skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s my understanding that you want to set the timeout in the server code to be higher than the idle connection timeout in the ALB. With them set to the same value, timeout errors will look different depending on whether the application or the ALB dropped the connection.
Many of the low level libraries for numerical computation are coded in Fortran, which is 1-based. So it is a wash in this aspect.
It depends. If you have a variety of employment options, it is easy to follow you “conscience”. When you have fewer options and more personal responsibilities (private school tuition, piano lessons, etc), you start to lose the luxury of working for less pay.
Some of this depends how you measure it. 10x before tax could come with pretty hefty tax penalties compared to ordinary income - it's going to come out at your top marginal rate, and for many of us who already max out 401K options, you can't really shield very much of it. So it comes out to about 7x an ordinary year. By the 4% safe withdrawal rate, you've earned enough to replace about 28% of your normal income for the rest of your life.

That's pretty awesome, but it is not necessarily FU money.
The UI in the 360 is still one of the best UI's I've ever seen and used. And compact at this (don't remember the details but it was few mbytes for all textures used there)...
Yup, that's exactly it. As others mentioned, $2.5 billion of the three billion were credits any company can access. $500 million was related to the site amazon chose, a dilapidated area which the state wanted to encourage development of.

(I mean the specific HQ site within LIC)
As someone who actually lives in NYC and would probably benefit personally from their HQ2 opening since my property-value would probably go up, I honestly wasn't terribly upset to hear that Amazon was leaving.

I am a little annoyed that only New Yorkers are paying the brunt of criticism on this. "If NYers hadn't complained so much then we'd have $27billion of revenue!!". But that's ridiculous; Amazon left NY because they felt like they had resistance, but you wouldn't know this based on the follow-up conversations.
out of interest what would you consider medium sized?
George Hotz Is Working on Tesla's Model 3 Computer
How though? What is the proposal to not hit NIMBYism?

I am generally very liberal with what I think homeowners should be allowed to do. But an apartment or condo next to, or above mine with a rotating crew of guests? I shouldn't need to put up with that unless I agree to it in writing before starting my lease.

There IS existing space marked out for hotels. If it were a profitable business, why has no one starting build hotel 'houses' to rent for visitors?

The reason is IMO price, it would be very expensive to rent out a hotel "house". The reason the AirBnB is cheap is that you are making others eat your negative externalities (i.e. the guys under you get to deal with 2am stomping).
I would be more interested in why needing dynamic typing is such a deal breaker
Damn, that brings back old memories.

As Pioneers, some of us learned taxidermy ;) When we were about 12, as I recall.
Apple Maps, OpenMapTiles, and Mapbox calls it Satellite. Bing Maps calls it Aerial.

Maybe heavily influenced by Google Maps.
Releasing new standards of such a memory unsafe language in 2019 is an irresponsible act. C++ committee should be working to move C++ users to safe languages like Rust.
I get the rule of law aspect, but law leaves room for negotiation for this, otherwise someone woyld have sued the city, no?
The thing about plaintiffs’ firms is over simplistic. Republicans oppose plaintiffs firms that file consumer lawsuits. Patents by contrast are B2B litigation, and the factions there are different. The anti-patent folks are largely Internet tech companies, who usually support Democrats. Many more “establishment” companies, by contrast, are not so strongly Democrat aligned, are relatively pro-patent. Apple, DuPont, Ford, General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and Pfizer all opposed further watering down of the patent system after the AIA was passed in 2013.
I'm not completely sure, but I think it's when you have to actually modify Android code, rather than changing some default settings - i.e. a fork of Android, rather than a distro.
According to Github’s own stats, Japan is eighth in both contributions and sign-ups.

https://octoverse.github.com/people
These are brilliant questions, Krapp! Now that's some critical thinking I want to practice.
To answer your questions:
(1) I'm seeking for a news source that could ignite some "ah! interesting view -- never thought about that before" moments. I think that would be helpful after my getting bombasted by the 5 news channels (which usually shares similar attitude towards topics) every morning and just before I getting emotionally carried away.
(2) To answer your second question, we need to clarify what I meant by "alternative news source." I consume news from China, Japan, and the US everyday. Each country would have its own "mainstream voice," and it would be inaccurate to call any of them "THE mainstream" or "THE alternative." Therefore, my definition of "mainstream" is not country/party-specific.
Rather, I define "mainstream-ness" with accessibility. Which side of the story am I getting bombasted on? Which news channel pops up everywhere on the TV at my local pub, in streetside news kiosks, and in my podcast feed? And what tone/attitude/opinion they share towards topics? Answer to these questions would be considered "mainstream" to me.
Therefore, it's not about "always countering which news sources." I should have phrased myself more like, "What are some news sources that specializes in giving voices to minorities (NOT esp. ethnically)?"

Thank you for your questions. They have been very provoking.
We tend to get concerned when private corporations get so large that they can weild more society-shaping power than the governments of great powers.
As much as I dislike mosquitoes and know they're a health hazard, this is a horrible idea. A whole bunch of insectivores rely on mosquitoes as a primary food source. A single bat can eat it's own body weight in mosquitoes in one night. They really do play an important part in most ecosystems. There are some fairly serious negative consequences to this that really seem to be being downplayed or ignored in the name of public safety.
A sampler of languages is at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K4IbX0OH8pz1qebG5lIa...
Would the bulk of the taxes paid by Amazon be paid back? The article said that Amazon would get $3 billion in existing credits (i.e. not deal specific, just business tax credits) and would be paying ~$27 billion. Seems like a steal for NY.
Yes, but naturalization isn’t immigration.

It was super easy for me to get a working visa to Switzerland when I had a job there, and I’m not EU. Anecdata for sure, but I was hardly the only non-European around. There were even plenty of war and economic refugees around, far more than I ever encountered in the states.
> If google creates jobs in long island city, they would get the same handout though.

Nops [1][2].

[1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/google-to-invest-usd1...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-large-new-york-cit...
I seem to recall Steve Jobs himself saying this at WWDC, so are you saying that he was lying during the presentation?
Thanks! I'll send those links to my daughter, who's in her residency right now.
Show HN: GTFOBins – Living Off the Land
> * Most of these "deals" were put together secretly without input from the public. Millions (or in NY's case, billion+) of dollars were packaged and presented without community input or oversight

> * State and local governments probably shouldn't be diverting billions of their citizen's tax revenue to lure corporations who will only impact a tiny subset of their citizenry.

I haven't been following this closely. What did New York offer Amazon that it does not offer any other company? In the linked article the author states that Amazon would have been claiming existing tax credits. Did they receive anything else (not offered to any other new businesses)?

If so, the linked article seems to be presenting the argument in bad faith.

If not, you seem to be describing the offer in bad faith.
Are platforms like YouTube meant to be neutral? I never expected it to be. I don't expect to find terrorist beheading videos on there.

I applaud YouTube for taking a restrained but decent step to help this crisis.
Personally, I think the PowerMac G5 design is pretty timeless. It could fit right in with the rest of the unibody Mac designs.
The surface area of C++ 17 is so huge it's already largely a write only language (impossible for a normal maintenance programmer to have learned and mastered all the syntaxes and idioms). I'm not looking forward to trying to maintain a C++ 20 codebase that a bunch of architecture astronaut devs went wild on.
what could possibly go wrong.
>the media have done a terrible job reporting this.

I believe that they've reported it the way that they wanted to. The media knows that outrage sells, and when the public is already suspicious of rich tech companies, there's no reason to accurately report the facts.

Here's a personal anecdote. My mom thought that Amazon was outright being given $3 billion to come to NYC, and said that it was unfair that they were getting the money before they hired anybody. She didn't even know that the tax credits were performance based until I told her.
http://restsql.org/doc/Overview.html is pretty awesome. Same guy who wrote YAML spec I think.
Thanks. I'm mostly familiar with plaintiffs firms doing public-interest class tort and antitrust. And there, memorial photos with Clinton and Obama were the norm.
This is common practice in Japan. We desperately need our own anti spam legislation.
Name is brilliant. Well done.
Amazon isn't taking money from the government. They're getting a relief of $3 billion IF they fulfill their promise. I'd take 25k-40k jobs for my people over $3 billion in taxes any day. As the director quoted the governor, the best social program is still a job.
> The surface area of C++ 17 is so huge it's already largely a write only language

You don’t necessarily have to use every C++17 feature…
2 reasons:

1. Lispers often find s-expression syntax easier to edit for many applications. So it's not surprising that a lot of the folks who design languages in Racket also might choose an s-expression syntax for their language design.

2. By using the same (or similar, in the case of Pollen/Scribble/...) syntax as the main racket language, it's easy to give access to the full power of racket in a DSL.
I have mixed feelings.

On the one hand, C++ has created generations of Visual Studio GUI addicts. Imagine how much further software would have advanced by now if the average person (a Windows user on a crappy laptop) had good, free tools to make web and mobile applications. Two things VS and C++ are just really bad for, if you inhabit reality.

And all those stubborn people who are going to reply insisting otherwise, how much better would the world be without them? Just kidding guys, hang in there.

On the other hand, less competition! Long live C++!
Patent trolling has been around well before trump came into office. Id argue the two have very little to do with each other.

It's not like America just went bad suddenly when trump got elected. We've had issues like this for a very long time. It's just easier to see the corruption now when the guy in charge isn't pretending to be nice like all the other ones.
> It's not an obvious choice whether they should be free to not vaccinate their children or not.

I mean, it really is. Not vaccinate can lead to death, not always but it massively increases the risk to the point that I consider it neglect. Just as a child left on the street may survive, it doesn't stop the path that put that child on the street being termed "neglect".
What's wrong with giving Amazon billion dollar for building an office? Just to put it in perspective, lets say they would create 30000 jobs with average pay of $80000/year. That is $2.4 billion in just salaries over single year. According to random tax calculator I found online it is about 0.7 billions in taxes every year.
This is crazy ROI. If I could put money which would have 70% safe yearly return that would be insanely awesome investment.
Yeah, everyone hates Facebook, but is there anything new here? Targeted advertising based on location and relationship status? That's not a secret, that's one of the biggest selling point of their product. Can someone explain to me why should I be outraged?
What Are the Other Foundations of Mathematics?
Yep. They are using Indeed talent and culture to help drive their expansion.
For billions of dollars of tax breaks? I don't think it's asking too much. Washington State manages to have non-binding advisory votes on topics just like this without much complaint.
One based indexing is used in tons of domains within mathematics.

Fortran chose 1-based indexing for a very obvious reason...it was the best translation from the mathematics literature that they were trying to implement. Because matrix notation uses 1-based indexing! MatLab, a language designed specifically as a high level language for matrix mathematics, chose it for the same reason. R, a language for statistics, chose 1-based indexing because it is a statistical language, and counting is one of the most fundamental operations in statistics, and 1-based indexing is the form used for counting.

Mathematicians obviously have no problem switching back and forth between 0-based and 1-based indexing for different domains, so it boggles my mind that computer scientists have turned it into such a huge holy war, and even more mind-boggling that 0-based zealots claim to have mathematics on their side.
> helping the civilized world get rid of the barbarians would be an honor.

Sounds like you basically want to help out with a genocide.
True, and finding good talent here which is good with new tech is also quite difficult.
That is a conversation with who you work with. You don’t use all the tools in the garage but are really happy they are there when you need them.

Also, a large part of modern c++ is that simplicity is not only better for people but for compilers.
> Most of these "deals" were put together secretly without input from the public. Millions (or in NY's case, billion+) of dollars were packaged and presented without community input or oversight

The letter specifically addresses this. That $3B was effectively a loan with massive ROI.
North Korea is not recognized as a state by a few countries, but if I told you that there was a server there in Pyongyang, I doubt the location would be ambiguous. The point of this system is to provide a rough location, not an exact one. If you cared about an exact location, you'd just include latitude and longitude. But that's not useful for compute availability purposes, since you likely care far more about the laws of the state that it's housed in and the connections it has to nearby metropolitan areas. A pile of numbers does nothing to help you remember where your VM is.
Reads as unreliable (presumably factually accurate but too motivated to be trusted as presenting a full picture).

Anybody who pretends to be thinking about "loss for the city," is full of themselves. It's all politics, and disingenuous to imply otherwise. And morally, most other areas in the country need this more than NYC does.

It sounds like the thrust of the article is "Look how stupid the decision making process was!" Well, true politics is petty and unreliable especially at large-scale. But that has no bearing on the larger issue.
Government funded. Drug research is an obvious benefit to every single person.
Anti-vaxxers aren't a protected class. You can have it both ways, I don't understand why there's always a desire for clear-cut principles. Life is grey, and blurry principles are much more adaptable to changing circumstances.
Hey, thanks for trying to reply substantively. You haven't understood what I was saying, which is fair enough because I didn't present it very clearly probably. The line where you start talking about something else is this: "So you’re saying I have a 1-dimensional, ordered set S, whose elements are real numbers". No, I'm not saying that.
Firstly to define the question as Djikstra does: we're arging about, if I have a list L, and I write into my computer L[a, b], which elements of L are returned?
My argument is kind of a physical metaphor, take the real number line as a physical axis (like you're doing physics), and take a load of toy trucks that each have length of 1 (I guess you choose your coordinate system to make the length 1) and put them down end to end. If I was a physicist, and I asked you to pick up 3 trucks starting at 0, and I was using real numbers and a vector I'd say it like this, pick up the trucks in the range [0, 3) on my axis.

Now if you choose 0 indexing + (closed, open) for your slicing, then a (python) programmer would say to another programmer, take the slice [0:3] to get the 3 trucks. So the slice numbers correspond perfectly to the vector description of the space that the items occupy. That's why in this slicing system taking L[a, b] then b-a = the number of items you get. Because it's matched perfectly with a real-number vector description of the space the items occupy on a real number line. All the other advantages like (I can describe an empty interval: [0:0]), I can describe taking the last element and it feels right [-1: 0] follow from this physical-space homomorphism. That last one: in a circular (modular?) space, walk left 1 and then come back right 1 and pick up the element you pass over. In 1-based: [0: 1] = the last element? I don't know if any languages do this but either you can't and that's sad or you can and it is incredibly counterintuitive.
He is like the true Stalker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
From what I know about the tech/talent there, it won't be happening any time soon
GiGo still applies.

(US-centric view, YMWcV)

Sadly, the mechanisms for feeding data into these various databases are held as confidential under the auspices of protecting the TTPs. This makes it impossible to have proper oversight from people who understand data lifecycles (I am not counting myself in that category). The courts, the usual remedy for this sort of things, aren't as helpful, because a) they rely on a specific case to be brought (see: Stingray devices and coirt cases being dropped to protect them), and because "parallel construction" is, sadly, a thing.

While keeping TTPs (tactics/techniques/procedures) isn't, on it's face, invalid as a reason, for public law enforcement that seems to be iffy. There is already a whole list of things which slews the power dynamic towards the gov't, the public LE agencies should not be allowed to claim secrecy as one of them.

They want to be secret agent? Sure. But the rules are waaay different, and you don't get all the nice comfy protections already codified into law, then.

The sherrif's deputies in this particular story are in an inenviable position. Odd that a stole car (rather than a carjacking) required a response involving threats of lethal force to ensure compliance, but aside from that, they had no way to know what the specific circumstances were until they investigated. Wonder if there wasn't a more effective way to determine innocence (was the car search necessary, or just conducted because they could, while they already had the car pulled over and people in custody?)

Doubt anything will happen from the suit. Maybe that particular database's procedure for data accuracy will be examined, but probably not.
Quote of the Day:

"The seventy percent of New Yorkers who supported Amazon and now vent their anger also bear responsibility and must learn that the silent majority should not be silent because they can lose to the vocal minority and self-interested politicians."
The algorithm for generating those tokens is explained in the Lexical Analysis reference[0], and a quick look at the cpython source shows the logic is implemented in Parser/tokenizer.c[1].

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#in...

[1]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Parser/tokeniz...
What you're saying is not exactly true. It's not necessarily competition from PE firms, it's high market value of good businesses. From the letter: "In the years ahead, we hope to move much of our excess liquidity into businesses that Berkshire will
permanently own. The immediate prospects for that, however, are not good: Prices are sky-high for businesses
possessing decent long-term prospects." What you're saying about competition is more true in a low growth regime (Europe pre-industrial revolution) in that too much capital kills return on capital. However growth rates are high, and will continue to be high for the foreseeable future, and return on capital in general will still be really good. Theory aside, the thesis of Berkshire is making good investments at a low price, and running businesses - of which Buffet's 'star power' is a more marginal factor in my opinion.
Placeholder Images with CSS3
Empire State Development was to award Amazon a cash grant of $325 million from taxpayers. This is corporate welfare and a kind of corruption. Congress should ban all government subsidies that are one-off and negotiated in secret with individual companies. There's an equal protection under the law issue.
And, a whole lot of the new features are there to replace difficult and verbose common uses of old features.
I think we all agree that fission AND fusion are involved in a thermonuclear weapon.
I mean, I'm cheating a bit. These levels don't have any of the actors or interactive elements per-room. The lighting and animations are probably the biggest thing that contributes to the "stunning" quality -- try turning off vertex colors in the Render Hacks panel.
Rezoning and eminent domain, resulting in massive windfall for Plaxall
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/plastics-company-a...

(Yes, some of that land is being purchased in a private sale, but its value is now significantly greater because of the city's rezoning and ability to stich-together workable parcels through eminent domain)Long island City residents aren't terribly happy about that.

Then there's the whole Excelsior tax credit scheme which Amazon really stretches. It's normally just 6.85% of wages per net new job. Amazon's is significantly greater. https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program
Would be nice compare with a curve of guns vs life satisfaction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model )

I believe I could draw such a chart but sometimes actual data contradicts ones beliefs.
I would rather we didn't have to have "heartwarming" stories like this at all.
Dude, just stop. We're trying to read the thread and you keep coming in with novel-sized replies about nothing!
>The seventy percent of New Yorkers who supported Amazon and now vent their anger also bear responsibility and must learn that the silent majority should not be silent because they can lose to the vocal minority and self-interested politicians.

This like makes me frustrated. It shouldn't be everyone's responsibility to go on twitter or wherever and be loud. Maybe politicians should put in real effort to learn about who they represent. They could engage in the same kind of polling they do during election season, rather than just paying attention to whoever is loudest.
> When I need 3 adjoining bedrooms and a space that will take dogs, a hotel is going to cost an absolute fortune in comparison or be actually impossible to find.

Board your dogs at home.

It's impossible to penalize dog owners for not cleaning up after themselves when they're skipping town in a few days.

This is why zoning laws prohibit renting in residential areas - because you can't threaten people who don't live there into good behavior, because they're not around long enough to actually be punished.
I consumed a lot of books with Audible last year when I had a commute. It's amazing how much time you can fill during those getting from A to B trips.