skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didnt bring guns and arms dealing into the debate, that was you. I mentioned the war on drugs as an example of old laws that would not be voted on today, and the argument of keeping them because they must be good is destroying lives today.

The SEC is killing people today as well. Its barring most of the world on investing in the US on startups that could lift people out of poverty, increase quality of life and even help in fields like medicine, etc. And the ICO market is an example of how much demand for investment there is. The lesson is not that unregulated markets have scam artists and fraudsters, that we always knew, what is new is that the regulated market is silently opressing.

And to add insult to injury, the most egregious cases of mis-regulation have made the regulators screw over the general population instead of the institutions they failed to regulate.

On this very site ,most people can invest in the startups they read about everyday and work for everyday.
The app bar below Messages app also annoyed me, but you can disable it. If you simply single tap on the App icon in Messages app, it will hide the bar from then on.
As someone that doesn't dig into this data for a living, why would you not want this on non-private sessions (first question I had when reading this)? I'm curious why Mozilla wouldn't want to protect this data leaking in even a normal session.
Heat->mechanical energy can only be (1-Tc/Th) efficient. But mechanical energy->heat can be 1/(1-Tc/Th) efficient, so you can get close to unity round trip efficiency.

That's why people use heat pumps to heat buildings, because you get more heat out than energy in (the extra heat comes from the ground).
I think a major leap is much easier to handle and to plan for.
It seems like the two spellings were used interchangeably until about 1960:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=referer%2C+ref...

Edit: Actually, that doesn't seem to be true -- although there's some usage of "referer" in English, most of the hits in Google Books prior to 1960 turn out to be for the Old French word "referer".
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I disagree with every single point you made, but I'm on mobile.

The only thing worth typing might be that the US have setup a business environment that allowed them to grow (which you take for granted).

If I started a company in my garage the Italian government would shut me down in a split second.
I got the touchbar because it was required for the screensize/processor combo I wanted. I don't hate it, but it's a gimmick more than anything.
This is easily one of the best explanations of AI and explorations of its implications that I've read. Probably because I largely agree with the author, but have never been able to express such assertions so clearly:

> These are rarely new problems; rather, the formal process of explaining our desires to a computer — the ultimate case of someone with no cultural context or ability to infer what we don’t say — forces us to be explicit in ways we generally aren’t used to.

It was also interesting to read his inside account about Google Photos's "Gorilla Incident". I had always assumed it was due to training on limited data but that just didn't make sense as Google would not have been lacking for data in 2015.
Thank God someone uses his brain.
Indeed. I fixed the title.
Thanks for the info and I agree.
Also thank you for your work for Gnome. Awesome!

Forgive me for poking around a little more but I like reading computer history. That rpm-ostree first commit was an import from something called pkgsys-ostree. The first commit in pkgsys-ostree was only a little earlier; Aug 2013.
PE has little to nothing to do with Amazon's stock price. They have, as they have shown, complete ability to dictate the size of their earnings based on how much they want to spend on new research and infrastructure.

Amazon could milk its existing assets for a huge return and provide sky high earnings- instead it is doing what it has done to this point, build dominating positions in multiple new markets. Bezos has been brilliant in leveraging his cash generating businesses into growing revenue. There is 0 reason to stop at this juncture to artificially prop up the PE ratio.
Actually contrary to what you may have heard from the HN outraged, they are infact bringing cash back; repatriating from foreign accounts. Multiple news agencies reported this, I'll just link to the Fortune[1] article.

[1] - http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-overseas-cash-repatriati...
Darn. Us working class tax paying Americans sure will miss paying taxes for them! Glad they have had a change of heart. Perhaps I can sit idle and not pay taxes for a few years while they keep the country running for me.
Do you sit in between them?
> My understanding is that Hilton doesn't own any of the properties

Your own source says that 70% (by rooms) was franchised as of 2013, which suggests 30% is Hilton owned.
Programming. Blank file or modify something existing, I don’t really mind. Ideally something reasonably open-ended, though. Evaluation which emphasises results more than “ways of working” stuff.
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They're probably trying to sell the Pro version.

I bought it and it was the worst purchase I've made in a while.

They took some pretty idiotic decisions with v5.
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The top 3 things USA govt spends your tax money on are:

1. Social Security
2. Medicare and Health
3. Military

The other categories are tiny in comparison.
The Quantstamp whitepaper.
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Sites can outright disable referrers using a meta tag: https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-no-re...
> This is interesting, as the majority of the publicity I've seen about the iPhone X has painted it as lackluster.

You just were looking for such opinions.
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I have worked with Gilli, and he is superb.
Above you were talking about "systemic risk". Is that something pump&dump can cause? Those seem to be just plain old frauds...
Or how their parents spelt it.
Some of what you’re saying does occur but that’s just a part of it. Come to nyc, there’s no shortage of IB associates, lawyer associates, and MC principals making 300k+ in their late 20s with a straight path upward

Edit: Not talking about the guy who rents a $10k apartment he can't afford to trick people into thinking he's rich. Talking more about people buying into social strata they can reasonably or paying fealty to those in higher strata to benefit their career. It is a thing out here.
Is there middleware that can route transactions based on criteria to various payment processors?
I believe only shareholders could.
Just to be clear I am not insinuating that new tools and their developers are inferior. But backward compatibility is also very important.

When I am using version 1.9 stable release of a product i’d expect more stability
Pretty normal "healthy" american diet, I guess. I eat meat and most other things. try to eat healthy whole foods and less processed stuff. Rarely drink soda but do eat sweets a few times per week
If Mozilla genuinely prioritized its users' interest it would block ads and tracking networks, which are the major way people's private information is leaked and also a primary vector for hacking.

And yet for some mysterious reason Firefox hasn't broken ranks with Google by incorporating ad blocking. Even though its an obvious major feature and Firefox is losing marketshare every year.

We know why Google won't prioritize the interests of Chrome users but why is the only major independent browser seemingly corrupt in the same way?

Mozilla should be helping society by pushing it past an era of internet advertising and the clearly terrible clickbait-fake-news culture it creates. And yet, it does not.

Is Google using the money it pays Mozilla to "discourage" Firefox from going forward with ad blocking? As a concerned citizen, I sent an email to antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov requesting an investigation. Anyone with insider info should send it there.
And you can indeed just sit around on an older version. The vendor in this case just won't bother doing stuff to help you.
AirBnB is basically banned in Berlin.
Ouch. And they had just had a big win with their microkitchen bill passing the California State Legislature:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
On further research I think it was the NROL-76 launch with a classified payload in spring 2017 that she was talking about.
Sites like healthcare.gov or banks should not include third party ads or analytics scripts. Referrer is not the only way to leak information from the page.
Apple employees pay taxes just as you and I do. The idea that it makes sense to tax the company separately is what should be under scrutiny.
>Now I find myself at the glass ceiling and this time there's very real pressure from above to stay where I'm at. Rich people may let you in the door occasionally but it will be on their terms. It's up to you as a person to decide if you're willing to contort yourself to their demands.

Can you expand on this? Interested in what examples you can provide.
No, they definitely should not.

Telegram isn't even responsible for what people send using their service as long as they take reasonable steps towards stopping abuse. Apple has no liability here at all.
The Romantic Uncertainty Principle
It might be just about the mutation rate being "higher" or "lower" but also about the volume of reproduction. Even with higher or lower mutation rates, failed embryos/offspring can be offset by higher levels of reproduction. Think how mice reproduce huge numbers of offspring versus humans and many other mammals supporting only 1 at a time.

I would also add that volume of reproduction and lifespan of an organism also plays a role. Even if your mutation rate is "low" but you reproduce a lot and have a short lifespan (think like fruit flies) then you could offset slow mutation because your generational mutations are happening quickly.

In short, mutation rate can't be the only factor that might be selected for given environments that might be experiencing huge amounts of change.
I'll see your 5.25 floppies and green text monitors and raise you 8" floppies and smooth-scrolling VT100s.

Agree with your opinions, though, you old fart.
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Thanks!
That's my point though-- throw the occasional unsympathetic high-profile lamb under the bus so the bourgies act like they police their own.

These individuals are distractions, nothing more. Shkreli literally launched a sortie against the plebes by means of his obscene price gouging (which isn't even what put him in jail-- if not for his crimes against the elite, he'd be a free man!), and prolific sex offenders like Weinstein simply cannot be defended-- like Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby, he's just beyond redemption.

Meanwhile:

* All the internet attention in the world (or the Wall Street protests) didn't result in anyone responsible for the 2008 economic meltdowns seeing the inside of a courtroom for anything more than a deposition.

* The Wells Fargo C-level who encouraged half the company to commit fraud walked away with a severance package.

* The Equifax CEO walked away with a severance package after the largest consumer data breach in US history.

* Mitt Romney made a personal fortune bankrupting companies and decimating the retirement plans of their associated employees. Then he ran for president.

* Snowden released a bunch of documents confirming what a lot of us already believed, which caused some commotion and pit half the country against itself in a philosophical war over whether his actions were heroic or traitorous. Meanwhile while that pointless debate raged, life at the NSA continued under new project names and tighter controls.

Of all of the damage these individuals caused, only Snowden, a commoner, has a warrant out for his arrest. Of all of these, only Snowden's actions had no impact on the average American. We squabble on Facebook about his pointless actions while we're actively being fleeced by the other four guys.

Plenty of attention has been drawn to these matters. But nothing changes. Internet outrage is cheap and divisive.
Can you explain why this is?
> They have, as they have shown, complete ability to dictate the size of their earnings based on how much they want to spend on new research and infrastructure.

I think you are thinking of profit, not earnings. Earnings is revenue - cost of production, which has nothing to do with R&D or infrastructure development.
Yes, but then you need another separate tool to do post-production editing. That's where it falls short for usage outside of live streaming.
There definitely is not. Good idea though, however the margins would be razor thin. Possibly too thin.
I'm curious. Could you describe the kind of infrastructure you manage and the tools do you use? Are all your tools written in house? If so, what will happen when the author leaves the company?
I would argue the exact opposite, the ones that propose regulation are often benefited by it. For example, who could benefit from regulation of bitfinex?

You? Or Coinbase?
The US has skiable mountain ranges near a majority of the main coastal population centers. Hills around the Great Lakes might not be high, but make up for it with the volume of snow. A back of an envelope estimate shows half of the US population having a ski hill within driving distance.
> Taxi's don't scale in an urban environment.

You mean, cars don't scale in an urban environment.

The limits on the number of taxis is typically to force up the cost so the taxi drivers could make more, not to improve traffic.
When someone says, "Man, that place is great; I wish I could work there," and you respond with, and I quote from your original post, "Start your own, run it like you want it to be run," that is a kneejerk response.

And you weren't "harshly attacked." You were called out for putting too much into the cult of the startup. And yes, at the beginning, you do have to put in those hours. Ask the people who started Basecamp; in the beginning they did put in those hours. Once those hours were no longer necessary, then they eased back.
Fargate has been really cool. Setting up the networking was a bit of effort. It would be great if api gateway / lambda were fast enough, but it's 10x slower for 95th percentile and median latency compared to the same app running in fargate. Need to blog about this stuff.
> The absolute safest place to run Kubernetes application is still Google’s GKE.

Interesting to read given I recently had a GKE cluster auto-upgrade its master version from 1.6.x to 1.7.x at 8pm one night (however foolish it was to not be subscribed to the release notes RSS Feed[1]), which somehow caused a cascading nightmare of things breaking.

Logs stopped appearing in the GCP logging interface and in our own log parsing pipeline, a bug related to a change in the format of the yaml specifications meant that all the containers got stuck in a broken limbo state as we tried to upgrade the nodes (yay for googling the error and finding open github issues!), and then once we'd manually fixed all of our deployments and were finally able to get our nodes rolled over to the new k8s version, all of our load balancers started intermittently timing out until they were deleted and recreated.

Surely we need to keep a closer eye on the release cycle, and we're guilty of bandwagonning onto this cool new tech, but boy does it suck to get auto-upgraded at night only to discover several breaking changes while in emergency mode trying to fix things.

(1) https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/release-notes
I am not trying to discuss who is the developer, I just wanted to say that you cannot require a phone number and talk about privacy at the same time. Phone number discloses your location and identity.

IP address is much easier to hide, for example by using a VPN.
If you have a giant traffic spike, it's nice to know where it came from. Eg. if you get linked on Hacker News, you can go to the thread and engage with potential customers.
In the US, that's $999 for iPhone X 64GB[0], or $724.99 for Samsung S8 64GB. So just under 1.4x.

[0] https://www.apple.com/iphone/
[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-galaxy-s8-64gb-unlocked...
Dang. It seemed like a great thing, never became available in my neighborhood. I know there are informal unpermitted food sellers all over the place, but this seemed like a nice balance between getting ceviche from a random person off Facebook (real example) and a full-up restaurant.
> Bug trackers are one of those areas where a lot of companies should build there own.

This sounds insane. I have not worked at a place where the workflow was so holy and important that it couldn't be captured in a near default JIRA install.

Most of the customization asks I've seen with JIRA come from dysfunctional organizations that demand new swimlanes like "QA" and "product approval" and "spec design".
In a sense LTS is provided by vendors such as Gravitational and Red Hat. They introduce hysteresis and smooth out the bumps on the upgrade cycle.
It's not so much about boosting sales as much as maintaining it. If Nike stops paying Google, Adidas will be more than happy to have the first result of Googling "Nike" be the Adidas store.
After the absolutely horrible customer service experiences I've had with Airbnb, I hope they rot in IPO hell.
They built an incredible amount of infrastructure to support it, better than anyone due to the fact they were all ex payment execs. Business cards are nuanced and they didn't focus on it, though they're about 1:1 with Stripe.