skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High taxes on the rural poor won't net as much revenue as low taxes on wealthy, dense populations. Even with very high taxes it would be hard for Kansas to match MA infrastructure.
Don't tolerate bad people
What's the point of hiding it's existence? (Security by obscurity doesn't work).
> Nowadays when I get bored and have some unproductive time to kill, I usually surf hacker news because I can't think of any other website to read as I quit other social media websites.

An RSS reader really helped me with this. Over years, I found a good handful of blogs that I find insightful more often than not, and I can reliably find something in my RSS feed when I choose to look at it. The SNR is much higher than somewhere like Reddit and Hacker News, and the lack of an account and upvotes means that a big chunk of the dopamine fix is removed.

I would be lying if I didn't mention that I occasionally feel something missing: if I read an article that I think is insightful but wrong in some important way, I miss the pressure-release valve of being able to discuss it with others (Obligatory Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/386/). But I view this more like a compulsion than a legitimate desire, akin to someone with a bad diet craving sugar.
This might not be the right crowd, but iCloud is really the un-clunky storage accessible from everywhere. It's just so well integrated between the phone, macbook, ipad, web. Worth it. I spend like $9-10 per month for 2TB of storage. with auto sync of my photos (which is where it really shines)
If your secret region goes down the data just got more secret.
A region is a cluster of typically three distinct data centers and this could have the three D.C.'s distributed geographically in a model specifically designed to provide both.
Odd use case for this, but one that would immediately solve about 8 of my 10 current headaches - put these in meeting rooms.

No more WiDi to set up, no more meeting room PC's, no more cable spaghetti. Just drop your phone in, grab the wireless keyboard/mouse and start boring people to death.
OK lets assume it's 30x that do you really think that 300/month for SSR would be an issue for a site serving 400 mil sessions per month?
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System Administrators, largely gone.. Only around in old/large companies. DBAs, largely gone as well..
Its not that those skills are not needed at all, its just that 80% of them have been automated by the likes of AWS.
Now those remaining 20% that have no one with the expertise to fix them.
AWS will also start leeching away developer jobs with the Lambda marketplace. Why build your own backend code that consumes from an API when you can buy a lambda that pushes directly to your own DynamoDB or in a table to your RDS?

However, business users always knew SQL. SQL was designed for non-technical people. Thats why 2-3 years back, even google brought back SQL to its big data platforms. Even at my last job, some finance guys had no problem using it.
Also, 'integration engineers' should have been 'data engineers' and while that is hot right now, people need to remember that its a solved problem as there have been ETL tools that do that for you for about 20 years (see informatica).
They likely connect via encrypted leased lines.
Sure, that is one explanation. Another explanation is that these people are trying to blow up any persons career who has an (R) next to their name, or they want 15 minutes of fame. How do you determine what is the truth and what isn't in a he-said-she-said story from 30 years ago?
The population of San Francisco is between 800,000 and 850,000. If you doubled the density in SF then you would have enough housing for 800,000 to 850,000 additional people.
These titles are driving me crazy. It's just something about some titles that you have to read ten times to understand. And usually, after reading the subtitle of the piece, you get the point.
Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market
They used to be more standard articles, now it's this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/November...

There's not a way to subscribe to it, though it's not obvious how a subscription would work. The summary of any given day is not finished at the end of the day. Rather, the set of articles for that day, their summaries, and the articles themselves will all continue to grow as more information is gathered. So, it is a good way to "catch up" after some time away from current events. But to my knowledge there's no coordinated effort to "finish" a day or a month by any deadline.
I'm curious, how are finding performance for basic stuff like web browsing? Real bummer to hear about the RDP app, that was a big incentive for me, but it's no use if it won't go full screen
For anyone interested in a simple implementation of FFT, I found this neat little example which was very grokkable if you speak Java:

https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/97data/FFT.java.html
http://www.theweek.co.uk/ perhaps? More background at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Week

The print version is somewhat better than the online, though.
If you know how to securely design and build AWS environments, you qualify for “cloud security architect” positions based on my interviewing experience. Beyond that, interview for security positions and take note of your gaps to improve on.
They missed the chance to name it "Galaxy LC27F591FDNXZA".
The iPhone in my pocket is as powerful as basically any iPad, and more powerful than many laptops.

An iPad is powerful enough for most typical workloads.

Therefore, my iPhone is powerful enough for most workloads.

If I could dock my phone into something that gave me a monitor, keyboard, and (so I don't have to lift my arm up over and over) a trackpad, that would solve my home computing needs 85% of the time.
Hackings back baby, whose ready for Hackers 2?
What's the point of content-free, incoherent, misspelled comments like this one? There's nothing even remotely like what you're describing in the actual article.
I'm not refusing to consider the allegations, because there is frankly nothing for me to consider besides for the not-under-oath account of someone, and perhaps a yearbook signed by a 'Ray' or 'Roy'.

> We can't convince those who disagree with us, nor allow ourselves to be convinced, if we refuse on general principle to listen to and engage with people who disagree with us.

But in this case, you have to decide who to take the word of. There is no way to logically analyze the claims and come up at the correct answer.
It's a single core comparison. According to geekbench a single A11 core is about the same speed as a single 1800X core.

Of course synthetic benchmarks aren't the best, but it is interesting how close arm has gotten to x86.
Corporate media like NYT and WashPo etc that writes things like you must be crazy to not believe there are WMDs in Iraq are not serious news sites. Rich != serious. And hegemonic news smearing all sources of independent journalism and grassroot progressive political movements is just about the opposite of the point of this article.
Ofcourse all real hackers saw this coming already 25 years ago :)

I did not get a mobile phone because I wanted to be off when I wasn't working. When mobile internet came I kept only the nokia I was forced to have, just so I could not get email when I was off work. Still do not use twitter or anything else. Recently bought a tv but nothing on so seldom used. Kids friends visiting always says "oh, what a small tv!" (32 inch).
> ... logical contradictions such as both the rise and the fall of the Soviet Union were bad.

they can both be bad, it's just that "the bad" is different in each case.
Looks great. But I've been itching for a eInk normal monitor. I just want to be able to do text editing (SublimeText) and terminal on it. That's it.

Seems like in this day and age, that's not too much to ask for.
Well if you need to raise, then it's not that different from applying for a job. You won't be making a salary for quite a while either. Whatever you end up working on might often feel like a disaster.

Maybe you can get a free psychiatrist in Swiss?
And if money isn't a problem perhaps you could think of a broader range of things to do? A very low paying job at a startup? Volunteer work?
Research work? No work? Helping family? Getting married? So many things you could do!

Good luck!
It's probably connected only to the us government secret network (I forget the acronym) and not the public internet.
We wouldn't be having a obesity epidemic if that wasn't the case.
Plans are also just generally a good way to hide the actual cost of the device. Notice that, when you walk into a Verizon store, they aren't saying "BUY PHONE FOR $760!" they're saying "A New iPhone for just $32/mo!" So most of these people aren't going "Oh MAN only $760 in the end?!" they're going "I can afford $32/mo!"

My point is, it really doesn't matter what the reality of the cost/loan is, people who think "$30/mo! I can do that!" are probably not also going to think $200 seems like a good price for basically a cable to plug my phone into my computer.

Obviously, your other point was that it could come with a plan too but that seems doable but also there's yet another cost on top of the phone they were just barely justifying already. I'm not saying you're wrong but I think the price of this device is ridiculous.

I might pay $80 for it if it were really something I needed but, as others have said, I don't carry my phone around to be a computer. I carry it to be a phone. On top of that, I never really have a situation where I've got a keyboard, mouse, and monitor just sitting around waiting for something to activate them. So I'm not sure when I'd use this anyway.
Not really, I'm the consultant people hire when they need to solve issues like this. There are some screenshots of what we're doing here: http://www.hyperfiddle-consulting.com/ http://hyperfiddle.net/

As I said, our app is sophisticated
> Even on your computer, log out of twitter, facebook and others. Only log in when you want to look into something

Even without going as far as "incognito mode for everything", this can dovetail well with a privacy-conscious cookie or browser-profile policy.
> DoS Attack on Free Will

what a convoluted way to say ”distraction”.
Priceonomics breaks it down: https://priceonomics.com/why-are-textbooks-so-expensive.

tl;dr version: you're ignoring all the other stuff that goes into selling a textbook and grossly overestimating how much margin publishers have. Professors don't submit PDFs ready to hit "print." The books must be edited, typeset, etc. This can't be done by minimum wage workers because the editors have to actually understand what they're editing. The hypothetical $230 book nets about $40 in profit.
"Some things are just easier on a desktop, like sending an email, bolding text, or copying and pasting between apps."

Are these the best examples they could come up with?
You can generally figure out what's in season by going to the grocery store and seeing what they have a mountain of for almost no money
Took me 30 years to think I've finally kicked that bullshit. I'm still not sure.
US moves to block AT&T and Time Warner merger
The same way I would in any other difficult circumstance, by weighing the evidence and making the best guess I can. This seems to be affecting people across the political spectrum, across industries, and across local culture. What seems to be consistent is that more of the harassment comes from men, and that people in powerful positions often exploit their privileged position to get easy sex.

Maybe you've never had to deal with this in your own life or in the life of someone who was close to you. Congratulations, you've been lucky.
I feel you! I had a 32", only upgraded to a 42" because my brother was selling it for $100.

42" seems huge to me but everyone I know has 70", 80" TVs.
It is only in the West that the idea developed that there is objective truth and moral value that can be determined by natural reason available to all people in all cultures. The other civilizations held that truth and morality were confined to their own religion and own ethnic groups. The very idea of saying some set of ideas is bad because it is racist is a modern Western invention.
Use SQLite for public databases instead of CSV
You could buy a Intel Atom on a stick if you just want to ssh or tmux or RDP.
I've listened to audio books in my car for years now, and the worst thing that happens is that I'll fail to listen to the audio for a while if anything important happens while driving.

It has never, ever happened the other way.
ASUS MB169B+ will do the job for a portable monitor. It's very light, 15.6" IPS 1080p pulls power and display over USB3 (there's also a C model)

But then you've got to add a keyboard and a mouse and probably the biggest problem, you've got to figure some way of getting the monitor to an ergonomic height.
I'd be lonely without my downvoting groupies :-)
I remember clearly the ~week I was finally able to "lex" syllables out of spoken Chinese. I went from feeling like I was trying to catch butterflies out of the air with my bare hands, to feeling like the whargarbl dog.
These days, once you get to the level where you can afford to develop them in the first place, there really isn't that much of a difference.
I don't think the target market is CEOs, it's regular civilians. Grandmothers, teenagers, people whose job doesn't involve computers.

These people use their phones for everything, they'd probably be happy not to have a "computer" at all, but they need something more ergonomically convenient than a phone for typing emails, organising photos, and so forth. Give them a phone they can plug into a cheap or leftover monitor/keyboard and they won't need any other devices.
what does airdrop mean in this context?
I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison to Marko.js (https://markojs.com/). It has a lot of react-like features, but was built from the ground up for SSR speed.
I would bet there's a market for a 'feature' phone that has the essentials for most people (voice, sms, gps maps), no apps. All branded under a premium lifestyle brand that makes you feel special.
I mostly agree, except it can be almost impossible to find an interruption free environment. Many work in an open office (blech) and live in thin-walled apartments with music-pounding (or just floor stomping) neighbors. The only "silent" time I can get is in the car or late at night when everyone else is asleep. I wish I could find genuine silence. Half of my headphone time is done without anything actually playing. It's to drown out the incessant noise around me.
There’s hardly anyone in tech with a clearance in dc who didn’t know this was coming. They’re recruiting like crazy for it.
This reminds me of all of the HIV medication, and malaria drugs we send to horridly poor dictatorships of the world. They're intercepted by the government and sold on the black market. If you feed the North Korean people with massive food drops, Kim will say it's his doing. Drop video players to them with cards, and they will slaughter everyone in a village just for having one.

Food would be nice, medicine would be better, all labeled with the American flag, and after five years of this the brainwashed people might, might see America as a savior.
Here's the commit from 2011:

http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/src/ma...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/man.c b/src/man.c
index 1978329..48af3c0 100644
--- a/src/man.c
+++ b/src/man.c
@@ -1154,8 +1154,16 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])

debug ("\nusing %s as pager\n", pager);
- if (first_arg == argc)
+ if (first_arg == argc) {
+ /* http://twitter.com/#!/marnanel/status/132280557190119424 */
+ time_t now = time (NULL);
+ struct tm *localnow = localtime (&now);
+ if (localnow &&
+ localnow->tm_hour == 0 && localnow->tm_min == 1)
+ fprintf (stderr, "gimme gimme gimme\n");
+
gripe_no_name (NULL);
+ }

section_list = get_section_list ();
The reality here is that the President is blocking this deal because of his issues with CNN (To those that think this is not being driven by the Whitehouse...I have this bridge I am trying to sell....). This is purely political and I am sure his statements will be front and centre in the court battle.

Never though I would be on the side of AT&T or a cable company.
OK but for the last time I'm not advocating for a centralized gatekeeping approach and I'd appreciate if you'd stop projecting your parade of horribles onto an argument I'm not actually making.
Is there any paper that can be both short, concise and deep?
25% of New York’s tax revenue comes from Wall St bonuses and their taxes. They pull out, the place will implode.
It’s not on the Internet.
> Is it really that good these days?

Honestly, I constantly doubt myself on this because other people keep claiming you need to be some sort of tech-savvy god in order to use Linux: but I've had various Linux systems as my primary and only OS since 2007 and I pretty much haven't had any problems to speak of since like, 2012.

To the extent that I can take myself out of my own head and try to model someone not that tech-savvy, I find Windows _much_ harder to use on a day-to-day basis. This is further validated by the experience of my dad: I went from 1-2 tech support calls a week to maybe once a YEAR.

> But my experience with Linux is still that when problems do arise, I have to escalate to shell commands and arcane sysadmin-ry for all but the simplest problems.

I actually prefer the command line for pretty much everything (I haven't opened a GUI file browser in years), so I'm leaning primarily on the experience of a few friends/family who switched to Linux when they saw how awesome my system in college was (where awesome = not plagued with the ridiculous problems that every Windows user has to rationalize out of existence). I've tried to evangelize the command line to most of them and they remain pretty firmly uninterested. And yet none of them ever really _have_ any problems with their system[1] to speak of: clicking "install now" on the Update Manager pop-up is the only interaction they have to have with their system beyond usage. They usually tend to be on something like Linux Mint, which has all the GUI-heavy config tools pre-installed already. When they feel like dipping a toe in the water of customization, they can do so to the precise extent that they're comfortable and think that the trade-off is worth it (e.g. re-arranging their panel).

AFAICT, all the work in Linux is upfront and pretty quick: make sure that you buy hardware that supports Linux well (an easy Google search) and either buy pre-installed or spend 20 minutes installing it.

[1] These include my best friends and girlfriend, people I've talked to almost literally every day for the last decade.
It's almost 2 years since Perl 6 was released and it's still dog slow at what Perl 5 was famous for - string parsing with regular expressions. A 19Mb Apache log file on my 2010 quad core Mac takes Perl 6 21 secs. to search for lines containing 15-character words compared with Ruby: 4secs, Perl 5: 2.4 secs. and PHP7: 0.8 secs. We keeping hearing how the optimisations are coming but I haven't seen any significant improvements in string parsing since Perl 6 was released in December 2015. How can you market the advantages of a new version of a language when it can't even match its predecessor?
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The cost of utilities in the US are relatively cheap - especially compared to many places in Europe. The cost of electricity in Ireland, for example, is more than triple what I pay in my state [1].

This also applies to gasoline / petrol. Much cheaper in the USA which makes living father from work less of an issue, which means cheaper and bigger lots are a viable option for living. Big, inexpensive parcels of land allow for bigger homes.

When people are incentivized by the government to spend money in housing and when the cost of building materials used are relatively cheap, and the cost of living in a home is modest, I suppose the proliferation of larger homes is not surprising.

1. http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/01/these-maps-show-just-how-m...
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Would love to share this with my non-tech friends, but the data's just not there yet, and sharing with them would ruin their impression forever. Data is too sparse with respect to geography. No idea how you get the data, but increase your data density as a function of location, and you'll likely see wide adoption.
Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner
You get tokens deposited to your address, free. It's one of the cool things about cryptocurrencies, people can just give you random monies without your approval.
Not sure what you mean by "immutability purists", kind of trolling?
> Even the open source friendly Raspberry Pi

Broadcom (producer of the chips used on the RPi) and open source friendly? A sense an oxymoron.
Like them or not, the NYT and WashPo do some of the best, factual investigative journalism in the world. Have they been wrong? Sure. But they have extremely high standards for publishing a story, so you can generally assume that they're accurate. They also are the ones who break a lot of the biggest, most impactful stories.

I think a better criticism of them would be wash po turning a blind eye to Bezos and others that have influence of it.
For cryptocurrency context, it means to deposit tokens into the Ethereum address for free.
I have a NAS with 14TB and, while it helps, it's not as easy as what another commenter suggested for iOS/Apple: iCloud subscription.
Thanks a lot for the comment.
This is actually a practice work when I was reading this
https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/11/scripting-with-...

Which language (rust, golang, haskell) do you think it is more fitting?
I am new to writing things running on command line @@
GitHub does the same thing: https://imgur.com/aXw1bHR
Because the entire market cap of Ethereum is $35bn. No one cares. It was a bug in a smart contract -- not a bug in the core platform.
I think it's still too early from a hardware performance/connectivity point of view. Once your average $200 smartphone is powerful enough to power a normal desktop when plugged into a trivial, cheap and ubiquitos connector (USB C?), this kind of thing will take off.

I have no idea how the software will look though. Maybe it will be just a fancy and reall easy to use remote connection, in the end?
This solution works, with its own caveats, for end users, but doesn't help cloud providers at all. Then again, with current restrictions on SGX, like having to partition out memory for it at boot time, running SGX workloads from VMs on shared machines seems like plenty difficult already.
The new S3 console/flow sets to private by default - so some progress there, all jokes aside.
ICOs, just like any other investment opportunities, need to be researched properly. Not all ICOs are scams, some are great ideas backed by a reputable team. Just gotta do your homework.
It's pretty performant but once you start to really multitask, you can tell you're running with limited resources. If you aren't a heavy multitasker, performance is great!

The one place it really exceeds the desktop is answering calls and responding to text, puts Google Voice and Skype to shame.