skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid comparison but not relevant to this particular case IMO.

The phone network was completely and physically owned by Bell.

This is different from the Internet. Bell had the absolute infrastructure advantage and no new entry could compete with them because of the existing infrastructure, because competing would mean investing in infrastructure and that was near impossible.

That is different from how the Internet works. It is true that the WWW layer became centralized but the lower level stack already has all the ingredients we need to realize a revolution. There is no physical and absolute monopoly or oligopoly on the low level Internet protocol.

My point is, trying to fix this with regulation is superficial because all they're trying to do is solve it on the application layer instead of trying to fix it fundamentally from a lower level.

Regulation may help a bit in the short term, but as I mentioned, in the long term it doesn't help because it will only slow down true innovation because people won't suffer enough. All revolutions naturally occur when people start suffering and the suffering crosses certain threshold.

I wouldn't say this if it was physically impossible to disrupt the status quo, but I do believe it's possible without any government intervention and in fact will be more effective if governments don't intervene and let the market take care of it eventually.

You can already see the sentiment moving towards this direction and I think it's a matter of time that there will be enough critical mass to shift away from these centralized "big players".
And if you’re over water, mountains or generally unfriendly land...you probably want to glide longer than you actually can.
Do you think there might be a demand for a bropages equivalent of stack overflow? Answers to questions with little to no explanation, just straight to the point?
Often they are very sung, like Louis Kahn's collaborator August Kommendant. And a superstar like Cecil Balmond specifically deals with problems exactly like the one you mention—where an architect wants a column-free span in an unconventional space.

Can't say I am thrilled by the book under review. I've seen it in bookshops and it's far from offering a critical account of engineering. More like someone quite innocent and enthusiastic who has drunk the kool-aid of the macho, Cartesian, ethically oblivious engineering tradition. Rowan Moore's faint praise is appropriate.
If your job is a professional visual designer, then Sketch and Affinity aren’t going to cut it, which are more suited to wire frames than production vector assets (and vice versa, illustrator sucks at wire framing). If you are just a pure interaction designer, then you might be able to get by without an Adobe CS subscription at all.

If you are wire framing, then being vector really has nothing especially to do with it, it’s just that this is the default for block and drop style apps. In that way, PowerPoint is vector also, but no one talks about refining Bézier curves with it.
i dont understand why people who write code consider themselves engineers. they arent liable if their code breaks. they have no professional licensing system. they dont even need an education.
I've noticed their thing about paper before. Oddly, it was in videos of Japanese offices during earthquakes, where my concern was that people were going to get hurt by all the falling binders and documents that were coming off the bookcases.
Lipoic acid will remove some heavy metals from your body. It can also cross the blood-brain barrier and remove mercury, one of the few things that can.
I don't know why this is always made a topic, but I never felt offended by "gaijin" or the Chinese counterpart "laowai". No big deal.

However I also don't think that "they don't think it's offensive" has any relevance. Some people think the N-word is not offensive. It still is. Some men don't think calling a female colleague "babe" is offensive. It still is.
> they don't want to accidentally fund something that benefits the poor.

Welfare policies have been shown at multiple times to actually harm the poor in the long run, not benefit them. There are entire books written on that topic. Check out Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 from Charles Murray.
I have no problem with that. Selling used books as an individual is hard, since people will not pay a lot of money for them (since brand new books are cheap), so at least for me I find its not worth the time to sell them. At least then the public library benefits from the donation.
You’ve reminded me of the horrors of “keep, problem, try”

Let’s discuss this every week, and then not take any actual action
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Glass does not have to decay. It is chemically basically the same as sand. So as long as it does not have larger sharp edges, it is a normal part of nature.
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Autorotation in a helicopter is just falling less quickly. The speed at which you fall is highly dependent on the weight of the aircraft in flight.
Google Calendar invites are still transferred over email, generally.
I'm not convinced the sqr rect example is the best one, at least to say inheritance is wrong. I think this is an example of how not to use inheritance. In my mind the base class should be shape (not rect) or four-sided shape, or whatever the name is for shapes with non-curved sides.

Just me?
> As it's a naturally occuring mineral, you can't avoid it completely

Isn't that also true of Lead?
The YouTube Kids app has been suggesting a load of conspiracy videos to children
While you are suggesting something stronger (1 rep for with a comment and 1+N rep for without a comment), give https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/276440 a read.

The short version of it is it has problems with the design and you'll get even more junk in comments along with disparaging remarks.

Down votes are not a problem. They're a form of moderation of content. They are a signal to other readers that this material has an issue. They are a suggestion that the question shouldn't even be read because. They increase the perception of "this is an attack on the person and not a review of the content."
Sometimes I wonder if people on this site realize that there is such a thing as an end user.
You comment doesn't make sense to me.

Face it: some form of taxation was going to appear no matter what. It's inevitable. You don't just roll into a country, make billions of dollars, and expect to pay no tax in perpetuity. As tax proposals go, this one is pretty reasonable.

This isn't a punitive measure because it sets no one apart for any past behavior. It also isn't a "shield from competition" because all companies have to adhere to it, not just American ones.
Assos (cycling clothes) are good at repairing too. They not only last long, but they offer repair services.

Had a crash wearing 5 year bibs. Emailed them just in case.. Long story short, I had to pay for shipping one way only. Came back a week later, good as new.
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I absolutely adore the ambiguity in this HN title. Perfectly crafted. Well done.
Private travel to/from Manhattan should be banned as well, for the same reasons.

As for public safety flights, e.g. police helicopters, they smartly launch from less populated parts of other boroughs, where noise pollution isn't as big of a problem and land is more available. As for medical flights, I don't think there are any that take off from or land in Manhattan. It just doesn't make sense. There aren't helipads near any hospitals that I know of, nor any space to put them, and there's no way you're going to safely land a helicopter on a street to load up a patient. We've already got several world-class hospitals in Manhattan anyway, so a quick ambulance drive is all it takes.

And as for the size of NYC, yes, there's 2 million people who live here in Manhattan full time and then a good deal more than that during the workday. So it's paramount to allocate our scarce resources in a way that maximizes the public good. Spoiling the pleasant enjoyment of so much prime waterfront real estate just for some helicopter flights doesn't make sense and isn't the best allocation of limited resources.
Not sure what is political. I consider Wikipedia and SO to be perfect democracies of information. People upvote answers they consider correct. Those who contribute good answers frequently have demonstrated their skills and knowledge. If another talented contributor provides intelligent answers, we would happily upvote his or her answers as well.
Spotify?
Another huge load of BS. What is your goal here?

> epoll/kqueue

Here is the implementation from 2.1, back maybe around 10 years ago:

https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/blob/2.1/bin/v...

https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/blob/2.1/bin/v...

> nginx thread model

https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x...

> With sendfile(2) and splice(2) you are only wiring up the activity to be done in your event loop

Why you are storing your cache on disk into individual files when its "2018 and RAM is commonly measured in many hundred GB" is beyond me. But its not even worth discussing because you will just introduce more BS, FUD, and techno babble.
Are mechanical keyboards frowned upon in the silent open offices of Japan?
I was directly responding to your point. You said shilling is bad. I agree. But it doesn't do your argument any favor when you use two shill sites to defend your position. Russianlago is a shill subreddit. Everyone knows this. Thinkprogress is a shill advocacy group. It's in their mission statement.

Also, "Ad-Hominem and Whataboutism" is the easiest way to spot shilling. The fact that it is capitalized makes me believe it was copied and pasted from a list of talking points.

If you truly believed shilling was bad, you wouldn't support russianlago or thinkprogress. But the fact that you linked to those two makes me believe you actually support shilling. Just the shilling you agree with. Just an observation.
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Really ? I get that message very strongly just looking at the very post above me (and the other comments by the same user in the same thread).
There's also friction for workers. If you work in a town, and your job sucks or your employer fails, you may have to move to another town. In a city, you pick up your bag and walk across the street.

On the other hand if you live in a city and the schools fail, then you're hosed.
> 1) I want the option to port Finda to Windows and (I can’t believe I’m saying this) Linux, since beta testers asked if they could buy a version for their respective platforms.

Anyone else reading this: Linux support is required for any tech-related thing. Many times I have sold licenses into a single person using Linux who then has their company come back to buy 10s or 100s of licenses.
The free money is the subsidy that is the reason usually avowed for anti-dumping tariffs. Choosing to mothball a plant is a choice, not something that automatically happens if some other country chooses to subsidise one of their industries.

Revenues and expenditures are both fungible. In the end one goes into the state’s coffers and the other goes out. In no sense worth mentioning would taxes from anti-dumping tariffs fund subsidising domestic production or mothballing a plant. The costs, benefits and consequences of tariffs, subsidies on domestic production and mothballing should be considered not as a unit but as three separate policies with no necessary relations. If one, two or three of them make sense by all means do them but the idea that one can fund the others is just a desire for retribution looking for a justification.
Reminds me of the more military OODA loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
The landing went fine. The helicopter was even fully intact following the landing, which is often not the case for helicopter crash landings.

It's just that there was no good plan for what would happen after a water landing. The pilot, with his greater familiarity with the restraints, was able to improvise, but no one else could.
Yeah... Qt/QML would have been a better idea here IMO. Performance, memory, size, etc.
Note I was using brace synonymously with paren (to me, parens are just a special kind of brace, I assume you are equating brace with bracket).

Sure, you can also deal with terminal overloading using adjacency if you want. However, the parser gets more complex and it becomes less worth it. In the parsers I build, I match braces in a separate earlier phase anyways (you don’t need a parser to do that, and it makes the parser much more robust if you do).

However, the main drawback of a precedence parser is that you don’t get any parse errors out of it, and you have to manually go back and check that your trees are actually well formed. So I’ve went back to pure recursive descent.
In addition to my previous comment I would like to add that
RedisGraph memory usage is proportional to the size of the graph stored,
AFAIK Neo utilizes disk as the main storage, however the Java VM may have objects in memory in order to traverse the graph, so may also use some memory.

I've never tested the memory usage difference between the two, but it should be an interesting test to perform.

Generally speaking it seems like a common practice now days to load large portions of your data from disk to memory
for performance reasons obviously, no one is willing to pay the penalty hit of disk seek when it comes to real time data querying.
The companies and their employees pay taxes, though. On electricity, on data, on personal income, on gasoline, on property, etc. Whether an entity is paying its fair share is a legitimate question, but it's strange to me to blame companies for following the law as written.
If you want to collect and process data on individuals, then start implementing Security 101 basics:

* Data Classifications

* Privacy Impact Assessments

* Log Reviews

* Incident Reponse
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I absolutely love Pelican with M.CSS[1], automatically deployed by my already existing TeamCity instance that triggers a rebuild on git repository changes.

[1] http://mcss.mosra.cz
It's not the intent that I have a problem with.

Moreover, as a founder, I couldn't agree more with being responsible about working with personal data. We have always been careful about the data we collect and how we store and process it. But from what we have learned ourselves so far, we seem to have significant additional obligations under the GDPR (for example, being able to produce substantial amounts of formal documentation to the ICO on demand) that we would not currently be able to meet, and we might have other obligations that could be awkward (often related to the various subject requests now possible) but the implications aren't fully clear.

We also don't expect a huge deluge of requests from users. In fact, we've never had any under existing data protection rules. However, given that there several people have posted to HN recently saying that they'll be happy to send in large numbers of such requests when the GDPR comes into effect just to make a point, and unlike the current data protection rules in the UK there appears to be no provision for a token fee to deter such vexatious requests, we have to consider the possibility and at least have some intelligent way to respond, even if that just means knowing what our actual obligations would be if anyone did make such a request without doing any other work in advance.
> Personally, I like this proposal

It is meant to be a popular proposal that will win lots of likes for the EU, but it's stupid on the face of it and it will end up comically abused. E.g. companies could create 2 resellers across europe, split the revenue and avoid the tax. It's not less brazen than their current dodging schemes and it just shows the impossibility of taxation under global free trade. It's also very passive aggressive, if they wanted a tariff they should impose a tarriff.
>This new tariff exists solely because the EU can't compete on technology and needs to raise barriers.

I'd argue it's a shield against unfair competition. US tech companies have a huge first mover advantage. They use that advantage to attract foreign talent and employ that talent to extract value globally. It seems reasonable to expect a financial contribution for access to foreign markets given the quasi monopolistic quality of US tech firms.
I've noticed that the people that really develop skill in an area almost always use inferior instruments and material when they're first developing the skill.

Paradoxically, getting a brand new guitar can be the worst thing to do for a child interested in music. A simple used one with scratches and stickers pushes the child's focus to their own skill, not to the object.

Though it isn't true for everyone, I've also noticed that skilled practitioners beat up their high priced tools in ways that doesn't degrade their performance, and they're always able to compensate for inferior situations and build methods of adaptation if they frequently lack the ability to control the situation. For example, a programmer may set up a linux machine that they can always SSH into if they can't control the computer they're working on in order to have a familiar environment or a chef may keep a spatula and a carefully thought out pre-selected set of spices with them to always be able to make something flavourful while traveling.
Thanks for sharing, this should be required reading.
> The EU needs to show that the social contract is non-negotiable,

By raising new consumption tax ? Its not going to work. Thats not how you fund socialism lol.
The parent company will have the revenue of both. If there is no parent company they have effectively spun off a separate business.
It's not blame, it's complete lack of sympathy for tech corps' complaints about the tax.
> As we've seen in Germany, a decentralized economy comes with many benefits.

I’m not sure if I would call it decentralized. The economic powerhouses remain the big metropolitan areas (which are sometimes just a bunch of merged mid-sized cities). But yes, some of the richest cities are quite small such as Wolfsburg and Ingolstadt. However, that’s mostly driven by a single big company and not really by a truly sustainable network of economic activity. In addition, I know few people who’d really love to live in Wolfsburg...
I wonder how do we define "fast enough" though.

At first 16ms sounds little ridiculous. Given how we know the display, and our Hardware input devices ( Keyboard or Mouse ) already took away a few ms already.

But then when we say 16ms is a single frame in 60fps experience. All of a sudden this doesn't sound a lot. I mean I am expecting VR to be in 120 or 240fps range.
>Not until later, and then in part because of Gothic devastation. If the Roman Empire had not been able to feed a few ten thousand armed people, it would have fallen nearly immediately, since that would have meant it would have been unable to field any significant armies.

The Crisis of the Third Century is what lead to the weakened state unable to cope with the Goths. Outside invasions were part of the problem, the Plague of Cyprian was a much larger part. The breakdown that occurred during this period led to widespread problems, they trade routes were damaged making it difficult to suddenly feed an unexpected influx of people.

>Further, it's very hard to explain why it'd be hard to census only 90k people, an activity performed regularly.

First, there wasn't a ton of time between their arrival and their revolt to count them. Second, the census had suffers a long period of decay by that point. Third, counting nomads is no easy work, and the general strategy of assessing taxes based on property didn't apply yet.
We are currently at 65 marketplaces / platforms and counting ...
For that matter, I remember seeing some Qt thing for targeting websites too. But I agree with your points. Lately I've had to write UIs that actually need decent performance (client-side custom rendering and data processing requirements), so my preferences are biased.
Keep in mind there is a whole spectrum of what constitutes thought leadership. Several times, I've had clients say, "Last night I was looking for X and I found a great article on it. Turns out it was something you wrote!"

Another organization was going through their contracting process with me. One of their managers later told me that when they Googled for my name they were blown away by the size of my online footprint. Most of that was simply 10 years of blogging a few times each month about whatever topics I was finding interesting.

Also based on my blogging, I've had fairly well-known companies interview me for their blogs or webinars while using descriptions like "one of the worlds leading experts in X." This was all based on years of blogging on the topic.

Another great way to be viewed as a thought leader is to write a short book. Imagine you are looking at hiring two candidates that both look good, but when you search for their names you find that one has a book for sale at Amazon on a topic of interest to your company. It is a very strong way to market one's expertise.
Amazon Go Head of Stores Red Elk Banks told me not to send feedback via app
I am the first person to go to Amazon Go on its public opening day and went every public day up to last Friday. I had 120 paying sessions and my receipts add up to $524.31 in 40 public open days (only open on weekdays and opened January 22 2018). I've closed my entire Amazon account now. Store management became unhappy with me and their head of stores (store manager then regional manager then head of stores) told me among other things that I was no longer allowed to send feedback via their app because I had spent 20 pieces of feedback the previous day. Apparently the company that brings you Amazon Web Services can't handle their previously most loyal public customer's feedback. The feedback was things like products I'd like to see, that my favorite yogurt drink wasn't being stocked in evening, and that orange reusable bags weren't in the main part of store so people were grabbing paper bags which broke on them.
They do... barely. From https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers

> Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This includes answers that are:
> exact duplicates of other answers

However, this is left up to the community moderation rather than the diamond moderation. For the community moderation to delete an answer it must have a negative score and multiple 20k rep users have to see it and delete it. It takes a lot of work on Stack Overflow to muster that - especially when there are people up vote everything.

Consider https://stackoverflow.com/q/187587 and how many posts have the same content. Having experienced this in the past, flagging duplicate answers for deletion isn't something that diamond mods will act on... and as the answers have a positive score, the community can't act on without a concerted down vote brigade.
For many of the reasons mentioned in this article the FAA has now banned certain types of these “doors off photo flights.”

This sort of thing is intended for professionals with extensive training on the harnesses—in some cases including actual dunk tank training where you’re actually thrown in the water and need to escape (with safety divers present).

A lot of companies then started cutting corners and just pulling people off the street and showing them a “safety video” and sending them up. No way is that adequate training and the episode last weekend sadly demonstrates that fact.

Had it not been for the harness design and lack of adequate training it’s extremely likely everyone would have walked a way a bit wet and cold but otherwise unharmed.
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