skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... of course, moments after i posted this comment, it started responding again. Growing pains, I suppose, or temporary burp.
Manageflitter is pretty good. It identifies likely fake followers and lets you block them. https://manageflitter.com/
That's kind of my point. How do we know Toronto is competitive? It's just a list Amazon put together. Maybe they have zero intention of ever picking Toronto.
It can be made worse with impurities, especially those found in wine http://www.businessinsider.com/red-wine-worst-hangovers-2016...
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ProTip: at ARCO gas stations, the top right button mutes the ad.
> Also the article says that the NSA didn't trust the CIA or State Department to handle the investigation properly, which was very interesting to read. Had the NSA already been established as a "we do tech better" agency?

NSA may have been influenced by Angleton's belief that there was a mole (don't know if he was a "stopped clock" since Aldritch Ames didn't start leaking until the 1980s ARAIK).

The more likely explanation is the simple "we learnt of the leak, we developed a remedy, we should just keep the need-to-know circle as small as possible". Once you need to liase with someone else there are meetings, counterparts, assistants, etc...
But there was no downside of the anecdote you described, so it's really odd that you made that resolve.

While it can be uncomfortable (no downside) or expose that you don't know what you're expected to know (but fixes that quickly), in the majority of cases people are happy to explain their expertise.
Stealing a school, a brick at a time
Heroin produces externalities, which is the economic justification for its regulation, and why voluntary trades involving it aren't always pareto improvements.

You've made it clear you don't have any economic training, so I don't see the point in continuing this. You have all the terms you need to look it up if you want to learn, or just take some econ classes somewhere.
> more than double

That's optimistic. Ben Folds at the Washington Center for Performing Arts, tickets from $15-29...

After scalping bots? Cheapest ticket was $130.
What exactly constitutes "malevolence", in your view? The disadvantages of monopolies are inherent and extend far beyond mere price gouging. Your argument seems to be that if a monopolistic company doesn't innovate (at the same pace they would if they had stiff competition) then some nimble upstart will easily overtake them. But that's not how the world works. If the incumbent has all the patents and all the money, nimble upstarts can be combatted in all sorts of ways beyond "fair" competition - they can buy them (as Facebook does to all upstart social networks that gain a foothold), sue them unfairly and bleed them dry (as Creative did to Audigy), or use their market position to change the rules faster than a competitor can keep up (Microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy).

Of course, if you won't accept any example of monopoly that involves unfair government privilege, you neglect the fact of regulatory capture - once a company gets to a certain size, it can often buy its way into an unfair advantage (this is the usual order of things, rather than government arbitrarily picking a company and then it becoming a monopoly).
The moral of the story is: if you're running into (truly) BS legal ramifications for your project, fight it.
I know this. What's your point? My argument still easily defeats the original article.
Captcha has issues in that:

- captcha that isn't hard for humans is often easy to automate

- captcha that is hard to automate frustrates a lot of humans too

- and to add insult to injury you can "automate" the hard ones too by paying like $1 per 1000 captchas or something (think Amazon Turk like stuff)
That's what FB is for.
You are ignoring transaction costs. If I get 20 tickets for 50$ sell 8 of them for 150$ then that's a net win for me and it may not be worth trying to then sell the final 2 tickets at the last minute.

Both the band and fans may prefer selling out the concert at use a price that maximizes utilization. A scalper is trying to maximize returns and does not care about 'selling out' just maximizing profit while minimizing effort.
I was going to say something like that. There is a tendancy around HN to equate "startup" with: Me, my laptop, and a couple of AWS instances at $0.70/hr.

On the other hand, if "default alive" means paying a pattern shop for a master pattern and buying 1000 aluminum castings to fill in 3% of your BOM cost, most folks need outside money.
I was personally amused at the number of purchasers of these fake followers "did not respond to request for comment"
I love how even famous Russian scientists live up to the stereotypes.
Sure. There are shops in china which literally repair broken CPUs in Apple devices by micro-soldering on the CPU itself - it's absolutely nuts. But this sort of thing is only possible because hugely skilled people who can do this thing are still paid very little - so it's worth their time.

This one for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Q00py88L8

No one in the West would do that for an iPhone, because their time doing it would be worth more than a new phone, if they have the skill level necessary to do this.
I wonder if somebody has taken TeX and compiled to the browser in wasm using emscripten. That would be easier to port but heavy on load times.

Edit: it exists! https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/ is a limited port of LaTeX to JS, rendered to PDF
Is that headline supposed to intentionally sound like the setup to a sci-fi horror movie?
I have found KaTeX to be the best currently-available solution. In particular, it can be rendered without client-side javascript.
Soft Self-Healing Devices Mimic Biological Muscles  ENGINEERING.com
wait, 4.4 trillion fps with a resolution of 450 x 450 ? Isn't it petabytes of data per second?
>Beowulf is a tale of a brave warrior vanquishing monsters, not a struggle of good and evil, anymore than a story about someone hunting a wolf described as “monstrous” or “evil” is a moral tale.

Beowulf is a story about Beowulf displaying favorable virtues by overcoming a bunch of challenges. The Odyssey is a story about Odysseus displaying favorable virtues by overcoming a bunch of challenges. These virtues include justice, honor, courage, honesty, prudence, and so on -- this is the GOOD. The challenges include monsters, hardships, annoyed gods, and so on -- this is the EVIL.

Your analysis is highly reductive. I guess the New Testament about a cool dude that made 12 friends.
Seems like nonoptimal behavior on their part - once they've sold all the marked up tickets they can, they should sell the rest for a smaller markup until they're out.

And, it's also nonoptimal behavior on the events part, because they could increase total revenue by decreasing seats and increasing price.
Not the above poster, but I like tiling window managers. I'm using i3, and it's got lots of features I actually like and use.
> use of 'reality' in place of 'belief' or 'theory'

Which was of course a fundamental subject explored by PKD.

Most disappointingly, the Amazon Man in the High Castle adaptation tossed all of that overboard (though it was the primary theme of the book) in favor of the frisson of Nazi porn.
I've been very impressed with CloudAcademy - it seems to issue AWS accounts per course/per lab - it guides you through the steps and check whether you completed them by checking the AWS account, and then tears it down at the end.

You might not be ready for that level of integration, but see if you can get a demo or trial.
If 8 sold for $150 then there is surely a price between $50 and $150 that would sell at 20. $50 cannot be the market clearing price given reasonable assumptions about demand curves.
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If I understand correctly increasing the duration just increases the amount of ram required right? How much does 60 seconds take on average?

Personally I'd like to set it to 5 mins which is what I have it set at for OBS's replay buffer. I find its much easier to trim a video than it is to merge multiple videos together.

I guess what I'm really asking is what are the real downsides to giving the user custom duration controls. So long as you provide the appropriate warnings / dialogs in a text box underneath the selections (OBS does that)? It seems like that would only increase the utility of product.

TLDR: Awesome piece of software that I think would be made even better if you gave the user more flexibility with custom durations.
At JUXT we use Clojure's EDN, bolstered with some tag literals courtesy of our Aero library (described here: https://juxt.pro/blog/posts/aero.html). We use ClojureScript to compile to TF's JSON. EDN allows comments, ignores commas and otherwise is a nicer JSON. Aero allows us to encode multiple environments in a single document, and include ciphertext for secrets. We're pretty happy with the overall result.
That's fantastic. It can sit alongside the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act as an example of fixing the narrow problem while carefully avoiding fixing or even considering the wider perspective.
I like how they were still charging $3.99 for shipping. Maybe Amazon can implement Excel's useful circular reference warning (/s)
I think you're blinding yourself with the hype. The "blockchain" is nothing more than a merkle tree. We've known about these for a long time. The insight is that by publishing a merkle tree we can show that various actors are following a protocol. This is very valuable. For an example of another application take a look at certificate transparency (not actually a fan of CAs, but it was the most readily available example).

It's interesting that you say that creating a payment processor for transportation fares that is not controlled by a monopoly is pointless. I currently live in a country that has at least 5 payment processors for train fares and it's taken them decades to figure out how to interoperate Even now I still can't use my rail card in Tokyo.

These are real problems. "Computer Science toys" seems like another word for "research" to me. That the research was done by some random guy on the internet with unknown motivations is completely beside the point. Yes, like most people, I could definitely do without the scams. I could definitely do without the "OMG! Blockchain" knee jerk reaction. But would it be too impolite to also complain about the "Blockchain? Pfft!" knee jerk reaction? Lightning is a great example of a useful protocol -- full stop. I don't care if it's implemented on top of Bitcoin or on top of some byzantine 18th century payment exchange based on carrier pigeons. We need more of this stuff, not less.
But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction [video]
Some other pictures are here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-26/inside-am...
Sort of sailing enhusiast here. Not surprised that they are trimarans, but surprised they are so small. AFAIK anything under 30 feet is a poor choice in many common ocean wave conditions. Self-righting is a nice feature if you can get it, but these things look like they would topple fairly easily even if they have a heavy keel, with no way to self-right.

(Update: Watched the video, which shows a diagram of the boat and its sensors and explains that the keel has a 250lb (113kg) instrument at the bottom)
> They just simply don't want to.

This really does seem to be the case. And I find it incredibly distasteful that they were used by DJT in his campaign and continues to be used. It was rarely a place where politicians posted anything, and now it seems to be the first place where any of them do.
Yet again, isn't Dicks' larger point that each and everyone of us are a composite committee to some degree?
The big issue with Apple Health is that you can't really back it up.

The only way to backup Health data is to do a full iPhone backup -- which might include a bunch of garbage you don't want.

So if you want to move onto a new, clean phone, your Health data is tied to all the other junk you might want to get rid of.

I really wish that backing up Health was really possible.
It is illegal to sell 190 Everclear in my state. Taxes don’t have anything to do with it.
the idea is to expose the websocket api to the public (for now only subscribe) and the redis api only to internal servers so they can publish/subscribe.
Are there any other solutions to document typesetting with latex-like features? TeX is very obtuse for someone who hasn't been using it for a long time.
Yep, but just because they 'could' sell them does not mean it's worth the effort to actually sell them.

Hell having a reputation as the guy that always has tickets may be worth regular lost sales. In the same way premium brands may sometimes destroy inventory vs offering discounts. EX: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2010/01/07/why_hm_destr.... Note the recommendations to use a textile recycler and zero recommendations to sell at a lower price.

Remember models are fun, but the real world is complex and you need to model reality not play with math.
linguistically yes, in any other way, I have no idea :)
Firefox market share is actually shrinking, though. It’s not even holding ground with the new features.
People have complained over the years that the "curly brace languages" themselves look like line noise, rather than the "modern programming languages" that have words for things like BEGIN and END. They've also complained about their "wacky keyboard" requirements. Not everyone uses a U.S. keyboard layout, and the "curly brace languages" use characters that are harder to type in other layouts.

I strongly suspect that the number of people who have modified their keyboards, fiddled with their keyboard layouts, or bought "programming keyboards" of one sort or another for working in the "curly brace languages" is an order of magnitude greater than the number of people who ever wanted an APL keyboard. Yet this is not seen as a problem with these languages, or a reason to abandon them. With the benefit of these additional decades of experience with languages, programmers, and keyboards the 1980s notion that the keyboard was the problem should be perhaps finally laid to rest; given the evidence of the intervening decades that programmers can and do adapt their keyboards to their languages.
Or your body prefers water to alcohol, and vodka tonics got you more of it than straight whiskey.
Compiling to wasm certainly seems like the right place to start, though it might be non-trivial to get the output to render into a canvas.
It really sounds ominous if, like me, you've never heard about "Amazon's Spheres". Brings to mind stories of alien objects appearing at several key locations on Earth, surrounded by the military and scientists, when suddenly they show signs of activity.
Based on the other replies in this subthread, I think it's safe to say the following link won't be used to order.

But I was very curious what the Amazon listing contained nonetheless, so: https://www.amazon.com/B06W56HNPQ
The very idea of a website that encourages people to anonymously critique employers is ludicrous and irresponsible. I think its use is widespread because it makes money. That fact impresses HR executives and the public, leading them all to base business decisions on admittedly untrustworthy information.

Just think about it: Any disgruntled employee or job applicant can trash a company publicly. An HR department can spam Glassdoor, singing its own praises. (It seems this happened with the company you quit.) Honest comments will get lost. Meanwhile, Glassdoor has no incentive to keep it all clean by making participants accountable. (The argument for anonymity is that people wouldn’t post honest comments if employers knew who they were. Duh. That justifies graffiti?) They make money with every posting. That’s how Glassdoor is like the job boards.

In fact, Glassdoor is a job board. Like LinkedIn, the site uses the honeypot of “community” to lure you into an ulterior revenue model.

https://www.asktheheadhunter.com/7453/can-i-trust-glassdoor-...
The PhD reference in the comment is more toward other comments made on Hacker News/Reddit/Medium thought pieces.

For job hunting, the credibility issue is more nuanced, and I wrote a separate rant about that a couple weeks ago: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/951117788835278848
How do you spy on a program running in a container?
maybe, it's hard to write a meaningful title that describes the thing and it's still understandable.

but all the technologies are used and for a good reason, no "throw technologies, mix it and see what comes out".
Social media is giving us Trypophobia
I wouldn't say it is a stereotype, it has practical reasons - 40% mixture is the max that body can consume right away. More than that and spirit stays in blood so it just enough to drink pure water next day and you are drunk again. Tried couple of times - not that pleasing effect.
I'm curious how you found this example. I don't expect Amazon make it easy to query/list this sort of thing.
From reading answers on Quora I came to the conclusion that Amazon employees aren't given expensive perks (i.e. computers and work place furniture). Are things changing at Amazon?
Very cool. My knowledge is obviously dated. I recall adding molecular sieves to absolute ethanol to keep it dry. Bu I didn't know that had gone commercial.
Last I looked, Cloud Shell was still pretty tiny instances, with no paid option for more (wth isn’t there a super boost mode that I pay for, at least?!), and the integrated editor was meh. I suppose I could use it with the gcloud CLI and docker-machine as a sort of orchestration console to bring up more boxes, but then I have to remember to kill them or I get a huge bill. (This has happened to me on DO before.)

AWS Cloud9 lets me pay for a single big honkin ec2 that backs the IDE, has a better editor, browser ssh support—and has a built in option to suspend the “expensive” instance after 30 mins of inactivity.

I loved Cloud Shell but the inability to let me pay for a bigger backing instance or more storage is a real limitation. (One of my commonly worked on projects takes 25 mins to compile on a boost mode Cloud Shell instance, and operates on ~80GiB of data.) Cloud9 is at a real advantage here.

Whoever first integrates Atom, though (all of these seem to use Ace), I think will be the real winner.
i heard this third hand, but apparently cfn was slated to get this feature but it was nixed because of concerns with increased support requests. the official stance from amazon now is that you should be able to trivially destroy/recreate resources and cfn isn't going to adopt anything that makes it easier to create stateful deployments

it does suck to have to copy the contents of an s3 bucket just to move a bucket inside of a template tho, for sure
You're sure you don't want to dumb the economic language down a bit for the poor untrained person, then? This is a forum for technologists, after all, not economists.

But, if you don't, I'll just assume that what you say would be obviously wrong, had I "economic training" and you're just wrapping it up in misused technical language to obscure that fact.

In my experience that's usually what's up when people introduce technical terms in everyday conversation outside academic fora, and where ordinary language is fully adequate to debate an issue.
Tiger Tiger. burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye.
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

... fire of thine eyes ... dread hand... dread feet ... dread grasp ... deadly terrors, etc., etc.

Blake.
As someone in the early 30s that mostly wasted away the last 15 years due to anxiety, internet addiction and procrastion and unability to finish stuff: My only advise to younger ones is to work on your problems early on and focus on a stable income to survive on your own and your education. It's not getting easier and progress on these problems rewards you for years to come. If you are stuck in these loops consider taking a year off to get yourself together. I've always somehow carried on without solving any problems and things only got worse.
Those other rants are neither entertaining, nor informative. The reasons why I like Linus' rants in particular are because they're fun to read and I learn things.
"All servers that have finished their creation process will be
billed until they are deleted, regardless of their state.
This is because, internally, we allocate full resources to servers
regardless of their power state. And it enables rapid startup and boot
times for you, the customer."
(https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=ot in FAQ)

I don't think they have understood, what Cloud Computing means.
What kind of companies did they start? Consulting business or product business?
Looks nice but a stark contrast from what their warehouse workers are afforded.
Family members of school shooting victims speak
Completely besides the point, but that integral evaluates to sqrt(2pi), not sqrt(pi).
how about we just agree that those are fundamental rights that shouldn't require 50 individual states to implement separately?
Q: What do you get when you cross the Weekly World News with a Baleen whale? A: The American electorate.
"Meanwhile, Glassdoor has no incentive to keep it all clean by making participants accountable"

Is this true? Do the users not value quality?

Surely they'd be more likely to use and continue to use the site (and by extension, increasing Glassdoor's revenue) if they perceive it to contain useful, objective reviews?
> At the end of it, so many hours every year and you have nothing to show for it.

This one is tough for me.

Must all of life come down to having something to show for it?

What about those pockets of our existence where we can just _be_ and enjoy something for the sake of that enjoyment?

And if people stopped enjoying fiction, what motivation would there be for others to write if they had no readership to show for their work?

Productivity is a good goal but we're slightly more complicated as people than simple, single-purpose machines
Reading badly written clickbait articles on the internet.
The downside was that I spent almost two years in that first company, being treated like an incompetent idiot and developing an ulcer, before I could bail out.
>There is evidence that the flu vaccine may increase your risk of dying from the flu in future years

A large meta-analysis shows the opposite:

http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/709081/efficacy-influ...

>it's also not at all clear that spending twenty bucks to keep a thing of elderberry extract in the house is a worse option.

If you believe a small single study over a large meta-analysis...
With respect, if they were truly your friends, you would know their number. The fact that you don't makes me deeply suspicious of the veracity of the rest of your claim.
unless your vendor goes out of their way to be compatible with aws apis no tooling is really portable. true that you can write terraform targetting both aws and gce, but there's no non-trivial terraform plans you can apply to both aws and gce
If it is just you driving the car that is fine, it is not as if he has modded an Airbus A380 and put his own telemetry in the dash for some other pilot to be using it.

Plus he can probably ssh into the dash from his phone and get the 'oil level' that way, at 88 mph, driving through the fog.

I think that since this isn't German engineering to go in millions of cars a CSS/JS/HTML solution in an actual browser launched full screen would have been the way to go.
I don't know any Marxist theory (it's economic theory, after all), but, maybe,

Is there something wrong with the Marxist definition of exploitation?
government’s first rule: “every worker pays taxes”

Goverment’s second rule: “but if you create 5 workers that we can tax, we’ll give you a discount”

I don’t find this particularly offensive. Incentives are the only way a government can influence the market without owning industries outright.