skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only takes you 20s to start up 50 containers? I doubt I could start 50 alpine containers in that time on my company issue 2015 MBP (Edit: A quick test reveals my personal desktop can in fact accomplish this, but it's much more powerful than my work MBP and has no virtualization overhead since it's running native docker instead of docker for mac).

I don't know about jeffasinger's company, but in optimal circumstances, a test instance of our app running against a in memory h2 DB takes 3 minutes to start. The app internally already performs heavy lifting in parallel, so it's also not clear that running multiple instances of the app will make it that much faster...
Here’s a thought: targeted advertisements sell me crappier versions of things I’m likely to research, while non targeted ads actually aid in discoveribility of things I would not be already thinking of purchasing
Oh, wow, I had no idea. Glad I asked.
Well, I think everyone is pretty sure that there is no intelligent alien life in our solar system, since everything we can see is either a rock, or ball of gas or ice. The only things we can detect outside the solar system are stars and maybe some of their planets, or things much bigger than stars, all of which we are also pretty sure are naturally occurring given their scale. That doesn't leave a lot else that we have observed outside of this Oumuamua object and maybe a few stray radio signals that we can't account for.
As the article says:

> Note - this post is about automating my business social media accounts. I think automating stuff on your personal accounts or using bots is bad.
Of course. If it's only for desktops, you should go with Qt Widgets.
Not all researchers have thousands of dollars available in grants to cover the types of publishing fees that have become common as the burden of payment shifts from readers to researchers. Graduate students, postdocs or even professors may end up having to pay out of their own pocket to get a publication in a high-profile journal that is necessary to advance their career.
Yeah, we've only been dealing with those for 10,000 years. /s
Silverpeas 5.15 to 6.0.2: Path Traversal
50 years is still plenty of time to deal with that especially in todays society.
I don't see any such single letter identifiers on previous announcements.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/cloud-functions-s...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-developme...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/calling-java-deve...
Each loophole has a base, people who care deeply about it. Against this is a vast population that doesn't even know it exists. Closing each loophole is an enormous political battle with very little payoff in tax revenue. If you add a new tax bracket or raise the capital gains tax, you get much more revenue for the same political lift. This is setting aside the marginal value of a dollar for the different populations taxed and the effect of economic inequality on corruption, democratic institutions, and social cohesion.
Your impression is probably correct. For instance, The Economist magazine's editor is finally learning some science during his retirement[1]. Heaven knows what he thought of their tech quarterly supplement for 50+ years...

I suspect Elsevier's upper management layer is dominated by the PPE set of the Oxbridge upper class.

[1] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/01/10/lea...
> Currently the top tax rate is 37%. Would you favor or oppose a tax proposal that would apply a 70% rate to the 10 millionth dollar and beyond for individuals making $10 million a year or more in reportable income?

This simple yes/no question doesn't allow an accurate response. How about splitting it: Would you favor/oppose the rate hike if other tax rates were reduced? Would you favor/oppose the rate hike even if other tax rates weren't reduced? Or, to put it another way, would you favor giving the federal government more money via more taxing on the rich without any reduction in other taxes?

The difference in the answers will often tell you what side of the financial political line people fall on and their confidence in government. Of course, even this is too general of a question.
Everyone should do this with their personal content too. Post to your own website and syndicate elsewhere. That way you maintain ownership of your content and audience, and people don’t need to use Twitter/FB to follow you.
>[warning: cannot be unseen]

Everyone, please look at the FedEx logo. notice the arrow between the E and x? You're welcome.
> Also this is a PR move for Zillow to tell agents that they're on their side.

And more likely that they have something in the pipeline intended to do that exact type of disruption.
Why does it look so swastika-esque? Who's pockets did Slack fill up with cash to design this thing? It's like they literally took the old logo and said: "How can we make this look more like a swastika?". Makes you wonder if there's someone internally with a hidden agenda...
Piketty’s paper [1] gives a break out of U.S. tax 1970 vs. 2004. It looks like this proposal would effectively return the U.S. to postwar pre Reagan era norms? If I’m reading the table correctly the effective rate in 1970 for the highest bracket is 74.6%.

[1] https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/piketty-saezJEP07taxprog.pdf
This an absolutely fantastic post, thank you for writing this. Start Story is also awesome, keep up the good work!
It's not and they know it. You think ad agencies use their best talent on display advertising? Shit no. No one cares.
My PHP Development Setup
I guess I forgot about those "best practices".

Thanks for the heads up.
In Fermilab’s building phase Wilson’s attitude was famous: he would fire anybody not busy working. At one time such a victim responded: you cannot fire me. Wilson asked why not, to which the man answered that he actually did not work for Fermilab. -- Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics

Some down voters here seem to be at odds with the facts.
Please, stop using talking points like "disinformation". So sick of it. The point is that if you create a new tax bracket that is $10 million, there will be many new tax brackets between $10 million and the current top tax bracket of $500K. It is extremely naive to believe that creating such a high tax bracket will be a one off and it's extremely naive to believe creating such a high tax rate won't drag the lower ones a tad bit higher.

Just like lowering the highest tax bracket and tax rate lowered the tax brackets and tax rates below it. Creating a new highest tax bracket will do the opposite.

But then again, it's my opinion not "disinformation".
Incredible article! Brings me back to my EEE days.
I have become very interested in Telnyx recently as they move towards being a next generation carrier replacing the old-school PSTN with API oriented connectivity.
Would highly recommend checking them out here - https://telnyx.com/products/programmable-sms?utm_source=refe...
I down-voted you, and here's why:

1. An appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. However, authority does serve a purpose. People will take Harvard astronomers more seriously than backyard astronomy enthusiasts. Therefore his credentials are relevant.

2. No one, at any point, makes an argument that you should believe anything he claims on his credentials alone.

3. In this world of click-bait headlines and ad-revenue-driven content, this doesn't even qualify as close to click-bait. It doesn't even say UFO, or alien, or artifact, or anything controversial. The title of the article is literally what it is. It is a Harvard astronomers thoughts on an object in space.
It’s a essentially a giant network effect.

Practically, the #1 reason to use a realtor is that if there is an issue with the home that should have been known ahead of time, there is a chain of insured entities that provides legal recourse.

The shop and decide part is secondary to their value, but that is how they are so entrenched. The local MLS in any given area has the ability to cut off access to anyone. Some are even privately owned. In order to disrupt an area, you have to get a slice of listing larger than what’s available in the local MLS and then get more people’s eyeballs on those listings than the combined circulation that the existing MLS feeds were getting...and then still have some means of showing the houses in person.

And you have to do that for EVERY single market you enter.

A young buyer is welcome to shop for a home without using a buying realtor...but there are still very high odds that the seller used a realtor on their end. The only difference in that situation is that the selling realtor doesn’t have to split the commission and pockets more of it.

This is ironic too, because realtors are more valuable to a buyer in most cases and there is more work involved for buyer representative realtors with no guarantee of a payoff.

The entrenchment remains because realtors will often avoid FSBO showings and sellers aren’t interested in experimenting...they just want their house to sell.
I've used buyers agents (1 traditional, 1 Redfin) when I've bought homes since they are being paid from the Seller's Fees and in most states I believe they are legally bound to act in your best interest. I've had a new construction seller try to convince me to not get an agent and would give a discount instead but felt that the risk wasn't worth it especially since most buyers agents I've engaged with have been open to refunding some of the fee if you're doing most of the legwork to find homes, tour them, etc.
I hate PDFs with a passion since it's usually linked to Adobe, which now require a subscription unless you have an old version of Reader. I love the simplicity of Anvil. Rooting for your success!
Interesting to see Google is a Slack customer (google.slack.com). Thought they had a competitive product?
Ahh! So a 'relaxed' style of reading and learning is the way to go then. Not under a deadline, so to speak. Need to get that cortisol out of the system.
Yes, that’s what I meant. I can’t speak to the universal value or practicability of implementing and sustaining UBI :-)
Can anyone recommend a good resource that talks about the trade offs between raising capital gains tax vs income tax? If the goal is wealth redistribution, it seems to me like a no brainer that capital gains is the more effective route.
What I described happens after a few days, maybe up to a week for me. Right after getting really thirsty and drinking a crapload of water and pissing it out (I presume this is for hydrolyzing glycogen...) for 1-2 days.

Like I said, I already wasn't a big consumer of carbs/sugar to begin with though.
The title changed! I hate when Hacker News does this. Before, it was:

> FBI arrests PureVPN user with log data that was said to not exist (justice.gov)

Nothing about cyberstalking. I too figured it was going to be something stupid like piracy.
As the parent comment said, this is reverse engineering just as looking at binaries is reverse engineering. This is actually quite similar to naming variables and functions in a decompiled C view.
Yeah but both free software and open source are well defined terms MongoDB doesn't have power to redefine (sorry guys). It's good to be principled because then you make fewer arbitrary decisions along the way. Your new license isn't free nor open; it's just a custom proprietary license that allows people see the source code and fork; just like freeware software can be "for gratis" but it's never "free software" or "open source". So, MongoDB is definitely proprietary software now. And it didn't used to be proprietary, and I think it's definitely a valid question whether this relicensing has something to do with greed. In the meanwhile, Debian and other free-only distros (e.g. GNU distros) should not include MongoDB.

I'm under the impression that everything in the paragraph above is objective and not subjective. I do not claim it is definitely greed, but since MongoDB did a completely arbitrary move to make license favoring them, it's valid to ask this question. My subjective opinion is that MongoDB committed suicide and they'll be forgotten in a few years time.
I much prefer the (hopefully satirical) Pepsi Gravitational Field [2008]

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Because you can't use these tools on many occasions, they don't always do exactly what you want, and accessing them is slower than using a calculator.

The devil is in the details. Such as being able to quickly switch to engineering notation to display values applicable in electronics.

Also, I often want to do a series of calculations, for which an RPN calculator with a stack (you can see the top 7 levels) is uniquely suited.
In other words: targeted advertising is about making ads cheeper for advertisers, whereas the traditional assumption is that the real estate is valuable and desirable. e.g. companies want their ads in the New York Times or the Superbowl. Targeted advertising is a way of spreading ad dollars out more, which ultimately is detrimental to large publishers as well as being unethical on the data harvesting side. (I choose to adhere to the ACM's guideline that collecting personal information without informed consent is unethical.)
I think I'll have to side with the Nazis on this one.
Even if money were no object, things evolve. AIDS was a surprise. It won't be the last.
YC raking it in this year
Both Scalise and Walker are Republicans, of course.

It's almost like they have an ideological reason to sow confusion on this subject!
Bear in mind that an income can go much further when you can invest significant effort in seeing that it goes further.

And certainly, as Zarel says in a neighboring comment, it wouldn't be affordable everywhere to live on just the BI. It doesn't need to be.
Another sign of the end times. Fall, mountains ...
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. Any particular concerns I can help with?
But it's one less freedom I have. Say I contribute to MongoDB heavily and want to get into the Mongo as a service business, will I be able to without having to pay for the freedom to do it? It's a crippled form of freedom when some things are free as in free beer, and others aren't. I preferred the AGPL because it was explicit about sharing code if you change anything on the server-side.
No, it's not an issue with any one particular company. If there are patent protections on genomes (such as seeds) whether GMO or otherwise, that is unethical IMO.
Up until recently i used to work at a major Indian eCommerce and can confirm that most companies use a mix of the simple heuristics you suggest together with some data mining.

So, they would take your recent purchases, clicks, searches and wish listed products and recommended products from some accessory category or related products. ie. Traditional mining combined with heuristics.

It also helps to have separate widgets for similar products and for cross-sell products.
supposed !== possible
Nature has never been stable especially not for humans so that's hardly a useful premise. If anything we have made it more stable because we are better at handling all the things it throws at us.

I would still ask those most worried to point to a scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change we don't know how to deal with or that they believe we won't be able to find solutions for over the next 50-100 years or so.

Edit: It's funny how downvotes are being used instead of argument by people I assume consider themselves on the side of science.
Most startups fail, but I feel that's not news.
What a strange take.

The 2016 campaign had absolutely nothing to do with the size of the government. Trump's campaign promises included $550 billion federal investment in infrastructure, deporting all illegal immigrants, and providing health insurance for everybody, paid for by the government.
For anyone else who may be wondering, the Washington Post estimates that this would affect ~16,000 households and generate (on the high end) $72 billion annually in additional tax revenue.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-co...
I watched this a year or so ago, it might have been on YouTube but got taken down

http://kachingfilm.com/

It's a documentary about video gambling machines in Australia, quite eye opening to say the least....
A lot of the GOP seats that were held in this past cycle were in very, very strongly held districts. Those are the politicians that are most worried about upsetting the Norquist based SIG. Furthermore, as long as the Senate is still majority GOP it really doesn’t terribly matter to the GOP even if it was 80%+ Democrat in the house. They should be generally comfortable that the judicial branch is now solidly in their favor for decades even if they lose an entire branch now.

You can talk about policies all you want but the GOP are substantially better politicians than the DNC could ever hope to be.
It took Google a long time to monetize the search engine. They were financed by venture capital until they built and ran their advertising business. Once that got going the money started pouring in. Advertising for Google is still the primary money maker for them. People want to call Google a tech company but it's really an advertising company that needs tech to survive,
It was never about people OD'ing on Oxycontin. It is about Oxycontin creating an opioid dependency that leads many to cheaper alternatives (read: heroin) once they can no longer afford Oxycontin.
What do you think it cost to get this slack logo designed from a company that prestigious? I see they also did rolls royce
How many doctors, lawyers, software developers, traders, and other small business people do you know who work for incomes which are substantially greater than $10 million per year? We're not talking about 1%-ers here, nor even all of the 0.1%-ers; the people who would be affected by the proposed top marginal tax rate at all are an extremely elite group. This article claims there were about 16,000 people who earned $10 million or more in 2016: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/01/09/who-would-pay-a-70...
Last time this happened to me I just went to a hotel and asked them to reimburse me (I had to argue but they ended up doing the right thing)
It actually makes sense - they were banning Iranian users recently[0]. How much more nefarious will Slack become? Only time will tell...

[0] https://boingboing.net/2018/12/20/slack-reportedly-bans-iran...
On the other hand, LTE bands are moving down the spectrum (longer wavelength). T-mobile for example are rolling out 600 mhz service right now, meanwhile while I sit here in Downtown Seattle I'm connected to 1900 mhz, so less than 1/3 of the length.
And this has been scientifically demonstrated or are you speculating? When will this happen?
It is also highly debatable whether it is a good use of taxpayer funds to cover thousands of dollars in page charges (which is not uncommon for many journals these days). Think how much money could go towards funding more postdocs, graduate students or researchers, but is instead spent paying page charges to journals...
> its more like a unique identifier

AFAIK they are not ever unique
Using that pre-IPO money I see
Look at the purple space between the colors
They change the way people travel in a good way. I wouldn't be so hateful towards them.
Levitating
Wish they had cameras or smart phones back then
History of Internet Communities
Demoralization and destabilization are their goals with respect to meddling though. See my rather long reply to parent in this thread.
Don’t you pay TurboTax?

A virtual tax accountant is still a tax accountant.

If someone makes a virtual real estate agent to replace real ones, I don’t doubt they’ll still charge a fee.
It's definitely real and used for hundreds of billions in annual ad spend. Perhaps you're referring to effectiveness, in which case that's dependent on thousands of factors.
It used to be that all interest was deductible.
Agreed to an extent. It does have its' place and is definitely very easy to use if you have a limited number of collections, mostly distinct in use and have deeply structured objects.

The ease of clustering is pretty nice for either replica sets or basic sharding, but sharding + redundancy isn't great, and if you happen to have a majority of nodes offline it may never catch/sync up right again which may require bringing on/off new nodes or the whole thing down and restoring from backup.

About 4-5 years ago when a bulk of Azure went down, I experienced this, and it wasn't fun to say the least. Fortunately it was mainly a replica of primary data source for search/display for mostly-read scenarios and was easier to re-replicate the records from SQL in the end. If I were to do it again, I'd probably reach for Elastic first.

It can be very good for some use cases and less than good for others. The clustering is absolutely easier than anything but RethinkDB (in the box) and SQL Server (break out your checkbook) in my opinion.
Well, until they coordinate to change laws at the state and federal laws, facilitating real estate transactions as a non-realtor will expose such individuals to legal action.

Kinda like Tesla trying to sell in states that require a franchise dealership.

Also, the term commission is ambiguous in the context
of the headline.

Do we mean a percentage of sales or an officiating body that controls an MLS or something at the state level, etc?
We disagree in that at any non 0% tax rate, some people will respond by adjusting the amount of work supplied.

The effect may only be measured at the population level to take into account the difference between people, even if we can predict it is likely to be very low close to 0% and very high close to 100
Not having a realtor as a buyer really helps, because you can add that 3% to the purchase price of the house saving you 3% which can be a huge amount in expensive markets like the bay area.
I appreciate having the question asked and answered right here in the comments.

won't someone please think of the lurkers
Not always feasible. Not everyone has a cash to spend on data and lives in an area with good wireless coverage.
Realtors are the #2[1] lobbying group in the country, so it's a moderately safe bet in the short term at least.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000062
Yet, Intuit is one of the largest lobbyists against simplification of the tax code.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
It's not a coincidence.. until it is. You can't make money consistently just looking at price actions (if you did, everyone would be doing it)
What you're saying is entirely untrue [1]

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/farmers-use-of-genet...
Yes, it’s reasonable and entirely within the realm of normal human feelings to not want to go to bed alone while your boyfriend continues a conversation with your male roommate. It is reasonable and normal to feel upset that this desire wasn’t implicitly obvious to your boyfriend.

But the typical response to a minor misunderstanding like that is to make the communication more explicit with a simple request that the boyfriend come to bed and share that you felt upset about it, trusting that your caring boyfriend will feel sorry, make a note and try to do better next time. Not to lead with accusations of ill intent and quickly escalate to a full range of emotional manipulation and threats of physical violence.
The other thing you should absolutely never do, as a buyer, is use a home inspector recommended by either the seller's agent, the seller themselves, or even your own buyers agent. Choose one yourself.

Anything else and they have too much of an incentive to produce an inspection report that will result in a quickly closed sale.
Love it. I'm sold on git but it often feels like I'm in one of those man pages.
Airbnb is great if you want to feel at home when you travel. A hotel room is so impersonal.
LUT-Lock: LUT-Based Logic Obfuscation for FPGA-Bitstream and ASIC Protection
FYI you're responding to a borderline on a throwaway. Don't waste your time.