skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pollution dead zone would seem like a bummer. Fairbanks might be a better bet.
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Difficulty aside, that sounds like it would be a cool way to live. How were they employed?
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Things at home are the same every day. They may be fun for first 5 minutes but then, well, they are not. Outside - city streets, playground, park, forest, you name it - there are unlimited amount of "toys". Everyday new, everyday exciting. You may go to the same place but people are different, animals are different, rocks are different, sticks thrown into stream are flowing differently every time. My kid is bored at home, even though we have way more toys than we planned to, and she's craving for full day walks. She's bringing me her shoes in the morning and points at the door. She's explorer and there are plenty of opportunities out there.
Those are all fine things to do if you can afford them. In my case, I'm talking about bugs that come sturdily packaged in a $5000+ chassis sitting on a private VLAN in somebody else's building. So it goes.
It nicely highlights why optimizing sites and web apps for size is still important. Speeds in excess of 20mpbs may be common in metropolitan areas, but there are parts of the US have to make due with much less.

I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for these people to have to deal with the better part of the popular web weighing 12mb+ per page load. Adblockers must be required for many sites to be of any use at all.
hey Dave, send me a link to the group or email it to me dan@echopodcasts.com
Sometimes speculation can help your speculation. If your speculation is not too speculative then your speculative speculation is worthy of speculation ;-)

That is, slapping black boxes together sometimes works despite the risks.
Could you please not paste large blobs of articles into HN threads? Discussions here are supposed to be conversations, not regurgitations, and people can read the articles for themselves.
> Announcing cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s

Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?
I know this invites some eye-rolling, but can somebody explain to me why the k8s people insist on ignoring IPv6 and the possibilities of large address fields?

Down the bottom, which is where 'things we probably will never do' is when IPv6 comes in the door.

Azure (for instance) is a fully IPv6 enabled fabric. Microsoft "get" IPv6. They are all over it. They understand it, its baked into the DNA. So how come K8s people just kind of think "yea.. nah.. not right now"?

Because proxy Ipv6 at the edge is really sucky. We should be using native IPv6, preserve e2e under whatever routing model we need for reliability, and gateway the V4 through proxies in the longer term.

(serious Q btw)
I’m sure their PR department gave their approval, but I’ve never seen a total takeover of a site like this for a political message. I’m pretty impressed.
I've felt for awhile that it's a matter of time before we end up with a development environment that - given a collection of tests - will automatically generate a program which passes all the tests. Barliman looks like a really cool step in that direction, even with its stated limitations.
Housing the homeless in hotels across the UK since Margaret Thatcher...
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The money is proven to be of illegal evidence, in a civil lawsuit. It is the same standard by which I can sue you for everything that you’re worth: preponderance of the evidence. It’s a lower standard than criminal court.
Your parent's response wasn't passive aggressive at all, it was a direct statement of their view of the problem with people who think the problem is other people being "thin skinned".
It will happen, if required (or even just incentivised) by building regs. Just slowly, over a period of decades.
Here's your proof [1] - 250 ETH, or almost $100K. I must say that the kitty in question is pretty cool [2].

You're free to believe in what you want to believe, but to me it's pretty obvious: the $3M that circulated in the CryptoKitties over the last 5 days is real, and certainly not from people laundering money.

You can also hang out with the devs and other hard core users (investors?) on CryptoKitties' Discord channel [3]. Some surreal but fascinating conversations.

ps: to offer a different perspective: I bought a Gen0 cat on Sat for fun; today the cheapest price is 3x. Not sure the future liquidity of the kitty marketplace (particularly if it crashes and burn, like Pokemon Go, which is very likely), but some folks are rushing to it like an ICO boom.

[1] https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/937596285917548544

[2] https://www.cryptokitties.co/kitty/101

[3] https://discordapp.com/channels/387021283503636500/387024670...
I noticed this after the fact. Thanks for pointing it out.

I had previously looked into understanding how mercurial worked and what options there were for different frontends or backends. (And what it would take to write my own backend just to understand a very basic flow of a clone or pull). It's a lot of work for sure and there mercurial team (at least mpm a few years back) preferred one true implementation.
What a finger marathon. That would have been much more usable (and even more creditable coming from Goldman Sachs) if it were a single-page article.
Definitely gluttonous, but I could barely get through five seconds of the (gorgeous) video without thinking how cool it would be in 3D. Its already a six figure rig (to insure anyway), why not double it.

Also, looks like a transformoer blows or something at 1:35.
Absolutely not, regulating people's economic behavior like that is pure evil.
That's a good question but one that I'm not 100% confident that I'm qualified to answer.

If you have the flexibility it sounds like Austin is your best bet for a close-but-high-paying jobs. It's a beautiful city as well, I love Austin. Would move there in a second. Remote work is possible but getting those positions is much more plagued with the whole catch-22 of needing previous experience in order to gain experience.

Obviously brush up on algorithms and data structures prior to interviews. Whether you think it's BS or not, that's just the best approximation of ability that most companies can manage to come up with.

You mentioned that some of your jobs had been paid hourly. My advice is to try to get a reasonable salaried position ($65k+/year) at a tech company and hold that down for ~2 years and ratchet your way up to companies that pay better. If you start that low it's not unreasonable to request 15% raises each year for several years. If you can hold a position at around that range for 1.5-3 years, changing companies should net you a 25% raise.

I've had co-workers with fairly scatter-shot resumes. It's a small red flag in interviews but I've never seen someone dropped from an interview because of sporadic work history. I've seen people dropped for lying about their work history.
Basically because 99.9% of speeding isn't a serious crime that merits harsh punishment

1)
Harsh punishment for something trivial that everyone does but is of negligible harm to society is worse for society than handing out slap on the wrist type fines. Speeding infractions, especially on limited access highways, are only slightly worse for society than parking infractions.

For example, the speed limit on the highway I take to work is 55mph. 55 is pre/post rush our speed. Typical traffic flow when traffic is light is up to 80-85 as permitted by weather conditions. Writing people tickets for 30-over when 30-over is a reasonable speed does nothing good for society.

2)
Why should I work hard to be a six figure software engineer if "winning" that reverse lottery gets me just as screwed as someone who's barely living paycheck to paycheck?

3)
Most states have appropriate fines and penalties attached to sufficiently broad criminal violations to cover actual bad behavior. I.e. write someone a summons for reckless driving if they're actually being reckless and then fine them $500 in court rather than fine them $500 for "speeding" according to some table and formula.

4)
Then there's the whole problem of misaligned incentives that comes with aggressively policing minor infractions for revenue (traffic or some other group). I'd rather have a police department of x officers all doing real work than a police department of 2x where on any given day x of the officers are always on traffic detail to pay for the costs of running the department.

5)
If people want to drive "too fast" on the road then the road either needs to be redesigned (there's visual tricks the engineers can play to make the road feel smaller and make people want to go slower) so people want to go the desired speed or the desired speed needs to increase to reflect reality. If I'm being a normal person going 80 in a 55 that should be an 80 on a normal night I don't want to get a $500 ticket because my tail-light was out but it just so happened that my otherwise unremarkable speed of 80 was 25 over for that location.
> Tearing them down does not make the problem go away. It makes it worse.

The problem these people are trying to solve is not that those children are trying to solve is not that those people are living in a crap situation, it is that those people are living near them. See NIMBY, banning Single Room Occupancy hotels, minimum lot sizes, maximum occupancy, minimum square footage, etc.

Middle class people ban choices they wouldn’t make, news at 11.
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Only the English go on about it. A significant number of them suffer from a bizarre superiority complex. This Brexit stuff with N. Ireland is bringing them all out of the wood work. As an open-minded EU facing Irishman it is massively satisfying watching the conservative element in the UK implode upon itself. I just hope they don't drag the rest of their country down with them.
Sure, that is why you can also implement something like one AS per rack with each rack as its own AS peering with other racks through a set of distribution switches, which then aggregate your routes up to a single range that is broadcast out. You could have each host in the rack advertise 1 prefix maybe 2 and you should be good to go even with some absolutely garbage TOR switches.

I read your comment as, "Don't use technology that you can misconfigure, because you can misconfigure it!". Well yeah, the same can be said with anything networking related.
Tom Scott went to Greenland last year, where they also have microwave towers for internet access:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9BHrAgQz0
So you want to help the poor from other countries at the expense of poor from your own country, which coincidentally benefits you in the form of cheaper produce. That's awfully generous of you.
I used to notice a lot more bugs when I was a kid. Until recently I thought it was because I was closer to the ground back then :)
Sure, because it doesn't matter that much. If it rains for you, it also rains for your competition, and everyone goes to the fallback connection.
If Apple is forced to pay a big chunk of tax in the EU, why wouldn't they spin off their EU sales operations as a completely separate independent company? Apple US (or Apple Cayman Islands) could then sell iPhones to Apple EU and demand a wholesale price very close to the retail price. Apple EU would therefore make very little profit and pay very little EU tax.
China is a well run country, but most countries seem that way with 5%+ economic growth YoY.

In reality, it’s slowly becoming a prison of 1.3 billion people that is gently closing its maws on them. Life is good, growth is great, but whenever the next crisis comes, which it will, the government will not be replaced like in Democracy but actively fight back, with technology developed by the best American companies. From there, they will probably close down and self-seal their economy like the Soviet Union did with some success, and embark on a period of profound killing as a means of control.
“The theme of this conference — developing a digital economy for openness and shared benefits — is a vision we at Apple share,” Cook said, in widely reported remarks. “We are proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace.”

I don't even know how to react to his friendly remarks towards China. Is it to keep the government happy and keep profiting from the Chinese market? That would make sense. But sometimes I feel like he's become too friendly.
Another simple proof of the non-field-ness of floating point numbers. in this case for the IEEE "double precision" type, that associativity doesn't hold:

>>> a, b, c = 2 ** -53, 2 ** -53, 1
>>> (a+b)+c == a+(b+c) # definition of associativity
False
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I started this experiment where I take a screenshot of my Macintosh every 5 minutes, and convert images into a timelapse video. I love it. It's great to observe how I actually use my time. Screenshots are taken and saved automatically, but the process to make the video takes some time. I make it with iMovie now. I want to automate this process, but I still don't know how. Any idea?
It seems from my perspective that Cook knows that technology alone will help expand viewpoints of people within China, which will ultimately lead to more democracy in general.

I think it's unfair to assume that if Apple was to outright leave the Chinese market that this would somehow change China's stance on censorship. Instead, it will just likely cause competition to fill the gap as already is the case with many things in China's tech scene today.

So what do people think is the right choice for them? Leave China all together and say "no way, we won't be here unless the internet is totally open" or "we'll accept it.. for now"?
Well, are we sure that this is better performance than the TERRA backbone gets? I think you'd have a hard time offering 6mbps in northern Alaska if all the customer traffic ultimately has to squeeze through one of the two terminal 1 gigabit links down south. (And 1gbps at 300km seems pretty optimistic for any real-world deployment. On a 100 ft tower, line of sight is limited to less than 20km due to the curvature of the Earth.)
Thanks to BPF devs and system folks like Brendan Gregg Linux tracing on the 4.x kernels can rival Solaris/FreeBSD + Dtrace. So my question is where does Sysdig fit in the tracing equation here?
To defend free speech, its proponents must step outside their own echo chamber
Armadillo road kill for dinner is at least a meme in the Deep South (USA), not sure if anyone still does that.
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Is he naive or greedy? Or is this actually a good thing? I don't know.

Combine this with the other story on the front page where Apple shares the wireframe of your face. Not reassuring.
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Tim Cook wasn't invited for his beliefs, but to give face to the Chinese government.

Chinese internet is as closed as it gets. Any foreign company eating up the market share of a local company will get blocked eventually or be forced into merging into a local entity.

For now it really is open in one way : Chinese companies are welcome to compete in the whole world, but China won't let you be a competitor of the local companies

Cook is "forced" into this monkey dance because he's deeply entrenched into the Chinese market. He only has little leverage : the jobs he creates in China and the money he makes there.

He has to comply to local laws, even though it interferes with his own point of view because lots of money is at stake. He can't say it in this conference
Interesting article, I remember reading about the different anonymous cryptocurrencies and ZCash was apparently the strongest from the reading I had done. This makes me want to look more into it, perhaps there is still more work to be done in this space or maybe the pipe dream is not actually possible.
Sorry, I did not mean to be secretive.
That has been American thinking leading up to this point in time and guess what? IT ISN'T WORKING AND IT WONT WORK. China has their own culture and traditions and that won't just change because we trade with them or Apple sells stuff there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Lying to police is more than acting suspicious.

I’m not claiming that police have a moral carte blanche for overzealous seizures. I’m saying that when they do their duty in good faith and then lose in court, we shouldn’t jump to calling them robbers.

To your last point, the standard in civil court is preponderance/more-likely-than-not/“majority”. Civil asset forfeiture is not a criminal conviction, carries no risk of prison time, and involves solely the transfer of property from one (who is not entitled to it) to another (who is at least more entitled to it). If I sue you for everything you’re worth, or claim rightful ownership of your land in an action directly on the property, I only need to prove my case by a preponderance. Why should it be any different here?

A lot is made over the fact that the civil action is against the property instead of the person it’s being seized from. This isn’t as relevant as it sounds and it has nothing to do with the standard of proof being lower: the standard in all civil cases is preponderance of the evidence.

The suit is against the property because it’s an in rem lawsuit where the only thing being litigated is the disposition of the property. They are not trying to prove that the person it was seized from did anything illegal, just that the asset itself is the proceeds of a crime, whoever may have committed that crime.
Market-making is bridging a gap in time between when the seller was in market and when the buyer will be in market. If I need to race another HFT by 10 µs, I'm not routing society's capital in a more productive direction, I'm not even enabling a trade that wasn't already destined to happen.
I learned so much from that post. The author clearly love tinkering with computers. I wish I had that same leveled curiosity. Well done.
They're not ignoring it. It's being actively worked on, and is expected to be in alpha for the 1.9 release [1].

The issue [2] has existed for over 3 years, so it's not a new suggestion.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/508

[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/1443
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THESE SHAPESHIFTING METALS COULD BE THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT
And here is a C program annotated for the C Bounded Model Checker to find a counterexample of associativity for floats:

#include <math.h>
extern float nondet_float(); // works equally well (quick) for double
int main() {
float a = nondet_float(), b = nondet_float(), c = 1;
__CPROVER_assume(isfinite(a) && isfinite(b) && isfinite(c));
float s1 = (a+b)+c, s2 = a+(b+c);
__CPROVER_assume(isfinite(s1) && isfinite(s2));
__CPROVER_assert(s1 == s2, "associativity holds for floats");
}

http://www.cprover.org/cbmc/
I don't think using caps helps your argument.

Just saying that something isn't working doesn't mean there is a better option, either. Do you think there would be a different outcome if everyone pulled out of China completely and they do everything on their own without any external influence?
Steve jobs is rolling over in his grave right now..... Just think about how Apple use to be back in the day and how they were all about being free and open.... and now this. Steve Jobs would've never supported this in a thousand years. I have lost so much respect for Tim Cook
> Yes they're still terrible with human rights and they're still killing people in Yemen, but they were doing that before without the current improvement.

Apparently MBS was been behind the devastating involvement of KSA in Yemen from well before his taking power.
It would be interesting to visit, on the assumption that people who live hard party hard, and just to see how people make the best of a non-ideal situation, especially in isolation. But it doesn't sound like it's easy to get travel visas.

I'd be interested in hearing the backstory of how this photo essay came together. The photographer, Sergey Ponomarev, is a Pulitzer Prize winner [0] for freelance work he did as a NYT freelancer and is born and based in Moscow. It sounds like the city is under tight restrictions but presumably Russia's security services trusted him enough to let him in.

[0] http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/mauricio-lima-sergey-ponomar...
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I see no basis in reality for this claim.

China is more open now, than it has been at any point since 1949 - and it continues to liberalize things - just very very slowly.
Eyewitnesses can easily be confronted and cross examined. Questioning eyewitnesses is a relatively common skill among defense attorneys, and the arguments being made in such cross examinations are easily grasped by jurors.

The algorithm behind something like this might not even be made available to defense counsel. If it is, examination will require an expert witness (which costs $$$$), and it's doubtful that 12 average citizens would be able to assess the validity of or even comprehend the arguments.
Real life is indeed stranger than fiction. If Neil Stephenson had written this .. people would have laughed at the absurdity.
China is NOT well run. Life is NOT good. The growth is FAKE 7% every year.

There was a very recent event happening in Beijing kindergarten regarding sexual abuses....and the authorities CLAMPED DOWN ON THE MEDIA and DENIED IT TOOK PLACE. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/rumors-11292017123013....

Why do you think the rich and the intellectuals are fleeing the country? Polluted air, polluted water, polluted food, hidden poverty, censorship, police state, the list goes on and on....
The way I set this up in my accounting system was to pile all first data deposits into an asset clearing account, create a bill to pay the client, and then record a payment from that clearing account. Since the IRS only sees income & expenses, I can understand the trigger for the CP2000. I didn't see a logical way to report this activity on my return.

I guess I need to write a short letter explaining it, saying I don't do it anymore, and include highlighted bank statements of the money coming in, and the money going back out. Unfortunately I don't have tax numbers for the clients.
CIVK, pronounced civic?
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I'm a temp immigrant in US, who is equally frustrated with the Trump hating democrat supporters, the Hillary-hating Trump supporters and the neutrals.

Based on what I know from my own small sample set of data, makes me believe that the the Trump vote base is strong, and considerable in number, and is super happy with this tax overhaul.

They see it as "Trump kept his promise", by simplifying the tax code, reducing taxes on his vote base, increasing taxes on the tax bracket that trump voters considered to be something like "free money mongers" and of course, its going to affect the democrat strongholds.

What I find funny, is that many Trump haters are still starting a conversation by presuming that majority of the country hates this tax reform (its probably the top 10 most populous cities of US and California). I think people need to go out of democrat stronghold areas and get some real feedback.

I'm curious to see how this sweeping tax overhaul works out in the long run
"It seems from my perspective that Cook knows that technology alone will help expand viewpoints of people within China, which will ultimately lead to more democracy in general."

That hypothesis made sense with trade before and it makes sense with technology now. Unfortunately, decades of waiting have yielded no positive results.

Yes, leave. The Chinese are more likely to be hopeful of freedom if they don't see Americans as equivalently bad.