skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should be up-front and say that I am extremely skeptical about the value of this kind of social serendipity for creating viable startups. I think social networks are important, but really they're so anchored to status that if you're the kind of person who was going to benefit from them, you were going to benefit no matter where you lived.

But as for the rest of your message, you're basically asking the same question I am. Why try to cram all the startups into some weird "startup block"?

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Put it this way: to believe that cities should start centralized startup districts, don't you have to believe that distance is so unimportant to startups that it's fine to be in a locale that has 1/1000th the number of startups as SFBA, but also so important that you prescribe what cross streets they set up on in your own town?
What exactly makes a complete lack of any sort of dev/tech culture around where you live, an obstacle? Wouldn't you do most of your marketing online?
Yes, as opposed to that. What I'm saying is that it's a hard problem. It's not one that's unique to government either; corporations have to decide when to outsource, too, with similar (but less dramatic) tradeoffs.
*Accusers, very much plural at this point.

But more to your point, Roy Moore has not been arrested. He has not been, and probably will not be, charged with any criminal or civil infraction. He has, however, accepted his party's nomination for a seat in the United States Senate and is currently actively campaigning for same.

It is worth remembering that allegations are not, in and of themselves, proof of wrongdoing. It's also worth remembering that a political campaign is not a trial, that the press does not have the same investigatory powers as the judicial system, and that the "punishment" being threatened is not being able to be a United States Senator after all. It's actually okay for "the court of public opinion" to have a different burden of proof and standard of evidence than an actual court.

"[I]t is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer" is a wise and good maxim. "It is better 100 guilty Persons be elevated to high office than one innocent Person should resign from a campaign they had no guarantee of winning in the first place" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
You must be a politician because you did not answer the question.
Wow, I've done something similar. I've gotten rid of internet completely at home (Goodbye Comcast) and I have internet access only at the office at work (9-6pm weekdays). I've been consuming all my media through podcasts, audiobooks, youtube (via gPodder), and renting physical DVDs for movies. I've made effort to buy only paper books. Also, I've switched from AT&T to a pre-paid plan on Tracfone with limited internet access ( 1GB/month ).
It's not that hard. A meal without alcohol? Easy.
At least you might be able to get a chip without a backdoor in hardware. Binary blobs are still a little easier to audit and can in theory be replaced.
Could the performance be improved if you call React.createFactory() and then stream the factory call like this[0] code?

[0]: https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx/blob/4586...
You can take defense spending out of both budgets and compare the two. You also can't ignore state and local budgets. Defense spending is only about 10% of total combined government expenditures.
I had a friend borrow money from his family for a business that didn't work out.

It's a very uncomfortable situation.
Most of my family is poor and wouldn't be able to scrape together $1000 on the spot if their lives depended on it. I'm the exception here.
> CPAN is incredibly bloody far from a high-quality, stable, or usable code repository for certain very common use cases.

Citation needed.
One of the things, as someone who pays a subscription, that annoys me intensely about the BBC is that they follow the pathological behaviours of the paid news outlets. Most egregious is their hiding of information to increase page views. Then there's things like adverts for their own shows that don't tell you when they're on, interstitials in free-to-air programming, burying the lede to increase page views.

The biggest (by visual size) story at the moment on http://bbc.co.uk/news is "Banned in China? Why Gigi and Katy missed big show" which is just "Singers without visas not included in advertising show for lingerie company". Why they feel the need to copy the worst traits of paid/ad supported content is beyond me.
I agree with your overall conclusions, but I am having a hard time imagining the 'normal users' who would use remote administration... though perhaps if that were normal-for-HN users...
So are you saying that no matter how much evidence there is showing that someone is guilty, you should NEVER use that information to help guide your vote decision unless that person has been convicted by a court of law?

That is just silly, and you can easily see why with just a little bit of thought. Almost everything you use in determining who to vote for in an election has not been adjudicated in a court of law, but you still use it to form your opinion of who should be elected.

There is a difference between the courts not sentencing you for a crime until you are convicted and a voter using accusations against a candidate to inform their vote.
If they didn't nobody would know about it. It's not like Amazon has a big list of email addresses of people who have Secret data that they might want to put on the cloud. Even if they did have a list of government people like that, most of the people interested in this service are contractors who don't officially work for the government.

The government doesn't work like those spy movies where everybody knows everything the instant it happens. It's more like a big bloated corporation with thousands of subcontractors and generally lousy communication all around.
Maybe it’s more like a food addiction; people suffering from that cannot just absolutely drop the substance they abuse - they have to strike a balance, with temptation always in front of them, and too many people saying, “you just need to control yourself and know when to put down the fork!"

Anyone who has managed to get control back from an addiction has my admiration, but I have a special extra bit for people who are successfully coping with a food addiction.
> I have to use Facebook to stay in the loop about social events because all my friends use Facebook to schedule those social events.

Facebook has an API. Script a poll on those events and push them to somewhere you'll see them? Log in once a week to see if your script missed anything you cared about, and modify the script if yes?
Go for the "bootable CD" option, if it's available. You don't need Windows for that. My ThinkPads all run Linux and I have no problems updating them.
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Swift code will run on Google's Fuchsia OS
The point is that many people who claim to want beautiful markets actually liked rigged ones in which they can practice the graft and corruption you refer to. Put another way, some people who say things you find agreeable are hypocrites who are trying to exploit your good will.
Feds will sue to block AT&T from buying Time Warner
Ignored by Big Telecom, Detroit's Communities Are Building Their Own Internet
Nice link! Also very interesting that while Apple and Microsoft are clearly Tech companies, Google and Facebook are clearly Media companies.
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"What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

- Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize-winning economist, back in 1971.
> They added operating systems like MS-DOS and later MS Windows & Window NT. MS-DOS was an acquisition but Windows NT was homegrown by hiring Dave Cutler.

It's worth mentioning that Windows NT was their third try at a high-end OS, and it was the only one that was entirely homegrown.

First was Xenix, which was a collaboration with SCO and based on Unix code licensed from AT&T. Then, the government gave AT&T the go-ahead to commercialize Unix themselves, so Microsoft panicked and abandoned Xenix, eventually giving SCO full ownership.

To replace Xenix, Microsoft partnered with IBM to create OS/2. Ultimately, Microsoft and IBM fell out, and IBM ended up with ownership of OS/2, so that didn't work out.

But DEC was going through a bunch of turmoil at the time, so Microsoft took advantage of it and poached VMS creator Dave Cutler and had him create NT.

It's amazing how things worked out.
Wow, who could have foreseen that this was such a risk /s
Similar problem. Accidentally broke my Nexus 5, got a 10 year old blackberry to tide myself over, and found I didn’t benefit from a smartphone.

Still have an iPad, but I’m an iOS developer. (Perhaps I should change that?)
What's JS ?
Exactly, Facebook have access to eyeballs that other media corps don't. The value is in part because of the aggregate being comprehensive, as you remove people from the sample the resulting data gets less valuable much faster.
AT&T to Face U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit Over Time Warner
not the multi-million dollar fraud I was hoping to find.

Why were you hoping to find this?
Very few people in the Bay Area are from the area or even from CA. Many (if not majority) are from other states and countries. And a lot are from Midwest itself. So it is weird from generalize a "West Coast" culture as it is essentially a mix of many cultures including a fair amount of midwestern culture.
> There seems to be this attitude in the Midwest that lower CoL justifies lower salaries, as if there's no need to compensate for lower QoL with money.

As a local Midwesterner, they don't do this because many people here don't want to think their QoL is lower and some will even feign offense that you implied their QoL is any lower than anywhere else.

Ironically, this bites them in the ass in wages.

Companies don't pay people fairly out here because they don't have to. Most of the locals have convinced themselves that their QoL isn't any lower. Their own employees proudly display their own below-market wages as evidence of why their home is a great place to live, they are essentially negotiating their own wages downward. It's a pure win-win for most companies, why would they want to disrupt that process?
Many sites that do that eventually roll back the blocking. I just close the tab when I get blocked or find another way to read the content.

Someone needs to write a browser extension to block the adonis ad-blocker-blocker. You can find it in base64encoded JavaScript on some news sites (like mashable).
Similar battle in Naples, Florida: http://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/special-reports/2017/11...
Excel started out as a Mac program. It became popular because it was that good, not because it ran on the creator's platform.
ME FW is just a signed binary blob after all... Just running on an x86 core in the PCH, no difference at all compared to Qualcomm SCM/TZ firmware in that regard at least...
No, it's the same in British English, or as we call it, English.
As someone else said, what about Portland (or you could live in Vancouver - you would still be in Washington state so you wouldn't need to get a new DL, car plates, etc.)? My in-laws live in Redmond. In my experience the weather is better in Portland than Seattle, but we have a lot of the same natural amenities (easy access to mountains and beaches, lots of water, lots of trees, lots of hiking trails, etc.). The culture of Portland and Seattle are quite similar in my experience. One of the reasons we moved to Portland was because it was a lot like Seattle, but smaller with less traffic (at least decades ago when we first moved here that was true).
> Not only is Marxism-Leninism not the only form of Socialist praxis (neither is Marxism the only Socialist theory for that matter), but it's unwise to dismiss "failures" for the reason that they were authoritarian.

I'm dismissing failures because every single time it ended in bloody dictatorships, but no, This Time It Will Be Different®.

No, it won't. Funny how you talk about learning with the failures of history, but you keep insisting in trying again a system that again and again has proven itself to be horrible.

And again, that's when the world has been the best that it has ever been. In 60 years, extreme poverty went from ~60% to <10% of the global population because of free trade and globalization. Free trade was the largest income distribution process in history, shifting value from developed countries to developing countries.

Sure, there is still a lot to be done, but the current system has worked miracles. It can be improved, but proposing a dramatic change to a system that ALWAYS results in bloody dictatorships makes no sense.

Keep your disastrous social and economic experiments to yourself. Socialism has done harm enough.
I agree that the analogy isn’t valid. Only because information technologies today are a lot worse than tobacco. Unlike apps, tobacco does not have a team of PHDs constantly reformulating itself to draw in those people who have found a way out of it, and ensuring that the ones already addicted remain.
Does anyone have an idea to what extent macbooks are affected? Intel ME is baked in every CPU but according to The Register [0] the AMT part is not running on Apple hardware.

[0]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/01/intel_amt_me_vulner...
If you aren't familiar with the poster above (who I'm replying to) it's Tony from http://coach.me -- one of the best personal improvement products in the world. Tony's site provides people with a direct link to a coach -- for a very fair price -- who can hold you accountable and help you change your habits.

Tony was the founder of Lift.do which became coach.me.

His blog on betterhumans is fantastic and I highly recommend it.

Keep up the fantastic work Tony!!!
Hairy ball theorem
> There are much better, much cheaper housing options than the huge luxury apartment buildings

If land is expensive, the only route to cheap housing is to (a) increase density or (b) limit immigration (e.g. Beijing's hukou [1]).

> There are more options than just 'buy a house' and 'rent in a huge apartment building'

This is a false dichotomy. Nobody is arguing for buying versus renting. The debate is about density. Apartment buildings are tremendously more land efficient than the two- and three-story condos San Francisco seems to prefer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
Oh the donation by itself is perfectly fine.

It's just a bit disappointing that media outlets (like TC in this case) consistently allow themselves to get pulled into spinning a lot these as pure cash donations (by emitting headlines that say "XCorp donates $Y" with no other qualifiers), as if that's what they actually were. Which, most of the time, they quite plainly aren't.
The ME should not even exist. Best way to secure it is to remove it. Problem solved.

They will of course not let go because it's a backdoor. It's an overprivileged computer within your computer.
Wonder how well they will do with flooded roads. Will they turn around and not drown.

My significant other is a lyft driver, the other night she had a drunk rider and he became unresponsive. And fell on the flood of the van. She had to stop and check him. Get back back into his seat and at his destination go knock on the door for people to come get him. Would the driverless car do all that?

How well are the on snow covered roads as well? Anyone road in one is heavy snow like conditions?
Relay app from Amazon for truck drivers
> How are all those people going to get to their jobs

If only there were a transit system designed for the masses.
You can't really know what the impact is. You probably can't even come up with a crisp, uncontroversial definition of what "social media" actually is. Most people seem to use the term to mean Twitter, but Twitter is garbage and lots of people don't use it at all. Is Hacker News "social media"? Is Slashdot? Is the comments section of the New York Times? Is IRC?

The moment you start down the "we are weak and helpless and we need the smart benevolent geniuses in Government to help us" you're just gonna lose a whole lot of people. Because there's no reason to believe there is even a problem here, let alone a problem that needs to be solved with regulation.
You've hit on a very sore spot for Clojure developers. From a practical standpoint, there is a lot more work out there for Python programmers than for Clojure programmers. The need for Python developers in the workplace is also more broad, with lots of scientific and machine learning jobs, whereas Clojure work seems to be clustered around web and mobile development. Python is definitely winning the hearts and minds of the more mathematically and scientifically inclined. Thanks for your insight!
Interstellar object confirmed to be from another solar system
Touched a raw nerve obviously.

Lost due to use of imperial units:
1998 Solar Heliospheric Observatory
1999 Mars Climate Orbiter
> "...a lot of companies with a lot of money will complain."

Maybe, but they'll only complain for about five minutes. Then, they'll patch everything and move on and forget about it.

Until the next time. Rinse and repeat.
Why do they need to be competitive? Is it a zero-sum game? Will people suddenly decide they don't want to live there any more? The only way the Bay Area/Silicon Valley is going to suffer from this is if the entire tech industry collapses.
Compared to SBT. Last time I checked Scala support in both Buck and Bazel was very basic at best.
Tech debt works great when it's done on purpose, and when the people/management who take it on are the same one who eventually deal with it. It takes a level of organization maturity to do that though.

What unfortunately happens a lot is orgs taking on tech debt without realizing it (devs are too junior, or management doesn't listen to devs, or various other reasons). Then 1-2 years later, the system is falling apart and the old engineers are gone. The new ones just call it tech debt as this kind of unavoidable force of nature that was dropped on them (because it kind of was).

Or worse, the devs of old ARE still there, but pretend that after 1-2 years, its inevitable for a system to be falling apart and needing to be rewritten from scratch.

This level of industry immaturity prevents the tech debt concept from fully working.

In organization where tech debt IS a fully thought out and planned out compromise to get value today at some cost to be paid off later, then yeah, it not only works: it's often the right thing to do.
I might take you up on that, my wife was just looking at houses in Raleigh. IF we want to be close to downtown, is NE, NW, or SW of downtown the best? My wife liked the houses around Lenior St best.
Have you tried WeVideo ? https://www.wevideo.com/
Youtube also have some basic video linear editing tool

Not sure if Chromebook are powerful enough for web based video editing, but I think overall it's a good idea to create this kind of tool.

I actually already thought about that years ago, using GLSL shaders to create visual effects and transitions. One bottleneck would be creating previews of the current editing (precomputing everything so that the preview is realtime and not laggy), Youtube does this by computing the video on their server (not on their clients) and displaying it like a regular video.
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I'd argue that switching kernels is pretty easy. At least for us, there's a lot less QA to switch kernels than Docker versions. The more often you upgrade, the easier it is to upgrade, as with almost all things.

We also have a team that does work processing that's built a PID controller to autoscale ASGs based on queue depth, and time in queue. Although, their code is not open source, the concept is a self-tuning autoscaler based on a number of variables allowing you to prioritize cost, timeliness, or even throughput.

We've been doing this for a while. If you'd like to collaborate at all, let me know.
You're talking about something different. This is a lot more than motion tracking. This is creating 3D models, not just a 3D path.
Millennials Will Face Worse Income Inequality Than Previous Generations
You say I'm arguing against PEP8 by quoting PEP8? That's hard to understand. Whose karma am I "trashing", and how? I certainly didn't downvote him, if that's what you mean.
> that you paid for

I don't think it's necessary to pay when you can just threaten charges of treason (Melissa Mayer) or make an example out of the uncooperative (Joe Nacchio).
62% of working Americans have the symptoms of burnout
U.S. Said to Be Poised to Sue Over AT&T’s Deal for Time Warner
We recently started to build out GPU infrastructure onsite. Our GPU needs are low bandwidth and we keep a few in the cloud in case we lose our onsite. So far so good. We have predictable consistent load, so our use case is different than many DNN users.
I meant more along the lines of a terrible government that mostly stays out of your way is no worse than a mediocre one that involves itself in your daily life.
Do people check in their node_modules?!
The combination of OneNote and Edge's Web Notes gets you most of those features. There's also relatively "ancient" apps like Pocket (which Firefox presents out of the box these days) and Instapaper.
College Station is not in the middle of nowhere. You are just barely over an hour from Houston and two hours from Austin. If you were in the DFW metroplex those two distances would barely classify you as a suburb.

It's great that you are looking in the midwest but an hour outside of the ~4th largest city in the US is hardly the middle of nowhere.
Microsoft also destroyed every competitor they had.

They sent Lotus 1-2-3 and Visicalc packing. They destroyed WordStar and WordPerfect. Lotus Notes, Groupwise? Gone. They destroyed Novell. IBM couldn't even sell software for DOS/Windows. Borland? History. Netscape? See ya.

The only people safe from Microsoft's wrath were companies like Adobe.
I think meditation, some types of travel, and/or certain illicit drugs are important to people because they are able to temporarily experience what you have described as "other", to varying degrees, utilizing the aforementioned agents/techniques.
Surely all news publications filter? That's a large component of their bias, if not the largest: what information they choose to highlight and which to suppress.

Note that the Intercept meets most of your criteria when it can, and Breitbart meets all but the "no ads" criteria. Both cite and link to sources at least sometimes, when those sources are citable.
That'd be pretty sweet, wouldn't it?

Maybe I'll hold off on patching for a bit.
Such a site would suffer from 2 major disadvantages.

In the absence of advertisement driven revenues, it would have to charge money, raising the barrier of entry compared to the current alternatives. In addition it cannot provide regular dopamine hits (because that’s the whole point) so it even feels less appealing than the alternatives.

More expensive and less appealing is a hard combo to succeed with.
This is a perfect application for the US military but due to polictial and other reasons I doubt it will happen. The military has the means, expertise, and man power to make this stuff happen.

They are also one of the few groups that can respond within hours to any location around the world. The US military responded to both the Japanese Tsuanmi and the earthquake in Haiti, among other disasters more recently.

Shame I see less of this happening given the current political situation in Washington.
We should work on actually reducing stress instead of abusing mindfulness to handle stress better.
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Yes, the fact that adders deal with so many memory addresses in practice means that the distribution of numbers I saw didn't end up working very much like Benford's law. The non-address data did but they weren't a large enough fraction of what was added together.