skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a huge Bitcoin fan, but it has proven flexible in cross border transactions. The network can run out of any country. If the USD goes to zero for some unknown reason, you get out and land in Russia, your USD could be worthless and you can only fit so much gold in your private jet. Private keys though? Those go with you, and as long as the network is still live, you aren't broke.

Lotto tickets are tied to a short time frame and country. Macaroni has a shelf life and does not transport well. Bitcoin is volatile but deflationary, so short of a network collapse it will likely retain value.
tell that to my mom
Nine Questions for Facebook After Zuckerberg’s Privacy Manifesto
I would prefer notepad-plus-plus.org rather than some vague "Notepad, LLC", registered somewhere in the world.
This is a great example of why the US government can't hire and retain competent security and operations personal that haven't already drunk the Kool-Aid by coming out of the US military.

It's 2019, get over this. The only way you're going to blackmail someone over pot is because you're on about it, not because it's inherently solid blackmail material.
I like this concept. Doubt I'll ever use it, but it sparks the same nice pleasing feelings in my brain that I get in a library or well-organized filing cabinet.
How often do your computer exclusively runs Chrome? How easily can the OS take the memory back from Chrome to run something else (that one is easy, it can not, except on the last case scenario where it kills process).
wtf.. did that really happen? that's some major bs, i would expect to see the all in price with a last minute site like this
I don't get it either. If you replace the word "FOSS authors" with "big corporations", then sure. But specifically FOSS authors are the kind of people that don't ask money for it -- all of Debian (thousands of software packages just like Notepad++) are signed, but nobody is paying anyone a penny for it...

I really don't get how a FOSS author blames FOSS authors?! The problem is clearly with Microsoft and many FOSS authors don't bother and just sign it with their own, web-of-trust'ed PGP keys.
Google may not be much worse than other FANGs, but the way it pretends to be friendly to open source and free culture communities and co-opts them is nasty.

"Despite illusions in 2008–2009 that it was a fair player, Google is now trashing free culture by making all the Picasa Web images in Creative Commons vanish from the web.

In fact, users and albums are often forced to "migrate" to Google Plus, without telling them that any Creative Commons marking will be irreversibly destroyed in the process. There's no way to mark Creative Commons images on Google Plus. There's also no way to search or browse Picasa Web by license, apparently (the feature used to exist in 2009)."

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Picasa
you mean _more_ harmful than cannabis or?

https://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-marijuana-which-wors...
No, this is about them selectively punishing Elon Musk under the excuse of marijuana use.
It's hard to go wrong for price/performance when building a server out of off-lease enterprise gear, especially with ECC DDR3 being dirt cheap. People might think this means loud rackmount servers, but you can find boards for most form factors.

There's a small scene for people who do this and share builds, so it doesn't take much research to get started.
Short answer: I don't.
You know our whole civilization is based on $$$ == trust. Just wait until you lend money to someone who is going to remind you every month he will pay you back because he is a good person, but you never see the money.
Amazon's are probably almost not used at all, whereas Google kills off products that still have plenty of users, even if not by the standards of Search or Gmail.
It's 2019 now. Try Firefox again. For me it feels faster than Chrome. And it has a reader view. That's on Linux and on Windows. On Mac, I admit, Chrome feels faster. But you have Safari.
Hype-Driven Development (HDD)
Yeah, I'm often one to criticise Google, but an entirely free cloud-based photo album was never going to be around forever. If you are very concerned with keeping an online record for all time you really shouldn't be depending on free stuff like Picasa.
Inspiring! As a middle schooler, I was given free non-destructive reign in my tech class to do whatever I wanted. From that, I learned so much- I set up a Beowulf cluster out of old desktops, scavenged RAM from a pile of unused desktops to get the workstation I found up to speed, and did so much more. [I also mined BTC at school, but I lost the wallet :( ] As one of those people that will do ridiculous things out of intellectual curiosity, it was a huge boon to me. Similar to Lari, I broke my share of stuff, and learned a lot in the process of fixing it.

It is from those days, six years ago, that my passion for technology truly blossomed, and I've been so much better for it.
These are good tips but I find it incomplete without at least a few words about the freshness of the beans at the time you buy them. If you're using stale beans the other steps aren't really going to help.
chrisseaton specifically mentioned "every major hotel chain", which is true. See my other comment listing all the websites for all the big (American) brands showing they promise the cheapest prices on their own websites.

Edit: I'm going to have to retract my comments about cheapest price being on official hotel brand websites. I did a cursory search and find many cheaper options on Hotel Tonight (and expedia) for same day reservations than the brands, and while I haven't looked at all the brand's best price guarantees, at least IHG's exempts them from having to provide the lowest price within 24 hours of checkin, so it seems like a loophole to let them dump rooms for cheaper on third party websites day of arrival.
Advances in materials are probably going to reduce the need for skilled workers. You used to have a wide range of machinist jobs in the US. Now with CNC everywhere everyone is either a "production engineer" (or some title like that) that programs everything or a parts loader/button pusher that makes a few bucks more than minimum.

Obviously this kind of stuff takes many years but someone getting into a skilled trades career today would do well to keep on top of industry developments because the people that do will be the programmers and the people that don't will be replaced by button pushers.
I used it to book a couple last-minute hotels in LA during the holidays. I didn't do price comparisons but I would believe it's not much cheaper. The hotels I got were quite nice, and the prices were pretty good. The whole experience of using it is pretty nice.

On the price point, there seems to always be a $30-40 fee charged by the hotel when you check in that's not mentioned in the app, so the prices aren't as good as they seem. The fee is one time, so if you're staying there for several nights it's not much per day, but the main use of the app is finding a hotel room last minute for 1 or 2 nights.
Why do you need RAM for chemistry experiments?
when is a fee not a fee? why isn't it included in the fee + taxes ?
> Java has the Foo/IFoo pattern.

Are you thinking of C#?
I agree with you. I am just guessing, but this might have to do more with it still being a federal crime and many defense contracts that involve security requirements require a formal review if anyone on the contract is or has been convicted of a crime, or is under investigation. I could be way off though.
Good to know that Jack believes that putting his money in Bitcoin will give him greater returns than having it in Twitter or Square:0 How should that make Twitturd and Square investors feel?
Post I saw from GP didn't give any reasoning whatsoever. Merely said, "I loathe Airbnb." Perhaps it was edited after I saw it and before you did?
Savings of 60W per CPU for equivalent performance works out to be say $60 per year in electricity.

However if your data centers are capacity constrained by total power supply, then you can double the capacity of your data center by going for a CPU that is twice as efficient (2x is the approximate difference that they measured between AMD and Intel).
Haha the guy took one small hit of a blunt and some higher-ups in the U.S. government want to characterize him as a national security threat.

Just goes to show how out of touch with reality the people who lead this country are.
Make will build executables with time limits. A bit hyperbole don’t you think, it’s just some text
Taking Operating Systems 101 will answer your question.
> [..] when Turing raised the cost of an HIV drug to $750 per pill from $13.50.

It wasn't an HIV drug. Pyrimethamine is mainly used to treat toxoplasmosis. Granted a huge target group would be HIV patients but right here that's just spinning a narrative. Shkreli might be a questionable character but that doesn't warrant publishing fake news.
This comment reminds me somewhat of the Oxford and Cambridge interviewing processes.

They have names and educational backgrounds to hand, and it's well known that all things being equal, tutors would always rather go for a kid from a state echool / underprivileged / non traditional background over one that went to a top public school.

It's not just a matter of hitting targets - the alternative is that everyone who gets in is from a wealthy family or went to a top fee paying school.

If everything is blind, you get less of an opportunity to engage in this kind of affirmative action.
Exactly. And the reason why programs that use a lot of memory might feel slower than one with a little is that cache miss rate.

Adding memory often makes an entire system faster (again, because you can cache things in the faster RAM rather than paging out to disk). But for two comparable programs, I could see the argument that the lower-memory footprint program would be faster. (For comparable programs).
If there isn't one now, just wait five minutes
C++'s refusal to maintain compatibility with C while scrupulously maintaining compatibility with some C practices is the problem.

They modified the type system so good, idiomatic C code won't compile, but they refuse to make writing unsafe code any safer in any meaningful way.

They added new syntax and reserved words, again breaking C compatibility, but they refuse to clean up C syntax even to the extent of removing the bizarre octal notation which makes 0100 do something deeply, deeply unexpected to anyone who doesn't know some obscure bits of lore.

Finally, they moved a bunch of real complexity to the compile phase, something C largely doesn't do, but they refuse to replace the file-based system they inherited from C with anything which would make C++ compiles even a little bit faster.
I wonder about the lifetimes and user engagement between examples from Amazon and Google. It's interesting that my off-the-cuff impression is that Google gets into hot water here by letting its experiments 1) run for a long time, 2) acquire a lot of users because "hey, it's free" and 3) sometimes suck the air out of a product segment because #2 (see: Google Reader). Likewise, my impression of Amazon's similar experiments are that they're cut short at a much younger age, with lesser engagement. Now I'm very curious: does the data actually back up those impressions?
I'm familiar with the reservations systems the hotel brands use, and I have yet to come across a situation where the same hotel room is being offered for cheaper on a third party website. It's also their official policies, and as I said, it doesn't make sense to me that they would advertise that and then not set a simple technical limitation in their reservation system to prevent anyone from being lower than them.

Yes, for some specific hotels that don't belong to a big brand, it makes sense for them to price discriminate so that the person willing to pay $500 doesn't end up paying $200, but on the level that the big brands operate, it doesn't make sense to give up 15% of gross revenue for that reason, especially when they have better ways to price discriminate by tiering their rewards members and the rate at which people earn points.

Edit: As jonknee pointed out in another post, the ihg.com price for Kimpton Monaco in Seattle is higher than the hotel tonight price, and by quite a bit, and there's a carveout in the best price guarantee for rooms reserved within 24 hours of checkin. So I guess the best price guarantees aren't really worth much...
Weird article. I kinda expected some sort of example design or products.
> The drip cone maintenance is easy, too. Washing the cone after each use takes only a couple of seconds.

This line really resonated with me. I think there's a general principle at play: simple systems take more effort to use but require less maintenance. It's at the core of the original vi versus emacs divide (although vim with vimscript and its plugin ecosystem has muddied the waters.) Vi's power comes from its simplicity: a limited but highly effective feature set. Emacs users on the other hand often end up spending a significant amount of time maintaining their emacs configuration, which makes their actual text editing tasks go much faster.

In this analogy emacs is the automatic coffee maker, and vi is the drip-cone. At the risk of complicating the analogy, emacs may in fact be able to brew coffee.
I think he meant the same kind of attacks that happened in '90's where you got word docs on your computer filled with malicious macros and now this is all over again as the same attack vector due to widespread of Office360 for mobile.
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Extremely useful. Full stop. Great acquisition. Used it many, many times.

Big feature: geo-specific deals. Makes sense from a business perspective as it's Hotel Tonight, which mean hotels may have excess inventory near you for that night who's rate could be instantly negotiated down.

Changes the whole travel calculation, do you book ahead for peace of mind or wait until the night of to see if you get a good geo-specific deal?
That's what I was alluding to. :)

It didn't exist in 1995, and wasn't clear if it was needed, just like it isn't clear if test drives are needed for Teslas today.
Ask HN: Do any of you who live in the Bay Area live on a boat in the Bay?
Rent is too damn high in SV. Do any of you take this as an opportunity to live on a boat (or some other interesting domicile)? If so, tell us about your experience.
> when you've found the hotel you want?

that is the hard bit right? I guess you can showroom with expedia etc then book with the hotel direct.
Tesla is asking hourly employees to go home early and take time off to cut costs
Computers used to become twice as fast every 18 months. Now it takes about 7 years.
Free memory is always used by disk cache.
Will cars ever be automated? Who knows, but there’s a reason Uber drivers make less than cabbies did 10 years ago. Are you willing to bet the next 40 years of your working life on something not being automated?
Thanks for this comment, it's well thought out and elucidates what the original poster is probably critiquing.

I want to make sure I'm understanding, are you saying that there is no sample size with which you would be comfortable making a conclusion about this? That's what I'm taking away from this comment "the assumption that you can use any formula to establish a reasonable population size Y is absurd."
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I've used it all over the place and it's great. I even opted for it once when my AirBnB host cancelled last minute.

I'm hoping this is basically the expansion that happens. When hosts have emergencies, AirBnB can offer a local backup :)
> I am saying that being able/forced to buy your way in privileges the most organized scammers

This works both ways because legitimate software developers also don't have easy ways of pushing their signed software to end users. Usually step 1 in installing software from external developer is "get my PGP key imported" [0].

[0]: https://www.sublimemerge.com/docs/linux_repositories

I don't mean Linux distro's model is worse or that Windows model is better. What I mean is that none of them is significantly better than the other. Just different with different trade-offs.
> one needs to license the competition's patent

If it is competitor's, but much likely of a patent troll, whom are as many in this area as I said in wireless. Cache algos today are said to be designed very specifically to work around known traps, even if it meant going for suboptimal solutions.

Are you stationed in China by any chance?
Dude, you're just hand-waving at this point. Add up all the gerrymandering you want. Maybe it gets you to 2%. Maybe 5%. Heck, let's say it accounts for 100% of Republican House members!

Wave your wand and make it disappear. The House is now... still Democratic. And the Senate is now... oh dang, still Republican! And the Trumpenfuhrer... still there!

Sounds to me like your electoral boogeymen don't have that much explanatory power.
My hats off to purism for putting in the effort to free people from stinking thinking. Proprietary walled garden surveillance capitalism is not smart choice for people, your kids will be owned and controlled by the goolag. Stop deferring choices to terms and agreements for momentary fomo. If you live without GYTFA Gee-Your-Twit-Face-Azhole you can start to make the world a better place. Unless your paycheque depends on them keep prostituting your life and feeling useless.
"Last mile costs" are what consumers already pay for. The ISPs claim that netflix needs to pay extra or else they won't give their own customers the service that they have already paid for is extortion, plain and simple.

Netflix was already paying for an uplink connection of sufficient bandwidth. The customers were already paying for a downlink connection of sufficient bandwidth. The assertion that it's necessary to hold one party hostage in order to get more money from the other is absurd.

UPS doesn't demand that Amazon pay for its new trucks, and it certainly doesn't hold Amazon packages hostage until they do so. They're supposed to buy their infrastructure with the profit that they're already generating. And ISPs are seeing record profits right now.
New CPUs aren't much faster than the old ones. Going from an i7-6700k to 7700k to 8700k to 9700k gets maybe 10% faster single threaded performance on each step. GPUs are starting to show a similar story. Those Geforce RTX cards barely faster on a dollar-per-dollar basis than their predecessors. Unless you need the transfer speeds, those hot new NVME SSDs aren't noticeably faster than SATA SSDs.

I would building a PC right now, but the one I built two years ago is fine.
Remember this is US you are talking about. You guys have really weird idea of HAS TO TOW WITH A PICKUP, even though a lot of typical EU sedans have better ratings for it.
If you ever had to haul any kind of a trailer you know your fuel economy gets destroyed. Once, in my gas car I nearly ran out of fuel, because in a hilly terrain typically 100km reserve came on and the estimated range was instantly below 20 km

And even if you are not towing a trailer, pretty much anything you put in the bed will wreck your (usually very low for EVs) air resistance coefficients and also murder your range.

While the EV pickup could sell to city-dwelling hipsters, in US culture real-use it will fail badly. It's even more dumb than the Tesla Semi lul
This looks like a good opportunity to discuss something I'm concerned about regarding booking apps. We used Expedia I believe to book a hotel last year and I remember that it charged a $20 fee on top of an $80 hotel room. I believe they had an agreement where the online and in-person price was the same, so the hotel basically ate that $20.

So it's good for them to get the constant business (similarly to how Groupon works) but I can't help but feel that more of that $20 should have gone to the hotel staff, especially maids doing the actual work of cleaning up after everyone.

To me, running a bunch of web services to book rooms could be done on a properly configured computer taking 10,000 reservations a second for ~$10 per month. So the cost for booking apps has got to be mostly logistical (getting hotels onboarded with the organization, paying for liabilities, etc).

My question is, will competition in these spaces ever lower the fees and free up more money for labor? Or are we entering an endgame where labor gets relegated to the shadows?
This is boilerplate new acquisition-speak. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't immediately integrate everything.

1. Buy company

2. Draft press release saying "nothing to see here, folks"

3. Wait a year

4. Company absorbs what they like, discards the rest
Don't most people link at least with basic libraries to help with I/O and other standard operating system interfaces?

Do many people really use the kernel syscall interface directly?
> Is there any evidence that was ever really a thing / effective?

Of course not, the person who wrote that has absolutely no concept of the modern Internet user, and probably thinks themselves materially better than them.
I don't think redux-thunk is the simplest solution. There's really no need to add anything to redux to support asynchronous code. You can just pass the dispatch function around.

For example:

async function getArticle(id, dispatch) {
try {
const res = await fetch(`/articles/${id}`);
const text = await res.text();

dispatch({ type: 'GET_ARTICLE_SUCCESS', id, text });
} catch (err) {
dispatch({ type: 'GET_ARTICLE_FAILURE', id, err });
}
}

In my opinion all this middleware business (thunk, saga, etc.) is trying to make redux do jobs it isn't supposed to be doing.
Reading these comments makes me so happy to be a Linux/BSD user. The hoops you guys have to jump through in proprietary land. Wow, pay $$$ to be treated like shit. It's kinda like those guys that hire a dominatrix to belittle them and make them lick her heel, yet they get off on it.
Its common sense that Elon Musk has no increased risk of betraying his country by publically smoking pot in a US state where such behavior is legal.

When I was cleared to what was then the most secure level, I was instructed by my DIA officer to fully disclose even to the point of slight exaggeration, my felony sale conviction from back in college, and a later misdemeanor possession charge.

No chance of blackmail by a foreign agent when the bad behavior is not a secret.
I've noticed lately that a lot of the "heartwarming" stories I read have a common thread: religion. People do good things not because it makes objective sense, but because their faith compels them to do the right thing. I'm sure plenty of non-religious people do great things too - but I wager the percentage is higher for those who are devoted to something "higher than themselves". (I say this as a person who is, at best, considered non-religious)
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TBH his erratic behaviour and his "disregard" of federal agencies regardless of what you think of the SEC does show that the guy isn't exactly SCI clearance material.

What's next the NRO cancels a contract because of what he might think is some silly reason and then Elon takes to twitter to diss the new spy satellite that SpaceX didn't get a chance to launch?
> That's exactly how all hotel bookings work.

It is? In some countries, perhaps. It shouldn't be, and it needn't be, given just a little bit of consumer-friendly regulation of how prices are advertised.