skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the things depend on the language

getUserMessage(userId, True)

in Python can become

getUserMessage(userId, getUserMessagesFull=True)
I'm going with "yes, it's part of the cost of using Amazon as a service to sell your goods"
Never said they where just that it is the best solution.
And I said I live in austria, where the goverment did exactly that very sucessfully.
I'm just saying that in this particular case, starting a war with North Korea means (at the very least) an artillery bombardment of Seoul which has a population of 9M+. This is a virtually unblockable attack that would (optimistically) kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Worst case scenario, Seoul gets nuked and millions die.

There are other ways to collapse a regime without that kind of collateral damage. The US is not in the best position to do it, however; China is.
during the ICO era i used to read 2-3 whitepapers per day.
It usually was all about decentralization and "how we are going to change the world",
and then right after the sale it will be like "well the world is not ready and blockchain is not there yet so we are starting with centralization" ( in the few cases the product was not fraud).
now, since all the fiat is coming in without a need for an ICO it looks like facebook is not even trying to hide their true intents.
They are just saying it to my face, "We are trying to increase your dependency in our products and on the way creating a new financial device for the big guys to earn more money on your behalf".
I truly hope this initiative will get blocked by the people who FB think they can fool again.
there's also the hobbyist license + SIMH, and hopefully the amd64 port any day now (though that will sadly probably still be for-fee)
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>The only solution is changing the zoning laws, and that requires changing peoples' minds.

For the people who own property, they are choosing laws that best help their finances. You can appeal to some sense of greater good but history would show such a plan unlikely to work.
America is a full blown free markt

NYC? No, it's not a full blown free market by the very fact they have rent control.
I disagree with your implicit assumption that automated access is equivalent to a person viewing the data. Scale changes the results. Technology is making things possible at scales and economies that were not viable before, and people are slow to adjust.

It's one thing to have police stationed at a bus stop, waiting for a suspect to emerge. It's another to network facial recognition cameras across a city or country and log the motions of the entire population.

It's one thing to greet people in a grocery store and offer coupons for your product. It's another to (as discussed a couple days ago) install Bluetooth beacons in a variety of stores, install trojan packages in popular phone apps, and track people moving through stores.

It's one thing to browse LinkedIn for a person's profile, read the bio of an interesting candidate, and email them. It's another to slurp up 2000 candidates and send an email to all of them.
My friend, this is not about the top-hat/monocle wearing rich.

We're talking here about middle class people, your teachers, pharmacists, taxi drivers, clerks etc.
Since he did AI work in the 50's, probably a lot of his work was written in LISP or IPL, which had many of the concepts that LISP later used. Most of his high-profile inventions (Computer mice, Hypertext, Interactive Computers) were first commercialized on LISP machines in the 80s. LISP Machines also pioneered some other concepts such as windowing ystems, graphic rendering, modern networking, garbage collection, etc.

There is a fun little demo on youtube here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk . That shows off a LISP machine roughly as it was written in the 80s/90s.
That's a fair point (which is raised regularly) so we architectured Sqreen in a way that we have a very low security footprint. We stream security metadata (as APM solutions stream performance metadata) so we don't need to redirect traffic. Business information/data are usually not required to investigate a security issue, so we strip scalars from SQL queries whenever we detect SQL injection for instance, and we collect as little as we can.

Re attack vectors: agreed that more code leads to more attack surface, but that's the same rationale with frameworks, other agents (APM, error/log monitoring, etc.) and often less transparent, when running on pre-packaged containers, or even on an appliance (code running on Firewalls / web app firewalls solution can usually not be audited). Our agents are not (yet) open source but are audited regularly by our users.

Sorry to hear about the bug you've hit when you tried Sqreen. Would love to know more directly (PM?) so we can debug it and provide a better experience there. The agents are using a v8 virtual machine to avoid problems of that type (we can’t mess up with the original app logic), so it acts as a sandbox there.
Only 6 months max - that's cheap BT in the UK used back in the day get up to 18 months tax free and 6.5 years on your pension.

Hence a lot of experienced Mobile engineers took the buy out and went to work with the competition and got a pay rise to boot in their new jobs
The classic dilemma of whether presenting the extreme version of your view will shock people towards, or away from your view.
> I worked on several problems of this nature at Twitter in 2012. Hopefully there’s a better way to solve them in 2019...prolly not, but maybe.

Okay, so Twitter has scale. To a first, second and third order engineering approximation--nobody else does.

If you are a mere mortal writing practically anything, pull it all into memory, operate on it to create another copy, destroy the original copy (or let GC kill it).

Embedded programmers might get a pass on this given limited memory (32K RAM)--but that same kind of attitude is getting more and more essential as you start getting Big/Little core mixes on the same chip.

Computers are mind-bogglingly powerful.

I have been completely stunned at how many transactions Nginix+Django+PostgreSQL can actually handle before you need to start thinking about "scaling".
Applied Scientist at Amazon vs. Data Scientist at Google
I have an offer from Amazon for an Applied Scientist role (heavy on NLP and ML) and a Data Scientist role at Google. The salaries are pretty close if justified by the location. My Ph.D. background is in EE with a focus on developing an ML solution.

I have a few questions from blinders that would highly help me making a decision.

Which one of the two (DS or AS) I can expect to grow more in terms of TC and career opportunity? I like the Applied Scientist job description more but Google is also a great company and has a great WLB. I might be easily burnt out at Amazon.

Which one I can expect to have a more challenging/rewarding job?
I appreciate any advice.
Well yes, but we usually segment areas into their own circuits and in a well-built residence the laundry appliances get a fused circuit to themselves (or, at the very least, share one with the kitchen sockets). So your amperage/fuse-trip-point is isolated to that one group of sockets.

Plus as you semi-observe, everything on a socket here is 220V
There are a lot of avenues for taxes, but right now the most ethical tax any western nation could implement is a carbon tax.

Using a carbon tax to guarantee housing to citizens regardless of means, with development planned according to present and forecasted demand, could be this centuries guarantee of clean water or electricity.
Why is my team not doing what I expect from them
Have they solved the scale-vs-security problem? Bitcoin scales badly for the very reason that it is secure -- every miner keeps a copy of the currency's entire transaction history (the blockchain), and wastes a ton of cpu cycles on proof-of-work, racing with others to verify the next block.

Has Facebook reduced the number of players involved in mining? Are they using some other proof system?
It literally and directly says a CUV is a car.

>The term originated in the 1930s, where it was used to distinguish passenger-car based two-door vehicles with an integrated cargo tray from traditional pickup trucks
> but what kind of investor is going to throw their money at Berlin, where their opportunity to make a return on their investment is severely hampered? I just don't understand this stance at all.

This is a deeply American hyper-capitalist stance. I understand you're not American, but it's an insidious American mindset that permeates the world, and must be resisted.

A successful society is not just a rampant pursuit of economics and profits at the expense of everything else.

There are investors who will make their choices about more than just "which decision gives me the most profit at any point in time?"

There are many policies that are pro-business and pro economic stimulation that actually have huge negative externalities on the quality of life of individual people.

And, not to go all granola on you, but PEOPLE is what it's all about. All - society, culture, our reason for existence.

Anytime government regulations are introduced that favour people at the expense of corporations there is screaming of the sky falling and that the economy is going to collapse, etc. I suspect it's frequently not in good faith, and doesn't consider a holistic approach to maximizing human happiness.
>just west of woodside there's hundreds of square miles of completely undeveloped land

And there are good reasons it's "completely undeveloped." Those include:

* No public sewer. So you'll need septic tanks. And the county regs that took effect a few years ago made it more difficult to install a new septic tank even for a single-family home, let alone whatever high density project you're envisioning.

* No public water. CalWater's Bear Gulch district (aka municipal water) extends only to the town boundaries on the east side of the hill. Skylonda Mutual on the west side of the hill keeps issuing boil-water notices when their (limited) water supply gets contaminated and out of compliance with state law. La Honda was trucking in water, or came close to it, during the recent drought.

* No DSL or cable Internet. Even inside town limits there are some areas that don't have Comcast (low population density, hilly terrain) or AT&T DSL (too far from switch, but you can get POTS). Hope you enjoy wireless!

* Limited access in the winter due to roads carved out of the hills over 100 years ago, not up to modern construction standards, that are prone to landslides. Skyline around route 9 was still one lane control last I checked because of last year's collapse, which was different from the previous collapse.

* Prone to wildfires in the summer--there was a wildfire off of Bear Gulch Road a year or two ago.

* No public transport.

* Distance from employers. I can't think of any large employers west of I-280, so you'd have to cross the peninsula on gridlocked surface streets or join I-280 gridlock north or south. Probably an hour drive to Google or almost that to Facebook.

* NIMBYites among the locals, who already say it's too congested.

* Subject to excessive zoning restrictions if inside town limits. This is only inside Portola Valley, Woodside, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, etc., and it's true that most of the land is county, but some of those town boundaries stretch to Skyline. If you're inside town limits, you'll need something like 5-acre to 15-acre parcels for a single family home. This is the very definition of low-density housing.

* Prone to landslides. The San Andreas fault runs along the base of the hill, and the Pilarcitos Fault and others spiderweb through the hills. This can be solved with the application of funds, but it raises building costs.

* The big one, if they can find a way to screw with you, is the California Coastal Commission, which views every act as illegal "development." And it has a bigger budget than you. You will not win. State law is not on your side. https://pacificlegal.org/commission-creep-rule-dis-functiona...

But good luck!
And still I haven't seen any language more Object-Oriented than SmallTalk. Sure, Python, C++, Java, etc. support OO to some level. But in SmallTalk everything literally is an object, which means you can achieve the same functionality of Lisp macros in SmallTalk as well. In Lisp you have data = code, in SmallTalk you have data = program (which is running). In fact, everything is always running in SmallTalk. I'm more than eager to learn more and more about SmallTalk. It's one of those languages with valuable philosophy behind its design (just like Lisp and Haskell).
haha COCK!
Still looks Shitty to me :D
The first part of the PDF from the legco.gov.hk states that it must be double-criminalty, which means the act that the person being extradited must be a crime for both jurisdiction.
There's also no double jeopardy, no political indictments.

Suppose the CE is in cahoots, it then goes to the courts, which has been the least affected because the elites in HK depends on it for their business dealings.
I see a screaming face in the article's top picture. A gaping maw of horror!
What France really want is to tax it (even before it exist)
Rational arguments don't work. This is just a bug in the OS we're carrying in our heads, and it hits a lot of people unfortunately.
Another credit card geek here, and also a conference organiser.

How are you detecting conference ticket purchases?
>>> Then Amazon enters your business space in direct competition to you. Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.

>> What is the relevance of funding your competitor?

> That's not an argument.

Sure it is. It's a great argument. Do you somehow think Amazon is limiting itself to copying businesses on the AWS platform only? No: they'll copy any successful business anywhere.

Unless your business is Netflix, you, by yourself, are not contributing enough to their bottom line to boost their efforts to compete with you. And guess what: Netflix doesn't believe that the money they're paying AWS is enough to hurt their competitiveness with Prime Video. The 10 VMs your company is going to run aren't going to matter.
What about Canada? As the ice thaws, it will be a perfect place to restart after the Collapse.
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It's worth noting that San Francisco is already a large portion of landfill.
Agreed HN can be fairly negative. Especially anything regarding taking a chance or tesla. All those big tech IPOs go back to their HN launch they all have negative comments.
How many of those 27 entities are registered in US and bound by US sanctions?
It’s not being in another region that’s the problem, it’s moving. People tend to find forced moves traumatic and will go to great lengths to avoid them.
Golang Griesemer's experiment to test error's try proposal
There are people who spent their entire career at IBM. If you're willing and able to do that, it doesn't matter so much how many competing employers are nearby. But when today's tenures are under two years, you're going to need to land twenty jobs, not just one.
Yeah, fair
Its a cultural issue. There are a lot of poor countries in Europe and East Asia. Why don't they have a lot of children?

Why do women from Africa and the Middle East, who are given permanent refuge and full material support, still have such high numbers of children?

Dare I say it: I think its also an IQ issue. Deciding to focus and invest in just one or two children takes planning and forethought. For whatever reason (environmental, genetic) some people do not have those capabilities.
If you have over 100,000 threads, then you are at the point of scalability where you probably want more than what Go can provide. Async I/O would likely be better for your use case, because even 2kB of stack per thread is 195MB just from thread stacks.
https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/libra-consen...

This is the actual tech paper, it uses proof of stake (not proof of work per your concern)
Don't confuse unfamiliar with unreadable. There are a large number of languages that don't fall under the 'imperative, curly bracket' umbrella.

For example:

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tour#pipeline...

- https://ocaml.org/learn/taste.html#Polymorphism-sorting-list...

- http://wiki.c2.com/?ExampleForthCode

- https://github.com/bryanjenningz/25-elm-examples/blob/master...

- https://github.com/marklnichols/haskell-examples/blob/master...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215644.
If Libra ends up with 10x more users than all other cryptocurrencies combined, who are you to say what the point is? The existing cryptocurrency space has spent a decade building something that a relatively small number of people are really passionate about but it's the opposite of what the masses want.
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> The client sees just an old good REST/RPC API with no public access to the backend. The client wallets will be no better/powerful than a paypal client app/wallet. There will be no blockchain to download...as matter of fact you won't even be able to tell if FB really uses blockchain behind the curtains.

What is your basis for this? It implies that the fairly detailed whitepapers describing the blockchain are an elaborate hoax, which seems unlikely.
This isn't much compared to the Korean chaebol - have you seen how much stuff Samsung really make?
Next time maybe just don't say something trivially verifiably false about recent rain totals in USA? Look I understand the world is ending. As excited as people get about trivial bullshit, doesn't it seem strange that despite their professed beliefs they've all done absolutely nothing about the end of the world? Maybe that conundrum could inform your future discussion board evangelism...
That seems like a weird analysis. Leaded fuel was available but not exactly widespread in EU in 1999. Their timeline was similar to the American timeline: 1973-1996 phaseout for US, 1976-2000 phaseout for Europe.
As long as those companies do not have any monopoly[1] and do not offer any public service, why not?

They are not free to snoop into information that isn't standard or reasonable. But if they aren't running spyware on my computer[2], they can decide whatever they want with the information my browser send to them.

[1] Do they? I'm not sure wether Linked-in has a monopoly as middleman in job searchers.

[2] How does invasive Javascript stands here? I'm inclined to consider that it's my browser's job to protect me, not theirs. But if they do some very unreasonable things, the blame is on them again.
I'm always curious what kind of setup people run that can not handle a thousand people connecting into HTTP.
>What do you call the chicanery that companies like Vonovia are doing except evil speculation?

What these companies are doing is despicable, but how do you imagine this rent-freeze will change their behavior? They will go looking for their margins via other means if the market is the way it is right now.

>Your critique's puzzling especially because this law only applies to existing buildings

Do you really think that people will Invest in a real estate market that has legislature that is this investor hostile and face the risk of being outright disowned, as also has been proposed in the run-up to this?

I wouldn't touch the Berlin real estate market with a ten-foot pole after this.
Yes of course. I don't get why that affects the privacy policy though. There are occasional false positives and you still might say something sensitive after the trigger word.
You should have left it on 24/7 this is what we did for our Pr!mes (a VAX competitor) disk drives.
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Assuming they have a home in Berlin, the fact that they already live there makes them deserving.
A home is unlike any other material good and the basis of securing a livelihood, it should not be allowed to exploit tenants for profit.

AirBnB'ers and other speculators are of course not deserving at all.
This is why I said I don't want to replace the current system with cryptocurrency. Retail investors weren't prepared to handle the technical requirements. Part of that is on regulators, the other is on naive investors, another part on conmen. At some point you have to have accountability for the result of putting your entire life savings into a new, untested technology.
That doesn't sound very Googley.
Yep, as mentioned in the links in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19952974
>> How do you propose Amazon ship their products? Rail?

> That would be wonderful.

Given the number of prime subscribers, most of the US disagrees with you. 2 day shipping is simply not going to happen on rail.
Yeah, that sounds like a good path for cities to take toward compromise and growth.

To give a counterpoint to my own initial post, suburbs have their own noxious smells and noise: leafblowers, lawnmowers, cars galore.
I think that they plan to create a small network of trusted nodes (e.g. visa) instead of huge networks of anonymous nodes (as in the bitcoin case). If I read correctly the initial network will consists of only 10 nodes.
There aren’t enough public details yet but I think the “blockchain” part is really just between all of the partners, not between the users. So when user A in the US sends to user B in Pakistan, the activity is really only between the two parties which converted the local currencies from the end users. That wouldn’t be particular different from user A sending a Western Union payment to user B in Pakistan.

Conceivably Facebook has all of this user history and is able to make a guess if someone is a real person. Probably they know a lot more than a bank would know. That could take care of some aspects of the KYC issues too.

Using the word cryptocurrency is fairly misleading, because as far as I can tell, it isn’t really one. Blockchain, maybe, but I don’t even know what that word means.
Yes and if all of its housing tilts this way, Japan too will spiral into unaffordability. But most families still live in single family homes that depreciate in value over time.
no they are not, if we have denser zoning, the land on this houses would be extremely more valuable.
We’ll have to agree to disagree about the plausibility. I consider it perfectly plausible that an assistant was dispatched to buy a book for a prize and, having no knowledge of the dire state of women’s popular literature, grabbed whatever topped the best sellers list.
That FAQ answer is misleading. Linux supports thousands of threads just fine. If you have hundreds of thousands, you probably want true async I/O instead of having stackful threads at all.

> But if you were using real OS threads, then that implementation could easily end up spawning more than a few thousand threads, when the server was under significant load.

There's no inherent problem with spawning a few thousand threads in Linux.
Yes, they would be doing something they would be doing anyway, e.g. exercising at a gym, with the electricity generation just a useful byproduct. Wasn't thinking along the lines of something like a Matrix-style human power plant.
Gving the gift of a romance novel to a non-significant other is strange. Please consider that if the gift is from a man, most women would see it as odd at best, a misguided come-on at worst.
Satoshi wanted a world without banks and centralisation. Now his tech is used for the exact opposite.

Just like the Internet that was diverted by big corporations. Let's not make the same mistake gain.
I have PDP experience and that predates VAXEN
The free trial does't tell me anything about how much time, etc.
Italy’s New ‘Parallel Currency’ Proposal Risks the Implosion of Europe
If you mean retargeting then yeah but I don't think it's that simple.