skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
477 wasn't that bad. Ravenna was capital, but Rome itself was kept in decent shape. The forum continued to be swept. The aqueducts kept working. Still, at the time, the population was declining and civic upkeep became harder and harder. The Senate still met. There are stories of thieves stealing whole statues while poorly paid watchmen slept or we're bribed not to notice. It reminds me a bit of Detroit.

Still, the structure of the city was fairly well preserved. It wasn't until the Gothic Wars in a few decades until Rome was utterly wrecked and depopulated. The city changed hands five or six times, and armies frequently cut the aqueducts, never to be repaired. The last recorded act of the Senate was in 603.

Then, around 900, a few earthquakes caused the final collapse of long neglected buildings. Nobody cared to fix them, but they did use the rubble for other construction over the next few hundred years.

(Not that there was that much new construction: Rome's population crashed from over a million to 30,000.)
Will it be locatable by latency (roughly) or is that not the point?

Additionally, if I was doing secret things I'd really think it was not a great idea to put that into a data centre marked "Definitely where I keep all of my secrets".
You're not condescending at all are you
I'd have preferred to hear something along the lines of "We'll be stopping implementing this technology in future CPUs"
As someone who frequents farmer's markets often, my suggestion would to visit one close to you. I often ask the local farmers for planting advice especially since it seems our temperatures are getting wackier each season.
I made the decision a few years ago to never work in silicon valley or california.

it costs WAY to much to live there and the social/political landscape gives off the impression of being some kind of authoritarian dystopia falsely touting itself as some kind of social utopia.

not really interested in all that noise.
really curious to see your updated analysis :)
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The meaning of self in self driving and self checkout is different. They are more or less the exact opposite. In the first case the machine is doing something itself, in the other case you do something yourself.
Unfortunately I don't think there is much to do about it. The strategy I've adopted the past couple years is to just grin and bear it and get out ASAP. Even if I get an offer (not usually in these cases, because the interviewer is dead set on proving you're an idiot and they are smart), I will reject it (unless I've been through several interviews with other teammates that I enjoyed).
Visual Capitalist has a set of pie charts that show the breakdown of revenue streams for 5 of the top tech giants, including MS, Google, Amazon, etc. that illustrate exactly what you're talking about: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-5-tech-giants-make-bil...

Google is poorly diversified and even Amazon is not as well diversified as one might think.
We'll we see similar to tobacco lawsuits - they knew it was addictive, used it for profit and even intentionally increased addictiveness, and didn't even put warning on. Cue similar contra argument about free will of consumer choice.

Uncanny similarity of Facebook and tobacco addiction is because they use the same dopamine biological machinery .
TP-Link serves outdated or no firmware at all on 30% of its European websites
The schools are a result of the budget.

The budget is a result of the Republican idea that extreme tax cuts bring revenue gains.

Neither of those is actual corruption. Corruption may have made things worse (I don’t know), but it’s not actually corruption. Just bad policy.

I think Louisiana is having similar issues for the exact same tax-cut reason.

NPR’s Planet Money covered the Kansas plan in January: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/11/509378842/epis...
I get it though, thank you!
FWIW, you can disable Google Now on your phone. On the more recent versions of Android, you long-press an empty spot on your home screen, select "Settings", and then locate and disable the "Your feed" item.
No, but you have have to turn the smart speed feature on for some time before seeing a savings counter appear on the settings page.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Chronos - it takes a butt load of setup because it runs on top of Mesos (which requires Zookeeper) etc - but if you already have these tools in your stack it's a pretty tidy clustered scheduler: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/chronos-a-replacement-...

Edit: if you haven't got this stack around though i'd second calls to use a build tool like Jenkins or Rundeck - of course you probably don't want this on the same Jenkins that builds your jobs... so you'd have to set all that up
It looks like they specifically label CVEs that require local access as such. Does anyone know if "via unspecified vector" means network access?
Prussian system to be exact. A libertarian analysis:

https://mises.org/library/education-free-and-compulsory-1/ht...

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkY_dND7Fo
Ebooks.com has the O'Reilly books DRM free:

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Choosing means:

a) evaluating multiple possible outcomes

b) selecting from those the outcome with the highest desired value

c) taking the action with increases the likelihood of the desired outcome

That's it, end of story. No "spiritual nonsense" necessary.

This definition lines up with human intuition, and it also applies to determinstic things like machines. For example, Using this definition we can say things like 'the load balancer chose that server' and even ask why. This definition allows you to debug choice-making processes, and reason about them.

So when we ask 'why did the load balancer choose this server', it would be absurd to answer 'because the programmer told it to.' It's true, but empty. The same applies to the claim that 'lots of what people are doing is the impact of advertising'. True, but vacuous. Why did things happen? "Well, because of physics" - that's a true answer to every question that tells us nothing.

Of COURSE we can improve the choice making mechanism inside a load balancer. That fact is obvious to us. What's less obvious is that you can improve the choice making mechanism INSIDE OF YOU because you aren't a static object but rather a sequence of different deterministic objects. In each moment, your neural connectome changes slightly. Pathways that you activate become more automatic, and pathways you don't activate atrophy.

You activate pathways by selectively activating your attention. That's how you do it. That's how you change yourself, so that you are a different person who makes different choices. That's how you improve your decision making apparatus - by being good at selectively paying increasing attention to signals that are helping you.

Individual persons can improve their choice-making mechanisms as well. I know becuase i've done it. I struggled for years making bad choices, and i always used logic like you are using to tell myself 'it wasn't my fault'. That may have been true, but it was useless. It didn't help me make better choices. Only by accepting that I am responsible for the choices i make, and _embracing this fact_ was i able to change my choice making apparatus from something that was pretty terrible to something that works quite well.

When you go around telling people they don't have free well, you're jamming up their choice making apparatus. You're convincing people not to bother making choices. It's probably worse than advertising.

Making better choices comes down, ultimately, to controlling your attention during the choice making process. I agree that advertising is super destructive. It's like the opposite of meditation.
It was optional in my degree, and I concur it was the single most difficult course I took. At least twice as much work as any other course, learned twice as much too.
I think 5% is generous if you're looking not just at computer science degrees, but "computer and information science" degrees (which is what the government tracks).
Does anyone know of any further reading about how "software capitalization" works, with the audience of either a layman or somebody who is only cursorily familiar with real double-entry accounting? Also, do these rules vary significantly by country? It seems like the right way of accounting for software will be a huge structural advantage for countries as software becomes and increasing percentage of the value produced by the world economy.
Even if you want clustered level resilience? Loads of places i've worked end up running a scheduler on 'just one server' - that ain't redundant brother!
Rome had massive food surpluses, much of it from North Africa and Egypt. Famine did not cause the collapse.
Try: http://archive.is/1JvXz
There's a bit of a difference between "not common" in 250CE and "nowhere to be found" in 600CE.

I think I've seen one Lamborghini in the last 20 years. That's a different statement than "there are no running Lamborghinis in existence."
I applied Bendord’s law against hard drive bad block addresses across 20,000 enterprise storage arrays that called home. In theory, drive bad block LBAs should map perfectly to Benford’s distribution. In our system, there were a number of anomalies. Digging in further, I discovered that the engineeers periodically had the drives seek to a certain location, and write a status block. This happened frequently enough that it interrupted the drives internal “swirl” algorithm that was developed to keep the head from carving a “canyon” into the medium. At a microscopic level, our drives looked like the Grand Canyon.
There's a really great mobile game called euclidea. It's basically Euclid's Elements - The Game.
Twitter to Ban Users Who “Affiliate” with Organizations That “Promote Violence”
And the end result isn't even the advertised low-tax state, at least for normal citizens. Topeka's sales tax rate (including the city portion) is over 9%, which is right up there with me in Seattle (about 10%). Plus an income tax (Washington has none). Plus property taxes that are higher than mine. Plus personal property tax on vehicles, so car registration in Kansas costs basically the same as in the transportation benefit district I live in.

Corrupt as hell, and actively lying about the reason the state has no money.
Even if that were true, Basecamp costs an organization $29 per month, while Github generally costs a lot more. I'm not sure that comparison would make sense even if it were true.
Sounds like this is an expansion of this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...

to non-Intelligence Community users. You'll still need US Government Secret Clearance though.
For the First Time, a Robot Passed a Medical Licensing Exam
Thanks for the feedback :) The bugs are being fixed. Frankly speaking, I didn't expect this exercise to get such popularity :D Anyways, the primary purpose of the task is to test how various distributed tracing tools (Jaeger, Zipkin, Instana, etc) integrate with into a polyglot distributed app (yup, the company I work for uses more than 3 languages and frameworks). But now it looks that this toy needs to be maintained properly.
We are pleased to announce the new AWS Secret Region. The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. The AWS Secret Region is readily available to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) through the IC’s Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) contract with AWS.
on windows 10 I just use the netflix app
Devops “Best Practices”
I think not—I'm registered, and I can't find it either.
China is winning electric cars 'arms race'
I don't think the point is to hide its real location or to hide secrets, but to be able to build services that comply with US classification levels (sensitive, secret, top secret).
I'm deeply involved in the "beckoning" portion this article mentions. I volunteered at a conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin hosting Steve Case on his 'Rise of the Rest' tour. It's truly needed. We're consistently ranked top for small businesses (by %), but lowest for startups. Lots of people have little lawn and snow care businesses, but people move away if they want to start something larger. I think the key is to build a solid community, even if very small. The city should pick a block and try to put as many tech companies there as possible, giving them incentives. The higher density, the more tech culture can catch on. Mostly people need good examples of people who have made it or are making it. It's definitely catching on.
All of those have the same political and economic systems as the US. With minor customizations, but they're all capitalist democracies, with varying levels of government regulation and control.

The world has never been in a better place, and has never improved as fast as in the last 60 years. If that's your argument to try something different, your argument doesn't make any sense.

> It might, just might, be possible to learn from history and not repeat prior mistakes. I sure hope so.

Indeed, let's not try to implement socialism again. Every single time, over dozens of times, it resulted in bloody dictatorships. Let's learn from history and not repeat prior mistakes.
They have a new edition covering new subjects. Also they're explaining the big principles behind compilers. That's why the book is still relevant (I'm working at a compiler startup)
I think this would be more accurately titled "Kant was racist, and so are several other modern philosophers and their readers" but that wouldn't be as good clickbait. The whole first quarter or so of the article is about the pre-Kantian western traditions of acknowledging and responding to non-western philosophy.
> The problem is that there's nowhere to run from the Internet. I can avoid tobacco stores, I can't avoid my iPhone.

What's stopping you from not having social media apps on your phone, or even using a web browser? Nothing. Like quitting your tobacco, stop making excuses and just do it. As for social events, if none of your "friends" choose to invite you to social stuff over an SMS or a phone call if you were to quit FB, then that's not friends I'd care to keep.
Modern Stack to build server-side Node.js packages
Building a Sustainable Startup
Freedom isn't free.
You answered it yourself: and will eventually be remote operators.

If the cars need a human 50% of the time, and you move the operators to a call center, you can get away with fewer drivers (probably quite a bit more than half the number because of queueing theory). You also need to pay drivers less if they can work from home (they won’t lose working hours driving empty cars) You will also, likely, use less fuel, especially if you make your cars smaller.
It is just a guess, but maybe they are not on IRC or MUD anymore. Or started families and they don't live in the same dorm anymore.
Isn't the power consumption of a modern adder defined by the power of the carry chain activity rather than the bits? And I have no reason to believe that the carry chains obey Zipf's/Benford's law (average carry chain length is log2(n)).

Bits are a local and transistor dominated function. Carry chains are non-local and interconnect dominated function.

As an example I can twizzle between adding 0 to 0 and 0 to 1 all day long with very little power. If however I start adding 65535 to 0 and 65535 to 1, I'm going to start activating enormous amount of power.
The majority of tech companies that have acquired significant size, were founded by people in the 30s (or older). Gates is an extreme outlier.

I made a large compilation list of famous founders a while back. You might be surprised at how not particularly young most of them are. I won't repost it here, but here's a link to that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15477686
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Listening to and following your mind.
Basic Income: The Free Money Experiments
It sounds like those local businesses should be pooling together to find the festival permanent home. I realize that it may not be easy to find a spot- all the more reason to try to find something the festival can own... maybe the businesses could pool their money and buy some land, put it in a trust to be used for the festival grounds. The grounds could be used for other events when the festival isn't happening.
Caught the high functioning autist wink

There's so many examples. Bryan Cantrill also speaks quickly.
Nope, that’s related to Kansas Republican political philosophy of gutting state services in order to fund tax cuts.

One could claim corruption if this wasn’t the exact governing philosophy that was explicitly voted for.
The right wing of the US has been conditioned for 3+ decades now to hate secular liberal ideals in general and the Obamas / Clintons in particular. Neither Bill or Hillary Clinton have held an elected office in years, but you'd never know it by viewing any of the big conservative outlets. Those outlets created boogeymen who are easy to get a negative response from, and their politically aligned allies just run against those boogeymen and win, because voting against Evil(tm) makes being screwed feel a little better.
It's mostly the political atmosphere for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15741565
Your argument is sound, but nevertheless, I'd still argue that if one is susceptible to manipulations of this sort, there wasn't much Free Will to be DoS'ed in the first place.

Manipulations of this sort have been effective long before Modern Media were a thing. I see them as just one instrument, but I don't believe that fixing this instrument will fix the problem.
Winning At Retail: Developing a Sustained Model for Retail Success

Stern elegantly argue that you can't always be the biggest, fastest, and trendiest place on the block, but it takes only one of these 'Ests' to be a category leader

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-At-Retail-Developing-Sustaine...
"In Ohio, that $35 million is the equivalent of $70 million in the Valley in terms of being able to hire talent and sustain operating costs"

Low salaries are an incentive for companies to move to Ohio, but are a disincentive for employees to move there.
The Skimm [0] covers a decent amount of US political and domestic issues. You can get automatic emails daily, if you'd like.

https://www.theskimm.com/archive/2017-11-20
Nobody ever _wants_ to raise money. You raise money when you _can_ or when you _have to_, in that order. If you're Slack or one of a very tiny number of other startups that are vastly successful because they hit it out of the park on every metric, money raises itself at a price you can't turn down. For everyone else, you raise when you can, or when you have to. And it's not always pretty, because if the future was risk free, you wouldn't be running a startup.
Yeah, the article actually mentions and links to trypophobia specifically and explains why it is used.
Pixel 2 buzzing noise will be fixed with upcoming update
There's a few things that have minimized how much my smartphone interrupts me:

1) Accept that my phone should be working for me, and I shouldn't be working for it.

2) Disable all non call notifications except a small favorite group. Not much can't wait 15-60 minutes, and if so, they will call. I mute WhatsApp groups liberally.

3) I access facebook via web browser, at https://mbasic.facebook.com, including for instant messaging. You'll be surprised how less you use it when it's painful to use. Now I just go interact with the events I need, and take messaging offline.

4) No more push emails - that benefits no one except the person asking the questions and most often having others do their work for them.

5) Install separate chat apps for small circles of people. I use one with my wife, another with friends, WhatsApp is the generic muted text, and I have let myself have LinkedIn as an app on my phone (minus notifications) to message work stuff. Compartmentalizing helps.
So after it is exposed, after 3 generations of products, do they admit it is not a "feature". I can't imagine why they thought this kind of escalation couldn't be cracked by a 3rd party, or how it would bring brand value. This is "clipper" and yes, the hacker can control it. Dangit. Sell-outs.

I'm just waiting for the ransomware that lives on AME, and is burned to the various dies instead of on hard-drives. Isn't that what this open door means?
That would make sense if the kernel is static, but it's not. New code is going in, and new applications are using the kernel, and new people are using the kernel constantly. New attackers with new techniques are showing up every day, too. And the new code in the kernel is likely introducing new bugs.

I understand Linus' position about userspace backwards compatibility. I don't think anyone actually takes advantage of it in practice to the extent he seems to believe. That's why Red Hat maintains extremely long-term forks of the kernel from an ancient stable release, and even distros that do not make or lose money on compatibility (e.g. Debian) don't update kernel versions in stable releases. I've worked at what amounted to a Linux-on-the-desktop startup, and we were afraid to upgrade the kernel without upgrading a pile of userspace (udev, X, libGL, etc.) in concert - and when Ubuntu announced https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack we were quite happy because it meant we could stop upgrading to every non-LTS Ubuntu release just to pick up hardware support. I've worked at a high-frequency trading shop that was hesitant to upgrade even point releases without significant vetting. These are both places where we hired people specifically for kernel expertise and where understanding the Linux kernel was part of our competitive advantage; it's hard for me to believe that the average company doing webdev on their Macs and running production on some random Linux AMI is more confident in kernel upgrades.

So, if you have some worry that your kernel that's been serving you for the last 20 years will start crashing instead of corrupting data, there's an easy answer: stay on your stable branch, which you're probably already doing. Make your kernel static enough that the argument makes sense. I would firmly agree with an argument that new security hardening techniques do not belong in a stable branch. Go run some test traffic on the new kernel, but keep the old one in production while you do that.

But I don't think anyone is served well by the advice to go ahead and take a new kernel release and trust that it won't corrupt data just because previous kernel versions haven't done so for the past 20 years. Or, for that matter, that the new kernel release won't start killing your processes. A misconfigured OOM killer is just a bug, too.
Yep, beat me to it. I was shocked when I read that at first.

Here's Google's official pricing.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing

$1.46 USD per hour per GPU
Data Science Meets Software Engineering
Unless you're independently wealthy, F&F is often the only money you can get when you have no track record.
It doesn't matter. They derive much value from their market dominance.
People regularly lived to be 70 and 80. Not as many as today, but enough.