skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone explain in layman's terms how Amazon have managed to exempt themselves from this regulation?
Okay, I briefly scanned through your comments as you suggested, and you have nothing to support your claims except stereotypes. You even admit you don't speak Chinese, so how exactly can you properly evaluate the "ability to think critically"?

Your comments are racist because they rely on stereotypes and not facts, and basically have an undertone of racial supremacy (i.e. The Chinese can't think critically but we can).

You can throw in all the anecdotes you want, but they do nothing to refute facts and data. Your experience as an expat (especially since you can't speak the native language) is in no way representative or inclusive of a country of 1.3 billion.

By lazily reducing the world into simple racial stereotypes, explained only by anecdotes, you are basically surrendering to selection bias. Every Chinese who meets your stereotypes will reinforce your world view, but you will conveniently ignore or mark as an exception anyone who doesn't.
Twitter is another example of consciously making use of this.
Apologies in advance for a religious post. I think it's important I study philosophy as every time our discovery of science advances, our religion takes a step back, taking back its wisdom.

We're all different, and yet we will accept many beings can experience life in the same form we can - we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel. I think if we don't discriminate between humans & non-humans, then we won't have problems between different varieties of humans.

http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm

When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other
Difficult and easy bring about each other
Long and short reveal each other
High and low support each other
Music and voice harmonize each other
Front and back follow each other
Therefore the sages:
Manage the work of detached actions
Conduct the teaching of no words
They work with myriad things but do not control
They create but do not possess
They act but do not presume
They succeed but do not dwell on success
It is because they do not dwell on success
That it never goes away

How I understand the "God created man in His own image, in the image of God" saying is: We're all shards of the same universe, each of us representing different facet of that universe. As Carl Sagan once said, "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.". So when I'm interacting with someone, or a cat, or a tree, I sometimes feel like I'm seeing one side of, well, One.
Attempting to register on the site's feedback site gives this error:

http://i.imgur.com/7nnLyaC.png

(May want to disable error output in the HTML also)
Yep, I don't know what Trump will lead US into (and I don't think it will necessary be worse than any other president in this day and age). But any mainstream candidate from GOP or Democrat will certainly lead to more TPP.
Looks like none of autodesk's cloud or appstore apps are supported by their awesome student program or have free trials.
We have also had ZERO democratic debates. Many people, especially the older generation that still gets most of their news from tv, haven't had a chance to hear anything about Sanders. Tuesday will be very telling.

If you go back and look at the political news articles from 2007/early 2008, Obama was viewed as a long-shot. HRC tends to do worse the more exposure voters have to her, while Sanders is doing the opposite. It's going to be a tough fight, but I think Sanders has a great chance of winning the primary.
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All the more hilarious in the context of the "immigrants are stealing our jobs" narrative that has always been popular.
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Or Bernie Sanders.

They're both creative individuals that are willing to buck the trend and change things in the way they think is right rather than toeing the party line.
The system is great. Only reason I have had to dislike it is that they would forward messages out of order. I think that might be fixed now after I told them to look into lamport clocks. It caused some problems with forwarding to Intercom.
NASA actually did a tethered artificial gravity experiment during Gemini with the target docking vehicle. They got it working, although they only spun it up to like .01g.
No they are not:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stop-comparing-donald-tr...

Notably #6 in the article.
Oddly, Pinterest is a flagship user of HBase.
Apple's statement is not quite airtight. E.g. they could have implemented a backdoor without government agency involvement; but it's by far the best statement.

Condi Rice's presence on Dropbox's concern was why I went to check their statement first.
The thing you're referring to is called a "numeronym."
To answer your question, I found this credited in a regurgitated PR from some lazy news aggregator. Their site was 800 words that said next to nothing, crediting the rich PDF. The referenced document offered so much more than the site that I got mesmerized by it, and hence the link. Think they had some very talented (albeit print) designers work on this, so no other forms.

I mean look at the last page. It's amazing. It's an astronaut footprint transitioning from moonscape to red regolith. It's ... really good.
It means people are so tired of listening to self-interested politicians toe the party line that they're willing to elect a candidate solely based on how crazy his ideas are and how much he won't backpedal on them, even in the face of adversity.

In terms of fearless leaders, he definitely is one.

Of course, I also think his ideas are mostly inane and that within fifteen minutes of his inauguration he would have already started World War III. But I can understand why people want to elect him.
I follow your thinking. The ad networks could begin transforming their content in subtle ways which the eye cannot detect but which could throw off simple pattern matching thereby forcing the blocker client to employ an algorithmic approach.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPCS-Steganography

The networks would be able to utilize many cores in parallel to mutate the content, but the blocker client would have to run it's detection on mobile devices.

The more processing the blocker client must perform the more burden it places on that relatively underpowered mobile CPU which increases latency. Also when you get into algorithmic detection you have to start considering false positive ratio because any noticeable false positives will break the user's expectation causing them to eventually lose confidence in the client's utility.

As you rightly point out there may be both vectors for either side which neither of us has thought of though.
His new book is also great.
Mostly anomaly detection.
How would one go about it? A hosted database access layer that follows these rules behind the scenes?
Recording TV shows with a VCR was not and is not illegal in the United States. In what jurisdictions is it (nominally) illegal?
Yes, because I believe the economy can be a more "fair" place, and that everyone should have a minimum quality of life (voting for Bernie Sanders in 2016).
The term "defeat device" refers to any mechanism, physical or otherwise, designed to defeat emmissions controls. It's not literally a standalone gadget. I assume the term is a holdover from the 1970s.

A defeat device is an AECD “that reduces the effectiveness of the emission
control system under conditions which may reasonably be expected to be
encountered in normal vehicle operation and use. Motor vehicles equipped
with defeat devices cannot be certified.”

And the AECD is defined as

any element of design which senses temperature, vehicle speed,
engine RPM, transmission gear, manifold vacuum or any other parameter for
the purpose of activating, modulating, delaying or deactivating the
operation of any part of the emission control system.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/vw-emissions-scan...
Oh yeah, usually i just send a spreadsheet. Even the stock options aren't legally binding usually... they still get approved by the board after the hire is made. It is not possible to pre-approve them, but you can do it but UWC (unanimous written consent) without holding a full board meeting. That's what we do.
So Sanders gets less attention and is campaigning based on the facts rather than his personality.

But although he tends to vote the same as many other Democrats, he is very dangerous to moneyed interests in politics. No one's bothered to fix that for a long time.
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Don't be the jerk, this comment is absolutely against the spirit of Hacker News. Get your mind right, you're ruining the community when you make posts like this.
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Maybe they're just referring to transactional scenarios?
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I also love pass. My problem now though is what to recommend to family and friends. I've been evangelizing lastpass to them for a while, but I'm not comfortable telling anyone to trust them anymore.
A couple years ago I built a very robust and intricate virtual inventory system for integrating with third-party vendors. I created two accessible endpoints: one highly customizeable webservice endpoint (I'll literally take any valid XML and work with you to transform it into what I need), and one luddite-friendly SFTP server supporting extraordinarily simple export-from-excel XML output.

I was raked over the coals for providing the SFTP/Excel solution, "FTP?! What is this, the '80s?" was the quote that sticks with me.

Almost all of our vendors turned out to be small shops. Only two of our dozens of vendors use the webservice, even as easy-like-Sunday-morning as it is. Everyone else uses the Excel solution.

It's hard to let yourself write the uncool solution that actually fits the bill.
I like hearing him speak, I like the 'grumpy grandpa-ness' he espouses and his track record of consistency. I get excited by the actual alternative views he presents, typically it feels like Repubs and Dems are almost the same with only slight deviations on social issues (abortion, immigration, and gay marriage). I like that he doesn't toe party lines and will respectfully criticize Republicans as well as Obama. And again he has authenticity, his views seem to come from an actual place of concern and thought instead of a focus group or from trying to align himself within a particular political ideology.
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This is great! I'm just trying to improve my pronunciation for recording a podcast and I'm spending a lot of time on dictionary.com. Hearing many people pronounce a word is great.

@cairo1982 some videos are listed as private, and some start playback at the very end.
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See Jon Gnarr, who started an openly satirical joke political party in Iceland called the Best Party, but actually ended up winning the mayoral post of Reykjavik. At which point the Best Party became a serious effort.

Nation state fully intact. Donald Trump is far less dramatic and just another cookie cutter populist.
Imagine a compiler that recognizes when you're attempting to compile Firefox from source. It checks your internet connection speed and hashes all the source files. If your Internet connection is sufficient, and the hashes match, this nifty compiler would "optimize" the compilation by downloading the matching binary from mozilla.org.
>>>I'm wondering how long before we have government-sanctioned libraries, languages, and chipsets that we may develop for.

"You there! STOP!"

"Huh?"

"We've got you on record for bootstrapping, machine code, and compiler writing!"

"so?"

"That's a threat, and you are going to have to come with us and register."

"Register for what?"

"As a weapon. We need to know where you are and who you associate with..."
I disagree. When labor is truly obsolete, I think there will be a concerted effort to reduce the world's population through an engineered epidemic.

Not a conspiracy theorist; I only say that because that's what I'd advocate for if I were rich at that time.
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Is there a way YouTube could alter the "view count" to only include views where 100% of the video has been watched? May help cut down on videos with misleading thumbnails and/or titles.
And there is no reason not to make it load a modern image too:
https://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/
> And this desire won't go away.

I don't think that's clear at all. I think the widespread view that society is going to keep looking more or less like the present but with self driving cars is complete folly. Technology is going to -- among other things -- destroy scarcity, erase language barriers, end warfare, conquer disease and educate the masses. The societal changes coming are bigger than industrialization, maybe bigger than moving from hunter gatherers to agriculture.

> Imagine, the solar system would be a more harmonious place if everyone with rather strong ideas about how the world should be run could simply go start their own world to be run that way.

That doesn't sound very harmonious at all. That sounds like institutionalizing ignorance as an organizing principle and seems like something intelligent society would move away from.
I think we're in agreement here. If you take a descriptivist version of the original feature request, it's along the lines of "please do not show me pronunciations that are from a non-prestigious dialect."
>While I agree with many of your points, and certainly there are many people who get exploited. But overall, if employers and employees are agreeing to mutual employment terms without coercion, then by definition it is not exploitation.

Right. Employers and employees agree to mutual employment terms without coercion. That is the world we live in. Also, consumers make rational choices to maximize their happiness, advertising exists to inform people of products and give them more information to rationally make decisions, and competition between rival corporations drives down prices and makes everything better for consumers. Employees can negotiate better wages because if they don't like it at one job, they can leave and find another employer who will face no repercussions for hiring them.

When things like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_fire happen, it's not exploitation. It's just employers and employees mutually agreeing to the terms of employment.
Well, yeah. If jobs are cut in half, and the immigrants steal the other half, then were are you?

(I'm not seriously making this statement, but "they" are)
Most of those are just manually selected thumbnails by the uploader. After uploading, YT gives you 3-5 thumbnails you can choose from.

Also, partnered accounts are allowed to upload custom thumbnails (which can be any image, not necessarily even a screenshot from the video).
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Money is irrelevant. The question is actually, "how will these non-rich people obtain consumer goods if they produce nothing of value to trade for them".

That's a good question. If the rich are not producing goods for the non-rich, then they must be privately interacting with their robots. That's economically equivalent to the rich and the robots not existing at all.

So what stops the non-rich from forming their own perfect inequality-free economy?
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[Terraform](https://terraform.io/) is a great tool for representing infrastructure as code, plus, it's provider agnostic.
Wow, that's awesome to hear. Sydney is founding a lot of startups. I live in Melbourne. Stay in touch, mate.
Aren't all utm_foo query-string parameters from Google Analytics ("Urchin Traffic Monitor") tracking, and therefore not only safe but possibly an actively good idea to drop on a re-aggregator like Hacker News? If I see an article get tweeted and that URL includes ?utm_source=twitter, it doesn't seem too useful to anyone for HN to keep that.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
From what I read, they were never even sure of what the centripetal acceleration (G-force) actually was, because of the uncertainty of the measurements. Either way, I suppose you could call this research, but I have always categorized this as a proof of concept of a potential research method.

It should also be noted that NASA has had trouble with tethers in the past, due to vibrations along the wire(s) and orbital mechanics related issues.
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Law enforcement, retained by the wealthy to shield them from the unpleasantness of the masses.
Are any of the games actually hosted online? Seems like a big missed opportunity if not.
This is incredible. Reading the details of the cases listed on that site makes me feel sick. And there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Interesting URL slug... someone changed the title to the published one to late in the process?
They don't own the means of production.
A better way to filter those out algorithmically would be to simply look at the thumbs-up vs thumbs-down ratio.

The ones with misleading titles/thumbnails often have far more down-votes than up-votes yet YouTube continues to show those as the highest recommended/relevant (I guess Google prefers click-throughs over user-satisfaction).
Those pre-TPP cases are nothing compared to the future combined scope of TPP (Pacific), TTIP (Europe) and RCEP (China, Korea, India, and other Asian countries).

Never say there is nothing you can do. Tell other people about ISDS. Share the videos [1][2][3][4].

Jon Oliver's video [4] about the Philip Morris tobacco ISDS lawsuit against Australia (for brown paper packaging) caused such an outcry that TPP negotiators were forced to exclude the entire tobacco industry from ISDS. This is the first time such an industry-specific carve-out has appeared in a trade agreement.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZFDpuiFUs

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU

[3] https://youtube.com/watch?v=AABOIcXZZwg

[4] https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8
They are not trying to do statistics, they are just exhibiting a counter-example to a commonly accepted "truth".
If everybody thinks swan are white, you just have to show one black swan to prove than the theory "all swans are white" is false.
Guide to your equity: you should assume your equity is worthless just out of the nature of startup risk.

Even if it ends up being worth something, you should assume that your employer will do everything they legally can to dilute or otherwise devalue your financial reward from equity.

Getting employee equity will always be, at best, a few crumbs from the loaf you're helping to build.
I agree, I've found through painful experience that the shiny and new, while incredibly fun, tends to cost more than it's worth.

With that said, if you're going to take the prudent route and use an established database platform, why in the name of all that is holy would you pick MySQL over Postgres?

Granted, I am rather biased, but I do have extensive experience using both in anger. Every time I have to use MySQL I walk away with the impression that it was built with the same design mentality that PHP was. The whole point of a transactional RDBMS is to keep your data as consistent and accurate as possible. I cannot in good faith use a database that (silently!) will coerce badly formatted input into what it thinks should be in the column.
> How will those non-rich people buy consumer goods if they have no money?

How will those rich people sell consumer goods if the poor don't have money?

> Our current economic system does not work in an age of increasing automation. The gains in wealth are being further concentrated in the hands of a few.

Absolutely true. I'd like to think that you and I are both as clueless as the agrarian citizens at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. And maybe we are. But something about this wave of automation seems quantitatively different than the last one—as though there's no new economic sectors to replace those that are being automated away

> There is an answer to this dilemma -in the form of a guaranteed living income for all - but we seem to be rapidly moving in the opposite direction.

I like to frame that as a negative income tax, rather than a guaranteed income. It seems like less of a "government program", which might help it sell. The beauty of a negative income tax is that it can be easily† adjusted as needed to suit an evolving economy. It's not a separate program that is established and lives on. If (US) brackets are [10, 15, 25, 28, 33] (i think?), the new brackets could be [-50, -10, 0, 10, ...], with a 20k starter. So if you do absolutely nothing, you get 20k. If you make an additional 5k a year on the side, you'd be "taxed" at -50 on that and end up with 27.5k. At some level as your earnings increase, the subsidy fades off and is replaced with taxes.

†Technically-speaking, maybe not politically. But then again, this whole thing is a pipe-dream at present.
I'm confused. Why do the rich use law enforcement to interfere with the non-rich economy?

I can see why they might have law enforcement (or robots) vigorously police the borders of their mansions, but that's a different question. And there is no point having law enforcement exploit the non-poor (e.g., slavery) since robots do the job just as well.
Relational Databases still rule the roost for almost every possible problem minus a handful of instances.

Personally I would go the Fork of MariaDB or my prefer DB of Postgres.
Yes, we've established that the rich own robots that only produce goods for consumption by the rich.

This does not prevent the non-rich from building non-robotic production methods like 1800s era factories.
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>my understanding is that AWS itself does not migrate, replicate, or otherwise transfer data out of its EU regions.

Not at all correct, the article is quite explicit that transfer out of EU regions is allowed:

"This is possible because AWS has already obtained approval from EU data protection authorities (known as the Article 29 Working Party) of the AWS Data Processing Addendum and Model Clauses to enable transfer of personal data outside Europe, including to the US with our EU-approved Data Processing Addendum and Model Clauses. AWS customers can continue to run their global operations using AWS in full compliance with the EU Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC). The AWS Data Processing Addendum is available to all AWS customers who are processing personal data."