skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but all the Raspberry Pi's have atleast 1 USB port to which a WLAN adapter can be attached. Less cumbersome than ethernet cables, unless ethernet is mandated by competition rules or something. Of course, these may not be mobile robots at all, in which case ethernet makes sense.
See also the comments here: http://londonist.com/2011/11/top-10-spy-sites-in-london.php
What exactly is the "point under discussion" then? Because it sounds pretty close to that if that isn't it.
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The electrical grid is (supposedly) badly in need of an overhaul. I don't know if this is correlated to electrical being a utility however.
Crazy that it has been 5 years. Time flies when your having fun.

The golang team has done a fantastic job. It is now my primary language of choice to get things done.

2 years ago I started playing with it moderately, and now in the past 12 months or so it has made its way into my normal workflow and have been delivering completed projects in golang.

I am excited for the next chapter in golang. Keep up the good work!
I actually meant group threads.
That's actually a much more interesting question than the so called net neutrality. What regulations restrict competition, and prevent you from being able to choose between several ISPs.
Not really. Blocking of illegal content is possible -- and can be (and, at times, has been) encouraged and even mandated by government -- even without protection of legal content. So, while the qualifier might suggest that such practices would not be curtailed by the neutrality, they don't provide the basis for more invasive monitoring and control than the absence of neutrality does, because the basis of that more invasive monitory and control already exists in the illegality of certain content, whether or not there is neutrality for legal content.
"Binary sexuality is a nice story."

PONG
I'm so sick of that retort. Nobody ever asks for citations for something they agree with. You don't provide any citation other than a reference to a spurious lack of correlation on a graph. Just as correlation doesn't prove causation, lack of correlation doesn't prove lack of causation.

So you agree that Zuckerberg deserves millions of times more compensation than Berners-Lee?
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I haven't seen jam nuts used outside of construction in a long time.
1 to 2% is pretty damn cheap compared to the % you'll have to give away to Uncle Sam!
Do I want to be a programmer?
Perhaps worth noting the basis for Sam:

“My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself.”

http://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-tol...
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Obama is heading to China again, time to publish a story about them hacking again? This quote was interesting because it seems to confirm that the whole story is smoke and mirrors for some political agenda.

Before Snowden I actually bought into this whole 'the Chinese are hacking us' refrain. I don't see how they can keep up with it with a straight face anymore.

I think the US has zero credibility pointing the finger here. Spend 1/10th as much on defense as offense and then maybe complain your system protected by default passwords and zero encryption got "hacked".
I appreciate your attempt to make password solutions for other people, but after a cursory glance at the code, I can see that you are using sha512 to hash passwords. This is easily brute-forcable. To understand why, google "password hash". Dont make tools for other people if you dont understand the security implications of the decisions that you make. I would hesitate writing ANY security related code at all and would rather leave it to people with far more experience than I have like tptacek or cperciva.
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I had a few expensive top end storage servers (36 drives), they worked fine for years, only 1-2 drive failures, no power failures or major network outages I can remember.

Last year i switched to collocation instead, but still have 1 server with them, things have improved alot lately, now the servers come with ipmi and new ovh control panel is nice.

Problem with OVH are noobs buying their servers trying to save every buck only to realise that the support will not fix anything but hardware issues (loose cable, broken drive etc). Obviously alot of people do not understand that unmanaged means unmanaged
Of course the innovation curve has been steep on broadband over the last fifteen years when compared with legacies like electricity and water. It could have been much better though, and many other developed countries have faster broadband speeds at lower prices than we do here in the United States, perhaps owing to some combination of different regulations or more competition.
> Do not enter acquisition talks unless you are ready to sell your company.

Isn't this obvious? If you don't want to sell your company, don't talk about selling your company.
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Hi :-)

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The implication is that they typically can't add $200,000 of value to a 10MM deal. One possible reason is that the 8-figure deals are pretty specialized and obscure, and it's hard for a banker to know the right valuation for the company.
I'm amused to see Weil's name again in "... the Taniyama-Weil conjecture..." in light of http://www.ams.org/notices/199511/forum.pdf
When I first learned about the conjecture in the early 1990s it was always the "Taniyama-Shimura-Weil" conjecture; when Taylor-Wiles mostly proved it, Lang for some reason argued strongly to excise Weil's name from it, and so it was in much of the literature since. Congrats to all the winners!
> The boost in happiness that you get from having a billion dollars rather than $50k is not 19999x bigger than the boost you get from having $100k rather than having $50k.

That's one perspective. Another perspective is that letting luck play a role is a more cost efficient way to get people to take big risks. Maybe people wouldn't do some things (like move to Silicon Valley to re-imagine the way we do blah blah blah) without the chance of a big payday.

And taxing the big payday at extremely high rates would mute the motivation to play for the jackpot. Would as many people play slots if winnings were taxed at 90%?
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As someone who just went through an acquisition I hope that people will begin to write more about the acquisition process -- there's so much out there about raising financing, especially a seed round, and very little about M&A.

Thanks for putting this together, Justin.
The great thing about Common Lisp is that if you really want to use another paired delimiter, you can using reader macros e.g. it is quite trivial to translate

[1 2 3]

into

(vector 1 2 3)

and now you have more conventional looking array literals.
No, it is the opposite of obvious. When a bigco reaches out and says they're interested in acquiring, the intuitive response is "we should figure out what they're talking about, because even if we don't want to sell, it'll be good to have the optionality".
OVH/Kimsufi has non-existent support. They claim to offer support (yes, every kind - from listing your passport verification request to tax exemption request) via a publicly accessible forum. Even that support is non existent. All you get there is few useless answers from few uselessly enthusiastic (sometimes just smartass) fellow customers.
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yeah,not fan of the name,at all,for obvious reasons.
If you can fire up the Task Manager in windows, you are considered a hacker in my circle of friends.
Hopefully you agree with every law that will ever be created in your lifetime.
If such "bullying" is found illegal in court, then I don't see the problem here. Nobody is saying the FCC should be in charge of deciding these things, just that companies are still required to comply with court orders.

Speaking of "bullying," assault, "an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact," [1] is already illegal. Sounds an awful lot like credible bullying. Why should this be legal online?

[1] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Verbal+assault
Yeah this is another problem. When you're dealing in big figures it's easy to forget that $100,000 is ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FREAKING DOLLARS, and so it's easy to be victimized for amounts of money that would be unthinkable outside the context of an acquisition.
How much did legal cost you? :)
It really depends where you live. In the US it seems you list every significant position you ever held. In Western Europe I have always been told the CV should never takes more than one side. I don't know about other continents or culture.
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I still remember the Twitpic fiasco.
screwed up medicare. screwed up with russia. screwed up with Iraq. Time to screw up the internet!
All the stuff you've mentioned is pretty niche, and, as someone mentioned somewhere above in this thread, mostly done this way by the cargo cultists who defiled the sacred Unix Way. Look at a typical Unix distribution, count how many packages depend on sqlite or berkeley db - a tiny proportion of a total number.

And, no, file search and all that fancy UI stuff has absolutely nothing to do with OSes. It's an application level.
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You're spot on.
Everything else being equal, of course I'd be happier to have more money.

But all things aren't equal, and many of the things one is supposed to spend one's time on in order to make maximal money are things I am unhappy spending my time on.

(That having been said, the article is about getting the best happiness bang from whatever bucks you do have, which I have no argument with. I suppose I'm just saying, in many cases, the optimal happiness I could purchase with some money stream is the free time "purchased" by not working for it in the first place.)
So basically, nowhere.

Should something like Sandstorm take off, then we're still stuck with an application distribution model that destroys the split between client/server that allows a diverse set of clients to exist, destroys the ability for clients to be versioned independently of the server, and destroys the ability for clients to manage data in a way that it can't be read/captured/stolen by the server.
"We are using the Rift as our initial test and development device, but are committed to device-agnostic Web VR, with support for additional devices coming soon."
How do other C++ programmers verify that they're getting this stuff right?

I shared your frustation then recognized it's origin: me not properly understanding the stuff because of lack of knowledge and training. So I spent a couple of hours searching the internet, writing some code and verifying behavior (1) until I knew what I needed to know about the subject. Then applied that knowlegde to some heavy template code using all new features (variadic templates/perfect forwarding/...). Figured I still didn't know enough so I learnt some more. In the end it took a while, but now I'm pretty confident with it and the resulting code benefits from it. I used to care way too much about spurious copies etc but lately I found that I hardly make classes copyable anymore, only movable, which also automatically seemed to make typical issues with sharing and lifetime fade away.

(1) sometimes looking at assembly, which is always a good way to get deep understaning, mostly by using 'Noisy' classes like

class Noisy
{
public:
Noisy() { print( "ctor" ); }
Noisy( Noisy&& ) { print( "move ctor" ); }
//etc, you get the point
};

and using it in cases like yours. And yes defining move vs copy constructor might change what gets invoked but if you have to care that much which one you should ask yourself if you need the copying.
Let's see:

1) the US contemplated using its mythical superweapon (a) against the Russians after WWII, (b) against the Chinese and North Koreans during the Korean war. By the time the Vietnam war was going badly, the Russians and Chinese had their own superweapons.

2) The Germans allied with the Russians with betrayal in mind.

3) When the Germans attacked the Russians, they didn't have a second front (unless you consider North Africa a second front). There had been an abortive landing at Dieppe, which if anything had bolstered German confidence that their western front was secure. Bear in mind that the US had not entered the war and England's collapse seemed inevitable (and if Rommel had taken the Suez that would have been it for Britain).

4) Every one of Hitler's major offensives had been thought insane by Hitler's own high command (e.g. the British and French outnumbered the Germans in both men and tanks at the outset of the invasion of France), so their very reasonable objections to the Barbarossa campaign fell on deaf ears. Is there anything more plausible than hubris?

My favorite example of implausible actions in WWII was Hitler's declaration of war on the US after it declared war on Japan. That never made sense to me until I read A World At Arms -- a history of WWII that emphasizes politics, diplomacy, and intelligence over battles. The Germans relied desperately on Japan for rubber (even synthetic rubber required a certain amount of real rubber as an ingredient). A fleet of u-boats was dedicated to transporting rubber from Japan to Germany, and Germany needed Japan on side or it was in deep trouble (fighting the Russians with no rubber).
> However as some have noted, cost will keep it from being adopted. Let's face it, fastening is the last thing considered in a project and the last thing bought. Even for large projects it's at most a few percent of budget and people are desperate to limit it's cost as much as possible.

This is incredibly true IME. When I was working at Xerox, they were in the process of switching to vastly inferior fasteners just to save a couple bucks per $500K machine.
I hope you are lucky. I am a prof. of maths and find your approach ro helping very near my heart and as I know that it does take some effort, I really appreciate it.
You don't have a right to privacy in a public space.
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FWIW, about 5 months ago, my family started sweating the small things. It's changed our burn rate by ~25%, from disturbingly over income to comfortably under income.

Looking back now, our happiness level is pretty much at the same point. We can't really tell what we we're missing, although I know there are things.
I wouldn't read into it too much.

If he didn't put that in there, tons of idiots would go around saying how net neutrality will support all the crooks of the dark web, illegal filesharing websites, etc. Obviously that's ridiculous and not the case, but it would have really given net neutrality a bad image to the average person who probably has no idea what net neutrality is at all.

We've already got idiots let Ted Cruz tweeting that net neutrality is the "Obamacare of the internet."
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what are these instead of just using a webserver like apache or nginx?
The preference panel redesign has been a long time coming (years, it feels like), and yes it does look fantastic compared to the prior tabbed popup window.

Also, you can get a light version of the same compact theme by opening the devtools (Ctrl+Shift+I), clicking the gear in the upper-right, and selecting the "Light theme" radio button. It looks great!
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Don't you need to decelerate into the Lagrange point? If so, why not just use conventional gravity assist to get it to Mars faster?
I take your point, that Wheeler was a lobbyist for network operators for most of his career. I think "cable company lobbyist" is still a particularly dumb way to sum him up, but can see why lobbying for telcos is also scary for someone arbitrating net neutrality.
Yet-another-software-as-a-service-dont-own-your-own-data-startup.

Great.
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I thought this was making the point that WW2 is often reduced to a simple coherent narrative for the purpose of documentaries concerned more with their viewing figures than historical rigour/the truth.

These simplifications are distorting the mainstream collective memory of these events. This is particularly prevalent in the UK with regard to the First World War; a popular satirical comedy series has shaped a widely held view of mindless muddy bloodbath which does not do justice to the complexity of reality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder_Goes_Forth).

It'd be nice to see the History Channel et al delve a little deeper.

Edit: I'm not totally sure if he's making this point or not frankly.
I feel like many Americans (assuming you're American) have a knee jerk response when they're told that money cannot buy them happiness. They get defensive as our society constantly reinforces us with the idea that money does in fact purchase happiness. This is a great message to keep us productive and increase GDP, but is it really true? You've presented that journal article as evidence, but looking past the catchy title, it still does not show that money = happiness. It says that money, when used to purchase experiences or help other people, brings about happiness. If anything, this seems to imply that experiences and helping others brings about happiness, and money is a means in which we can help others or experience things. However, excess wealth is hardly a pre-requisite for experiences nor helping others. Certainly, there exists a baseline; if you're struggling to get food, you probably can't focus on helping others, but there's nothing stopping you from deciding to quit your job, emigrate to a foreign developing country, and start working at a non-profit (sans debt obligations, of course, which tends to be the result of a horrible education system and/or rampant consumerism). I remember meeting an Australian engineer in Montreal who worked for a year and then took two or three off to go travel around the world. He especially liked to snowboard. Yes, productivity and wealth were necessary for him, but it was a means to an end; so that he could purchase experiences that made him happy. I feel like many people in our world would look at him and say "but what about your career progression? Dear god man, don't you have any ambition? You'll never become CTO like that!" I feel like our society has gotten sucked into a rat race, where it treats productivity and the accumulation of wealth as the end itself rather than the means to happiness. Nothing better signifies this than our obsession with GDP.

I do, however, agree with you that the article is poorly organized, rambles in random directions, and fails to present any actual argument.
Yup. To time the release with the tenth anniversary, it had to go around some of the normal release engineering and localization processes.
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You're missing the point so badly it seems intentional.
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Net neutrality is already a partisan issue. Republicans have always been opposed to net neutrality as unnecessary regulation of the Internet.

Republicans in Congress threatened to overturn the 2010 net neutrality rules through legislation. Then the courts decided the FCC did not have the authority to enforce those rule. Congress could have passed net neutrality legislation but the Republicans are happy with the current unregulated status which is why they haven't discussed it.

Since then FCC has been trying to write new rules within their authority. Which is why the proposed rules are so limited and regulate fast lanes. The other option for the FCC is to declare ISPs as common carriers and regulate them like telephone companies. The Republicans will almost certainly try to block this.
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> First, we lowered the threshold for flags to kill inappropriate comments.

Excellent.

> Second, we've started indicating in the UI which comments/stories have been killed by user flags.

What does this look like in the UI? I haven't seen any examples of it yet, and I'd expect to see at least a few on a regular basis.
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Leverage. The Bay Area is an especially bad area to compare with. The single family home I own (and rent out) where I lived before I moved to SV could be purchased 5 times for the same amount it would sell for once here. I guarantee I could not rent it out for five times the rent I charge my tenants.
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I can only comment on the electricity utilities. The power grid of this country is a marvel of engineering, but it needs better monitoring and control systems for our future to have electric vehicles and solar panels as commonplace technologies. If everyone had electric vehicles today and plugged them in to charge overnight, the grid would crash. Unlike the internet, it is significantly more difficult to upgrade the power grid because you can't just cut offer power to upgrade, and also grid equipments are very expensive. On the internet we got cheap servers, cheap networking, easy to setup failover and backups.

With all that said, companies like Edison and PG&E are regulated monopolies, so at this point in time they don't have much incentive to innovate. You can't unsubscribe from your electricity provider.
Well, when you make bets based on conjecture, you lose bets. It's a practice more commonly known as speculating. I don't see how that particular scenario is the fault of anyone besides the people who bet on being able to capitalize on an unannounced platform.
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Leaving aside the ongoing discussions about Soylent itself as a foodstuff, when was the last time you saw food of any kind with a version number and a changelog? I'd love to see more of that in the market.