skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by "lined up" the two clients?

I mean, do these people expect you to start working for them (because you made them believe that somehow)?

If this is the case, I don't see how you can tell them "Hmmm, sorry, I changed my mind, I am not going to leave my current employment anymore." and get away with it.

Still supposing that the two clients (wishing to give you combined 150K per year) are in the industry, most probably in an executive role.

On the other hand, putting for a moment aside the actual amount of money your current employer offered you, it is a 50% raise, it may happen that they somehow undervalued by accident your contributions, but 50% seems a bit too much to be an oversight.

Such a huge difference would undermine the (IMHO needed) fiduciary relationship with them.
Yea, its almost a non-event.

When I saw the headline I worried it was a Raptor, that would have been much more depressing cause it would have set back BFR schedule significantly.
In general, I backtested for the longest period the platform would allow, which is unfortunately only back to about 2002 (I really wish it went back pre-.com boom, to 1997 or so). I would then often do separate tests for 2007-2013, 2012+, etc, just to see how returns were affected by market timing- you can kind of eyeball this, but over long timeframes, sometimes unacceptable underperformance during a volatile period can be a bit hidden over a long period.
Do you happen to know where they hire people for working on this? Are they city or state employees, or are they using a bunch of contractors?

Edit: Hmm, looks like Fort Collins will use contractors for installs and hire 10 to 38 people over five years (p. 39 - Personnel Requirements): https://www.fcgov.com/broadband/pdf/7.27.17%20Broadband%20Bu...

However, this is excluding developers for things like customer portals. Maybe that will get contracted out as well.

Seems light to run an ISP, even for FC's size.
Trying to explain Bitcoin price movements is a futile exercise.
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as a smallish datapoint, an i3.4xlarge costs $ 1059.94 ondemand

which is about 8 times as much, with nowhere near the throughput.

I assume with reserved one could knock it down to ~$650
I agree with you but when I go to the malls in Santa Clara and San Jose (they have food courts close to where I work at times) the malls are surprisingly crowded with usual suspects of teenagers/mothers with children/older possibly retired people/people like me.
Did it show how rural areas compared to urban areas? I only looked at the visual map quickly and it looks like rural areas are going to hurt the most. If so this will have great political consequence.
North Dekalb mall is a great example of an almost dead mall. It has a movie theater that I visited for a Tmobile Tuesday.
Yes, all us front-rangers are envious of you, Longmont :)

I'm guessing word-of-mouth helped defeat incumbents' efforts to kill this, as much as anything. It's almost become a standard conversation piece around here: "I'm from Longmont." "Oh, you have decent internet, then? Jealous!"
Grad School Tuition Wavers to Be Taxed as Income in Congress's Tax Plan
You can do on-chain voting for protocol changes and this was done for segwit2x which was activated with an overwhelming majority of votes. Unfortunately only miners vote and in cases where other parties disagree with the miners you can get problems. More recently there have been chain split futures markets that gather predictions from traders; too bad that information came too late to avert the segwit2x fiasco.

Tezos is trying to build more sophisticated on-chain governance mechanisms. https://www.tezos.com/governance oh whoops https://www.coindesk.com/tezos-founders-sued-securities-frau...
> So communities that purports technical subjects should enforce strict Puritan dress code for women to fit your own world views?

Come on, this is an obvious strawman. There's a gradient between a "strict Puritan dress code" and "let's get naked!". If I showed up to Strange Loop in a slingshot speedo do you think that'd be okay?

> In your comment you invalidate 'slutshaming' completely, do you think it might have impact on what you are writing?

I don't think I "invalidate slutshaming completely". I said it's a polarizing topic, which it is.
Did you misinterpret? Obviously it's not just you. No consumer would be happier if Comcast didn't try to provide a better product. The point is that judging by their past actions, Comcast won't do that.
Like Steve Jobs made the iPhone with his own hands... He played a role in the creation of the iPhone, but the level and proportion of reward he received for that role is a choice we made as a society, not an intrinsic physical fact. I guarantee you, even in a world where telling other people to make iPhones doesn't make you a billionaire, there are still people who would line up at the chance to do it.
That has definitely not happened to me, but I can't wait until a horror film decides to use a possessed Echo as a plot device.
What's to "handle" about these? These vehicles should absolutely be able to detect and gracefully handle the failure of critical systems (sensors, drivetrain etc.) regardless of the existence of malicious children. And besides that, there will be an Emergency button (like in elevators) with which passengers can report things like rock-shaped dents in the car's body.
It seems like the network actually got harder to access in recent UI updates. It's a really useful feature when looking at repos of projects that haven't been updated in a few years.
> I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly.

In today's schools, some teachers plan activities where students use their smart phones for specific projects, so this is becoming increasingly harder to do.
Note 512GB RAM costing 433.00 EUR a month (500 USD). Reminder: https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546

> Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.

Previously, the cheapest such server was 700 USD at OVH and it only included half this much of NVMe SSD.

Also, I gave a talk years ago at NYCCamp trying to hammer in that most websites do not need all the scalability tricks as they fit into a single server. Well, this server can happily house a 7TB database on mirrored SSDs and that's still below 500 EUR (with "only" 128GB of RAM). You need to think very hard whether you need to shard, cluster etc.
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Actually, I wouldn't mind it that much if it was as you described.

I believe that a web-based UI would still be slower than a native application, if only because of the huge number of abstractions in-between, but I'd say it's something that can be overcome by (a) newer hardware, (b) better development i.e. careful profiling and optimization, (c) advancements made by the browser engine developers, and (most likely) a combination of all three.

There's also the issue with the Web as a platform, but honestly, it's not as bad as purists on HN make it. No technology is perfect. I used to be a very loud opponent of using Web technologies for applications, but I realize that ship's pretty much sailed, and we could have had a much worse outcome than this.

My main gripe with Electron has always been the inability to share resources between instances. If firing up Slack or VSCode would have the same net impact on my memory use as opening a new Chrome tab, I'd gladly run them and quit complaining.
They are not well defined terms and are meant more to evoke an emotional response. Progressive does mean that you pay at an increasing rate the higher your income is. A flat percentage tax (example everyone pays 18% no loopholes) should be neither progressive or regressive but most US liberals would still call it regressive because it would be if you consider the current rates as a baseline. A truly regressive plan would actually decrease rates as you went higher in income. Neither Federal or any state that has income taxes has a truly regressive tax schedule.

Edit: I suppose if you figure in sales taxes into overall tax burden you could call some states regressive. But that is not a feature of their income tax rates.
Something analogous would be a male model wearing a speedo doing all of this stuff.

There's no reason to inject sexuality into technical things. It's not something that we really want to promote in our workspaces.
Ethereum's value, its reason for existing, is the deployment and operation of smart contracts.

When one of the most popular semi-complex smart contracts fails not once but twice in a matter of months (losing hundreds of millions USD in the process), it is time to look not at the newbie or the contract programmer, but the platform itself.
Your ultra simplistic idea has been tried before to some extent. It doesn't work.

VAT is a trivial tax to avoid since it involves the business letting the tax department know how much tax they collected. So what happens is that they under report either (a) by flat out lying or (b) doing more business in cash or through a barter system.

Also it is incredibly regressive rewarding the rich (who are generally hoarding money not spending) and punishing the poor (who spend a larger portion of their wealth on consumable spending which is subject to VAT).

That's why many countries have a VAT but none of them solely rely on it.
True. I would have done better if I had omitted the word "sexist" and simply said "due to biases".
> I do realize that many commentators on HN believe that university research is scam, does not create value, and graduate students who choose to do a PhD are willingly making irresponsible financial decisions

I'm not taking that position at all. Here's how I understand the current situation. A grant proposal would say something like:

$1,000,000 Lab Equipment and reagents
$250,000 Post-Docs
$150,000 PI
$300,000 Phd students tuition waivers
----------
$1,700,000
x 1.2 university imposed overhead
----------
$2,040,000

The grantor writes a check for $2,040,000. Of that the university gets $300,000 (for tuition) + $340,000 (overhead) = $640,000. The PI doles out the rest.

If this law were to pass the grant would instead be written up as:

$1,000,000 Lab Equipment and reagents
$250,000 Post-Docs
$150,000 PI
----------
$1,400,000
x 1.457 university imposed overhead
----------
$2,040,000

The university would get $640,000 and the PI would dole out the rest.

The grantors could decide not to agree to this second grant, while they would to the first, but they have no good reason to do that. From their perspective it's the same thing.
Plug in stations should be like mini coffeeshops with good wifi and comfortable couches for waiting 1-2hrs with your laptop. Maybe they can sell VR game experiences to kill the time and big TVs broadcasting news/sports.

At least until we get to the point the plug-ins are everywhere, such as in every apartment building and public parking lot... but even then there will be a need for public stations.
It is true that women have higher social integration than men. IKEA, which is a glorified warehouse for the home, adds social value with a cafeteria, a deli and childcare. You do not see that at Home Depot.
Ahem, the BFG 9000 was from Doom.
Mass transit in the modern age fails because we started planning cities around everyone owning cars, not because it's an inefficient solution.
Am I missing something, or does this really have no support for TOTP/HOTP? An authentication system without 2FA or U2F support in 2017 seems... lacking (or unfinished).
Ok thanks for explaining :-)

(I've seen Dan's post me too in the past, it inspired me to try to remove lots of JS from some similar stuff I'm building.)
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I'm a developer with 11+ years of experience on both web and mobile platforms. Lately I've been doing tvOS apps in Swift, but I also have quite a bit of JS experience and am very comfortable with React Native. In past years I did a lot of server-side development, so I'm also happy to work on your app's API, but I don't specialize in front end web development. Most importantly, I'm an easy person to work with and I try to be an active listener who understands what clients and customers want and need.
What about Colin Furze and his ubiquitous 'safety tie'?

People can keep a media persona AND be good at doing the things they talk about.
We've already asked you not to troll, so could you please stop? The difference between trolling and discussing is whether or not you've met the bar of information over provocation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The ancient Greeks and Romans used glass spheres filled with water as lenses. It's possible that the Minoans could have used a small flat piece of glass with a bead of water on it to form a lens, as it would seem a logical progression from exposed lens to sealed lens so that the water would not evaporate.
The point of this kind of log architecture is that producers never need to know if a consumer has consumed something, because the log is designed to allow as many consumers as you like to reliably work through the log from any given position.

As a producer, you just need to know that your message has definitely been delivered to the log. What consumes it is none of your business.

Have you read https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... ? It's one of my favourite essays on software architecture of all time, and it goes deep into this concept.
As NoScript does. Or Ghostery.
It is problems of web, not mine. I could find another site, if some one does not work properly.
Apparently corporations take the path of least resistance - it's cheaper to 'influence' the big state instead of competing in an open market. Now the question is: will increasing the power of the state make such behavior less or more lucrative?
I think that this must be isolated in specific communities. Keep in mind that the "average American" rarely leaves their state.
Just curious ...what are the "pre Ray Lewis" days? He never played in Atlanta and isn't from there....
Shared hosting (with PHP, mod_perl and SSI) was available from thousands of providers for between $5 and $25/month. SSL required a dedicated IP, because SNI wasn't a thing yet, and so if you wanted an SSL enabled site, you were looking at closer to $100/month. But that was for managed, shared hosting, typically with access to a database and automated backup. Good enough for most businesses small-ish web presences.

Rackspace offered dedicated servers for $150/month and up. Smaller providers would rent you a server in their datacenter for around $60/month. I used a company called sagonet in the early 2000s that is still in business and still offering a similar service for about $30/month: http://www.synergyisp.com/dedicated-servers/

Most larger companies at the time contracted with a colocation provider and purchased servers for between $1000 and $4000 each, and paid in the neighborhood of $1000/month for a rack, or $500/month for a half rack, including power and network.

This was monumentally cheaper than the AWS based stack we have these days, though - no company with any complexity to their website has a $40/month AWS bill. A company with a similar SAAS offering to what I ran in 2001 for $40K up front and $500/month is probably looking at a $5000/month AWS bill at today's rates.
In Seinfeld v. Slager (2012) the Delaware Chancery Court rejected the notion that the directors have a fiduciary duty to minimize taxes.

https://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/07/articles/chancery...
I hear a lot of people being dissatisfied with Comcast. What is it that makes them so hard to compete with that people have to resort to city-run networks?
Sort of agree, that's a very noisy and broad statement. I'd argue that the underlying I/O and event loop implementation matters more. At the end of the day it's all about highly available systems. Am I wrong?
Thoughts on Meteor for rapid prototyping of an MVP
I have been considering Meteor as the framework of choice for a web startup I'm involved with. The product involves some realtime features (video chat etc) and it seems Meteor has some advantages to other platforms (Django, Rials etc). At this stage, we need to add and change features at a rapid pace and words on the street is that you can deliver faster with Meteor (even if it's not the most scalable, which is not a concern at this stage).

Is Meteor a mature enough framework (cf. Django, Rails, Express, ...) to build our MVP on, and to find good talents to help us with it, since I am considering outsourcing big chunks of the job?
I personally don’t believe this works, and that there are plenty of things history can teach us of what can work in a decentralized and presumably privatized sector, and what must remain in a public (albeit not necessarily centralized) sector. I don’t think taxes are inherently bad, but I think there’s something to be said for reducing the distance between paying the money and seeing (even if not necessarily receiving) the benefits of doing so. I think there’s a balance to be had, but I don’t think we get there with the kind of complex tax systems we have in most(?) countries today.

I don’t know what such a system would look like. I just know that when Netflix came around and made streaming easier than piracy, for a reasonable amount of money, I jumped on board and never looked back. It’s a flawed analogy I know, but there’s something to be said for just making things dead pan simple and reasonable. There’ll still be people and companies trying their best to avoid taxes, but if we can reduce them juicy margins enough, maybe at some point it just isn’t worth the hassle...
The risk with this approach is that you become a showroom for Amazon.

I knew a guy who ran a shoe store and provided a high level of personalized service when selecting the right shoe for your feet, gait, use, etc. Hiring and training employees who were knowledgeable enough to do that, plus having to spend a lot more time with each customer, made it a lot more expensive to sell shoes, and when Amazon and other online retailers started offering shoes for a lot lower prices (because they didn't have to provide the same level of personalized service), he eventually went out of business because people would come into his store and have him help them find the right shoe, then go home and order it for 20% cheaper or whatever.

If you are a consumer, it seems rational to go somewhere and try something on, get expert advice about it, etc, then go purchase it wherever it is least expensive. Why pay 20 or 30% more or whatever for the same thing? Some sort of unwritten social contract (this is usually the reason I don't use local stores as showrooms)? Time sensitivity? As a retailer who goes this route, you kind of have to pin your hopes on those things.

Showrooming is a real problem, and retailers are faced with the decision of trying to add value and hope people end up buying there even though it costs more money, or trying to cut costs in every possible way to compete on price, and I don't know that it's an easy choice all of the time.
Upgrading React and React Native to Flow 0.53.0 and Beyond
I used a package with N900 firmware blobs. I didn't build it, so I'm not sure how they were set up. More info here: https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81892
As for GUI, I used enlightenment, which worked decently well on a small screen.
Oh, sorry, that was me.

("Of course" it was silent at 4am?)
I'm pretty sure this is false. That's why folks don't use barter in order to increase their buying power by a third. Even if dollars didn't change hands, the value of what did still counts for your taxes.

Even campaign finance laws reflect this. Suppose you're an airline and you write off the costs of a candidate's tickets when he flies around the country campaigning. The value of those tickets must be recognized as a campaign contribution.
So, let's say that even what you're proposing is correct(which I'm pretty dubious about).

Is your house longer than 32ft/64ft? Those lengths are halfwave on 20m/40m and make a great radiator. For reference all I need is 5w to get out ~400mi so I'm sure these things are kicking off a ton of RF on those frequencies.

Fundamentally if you have an unshielded wire and you're driving these frequencies across it you're going to see RFI along those frequences(along with the harmonics).
on wex it went up as high as $7900 and as low as $7000 so it is still very volatile, I would expect more of a sell off as people who bought in hoping to capitalise on a fork now exit their position but this may also mean more risk averse investors will buy in now that there is no contentious fork due. so, as usual with bitcoin, no one knows what the hell is going to happen
All of the hubbub around Norway and EVs smells to me. How far can you really go in an electric car in the winter in a country in/around the arctic circle? How far does the distance an EV can travel diminish when you have to heat the cabin?
Does EV mean purely electric vehicle or does it include hybrids?
That's a good point, which potentially leads to Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

> Georgism, also called geoism and single tax, is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own the value they produce themselves, economic value derived from land (including natural resources and natural opportunities) should belong equally to all members of society.

> Any natural resource which is inherently limited in supply can generate economic rent, but the classical and most significant example of 'land monopoly' involves the extraction of common ground rent from valuable urban locations. Georgists argue that taxing economic rent is efficient, fair, and equitable. The main Georgist policy recommendation is a tax assessed on land value. Georgists argue that revenues from a land value tax (LVT) can be used to reduce or eliminate existing taxes (for example, on income, trade, or purchases) that are unfair and inefficient. Some Georgists also advocate for the return of surplus public revenue back to the people by means of a basic income or citizen's dividend.
That's not because he's rich; it's because he's a famous footballer. People won't know that he's rich if he's not also famous, and they associate him with the club he plays for and the skillset he possesses more than his wealth.
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> The use of Rust is nice for application-robustness, but does not enhance security over the equivalent in C.

C-with-MMU doesn't help you avoid overrunning buffers, leaking memory, using memory after freeing it, returning pointers to stack objects, getting reference counts wrong, or many other issues. And C doesn't provide nearly as many facilities for abstraction without overhead.
Import tariffs are possible, set to equal the sales tax. Enforcement for large corporations will be relatively easy. I'm not worried about individuals.
Wizards of ROS: Willow Garage and the Making of the Robot Operating System
your wait is over: https://youtu.be/J9gUIhkzNDk

@OP: Better don‘t watch ;)
They have a lot of lobbying power.
How does AuthN compare to Keycloak?

http://www.keycloak.org
Sure, it's their software/servers/drive space. Your question is framed just to attract people who have the same view as you though.

Google isn't a government. They aren't obligated to recognize my right to free speech, and they don't have to hold files they don't want to.
No, he's agreeing with everybody that Comcast acts shitty when they do this.
Yap, done it twice the past week while we were talking Greek.