skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My viewpoint in the discussion is that mandatory arbitration is an attempt to work around an expensive and overtaxed court system. Conservatives would probably prefer that companies have fewer legal liabilities in the first place, and liberals would probably prefer that most of the burden of protecting consumers and employees
be handled by more explicit and comprehensive regulations up front so that people didn’t have to resort to litigation. Since we live in a democracy, we ended up with a compromise that leaves everyone unhappy.

Since it’s obvious why liberals are unhappy, the only piece I needed to add was an explanation of why conservatives are unhappy with this compromise.

I shouldn’t have to restate the entire context of a threaded conversation every single time I respond to it, but apparently I do or otherwise people are going to think I’m some type of conservative and insult me over it. I’m not a conservative, but I also don’t think insulting people over political disagreements is acceptable in the first place.
Hyperscale is a term already right? I don’t know a lot about HPC, but I think it’s already part of the nomenclature.
It's actually likely pretty high up there.
I think the issue is that most people end up just thinking "so what? What can they do with it?" and only think "I'm not doing anything wrong" (hate that phrase and origin). The consequences of this type of thing may be apparent to tech people, but not most of the public.
I don't know what's on the front page, ever. Because I use hckrnews.com and filter by all
Big domain registrars operates usually on such a low profit margins that a single support ticket cost more than that customer will ever create in revenue. This create a very clear incentive models to focus on growth and keeping support costs down.

I work at a smaller registrar and we usually close (resolve) tickets within minutes and as a policy under the hour. We depend on word of mouth and contacts for sale, so we kind of have the opposite incentive model. I may be biased but I recommend avoiding the race to the bottom registrars for business critical domains.
Most companies that are somewhat serious about their business and the privacy of their clients (and their clients' clients) have a removable media policy. IBM's is nothing special in that respect. Besides cutting down on exfiltration vectors it also nicely takes care of some ways in which you might end up with malware on your corporate systems.

If your company does not have some kind of removable media policy then you are probably working for a very small company.
You can feel that way if you want, but moving the goalposts when OP was talking about tracking tokens and cookies so that you can interpret their responder as being opposed to eg graphic design on webpages or post-conference conversations is dishonest in my mind. The kinds of 'marketing' you would try to defend are probably not the kinds of things they were calling evil.
Net neutrality is a "Democrat issue" because the companies who benefit from net neutrality primarily fund Democrats. The companies who benefit from it being repealed primarily fund Republicans.
In reply to ad-hominem's dead comment: word.
from the article: “The fact that Google and Facebook were able to generate such enormous profits and growth does give hope to some companies,”

IF the bubble bursts, companies that seemed profitable might not remain so. companies like Facebook have made a fortune in advertising on things such as mobile (80% of its revenue), which to my knowledge really doesn't work. likewise a lot of desktop adds don't work, but many of these cash burning entities spend a lot on adds. so that revenue will disappear, then other people who want to sell adds can negotiate better prices or simply choose not to do so.
I think the big problem is not privacy violations, per se, but that, with computers and the internet, one never knows what information about you is being stored and sold to others. The majority of states make it illegal to tape a conversation without consent of the other person. I support those laws. Also ones where businesses have to post they are using video surveillance. It would be great if the government or some other group would develop well defined levels of privacy with good names and icons so companies can easily describe their policies to the public. Like movie ratings. Not the best. Wish we did not need them. But works OK. I'll avoid companies that sell my location information to anyone who will pay.

Passing laws where people somehow own what other people and companies know about you is not a good idea. I saw your dog poop on my lawn and you did not pick it up. Can I tell my neighbors about that? What about posting on Nextdoor? Local newspaper? A tweet? If I libel or slander someone, we have laws against that. It seems to me that telling a truth you know about someone should not be at the discretion of the someone. People just need to know when they are being observed, what is being observed, and by who (or what), so they can act accordingly. Not sure how to get to that space in this smartphone world.
So is reporting on the president's financial dealings harassment or journalism? The fact that people are debating this suggests some sort of conflict.
I'm not against all regulations - some can be useful - they just need to be implemented with great caution - ideally in a way that is very easy and clear to implement. In theory I don't see how regulations could avoid security breaches anyway (which I think is a greater problem). It'd be interesting to fine large companies with security breaches to encourage better tech, but then they'd never report it.
Blender for modeling, animation, etc. And Unreal Engine for game development and real-time visualization.
>Now apparently you can't even use common tools to get the job done. If I had a big meeting I wouldn't take a chance on the network to keep my presentation.

Then you are an active threat to your networks security. You sound like you have an incentive and willingness to put in effort and take personal risks to circumvent the security protocol at your workplace. Looking at employees without bad intents, this is as bad as it gets.

This is a great example why social engineering is unlikely to go out of style anytime soon. People who think they know better and are confident in being qualified to take a risk are never in short supply.
It uses these domains:

http://xtrapath1.izatcloud.net

http://xtrapath2.izatcloud.net

http://xtrapath3.izatcloud.net

I'm not sure what part of the OS is sending it, but it's definitely happening (and is block-able!)
I used to be nuts. And you know what, I went with it.

I could focus on a project 24-7-365. That's how great projects get done. And people who get great projects done are what we call "geniuses".

I'm better now. Sometimes I think of the great projects that I could do but then I think, "no thanks, life is bigger than that".
Vuex getters are great, but don’t overuse them
I bought an Asus "zenbook" ux305 for this reason. It uses an Intel core M processor, which idle around 800mHz but turbo boost to around 2gHz, which I believe have been discontinued.

I was worried about performance, but it has been very acceptable. It depends what you need it for, but I can run 2 monitors, a Linux VM and atom all while streaming HD video. Or I can do light web browsing for 10 hours on battery[1]. I love it.

On the rare occasions I need more power, I spin up a spot instance.

[1] If you use Linux on a laptop, install "tlp". It optimizes battery life without a noticeable reduction of performance.
Thanks, I learned the hard way. =)
So you're a single-issue voter, basically? How do you feel about all of the other things the GOP has been doing to this country?
Tallinn does this already.
Yes, but the money can't possibly be worth the punishment normally associated with what he's done. My net worth is dramatically lower than what Trump claims to be worth, and I wouldn't take anywhere near this much risk just to make money.

Mind you, I dabble in day trading. I do stupid, risky things to make money with far more of my money than is probably wise (I lost $4k yesterday, which sadly, wasn't that bad compared to some of my previous losses). So clearly my sense of risk/reward is a little off kilter.

That said, I'd never do something blatantly illegal (possibly unconstitutional!) in order to make money! Especially not if it represented 1/20th of my self-reported net worth! That would be a positively stupid amount of risk for such a small reward.
You're not supposed to do that.
In general patents and making money from them was not a concern in Soviet Union so the science took some different paths over there. Meaning simpler and less expensive treatments for example in medicine.
Phages is one example, cold laser treatments is another one. Norman Doidge talks about them in the "Brains's way of healing"
And if you're willing to run a lot of screencaps or re-type the stuff you see on another computer you can still get the data out. Before modems were common in the hands of unwashed masses my friend and I would transfer files on the phone by spelling out blocks in hex. Slow but with a checksum every 16 bytes it was good enough to get some work done. If the data is high value enough it would probably be worth it.
I quit my corporate software job in 2014 to travel (I was 26).

I don't regret the choice, but the thing I didn't expect was how hard it would be to make friends without a school or work environment.
It's a very real concern. We have a thing called a "bus plan" for all of our tech employees (6 of us - small non-tech company). It basically attempts to cover everything that we would need to know if one of us gets hit by a bus.
So the reason "blacks [and] hispanics" are impoverished in California is because of... environmental protections.

HN community, why are you dignifying this straight-up trolling with a response?
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Poll every X seconds if the last message was is no older than Y minutes. Poll every Z minutes otherwise.
Personally, even a touchpad compared to a mouse will slow me down significantly.

It's possible that I could be somewhat productive on a tablet in an emergency, but not as my main machine like Apple suggest people should do.
Wasn't Amazon doing that in their early days, when they didn't have a track record?
PCA as a convex optimization problem
> for some reason

Legalized bribery. The phrase you're looking for is legalized bribery.
Not sure how many workers would be impacted but it could cost more than a billion dollar per year. Salary is probably is primary expense of Amazon, like any large company.
The article implodes when you actually start comparing the scale of what the article is basing itself on to anything else.

The US economy will hit $20 trillion in GDP this year. The article is built heavily upon a few dozen IPO listings for just one year.

With US business profitability at essentially record highs for all sizes of business, the article is going to comical lengths to present a false headline.

If we had 500 unprofitable tech companies pulling an IPO in 2017, that would mean something. 30? That's not even a rounding error in the US economy and it obviously says nothing about the ability of those companies to reach profitability.

One year also does not make a trend. The number of unprofitable tech listings in 2015 and 2016 was similar to: 2001, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013.
I use salt. Multiple thousands of machines. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what it can do with it. I wrote some custom utilities for it. Added some functionality to handle physical deployments of an OS with redfish (the new iLO/iDRAC api).

Salt is not without warts but its definitely worth checking out.
Interesting, I usually find the opposite harder to find. I may be in touch if you are in the Bay Area.
I met with a medical specialist at a huge hospital in New York - I had a usb drive with about 50G imaging data (pet, ct, mri) and they refused to access it.

Fortunately I was also hosting it on my own server in various formats - nope, they can’t access the external network.

I ended up burning the whole set to a spindle of dvds, which they could then import .. and shred.
You need to be a genius to use two languages well in a single software while at the same time working on figuring out how to solve the constant barrage of new business problems that an enterprise software product needs to solve in the early stages.
Risk arbitrage.

Present capability vs. future catastrophic risk.

Technology is debt.
>Savvy investors want proof that the ICO organizer is running a scam, and that it has legs.

Savvy investors are likely not what this is targeting; they're generally savvy enough to skip terrible offerings. Those that were thinking of mortgaging their house to buy BTC when it was up late last year are.
It is not just that Amazon could or could not turn profits at will.

Turning a profit (paying dividends) or reinvesting is a decision every investor relations team must make, simplifying the subject it is based on whether you predict your company will get the investor more money (by stock price growth/future dividends) than if he invested in other equaly risky set of assets.

I don't believe this is the case for Moviepass.
This is the key. Amazon was profitable in the unit economics, Moviepass is not.
Medicine is not a well paying job in many countries, even in "first world" countries.
There are a lot of issues on the front burner right now that would fall in that bracket and net neutrality isn't the most pressing one by a very long shot so why would you let your vote hinge on that one issue?
That's more because he released government secrets, not corporate. If the gov wasn't after him I'm pretty sure quite a few big companies would try to hire him.
> Where Christianity advocates separation of church and state,

Christianity, as a body, does not do this. Christianity, until very recently, has usually—whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant—either been or sought to be established, and even in places where separation of church and state is established principle of civil law large bbodiesof Christianity often fairly overtly rejects that separation except to the extent it is being applied to protect their community from the dictate of a government inclined towards other preferences.
No, due to federal supremacy, individual cities aren't allowed to control international commerce. They can ban use, but not possession, or mere transportation. Even cities which banned handguns had to allow you to transport your handgun through them on your way to someplace else.
If that's the case, then perhaps they shouldn't be investing in ICOs?
First, using USB drives was never against security policy at my work - so your personal attacks are unjustified. But secondly my powerpoint presentation isn't exactly top secret classified material.

If we were talking about handling the private signing keys I would agree with you. Different types of data have different levels of security needed. Over classifying trivial data just makes it harder to get things done.
Routing protocols convey state information between routers, but really that is just table stakes.

So, what do network engineers do?
Classically, Set up and troubleshoot those systems.
Currently, transforming from manual work to building systems to deploy, monitor, and remediate routers and such.
In other words, the same stuff sysadmins->(SRE|PE) folks do and undergoing a similar transition.

SRE methods are quite applicable to neteng: https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/eliminating-toi...
The author's thesis is that all unprofitable business are the same.

This is not the author's thesis. The author's thesis appears to be:

"An economy full of unprofitable companies has risks." and we should be concerned about the rise of so many unprofitable companies.
Pressure is relieved from the bubble slowly via acquihires and M&A. Engineers get redistributed once a "winner take all" is proclaimed.

Not as impactful as the dot-com crash... but a RIF is usually involved in these bubble corrections.
High Scalability, High Availability, High Stability Back-End Design Patterns
You're right that the money wouldn't necessarily dry up, but attitudes towards the risk might change if the likelihood of success of these startups goes down over time. There may be a point where investors don't want to stomach the risk. I'm not saying it's logical, but investors aren't always rational.
The amount of data they have is non trivial and the insights from it are surely non trivial. Even if they have to delete the data due to privacy laws, they've still learned and come out on top. Newer competitors will never have the opportunity to gain such insights.

This becomes even more true as machine learning becomes more and more important. The first movers have a strict advantage over later entrants simply because of the amount of data.
> but not a practical real world scenario here nonetheless.

That is the kind of thinking that entrenches the status quo.

Close political fights are worth fighting because there's nothing to be gained by preemptively surrendering.

> Only 35 Senators are up for reelection this year, I assume you meant the House, not "all of Congress". (Note that all of the House is up for reelection every election term, and it doesn't change very quickly anyways.)

Yes, I meant the House. Noted and corrected. The Senate already passed the needed bill, so we're past that hurdle. The Republican caucus is vulnerable next election, many of the gerrymanders probably won't hold and they know it.

> Most sane people will not hinge their vote on Internet politics.

Single issue voters make policy.
> On the other hand, cost will eventually limit the parallelism side of the trend and physics will limit the chip efficiency side.

Anyone working on chip architecture care to give their opinion on the next 10-20 years in chip design? It would really interest me to know if chip designers think Moore's law will continue, since that is probably going to be a big factor in the timeline for AGI.
I think that lack is a strength. Lists, Maps, Booleans, Numbers, Strings. With these powers combined, you can create basically anything you can think of. Dates can be unix timestamps or ISO strings which are universal. Spatial data is a compound datatype anyway (plus, there are quite a few data representations depending on number of dimensions, cartesian vs polar, etc). The one datatype that JS could potentially benefit from is a byte array type, but even that can be accomplished with base64 "strings" or Lists of numbers.

To me, it's much better to let every company send error messages in the format that makes sense to them rather than having the One True Error that doesn't quite work for anyone.

My biggest complaints about JSON are syntactic. Optional comments, multi-line strings, and trailing commas would do wonders for day-to-day readability without significantly bloating the specs.
I agree, wouldn't want to force that on someone either. However I am sure there are plenty of people willing to sacrifice for the "greater good" (such as myself - I have quit a job before citing ethical reasons). People have different risk tolerances, and also current life situations - understandable. Just don't think the expectation should be set that change will come around from anything less than drastic action.
It’s one thing to ban stuff and another to actually provide practical solutions for people so that they can continue working. Banning stuff looks good on paper, but sometimes the clever work arounds people invent are then much worse than the original thing.

Practical example from past. Policy denies creating user accounts for externals. In big orgs you anyways sometimes have the need to have some external do work on systems. Idealistic view is that employee baby sits the ext guy and performs everything on behalf of him. But in reality people have their own work and deadlines, so it becomes tempting to just log on and let the ext work on your credentials.
https://techsviewer.com/how-to-install-mac-os-x-el-capitan-o...
Hmm you laugh, but if you could sell dollar bills at $0.75 but you limited the amount any person could buy. And you made them look at advertising, and collected all sorts of personal info on them. You could easily quite a bit of money off them. More then what you lose in selling the dollar bills at a loss.
Many companies do not allow the physical removal of “hard drives” and must be shredded before they can exit a door, which is why the “keep your drive” warranty policy is quite popular with many companies.
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You're not concerned about my rights. Why should I be concerned about yours?

Seriously--if you're abusing my privacy by tracking me without my consent (without my ACTUAL consent), what makes you think you have any moral claim whatsoever over me?
What makes you say mobile advertising doesn’t work? Google makes a larger and larger portion of their revenue and profit from mobile as well. I’d assume the same is true or going to be true for distant third place player Verizon/Oath.

Advertising has stuck around on TVs and all sorts of formats that can’t be tracked at all for this long, online or mobile advertising not being at the pinnacle of efficacy doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
That's a bit like the dot com thing, where companies spent a lot on banner ads, to get people to come to their site that made money off of banner ads. I'm exaggerating of course. But it is good to think about which VC funded companies may depend on other VC funded companies for clients.
UTF-8-demo.txt (2002)
Over-engineering is when you make something to be more robust than is necessary for it to work successfully. Evidently depending on the registrar actually failed here (just as it has for many in the past), and this will surely happen again in the future. I don't see how making your system robust to failures that actually come up is over-engineering. It sounds more like just plain old engineering. (And I honestly also fail to see what is productive about pressing on with this conversation.)
Assume an ordered list of the restaurants [0-19]. Let's use the hash of the first bitcoin block to be mined after (some time gmt) modulo 20 as index. Done.