skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bail bondsman play an important role too. They're on the hook for the money, so they make sure the guy shows up to court and doesn't become a fugitive. And if he does flee, they go find him. Otherwise, the police and therefore taxpayers would have to do all these things themselves.

I'm not saying this is the right system, I don't know, but if you're going to criticize it, you should at least acknowledge the reasonable arguments for it.
Hmm, I find it fairly tasteful and not gratuitous.
Tim Powers, an overall excellent author, wrote a book that involves Edison and his ghost phone: Expiration Date. Well worth a read.
This is also critical for software engineering as well. Large organizations, especially older ones that sort of missed the software revolution will get bogged down in making sure they're software engineers don't recreate an existing project within the company. This thought process ruins creativity and motivation. It's more beneficial to recreate the same thing 4 times over, now you have a team of domain experts 4x the size and you can take that expertise and factor out the shared patterns into a service or a product. Trying to do it the other way around is a recipe for failure.
Well, we've seen for example, Twitter do that. I saw some slides[0] that other day from sometime in 2007[1] where they said they were using Ruby and spawning 180 rails instances to handle 600 requests per second. Like, that's insane. A compiled language can handle that load with just one instance. It's nothing.

[0]: https://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter/3-First_So...

Also, if your audience is small enough that a slow python can suffice, why even bother using a database server such as postgresql or mysql when you can just use sqlite and simplify the architecture?

EDIT:

[1] It's been 10 years since 2007 but people still do this more or less all the time. Write a webapp in js/ruby/python and spawn 20 instances of the application server
In Kuwait the typical mobile plan includes 1TB of traffic.

With 45GB you can watch a mere 10 hours of 4k TV per month.
Yes. And it's a fact mentioned right in the first sentence. So what?
And what's so wrong with retribution? If you cause suffering to another during their short and precious time on this world, why should you not be made to suffer as well?

This desire for retribution is a central part of the human psyche. As we have done for our other wild drives, we have tamed it with process and institutions, but we should not deny our moral intuitions. If you reject the legitimacy of moral intuition, then you'd have a hard time justifying why blackmail should be illegal, for example.
As other people have mentioned, this is only strange because of our bizarre popular notions of crime and punishment in America.

I believe it's more of a Calvinism thing. I mean predestination as stronger than free will. If that person is a criminal, it's shocking that he will rehab and live a productive life later. In catholic countries this wouldn't be seen as strange.
> I’m sure a lot of people will rethink whether they want to continue to contribute to facebook’s bottom line by remaining on the service.

You don't get it. We're now at the point where Facebook decides whether we contribute to the bottom line by keeping us on the service.
Yes it's nice to see this is now fixed. In my case I need to support Python 2.7 though, and for Python 2.7 the only workaround I know of is shipping two binaries (2 byte and 4 byte encoding) then loading the correct module at runtime.
Bizarre how only one political opinion is assumed to be appropriate and correct.
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This was fun and all but it doesn't apply to modern academics. Now, if you 'disregard' you won't get grants and you won't be in academics long enough to make a contribute. Fun but irrelevant today.
I believe this a great feature that create "tech hubs". It is the "give back to the community" of tech entrepreneurs.

It is not just a financial decision.
There's tons of oil under the ocean. See deep sea drilling and oil platforms.
The BBR whitepaper gave examples of improvements on high-capacity backhaul links (e.g. a 10Gbps WAN) and lower-speed, last-mile connections to end users.
That's why FaceBook, having became so big, should maybe be regulated a bit (like banks, like press, like transportation, etc.)
Or maybe one of those lovely modal overlays that has the user choose the poison.
A windows key?
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I thought it was fairly clear. Chase wants to get into the fintech space so they acquired WePay.
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Would you similarly feel that we should ignore the "bs 3 century old" text of the First Amendment, or how about the right to a jury trial? Or how about double jeopardy? Certainly, continental Europeans feel such notions are antiquated as they've basically abolished free speech if it ventures too far outside the Overton Window. And the English have steadily chipped away at the jury trial, and recently allowed double jeopardy.

We have a process for changing that text. A process that is intentionally difficult. I prefer we follow that democratic process than the whims of nine unaccountable men.

You might like it when you have a majority on the Supreme Court that feels your way, but it wasn't so long ago that the Lochner-era court forced a conservative and intentional misreading of the Constitution instead. That was as much a perversion as the liberal judicial activism of late. The whole point of a constitutional system is that we have a supermajoritarian process to put certain things above daily politics.
Absolutely. What is more critical than luck is the effort one puts in to figure out the right things to do.

Sometimes it takes a small amount of time to figure out, sometimes a while. What matters is that one keeps at it.
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Possessing those positive traits you speak of is also a matter of luck: the upbringing of an individual has been proven to affect one's ability to make correct decisions. Effort counts, and it counts a lot, but let's not pretend that we can override causality with it. That's why we have things like welfare and social nets.
Last update was 2 years ago..

Maybe add 2015 tag ?
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I didn't know about using force touch on the settings app. However when I tap on the wifi menu entry that appears, I still need yet another tap to disable wifi.

Anyway, here's my count:
1. use touch-id to unlock the phone
2. press home to get to first screen with the settings app (if you aren't already)
3. tap Wifi
4. turn it off

You then need to navigate back to where you were previously.
How does one become a security researcher?
Unless you're a doctor who treated Jobs, I doubt we can make any claim about whether his choices killed him or not.

Let's not forget that Jobs underwent a surgery to remove the first round of cancer, and then ended up getting a liver transplant (probably because his pancreatic cancer has metastised into this organ as well). Because of the immunosuppressive medication one has to take for the rest of one's life after a transplant, recurring cancer is extremely dangerous because the cancer can grow unbounded.

I don't really see how surgery and a transplant align with "smarter than medicine."
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Mixo is usually considered dominant instead of major. There's also Lydian #6 for those times when Lydian just isn't major enough.
It's sold with Windows.

Even my last Dell that came with Linux had a Windows key.
In addition to still photos, would love to see exposure fusion (or HDR+ as Google calls it) in mobile video too. RED Epic and Scarlet cameras do this with 2 exposures per frame and call it HDRx, I've found it adds about 4 stops of dynamic range in grading. RED doesn't do any fancy anti-ghosting stuff though like HDR+. Magic Lantern firmware for Canon dSLR's also does something similar with dual ISO frames.

This together with 10bit video profile for h265 (think phone hardware is capable now but haven't seen any phones with 10bit video yet) would make mobile video a whole lot better, right now it frankly sucks for anything with high contrast or dynamic range.
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Anyone feels it's tech for the sake of tech ? I don't even appreciate the HDR processed shades. There's a lot more detail that's true, but 1) it's fake IMO 2) pics don't have to be perfect, it's just a moment of life, the details are precise enough.
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In the interest of not only providing anecdotes when I'm complaining: I too have had zero issues with the keyboard in the ~4 months I've been using it daily, and actually quite like it. I was afraid after hearing the stories that it'd be an expressionless, tactileless hunk of junk, but I like it a lot.
How else would you invest your money? Index funds in a stock market whose price is going hockey stick?

With banks out of the business of loaning people money there are genuine opportunities out there where people can put money to work. I imagine he is not going to be gambling on ICOs but investing in profitable companies.
Can't we use element.animate API for this? it should be smoother
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No, I wrote it. :D
>>Of course they'd be allowed to, where would we end up though?

Sounds like a slippery slope fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope
The rich could easily survive forever off the modest guaranteed interest of their fortunes.

But if you want more from life than sitting at home and watching TV all day, you have to take some initiative.
I'm going to have to call out Ben Tossel for vote brigading. Here's a link : https://twitter.com/bentossell/status/920574217841774592

This is not product hunt to say "Hey we launched on PH" which is code for "come upvote my post".

I can only speculate on what goes in private, but you get the point.

This practice of vote brigading is very very common for people who have any meaningful following or are close to "influencers". I know a shit ton of people who do either open vote brigading or do so privately. It's also very easy to avoid the voting ring detector since launches are rare. It's fucking disgusting to say the least.

The only consolation for me is that such people will not succeed long term or at least very few will succeed. To the community : please keep your eyes open, a lot of content does not get to the front page organically, when you see such posts call them out.

I hope the comments on this post make sense with this context.
From a moral standpoint, discriminating against racists is fine.
You really hit the nail on the head. If someone is able to build a successful business with an easy to use language, that sounds like the language you want to start with.
You end up with a lot more noise with simple histogram adjustment from a single image, plus the dynamic compression to a final 8bit image won't look as good for many use cases.

Exposure fusion from multiple images has much higher usable dynamic range and lower noise.
Surely isn't so much an issue of political bias, but the fact they happily helped circulate an ad designed to provoke hatred and fear through clear falsehoods.
The Atoms are a completely separate architecture, I don't think they're really related to the main Core etc. Intel CPUs.
Neat idea, except that it doesn't actually run Linux and most likely never will.
Don't constrain yourself by your education
Stop believing ICO ratings
Having opposing political views does not a racist make.
You do of course need to remember each order, keeping track of invoices etc. But I don't understand why that would require keeping track of a user more than any brick and mortar store that supports paying now and getting the product delivered to your door.
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10% a year on a million is still (way) better than throwing 4x $25k at a random startup through angel investing.

Hell, with current interest rates, you might as well use some portfolio margin and borrow an extra million.
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The early Atoms weren't P3 based, they were an original low-power design and actually quite a bit slower than the P3 at similar clockspeeds. Though a lot of the unpleasantness of using those machines was more from the extremely anemic GPU which has also improved considerably since then.

Here's a benchmark comparison between the Atom used in the EeePC 901 (N270 @ 1.6Ghz), the GPD Pocket (x7-Z8750 @ 1.6Ghz), and a 1.1Ghz P3: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2968&cmp[]=13...

The P3 is slightly faster than the old Atom in spite of the lower clock, and the new one is over 2x as fast single threaded and over 7x as fast multithreaded.
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No, you're wrong. Collusion fraud is (generally) when a merchant uses stolen credit cards to process payments then absconds with the money before the customer disputes the charge.

What the parent is describing is PayFac (payment facilitator) which is where the card network and acquirer are aware of the merchant/sub-merchant relationship. You can determine if a payment is through PayFac by the tell-tale asterisk after the first 2 characters on the statement descriptor. For example, Square transactions process as "SQ*[Merchant Name]"
Shannon also had a care free attitude regarding his ways. Following his intuition is important. Not being blind too. Accept the others, just don't dismiss yours.
Normally we talk about these things in terms of CAP: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.

Systems with a central server avoid problems of partition tolerance and consistency just fine. It's the availability that's a problem. The system cannot operate without the central server. Whether this is a problem in your use case depends on your use case. Nationwide financial system? Aerospace control system? You probably care a lot about availability and can't use the central server model.

(Although ironically a large part of how stock exchange clearing works is imposing an order on transactions and reconciling the result at the end of the day)
But then you have to define racists, and this prevents people who are not racist from speaking out of fear of being discriminated against. The cure is worse than the disease. Discrimination is bad.
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first atoms were pentium arch on modern semiconductor tech, that's how they achieved low TDP.
I've been looking for something like this for a while. The Asus C101 Chromebook with GnuRoot Debian for a chrooted Linux has done a satisfactory job. Small, light, reasonable keyboard, and flips into a tablet.
Are you in the demographic that normally clicks on links in marketing e-mails?
The fat man version is indeed similar. Of course, the fat man version is not analogous to the first version of the trolley problem for reasons I gave above.
But there's plenty of ways to 'give back to the community' without being the one waving the chequebook. In particular, if you've got the spare time to work on other projects, you can do plenty to help out.
Lies are ok? (No Sharia law in France)

Inflaming divisions is ok?

Throwaway is appropriate for this post.
I don't know why enraged_camel's comment is dead, but here is what he wrote. Which I think is relevant here:

> Sounds like a slippery slope fallacy.
> https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope
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> You do not know the meaning of the words you use in an argument

Oh yes, I do. I'm not the fool trying to take some half-baked understanding of ethics-101, and apply it to some quarter-baked knowledge of basic history. Thats you. Keep me out of it.

(ignoring paragraphs of drivel, where you're under the mistaken illusion that you're somehow engaging in a high-minded conceptual dicussion avec moi)

Here's the problem you're not getting. From where I'm sitting, you come across as a nitwit with a very very poor knowledge of basic history, and an over-inflated opinion of his own "future projections".

That alone makes it hard to take you seriously. Along with your championing of terrorism and nuclear weapons.

Now, when you combine that with your eagerness to mix in philosophy, and start lecturing - while still showing many gaps in your own logic and understanding of said terms.

The effect is comedic.

Unfortunately, the strong whiff of anti-Muslim bigotry which seems to poke its ugly head from your delusional writings is less comedic.

Case in point: Kemal Ataturk, who was part of the Young Turks movement that effectively lead Turkey through WW1, Armenian genocide and all - was somehow the moral superior of the Muslim Caliph he "defeated"? (err, when was that?) No doubt, this is all from some made up alternative history you're living in?

In short, you're a kook. And quite probably a bigoted one too, at that (just surmising). Yes you have a keyboard, and an ISP willing to let you loose. But no, that doesn't make you any less irrelevant than you probably are in real life.

Whatever your ailments, suffer them in silence. Don't involve me.
Somewhat tangential: does anybody know if the recent advances and popularization of machine learning lead to some improvements in open-source handwriting recognition software/engines?
"Is Amazon going to grow into a $2 trillion market cap over the next ten years? No, there is zero possibility of that happening."

I would suggest that that's a bold statement.
Google and Facebook like money is how it fits together. They also care about not handing the country to an authoritarian demogogue who leaves people to die in Puerto Rico. But on the other hand they like profits.
There was a time I had to read XLS (BIFF formats) in PHP. Poked around, found some libraries (slow as hell), decided to port[1] one of them (python's xlrd).

What followed, even though it was almost 1:1 port, was an inevitable loss of huge part of my life, I'll never get back. However, I learned a lot about what a mess that format is. Since then ANY xml format Microsoft uses is godsent.

[1]: https://github.com/laacz/xls-reader
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I still miss mine. It was great little machine until the display broke.
Yeah that is a good take! Thanks. Do you have any links to (relatively?) accessible reading on how stock exchange clearing works? That sounds like an interesting application of exactly this sort of problem that I'd like to learn more about.
Thank you - exactly the point. Both inflaming division and lying are bad.
That's not what the documentation says. The KV is using raft, you can relax some guarantees for reading by having clients use consistency=stale, but you're still communicating with the server, except in stale you only communicate with one instead all of them.

How do you come to the conclusion that you're communicating with the server? When I'm doing any type of communications with consul via the API I'm always communicating with 127.0.0.1/....
Perhaps considered a natural effect of thinking hard about it
Sorry but it does not seem like regulating banks has done much to improve the financial system. Why do you think regulations are the solution?
As someone who grew up in Germany I can tell you that banning some hate speech does most certainly not lead to "anything remotely questionable getting deleted/flagged".
Holocaust denial and racism are not normal political views, and pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
Most media companies, like most foreign governments including Russia, gave heavily to the side they expected to win.

That side didn’t win.
it is not nitpicking, you are correct to point it out. The only difference is where the vtable is attached to: pointers in Haskell, objects instances in c++.

Although the language does not offer a builtin syntax for it, in C++ is also common to attach the 'vtable' to the 'handle' (a smart pointer or deep copying envelope), in the case of type erased wrappers (std::function, std::any, etc).
Should people never make any assumptions about what motivates political views, even when it is obvious?
Yeah, exactly. Profitable VC investment is often described as a numbers game, where you need to make maybe hundreds of investments to smooth out the inevitable numerous failures. 4x $250k angel investments is basically a long shot gamble. On the flip side, if you do spread your investments and invest in lots of companies, you as an individual aren't going to be able to have enough time to help or advise any one startup in a meaningful way.
Allowing lies is a non story?
Inflaming division and ultimately putting an autocrat in the white house is a non story?

A reckoning over the use of social media is coming to the US. At minimum we're going to need to have full ad disclosure and a means to restrict lies.
Beer, machinery, and molten metal! I'm not even kidding when I say that is right up my alley.
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You are not average.
Reminds me of my Toshiba Libretto.
Braswell series Atom N3700 that is about the same (only GPU is better there), is adequate for youtube, facebook and other office stuff multitasking. It can even run Visual Studio, but with lags. Most of the slowness in my laptop was from 5400rpm HDD, here SSD will improve things.
But if you disregard others, how do you prevent reinventing the wheel?
Is that really true? Is it OK for a doctor to refuse to operate on a racist or a police officer to refuse to protect a racist? What about a grocery store refusing to let a non-actively demonstrating racist shop in their store or a school teacher to educate their children? Racists are humans too.

However, you don't have a moral obligation to help a racist send their message. Otherwise, treat all people as people.
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Moreover, because the ads were narrowly (in terms of ideological cross-section, not numbers) screened, our societal defenses (debunking on the news, the Internet, et cetera) never had a chance to be triggered.
Remember how in Josh Green's book on Bannon, Green describes how Bannon and Breitbart specifically targeted young tech employees for divisive propaganda? Bannon saw tech workers as a productive demographic to incite hate in.
Just curious about the MySQL problems you hit.

MySQL replicas self-recover via MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY and MASTER_RETRY_COUNT. e.g. set to 1, 8640000 respectively to make a replica retry every one second for up to 100 days before finally giving up.

At least this is true for network errors. If replication breaks due to data inconsistency, it should stay broken and a human should look into it, IMHO.

Corrupted tables and repairs suspiciously sound like MyISAM, and a realize this ancient engine still lurks at some places. I haven't done a "repair" for over 14 years -- the last time I used MyISAM in production.
Using MyISAM today is analogous to using the ext2 file system today.

In any case this just clarifies a couple comments on MySQL and has nothing to say on MySQL vs. PostgreSQL.
I would also like more controls. You can have that shooting RAW and editing with Snapseed, but it's a bit more involved and the usable dynamic range of a single mobile raw image is below exposure fusion from HDR+.
Needs less jpeg.
Can I commend the writing on this Web site? I know traditional encyclopedias have been over shadowed by Wikipedia, but the standard of writing and information density does not compare to what went before.
That's a feature of capitalism, not a bug. Can't leave money on the table.