skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) To this end I agree that my simplification is too emotional.

b) I typically regard such actions as means to sustain profit, but I won't deny the exceptions to this rule.

c) I scrutinize the definition of profit here, but I won't disagree with what I believe to be your sentiment.

You go on to describe the feudal and individual capitalist (I think?) modes of production, which helps to define profit, but this is otherwise divergent from (c). In the communist mode of production, "profit" serves the community (ideally global), not the individual. I'm wondering what your profit analysis of the communist mode of production is.
But, don't a lot of employees also get to negotiate their salaries and benefits when they're hired?
Yes indeed, the HBM memory in the latest AMD GPUs is stacked.

This press release is extremely frustrating, by the way, because it's full of fluff and hype. Through-silicon vias have been in discussion for a long time (and, as you said, are even in production already). Apparently, this team uses different materials (carbon nano-tubes). This is potentially interesting, but I'm very sceptical. Certainly, any claim of "factors of thousands" is just ridiculous. Wires are a significant part of delays on chips, but having shorter interconnects isn't going to speed up the switching time of transistors, which would become a bottleneck again.
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There is no plausible legal theory under which VW or other German brands could successfully sue ISDS.
For the same job making the same income, you'll typically pay more taxes as a contractor than as an employee. You'll pay 100% of your SS/medicare taxes via the self-employment tax, where previously your employer was paying 50% of it for you. The income tax brackets are the same. You can deduct business expenses, but so could your employer, so the IRS isn't missing out on anything.
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
> Working with artists is going to be a bit painful unless you have centralized file locking, or some other self-managing means of preventing two people modifying the same file by accident.

I am convinced that file locking is not the ultimate solution, even for artwork. Someone could decide to change the colours of some character while someone else could decide to redraw her arms. Both changes make sense together.

What we need is specialised diff and merge tools for artwork, which nearly any VCS already allows you to plug in. Even github has a WUI for diffing images. File locking is a workaround with other well-known problems. Merging divergent work is not any more annoying for artwork than it is for code.

Pixelapse seems to be presenting a compelling case on what VCS for design could look like:

https://www.pixelapse.com/

> I can't speak for hg - but an issue with git is that you really have to have a good mental model of how it works to use it effectively.

This is widely touted as a huge difference between hg and git. You don't have to understand hg's revlog format to use hg, but you need to have a solid understanding of blobs, trees, commits, refs, and hashes to understand git.

What you do need to understand for both is that someone can have modified the same file that you're working on while you're working on it, and it is OK that they modified your file at the same time...
I think it also varies from city to city.

I get the feeling from Hacker News that in bigger cities there are far, far more people doing Uber full-time-ish than in smaller, population-1-million cities. For those doing it 40 hours a week as their livelihood, I can understand the call for more regulation, etc.

However, by far most of the folks I know doing Uber or Lyft are a lot closer to a contractor in definition.

* They use their own car they've already had before Uber (I.e., they didn't buy it just for Uber as some Uber forum posts talk about)
* They do it part time
* Most are doing it for "something new," when I ask them about it. For example I knew one driver who in her fifties just tried it to be out of the house more.
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Count me in then. @brianjking (twitter)
No, but it was the source of my question. I was curious if MRI had negative side effects that would show when done as often.
Crypto Attack on Telegram Yields No Plaintext Recovery but Still. And Axolotl
For anyone interested in more information on this, or on Ponzi himself, I'd highly recommend giving Ponzi's Scheme[0] a read. It's a great book on the subject.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968360
DISCLAIMER: I don't mean to promote an application

This application reminds me about a mobile application that is similar with this.

An application that called "Exist" [1]. Exist tracks everything in one place. It tracks your fitness data and other services connected with yours.

[1]: https://exist.io/
I'd like to wish you luck if you decided to do it. Would the real reboot you had on mind be based on the software or the hardware (custom hardware could be pricey)? Would you consider partnering with the companies that currently work on Amiga hardware and software?
The same argument could be made about a bunch of marketplaces though: Ebay, Mechanical Turk, Airbnb, etc.
I can't say I agree fully.

We have instinctual behaviour that leads us to group cooperation, avoiding theft and murder etc. A lot of our morality and legal systems stem from this.

On the other hand instinct can lead people to do some seriously shitty things and we try to suppress it in those cases.

Morality is a code or system of conduct that you aspire to in order to become a better or more virtuous person. We derive some of it from instinct and some from philosphy.
I don't think you can look at a subset of capital expenditures and then conclude "capital is misallocated."

You would have to look at all the businesses funded and see where the money is going. Also I would caution you about falling into the trap of confusing "valuation" with "capital". SnapChat might have had a $16B valuation but really only "allocated" a bit more than a billion dollars.

If you subscribe to the 'too much money is idle' point of view like continuations does, then you should be very bullish on the startup eco-system growing for all kinds of businesses, and that gives the capital a chance to be allocated to something useful, like another Watsi.
If climate science was advocated by a single person without any formal qualification in climatology, physics, hydrology, Earth Science etc. it would be similar.

But Climate science is a lot less about an Apocalypse. Mainstream climate science isn't about a total wiping out of humanity but a few degrees of change in temperature, extreme weather, more deserts, floods etc., which are terrible catastrophes but nowhere near on the scale that Yudkowsky likes to dream up (evil robots destroying everything and torturing and extorting and creating myriads of simulations of simulations of you being tortured in the worst ways possible in various hypothetical, counterfactual scenarios to acausally motivate you to serve these evil overlords etc.)

Also, climate science doesn't ask you to "obviously" dismiss reputable fields and past sources. It's just a very bad analogy. The best defense of Singulitarianism is the "but what if you're wrong" kind of betting. Because their imagined doom scenario is so extremely unimaginably bad, they argue that they can get away with little proof, since multiplying the huge disaster with a little probability still gives a large expected risk. They like to say "shut up and multiply" as a slogan for this, i.e. multiply probability and outcome to get the expectation. He lays the groundwork and path for this such that if you gradually get into his system, he can take you in the woods without you noticing. It's no less than a panic-inducing mind virus.

And yeah, you can say I didn't disprove him with this. I don't want to. My main point is: don't start with his writings and don't recommend them to people who are uneducated in these topics. You'll do them a favor by recommending reputable sources.
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Possessed by a mask: Is being online the ultimate masquerade?
You are more likely to get injured from someone misplacing a metallic object and it injuring you. As other people have stated high tesla magnetic fields don't have an inherent detrimental effect .
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That does not matter.

The media focus has been solely on VW, despite others doing the same.

This is enough that VW can show to be unfairly targeted, as it’s standard market practice.

If VW can show that others did the same, but did not get the same media resonance, then VW can sue for the lost sales based on an estimation of the difference in reputation loss.

Hell, even other companies in Germany have reported lost sales due to the "German engineering = pollution" that US media have pushed recently.
Hi, you can find some more information at this link [http://www.imedicalapps.com/2015/12/researchkit-app-study-en...] or if you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
So a service that provides metadata for URLs. Caption, description, user ratings, review.

A browser plugin could respond to hovering over a link by querying the service and displaying the response.

Being crowd-sourced, there would have to be some form of contributor reputation tracking.

YouTube link -> Cats react to bananas [83%; funny, cute]
Clickhole link -> Infinitely recursive self-parody of clickbait articles [71%; funny]
Kotaku link -> Gamers overreact to accusations of sexism [43%; news]
NYT link -> Anticonvulsant drug found effective against Alzheimers [91%; news, advertisement]
Vimeo link -> Police arrest Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis [43%; news, violence, NSFW]
It's very easy to set up your own.
One of my relatives worked for decades in the cost estimation department of a major auto manufacturer. They disassembled every competing vehicle to obtain competitive intelligence on profit margins and assembly techniques. Everyone does this.
> A good test - if the contracts are negotiated individually for all drivers - they are contractors. If it is take or leave with 1000s more like you - you are employee.

I have literally never seen that as a test, and it seems extraordinarily effective.

Many employees have a ton of leverage and do negotiate their compensation aggressively.

On the other hand, many contractors do very little negotiation. Ex. my dad works in construction and would frequently be told about a certain project where the pay was $x/hr for 1 week — take it or leave it (no negotiation).

I don't see how whether contracts are collective or individual is at all an effective test for differentiating contractors and employees.
This is very much what's happening in Atlanta right now.

The city was a pretty extreme example of white flight for much of the 20th century, and the gentrification process over the past couple of decades has been just as extreme. As a result, you have expensive condos going up in historically black neighborhoods like the Old Fourth Ward (where MLK Jr. grew up).
I don't see how that analogy works at all. Higher dimensions have completely different physics than lower dimensions. Whereas pointers are just an interpretation of an already existing data type.
Any link with more info to that demo? It sounds interesting.
Another pertinent question for the techies here: how come we have secure boot loaders and signed drivers for tablets locking them down, yet chipping or remapping the cars ECU to negate any 'environmental restrictions' seems to be unrestricted?
Cray 1: 80 MFLOPS and 8 megabytes in 1976. That was the standard for "mini-supercomputers" in the 1980s.
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>Three-cylinder engines have a tendency to rock backwards and forwards around the middle cylinder. Carmakers have come up with a number of ways to absorb the vibrations and make sure such engines don’t shake, rattle and roll.

I'm skeptical how effective that is. Smells like planned obsolescence.

>These include more new materials, such as what the industry calls diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings for the surfaces of moving parts.

"Diamond like" sounds nice. But it's soluble to steel. I'd prefer Boron Nitride or TiN by physical vapor deposition. But if other contact surface is coated, then you might be able to use that DLC stuff. But if I recall correctly, it's wear characteristics are not that miraculous in bearings.
Eh, yes?

If a US company does the same, but does not get the same media exposure, reputation loss, and fees, then it is unfair targeting.

VW can then directly sue, because they, as foreign company, were targeted, but another US manufacturer was not.
> For example, Safari uses PCRE, but the PCRE copyright, licensing terms, and disclaimer do not appear in the Safari EULA or any other Safari documentation I can find.

Open Safari -> Help -> Acknowledgements -> Cmd + F -> PCRE

Bam, PCRE license found!

http://imgur.com/lFkvkFS
Apple makes OS X 10.11 El Capitan Darwin code open source
Just wanted to note that that third photo in the article, of the graffiti in Williamsburg, has been replaced by construction for an Apple Store...
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I tried to find something on 'hyper gentrification' with google scholar, but nothing came up?

Fact is gentrification is being researched for more than fifty years and it's ok to cite 10 year old research. Because the whole theory builds upon these studies and it might still take some years before enough data is available to cross-examine newer studies.
I think that's the secret wet dream of those that still have a little place in their heart for the old Amiga. Which means, I suspect, a lot of people.
The Salt,Sugar,Fat book is great. Sections on Coke's tactics to get everyone hooked in 3rd world countries and the government cheese program are disturbing.
> Or maybe we'll learn that governmental regulation isn't the only form of regulation.

It is so by definition.

>(reputation, repeat business, competitors, etc.)

Those are not regulatory mechanisms. Those are mechanisms that enhance competition. Competitive markets usually need less regulation.

But none of those things you mentioned is going to get Uber drivers to buy the insurance they need to be covered against any harm they could possibly inflict on the people they are ferrying around.

What will happen is that eventually some gruesome accident will lead to a high profile court case and then finally governments will decide that yes, Uber drivers need to buy commercial insurance.
> The media focus has been solely on VW, despite others doing the same.

That's because there is evidence about VW.

> This is enough that VW can show to be unfairly targeted, as it’s standard market practice.

No, it really is not.

> If VW can show that others did the same, but did not get the same media resonance, then VW can sue for the lost sales based on an estimation of the difference in reputation loss.

It's an interesting theory about how the law could work but unfortunately somewhat detached from what I know about how the law actually works. VW does not get to claim any 'lost sales' directly attributable to their own conduct, regardless of who reported on it and how frequently even if all their competitors did it too. If VW has evidence that other manufacturers cheat as well they're probably more than welcome to present it. (And if they had such evidence they probably would.)

> Hell, even other companies in Germany have reported lost sales due to the "German engineering = pollution" that US media have pushed recently.

Yes, and VW is to blame for that. Not the US media.
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> The real reason findstr is not improved is because Bob left the company and probably took the source code with him.

I doubt that's the real cause. It's probably "good enough" and there's no real external push to change it. Likewise, modifying it would probably break existing programs, and nobody wants that on their shoulders.
There are parallels to finance (and other industries), when a lot of money is lost as a result of a series of risky bets, what do you do?

Blame the "rogue" trader.
Thank you for your reply.

Who cares if we say "a virus is [not] alive"? Obviously that's predicated on the definition of alive. It doesn't change what a virus is, and certainly doesn't change our understanding of viruses. It seems like the only time that kind of thing matters is if you've got some existing issue with "alive" (like, say, a law granting rights to anything "alive") and now need to fight it out to retrofit something.

I'm thinking of "Dissolving the question"[1] and the infamous "If a tree falls in a forest a but nothing hears it, does it make a sound?" The fact that this generated any serious question/answer is absurd. Everyone agrees on what happens. They just like to argue over what "sound" really means. Again, this is only an issue if you're e.g. at court resolving a poorly written noise violation law. Yet "If a tree falls" isn't apparently used as a quick lesson in definitions, but apparently treated like it holds something interesting.

It might be fun to argue stuff. Like, is vim truly an IDE if I load it up right? Doesn't really change anything, but it might be fun. I get the feeling a lot of philosophy consists of people chasing this. If it's not to judge merits or validity, and is just passive, then perhaps that explains it.

On physics and using Bayes versus Scientific Method, I was thinking more about string theory (and I know nothing of this at all), where, since we can't test it at all, it's not proper science. Yet using a Bayesian model, we're free to add evidence apart from verifying experiments. If, for example, I come up with some simple rules for how the universe works, and out of those arise a huge amount of known equations, there may be no way to test if my rules are true and worth studying more on. It'd violate the scientific method, since there's no testing. Yet the mere fact that that "one little trick" explains a bunch of known physics is a huge amount of positive evidence by itself.

Again, thanks for taking the time to write out your reply; I did appreciate it.

1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/
Isn't that quote itself just a false rationalisation - 'I cheat but so does everyone else so it's not immoral'.

Personally I never got anything out of winning at sports per se. What gives me a buzz is performing in a way I can be proud of. Sport requires adherence to regulations to work, I follow Kant's (2nd?) imperative in that respect.

(FWIW I'm fond of playing quite a few sports).

People cheat, corporations don't as they are just virtual groupings of people.
Last month an Uber driver told me: "I don't work for Uber. I just use their app." The same driver had the Lyft app.
You you could also just trick the phone company into forwarding the voicemail to another phone number.

http://www.securityweek.com/exclusive-google-two-factor-auth...
I really, truely do not like the taste of sugar in my bread, pasta sauce, and yogurt. (I like the yogurt to taste yogurty, then add something sweet to it, like a banana or chocolate chips.)

But it's maddening going through package after package of bread, trying to find one without lots of added sugar. Free market capitalism is often advertised as just giving people what they want, but there are lots of cases like this where what people want and what is available to buy don't match up.

I really hope what the article says about food company profits dropping because people are buying less processed foods. Maybe it will become easier to buy food that tastes like something other than salt, sugar, and fat.
I've been giving intermittent fasting a try and it's been quite amazing to me to realize how I've always equated the slightest feeling of hunger with the idea that "I must eat, I'm starving!". I think this is pretty common.

With some willpower and practice, I can now eat nothing but a single bowl of cereal in a 24hr period, including 60m of hard exercise, without anything remotely like hunger pangs. It takes getting used to not constantly rewarding the thought of food with food.

It's sort of a drastic measure, but the only one that has enabled me to lose real weight - plus there are purported health benefits: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-benefits-of-occasion...
True, I was speaking about the CPUs. Also GPU are still dedicated to graphical workload on smartphone, or are they used through an opencl-like lib ?
I remember an article about redlining in Rotterdam, but this was in the nineties.
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I wonder if you've actually submitted a ticket to Google Cloud support at all? At the Gold level of $400/m I've had excellent experiences including:

a) First responders actually being engineers who know the code well, can reference the open source repositories pointing to where issues are and suggesting workarounds.

b) Full workarounds being coded by the first responder (in Python for our use but they officially support other languages too) which are simple drop in replacement to fix the problem temporarily until the root cause is addressed.

c) Fast troubleshooting of critical issues (within minutes) with helpful debugging advice to resolve the issue.

d) A single contact owning the issue by default, with handover to alternative timezones on requst e.g. when an issue is long running or (in my case) you were in one location for a few weeks then change to another.

e) Consistently achieving the above over 1+ years worth of tickets, including responses handled from Google support teams worldwide to fit into the timezone e.g. Tokyo based support answering questions UK time Sunday night (Monday in Tokyo).

f) The same level of support offered for alpha and beta products even though the official word is "best effort/no SLA"

Where it has been more frustrating is with bugs discovered in the products. These have tended to be escalated to the engineering teams which take a while to fix the root cause, although acceptable workarounds are provided in the meantime. Their support ticket UI is also pretty rubbish.

Google might have a poor reputation for support when you're a consumer, but then you're not paying them anything. For both Google Cloud and Google Apps, their support has been excellent.
Ditto. I would add that Compliance only really works when they are given accurate information.

If the engineers asks "is it OK if we do X" and Compliance says "No" but engineering goes ahead anyway, that will likely be the end of it unless something bad happens. The reality is that a lot of questions & answers end up not being documented so even an internal audit later won't discover them.
On HN, "engineers" is usually a plural noun. This took a few re-reads to parse.
I would recommend a couple of documentaries in this context about sugar.

1. The Botany of Desire [1]

See the part about selective breeding of apples that are sweet, where varieties with other tastes are either discarded or used for making apple cider vinegar.

2. That Sugar Film [2]

This goes into detail on the amount of sugar (or high fructose corn syrup) added to all kinds of foods that people would consider as normal and "healthy". It's really shocking how invisible such things are to consumers.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1421383/

[2]: http://thatsugarfilm.com/
I have some harman/kardon brand in-ear noise cancelling headphones that I got for cheap. They work reasonably well.
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