skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that there was no trade, but rather there is no documentation. The civilizations of the Orient were built largely on trade, and thus had sophisticated accounting systems and wrote everything down. So we have a lot of surviving accounting. And lots of kingdoms were all minting their own coins, so we can find surviving coins in all sorts of archaeological sites that show the travel of money.

And the value of trade matters, too. It's not just sub-Saharan Africa that seemed like a backwater. Most of Europe was a backwater, too, outside of Italy and Constantinople (which is only half-European, really). Trade routes were weak there because they just didn't have much to offer in exchange for the valuable silks, porcelain, spices, and other luxury goods of the East. The Vikings were the only big traders of Europe, and their primary product was slaves, captured from impoverished backwaters like Great Britain and Germany.
Cabify, an Uber competitor from Spain operating mostly in South/Central America and recently valued at 1.5B has been moving from a primarily Ruby stack to Elixir over the past year.
But it does - the whole point of MoviePass, or what cinemas come up with on their own to defeat/replace it, is to remove dollars every month from the pockets of people who don’t see a lot of movies.
That's pretty advanced stuff for an 18y/o, even for most senior developers. No doubt Google will try to recruit him after he finishes university.
Agreed on the state minimums, which are a joke ($20K and $40K I think here).

We carry many multiples of the state minimum, which was needed to secure an umbrella policy for the excess. That doesn't include the umbrella, which we have in place mostly for other reasons (and is cheap).
" it can't seem to stop killing people it seems to be running slower and slower every week, "

I presume you aren't familiar with how well freeways perform in this respect?
Is Uber's plan more like keep making loss and keep pushing the world to a state of rent a car for each ride and then get to a state of not own any car and then ones we get to a state of no one owns a car and every one takes a Uber then just keep jacking up the price at will and make more money out of us, and at that point we wont have a car and instead of buying one we will better say pay 5$ extra and take Uber and eventually reach a state where we spend twice the amount or owning a car per month on Uber and some smart guy figures out this and then we all go back to owning a car using Uber rarely at times of need.

Y go the long route we can simply stay in the current or previous state and use it like a taxi rarely wen needed.
Yeah, it's an interesting design decision in the context of Java. There are certainly lots of Java developers who think erasure is a mistake. I think things like `instanceof` are the mistake, and reifying generics is piling mistakes on top of mistakes, but then I've been hopelessly corrupted by FP. I freely admit this isn't a useful stance to take if one is focused on evolving Java as it currently exists! :-)

My above post was mostly about explaining the concept of parametricity, though, and not so much about justifying it.
I do not agree with the terms and conditions.
You should look where the time goes in your app.
Bitcoin price bounces back as cryptocurrency returns above $8,500
There's so much in this little paragraph. Thank you for sharing it.
Not exactly in the EU, see the principles vs. rules debate above
Where are you reading about sources. I can't seem to find any at all.
In America, the only solutions deemed virtuous or worthwhile are the ones that drive revenue and solve the problem in some form or fashion -- with many cases the scales tipped heavily in the drive revenue side and offering a minimally effective solution. The solutions that are almost never considered are the ones that would almost certainly offer no profitability, but generally be the right solution for the individual, and society as a whole.
The exposure had been there for months. WHY oh why couldn’t he have waited a few more days, for GDPR to kick in.

No matter I guess. There will be many more like this.

Maybe GDPR will effectively become secure coding (and ops) liability many have clamored for.
Ask HN: How to cope with DDoS attacks today?
As a system administrator, it always been a nightmare scenario for me. I was wondering what to do if attacker was powerful enough to have wide range of IPs and random timing. Is it possible to detect such attacks? Are there any good resources to study prevention techniques? Thank you all.
So after reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling and family I'm really interested in investing in African companies. Ideally it would be through index funds. I got as far as finding ABSA as my go to online broker, but couldn't find any indexes to research (just a bunch of broken links)

Would anybody have any resources or direction to point me to?
You misunderstand what I mean then. I view "AI" as a series of technologies which can be applied to a problem space. You're right in that there is a lot of open problem space, and there's definately a lot of additional technologies which can be discovered in the indivudal categories of technologies. I just don't know what the next "major" category of technology is.

For your example, automated system integration is the combination of existing technologies. That's mostly what I'm implying. We have breadth, now the work is on the depth.
I don't think the messianic cheering is the real problem.

Here's a short and not very complete list of unsolved meta-problems:

Even when products and systems are revolutionary, there are unexpected negative consequences (e.g. FB and Cambridge Analytica)

All systems can be trolled and abused, and if they can be, they will be (e.g. fake reviews on Amazon etc.)

AI doesn't actually work all that well yet. (Neither Siri nor Alexa truly pass a conversational Turing test, which means there's a lot of guessing about whether or not any novel request will generate a useful response.)

IT systems and products of all kinds are brittle, unreliable, and often downright stupid. Users don't trust updates and feature changes, and often they're right to do so. Given that, why would AI "products" be any better or more reliable?
Not sure. It would require some experiments. Maybe different teams of lemmings? Or maybe a free-for-all?
Your obvious bias is severely clouding your judgment.

Merkel is solidly centre to centre-right. The only reason she seems "left" to you, is because she doesn't support the frothing-at-the-mouth rabid nationalism that AfD espouse.
Was G. J. Caesar beautiful? Was he also strong, smart, cunning, wise, etc.?
I remain neutral on the story's truthfulness but I think there's a difference between the quality of Google's engineers and the customer facing employees they hire.
I very much doubt that you actually know what most devs would do.
You beat me to it. Thinking in Forth is indeed the place to start.
The really frustrating thing about this analysis is he completely ignores mileage. However you split it, that's a huge factor in a vehicle's maintenance cost and depreciation. He compared maintenance on vehicle that clearly must be driven significantly more than he took Uber.

Since he also has two other vehicles, he was clearly using those to drive too. He's sold them now, but he doesn't mention anything about the cost of Turo which he suggests as an alternative.

I have no idea exactly what Uber breaks down to per mile, but ridester.com suggests $1 to $2.50 per mile. Let's assume it's as cheap as $1/mile to give him the benefit of the doubt and account for UberPool.

----

At $1/mile, he traveled 12k miles over 6 years - or 2000 miles/year.

* Maintenance on 12k miles would basically be nothing. No major work should need to be done in a 12k window. Probably some wipers, some fluid changes, possibly a minor repair - let's just say it's $500.

* Gas - Let's assume 20 miles/galloon and $4 per gallon. $2400 over 6 years.

* Insurance - The most expensive part. 2000 miles/year is nothing, but insurance doesn't work that way. Let's assume a modest $500/year. - $3000

When you add that up it comes to roughly $6k left over. You can look at this two ways.

1. Try to buy a vehicle in the $6k range and assume no-resale value. You're not going to get a great car, but it will be doable.

2. Account for only depreciation. 12k is mostly negligible miles. The biggest lost will be due to aging. That being said, as long as you avoid relatively late-model year, you can purchase basically any mid-upper car and still break even (like an M3).

Plus, in both cases you get the benefit of actually owning a vehicle and not relying on 3rd parties.

----

EDIT: He also mentions using Turo as an alternative for a car. That opens up the possibility of him renting out an own vehicle on Turo. An M3 would likely catch $100/day or more. Let's say $50/rental day gets to his pocket. If he rents a out his M3 just twice/month (e.g. one weekend) and assuming the driver hits the 100 mile/day standard. He'd add only 14.4k more miles (still not a lot) and make an additional $7.2k. That pays for depreciation and leaves him room to ride share while his car is gone.
Agreed with all your points; the old term was bureaucrats. The term "deep state", to me, is very loaded, reeking of conspiracy theories, especially in today's politics. Thanks for the response.
Thanks.

From my experience, a majority of the members here believe in collectivism / socialism and not in individual rights, and are big city dwellers that thing small towns and their constituents are a disease.
The way I see it, there are at least four criteria for using a blockchain.

1. The goods are permanent, otherwise you don't need the history of the blockchain.

2. The goods are valuable, otherwise they aren't worth tracking.

3. The goods are identifiable, otherwise you can't tell that the good you received was the one on the blockchain.

4. The goods came from a trusted third party, otherwise they can receive non-compliant goods and pass them off as their own.

Tracking food on the blockchain fails at all four criteria.

Cryptocurrency passes all four tests. It is permanent, valuable, identifiable, and the third party producer of the coin is trusted because they pass a mathematical test.

Diamonds might also pass the tests, as long as there are trusted third parties in the diamond industry who won't receive bad diamonds.
Chopin + Rainymood (dot) com.
>Can you really say that the second bit of code is more "complex"?

Yes. Take fastinvsqrt() for example. Cleve Moler learned about this trick from code written by William Kahan and K.C. Ng at Berkeley around 1986.

float fastInvSqrt(float x) {
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1);
float y = *(float*)&i;
return y * (1.5F - 0.5F * x * y * y);
}

Simple instructions, VERY complex code. Not as complex as this one, though, which took almost 20 years to come about:

float fastInvSqrt(float x) {
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f375a86 - (i >> 1);
float y = *(float*)&i;
return y * (1.5F - 0.5F * x * y * y);
}

Chris Lomont says "The new constant 0x5f375a86 appears to perform slightly better than the original one. Since both are approximations, either works well in practice. I
would like to find the original author if possible, and see if the method was derived or just guessed and tested."
> It sounds relatively plausible to me

Grandparent gave a ton of reasons, though, why this situation is particularly implausible. Why exactly do you disagree?

Again, B2B services like this are bound by actual, legal, signed contracts and real, monentary consideration, not EULAs and "free with ads" business models. Service providers don't have the freedom to unilaterally "ban" you, and that's literally one of the things you pay for.

It didn't happen, at least not as detailed in the post.
Google acquires Cask Data for building and running big data analytics
Same thing can be said about lunar exploration project which in hindsight brought the personal computing revolution.
The Website Redesign Process – How to Redesign Like a Pro Pt.1
Not that I've seen so far, but I did write a related tutorial on building faceted search on top of Django and PostgreSQL a few months ago: https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-facet...
Steve Mnuchin: Officials should take a serious look at tech monopolies
It's not obvious the sharing economy is actually a win. It's certainly a change, but particularly with Uber and with gig-economy delivery services, drivers aren't necessarily happier, better paid, and less stressed than they would have been with a less disrupted job.

Sometimes the consequences take a while to work through. What will Amazon do after it kills bricks and mortar? How many customers will it have when most of the population is barely scraping by with gig economy now-you-see-it-now-you-don't income?
> why do so many people continue to finance or lease new cars?

Because I can finance it at an interest rate of something like 2.6%. That's stupid cheap.
If something thrives more from recruiting than it does from intrinsic value increases, it is a ponzi scheme.
Why don't you find some real and credible sources, instead of random Google hits. You can find support for absolutely anything on the internet, but that does not make it objectively true.

Your whole shtick of calling the sitting government a "junta" and calling Merkel a stasi agent (with absolutely no credible proof to show for it).

I don't even particularly like Merkel, although I will admit she is a very talented politician.
Sure, but for the purposes of a blog post that’s supposed to shine a light on performance considerations in specific, contrived examples, it would be a strawman. Yet that’s the setting where you see a lot of people write e.g. a naive double loop algorithm in Python and criticize its performance compared with “the same” double loop algorithm in C.

It’s an uninformative comparison precisely because they are not “the same.” Pure Python looping (iterators) and doing pure Python operations in the loop body (run time type dynamics implicitly assumed to be needed/desired, heterogeneous container types of PyObject references assumed to be needed/desired) is conceptually a different thing than loops in C (simple increments) and, say, operations on a contiguous memory array, regardless of whether the syntax looks superficially similar to invite a visual comparison.
Many countries grew rich off of US exploitation. Japan and then China wouldn't be the power houses they are today if it wasn't for the US needing a place to offload cheap and dirty manufacturing. True, many more countries were just exploited without any gain, but there are factors that can tilt the balance in your favor.

The fact that they're a strong economy with a strong military and have a government wary of imperialism bodes well, as long as the can keep the number of revolutions and civil conflicts low. Stability is the key.
If you write it really poorly that might happen - but its easy to add a check to see if any swaps occurred. If none, you are done.
Managing dependencies and artifacts in PySpark
This might not be as good as you think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272413

China will cause the country to become indebted to it and when they can't make the repayments offer to helpfully take full control of it.
There's a Lemmings clone called Lix which has networked competitive multiplayer, but I don't know how it works.

(I designed a few levels for the single-player mode which may or may not still be in the standard level pack, but didn't do much else with it.)
I got word from a colleague at a conference that my doppelgänger was afoot. Next time I went to the same conference, I met him and we took pics together. As I was watching him give his talk and he was in profile, it was really strange to feel that totally looks like me up there. Chilling.
If a normal human cannot loosen the lug nuts with the provided wrench, they are on too tight and doing damage.
What do you mean? Has Google patented the use of computer-generated voices / language to contact a business?
Well sure, any company that makes game changing advances is going to list them in its brochure.

Assuming positive intent rather than sarcasm, so here's why they're game changers:

1.2.3. landing and reusing orbital rockets will deliver a huge increase in launch frequency and a huge reduction in cost, both acting to increase humanity's practical access to space. It's the difference between building a plane that flies once and building a plane that files a hundred times.

4. Falcon Heavy allows us to launch higher payload missions that was possible before. Especially since nobody assembles spacecraft in orbit, this raises the cap on how massive a spacecraft humanity can operate.

5. Giving America the ability to put humans in space without relying on the Russian Soyuz is a political and strategic victory for the US.
you can try https://www.seektable.com which has 'flat table' reports for data browsing and postgresql connector; however this is cloud tool and your DB should be accessible by tool's server.
BTW, CSV files are also supported.
I'm speaking as someone who went through an emotionally abusive relationship. I think you're significantly downplaying just how impactful shitty role models and power dynamics like this can be.
Gas tax pays for less then a third of highway maintenance. The rest of it comes from the general tax pool. As a non-driver, I get to subsidise your 'free' roads.

When you combine the total cost of ownership, subsidies, and infrastructure, you'll find that cars are far more expensive, privately and publically, at moving people than buses.
> automated system integration is the combination of existing technologies.

Which ones? As far as I can see, it's all manual right now. Service integration is probably the largest area of IT at the moment and it sucks in more and more engineers every year. So maybe the notion of "web services" and "APIs" simply aren't the right ways to go about it.
No, you are wrong. The meaning nor target have not changed. The document is still Google's Code of Conduct and it is still prefaced with the admonishment that not following this could lead to termination.

The new Code of Conduct is prefaced with the paragraphs:

"The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put Google’s values into practice. It’s built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Google will be, and should be, measured against the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct. We set the bar that high for practical as well as aspirational reasons: Our commitment to the highest standards helps us hire great people, build great products, and attract loyal users. Respect for our users, for the opportunity, and for each other are foundational to our success, and are something we need to support every day.

So please do read the Code and Google’s values, and follow both in spirit and letter, always bearing in mind that each of us has a personal responsibility to incorporate, and to encourage other Googlers to incorporate, the principles of the Code and values into our work. And if you have a question or ever think that one of your fellow Googlers or the company as a whole may be falling short of our commitment, don’t be silent. We want – and need – to hear from you."

The meaning is the same. One ugly, truly unwieldy paragraph was removed. The rest is significantly better as a result. And it applies to the exact same people as the original codes of conduct. Sorry bud, but you're wrong.
I've never felt the need to run "git blame" fast enough
He doesn't address mileage at all (shocker). Based on a $1/mile estimate, he traveled about 12k miles over 6 years (500 miles/year).
Correct or inotify: pick one
The docs are outdated, Android P is bringing sharing of PGO data across devices via the Play Store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi9-BqUxsno
i thought it was pretty funny during their demonstration of how bad google was, they googled "san francisco restaurants" (or something like that), and there on the auto-complete was "san francisco restaurants YELP", like, dude, this website that is so evil is advertising for you, right there, in the box where you're typing!
> Socialism by definition takes care of everyone equally.

I think this is far harder to implement than people assume. We still have many things in life that are non-fungible, the most obvious of which is probably housing location.
This sounds more like a case of rental values of locations increasing, as the price of prime urban land is bid up, requiring laborers be paid more to achieve the same standard of living, and inflating costs across the board.

Same issue that all booming cities face, whether it is New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, or anywhere else.

Some manage it better than others.
And the contract (Not signed, just a checkbox at least when I last signed a company up for GSuite) probably gives them the right to terminate the service in case of violation. Not that strange really. And for a ~100 people company going up against Google, you're in a pretty rough spot even if you're in the right.
It's a question of product, too. Countries only got seriously into the trading game when they had something valuable to offer in return. Portugal's early contribution to the trade was slaves, captured from the west coast of sub-Saharan Africa. They were the first Europeans to really explore south of the Sahara. Pushing ever-farther south for new targets led to rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and opening a new route to India - bypassing the tariffs of the Constantinople and Alexandria routes.
I used to have to pay several hundred dollars / mo after I had a major accident with a personal injury involved and was in my late teens / early 20s in Washington state. The policy renewals were nearly $3k each time for just myself even under my parents’ policy (I was supposed to not be insurance due to the massive claim the company ate). I’ve heard of a special insurance policy for a basically legally blind driver that gets in accidents frequently that costs $800+ / mo.

Even the most bare bones policy I could find after that dropped off my record was $140 / mo for state minimum coverage at 22.
That's the consumer Gmail tos. The gsuite tos is different.
The Rise of the Religious Left
"The margins on it all are what really piss me off."

Not that it's your problem as a consumer, but factor in that your ticket price pretty much all goes to the studio. (correct?) And getting $8.50 for the large which costs $0.14 better than getting $8.00 for small which costs $0.12
Since the Japanese translation was done in 2002, I doubt this article originated in 2008 as is currently mentioned.

[1] http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/python/python-lisp-j.html
No, Google is a publicly traded company.
[Looking for OSS maintainers] kapacitor-unit: production-ready Golang framework
Google Working on Standalone AR Headset ‘Google A65’: Report
Yes, it's legit. See their more detailed story: https://www.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB84858592582314...

Which references "Lexis-Nexis P-TRAK": https://www.alternet.org/story/6981/lexis-nexis_backs_down_o... (2000)

I remember this era of the Internet, and it's astonishing how little the debate has progressed on so many of the subjects. The EU has chosen in favour of privacy with data protection, boosted recently by GDPR. But state surveillance is still an issue, huge insecure private databases are still an issue.

People are still arguing about censorship: https://www.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB84838144911430...

Broadband is still inadequate: https://www.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB84811906424727...

The SEC is still trying to deal with fraudulent securities, most recently in the form of ICOs: https://www.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB84953719050089...

People are still conspicuously flouncing off the internet when they don't get what they want: https://www.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB84963869413930...
DDR4 are the kind those PC builders are buying
Instagram is pretty popular, has a good UX and is built on a webview (ocne a year on a shitty connection the CSS doesn't load and you see it).