skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use amaysim’s 50GB data pack, at $65 for 28 days, and on the Optus network. In the country town of Stawell (a few thousand people), I get roughly 23/12Mbps. I’m moving to Navarre soon (about a hundred people), and get about 45/15Mbps there.

For me, living by myself and working from home most days, it’s substantially better than ADSL2+, as it’s faster, more reliable, doesn’t lock me into any contract, allows me to use my internet supply from other places as well, all for the same price as ADSL2+ (which is admittedly generally $10–20 per month dearer in the country for a given service level, and at this price point would include 100GB instead of my 50GB, but I simply don’t need that).

This arrangement works well for me.
Which is not really relevant because the thread and the linked article are about bash.
A few months back I was wiping some old drives using a USB->SATA adapter plugged into an old Linux machine I keep around for experimenting on random things. Mostly because I could just leave it to run for however long it took. There were two drives in the machine, sda and sdb. So the drive came up as sdc.

So then I typed:

$ shred -n1 -v /dev/sda

Took me about 4 seconds to realize what I did before hitting Ctrl-C.

Then, I sighed. Considered whether I could save anything. Realized there wasn't anything on there worth saving, and reinstalled. :)

I'm usually much more cautious than that and I'm thankful it happened on a dumb test machine at home and not something important, but it was still a bummer and my first real sysadmin-type screw up. Mistakes happen, though. Even Linus once dialed his hard drive [0].

[0] https://liw.fi/linux-anecdotes/
Also, as a separate comment, I understand the crazy appearance of Amazon's valuation but I think it's one of the most justified giants in terms of market cap.

They're positioning themselves as a monopsony for the modern world, even expanding into groceries and now, evidently, pharmacies.

Imagine one company serving as an access point for so many of our goods, while wielding dubious control behind the scenes to extract profit and move vertically through the supply chain. It's easy to imagine a future where we simply buy the cheapest, reliable goods whenever in need, and end up with Amazon lightbulbs that power our Amazon TV stick, etc, etc, etc. It's scary to just see how many cities are bending over backwards to try to be the location of Amazon's HQ2.

Their move with the Echo has gained them another critical access point in the future: smart homes. In the same way we require mobile phones for our apps, we'll require a hub for our IoT devices, preferably voice-activated, and that will be the Echo.

It's hard to even sum up all of their advantages, but as someone who has competed with them in one industry before: it's a damn nightmare.
My guess is that the CIA knew more about Oswald's radicalization then has been previously disclosed. The guy spent three years in Russia, had a Russian wife, and had some contact with Cuba. Almost certainly he had some contact with Russian and/or Cuban intelligence.

If the CIA knew about that and failed to stop Oswald, they might have some incentive to keep their records classified.
It is true for maize that you can create an unstable hybrid, which has been used as a form of IP control by corn seed companies for longer than I have been alive. That is also true for numerous other plants. As far as I know, it is not possible to create an unstable soybean hybrid, which is why Monsanto went the licensing route.
how does scanning aisles reduce employee theft?
Is this a Qualcomm PR effort?
well, a part of the myths at best, I guess
"It just works" is becoming "ignorance is bliss"
What about documentation, even "how-to use this product" documentation, that's generated from the code's comments directly?

So say you have a function that essentially implements the "--file" flag: what if the developer put a comment above this function explaining the function's purpose but also the documentation for the admin's use case, which would be setting up the solution?

I believe that if such documentation existed it would be a lot easier to update it when the code is changed (provided the API changes) and have it propogate through to the docs. The comments could also be three tiered: API docs, admin docs, user docs; each would explain to the relevant user how-to make use of the code at that point.

Obviously you could omit user/admin comments for functions that aren't "public facing", such as internal helper functions. But anything that's directly interacted via a CLI flag or HTTPS endpoint could have the documentation right there by the code handling that interaction... or not if it's not relevant.

See "godoc" as an example of this: https://blog.golang.org/godoc-documenting-go-code

The code truly does become the documentation at this point, and acts as a central point of truth.
American healthcare is completely non-competitive. No pricing competition, high barriers of entry, and completely entrenched players. Any new players would be a win.
you can get around most of that using private browsing. but there's no "private browsing mode" in real life.
Oops... Sorry. I'll switch that now.
Edit: nevermind that's been done already my bad. :/
Ancient Skull Fragment Likely Belongs to Oldest Known Tsunami Victim
> If you're a Linux user and NVIDIA doesn't do what you want it to do, then that's fine as well - vote with your wallet and buy from someone else.

That's exactly what's happening. But the other side of the coin is, that in order to switch, the other choice should be good enough. Until recently, AMD had too many downsides, that many were ready to suffer through Nvidia's problems. But that is changing now.

You can observe the trend here (it's not a big sample yet, but it's still showing the trend): https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics#trends

Note: you need to click "trends" there to display change over time.
Already on the front page with a different title and URL, confusingly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15564611
I'm reading the token whitepaper, and I came across the section mentioning "proof-of-burn" as a way to gain Stacks:

With proof-of-burn mining, miners destroy a proof-of-work-based cryptocurrency (currently Bitcoin) to get tokens

This seems strange to me - in a blockchain such as Bitcoin where the total number of coins are limited, wouldn't this make the bitcoin community want Blockstack off their chain?

Maybe I am missing something, or the amount of bitcoin destroyed will be negligible?
I assumed this was a common enough subject of blog posts and Reddit discussions that a Google search should answer your question. Maybe not though. Too sleepy to check right now, but best of luck!

All I can think of is that there are books written about the logic puzzles and algorithms Google uses in their interviews, but take that with a grain of salt.
Over-Engineering My Smart Home
Former Xbox Live Policy VP Stephen 'StepTo' Toulouse Passed Away
You could still choose to respond as if they were willing to listen to your reasoning, instead of just demanding external validation. Sometimes that happens to be the case. Do you really care about the times when it isn't?
The two black gentlemen sitting in the window just below oswald testified over and over that they heard the shells hitting the floor just above them.

There is at least one eyewitness that saw Oswald in the window from the ground below.

Firing on the motorcade where he did was an easier shot -- the car was moving away from him and at an angle that made his necessary movement much less than if the motorcade was coming at him.

Connally's testimony, frankly, doesn't matter. The ballistics of the bullet entering Kennedy's upper back, exiting his throat, then entering connally's back and then out his chest lines up perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfSXkfV_mhA

As I state above, there is no evidence that anyone other than Oswald killed the president. Conversely, 100% of the physical evidence tells us Oswald did it.
Sure reads that way.
>doesn’t happen at all for most low/medium-ticket items.

Everything gets stolen. Mostly by employees. When I worked retail somebody got away with a treadmill. Just wheeled out the door on a cart, nobody said a thing. Later I was looking for a treadmill after a customer had checked the online stock count, and the system was off by three, not just the one I knew had disappeared.

The other big problem with the counts is just stuff moving around the store. It's a limited physical space, and it isn't all merchandised according to the book. Un-recorded promo displays get set up, things get moved onto top shelves and departments where they don't belong.
Your guess is also reasonable - the US would have an incentive to keep such 'sources and methods' stuff quiet.

But my point was not about Oswald having ties to Russia - he lived there for three years. But imagine the CIA had a letter that said "Oswald talked about killing the president" or "the KGB told Oswald he should get a gun and shoot people in America". The CIA probably would have thought that Oswald was crazy and harmless, and that's why they didn't do anything about him. But disclosure of such a letter now would be embarrassing for them.
Nice work. This is very important and advanced guide for most ML researchers.
I don't think they would be in a position to negotiate prices anymore than CVS/Walgreens are. Their upside would mostly be changing the delivery method.
Sensitive includes half the country, eg. anything naturalesque with "covenants", government proximity, foreshores, historical sites, etc. Source: Real estate expedition to NZ, 2015.
Title needs a (2013) at the end.

In my opinion, trying to settle the matter by adopting a new axiom is a bit like proving that blue is the best color for cars by requiring all cars to be painted blue.
Hey whatever it takes to bring down the awfully (and artificially) inflated prices of pharmaceuticals in this country (USA), the better I'll feel. If it takes Amazon getting in on the act - assuming pricing gets better - I'm in favor of it.
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kuwze: the following things are fundamentally different: license, software size,data model, sparsity support

SciDB
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license: Affero
,software size: 5GB
,data model: ACID
,focus on: dense
,dimensions: integer
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TileDB
license MIT
,software size <1MB
, data model: eventual consistency via fragments
, focus on: dense, sparse
,dimensions are integer, floats
Account created 13 days ago. Didn't we discuss dicamba here about 13 days ago? Can't find it in search right now...
It's actually not a misdirection, it's the main point. The crux of the issue is whether you define certain journalistic behaviors as being bad/wrong just because they threaten the status quo power structure of the US.

If you think about it, your assertion that the alleged political motives of RT are inappropriate hinges upon your judgment that it is in Russia's national interest to undermine the legitimacy of powerful interests in the US, and (apparently) thus to weaken the US or put it at some sort of disadvantage.

I realize you are convinced that my views and comments fit some schema you feel duty-bound to try to refute, but I think that if you examine your belief system on the matter you will find that you simply feel loyalty to the status quo power structure in the US, which is closely aligned with its government. Thus you oppose any sort of disruptive or revolutionary behavior or ideas that might threaten this status quo that you are fond of.

Note that the status quo in the US is corporatism and militarism, and that there is really not a leftist movement of any stature in the US. HRC and Trump are both slight permutations of a more authoritarian version of Bush or Obama, since the nation has turned more toward authoritarianism as time has gone on.

Only if you view this authoritarian, militaristic course of action as being strongly in the US national interest is it possible to believe with full certainty that RT publishing stories that might appeal to the American far left or the most disempowered Americans is a bad thing. For only then does the amplification of those ideas/movements, etc., threaten anything that is a force of good.

In my view, the biggest weakness in the US is that there is very little dissent and we put far too much trust in our leaders, and apply far too little scrutiny to our institutions (public and private), allowing significant diversion of resources to various groups who benefit from the status quo.

Politicians should fear journalists and should fear the public finding out about their excesses, their side deals, and the true stories of how they became millionaires on $150K public servant salaries. If RT helps expose these fraudulent people for what they are, the US will be far better off for it. And yes, a consequence of some toppling of the existing power structures would probably be less global militarism, but I think it's hard to argue that our laying waste to so many countries abroad is remotely in the US national interest, but no disrespect intended if you do feel strongly that Trump's action in Yemen, etc., is bold and necessary to the world order.
> Tokyo can fit 38 million people into its city but New York City can't find room for 1/5 of that

You compared the populations of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area (38m) with the New York 5 boroughs city area (8.6m).

You could also compare the Tokyo 23 wards city area (9.4m) with the New York tristate urban area (23.7m) and make the opposite argument.
Forbes ran an article about this same issue for the iPhone 7:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/10/21/how-to-b...
The main issue with American healthcare besides the price of drugs, insurance and care (which Amazon could help solve but is essentially a secondary conidition) is the philosophy around healthcare in general. It's all reactive. To solve healthcare America needs a better diet made up of actual food (not psuedo-food products), more exercise (cities designed for walking and biking not driving), doctors that aren't incentivized to sell drugs, no drug adverts etc. Basically to focus on prevention not reaction.
6 is part of that structure, sharing space with 1 and 11.
Smart bulb or smart switch? Startup Noon Home says smart bulbs are dumb
Well that is weird. I built a desktop back in 2008 and fitted it with a Nvidia 9800GT. Installed Debian, then installed the nvidia-driver[0] package. That comes with the DKMS package[1] which builds the source and auto installs the module (and does this also for any new kernel update). Literally never had a problem. Don't think suspend ever worked, but this is a desktop so I didn't care. Also built a machine for my grandma back in 2008, went with the Debian and nvidia combo again. She's still using it, no problem.

I think the current issue with nvidia is they are refusing to support the new wayland stuff and ditch X server. In that case, I've got my eye on an ATI RX460.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/nvidia-driver
[1] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/nvidia-kernel-dkms
What are the November amaranth futures trading at right now?

Nobody will plant something they can't sell.
You probably would be interested in the results of United States House Select Committee on Assassinations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_C...
Plus not throwing up a hundred roadblocks to actually filling a specialty prescription. I've had to go for months before without a medication I have to take for a chronic illness twice a day, delayed endlessly by runarounds. I had to have a doctor send the prescription to three different places, it was shocking that the current system could have so much confusion.
Have been with vivid for about 12 months, was supposed to be a temporary arrangement while I waited for my building's strata to fix the internal wiring between my apartment and the MDF in the basement. All of the NBN horror stories and the strata's malignant incompetence mean I'm still using it and it's pretty solid in my experience.

I'm in central Sydney and normally average around 10mbps down
Archaeologists Find New Clues to “Lost Colony” Mystery (2015)
Without the taxpayer dollars of North Fulton Atlanta would quickly turn into Detroit
Breaking text-based CAPTCHAs with a high data efficiency generative vision model
Honestly, counting on being able to rent a single family home for an extended period of time is insane. That they were able to live there for over a decade makes them an outlier. Most single family homes are owned by individuals. Individuals and/or their heirs often need liquidity, so rental houses are way more likely to change hands than apartment buildings.
I believe it was much more spontaneous than that. Oswald failed at just about everything he did. He couldn't keep a job, the Soviets didn't want him, no one was interested in his story when he came back to the US, he was disillusioned with Soviet Communism, he wanted to go to Cuba but was denied, and he suddenly had an opportunity to do something big, which he always dreamed he was going to do. Heck, his diary was even self-titled "historical diary." He was a loser with visions of grandeur for himself that always failed to pan out.

Sorry I keep replying on this thread, but more and more of the book is coming back to me. One only needs to read the transcripts of his interviews with the Dallas Police Department after he was arrested. He wasn't acting or talking like an innocent man. He was cocky, self-assured, and calm. He even put up a communist fist when he was being walked out in front of the press.
The rollout didn't follow political seats. Numbers showed initial rollouts followed 67 labor, 61 coalition, 6 others. Anything more recent than that is really only attributable to the new NBN's MTM direction.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-29/government-announces-n...
GENIUS KIDS INTERVIEW
> Question is whether those companies will culturally be able to compete in a low-margin space.

25% is a fat margin: why would you say this is a low-margin space?
RT covers many other issues that, like the Flint water crisis are deeply embarrassing to the US but are actually legitimate concerning issues to the poorest and most disempowered Americans.
There is a certain level of just being a decent human being though. If I am an unpaid pastor of a church, should I give crappy sermons?
CUDA has a strong grasp on a lot of the scientific market because Nvidia was ahead of the curve with CUDA initially and then has spent tons of money advertising and selling it to entrench it. To some degree it's a dev's own fault for getting sucked into a proprietary ecosystem, but ultimately "switch your code to something else" is not always a realistic option if you want to keep up with a community where CUDA is popular.

CUDA is not as dominant as it was at first now that there are serious alternatives, but Nvidia works hard (both carrot and stick) to keep you locked in. And their hardware and software tools genuinely do have great performance, even if they should be better if Nvidia was a bit less... well evil honestly.
Filter Appointments from Exchange Server and Enhanced Word Attachment in Outlook
> Can't wait for Amazon Airlines with Prime Video and Internet available for all.

It already exists on JetBlue. Prime video is for Prime members and Internet access for everyone.

https://www.jetblue.com/flying-on-jetblue/wifi/

Marketing copy:

> Earn 3 TrueBlue points per $1 spent shopping on Amazon.com.
+ Redeem those points for your next Award flight. + Enjoy fast, free Fly-Fi brought to you by Amazon. + Stream your favorite movies and TV shows on Amazon Video.
CAPTCHA is Turing test with role reversal.

Computers try to figure out who is human and who is not. In Turing test humans try to who is human and who is not.
Here are some recent new articles dealing with this issue.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/wealthy-chinese-bu...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahsu/2016/10/31/chinese-inve...

And here's an article talking about a study done in Vancouver indicating these activities are driving rent prices too high:

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/out-o...

Making assumptions about people because they say something that doesn't fit your world view is just as dangerous as xenophobia itself.
The article as a whole is incredibly damning. Here's just one highlight: The site looked like a portal made only for employees, but was completely exposed to anyone on the internet. [...] In total, the researcher downloaded the data of hundreds of thousands of Americans in order to show Equifax the vulnerabilities within its systems.
We need to get the physicists (general relativists?) working on upping the speed of light. Seriously though, how much larger is your latency than speed of light limitations? 2x?
That happens in most countries. Consumers don't go with the most expensive options.

Romania has among the fastest Internet speeds mixed with the cheapest cost per mbps, yet consumers there frequently don't choose their fastest options because they can make do with less and save a bit of money.

Per Akamai's Q1 State of the Internet report, Romania doesn't make the top 10 in average mbps. Yet their % of connections above 10mbps is #8, and above 15 mbps is #9. Despite how inexpensive a faster connection is in Romania, people are often choosing not to bother with the fastest options. Despite that, Romania is still much faster than Australia - people there aren't choosing 5mbps options. If you hypothetically give a consumer a choice of a 100mbps connection at $50, and a 50mbps connection at $25, you're going to see a lot of people seek to save some money where they can (which doesn't mean they don't still want very fast Internet in that #2 price slot).
If a box provides Postgres it's just `vagrant init vendor/boxname && vagrant up`.

That's what you're relying on with a '1 line command' in docker to give you Postgres: an image that someone else has created.

Whether a Postgres-only box exists in Vagrantcloud is irrelevant, unless your argument is purely on the merits of the pre-made boxes/images third parties have contributed.
Amazon Basics generic drugs? That could be very interesting.
This is interesting - you wanted actors, you wanted a pleasant programming language and you wanted to be on the JVM.

I'm curious why you didn't choose Kotlin with Vert.X . Kotlin is a small town language that won only because it was loved by the community...Nobody "pushed" it. And it has won - it's now officially supported by Google.

Vertx is a superb actor model framework with first class kotlin support. Its extremely high performance (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i...) and is pretty popular (http://vertx.io/whos_using/)

From a forward looking perspective, why Pony ... Especially if it's development has stalled.
Show HN: Emacsql – edit slices of SQL dbs in emacs
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15565554

You're relying on an existing image. That concept works in Vagrant too.

And if you want quick startup and are already on a Linux host, use vagrant-lxc.
They melted. There's no doubt about that. I should note that NIST disagrees with you if you mean they melted before the three buildings were destroyed... or after.
http://archive.is/5dz5G
more: http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/Prete...
There’s also quasar for actors. http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
So doesn’t this sentence from the article give anyone pause?

We don't know exactly - we haven't seen any definitive tests comparing the two chipsets yet.

And why would they recommend “a cell phone booster” for your home? All a cell phone booster does is use your home internet connection to create a mini cell phone tower. If you are at home, you are probably connected to WiFi, WiFi calling and texting have been supported by the iPhone for years.
Subconscious racism?