skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm a bit reluctant to buy this because from what I've heard, Levi makes these specifically for amazon and they are of much lesser quality. They had a similar deal a few months ago (where a certain pair was available for pre-order) and I can tell you first hand that those were much lesser quality than the other 511's I have."

Recently gleaned from a user of /r/frugalmalefashion on reddit. I think it adds to this discussion quite a bit. Ironically I'm still perusing amazon hard today as part of Black Friday sales.
There was a superb demo I can't seem to find again, one of the scenes was a giant spaceship floating in the distance above a desert, and some silhouette people were walking atop a dune along with goats or some other animal. I seem to remember there was some article from the author about the implementation. If anyone can throw some link in my general direction then I'll throw back some <3 in theirs :)
Only 700+ km on mine which means I saved about half it's price (compared with taxi).

The biggest advantage is that I don't have to find a parking space for it and it always drops me in front of the door.
> Charity is problematic too, though. It's subject to the whims of the wealthy, and worse it's damaging to the dignity of recipients - it denies them agency in their own well-being.

What would you have the ultra-wealthy do? Give their wealth to the government? Distribute their wealth evenly to everyone? What is a non-problematic way to use concentrated wealth to help people, in your view?
When I first started traveling under my own steam around Europe, it took me a while to realise that sandwiches, which seem so obvious as to be universal, are such a British thing. Wandering around a foreign city, expecting to be able to just grab a sandwich from almost anywhere and continue sightseeing, only to discover that sandwiches (at that time) just didn't exist was a jarring experience.
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HBO is an interesting outlier in cable TV (and media creators in general). As you said, they have consistently been at the top of the heap in terms of quality even while reinventing their product and adapting to changing markets over the years.

I think that HBO’s secret has been having revenue directly tied to producing content people want (unlike most other TV channels), which in turn forced them to always have an evergreen source of that content (boxing fights, newly released movies). That stuff is their “Buzzfeed” side that gives them the ability to ride out lean times and come out with their next big thing, like The Sopranos or Game of Thrones (their “Buzzfeed News” side).

If they didn’t have the consistent money makers and a revenue strategy that rewards it, they would long ago have had a business hiccup and been taken apart for spare parts ala most other TV channels.

There are a lot of places trying to emulate HBO now in the prestige content game. What I’m interested to see is if any of them (especially Netflix) can follow the HBO playbook over the next 10-20 years or if they all descend into mediocrity in the pursuit of growth.

And it’s always possible that HBO fails at their own game and gets replaced too.
That doesn't work. The rules used by the simulator could just be the rules of the real universe, you can not tell the difference. Or to put in programming terms, you are given an object x to inspect, our universe, and you have to decide whether it is an instance of class RealUniverse or an instance of class SimulatedUniverse but you have no knowledge of what any of those classes looks or behaves like.
I can go 31 km/h with my legs only with all the additional battery and motor weight. That limit is silly.
We seem to plunder the environment until it kills us.
Reading TFA both TCP and UDP OpenVPN modes were tested. UDP was about three times faster than TCP, but SSH was three times faster than that.

Possibly the SSH encryption could have been more optimal for their use case?
Be careful with public networks, Bitcoins stolen
That may be good enough for you, but it's not good enough for me.
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It'll probably have a performance hit if you have to use functions from other chunks (need an extra lookup in the table to find them) but if the linker is intelligent enough you could avoid a lot of that by putting stuff that calls each together.
>"Most of the hipster microgreen crowd aren't even making their money that way, they are making it by scamming other hipsters into trying to do that by acting like anyone can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year selling $10/pound lettuce to hipster restaurants."

Can you elaborate on this? What exactly is the scam? How does the scam work?
Pretty much canonical build nowadays - BBSHD on a cheapest bike (danger) with hydraulic brakes and downtube battery pack (48V, would be nice to go up, 11.6 Ah -- it can't sustain more than ~750W load, hence lower cruise speed), Lekkie Bling Ring - smaller ring for more torque but again, lower top speed.

I'd like to add that having less gears would be nice, currently I have 8, only half are needed.
If 99.999 % of the universe is fake, than you only have to simulate 0.001 % of the universe but you also only have 0.001 % of a universe to turn into a computer and run a simulation on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15773588
I suggest you actually listen to Cliff explain why he did what he did before you belabor the obvious. (Those state transitios are all CASed ..)
It wouldn't load Map Comanche 3 - it's trying to load a non-existent image for it - https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/maps/undefined.png
Legally speaking, there's three categories of e-bikes in the EU [0]:

* under 250W, under 25km/h: no more approval than a pedal powered bicycle

* L1e-A: under 25km/h, under 1kW electric

* L1e-B: under 45km/h, under 4kW electric ("speed pedelec" class)

L1e-A and L1e-B ebikes need an extra type certification. Plus there are hurdles in terms of insurance, sometimes also helmet obligation, and more.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/legislation/m...
I mean walk more than a few blocks from my current location, wherever that is.

I'm not sure what you mean by "just look up".
Yes, that's true for steep hills, but if the slope is about 10% hub motor will also manage.
hey if you have questions about ebikes please ask -- they have been a passion of mine for a very long time. i dont know much about the latest models though, it got kind of boring after they got popular.

dont worry about new york, ebikes have been illegal there for a long time and that cities policies towards ebikes is not a reflection of the rest of the country, especially with the new and more unified regulations regarding ebike power levels. the reason ny is so weird about ebikes is because ny delivery people were the first group of people in the country to understand and utilize ebikes, way back in the day, and when they did they were complete ass holes about it. because they rode way too fast and inappropriately, ebikes have a very bad reputation in that neighborhood.

the new regulations, if i remember correctly, call for several tiers of ebike power levels. the lowest is 20mph top speed on level ground and no throttle. you can ride those anywhere. then there are two higher tiers, the higher one can have a throttle. those bikes are only supposed to ride in designated areas if i remember correctly. this is a federal regulation that leaves the details to its implementer. but if you go forward in time you will probably see a set of rules like those i described pretty much everywhere.

one exciting thing about ebikes is that their power is limited by law but their energy is not. as ebikes become more mainstream and higher prices more tolerated, you will see bikes with more and more battery capacity. you will see bikes that only go 20mph but can go for hundreds of miles at top speed up and down hills. eventually even that kind of ebike will be affordable.

another exciting thing is the new class of bike that will come out of all this. like the article says, it isnt crazy to think of these as alternatives to cars rather than bikes. and this will be reflected in new kind of bikes that are heavier duty, with very nice shocks and huge batteries. you will just see stuff that was never on bikes before, like windscreens and nice seats. on these bikes, pedals will basically become vestigial. you will simply use the pedals as a kind of accelerator (not being replaced by a traditional acc. pedal or throttle for legal reasons and to make the bike ride-able anywhere). youll have very fine tuned control over the speed and acceleration of the vehicle through these special pedals. i think we might also see total enclosure of the bike for all-weather operation. thats pretty difficult to do though.

i was considering starting some kind of business to catch this wave. if anybody is interested maybe hit me up
> Of course. I'm not saying that languages or implementations shouldn't pick (and document) an evaluation strategy. I'm saying that confluence is a useful feature, that exception handlers are a useful feature, that simplicity/predictability is a useful feature, but surprisingly (to me) we can only seem to pick two.

My point is basically that you end up making this trade-off far earlier than that, as evidenced by Haskell, so it's not really right to blame exception handlers; `try (fst (0, E)) 1` isn't any more important than `fst (0, E)` and programmers won't let language writers leave the latter unspecified.

> Note that I'm assuming E behaves like _|_: if we "trigger" an E in any sub-expression, then the whole expression becomes E, and this propagates upwards until either the whole program is E, or we reach a `try x y` expression. In tht case an exceptional x would cause this expression to reduce to y.

I feel this gets to the crux of the issue: if you assume this, then a lot of what you said does hold, but you don't have to assume it and many languages (eg. Haskell) don't. Why are you assuming this anyway?

> You're the one who's talking about lazy evalution and automatic parallelisation :)

You brought it up, not me!

> having the same semantics for both serial and concurrent uses (e.g. no need for the "thread safe"/"not thread safe" notes which litter Java's class reference)

Thread safety of this kind just requires a lack of shared mutability (see Rust); purity and more extreme forms like being agnostic to order of evaluation don't really add anything in practice.

> [On Lisp]

I'm not saying Lisp isn't functional (it is), but arguing against your claim that "MapReduce is clearly inspired by functional programming ideas like confluence".
Good one. And revisiting it now, I think it makes sense, and it must have taken some doing to post, considering he'd have to do it in reverse chronological order.
Sunglasses.

It's a MTB bike shape, so you always leaning forward. Normal city "omafiets" would be dangerous at those speeds - not enough pressure/grip on front tyre.

Also, I don't have to commute, only use it for fun (ok I did came to do some work to the university library right now).
A Concise Comparison of JavaScript Web Frameworks
Thank you, I will check it out.
I use it for a private photo/video sharing application. It has a dozen users, so may not qualify as "production", but I haven't had to look under the hood for almost a year now.

I use Lambda specifically for creating thumbnails. My blog post about it: http://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2017/03/10/serverless-photo-s...
More so in the 80's.
You can. It's about as good as having an intimate relationship online - you can have it, it's just not even close to the real thing :)
For a normal submission, the rule of thumb is 100 * upvotes. YMMV
Wow a little googling on this subject led me to sshuttle, which I've never heard of before but looks awesome, will try it out on Monday:

http://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html

Basically "vpn over ssh" (not really, but close enough).
Helmets are required here for all cyclists in NZ.

What is the extra certification required? I assume something about tyre size, brakes and perhaps frame strength?
This is normal business. Black Friday, and low price retailers are sourced from the worst bins and suppliers while having the same exterior.
I found that OpenVPN benefited greatly from setting larger tunnel MTUs and then allowing the IP packets to be fragmented. I think it's encrypting per-packet which is somewhat inefficient.
I think the upper class/elite in China are pretty isolated from the rest of the people, and really don't realize how bad a lot of their countrymen have it.

A good friend of mine is from Chengdu and for most of his life he thought he was just average - a guy whose parents sent him to the US for high school, pay ~30,000CAD/semester in tuition, bought him an X3 for his first car, etc.
I guess it standardizes your boilerplate at write-time even if you have to review it expanded.
No. Ignorant, rude, and swindling people out of their hard earned money with false promises makes a dangerous proposition. Frankly I don’t know how you sleep at night. Just because there’s a placebo effect doesn’t make it effective. Many properly executed double blind studies have debunked what you are selling for decades now.
This is very reminiscent of EVE Online's "I mined it so it's free" fallacy. In that, the player is mining minerals which they then use to manufacture a product in order to sell it, but they often sell the product for less than they would have by selling the raw minerals or lose out in opportunity cost because manufacturing yields a higher $/t, and once you scale up you can't supply your own minerals anymore.
maybe they don't want to be anything other than factory workers. That doesn't mean that they are fundamentally less valuable and less worthy of being paid their fair share.
1. Doesn't look like there were runs of iperf over UDP and TCP, with simulated buffer sizes, so hard to know what the network connection is even capable of.

2. Also, how reliable is the network connection? Maybe it fluctuates every minute in usable bandwidth due to congestion or jitter. VMs are subject to noisy neighbor issues.

3. It looks like the ciphers are different, which could of course affect throughput greatly if one is not hardware accelerated or if its CPU bound. Worth checking CPU and other system resource usage for differences.

4. You could try OpenVPN with encryption and/or compression disabled entirely in UDP mode for best possible performance IIRC. This, at least, you would expect to beat an SSH tunnel.
Sorry, this in an error. The Comanche 3 map is not part of the Github archive. Try the outdated website if you want to see how a Comanche 3 map looks:

http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=comanche
Ssh has builtin vpn.
Who will build the crypto future?
In case you don't know, ssh has built-in VPN support which may be enough for lots of use cases.
Britain’s national food is “pub grub”. City restaurants aspire to the international, but pub food is a constant: only the quality differs, from cheap factory-farmed stuff at carvery pubs besides West Midlands roundabouts, to artisan farm food at gastropubs in the Cotswolds.
I'm not one to take advice from and I would never assume to give any on this matter. Just a short anecdote.

Max Levchin [Affirm] visited my university my senior year and someone in the audience asked something similar. He told us (paraphrasing) "if you keep holding off building a startup, it will never happen, and if you hold off until you have a stable job and income, it's definitely not going to happen."
Interestingly, a very nice, fully integrated "french" ebike in NZ can go up to 6k NZD, meanwhile used Nissan Leaf starts at 10k NZD.
Reminds me of "Look Up More", a stunt by Improv Everywhere from years ago: https://youtu.be/RSBXS1npqNI
I agree. I've worked in both Elm and ClojureScript. In one, I have to constantly deal with compiler errors. In the other, about as much runtime errors. The net time for error handling is the same. But the net time in actually writing code is in favor of ClojureScript, which requires at least half as many lines as Elm (and often much less than half).

Error handling is somewhat over-emphasized in comparison to other things that affect productivity (and maintainability).
They once let me go home to sleep, but then I got called back for a hot fix.
Well yeah... it depends on the rider. No limit will be fair for all. And then you can go downhill much faster.
Technically placebos still work even when you know they are placebos.[1]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/26/placebo-effect...
This is just crazy to me. Every purchase at Amazon is made because it makes the purchaser better off. Amazon out-competes by serving the customer better. If Bezos also benefits, that's great - he's made the world a better place. I'd love to richly reward millions of people for making the world better like Amazon has.

Save the pitchforks for negative-sum beneficiaries - companies and individuals who benefit by leeching/destroying value (e.g., most financial "innovation", big pharma using legal tactics to avoid competition, etc.)
Thank you guys I will check out the linked sites; I haven't purchased the drone yet. I do not want to spend, too much (1-2k in €) so maybe I will use a service instead. I am pretty familiar with GIS, and I use it on a regular basis for the orchard (I am experimenting with almond as we have a warmer microclimate here in the valley).
Perhaps surprisingly, fake eggs do exist.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/06/how-to-make-a-rotten-egg...
Japanese bookshop stocks only one book at a time
> with analytically predefined series of events.

This doesn't make universe less interesting or more predictable. Consider Mandelbrots set, it is fully analytically predefined, but only way to find it's details is to perform the whole calculation.

Similarly the universe can be predefined, but the only way of finding its state after some amount of time can be performing a calculation fully equivalent to letting the universe to live for that time.
> 2. It looks like the cipher "AWS128-CTR" is being used for
> SSH, I'm not even sure what that is. I'd look at CPU and
> other system resource usage for differences.

My guess is just a typo, for AES128-CTR.
I removed the map in the dropdown menu.
Well, I'm American, and that's what I want to eat. The bread is just there to give some way to hold it.
MySQL performance tuning and Linux context switches
I wasn't accusing you of being anti-religion, just honestly curious :)
E-bikes aren't such a dangerous scourge as cars. The priority should be on implementing real safety measures, not putting up signs. It's silly that NYSE is protected like a fortress even though nothing important happens there any more but vulnerable paths are left wide open.
Tim Wu: Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality
There are plenty of jerks of every political persuasion who use those philosophies to justify being jerks. Now, if there is something in the philosophy of libertarianism that endorses being a jerk, please point it out.
Not entirely true regarding JikesRVM (I've worked on this project) and from memory still not true of Maxine. Maxine and Jikes' compiler components are run during build on Oracle HotSpot etc, however at run time they are entirely self sufficient.

At least in the case of Jikes, there is a small C initialiser that loads in the "Compiled" memory image of JikesRVM, initialises some handlers, then jumps into Jikes' initialisation routine which JIT compiles and brings up the remainder of the VM.
As per my other comment, at runtime there is no underlying "HotSpot" or other JVM, only when the bootstrap classes are compiled during the build process.
If you didn't know, his example is just a re-hash of Plato's cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
i don't think you need to "accept" the fact that there are infinite variables, or that you're not all-that-powerful. It's pretty much a given, and it's something you realise at 2 year old, when you really want to play with that ball, or lift that rock, or pretty much anything grown up do, but you can't. And as you're growing up, nature is always there to remind you that you're nothing.

IMHO, the role of education in the most general sense (encompassing the cultural background you're evolving in) is to help you think that you need to keep trying to make a difference, and not give up, because maybe one time in your life you'll accomplish something, and that'll be worth it.
In Japan, unfortunately the opportunities for commuting are limited. Apologies if things have changed since I last looked at it (but I don't think it has): the limiter must be graduated. Under 12km/h it is full assistance and it gradually drops off until at 20km/h it is no assistance. Where I live (in the countryside) they are extremely popular with the elderly, but they are practically useless for anything else. Speeds between 12km and 15km are already pretty effortless for most people on flat surfaces (where most people will be riding) and the extra weight penalty means that you just have a very expensive, very slow bike.

Part of the problem is that cycling has been a utilitarian thing in Japan until very recently. When I moved here 10 years ago I never once saw a road bike. Bicycles were treated as the thing children rode to school or old women rode to the store to pick up 1 or 2 items.

Scooters have a speed limit of 30km/h (though only a few people obey the rule) and you must have a helmet. Bicycles have no such rules because the law makers can't really fathom that a bicycle can get anywhere near that speed. When I was riding regularly, it was not at all uncommon for me to pass scooters on the highway.

Things are changing very quickly (cycling is hugely popular now), so I'm curious to see how the laws change as a result.
> E-bikes can be had for less than $1,000

A (not-by-much-)sub-$1000 conventional bike will still tend to have low-end components.

I'd expect a sub-$1000 electric to be quite a piece of crap.

A, say, $850 conventional bike can at least take upgrades. Which is to say that as things go you can replace them with better versions.

Not so sure about upgrading a sub-$1000 e-bike over time with better parts. (How standardized and modular are the drive trains for those things, know what I mean?)
Regarding 4, sort of defeats the purpose of using OpenVPN no?
I am curious if anyone is actually thinking about this problem in terms of technology required that currently does or does not exist, particularity in tech needed to store such vasts amount of data, unimaginably high resolution sensors, etc. It sounds like a fun project to be part of really.
One of my all time favorite games, without a doubt. I used to play it on the Atari 800XL, but it had a different name, I believe. "Behind Jaggi Lines", I want to say.

Edit: fixed game name
I think around 95% of bike in Shanghai are now electric. It's crazy to see massive amounts of bikes/scooters hustle all in quiet.
This article might appeal to some out of curiousity but it is not of much practical value. Design patterns are not a thing in Clojure. The whole idea behind the flexibility of the language is that you don't need a pre-existing pattern to force on your problem; instead, the language makes it possible for each problem to build its own pattern. (And that is the point, I think, in this article.)

I've worked with and around Clojure developers for years now, and no one talks about traditional design patterns. Design patterns add complexity, not simplicity, to a language. By contrast, Clojure solutions are relatively simple. Design patterns often evolve in languages where you struggle against the language's design to express a solution. When a language strips away those obstacles, pre-existing patterns become less necessary.
There are lots of youtube channels (and similar) promoting this idea. These channels can generate a lot of ad revenue for their creators. I'm assuming that's what they're referring to.