skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two corrections: 1) We are not using Go in all of our servers. Java, C++, and Python are very prominent. Go is just getting started internally. 2) Dart is being used internally, we won't be dropping it.
In most cases, that's probably true. I'm not apologizing for all US policies.
Where I live politicians don't demonstrate any unwillingness to raid funding sources like tolls and property taxes whenever they run out of money. That's probably how we got here in the first place.
How does it compare with ZeroMQ? Looks to me they have some overlaps for the message batching part.
Inexpensive labor will ensure that the "fixer" mentality that was strong up through the 1980s and even into the 1990s is long gone.

Back in the day when you paid $300-500 for an appliance or consumer electronics and could get it repaired for $35-70, it made sense. Today, labor rates put repairs at $90-120 for products that retail new for $150.
So the customer doesn't know the order came from amazon, or the true price of the product?

I'm guessing this is aimed at resellers. They likely wouldn't want the end-user knowing this info.
Also, the teletype version:
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Perhaps because the world is not a hard dichotomy and people can see elements of both stories in current events..? Add on top of that the current popular story of persistent surveillance via the NSA, and it's not huge leap to get from NSA to Big Brother to 1984.
Never trust any service you aren't paying for.
Blue lighting?
I think unmanned aircraft will always be more expensive than their manned counterparts of similar size. The base flying platform will be a similar cost, with or without the ability to carry a person. And there must be additional computer, radio, and sensor equipment in addition to the base airframe.

It's a different story for smaller systems, of course. Anything under 100 lbs will certainly (eventually) cost less than a manned aircraft.
But standardization, a strong goal of the project founders, will.
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How the NSA's High-Tech Surveillance Helped Europeans Catch Terrorists
Smaller drones with worse optics should be cheaply producible. With large numbers of such drones, lower altitude surveillance with greater redundancy of coverage would become affordable. The computational costs associated with patching together the key-hole views provided by a swarm of fungible drones could be offloaded to ground-based computational resources.

In my opinion, the result will be a net shift towards favoring many small cheap drones coupled with fancy off-board image processing. Though, one or two large expensive drones capturing monolithic images with great onboard optics should remain the better option for some situations.
Right next to the "Works better on Firefox" badge for asm.js?
"At this time there was no issues with NSA to relate to though so thank you for this comparison."

When were you in high school?
Periodically in my local paper there are articles where the reporter is scratching his head trying to figure out why there are people on the streets when we have open beds in the shelters.

The people on the streets say they'd rather be there than in the shelter. Some of it is because the shelters don't let you bring in weapons and don't allow people in who are under the influence. But some of these guys are homeless because they're an extreme case of a person who doesn't like to be told what to do.
Yeah, I'm not sure why the Economist built their argument around a problem with payment times that is basically solved on every bus service I've ever used on a regular basis (even the one without RFID had a "no change given" policy and most users had bus passes). There are arguments for subsidising public transport but "inconvenience of paying" isn't one of the more credible ones.
I'm curious: Is Spotify the future or iTunes?
I have always thought that the most enlightening aspect of 1984 is its commentary on the ephemeral nature of rationality, and it disappoints me how often overlooked this theme throughout the novel is. There is an overwhelmingly mainstream misconception that our modern western use of rationality and empiricism is inherent to human thought- in reality, it isn't even universally applicable to our own "enlightened society".

One of the climaxes of the novel is when Winston finally believes that 2+2=5, and he does so because Big Brother says it is so. In general, we tend to believe that belief is something which must inherently rise out of empiricism; all of us reading this believe 2+2=4 because we have seen and understood the mathematical and logical reasoning behind this. However, the spectrum from daily emotional irrationality to politics to religion tells us that human beings do not base a large number of their beliefs in empirical reasoning, but in something unscientific entirely.

Thus, the most important part, in my opinion, of 1984 is not about authoritarian censorship or surveillance, but rather the creation of a delusional society. This is also, even in light of the recent scandals, far more applicable to our society today, when modern conservativism is both willing to be ignorant of scientific and social evidence, and willing to lie to the degree that they have believed their own lies.
Nice. Good job!:)
If its manually done... then this an example of how not to do automation.
And probably much more importantly you're exposed to their data mining. They get to monitor what products you buy directly so they can help refine their recommendations.
I think this is a great response and I hope more people pay attention to it. What many of us think of as a triviality is actually an issue that can harm a person's career, and thus limit support from those people. Whether the issue is real or not (and I have no doubt that it is), the mere perception is enough to prevent some people from supporting a worthy cause.
I would have to imagine that if you order things with that regularity, wholesale would be a cheaper option than via Amazon.
Any legitimacy to this? Would be fantastic...
Somehow the site manages to break almost every method of scrolling in opera. I can't use the scroll wheel on the mouse, nor arrow keys, nor page down, nor spacebar. I have to scroll by grabbing the scroll bar.
>Food stamps are demeaning because they send the message that those receiving them cannot be trusted to choose how to spend that money wisely. //

So your starving and need food, the community has a whip-round [an impromptu collection] someone takes you to the supermarket and buys your shopping.

Your response is what, gratitude or "that's so demeaning".

If one feels embarrassed that one is getting more out of society than they're providing in benefit - I assume that's the source of feeling demeaned by charity - then one can work to improve that position. I don't think I need to start listing things you can do for free that are public goods, do I.
Has anybody else noticed the similarities between this design and Stripe?
Seems reasonable to me. It's a free service and if you haven't used it in over a year then it's up to you to preserve it.

I think the title of this post could be amended to make it a little more reflective of the actual post.
Facebook rolling out ability to insert images natively into comments
That would be difficult to compute, but probably less than you might figure. A 15% increase in bus ridership is going to increase either bus weight or bus frequency, and a bus is harder on the road than a passenger car. Not 15% harder, of course, but not 0% harder either.
There are lots of similarities with 1984:

Eternal war against an ill-defined enemy

The perversion of everyday language in order to hide the truth

Rewriting history frequently so that what becomes important is allegiance to the party rather than the truth (first Obama opposed mass surveillance, now he's for it).

The impression of ubiquitous surveillance, and the use of technology to control the masses, even if its not clear just now much there actually is (NSLs etc)

Two minutes hate, where hatred is channelled at an arbitrary, abstract enemy (talk radio)

Indefinite and secret detention, and of course torture

Information strictly controlled and the truth at a premium (this one is more like Kafka I guess)

I admit there are elements of Brave New World that fit very well too (particularly those highlighted in that cartoon), but lots of other predictions of 1984 do chime quite nicely with the current situation in the US (even if the society depicted is absolutely nothing like the current US in many ways).
Can you say which internal projects are using Dart at Google? Were they new systems, rewrites, or evolutions of existing JS systems?
Looks pretty cool. While you are building stuff, can you add in dynamic alerts so that I can create alerts around events I care about?
That's completely different from, "being rejected from jobs, loans, schools, airline flights, credit scores, tax audits, passports, arbitrations, etc and there's no appeal process for any of that."

Obviously no-fly lists exist, and obviously they're not perfect. Not sure what your point is, friend.
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I don't even know what anything in your post means. You are correct that haskell is not an OOP language. You are very confused beyond that point.
Started? Not so much (I think)...rather made some stupid decisions so that it went public.

To me the real question is: Who is fighting (nationalities, companies, individuals)? AND: Are the combatants attacking who they think are their targets or just some enemy so that we are entering a circle where informational warfare is simply being carried out for the sake of being able to do it?

I can imagine one party going for another when indeed they have the same goals...
I wonder if that was a rational decision. Is the cost of authenticating higher or lower than the revenue gained from tourists? If the revenue difference is actually that large, they probably could have just rolled it into the typical "hotel taxes" most places have.
What's with all these startups taking so much design inspiration from Stripe?

https://www.shirts.io/

https://zinc.io/
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>Brave New World centers largely around the use of drugs to regulate the populace

Drugs are NOT central theme in BNW it's just simply a metaphor. Super king burgers, reality TV, NFL, wrestling, facebook, MTV, in essence all pop culture is SOMA of nowadays

"Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"

Bill Hicks
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I would wager most (or at least a very large %) people involved in drug crime on the supply end, or on the demand end of harder drugs commit other offences or are likely to in future.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil

"Banality of evil is a phrase used by Hannah Arendt in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Her thesis is that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal."
But what's stopping them from collecting the affiliate fee?

This narrows the use-cases for this quite a bit. Not only are they forcing you to forgo collecting the fee yourself for somebody you referred to Amazon to make a purchase (assuming this is a service/app you've created), you have to pay _more_? So really, depending on the model, you'd have to mark up the Amazon product ~10-13% just to cut even.
Expecting LeaseWeb to sit on these servers indefinitely without any communication with Kim is unreasonable. While what happened to MegaUpload is a travesty, expecting their hosting partners to share collateral cost/damages is unreasonable given their other obligations.

As stated in the other thread, I think what LeaseWeb has done is fine and Kim should reconsider his comments. In a similar situation, I doubt he would have done otherwise.
My personal favourite instance of the trope is Trigger's Broom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(Only_Fools_and_Horses)

Thanks for the link to something much, much older.
Food stamps were meant to be demeaning. Being poor is considered a moral failing in the USA.
Why the comparison with Apple? Apple doesn't use a proprietary language.
Not just high end in the US either. My old Mini had some issues and they handed me keys to the closest thing they had available on the lot (another Mini).

I wouldn't consider Mini to be a high end brand... and I didn't exactly have the nicest car they made. But the dealers always seemed to go out of their way to ensure that any downtime was as pleasurable as possible.
He did find the money and he chose to make mega.co.nz instead.

Everything else is just a plea for attention.
> You have no other choice but to restart it. No big deal, really;

Losing a server to a rogue process for whatever reason used to be a big deal. Sometimes you even set resource limits...
Thank you for linking to your article, it was perfect timing as I'm about to throw up a tiny Ruby/Sinatra/PostgreSQL site I've been making for a local need. The quality of my actual code aside, I understand that servers are incredibly complex beasts, especially when it comes to security, and I want to ask (And because of their complexity, I assume it's a small question with a huge, complex answer), how relatively 'safe' would I be following a guide like yours along with other ones that specify some simple, good practices for setting up a server?

By safe, I mean in the context of the server getting hacked. I know people wouldn't bother but I'd rather at least feel a tiny bit safe. I'm going with a VPS (Digital Ocean) too so I can slowly learn all these things.
When did I say all possible outcomes are equal? The most likely scenario is not a sudden explosion of yields but a gradual increase in yields. Other possible scenarios are low yields for much longer than you expect, or your "armageddon" scenario where yields jump by a few hundred basis points in a year or something. If you don't believe central banks can keep rates low for another decade in the U.S. see: Japan. (Don't assume I am claiming this is a good idea, I am just explaining the reality of the incredible leverage central banking has.)

If you buy a 10% discounted tax free bond fund (a taxable equivalent of a 9% yield currently) that has medium duration (~6 years) then you are fairly well cushioned from gradually rising yields, as the fund turns over and moves into higher yield bonds your distributions should increase. In other words, all of your fears are not hidden, secret, insider knowledge, but are largely getting priced in at this point.

The biggest risk with long-term CEF muni bond holdings is not interest rate risk (since you don't have to sell them, you have a 10% cushion, they have moderate duration, and a large enough spike in yields to really impair your principal is a pretty low probability outcome. but again: you don't have to sell them.) The real risk is inflation risk. And this is what I said in the Disclaimer:, which you seemed to not read. Also, your viewpoint seems to indicate the best assets to hold are gold and cash, and the cash side of your portfolio is going to be exposed to the same inflation risk as your bond coupons. There's also risk of default, but you can find national funds that are well diversified, etc, so this doesn't seem to serious a concern either.

edit: Also, one thing you are overlooking is that if the shit hits the fan, there is a lot of greedy, borrowed money in equities right now, both people chasing dividend yield and people chasing capital gains now that we're in a bull market, thanks to the Fed's bubble, that will head for the exits. It will go where it always goes: government backed fixed income and money markets. This will cause downward pressure on yields in the scenario where Fed moves cause a panic in the stock market, even though ironically the Fed doesn't even buy equities, it only buys bonds.
I still see that as dissonance. On the one hand, they believe in the US, in our rights, in the freedom of speech, and in the need for us to blow whistles on government actions that violate those rights.

But on the other hand, someone who seeks asylum from a tyrannical government who would illegally violate those rights and possibly torture or indefinitely detain them is clearly a bad person. Even though this is very similar to how our country was founded.

I don't see how those two views are not entirely contradictory.

And that's what the mainstream media has been focusing on in this case: he fled to China. That's the only important thing. Clearly he's guilty. Clearly he's a treasonous anti-American. Is he a Chinese spy? It's all borderline defamation at this point.
As someone professionally responsible for maintaining and extending a legacy GWT project, I couldn't agree more with this view.

I'm no longer willing to tie my career to google's fickle attention span. Particularly since as I understand it the dart team has some of the same personnel from the old gwt team. They are masters at the art of soft deprecation through neglect.
You'd think, but you'd often be wrong. If you're a small retailer, even with the "wholesale discount" ordering from the major US wholesalers, you'll still be undercut by Amazon fairly often. You don't get the equivalent discounts until you're ordering tens of thousands per order from individual suppliers, if ever. That means you're not just a busy store but a busy chain of stores.

My parents own a health food store. They pick up a few of the products they carry whenever they're at Wal-Mart, because Wal-Mart's retail is below the manufacturer's wholesale rate for them. Obviously they don't make much margin on those things, but their customers want them to carry them anyway.

Amazon is fine with acting as a supplier for other stores. They will take sales tax exemption forms for reselling their items.
If Google submits Dart to an independent standards body that has a governance model that includes other interested parties e.g. Mozilla, Apple, W3C, and doesn't make Google king, and if Google agrees to adhere to the standard and not just rush ahead with a de-facto standard reference implementation that people write anyway to because it's in Chrome, and if other browsers widely integrate Dart, then it would no longer be proprietary.

Until these things are achieved then it is absolutely proprietary and claims to the contrary are based on a PR position about a possible future that could easily be de-prioritized or never come about.

I could easily see developers jump on board this 'soon to be standardized' language, only to see an announcement that 'Other vendors didn't join up, so we have been forced to go it alone' from Google.
True. It is nice; however, to see a big project being developed side-by-side with the language.
It definitely does. I get a lot of ideas when I'm laying in my bed really sleepy looking at the two dim bedlights that are on while the rest of the room is black.
I don't understand why "not being on github" is a problem.

Codeplex has an issue tracker and the Typescript repo is a git repo. What can't you do?
I doubt that bus fares are a contributing factor for why some people commute by car instead of bus. Driving a car probably costs more when you count gas and parking costs.
Ever wondered how life would be different if you had a different job?
Hello everyone,
my name is David and i want to steal 5 minutes of your time to introduce to you my idea.
Have you ever thought: "How cool would it be to work as a deejay ?" or "Man i would really love to see what's behind the scenes of a Hollywood movie?"
Well i thought that too! And so i created this FREE Job Shadowing community where people can share and try each other jobs, just to see how is it in reality, or learn how certain jobs are done... or maybe cause it was your dream job and you're never had the chance to actually try it.

What do you guys think ? It's just a simple idea but i think it could be fun!

Give it a shot maybe... https://www.discoverajob.com/

Thanks for your time !
David
That's correct. I don't support the existence of government.
Do you have any examples of newspeak in their literature?

I had a cousin "fall prey" to the organization. I don't know what went on internally, but he was forced into, what I colloquially call a re-education camp (I'm not sure what they called it), for two weeks. They took his phone away and had him break all contact with the outside world, even with his girlfriend at the time. 2 Weeks later, he pops up and says he's moving to California to be a part of the church.

It was pretty creepy to be honest.

Point being, I find the mechanics of the church to be interesting.
Not only it is easy to use, but the source code is a real pleasure to read, contrary to Hadoop's mess.
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Does something have to cause physical harm to be extremely unpleasant?
>Everyone in the economy benefits from transportation whether you're on the road or not //

It's more complex than that. If you take journeys that aren't necessary or use transportation in otherwise inefficient manners - ship flowers from halfway around the world in an aeroplane for example - then that's to everyone's detriment as it wastes non-renewable resources.

Everyone benefits from transportation to some extent but that certainly doesn't mean that encouraging more of it increases the benefit.
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Actually, the social graph is directed - like, say, twitter. So I can explicitly follow people I know have a penchant for picking up decent new music first.

This might be the "muso" in your real-world social group or it might be a respected journalist outside that group. It might even be Bono himself.

I'm in a similar age bracket, and I've had "so what are you listening to these days" conversations with friends. I find them quite rewarding, even though my broader tastes have settled down.

I'm biased (obviously) but I think we've built something along the lines of those conversations - and more (check-out maps!).
And this will continue as long as they put up a fierce fight to prevent themselves from also being watched.
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I don't think this is a problem. It's rather uncommon for languages to be supported in the first place. Rather, independent contractors become experts in the language and pick up the slack.
Dart is an unilateral project aiming to: "ultimate goal is to replace JavaScript", "rescue browsers from JavaScript" or "Google preps Dart to challenge JavaScript". Being open source here, is not good enough.
I like it! A great alternative place to store recipes besides beersmithrecipes.com.

One problem though, is it possible with github to JUST see "my" recipes, or at least recipes I've contributed to? I'd like to be able to add that to my signature on my beer forum.

Thanks!
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The Calorie-Packed Perk
This is an incredibly well written and useful article and it's a travesty the site is down. Definitely don't discount it because it doesn't load at first.
The Quipper Language
I think wanting to detect lost alzheimer's patients isn't quite equivalent to accepting the premise that germanic purity should be preserved.
You don't need to store the hard drives in a temperature controlled environment. Look at the range they can exist in when turned off...

Not only that, but I imagine that even if a couple drives died in the mean time, it wouldn't be a big loss.