skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is certainly a nuanced look at a figure who is generally cited in stark black and white. The notion of the "merchant elite" setting the tone of politics within the state -- and with neighbors and other competitors -- is a bit of a wake-up call. After all, for better or for worse, what finally dragged the US out of the Great Depression was World War II, and the sudden bulge of manufacturing it brought.

The question is, are we, today, seeing self-interested corporations stimulating or antagonizing hard feelings between countries, states, tribes, or families as a way to push up profits?

And a larger question remains: Is that inherently bad?
I suppose that there are many who would think that it is not, by its nature, bad -- not if your nation, or ethnicity, or religion is not harmed. I think that this is the central question the article poses.

Given that, what is the value of a single human life? Or, more broadly, what is the value of any living thing, or living system? Is it okay kill a man through black lung, in order to maximize profit from a coal mine? Is it okay to bulldoze and pave a vast swath of land, to harvest wood, replacing the forest with a monoculture that will not support diversity? Where does that end? Is a culture safe? A nation?

There are, of course, a great number of people who think that one life lost is one too many, that an ecosystem is a living thing, that a culture is sacred.

Smith seems to hew towards regulation of business and industry -- that the watershed must be considered in mountaintop removal mining, that heroin sales on the street are not in the best interest of society. (Even though illicit drug sales are probably the very best example of a truly open and free market.) I would lean with Smith on this account. Government has NO business in business. But truly free people must be free to regulate business in their own interest.
I've been contracting with an IoT company for 3 years now. It's interesting to see guys who coded exclusively for radio or infrared based remotes get pulled into the software development world.

V1: 5 years ago everything was raw sockets and custom messaging formats with hand coded firmware and all data stored in a custom vector format, builds were distributed on google drive and flashed by hand.

V2: 3 years ago we dragged them kicking and screaming into http and hand coded json apis, firmware was still custom, data still stored in custom vector format but updates were now done on a non secure server with a hash check.

V3: this past year they started on a small box with a micro linux distro, apis are provided by standardized library, data now stored in sql, updates done over https.

Things are better now, except they still expect to sell and support those first 2 options for the next 10 years.
Blocking crawlers is dead simple:

Find a way to build an API for your data that allows you both to make money.

Any effort besides that is wasted.

Honey pots links? Great my crawler only clicks things that are visible. See capybara.

IP thresholds? Great I have burner IPs that hit a good page of yours until I’m blocked (am I time banned, captchad or perma) and then I back that number out across my network of residential IPs (bought through squid, hello or anyone else) and a mix of tor nodes ( I sample your site with that too) to make sure I never approach that number. But then I also geolocate the IP so it’s only crawling during sensible browsing hours for that location.

Keystrokes detection? yeah I slow down keystrokes so it looks like Grandma is browsing

Mouse detection? looks like Michael j Fox is on your site (that’s an old Dell or Gateway Commercial reference don’t be mad)

Poison the well? I get a page from multiple IPs and headless browser combinations on different screen orientations and if I detect odd changes in data I flag that URL for a turk to provide insight/tune the crawler.

I keep the screenshot and full payload (css,js,html) that I use over time to do more devious shit like render old versions of your page behind a private nginx server so I can re-extract pieces of data I may have missed.

Stop trying to stop the crawling and figure out how to create a revenue stream.
Disclaimer: I work on the Mender project.

Signing and verification in Mender is covered here: https://docs.mender.io/artifacts/signing-and-verification
tell that to web assembly and friends
I am not sure if patients will see any of the savings though. I view hospitals as fundamentally dishonest organizations after a few experiences. Their medical treatment is fine but their financial practices are borderline fraudulent.
Not if the average salary and usage taxes per Amazon employee are higher than normal for the city, which seems likely.
> beautiful people

No kidding. Quite a distraction, though.
Yep. Forgot to mention that.
Try doing that with your dynamically typed language.
Curious - do you mean it's old fashioned because it's a desktop application, and not a web app? There are actually hosted on-line versions, e.g. https://demo.collaboracloudsuite.com/tdfnextcloud/index.php/...
BTW love the username : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
Well, building today's affordable housing has never been a goal anyone aspires to. We're building 2040/2050's affordable housing:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/1/how-luxury-hous...
Interesting that taxes are tied in that way. Here in the UK (and much of Europe I believe?) all tax goes into a central pot, which is then shared out, to remove the direct relationship.

There are a couple of exceptions like cigarette taxes and I now believe some of the emissions tax all vehicles pay has been ear marked for roads - though I'm not a fan of this (and a cyclist) as it leads to the feeling that car drivers 'own' that road as they 'pay' for it.
Stick a fork in them, they're done!
The Shanghai subways are new and shiny, has advanced adtech,

... And most comforting of all, you can see the air you're breathing!
>Do you think you could become president of the US if you just wanted to? Probably not. Trump is smart.

I think you're attributing to intelligence what can easily be explained by money. Give me a few billion and a decade to turn my name into a brand then it will be a fair comparison.
How pedantic of you. #27 places you well outside the bounds, sorry.
Yeah, totally agree with this.
Tether has issued $450M USDT in past 4 days
Although that's nothing too extreme, I kinda feel like you shouldn't be leaking info about who is and isn't a user of your service, and what support requests they've been making.
Otherwise how the hell does Siri find out your accurate location to tell you weather. your IP address?
Misleading headline. Apple already pays more US taxes than any other business.
Speculation is fine and all, but the "we've got a 70% chance of not starting a full-on revolution in the streets" (paraphrased) claim sure is bold! It's the kind of wild ass speculation that one confines to after-a-few-drinks conversations with close friends. I guess when you're a big fish in the Valley, people think you know such things? "73%" would have been even funnier.
I noticed this when I visited Boston for the first time, after several years of living in SF. I was walking down a street--and I was delighted to keep walking, unmolested by oblivious motorists zooming out of driveways and garages. Too bad WalkScore doesn't consider this experience for its assessments.
is their paper public?
Fortunately, as part of Satya Nadella's turnaround of Microsoft, Windows 10 has been rewritten in Consolas instead of FixedSys, resulting in a vast improvement of aesthetics and reliability.
That article is about Siri web search.
The argument in London is not to close Heathrow, but to stop expanding it.

But in any case, I think it's completely reasonable to demand that toxic fumes are no longer noisily spread over ones house, workplace or school.
Priceline – the best-run internet firm after Amazon? (2017)
> People feel that leaders they can relate to are more likely to take their interests seriously.

The statement that if one can relate to a leader, he will take ones interests more seriously is a strong assumption that I cannot believe in.
There's a difference between taxing income and taxing spending.

They are opposites, so the tax rate should also be opposite - the higher the spending the lower the tax.

After all, you want to encourage wealthy people to spend and spread the wealth, not encourage them to hoard it.
> Is that really true?

No I made it up to help prove my point. :)

Yes, people young and old use these paths for nature walks, running, biking, commuting, taking the dog out for a stroll around the neighborhood, and more. We even have people do roller skiing (which I hadn't heard of before I moved here).

Your town might not have self-selected for people who like the outdoors. It seems even the students at CU have chosen to attend the university because of the prevalence of multi-use paths (there are loads of them cutting through the campus and college housing areas) and proximity to nature trails (many can be reached by bike or bus).
The notifications directly rely on private information.
That’s only available with an EA, which means 250 seats or more.
The tax rate of cars in China is similar, and it results in fewer cars, and more people taking public transit. Note: this is also because there is very advanced public transit that can handle high throughput, and only the super-wealthy buy cars, in part to show off.
Your first point is well taken - without some sort of identity layer on the blockchain to create either social or reputational accountability, unsecured loans probably will not flourish.

Regarding you second comment, what's cool is that we can collateralize not just collectibles, but any ERC20 token as well, which makes the protocol substantially more attractive.
Our standard terms of service include a clause for Promotional disclosure. Users can opt out.

I do appreciate your feedback and I’ll edit that comment to remove the name of the vendor integration requested.
> One of those may grant voting and/or other rights to some or all of its members.

That's an implementation issue.

In its purest form a government is set up by the people, to serve the people.

In its purest form, a corporation is set up by one or some people, to make money, usually paying people to be a part of it, and there ends the loyalty.

A government needs to be perverted to stop serving (all) its people. A corporation needs to be perverted to start serving its members, as the goal is simply profits and survival until further profits.

This isn't a moral distinction, it's the function of those concepts.

Without any restraints, one beast will always end up the strongest, and rule all other beasts. The only other possibility is for smaller creatures to cooperate to overcome it/keep it in check. This is what a society is.
> the total lack of configuration management

Yes please. I only want the following for Christmas: free testing environments (enforced with data being wiped out every week, perhaps), a way to provide a Git repo with the configuration, a way to define the branch in that repo which should configure this particular instance, and a way to provide read-only credentials for that repository.

> test out new features before moving to production

Configuration management is not version management. If you really want to manage versions, run a private instance (on-prem or in your VPC, doesn't really matter). The whole point of SaaS is that the SaaS vendor takes care of upgrades for you and that you're not thinking about it (because you have other work to think about).
Yep, I think LLL is much better than Solidity: http://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2017/12/comparing-solidity-to-l...
> The woman (35 yrs and under) there seemed to be, on average, notably more attractive than in any other place I've been, before or since.

This just means you've never been to ex-Yugoslavia!

(Been there with my wife; she agrees wholeheartedly)
Yeah but does this actual help the people of Philly?
http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=COMCAST&job=&city=PHILADELP...
If house prices are all that matter, then accept that increasing the number of flights at Heathrow will reduce the value. Should the owners be compensated?

It's about 3 million people.
This is pure corporate propaganda.
https://www.ft.com/content/fe6b79d4-af31-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e...
This is actually a argument based on the economic theory of pricing. To be quite fair, the statement that 3part is best is not entirely correct.

The idea is he following: In a old-school normal market, where you sell one good to a whole bunch of guys each etc, and everyone wants just one good, you may just post one price. You will not do better, no matter what you know or do not know.

But in most cases, posting a single price will not be optimal for you. This is because you sell multiple units to multiple customers, each possibly very different. And, you do not know what they would be willing to give you. You have asymmetric information.
If you KNEW everything, you could tailor a contract for each customer. But you don't.

In economics, we can tackle this problem using Mechanism Design.
Using game theory and nonlinear pricing (the non-linear is important here), you may be able to set a menu of possible contracts in a way that the customer self-identifies by choosing the best option for him.

The intuition of the problem is the following: Choose a menu of contracts that allows you, the company, to maximize profit, while also making the customer choose truthfully and thereby "tell you" what he is willing to pay.
This is what the three part price may do for you.

Now why is this not entirely correct? There is a (rather theoretical question) as to basically how far a two-part or three-part price is "nonlinear enough" for your set of customers. This is called implementation theory.

An excellent book to get behind this mystery is Tilman Borgers book on mechanism design
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tborgers/
This was a free download for many years, so you can probably find the pdf.
Are you missing a /s?
The technology here is far greater than the sum of the parts (public key cryptography, hashing, etc). The innovation of the blockchain is distributed consensus, and none of the component technologies can provide that alone.
Ideally your terms of service wouldn't be a tool to wield against people who don't have time to read it.
Using static typing to protect against code injection attacks
If you're starting a new operating system project, you might consider using Zig[1] instead of C.

It does all the low level stuff that C does but it has some safety features as well as generics.

The standard library is usable in freestanding mode, even the data structures that allocate memory, because everything takes an allocator as a parameter.

Here are some examples:

* i386 OS: https://github.com/AndreaOrru/zen

* ARM (raspberry pi) OS: https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos

[1]: http://ziglang.org/
I'm not really a fan of crypto landing platforms, but one thing many forget about cryptocurrencies is that they do have one intrinsic value = extreme liquidity.

How fast can you get lending users to put $100 million to a billion into your non-blockchain platform? Maybe 5 years, with VC money for marketing?

Now compare that with how fast you can do it with a blockchain crypto platform. And it's still very early days = "small" amounts of money being put into crypto compared to what it's going to be 5 years from now.
It's not a gap, it is laziness or lack of attention to detail. It is a day of work to add invoices. Less depending on what services you use.

Yet many companies don't even do that. But even so, that should be the bare minimum they do.

PDF invoices have distinct advantages over email. Mainly that most companies still aren't using expense reporting and accounting systems that can process email receipts. Most people still have to upload their receipt to a website. If it comes in as email that means:

- Printing as PDF

- Then uploading

It is an extra step that is completely unavoidable and doesn't seem like it would be an issue until it takes an hour+ to complete your expenses because a dozen web services force you to do this.
what I find amazing about k8s is that it's one of the first solution that is relativly simple for a small cluster (HA, while schedule stuff on the masters), but can scale amazingly well even for a big cluster.
you can start with 3 nodes with like 8gb per machine (or less, I guess even 2gb is feasible if you only want to use like 1-1,5gb of memory per machine).
(non ha can of course be smaller)
This is how I feel about being Jewish. I’m still waiting for the International Zionist Elders or Cabal or something to give me a shout. But no, nothing after all these years :(
'Mark as read'

Add this action to notifications on Android.
Then, I'll consider a business a/c.
Stream-Reactor – Collection of Apache Kafka Connectors – New Release
Its trivial to randomise HTTP headers, both the content and the order. There are free and commercial databases of user-agent strings available to any user, the same ones the websites may use.

Users can also modify or delete HTTP headers through local proxies, using the same proxy software that many high volume websites use. Sites that rely on redirects to set headers make this even easier.

p0f only works with TCP. Could this be another a selling point for alternative congestion controlled reliable transports that are not TCP, e.g. CurveCP? I have prototype "websites" on my local LAN that do not use TCP.

The arguments in favor of controlling access to public information through "secret hacker ninja shit" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176572) are not winning on the www or in the courts. Consider the recent Oracle ruling and the pending LinkedIn HiQ case.

If the information is intended to be non-public, then there is no excuse for not using access controls. Anything from basic HTTP authentication to requiring client x509 certificates would suffice for making a believable claim.

Detecting headless Chrome and serving fake information, or any other such "secret hacker ninja shit" is not going to suffice as a legitimate access control, whether in practice or in an argument to a reasonable person.

The fact is in 2017 websites still cannot even tell what "browser" I am using, let alone what "device" I am using. They still get it wrong every time. Best they can do is make lousy guesses and block indiscriminately. Everything that is not what they want/expect is a "bot", a competitor, an evil villan. Yet they have no idea. Sometimes, assumptions need to be tested.1

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103235 (where developer thought spike in traffic was an "attack")
It took my enterprise almost a year to iron out the issues to move from 2010/2013 to ProPlus/2016.
How Github is Using Deep Learning To Create Data Products
Sorry you feel it’s being used that way. We’ve literally never had a complaint from a customer about this, but it’s nice to know that people with feelings as strong as yours about this exist so we can be sensitive to it.
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He mostly gets himself in trouble with the media, and most people hate the media. Trump won because he got himself in trouble with the establishment all the time. Not sure how that’s dumb.
I'm on the Dharma team with Nadav, and happy to shed some insight here.

So we think a really interesting use case in the short term is margin lending of crypto assets. Say you have 10 ETH and want to short-sell a different ERC20 token. You could lock up your ETH as collateral in a loan denominated in the other token, and then sell those tokens. If those tokens depreciate in value vs. ETH, when you buy back the tokens you'll have made a profit.
China questions credibility of US report on fake goods after ‘fine’ threat
Yes, it's a streaming situation - and that's my point: contrary to conventional wisdom, even the streaming situation - for a single core - is generally limited by concurrency and latency, and not by DRAM bandwidth, and there is just no way around it.

Now a streaming load, measured in cache line throughput, ends up about twice as fast as a random access load: because the latter is mostly limited by concurrency in the "superqueue" between L2 and DRAM, and the superqueue is larger (about 16-20 entries) and has a lower total latency than the full path from L1, while the former scenario is limited by the concurrency of the 10 LFBs between L1 and L2.

Prefetch isn't magic: it largely has to play by the same rules as "real" memory requests. In particular, it has to use the same limited queue entries that regular requests do: the only real "trick" is that when talking about L2 prefetchers (i.e., the ones that observe accesses to L2 and issue prefetches from there), they get to start their journey from the L2, which means they avoid the LFB bottleneck for demand requests (and software prefetches, and L1 hardware prefetches).

You don't have to take my word for it though: it's easy to test. First you can turn off prefetchers and observe that bandwidth numbers are almost exactly as predicted by the 10 LFBs. Then you can turn on prefetchers (one by one, if you want - so you see the L2 streamer is the only one that helps), and you'll see that the bandwidth is almost exactly as predicted based on 16-20 superqueue entries and a latency about 10 ns less than the full latency.

This is most obvious when you compare server and client parts. My laptop with a wimpy i7-6700HQ has a per-core bandwidth of about 30 GB/s, but a $10,000 Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake-X E5 server part, with 4 channels and faster DRAM will have a per-core bandwidth about half that, because it has a latency roughly 2x the client parts and it is _latency limited_ even for streaming loads! You find people confused about this all the time.

Of course, if you get enough cores streaming (usually about 4) you can still use all the bandwidth on the server parts and you'll become bandwidth limited.

There are other ways to see this in action, such as via NT stores, which get around the LFB limit because they don't occupy a fill buffer for the entire transaction, but instead only long enough to hand off to the superqueue.

This is covered in more detail in this SO answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43574756/149138
I would guess that a language in where the compiler holds your hand so you don't shoot yourself in the foot is probably by definition a bit easier than one that hides traps for you behind corner every now and then :)
> I think, at least in the USA, there is cultural pressure against "talking down to" others, a[s] it indicates either that the speaker is an outsider or is attempting to set themselves apart intellectually from their peers.

Not living in the US: Where is the cultural problem in setting oneself apart intellectually from the peers?
Atoms have been 64bit since 2010.
Sorry, what do you mean by “if you like it”?
what is a text-based programming language?
Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
Oh cmon. Travis may have demonstrated himself to be an unmitigated douchebag over the years but he’s still orders of magnitude above VCs on the scale of being a decent human. Being “despised and never trusted” by those guys is a good signal. Uber may have issues also, but they’re arguably much better than SV establishment companies in terms of screwing their userbase. Uber just doesn’t hide it behind “don’t be evil” BS.
Which is worse: torture or killing? It seems that with all the attention that torture got, the Obama administration basically stopped trying to capture people alive to interrogate them and instead just sent drone based missiles to just kill anyone suspected of terrorism.
I think that depends on how thorough the redesign is, but surely it's not any less work than if the API breaks overnight.
I can explain advanced mathematics simply. But then my explanation will take three hours instead of three minutes. Do you want to hear it?!