics.
Apart from there not being any major scientific research behind it, it also leads to disturbing effects like the state detaining blood relatives of someone that commits crime because they will be more at risk of committing crimes in the future, thought-crimes, etc.
I’ve yet to find a good solution for remoting to a Mac from a Windows machine. Chrome Remote Desktop almost fits the bill, but I cannot get meta key bindings to work properly.

I will give this a try. Hoping it is good.
What you describe is a monopoly. As such those in oversight of such don’t see it that way and neither do I. Amazon’s sales still pale to that of Walmart’s. Is Wal-Mart threatened by Amazon sure! Because they haven’t innovated like Amazon has.
Makes me feel so much better about refusing to stay in a shelter during the years I was homeless. A tent and control over my life were vastly more humane than what I am reading here.

Homelessness traumatizes its victims. We might even call it a triple trauma. First, your life falls apart: family and friends shut their doors; your belongings disappear. This is a kind of living death. Then you’re traumatized again, separately but relatedly, by the stress of living in danger. Shelters are lousy with drugs and violence; streets are cold and your last possessions are imperiled. You’re disdained by your fellow man. You’re lucky if the despair doesn’t drive you to addiction, but addiction is a third kind of trauma when it arrives.

And this is why we need to solve affordable housing. It is unconscionable that we do this to so many Americans.
It's not either/or; many high quality news sources have clickbait rubbish stories to help pay the bills for the more expensive, higher quality reporting. It's either that, or paywalls (or both)
Digital renting isn't convenient for me. I like buying music in FLAC, and then encoding it in Opus for playback.

Also, why getting any music should be easier for renting only services? There is no rational reason here, except may be their uncompetitive influence and pressure they put on music creators to sign some nasty exclusive deals.

I know Bandcamp is missing some music that I want to see there, but I'm not into mass market music anyway. I can't say it's missing "almost all" for me.
Also, in nominal GDP per capita, Taiwan is ranked right next to Slovenia. Which doesn't accurately represent the real standard of living in the two places.
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The actual title from the article:

> Why I Still Use Vim

I understand that the article title buries the lede, but the current title ("Benchmarks show Electron apps are slow and eat memory like there is no tomorrow") is pretty inflammatory as well ('eat' and 'like there is no tomorrow', mainly).
I wouldn't say its proper practice, BUT... 2 weeks notice is best, at least for courtesy. It's not always easy to get another person in there when they have to trace footsteps. BUT its not illegal, just frowned upon.

Where I worked, it wasn't a startup, but a small business that had been fairly successful. I was hired for cheap and taken advantage of... anyways, I had worked there for over a year and then found another job because I couldn't stand the tyrant boss any longer. He basically cursed me out on my final day. And he withheld my last paycheck for almost a month, claiming that I still had his key, which I had returned to his wife (who was his payroll accountant).

Some more details here: http://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-opportunity/

Another job I had would not give me my 3 weeks paid vacation... I had to get the Union involved after a month of not getting my "vacation paycheck" (company offered option for paycheck instead of vacation) who were just about to use their lawyer. Company me that paycheck in just a few days.
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You aren't responsible for other people's heinous acts.
> It almost definitely will be after this massacre.

No new gun control laws came out of Sandy Hook, or any of the other mass shootings in this decade. Why should this one be any different?
The federal government needs a capital district it can defend militarily against the states. That's the whole point of D.C. The fact that people choose to live here to take advantage of federal government largesse doesn't mean they should have representation in Congress.[1] In the Constitutional scheme, states have representation in Congress, not people.

[1] As noted below, a significant fraction of the African American population live in D.C. because their ancestors were brought here involuntarily. They should be permitted to vote.
I mean, where did you get this 1000x figure as what "we're finding a lot of"?
I've found just the opposite actually. While it's far from perfect, it has been amazing for rapidly standing up new apps (especially prototypes). We've used quite a few different strategies and found it to be flexible and performant.

The only downside is we do find ourselves sometimes implementing relational DB functionality at the application level to compensate for Dynamo DB's "flexibility." Postgres is still the go-to for data that is relational in nature. But man, letting Amazon worry about hosting and scaling is also pretty awesome...
Science can't tell you if something is "natural" or good/bad. Science merely tells you what is/what we observe. (with some probability of being wrong, and subject to bias, etc).

Whether something is good/bad is up to us as a society to define, not science. What is considered good/bad depends on each of our individual goals/ethics/morals, which could differ from one another. This is why spoonfeeding people information saying "X is good" / "X is bad" is dangerous, and it becomes more dangerous when social media platforms allow such information to be amplified.
The demo is a little weird. They open up VLC on Windows, but only to show off how it renders waveforms for an MP3. Is that a use case that people have for remoting into their PC?
I think the lack of a father figure plays into more than genetics.

Additionally, fathers and sons share more than just genetics. They quite often share upbringing and culture. Not to mention the Father set that example of bank robbing.
I'm sorry but I'm still a bit confused. Read through the article and others online, but I don't actually see it mentioned exactly what weapon was used. Is it literally an AR-15 that had some sort of change done to it? They mention 2 guns were used, but only talk about the one and don't offer much details. Asking out of curiousity, since everything I've read online doesn't really seem to just get to the point.
Can someone explain the context for this?
Okay, but why are these distinctions important to this situation? Are you saying that there's been no legislation proposed that could have reduced the number of rounds per second this shooter could fire?
I was surprised to see how simple the crank modification was http://twozprecision.com/product/gatcrank-15/

Looks like a bump stock was used though https://apnews.com/e74a33083fb84b1b94c1ce3da986fd4f
State mental hospitals were widely alleged to be abusive and imprison people without cause. That was the justification for closing them.

I don't know how bad things were, back in the day, but dumping thousands of mentally ill people on the streets with no further assistance doesn't seem to have helped.
You're definitely right. There are a significant number of D.C. residents who live here because their ancestors were brought to the city as slaves. They should be able to vote. Everyone else should not.
I would like to see that evidence, thanks.

Edit: specifically I would like to see evidence that 1) a behavioral trait occurs in one gender identity that is universal across the majority of human culture to eliminate cultural bias, 2) that this trait has a causative effect on the career prospects of that person again across the majority of human culture to avoid culture bias (also that when this trait is strong in a gender not normally correlated that it causes same causative effect)
Awesome! Anyway to generate this as a PDF?
This article is among my first google results: https://gizmodo.com/the-due-diligence-report-on-otto-and-ant...

"Levandowski mysteriously quit his job at Waymo in January 2016 (back when it was still part of Google) and went off to start Otto. Then, a few months later, Uber bought Otto, a fledgling startup that had just launched. Fast forward to this February, and Waymo accused Uber of orchestrating the entire thing to get its hands on thousands of confidential documents Levandowski downloaded before his departure."
Let me google that for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle

It is clear. Assault Rifle, is a automatic, or semi-automatic rifle with a handle and a large magazine/bullet capacity. It has a fast fire rate, and semi decent range (less than a standard rifle, but more than a pistol).

First assault rifle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedorov_Avtomat

The one that was made famous during WW2 (which was used to assault enemy positions at slightly closer range than a normal rifle)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44

The most famous one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47
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It isn't strictly 5.1, more of a hybrid with a 5.2 features rolled in.
Prompt works extremely well, but doesn’t directly support ProxyCommand. It has the ability to run a command on connect though!
I don't know if your comment was just a troll or not, but we've build serious apps that use Dynamo DB as our store. It's been exactly what we needed, and we've got millions and millions of records across quite a few tables. There's certainly pros and cons to each database, but Dynamo can really shine if you take the time to understand it.
I’ll disagree with one point that I have direct personal knowledge of.

> Criticism: yc is elitist. with a few exceptions (you have PMF), you have to know someone

Not true for me. I knew no one and certainly did not have PMF (revenue equaled $0 when we were accepted). I learned about YC because I saw someone on a plane reading TechCrunch which led to PG’s essays which led me to YC which led me to apply.

What I did have was deep industry knowledge and an awesome cofounder with whom I had built a progressional services business.

Pro Tip: if you want an edge on the YC application, keep your application short but dense enough that you teach the reader something. Straight from PG: VCs know a little about a lot, so if you can teach them something new, they’re intrigued.
Does anybody know whether it supports advanced features of RDP which allows very low latency and low bandwidth.
> this terrorist

Do we know this? Do we know what his motivation was?
So normally when people are talking about assault rifles they think they are talking about assault weapons (or vice versa), which is a almost meaningless term used by the government and gun control groups. Just read the intro paragraph on Wikipedia to see what I mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon If we want an actual intelligent conversation about gun control we need to stop using stupid terms such as assault weapon, and maybe even assault rifle. We need to talk about concrete attributes not some abstract class of weapons a said gun belongs to.
> Regulators can and do start thinking that you have something to hide.

Are you sure about that? The only thing I start thinking is that the person making the estimates is being consistent.
Right now it isn't clear, exactly, what weapon and modifications where used. This piece is being updated as we find out more https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-mass-shootin...
What legal action can the possibly threaten?
For reference, 7th and Berry is exactly 4 blocks from where AT&T Park is now. Berry dead-ends at 3rd right smack into the Giants Dugout store.
> into a spot that many users believe is fairly authoritative

I mean that's the real issue. You can't be unbiased while trying to be a source of truth. You can be impartial and return results based on relevancy or you can intervene in an attempt to return the truth. Google has ventured into dangerous territory by mixing the two -- especially with their automatic snippets that answer questions.

> There is only figuring out ways to filter and sort the firehose

But it's an unsolved problem for how you put the control of this filtering into the users hands. The best we have right now is to just return everything and let the users choose what to pay attention to.
if you're in the retail supply chain, you're at risk of destruction by amazon. lower prices mean more commerce flows through amazon, which strengthens the company. bezos evidently wasn't joking when he claimed, "your margin is my opportunity."

for all the valid concerns about one company consolidating too much power, amazon is also effectively saving consumers hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

the margins of retail middlemen are being eaten by amazon and essentially pocketed by consumers or invested by amazon to eventually help consumers save or enjoy more.

amazon fearmongering is easy and fashionable, but all policies hurt some and help others. it would be refreshing to read an unbiased analysis of the trade-offs society faces if amazon continues to devour retail.
Every government should fund journalism, and every citizen should read from several news sources (from different governments). The BBC is great, but you should not get your news about Britain from the BBC, get it from say Le Monde or NYT. And vice versa for France and the US.
It's up to Puerto Rico. Every few years they have votes on statehood, and so far they've always turned it down.
Ants and children are a good comparison. Individually, the ants are much smaller than the child, but the total biomass of ants and humans is roughly equal. With vastly different abilities, ants and humans are roughly equally successful at making more of themselves.

I'm not talking about a theoretical situation in which small businesses or even large ones might get creative to compete against Amazon. This is something that's actually happening right now, and consumers are benefiting from it. Prices are going down while the expected quality of customer service is going up. Wages in retail are starting to rise to attract better talent as competition increases. Companies that used to be complacent because they owned their local markets are rethinking their strategy for the first time in a long time because they have no choice.

The ants are thriving even in the cities.
I do not believe it is known yet. Most of this is speculation. Hence the analyzing the fire rate.
Please re-read the first sentence of the "let me google that for you" you linked:

>An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.

Semi-automatic rifles are not selective-fire rifles.
AT&T and DARPA were monopolies when transistor, the Internet were invented, no?

My doubt is about these economic theories. I worry about the many dangers with Amazon's burgeoning monopoly.