skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have about 5 web sites on HostGator shared hosting. They don't get much traffic, and the cost of keeping them running is very low.
Filter-other-days: Artificial Ignorance-compatible logfile date filtering
In the near future, you are antenna!

to continously connect with your friends just cover your superior areas (mainly head) in aluminium foil and reflect remotley some interest from a long distance by showing the finger ..

neural networks will explode like popocorn into microwave and you could rent your mental computation infrastructure to produce units such as bitcoins
Tips on Travelling Through Western Australia If You Aren’t Driving
The doctor explaining the risks isn't working, because of the ad.

The DTC ads aren't completely useless, but they are harmful.

A patient is unable to understand that the drug is putting them at risk. 60% of people can't see their side-effects as side-effects. So dangerous side-effects like angina and depression take longer to diagnose, leaving the patient at-risk.

A patient is showing a placebo effect, so the doctor cannot tell how well the drug is working. That means, if it's a serious disease, they might be getting worse, but are unable to identify it, and for staged illnesses, that can mean more important treatment comes too late.

Remember, self-reporting is still the primary way we convey to doctors what's happening with us. If it can't be trusted to be accurate, the doctor can't be as effective as they need to be.
Sorry, IIRC it was called alimentación disociada in Spanish. I tried the probable translation, made a search and assumed the links were pointing to the same thing. I just browsed the book 20 years ago and it said nothing about ph, but about avoiding certain mixes of proteins, carbs and fats. The owner of the book said it had helped him a lot, but I didn't take much interest because that guy was not exactly thin and low-carb worked fine for me... actually it seemed like a softened keto diet, designed to make it a little funnier.
Interesting...

Chinese people also feel threatened by the West, because they don't trust you. There's not much more to it. They fear that you might abuse your power or use it to destabilize China. There's a lot of hatred of China, and they don't want you to try and trample Chinese norms, culture, society... things which they care about and are deeply connected to.

That's not to say the West actually would do any of those things, the key point is the lack of trust, specifically trust that you would do anything to benefit Chinese people or protect Chinese or that you care about them at all. They don't trust you, and the specifics of what you could do to hurt them are not really something they consider (but as you, the West is already powerful, you have many more options... to the point where one day maybe be the Chinese are dwarfed again by the West, and have no ability to defend themselves should they have to.) The west is very scary to Chinese people.

See how this goes?
Often they tout that donations are matched. In the fine print, they disclose that there's a limit to the matching. So if the limit is low, then the "matching" concept is effectively illusory.
Every single variable in C++ is implicitly surrounded by a with-block. And __exit__ is called destructor.
> worse off for everyone with a Chinese hegemony, except for the Chinese politburo

Thanks for representing 1.4 billion Chinese, being a westerner surely gives you such right to assume that we Chinese are all being repressed. well done!
It isn't just languages that pass out of existence. I know a lot about my parents, probably about .1% of that about my grandparents, and pretty much nothing going back further than that. There are essentially no records. What kind of lives they lived, what was important to them, how they viewed the world, etc., all gone.

If one of your ancestors was a historical figure, or kept a diary, maybe you have much more. But that's hardly ordinary.

It's just the way things are, and probably the way it has to be.
Lots of patterns here similar to large IT overruns.
(former) tax lawyer here. This is definitely not possible, at least in the US. They could only take a deduction if they first recognized the donation as income — which would defeat the purpose and also be a very odd way of characterizing the transaction.
In Poland an easy way to get a lower price is to go through price comparison engine like Ceneo[1]. Many retailers will offer significant discounts to users specifically looking for the lowest price.

[1] https://www.ceneo.pl/
Have you looked at Pride Tech Design? Managed VPS and cheaper than hostgator.

Full disclosure: I am an employee
I'm still using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/?sr... although it's not multiprocess-compat, which is a shame.

I can't remember if the FF webextension apocalypse will allow anything similar in future.
The point of the comment you are responding to is that there is indeed inherent value to being a billionaire, for the person who is a billionaire.

"Are you a billionaire?" --> if you were a billionaire I imagine you would be pretty stoked.
I am curious what would the legal challenge be if dynamic pricing on the sell side is considered acceptable?

Indeed, this seems to me to be no different than a form of reselling.
Out of curiosity, I did a little digging around. I really need to take a step back and actually understand what is going on fully with the code, but a quick trot through cProfile showed a lot of effort hitting the dot method of vec3, primarily via abs(self) under the norm method.

There's a useful library for python called numexpr, http://numexpr.readthedocs.io/, which can speed up numpy operations, leveraging multiple cores etc. (and Intel's VML library if you have it installed), one I've been aware of but never got around to trying out.

At a quick stab, it seems like it can't take properties of classes? Either way, modifying dot a bit:

def dot(self, other):
self_x = self.x
other_x = other.x
self_y = self.y
other_y = other.y
self_z = self.z
other_z = other.z
return ne.evaluate("(self_x * other_x) + (self_y * other_y) + (self_z * other_z)")

at 400x400 this slows things down a little. Once you get above about 800x800 it starts to draw equal. By the time you get to 2000x2000 it's shaving some 10% of the execution time.

edit: here's a quick stab at using numexpr at just the most obvious places, without trying to consider major code refactoring. Note this bumps up the resolution to 2000x2000

https://gist.github.com/twirrim/64f523fd5e8be86eb392b90e9222...

compared to rt3 (at same resolution), I knock off over 10% on this 2015 retina mac:

$ python rt3.py && python rt4.py
Took 5.78933000565
Took 4.9023668766
Here are a few examples
1. Inflating asset bubbles without accompanying consumer standard of living: http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/72997

2. Poor oversight of loans causing volatility in commodity markets and general mayhem http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-02/pledged-assets-are-...

Interestingly Michael Pettis's site was hacked and killed multiple times before he moved it to Carnegie Endowments for International Peace. One can only wonder how.
I'm not sure that the movie analogy works all that well from the position of either the article's author or your parent. For years theaters have been losing their edge as their experience degrades with price increases and the addition of advertising, and people's home watching experience continues to improve with bigger TVs and easier access to media.

But even so, theaters have been amazingly resilient to the digital age. I'd chalk this up to the fact that they provide a shared social movie-going experience that's not quite something you can replicate at home (i.e. it's something to go do with your friends), and in some cases, you want to see certain hits with a certain timeliness so that you can talk about them at school/work/with friends.

Hardcovers are just not like this at all. Even if you'd compare them favorably to an ebook, you'd be hard pressed to find one person on Earth who would say that they provide a superior experience over a paperback (except that they look more handsome on a bookshelf). They are, and always have been, quite simply a way for the publishing industry to squeeze a few extra dollars out of consumers who were willing to pony up the money so they could read a book early. This is exactly the sort of wrinkle that you'd expect to be ironed out in the Information Age — people's tolerance for this kind of profiteering decreases as access to media broadens.

The article's author is right that diminishing the edge of hardcovers is certain to cut into the margins of bookstores like his own, but he's wrong that it's a bad thing (directly). It might cost him money, but it's better for literally every single book buyer.
I use Siteground for a few wordpress installations - support is excellent and performance is reasonably good - plans are reasonably priced and haven't had any issues. That said, I don't run any intensive applications, just self-contained systems.
Australian public higher education under threat
Ha. No, the big difference here is the deception factor. Using online retailers' personalization against them.

A "meatspace" analogue from 50 years ago would be wearing a disguise to avoid discrimination, for example a woman dressing up in a coat/hat/fake mustache to avoid getting ripped off at the car dealership.
Any suggestions for good guides for setting up LetsEncrypt with something like, say, a DigitalOcean droplet with a default Wordpress install?
> They're doing this because of the oil in the area and to exert dominance. USA on the other way just want everybody to be okay cause you know USA is all about money and business. If you lock that area like China is doing USA can't really profit.

It because of a fear of missing resources that may be scarce and invaluable. Not just oil, fish too, and access to shipping lanes. This is not incompatible with US interests.
I use shared hosting for my personal site and a few low traffic client sites. I use it for my site because it's WordPress and I don't really want a high risk application running alongside some of my other more secure projects. I use it for client sites because they don't get much traffic and it's very cheap meaning I can keep their costs down.
Yes I see how this goes, but I don’t see your point. I don’t agree with the conclusion that the existences of mutual distrust is proof that distrust is wrong, and I do t think you’ve provided any argument besides that.

I don’t see why my distrust of China implies to people that China is not allowed to distrust me, or that I’m somehow saying that They’re unique. This is a statement of fact. This is reality. I’m not being prescriptive here. I would personally like for China to be more friendly towards the us and vice versa but I’m not sitting here saying the us is perfect or free of sin. I don’t see why the us must be perfect before I can announce what is already reality, that I distrust China.

Perhaps you shouldn’t read my post as a diplomatic action, something that I just said as part of an argument to try and manipulate China or something, because that’s not what it is. It’s a statement of fact and some analysis on the cause. I’m not trying to criticize China or convince China to change, even if I would definitely like that to happen, and think it should.
i mean...

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

imagine being an illegal immigrant in your own country because you aren't legally allowed to live in major cities
Arguably, Google is making a closed world with Google. Browse the internet on a Google browser, using a Google phone operating system. Google reads all your emails and hears what you say at home. Soon we'll be riding to work in Google cars.

It's worse than Microsoft and surprising they got so far. But I guess when your motto is "Don't be evil", people trust you.
On a phone right now so can't write a long reply but you need to read up on some of the history around US corporate colonialism. Try looking at the origin of the phrase "Banana Republic" or the history of pre-Castro Cuba.
>Ubers a great place to work now.

I’m sorry, but companies’ cultures don’t change that fast and it’s not even really clear how much power Kalanick has actually ceded. Was the entire chain of command from the HR staff that tried to shut women up to the execs that passed around a rape victims medical records cleared out?

I don’t doubt that a place like Google has many of the same problems and agree that Fowler should get a great deal of credit for her courage. But actual change is a long and far more difficult process than what has happened at Uber.
Historically, China has not interfered in the affairs of distant nations. If you are judging by history, the West has interfered with China much more, thus far, than visa versa. I would go so far as to say that China has never yet tried to destabilize the West or impose it's values on the West. Can the West make the same claim about China?

As it is written, as you judge, so shall you be judged. If your standard is that countries should not abuse their power to destabilize other countries, then historically doesn't China actually hold the high ground?
The articles about the South China Sea always make me curious because all the countries are involved in claiming non-islands. China is simply late to the party and is making similar claims than the other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...

Quarrels about borders exist also in democratic countries, the only difference is that there good diplomatic ties are usually seen as more important.
Commuting from Everett to Seattle via single-occupant car has taken forever since the turn of the century. 405 and I5 simply don't have the space for all of those cars. That's what transit does: it provides an alternative--primarily through the use of HOV/HOT lanes--to slogging along in your own car.

Also, on those car tabs, voters approved them ourselves. Every single transit-related charge on your vehicle registration was approved by a measure put in front of voters. (Same for sales tax.) I disagree strongly with our legislature's predilection for punting hard tax issuers to voters but if you're gonna blame anybody, you've only the voting public to blame. (Full disclosure: I've voted "yes" on every single transit tax measure--except for the monorail--I've ever seen.)

Oh, and on farebox recovery: very, very few transit systems recover their cost of operation. In the United States, only the Las Vegas Monorail recovers 100% of its costs. The only widely-used system that comes close is San Francisco's BART at 71%. (All figures courtesy Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio)

It may come as a surprise to you, but vehicle owners don't directly pay the cost for the roads they drive upon, either. The motor vehicle fuel tax basically pays for the Washington State highway system (including part of the Washington State Ferries...which also has approximately a 70% farebox recovery ratio[0]). County and local general fund taxes pay for local roads, including basically every road you drive on inside a municipality.

This is the same for transit. County and city taxes pay for the bulk of the service and fares and grants cover the rest.

Oh, and public transit taxes in Washington State are almost universally put in front of the voters because the legislature won't let transit agencies impose taxes on their own authority. Road and fuel taxes? Pfft, those are somehow different and they get imposed by the legislature with no vote. I want the legislature and our representatives to handle taxation and spending; that's why we elect them. But this double standard of approval-required-for-transit-but-not-for-roads is galling.

0 - http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/A72D0350-674E-4D50-8483...
Mono, .NET Framework, .NET Core, Xamarin.<Platform>, etc are all just different implementations of .NET Standard. I believe .NET Framework is a superset of Core.

They can all run code targeted at Standard but all have slightly different libraries on top of Standard. Mono was originally was intended to be a cross platform stand-in for .NET Framework which is why they can mostly run the same code. I believe Mono and Framework are slowly merging together.
Whether on Google Apps or using Exim, all my domains have a catch all address so emails to unmatched local names (addresses) are sent to a single inbox. I then use servicename@mydomain.tld for registration at each service.

It's not much more difficult to circumvent than gmail's +randomname but a little fuzzier. There's no way to know from the outside how many people are using each domain.
Yeah that makes sense. Seems like something Uber would want to fix, and it should be pretty easy if they stagger the bonuses. I don't think having drivers pissed off about losing out on bonuses is really in their best interest, even if it saves them a bit of money in the very short term.
Me too. It's so much more cost effective than the alternatives, and support is great. Anything else, I'm happy to run on a PaaS.
Unsupervised and on-line learning has to be figured out first (perhaps by finally abandoning backprop methods, perhaps by finding some hybrid approaches); after that, I look forward to seeing veritable reinforcement learning and creature-like intelligences take shape.

I've always been fascinated by how little is needed in terms of feedback loops in order for something to appear alive, I could say almost soul-like. The image in my mind is always that of -- and I'd like to give a better example -- the heat-seaking homing missile. I'm surprised Hofstadter, who is all about self-referential loopiness does not appreciate this, because I strongly agree with him in a belief that self-reference is the essence of much mystery. Then again, I never heard him passionately entertain chaos theory either, or psychedelics for that matter. I think Hofstadter has a very particular take on things (he calls himself a picky person). He can afford being obstinate because he is no doubt a free spirit and a brilliant guy, but it does make him appear dismissive sometimes.
"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you—if you don't play, you can't win." -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"
> Do you not see those articles where China build artificial islands and try to enforce the China seas as if they own all of it? They bully everybody, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, etc..

I am an American, but the USA is not exactly a paragon of non-interventionalism. The US has had a far more aggressive and interventionalist foreign policy over the past century than China. I think that America would serve not only the global order but it's own citizens far better by offering a more standoffish, less aggressive foreign policy. That would also go a long way if you want to take the high road with other countries on being too aggressive with their neighbors.
Thanks a lot for your great work! I'm surprised the linked article didn't mention OneBusAway, which greatly changes the experience of using a bus for me. Like many in Seattle, I live a couple blocks from a stop, use OneBusAway to time things so I don't have to wait more than a couple minutes, and -- just as importantly -- I don't ever sit there wondering whether there's any bus coming at all.

I notice on onebusaway.org that the system is now used by other cities, including NYC, Washingon D.C., and Tampa Bay. Do other large cities generally use some kind of competing, comparable proprietary system, or do bus riders in most cities have no way of getting real-time bus data online?
Ex Vice Lord and GD Gives Back to the Streets of Chitown
It's been a year since I moved the last domain off of hostgator.

Reason I used it so long is email/mail server. Since moving to a vps some emails don't come. Usually important ones that used domain verification.
For a lark, this bird imitates 34 others
I strongly suspect a blend of the two approaches will win over time, which is to say, even in the spanish dominated regions, it will be english first, spanish second. This has happened with every immigrant group eventually here - the dominant culture is all smothering.
> This is an easy opinion to harbor when you speak a language whose future is pretty much secure.

I speak one of UN's big 6 languages and it's future is secure.

I care little for it's jokes, new ones will be made.

But if it disappeared tomorrow in it's entirety then I would not only not be disappointed, I would celebrate instead. The barriers are gone, the people are united. And that annoying "learn English" advertisement spam would also disappear, that's perhaps one of the best parts.
Oh, that is interesting. You mean it is illegal for me to live/work in other Chinese cities? The problem is several members of immediate family have been doing that for 20 years, e.g, my parents, are they going to be detained soon?
Consider maybe cutting out your kids' sugar as well. No need for them to be eating all those sugary foods if you've found it to be unhealthy (and it is).
> I've always been fascinated by how little is needed in terms of feedback loops in order for something to appear alive

You're not alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braitenberg_vehicle
Fastmail offers you up to 100 email aliases (2 per each of 50 different domains) which route to your main account.

Edit: it's actually 600 aliases now: https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html
The bids aren't in bad faith. They are just over-rationalized and under-justified until the number is small enough to be in the winnable range. Middle Management talks out of both sides of their mouth, demanding lower estimates, while demanding integrity of results (wink wink).

They don't really want integrity, they want to get a number that won't get them yelled at by their boss. The integrity bit is a pass the buck clause.

So the estimator is in the position of trying as hard as they can to lower the estimate. "Well, if we assume xyz unreasonable assumption, then we can lower the amount by this amount."

And then there are "risk" shenanigans. You itemize all the risk items, declare an arbitrary probability of happening. Then management rolls those up, and declares that they are not going to fully fund the risk and instead "carry" it forward.

Fully funding basically would mean multiplying the likelihood of occurring by the cost, and adding all the items up. Which is already iffy as the probabilities aren't based on much except a w.a.g.

So you win the bid, the risks are realized, and weren't funded. blow out.

Standard practice. And because everyone does it, the honest bidder is the loser. Losers go out of business. So the whole bidding practice is self selecting for cheats.

If you say, "this is unethical, I'm going to do my best to give a realistic bid", you lose.
I'd like to live in a world where even nationality eventually fades to the background - but I don't think that will happen until we make contact with another species from off of this planet.
I wrote an article about this called Shared Hosting is Bad for Business. I pointed out that shared hosting as a business model depends on the failure of it's customers' websites. You can't run 1,000 high traffic websites on a single server, typically, but you can run 1,000 no-traffic websites on a single server.

You see this in practice because basically every shared hosting provider will disable your account if your website starts using more than it's quota of system resources.

Some providers go so far as to say their service is unlimited but obviously that's false, there are several physical limitations no matter what hardware is being utilized.
Some old clients running Wordpress sites, mostly company landing pages.
Yes the hukou system is a shame, but even with the hukou system check out the population growth in Beijing: http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/beijing-popula...

China has done some work to soften the system a little and there have been recurrent talks of abolishing it altogether. Hopefully it goes into the dustbin of history one day.