skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, yeah, I like it.
I don't believe VC math actually has the property you are saying: the thing about most preferred shares isn't just protection from routine dilution (which makes you more likely to 'win big' if the company becomes a unicorn), they also tend to be much less likely to receive actually zero (better protection from recap), right?

The idea that regular employees are somehow better served by shares that rational investors won't touch takes a lot of justification.
Every database has API lock-in.
In the event of an emergency, do you really want it to come down to asking a supervisor?

It’s literally a worse case scenario and you can’t expect multiple people to be there. The off chance that trying to get supervisor approval taking 10+ mins means that no one gets notified in time.

I got the message. I’m mad it was sent out but it’s better they learn these problems now rather than during an emergency. I don’t think having another person approve it would be a better situation. Just make the interface more clear or even add a buffer of 5 seconds to cancel the alert before it even gets sent.
”IHateTrumpVodka.com”? I wonder if the worry is justified that there are people who want that domain but then cannot come up with something equally catchy, so they’ll simply give up.
Are you thinking of the siklu ones or someone else? I'm not aware of any that have been around that long (not arguing just curious) I was thinking of the IgniteNet and MiktoTik versions which I think are both more recent as well as PtMP applications which (I think?) Aren't really generally available yet.

True on knowing how to properly use them! Although to be fair I think most of the ISPs using them don't have a lot of use for really short, high capacity backhauls they're often looking for distance in rural areas.
Do you have any facts to back up your speculation that an "open" border has anything to do with the problems described?
AT&T offered me symmetrical gigabit for $80 /month and 100/100 for $40 /month. This is in Fishers, IN and only available in a small slice of the city.

I stuck with comcast because uverse tv sucks and they took over 3 weeks to get me hooked up when I moved. Comcast was same day hookup. I get 100/10 for about $70.
I would say that Spanner is "more" lock-in than, say, an open-source database that's mostly wire-compatible with PostgreSQL.

But even then, the other big thing you have to compete on is pricing, right?
I would have accepted if the salary was higher. What they offered was higher than what I'm making now, but if they went even a lot higher I would have justified suffering through that pile of...
Interestingly, this hack has caused problems with gcc4 on s390: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/tree/include/libxml/has... . The comment claims it violates C's aliasing rules.
NB: If an argument to a function is a function pointer, you can write it like a normal function declaration.

So you can write

void transform_string(char s[], char transform(char));

instead of having to write

void transform_string(char s[], char(*transform)(char));

When writing C++ you should use function references when possible, as references cannot be null.

void transform_string(char s[], char(&transform)(char));

Function references unfortunately require the more complex syntax, but fortunately C++11 `using`-style typedefs are quite simple to use with function types.

using TransformFunc = char(char, char);
typedef char TransformFunc(char, char); // C-style typedef, same as above

// Function pointer
TransformFunc fptr = /* ... */

// Function reference
TransformFunc &fref = /* ... */
Excel couses on EdX are good if you are interested in Excel pivot & BI features.
When did governments stop caring about infrastructure as a direct investment in local commerce?
Also, as a parameter to a function, alternative:

int my_function(returnType parameterName (parameterTypes));

When you apparently declare a function parameter of function type, the type is adjusted to pointer-to-function, similarly to the way array types as parameters are pointers.

This style is useful for de-cluttering code that has a lot of functional parameters all over the place.
Not really sure why people are downvoting without providing their side of the argument. Your point is valid.
When's the Colacoin ICO and can I send you 10 million dollars?
> You can't just substitute things and expect them to keep the same market.

Of course not. What we face is an organized, unregulated, lawless group of dangerous criminals who find one of their primary income sources dwindling. I did not intend for my original point to debate foundations of economic theory, only to point out that they are likely to continue diversifying their product -- apparently they are switching to avocados and old-fashioned mob shakedowns, as per another comment on this thread.
There is none. DynamoDB would be the closest - it's a HA DB for OLTP workloads (but without the transactions). AWS do not have the TrueTime API that Spanner builds on to provide globally consistent transactions.

AWS's storage offering S3 is pretty limited in terms of its consistency model:
https://medium.com/@jim_dowling/reflections-on-s3s-architect...

In contrast, Google's filesystem (yes, not an object store, but a filesystem) is hardly known - Collosus. It provides a HA consistent metadata layer to a distributed filesystem. The closest open-source architecture is HopsFS (distributed metadata for HDFS) - disclosure I work on Hops.
CockroachDB + AWS Time Sync.
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There is a field of political economy called collective action, which has been around in its current form for roughly a century now, which aims to study exactly why what you just wrote is so frequently not true. Check it out.
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Have a look on AliExpress or gearbest etc they make a huge range of things. I've always been happy with their stuff too, though they are getting more expensive.
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Right, you certainly have to loop in your insurance company, by filing a claim (which they won't pay, obviously).
Yes, the ban is on propulsion as well as weaponry.
Most of the time. Some counterexamples exist (e.g. buy from the limited healthcare options available to you or be fined [via tax]).
Hmm, that would be an interesting implementation idea, however the ProCurves seem to be doing this in hardware as your algorithm would require up to 6 CR presses in the worst case and the ProCurve always needs exactly two... and how do I get to modify the readline implementation of (I presume) the kernel?
Don't mind me but... I double checked :D and you're right !! :)

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_do

- http://grammarist.com/usage/make-do-make-due/

According to the second link, here's where it comes from:

'Make do is short for make [something] do well enough, where do carries the rare sense to serve a specified purpose. So this do is similar to the one used in sentences such as, “I could use a cup of coffee, but tea will do.”'

interesting !

edit: formatting
Fair point. It could be a great deal for some depending on lifestyle.
How about this rotation mechanism --

- Use the block index as the random seed. (Yes, the resulting random sequence is predictable, but that's okay...)

- Randomly select N UTXOs weighted by their output sizes. (This could be done efficiently by storing UTXO hashes in a sort of trie structure, with larger UTXOs higher in the trie, and descending the trie based on the random value until we get to the deepest node with at least N UTXOs beneath it.)

- Only the owners of those N UTXOs may participate in the current burn contest.

- If none of those owners are active or choose to participate, an empty block is added to the chain.

As for the value of N, for maximum security we would want N=1, which makes this equivalent to proof of stake. Then it's impractical for attackers to generate more than a few blocks in a row, since they would need to target single owners who might not be selling.

Higher N values might have some performance advantages (fewer empty blocks), and more even rewards (everyone gets a tiny reward as coins are burnt), but worse security. We would probably want to use N=1 for every, say, 10th block, so that if someone needs a particularly strong guarantee that their branch will prevail, they can wait for ~5 * 10 = 50 blocks.

I think proof of stake is better overall -- it's simpler and there's not much downside -- but both approaches seem viable.
I think you raise a very valid point.

I'd also suggest that unless you're looking at county adjusted poverty levels (as in adjusted to cost of living by county) - you're gonna end up with a skewed picture.

That said, the right is correct about something - once you get on the social safety net, its very hard to get off of it, because benefits don't gradually fade out as your income goes up, there is instead a cliff, and all of your social safety net benefits turn off at once - this is why I feel that means tested welfare is social ill, it helps too few, and doesnt provide a soft landing when you dont need help anymore. I'd much rather us do straight up income redistribution (in the form of a minimum income scheme) and medicaid for all.
Skilled COBOL programmers have good job opportunities, IIRC. Lots of legacy systems, not many people who aren't retired who understand and can work with things. It's a different set of things you get to work on compared to having a sexier technology like React or Python or whatever on top of your resume, but there's lots of well-paid work out there.
I paid 20$ for 100Mbps down in Taiwan, unlimited, in 2014.

I paid iirc 10$/month for unlimited LTE in Vietnam, can't remember the exact speeds but I remember being surprised at how quick it was.
And move out of the US
A more troubling use of the data, not mentioned in the discussion so far, would be query driven usage, for example:
Prosecutor: OK, lets query all phones with activity showing X among men in this geography and find ourselves a suspect.

This type of use would be very troubling to everyone because, given enough N value, you can always find some people to fit a criteria. Then, it becomes a matter of making a case that fits very narrow criteria. Hard to defend against, possibly very expensive to defend against.

Now, in the US, for these types of cases you need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But in reality, many people with limited funds for expensive lawyers, when faced with 30year sentences, will just plea bargain for 2 years -- which is not something that needs proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

In summary, using phone data to independently support an already strong case might be a good way to set innocent people free. Using phone data to find culprits might be a great way to innocent people to get a false accusation just based on statistics and the laws of querying on large datasets.
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How to get rid of old data if you (basically) treat S3 as append-new-files-only-store?
gcloud also has an atomic-clock-backed NTP service: https://developers.google.com/time/

Neither provide the guarantees of TrueTime.
I'm much more likely to use Spanner than I am to operate my own installation of something like CockroachDB. To operate a database:

1. I need to provision N nodes across regions and availability zones

2. I need to patch those nodes

3. I need to back those nodes up

4. I need to build automated systems to rotate those nodes if they become unhealthy

5. I need to build automated systems to restore my entire database from backups in event of disaster

With Spanner, I don't have to do any of that, really. Maybe a bit of fiddling with replicas or something.
It is definitely detectable by monitoring.

And it can also be disabled, proliant servers also have or had since I didn’t handled them for years a password bypass button for ILO/IPMI it and it was a god send in some cases.
And yet, it doesn't need to be this way.

Cafeteria workers at facebook earn 40k per year and are stuck living in people's garages. Anywhere else in the country, and they'd be thoroughly midclass with 40k per year. It mostly comes down to egregiously awful housing policies that make it 5-10 times more expensive to live here. This hurts everyone.

Other cities manage to do it. Look at red cities like Houston, that are growing every bit as fast and still manage to keep housing costs low. And the population density in TX is roughly same as CA, at least overall. Ultimately, it comes down to the ratio of jobs to housing. The penninsula has 4 jobs to every 1 person place to live. You have to build more housing or get rid of jobs, to make two back into balance. and, for christ sake, get rid of those CEQA laws and anything else that gets in the way of housing costs. We need to start working with developers, not against them.
The other way to take pressure off airport capacity is to reduce use of the hub and spoke model. If you fly direct from Buffalo to Tampa, you don't need to take up a slot in Newark.
I don’t know whether it is really hard to parse for a computer, but PL/1 may be a good candidate. Its idea that you can’t expect programmers to know every keyword of the language and, hence, the language cannot have reserved words can lead to programs that humans have trouble parsing. A simple example:

IF x THEN y = z; ELSE = w;

Here, the parser can’t know that ELSE is a variable until it sees the second equal sign. For a more involved example, take a look at http://multicians.org/proc-proc.html

(the idea that one cannot expect programmers to know all keywords isn’t a bad one; http://www.cs.vu.nl/grammarware/browsable/os-pli-v2r3/, which claims to be incomplete, has 310 keywords. Drawing the conclusion that one should not have reserved words _is_ a bad idea)
I wonder if you could poke a hole in that (widen the "where it thought it was" doubt) by pointing out incidents like when Facebook thought nearly everyone was in Philadelphia for a few hours.
"No time to look for the closest hospital, we need to drive straight to the one I know thats 1h away, lets go".

Also, most care is not urgent care.
There are a lot of great books on the founding, planning, engineering and delivering the A380. All of them come to one painful conclusion - the A380 was driven more by politics and enabled by launch aid, rather then by real market need.

Airbus has seen the effect of the Arbus 300, Boeing 767 and Boeing 757 in the transatlantic market and knew that large twins capable of going trans-pacific (777 and 787) would similarly fragment pacfic markets. But it was worth it to the EU project, especially in the heady millennium world when it was planned, to have it as a prestige project, and the market would be solid enough, if not as large as Leahy and others were projecting.

People forget because of the debacle of the 787's engineering, but A380 had massive engineering problems - not with the fundamentals (the 747 was the worlds first double decker, first widebody - and the A380 was only a marginal capacity over the 747) but rather in that they had a lot of political problems, configuration errors, etc. The 787 still hasn't shown a profit (but it will) the A380 will never do so, even if EK does order a new plane.

Finally, Emirates Airline (EK) is in a pickle here. They have a unbelievable percentage of the overall A380 frames. Airbus ending the program plane will result in the resale value of the A380s simnifically depreciating. EK saw this coming a while ago and moves most of their orders over to leasing, but Airbus has EK in a unenviable position here.
Microservices can significantly reduce release cycle time
It's worth mentioning that if you have bipolar or schizophrenia do NOT trip. It will most likely trigger an episode.
Can't really do that in the middle of surgery...
If you're ultimately just looking for stricter standards before introducing something new (regardless of source) to the food supply, I could totally go for that. It's a tough question. I'm not sure if we can really call something "safe" with less than a century of testing, but I'm not sure if it's reasonable to require that. Maybe it is, do we really need new stuff in our food?
They don't educate anything. They generate crackpots who spread more pseudoscience. True science can be explained simply and clearly with good understanding and good communication (think Terrence Tao's blog) without dumbing it down.
You might also add the weather. Living on the street, out of a car, in a trailer home, or in a poorly insulated small apartment/house without heating is a lot more comfortable in many parts of CA than in places with harsh winters.
Not necessarily; working after the 8th hour in a day you get 150%, and given a quoted annual “salary” that takes this into account, it means the regular 8 hours’ pay is correspondingly lower.
Sure, but then the 'bad actor' is the provider, not the health insurance company.
> 1.37 billion daily active users on average for September 2017

https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
And e-up!.
ARM-based machines are kinda a gimme though. The ARM is remarkably well documented, very straightforward to decode (both THUMB and ARM modes) and every ISA level is a superset of the previous.

You could write the entire opcode table for an ARMv7 chip and run ARMv3, ARMv4, etc code on it. Assuming there aren't any illegal instructions and that you've got the timing right, it should run just fine. So, essentially, you've got 1/3 the hard part done.

The GPU for the GBA was basically a chimera of the GB engine and the SNES's. Even had similar modes built into the BIOS. The Switch has a Maxwell based GPU. One very similar to that in the Tegra X1, which is very well documented (If you're willing to dig through their massive Technical Reference Manual (https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads) and the nouveau source.

That just leaves audio, the bus, game formats, etc to be "discovered" or reverse engineered.
This.

To be fair, Airbus actually owned the big twin market until the 767 and 757 came out. Then those planes (as well as Airbus's own planes) fragmented transatlantic flying. Then they lost their way when they focused on the A380 - but the engines that enabled the 787 were not yet out.
Console makers don't make much money off of the hardware themselves. Here's a few examples:

Switch: ~$40 profit[1]

PS4: ~$18 profit[2]

Xbox One: ~$30 profit[3]

As for software, a Forbes estimate from 2006 put the console manufacturer cut at around 11.5%, however that could be different nowadays.

This also changes with exclusivity deals in which the fee is presumably waived. I believe Sony would gain a little extra from licensing the Blu-ray technology on top of that.

But yeah, you're right. Much like printers and ink cartridges, the money is in the contents, not the device.

Disclaimer: I'm not in any way a part of the industry, just an interested fan of the medium so take this with a grain of salt and feel free to provide any knowledge you might have

[1]: https://www.polygon.com/2017/4/5/15195638/nintendo-switch-co...
[2]: http://allthingsd.com/20131119/teardown-shows-sonys-playstat...
[3]: http://allthingsd.com/20131126/microsofts-xbox-one-cost-90-m...
[4]: https://www.forbes.com/2006/12/19/ps3-xbox360-costs-tech-cx_...
You make a great point, so I would like to add some facts.

* A snapshot of more recent U.S. Census migration numbers shows that nearly three-quarters of those who have left California for other states since 2007 earn less than $50k a year.

* San Francisco's African American population has declined from 13.4% of the population in 1970 to 6.1%

* 41 percent of San Franciscans spend 30 to 50 percent on rent, despite a lot of rent control for longer-tenure residents and a population average income being $104k as well as median $77k

* low skilled entry level jobs are moved elsewhere https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/03/those-....

I understand that this might not be the intended consequence for all people fighting for the current zoning rules, but due to its effects on African Americans and latinos as well as the poor I find the effects immoral.

The current situation makes it almost impossible to grow up with lower middle class parents or work in a low-pay low-skilled position, and mingling with the tech crowd to work your way up.

Anyone supporting these policies knowing this has the right to do so, but not while at the same time claiming they fight for diversity and the dispossessed.
These groups are there because in California they can capture a larger portion of the effects of trickle-down than in North Carolina, Texas, or New York; and because the state-provided safety net, average people's compassion, and availability of human connections and capital allows them a small, but more meaningful chance of breaking out of the poverty trap.

This is correct. Warm winters is also a significant pull-factor.
Thats not how capital investment works, at a certain scale, % of profit is all that matters, because it tells you how much you need to invest to make a buck.

Its a big market, but insurance companies are not the ones making a killing.
The Op-Ed called it the poverty trap: "55% of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30% of natives."

However, it failed to cite any kind of causality. It seems just as likely that those kinds of benefits are precisely why they come here.

I'd also be interested in knowing if it's truly a trap -- do immigrant families come here, get those benefits, then move up? Or is it the same 55% decade after decade?
The Dreamliner can also fly about 2x as many miles between servicing (due to more careful logging of wear and tear), which means not only lower costs but also fewer logistical problems about getting the plane back to a maintenance facility before the FAA is breathing down your neck for noncompliance.
I found a really cool project that makes a sublime style command menu for any gtk app https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus. Still need to try it but it sounds awesome
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My guess is that the operational complexity of running a globally-distributed, fault-tolerant, performant SQL database surpasses the Spanner monthly bill (currently $0.90/h, or ~$675/mo, for a single node; $3/h or $2250/mo for a multi-region instance). Definitely not a side project kind of money, but think of the engineer-hours you'd put into maintaining such a setup in production -- plus the hardware costs.
Crude oil prices tanked over the last ten years. Mostly a combination of OPEC ramping up production and the rise of the American frackers.
For many businesses, pricing is much less important than business continuity, in the sense that they are willing to pay more in the interests of getting "the name brand", so to speak. Why would they risk another RethinkDB by choosing a startup when they can go with Google's dogfooded version?

(This assumes they're already interested in outsourcing their databases in the first place.)
One could maybe speculate that climate might be a correlation worth looking at.
The issue is in a lower level than that. A proof of stake system will want to randomly choose who gets to mine the next block, weighted by how much everyone is staking. But making this choice depends on everyone agreeing on a source of randomness, which is what the previous posts were talking about.