skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the GP who brought up this topic. I actually am American and now working at a managerial level in Australia. When I ran into trouble with someone on my team performing at a poor level, I was a bit exasperated with these regulations and how they required me to put him on a performance improvement plan rather than immediately dismiss. I was frustrated, but it forced me to talk it out with him. We did a bit of a reset and had a smoother period. Ultimately issues arose again, but he was able to find a new job in the meantime which is a much better fit for him and moved on amicably. It was a positive result for both parties, definitely not without some stress, but it was achieved because I was forced to have patience -- and we should have patience, because people aren't disposable.
Sorry you are getting downvoted into oblivion. From the descriptions in this article it does sound like a solidly middle-class couple who are _choosing_ to live this lifestyle. Money is not tight if they are Lyft'ing to the grocery store etc. There are a lot of people who just assume if you are in a boat or RV you are destitute or mentally ill. If this describes you, check your assumptions. Maybe they are just not bought into the 'work yourself to death to buy/rent a house as big as you can afford and then fill it with junk you dont want or need'

I and my wife lived in our RV in silicon valley (thanks San Jose elks lodge) for a period of time. We chose a lifestyle where I would do consulting for six months a year in SV and then travel for 6 months. After several years of renting, furnishing, establishing utilities in a place only to unwind that all a few months later, we thought just getting an RV and staying in it was a better solution. So for several years we'd spend six months in the RV in San Jose, and then the other six months doing things like road tripping through Alaska, hanging out in Key West, sailing the Mexican riviera etc.

There's definitely some downsides to living in a small space, with a low level of stability - but in that phase of our life the trade-off to be able to travel for months at a time was well worth it.
I only wrote about their history in regards to why they would like for the world to stop acting like they were complicit in the Jewish Holocaust. Does it ever get tiring calling your opponents some flavor of crazy, only to watch them sweep you out of power even as you eat your own in a reckless purity spiral? Thanks for Trump, BTW. We never would have been blessed by him if you fellas didn't exist.
Elon and Mark were not getting along well as far as i can tell from reading past news. My guess is Mark and Bezos might be getting along well.
A few months ago, I was working a contract at Idaho National Laboratory as a senior DevOps engineer. I recommended they try Cloud Foundry since they were doing a lot of things manually and had a pretty immature CI/CD pipeline; additionally, I was involved in a PCF project at General Motors. INL runs VMware vSphere, which is the platform to run PCF on in-house. I got approval to bring in Pivotal and, through mostly my teammate's and my hard work, we managed to get it running. Props to the helpful sales guy and architect we were assigned. They were available to answer some very detailed questions and did not disappoint with their knowledge and enthusiasm.

PCF is very solid. The only issues we ran into were some confusing configuration settings and your basic federal government bureaucracy nonsense. Once we got all the IaaS boxes ticked, it installed without issue and worked beautifully.

I'd never want to install or maintain open-source Cloud Foundry as it's a nightmare of complexity; however, PCF is a different animal because of its streamlined installer. I definitely recommend giving it a go if you're looking for on-premises PaaS and you've got the IaaS layer to support it. You can also demo PCF within a single VirtualBox VM.
American here.

Not often.
In seattle there are tons of people living in vans. at the grocery store near my house on the east side, i see rvs in the parking lot of the grocery. they go somewhere in the night. in seattle, south of the stadiums there are rvs on side streets, just like this story. even in kirkland there was an rv on the street with a suspicious looking bucket behind it. I think living in your rv is more common than you might expect.
I'm from China and I do. The answer is in the culture for over two thousand years that the country is better to be under one ruler so less war between countries fighting each other. Probably still better to have one ruler to fuck up the citizen before any modern democratically system stabilized.
There is alway one such comment in every Buffett post.

> He only started doing investments after that.

Not really, insurance came later, he became rich with his investments when he was 30.

> very much an activist investor.

Sometimes he, sometimes he is not.

> I don't understand that the guy's an investment guru

because when the banks or big hedge funds are in trouble, Buffett is called to bail them out.
Yeah, it seems likely the author is just in that majority class of people who cannot conceive of any living arrangement outside the conventional stick-and-mortar dwelling bound to property or rent. That is, after all, what the ``American Dream'' of the past 100 years-or-so was built upon.
When I started college, I commuted from Bothell to UW, it was totally doable if not very nice. But back then, I could rent a room for $215/month two blocks north of UW and tuition was only $800/quarter. Kind of stupid to do that given living in Seattle was much more reasonable.

Tacoma at least has a commuter train these days, though I guess that would add to your commute costs. I have a relative who reverse commutes from West Seattle to Tacoma and it’s decent enough (because traffic goes the other way).

Tukwila or SeaTac should have decent rents and are accessible to downtown by light rail.
Oh yes you are absolutely right. I should have added to my original comment, China does some horrible things, but short of a world war ( based on the geographic location of Tibet/China) we are going to have to convince the Chinese to change their behavior - that foundation argument isn't going anywhere, and I have had this discussion on this topic with Chinese nationals and it always comes back to "it's our country" and then back to many issues that are currently not going well in the United States and how we Americans need to fix our own house first.

Also, I imagine explaining the 3/5ths clause is pretty monstrous burden for parents of kids of color today, I remember a large part of this discussion in high school civics made me feel a little bit ill. My conservative teacher back then was pretty proud of this "compromise".
Python3-Django-Postgres.

Python3 has the best packages of any language, Postgres is the best non-commercial database. And Django is well-designed, well-maintained, and has a very solid integration with Postgres.
Not just about what they did, it's also about why. It was a liked tweet.

(Why bring up US foreign policy again? Many don't agree with those decisions either and it's unrelated.)
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House boats on lake union are pretty expensive these days and definitely not a way to save on rent.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and launched Preemptible VMs).

Cool! Like you, I wish people would make productive use of spare cycles.

Can I suggest you add a note comparing this to BOINC/gridcoin as well? I think your marketplace is a better idea, but because of the security implications dgacmu pointed out downthread, it shouldn’t be treated lightly.

Also, I really like your white paper (https://vectordash.com/primer) as it’s nicely formatted and has pretty icons. I think you should update the comparisons to the cloud providers though. Comparing a Pascal-series (1080 Ti) part to a Kepler part (K80) isn’t particularly fair, as NVIDIA charges about the same for that part as the later P100s and V100s. That is, people should be comparing what the best price/performance ratio is, and all three providers have better options. There’s a secondary question about whether the right comparison is to AWS Spot / Preemptible VMs / Low Priority VMs, but I’m not sure from a quick skim what the likely preemption rate will be with your setup.

Finally, let me echo dgacmu in saying it’s too bad that NVIDIA forces all providers to only provide the expensive parts. The best price/performance is certainly the consumer parts (that 1080 Ti compares favorably to a P100 at a fraction of the cost), but both the EULA and otherwise prevent it. You’re not running a direct service / providing things in a data center which is a cool workaround! But you should definitely be more clear about the risks of letting untrusted third-party code to execute against your GPU.

Again, great project!
Marriott didn’t criticize China so much as enacted policy that China didn’t feel served its political interests and policies. As a result they retaliated by denying them the market and money making opportunity that they do not have a entitlement to in the first place.

It’s no different from say US enforcing political policies such as the Nixon era drug wars against black and other poor minorities, sanctions against Russia to deter their invasion of Ukraine, US withdrawal from the TPP, denying aid in retaliation to Central American countries if they refuse to enact anti-drug law or specific policies (policies that only really serve the short term interests of the politician in office).

Denying a foreign company certain rights is not inherently any different from a preferential tariff such as the ones Trump is trying to enact. Doing so for political purposes—well that’s the whole point of the government: every move it makes is politically or policy motivated.
I switched from Gmail to Fastmail a few years ago and couldn’t be happier.

I much prefer to pay for a product than be the product.
Wow 270 million dollars a year I had no idea they made that much money.
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Governments value higher control and tighter laws over anything else. There will be more.
It's even worse than that: politicians created over-reaching laws and enforcement, to demographically target political opponents and take away their right to vote.

> "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
– John Ehrlichman, to Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine in 1994, about President Richard Nixon's war on drugs, declared in 1971.

Meta source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs#20th_century
Atreides battle-language, better yet. The signal is encoded in subtle gestures to generate adversarial examples for the language detector.
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If you're in a rush, IOpipe[1] already has Python support offering profiling, tracing, and other debugging and observability tools for AWS Lambda. Co-founder of IOpipe here, feel free to ask anything.

[1] - https://www.iopipe.com
I’m simply replying to your comment that America do in fact enact policies to further its own political goals all the time. In fact the US is a frequent offender of doing so to influce foreign countries while at least China usually focuses on itself.

If you meant just the American people, well not all Chinese side with China on the Tibet issue, but most do. But then that’s personal opinions and you can’t really blame them for having a personal opinion.

Using political leverage to force an outcome is inevitable, and frankly, discussing right or wrong on the matter is pointless as you cannot ever achieve politically neutral policy. All policy is enacted with a certain goal so it cannot be neutral by definition (unless your policy does nothing).

Either China wants Tibet as part of its territory or it doesn’t. In either case it will use its political powers to further whatever the goal is.
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You don’t think a fan page liked by nearly 3 million people, many of whom are customers or potential customers for a $100,000+ car, is worth at least $10M in sales to them? That’s only ~100 sales. I’d bet just about anything that the Tesla FB Page has helped drive at least that many sales. People look at comments to see what other customers feel about the car etc.
this comment is being down-voted, which is not characteristic of my comments. I'd appreciate some kind of insight into why that is happening, from those who are down-voting.
I fully agree. Maybe the VM and language were originally designed for faster time to market and developer adoption?

Whatever the original reasons were, it is certainly time for better tooling.
> what if this is a Nazi tweet? An ISIS tweet? An anti-LGBT tweet?

Say "oops" and unlike the tweet. If it keeps happening, maybe you've got a problem.
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Incentives shape behavior, and we grow weak and unsatisfied without working against resistance. Without exertion, there is no strength. Consider the rapid deterioration of the human body when deprived of gravity.

In the Federation of Planets, what happens to adults who don't feel like making their own challenges or doing much of anything aside from having as many children as possible? Are they allowed to reproduce? This creates rather massive selection pressure. Somebody somewhere is going to have a gene encoding wanting to make maximum possible babies, and it's going to swamp your population in a few rapidly paced generations. The inevitability of this circumstance is total.

Television exploring the overcoming of this, the human condition, could be a profound thing. Perhaps STNG neglects to show us the teeming planets of "welfare dropouts", where reproduction is limited by space, and Federation ships stop by to recruit the few ambitious worthies who yearn for a challenge other than sleeping in the same room as 300 family members?

As a kid, I wondered about this, and my parents explained that the lazy Star Fleet kids go into a transporter beam and never come out, and their parents so happy to be done with backtalk that they aren't even sorry about it. This would be a feasible selection pressure, except for the case of double mutants possessing both fecundity and nurturing instincts, a possibility of which my parents were clearly unaware. (Just kidding. This would be hilarious, though.)

Alternatively, perhaps Starfleet regularly purges the population of lazy bastards? Like, when the population of San Francisco gets too high, if you are more than two generations removed from a successful Star Fleet veteran, you get vaporized? This would explain how Star Fleet Academy is located there without having to pay staff more than Google or even anything at all.

I would be totally binge watch a Trek exploring friction between Google and Star Fleet in the San Fran real estate market. Couldn't possibly be worse than Voyager........
That's super cool!

Looks like Nvidia has turned it into a self-driving car on chip, due for release later in 2018:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/10/nvidia-introduces-a-comp...
Can you terminate employees because you need to save money (i.e. laying them off)?
Oh it’s even worse than overflows. The order of operations of Solidity isn’t even the same as most languages, which will undoubtedly lead to issues at some point. https://twitter.com/esultanik/status/976186942625861632
Sadly, the world doesn't turn their backs based on abstract principal. The world turns towards the winner. Thus history shows, and thus it has always been and thus it always will be. And no one will shed a tear for the NK regime were it to go away.

Happily none of this is likely to go down because it's all bureaucrats now and those don't win wars and they know it. But they will bury you in red tape and process.
> We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran.

So in your opinion both Gulf Wars had nothing to do with the strong influence Saudi Arabia has over the USA and in specific, the Bush family?
I’m talking about Americans and everyone here benefitting from the fruits of the conquest. We exist because it happened, and to deny it is to deny our own existence.
They were the greatest. Now they’re primarily for money laundering.
Thanks. I saw that mentioned on Quora but there was no citation provided.
Too hyperbolic, for sure. But it's not worth nothing towards world hunger either. If we make a service that's cheaper, or overall wastes less of people's time than without it, then we make more wealth for the world. Yes it's unevenly distributed, but we hackers have to believe our work is worth something to the greater good, even if it's work for the megacorps.
Ironically it’s just these kinds of laws which may finally create a broader popular drive to re-decentralize. Those people looking for sex and drugs and whatever else aren’t going to just say, “well shit, the government said no, let’s head to church.” They’re going to look for alternatives, and alternatives will be there for them. It won’t be glossy Java-heavy “Web 2.0” of course, it will be Tor, Mastadon, and encrypted communications.

That’s the real strength of the internet, you cut of
F a head and two more grow back. If more stringent laws are passed, that just creates more drive for alternatives. It’s going to be ugly, but I remember when the internet was ugly, but worked. It won’t make people filthy rich overnight, but that’s not the net either. People still want to hook up, buy guns and weed, and just talk without Big Brother breathing down their neck. It will start small, and grow fast; after all we have a few decades worth of roadmap.

People who’ve moaned about people needing to look past a handful of sites are possibly going to get their wish. The total inability for governments to field sustainable technical solutions to shutting down commas has not changed.

So fight.
I wonder why that is. Would you say your company's founder started out with a passion for games or was it more corporate/started for profit?

I have wondered if the high failure rate is a mismatch of three key issues; passion and understanding for the medium in the company culture, management not knowing how to manage technical/artistic creators, and then the fickle nature of the target market.

Great games made by amazing developers can tank because they don't have the business chops. Management can't get a handle on what they are actually managing, because that has proven notoriously hard even when the software product isn't nearly as complicated as a game.

Even in ideal circumstances with a great team, game, and execution, your game can flop because it just wasn't flavor of the month or you released behind a more favored title.

I would love to hear what people think a great studio would look like.
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Also, from the videos I've watched on Youtube, Tesla autopilot will refuse to take over under a lot of conditions .
Fastmail is a great standards based Gmail alternative. They use Cryus Imap under the hood and give back to the community. It is both powerful and easy to use. They were the only ones to be able to accommodate my formally self hosted overly complicated email setup. For the truly esoteric needs, they support custom Sieve code. [1]

For business purposes Office 365 is great. It has the full power of Exchange under the hood. (I was recently able to setup forwarding only email addresses to external email addresses, without needing new licenses or setting up mailboxes.)

[0] - https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/12/12/why-we-contribute/

[1] - https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve.html
> but I've been repeatedly amazed at the scale of the opportunity. People working cross-mobile/desktop must be a big part of it.

Or just multiple computers. Also don't forget file sharing and collaboration.

I'm a long-time Dropbox user, and my first use cases were, in order:

- shared folders with friends at university, when we were working on projects together

- shared folder for myself between personal computer and a station at work

Nowadays I use it mostly as a way to sync up my time/task tracking (in Emacs/org-mode) between multiple machines and mobile devices.

OTOH, my SO regularly uses Dropbox at work to exchange bundles of 200+MB files with other companies, and it's telling - there really is no better, safer solution for a regular user to send someone larger files when they no longer fit in an e-mail.
US government banned contractors using China-manufactured electronics.

You can make up all sorts of excuses about how it’s for national security, but from the otherside it looks like the US is simply unfairly preventing a Chinese company from competing in a foreign market that it has not natural entitlement to.

Whether or not the reasons for it are true, the reality is it has real financial consequences for Chinese electronics companies, even if they are fully legitimate and with good intentions. Thus it’s an example of how the US is potentially using political power to suppress foreign influence.

Here is a link for your convenience too: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/12/us-government-agencies-zte...
How India still treats its cyber security researchers like criminals
They're setting out a grander vision for what they can be, what they need to be in the future in a world that demands constant growth.

And in tech, if you don't keep moving forward, you get killed.
KCC is an executable, formal semantics for C that does something like that. Runtime Verification Inc uses it for their bug-hunting tools.

https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics

http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/pubs/ellison-rosu-2012-popl.pdf
Right yes. I forgot to escape, and now it's too late to.
> No compiler is going to go out of its way to compile an increment into the machine's usual increment instruction and an additional overflow check that does whatever, just because it can

What people are actually worried about is when the compiler starts removing - not adding - seemingly unrelated code in a hard to reason about fashion. And compilers absolutely will go out of their way to do this in the name of optimization and performance. And it will do this because it got smart enough to prove that the "unrelated" code can't run without first technically invoking undefined behavior, at which point it can jump to the wild conclusion that it must never actually execute (or that it can remove the code even if it does, because it's legal for the compiler to do anything after invoking undefined behavior - including not execute that code!)

Sometimes the removed code is important security checks, leading to CVEs, hotpatches, etc. - this is not theoretical, and is not remotely new at this point: https://www.grsecurity.net/~spender/exploits/cheddar_bay/exp...

It also makes reporting compiler bugs annoying, as you first have to definitively prove to yourself and the compiler guys that you've actually got a compiler bug, rather than a compiler "feature" of aggressive optimization within the letter of the C++ standard. It's only out of pure stubbornness that https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84658 got reported upstream, I was assuming it was UB in our codebase most of the way down and thus INVALID as a compiler bug...

But perhaps CVEs and expected behavior being borderline indistinguishable from compiler bugs to most C and C++ programmers I know is just "fear mongering" as you say. IMNSHO, it's not \o/
The tea is good - the milk is not.

I drink coffee (black) or tea while in a fasting state but any calories of any kind (the milk) will start all of the processes of metabolism.
Learning express.js by creating one from scratch Part – 1