skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like their inbox encryption feature, all inbound mail is automatically encrypted with your gpg key. This means that mails downloaded to clients must be decrypted with your gpg key, and it's impossible to read mails in your inbox with their webmail thing. This means that if your device is stolen, your emails (their contents) are still encrypted.
Hortonworks was invented at Yahoo, and open sourcing it got an 8-20% decrease in development costs (in the form of external contributions).

AWS provides high quality hosting.

Hadoop provides a vendor-agnostic environment for writing analytics software.

AGPLv3 doesn't just mean that Amazon can't use your software. It means that no one who uses AWS can use software.
Its important to stop being black and white here.

You both understand each others points.
I wrote that managers are mostly useless

The ones that aren't are worth their weight in gold, though.
Unifi has a centralized controller that each AP talks to, and is able to coordinate roaming. Gives you 802.11r-like functionality but with close to zero setup beyond what's already needed to set up each AP (which is also centralized at the controller, so adding an Nth AP to an existing site is almost trivial).

> Note that UniFi Fast Roaming is not a direct implementation of 802.11r - it is a solution taking inspiration from 802.11r, with a few key proprietary differences. We've found that Fast Roaming provides about 90% of the roaming improvement offered by BSS Transition. However, Fast Roaming does not require client support, allowing backwards compatibility with all clients.

https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004662107-UniFi-F...
I disagree.

The type of city that a big company would say “yes” to is the same type of city that could grow an ecosystem. Big established companies don’t like moving their headquarters into no-where-ville, they like being in places that any number of startups and fledging businesses could thrive in if the local municipality made that their economic development focus.

Look at the 20 finalists for Amazon’s second headquarters:

Atlanta, Georgia;
Austin, Texas;
Boston, Massachusetts;
Chicago, Illinois;
Columbus, Ohio;
Dallas, Texas;
Denver, Colorado;
Indianapolis, Indiana;
Los Angeles, California;
Miami, Florida;
Montgomery County, Maryland;
Nashville, Tennessee;
Newark, New Jersey;
New York City, New York;
Northern Virginia, Virginia;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Raleigh, North Carolina;
Toronto, Ontario;
Washington, D.C.;

All of these places are capable of developing their economy via creating an ecosystem that supports small business growth. And some of them, like Austin Texas and Denver Colorado, already have!

I wager that it’s better to support the 2X growth of 20 local businesses that are already doing 1 million dollars in profit annually (so companies of size ~5-10) than it is to bring in one 20-million-dollar business. It’s just not as sexy.
I assume you're talking about phenomena such as "fake news", and suggesting that the inability to access social media will limit exposure to it. But wouldn't it also limit exposure to a plethora of good things, too? Talking with your friends and family (which is often cheaper than texting), knowing about events and happenings (not necessarily news) and of course learning about and talking about "real" news. It's hard for me to see the benefit or how it would be justified, and for some reason using taxes to target the poor, no matter what it's being done for, seems horrible to me.

The tax doesn't seem to be for the benefit of raising funds for society, it actually seems to be just there to keep people out of engaging in whatever online social processes there are. I'm a member of several Facebook groups (and formerly Twitter circles) discussing political philosophy and radical action. While access to these may be at the advantage of the government (or capital), perhaps they might be of "disproportionate benefit" to the poor. Of course, I can say the same thing about car repair groups, technical groups, etc.

Would you be saying the same thing if Hacker News, for instance, was included as part of the tax?

Blocking access to mass media actually seems to have the same effect as mass media itself in twisting the democratic process in favour of certain powers. Perhaps a quote from my favourite social critic Herbert Marcuse would be relevant to your sentiment:

>Under the rule of monopolistic media--themselves the mere instruments of economic and political power--a mentality is created for which right and wrong, true and false are predefined wherever they affect the vital interests of the society. This is, prior to all expression and communication, a matter of semantics: the blocking of effective dissent, of the recognition of that which is not of the Establishment which begins in the language that is publicized and administered. The meaning of words is rigidly stabilized. Rational persuasion, persuasion to the opposite is all but precluded. The avenues of entrance are closed to the meaning of words and ideas other than the established one--established by the publicity of the powers that be, and verified in their practices. Other words can be spoken and heard, other ideas can be expressed, but, at the massive scale of the conservative majority (outside such enclaves as the intelligentsia), they are immediately 'evaluated' (i.e. automatically understood) in terms of the public language -- a language which determines 'a priori' the direction in which the thought process moves.
Yes, deep learning today is a trade. If we want to be more charitable, we can call it an experimental science -- some work truly deserves the moniker.

The state of deep learning today is analogous to the state of bridge-engineering before the advent of physics: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one... -- everyone in the trade is aware of this, I think.

But that doesn't mean we should stop building better deep-learning models, finding more efficient ways to train them, and improving state-of-the-art performance in increasingly challenging tasks.
Why do you not recommend the USG? I have one and it works great - now to be clear I am not doing anything fancy and my Internet is only 50Mbps.
As a random piece of trivia, in cab signaling was pioneered in the 1920's and implemented commercially by Pennsylvania Railroad the 1930's while upgrading their main line between New York City and Washington D.C. You can see in this photo that the engineer had one indicator that would light up for each signal aspect: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/85/83/3185833fba11b79498ff...
There are 21,000,000 bitcoin ever ever ever.

If you can see that, you can begin to exclude yourself from fiat money which requires centralized control of currency.

I trust rare numbers more than I trust the United States government.
Why would someone want to move permanently to the Moon?

You'd have to be crazy to want to do that. Fortunately, Sol system is inhabited by humans.
"Accurate" isn't a terribly meaningful description. We really need to talk about sensitivity and specificity. If you're looking for a very low-probability event (a terror suspect in a random crowd) then your facial recognition algorithm needs to have phenomenally high specificity to be useful, otherwise you'll be glutted with false positives.

This isn't a problem isolated to facial recognition - many cancer screening tests are worse than useless, because the harm of unnecessary treatment due to false positives outweighs the benefits of early detection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
No need to start punching. Just confront them on their behaviour. 90% of the time they'll back down if you call them out. They're just school-bullies grown up.
From 5 minutes of Wikipedia reading, it appears this requires special support from the router to enable “sticky sessions” which prevent out-of-order packets; or, the device OS itself can “stripe” packets across NICs with special (extra) software to enable that.
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You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
Pkg-json: A formal spec for package.json
It is more due to politics than engineering or logistics. We should have working linear aerospike engines by now. But that project got cancelled(see X-33). We should have had multiple generations of spaceplanes, one half-assed and costly brick did fly, the other was canceled. Many other promising projects met the same fate.
We had time, technology and even the logistics in place for incremental development. Instead, 'we' threw a bunch of money down the drain and have nothing to show for it.
So we are back to basics, but at least we made a useful leap forward (SpaceX re-usability). Once costs are low enough, new applications will come up, which may become a self-reinforcing cycle.
That's what I hope for, at least.
In case you weren't aware of how prescient your comment is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17453471
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> For directly managing bufferbloat, I never understood this to be a requirement. Either technique is meant to create back-pressure on the TCP stack so it can more effectively manage it's window.. and both do that perfectly well.

If you have a traffic shaper being fed by a deep, dumb queue, you aren't giving useful back-pressure to TCP until it's too late. You need an AQM that gives either ECN marks or packet drops soon enough that you don't build up or sustain deep queues of packets. That's the core of what bufferbloat is. The queue(s) in front of HTB in your router might not be as stupidly oversized as the queue in your cable or DSL modem, but they're still susceptible to the same problems when there's no AQM component. Some TCPs do a decent job of backing off when latency climbs, before the buffers actually fill and start causing packet drops. But AQM in the router can more directly observe and act on congestion, and works with older TCPs and non-TCP traffic.
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Tesla is not responsible for the 4 decades long destruction of the american working class.
social media may be awful but willfully partitioning society on the basis of wealth is really bad...
I have no idea why that is, honestly. I think, at least for me, there's always some sort of pressure to have a lot of friends or social interactions. Go on FB, everyone's hanging out with each other and posting about it or talking. Snapchat, same thing. Dating sites everywhere. Dating apps.

But that's about all I can think of. There's probably more going on. I'm just personally thankful that I was able to get that anxiety out of the way via Twitch/streams.
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> the title as written suggests

That is one interpretation (as I covered elsewhere in these comments, "figured out" is used often in to describe discoveries that were accidental in nature. Interestingly, rarely to people complain about the wording when it's a white guy from 50 years ago), and I the fact that people are both jumping to that conclusion here, are unwilling to consider their interpretation might be biased, and feel the need to comment on this when it's already been noted and in numbers that I think are substantially higher than would be seen if the group in question did not have the same reputation, speaks volumes.

Is it actually so implausible that one of more people that consider themselves Juggalos (or associate with the group) notices they weren't being tagged quite the same way when in makeup, and investigated? If it's not so implausible, why is everyone rushing to point out it's probably not what happened, and if it is implausible, why do you think that? I don't know whether the discoverer is a Juggalo. I suspect he's not, from his Twitter feed, but I can't be sure. I've had plenty of friends into similar tech scenes and also into some weird shit (and I've been to a Defcon in the early 2000's, which is all the extra evidence I need). The fact that so many people seem willing to assume he's not and present that as fact (how many people clicked through to the twitter feed it to see if the person was associated with Juggalos?) in a refutation of the title (which only makes sense with that assumption), suggests something to me.
> For example, the person who figured out how to heat food with microwaves (and created the first microwave) didn't set out to do so, he discovered that the chocolate bar in his front pocket melted while working on magnetrons.

Willis Carrier was hired to build a machine to prevent the humidity in a room from making inks bleed at a magazine. He built the machine, which pulled moisture from the air by pulling them onto cooled coils, only to discover that the room dropped significantly in temperature.

He ran with it, and eventually founded the Carrier air conditioning company.
video codecs are not the right tool for this job. Consider subpixel-AA for fonts, partially transparent backgrounds, 4:4:4 instead of 4:2:0 and the ability to zoom as you mentioned.

Block artifacts are really annoying when you try to read something on screen recordings.

And svg texts can be made selectable when not loaded as images, so you could copy straight from the recording.
Realistically, in the UK, it's going to be ETCS with balises: all new build stock at this point either has ETCS in-cab signalling fitted, or is designed for its fitment.

That said, the rollout of the infrastructure side of ETCS is somewhat delayed, but it is happening in places (Thameslink is ETCS Level 2 with conventional signal overlay, albeit with shorter blocks in ETCS; Crossrail is ETCS Level 2 with no overlay).
Steam games using VAC do not fully ban cheaters. They can still play on non-VAC servers. Of course, those tend to be scarce because no one wants to uncheck that feature when creating a server.

Xbox Live: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/microsoft-explains-xb...
I've never owned an Xbox so I don't know how effective it was.
Back when I worked in a place where everyone having an office was common it was probably the peak level of collaboration I've experienced in my career. When everyone has an office it's easy to have small meetings with people (either scheduled or impromptu), and small meetings are where a lot of stuff can get done. You can gain and exchange context effectively, you can safely talk about institutional problems, even heavily critically, without worrying about what management might think, you can easily cover multiple topics because you don't have to worry about keeping your talk short or on an agenda (which is more of an imperative if you are having a chat in an open plan office or having a planned meeting in a conference room). You can also develop camaraderie and friendship more easily because you don't have to worry about your talk about "trivial" things (like tv or video games or whatever) interrupting everyone within earshot.j

P.S. One of the most fantastic things about offices is learning from your peers. This doesn't happen to the same degree in open plan office that I can see, but with the privacy of offices it's much easier to have a conversation open up into talk about various subjects. And those can take the form of a lecture (here's how this system/algorithm/process/whatever works) or a conversation (here's an opinion I want to share about the fundamentals of software development, or such-like). That sort of thing is pure gold in terms of personal development and career advancement, it not only shares knowledge between people and opens up people's eyes to different takes on "the craft" in general, but it clues people in to the idea that it is worth caring about and thinking about fundamental questions like best practices, people management, interpersonal relationships, and so on. Some of the best and most lasting insights and advice I've had in my career have come from impromptu conversations in offices with small groups of people.
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Still have to include closed firmware blobs, Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP) or AMD AGESA firmware.

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#what-systems-are-compatible-w...

Pretty much the only option today with open source firmware is Marvell's ARM. And they recently bought Cavium with their ThunderX2 server grade CPU. Hope soon we'll have it.
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I remember thinking it felt a lot like a series of short stories centered around set pieces, that happened to have some degree of continuity.

IIRC (could be totally wrong) Use of Weapons was the first novel he seriously tried to get published, and Wasp Factory was his first success. I always wondered if Consider Phlebas was stitched together from even earlier material.
>I'd seriously question the OP's numbers of a certain 60-70% capital recovery rate for factories.

Well, first you have to buy a building properly fitted for a factory. Industrial plant property has never ever went down in price in South China. You can't legally run a factory business out of a garage anymore in China.

A factory with a top notch equipment today, will just be switching product tiers as it ages, without going down much in value. A factory, is not just its manufacturing machinery. It is also a well fit assembly line team, cherry picked team leads, on-site engineering, and shop floor knowhow.

And for everything else, a company being liquidated is usually sold as a whole to another entrepreneur. Who needs to pull apart a well oiled machine, which is an assembly line team, just to have to reassemble it later? Cases when the factory business being liquidated is sold above its book value, are not so infrequent.

A no-name shoe factory going bust is either result of a market force action, or the owner being reckless/dumb. It does not mean that the whole idea of a shoe as a product is a failure. It just means that the next owner, must be more financially conservative or needs to switch to fancier kind of shoes to stay afloat. Value-wise - there is not much change in tangible and intangible assets.
I think it's rather that people like Ice Poseidon do everyone else a favor by being a magnet for all of those toxic people so they don't go and be toxic elsewhere.
ECMP handles this just fine by default with Linux (it's per flow aka TCP connection, not per-packet).

You can make of course get it to be per-packet load balanced, but as you note, there are issues with that when you don't control both ends.
> I've only read the books, not seen the TV version, but the Expanse universe relies on the "Epstein Drive" as a magical plot device to ignore any inconveniences of intra-system travel.

That's because they are operating on a much grander scale and there are plot constraints(it would be too slow and boring otherwise).

It doesn't take an Epstein drive to move stuff (or people) to and from Mars. Transit time will be very inconvenient, as wekk as launch windows. But this is not too different from early sea-based exploration on Earth, voyages would take months at a time.

Now, if you want to go to Saturn and back in reasonable timeframes (or even further), then yes, that's beyond current capability.

EDIT: The TV version is amazing. You should watch it. The attention to detail, while not perfect, is outstanding.
If you can write a prototype software in just a few person years that is enough to launch a major business, yet you can't generate more value by being the expert hosts/consultants on it, you are a rare breed.

Who writes a small piece of software that changes the world yet do anything else to build commercial value on top of it?
I've had that happen before. I was gifted a Lindt chocolate bar for my birthday, put it in my back pocket of my loose-ish (not jeans) pants and by the time I got home 30 minutes later, it was completely liquified. It wasn't very warm out either, I remember it being ~10C.
>I've never heard of this.

There's a rap record label in the UK called "No Hats No Hoods", because of the ubiquity of that sign in certain parts of London.

https://nohatsnohoods.bandcamp.com/
I believe the 10/90 number may be from this talk, though I don't have time to rewatch it to confirm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
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This is a really good point. However, I think we really should be making a distinction between skilled and unskilled labor. The reason wealthy nexuses of comparative advantage emerge is generally due to skilled labor. You get a network effect from having that labor after which you may no longer need to offer incentives. The Bay Area is a great place to start a tech company because of all the tech workers/investors/incubators, NYC for hedge funds and IB, Chicago for trading, DC for nonprofits, etc. And generally other areas can experience a similar phenomenon owing to natural resources.

However, I think an area makes a mistake in investing (via subsidies/tax breaks/whatever) in unskilled labor when it’s not tied to their natural resources. The difference is simple: you don’t gain the network effect from unskilled labor because, well, it’s unskilled. A distribution center doesn’t really make it better for a call center to pop up in the same area.

That said, all large business will cause at least somewhat of an incentive to build other large businesses by it due to infrastructure.
Certainly it's possible to build redundant systems properly. But it's expensive. All the well-built redundant systems you listed understand that and budget for it.

Most half-baked redundant systems I've seen are a result of "I want four nines, but I only want it to cost 20% more than a two or three nines solution" type thinking.
Careful, logically this means giving BitTorrent #1 priority when brought to the top.
Amazon absolutely can, it just won't
The Highway Code tables are based on an average family car in the 1960s (IIRC) when the tables were first introduced. They're ridiculously long distances for modern cars, though AIUI the "thinking time" part is nowadays thought to be too low.
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