skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being dishonest here. Your choice of words paints a certain picture, but we all know what kind of people get people fired for their controversial opinions, and they wouldn't go after a self-described poc for talking about race. The example you give further down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859834) shows that you know how it works in practice, which is why I'm saying "dishonest" rather than "confused".
A brief history of artificial intelligence beating humans
Please explain why "patents are violence." (And while you're at it, what does being "truly non-violent" mean?)
The reactions here seem reminiscent of Svbtle—people felt off socially (with Svtle, they weren't invited, and with Snapchat, they might be feel like they're missing out on what the cool kids are doing).
I hope you're right - but note that Russia and NATO are already too close for comfort in Syria. There’s a limit to the number of fighter jets that can be accidentially (or intentionally) shot down before escalation becomes almost inevitable.

It's not inconceivable that we'll see NATO special forces casualities in Russian air raids (or vice-versa).
Ask some poor people if valuing time over money makes them happy, then get back to me.
If anything, based on these photos the Chinese "knockoff" looks more refined. The Onewheel device pictured in your first link looks like a prototype or at best, a first revision.

Then again, maybe they are going for that retro-custom-modded-skateboard look?
The dollar that pays of my payday loan, or gets me a security security deposit at an apartment, has huge marginal value.

Growing from subsistence to investment has near infinite. Marginal utility.
Nvidia  Pascal GPUs Coming to Automotive 'Supercomputer'
Unless that flower was purchased with two cats (or two bulbs), I don't see how this strengthens the analogy.

That said, I do agree that GDP and market cap can't be compared in a meaningful way.

It's like saying that the ISS is about the size of a football field. Does this comparison help you to visualize the size of the ISS? Sure. Does this comparison help you to understand anything else about the ISS or football fields? No.
Most leading players in China’s CVS sector are regionally
based. Currently, there is no national leader. According to
UBS Investment , top CVS players in Guangzhou, Chengdu
and Shenzhen have a relatively high market share. Meiyijia,
the market leader in Guangdong province, accounted for more
than 60% of Shenzhen’s market share and 30% in Guangzhou.
Hongqi, the market leader in Sichuan province, accounted for
Exhibit 8: Market leaders and respective market share in selected cities
Source: UBS Investment. October 29, 2013. “Report on Chengdu Hongqi Chainstore Co., Ltd.”
Chengdu
43.6%
Market leader;
Hongqi
Beijing
23.8%
Market leader;
Easy Joy
Shanghai
17.9%
Market leader;
Quik
Shenzhen
61.3%
Market leader;
Meiyijia
Guangzhou
30.0%
Market leader;
Meiyija
Chongqing
26.6%
Market leader;
Chongkelong
43.6% of Chengdu’s market share. Meanwhile, the market in
Chongqing, Beijing and Shanghai is somewhat fragmented -
Chongkelong has a 26.6% market share in Chongqing, while
Easy Joy has a 23.8% market share in Beijing; Quik has a
17.9% market share in Shanghai.
And then your problem becomes infinite profit for finite work. If you want to talk about things that break economics, its a perpetual money machine. It just changes the game to making sure any potentially popular idea in the future must be rigorously defended under copyright forever. You know, like what people do with patents right now, which is also a destructive and horrible IP mess all on its own.
Awesome Ruby
I've looked into the feature sets of the above previously and while they are good, efficient solutions, they don't necessarily meet my requirements in terms of information capture. I'm building a relatively simplistic landing page server to manage the backend, and while it will not give me the flair and user interface of the options above, it will deliver the information I want, how I want. I'll probably just open source it when I'm done for others to use as an alternative.

In terms of design - I've done a fair bit of reading on design and layout, and I worked with one of the design guys at in my sharespace to build the concept. I'm just trying to capture tips and tricks (the little stuff I might not have thought of).
That's a funny shaped curve. Sam Walton (Walmart) was time poor. His kids are time rich. Similar for kardashians.
So let's say you spend a ton on R&D and come up with something unique. You deserve to lose in the marketplace because I can just steal your designs and manufacture an identical product more cheaply (since I didn't have to spend on R&D)?
I removed all the hedges from my comment. Apparently that was too much. I agree with you too.
A buddy of mine taught my during my first fall/winter in the Yukon, I was lucky to get a great crash course from him.

Don't wear anything made of cotton - it actually makes you feel colder. Throw it all out.

Wear Marino wool against your skin.

Wear multiple layers like base, mid, outer, possibly even one more when it's cold.

Spend big bucks on your base layer and outer layer. Carry multiple pairs of gloves.

After a day of activities, change all your clothes. They're damp and you don't know it.

When it's cold, don't put your bare hands on anything - the heat will be sucked out of them and it can take hours to nurse them back to good again.

Always, always, always carry a thermos of hot liquid, bomb-proof fire starting kit, and a spare change of clothes. When it's that cold, things go wrong, and you must be ready. My friend does this when only going 10 minutes from his own house. At -40C, you won't be OK for the ten minutes if you get wet or something else serious happens.
But many of them work all the time to ammas their money
I have the Remix PC from the Kickstarter.

It's basically a Raspberry Pi sized PC (in a case) that runs Remix OS.

Honestly, I rather like it though I have not used it a ton. I got the most use out of it when I was traveling for work a few months back, I took it with me to the hotel and hooked it to the TV and got my first real use out of it.

As for why I have not used it a ton, the HDMI out on it doesn't support my "Dumb cable" HDMI to DVI cable. So I have to hook it to a TV to use it, HDMI to HDMI, which is annoying at best. If I could hook it to a regular PC monitor on my desk I'd probably use it pretty regularly as a secondary machine.

Most of the apps I tried on it worked fine, Netflix, TuneIn Radio, Amazon Music, Hearthstone, Fallout Shelter. It hooks to your Google Play account so you get all the apps you already have purchased there.
Sorry, no, I'm not going to click on that link. As you pretty much realized yourself, just linking to Wikipedia and saying "read this, I'm too lazy to explain my point of view" is not going to convince anyone of anything. This is a discussion, not a classroom. You're going to have to do the legwork yourself.
Can't help but think part of this must have been a publicity stun, why couldn't they simply deny their application for a booth or discreetly show up in the morning and don't let them setup their booth to begin with?
Patents themselves aren't violent. Patents allow one to invoke violence by the state by having armed men (US marshalls in this case) confiscate property and in some cases arrest people.
The knock-off looks cheaper and more likely to be made of shitty plastic. To my eyes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10851843 150+ comments
I'd say that firstly, these are anthropological case studies without much quantification; there can't be. It's meant to provide rich account or potential insight, and that's how it's taken.

Secondly, I think the general professional narrative about those accounts is that those shamans were schizotypal, and that severe marginalization of the schizophrenic population is a cross-cultural phenomena.

Every culture has its idea of what is acceptable, including what's acceptable magical or religious thinking (we don't think that Christians who pray to Jesus for cancer relief, whether effective or not, are schizophrenic). But if you step outside of those realms, you will be mistreated. If you tell Christians that you have a personal relationship with Jesus, they'll think that's normal. If you tell them that you actually hear the voice of Jesus, they'll be conspiculously polite but suspicious.
It's easy for us developers to say that because we make good money and I enjoy it. I try to use it for good but I always value time over money. I didn't think that way when I was in college and barely making rent. So yes, when you have money, time is important. When you don't have it, then it becomes your number one focus.
I like the blog and post marketing strategy and to be honest. I doubt I will drive much traffic with paid adds, remains to be seen though.
What is the best John le Carré novel?
In reality, most of these "features" aren't very noticeable to the average gamer. In the case where it is a noticeable, a little screen tearing really isn't a huge deal (not to mention G-sync requires an Nvidia GPU, which not everyone has nor will have).

Avid gamers do have a habit of going overboard on things, such as buying 64GB+ of RAM even though they never use it (and wont unless they run VM's, or huge services/server software, etc...).

It's easy to spend $2,000-$4,000+ on a super high end gaming rig, but in reality the $1,000 rig will game just fine for a long while before mandating upgrades.
Colors of LIFE
Putting up more towers won't solve the problem RF goes everywhere the cellular spectrum is limited and with WIFI creeping into GSM bands (and vice versa) it's even more saturated now.
Put more towers and your signal to noise ratio goes down the toilet.

As for transmission power well this is regulated T-Mobile can't just crank up the power.
Not to mention if they start spreading out towers like mushrooms the "health and safety" nuts will pop up after them claiming that towers give you cancer and they should be removed.

Comcast and any other ISP can pretty much increase it's bandwidth indefinitely it's only real limitation is how much room it has under the ground and hint that's allot.

And considering that people go crazy when cell providers try to spread Wifi around and push people using data (and even voice some times) to non cellular wireless internet this is pretty much a mess the consumers have made for themselves.

If you live in a metropolitan area you should petition your mobile provider to expand it's Wifi network and even partner with a residential wifi sharing providers to give you more coverage.
Cellular bandwidth is becoming more and more expensive and until h265 becomes a streaming standard don't expect to be streaming 1080p on your mobile devices in a dense area.

I live in London and I use maybe 500MB of 4G a month and that's because everywhere in my home, tube stations, work, and commercial areas there is a hotspot which is either provided by my carrier or my carrier has partnership with and I am getting very good download speeds all the way (I've cached the entire map of London on Google maps which was about 900mb yesterday in about 4min while waiting for the tube without any hickups).
Hey, thanks for opening up!

Yes, there is a psychological risk you take when you state an opinion on a topic that is important to you. The more important, the more disagreement hurts.

There isn't much one can do about opinions of others. We all try to keep things civil here, but it doesn't always work. Not immediately, at least. I remember the discussions after the last Paris attack; some comments were awful and literally heartbreaking, and I too was feeling a mix of anger and despair.

> What if it's, for example, similarly insensitive and disgusting comments about islam/muslims? I don't just feel awful being around that person, I feel crushed by the amount of people who would agree with it. I'm quite afraid of what happens when such opinion is widely held. I feel like I'm looking at a lifetime of awful and I feel crushed by it.

I recognize that feeling. Frankly, I prefer hanging on HN so much because it sometimes seems like one of the last few bastions of sanity on the planet. Back after Paris, my Facebook feed was literally breaking my heart, and it was HN that reminded me that not everyone holds harmful beliefs.

Anyway, when you see knee-jerk attacks and hurtful behavior, I recommend judicious use of the downvote and flag buttons. That's what they're for, and they seem to work pretty well at keeping the discourse at proper level.

Best wishes to you and your fiancée. Stay strong!
Love the idea but how do you capture data without a backend?
Saudi Arabia is considering an IPO of Aramco, the world’s most valuable company
Their are some "cell magics" for running different languages in individual blocks in a Jupyter notebook. I gave it a try in passing with javascript a while back and I remember there was a way to share variables through as well.

You can see the available magics here:
https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/interactive/magics.html#ce...

Unfortunately it looks like there is none for R or Julia, but perhaps they are installed by those specific packages, or their is some other way I don't know of.
Bummer. I liked the write up, it was going places. But then it was an ad.

I would save the advertising spiel for the page you link to in the article, and make the article more interesting.

It's a good advertising technique, but the article needs to be useful without the advert.

I came out of that feeling disappointed and decieved when it didn't have to end that way. Subtlety is key with this kind of marketing.
While this may be true, hearing that you're useful is important.

As someone that society has basically forgotten about, realizing that I won't be useful has recently crushed me.

I would not presume to speak for schizophrenics. My quirks are bad, but not that. But the welfare of a person is greatly improved by the feeling that they'll be useful.

Deluding yourself into thinking you're useful is much easier when there aren't external forces making it entirely clear that this is false. I can see that in a society without too much coercion, people with problems would be much happier simply because they aren't called out to prove themselves on a daily basis.

I say "called out" rather than "asked," because it fits much better. The feeling that you have to do something very important is so pervasive. If you're not doing that, then what are you doing?

Which is why it feels like you're called out to prove you're useful, rather than requested.

I hypothesize that in a society that doesn't do that, schizophrenics' welfare would be much improved.
The problem is that while the tech-savvy are familiar with the EFF, the general public may not be as much. If he manages to turn the general public against the EFF, then consumers would lose one of their most outspoken advocates.
Well, Anne Rice IS a bully, fwiw. She's well-known in the genre community for slinging her weight around when anyone criticizes her at all.
A user-friendly "Binge On" implementation can be done. You don't need to force plaintext or throttle anything. You just watch traffic at the L3 level, and if it's one of the IP addresses of Spotify or Netflix or whoever, don't record that traffic in your data usage accounting system.

You want Netflix to go faster? Work with them to add a bunch of cache servers with the couple hundred most popular movies, and have your DNS servers point to those. If you want to only do this for 480i video, have Netflix add a small setting that only shows up when you're running on a phone on the T-Mobile network.

No need to artificially slow other video down. You get to make the same marketing claims, except they're true now. You still get to be the "free data for all my video" carrier. Netflix might get a few new users (because mobile is making it feasible for normal people to avoid having computers or land-line internet connections again). Everyone wins.
The author explicitly asks: "In what sense does technology grow “exponentially”?" If the author wants to claim that the results of Moore's law hasn't trickled down to the common man, then he should do that. Pretending to not know about Moore's law just fails for me as a rhetorical device.

If the author was searching their mind for ways that technology has grown exponentially, with business and society on the mind. I find it quite reasonable that under-the-bonnet numbers didn't spring to mind.

I don't really see how missing this is a meaningful criticism. Sure Moore's law is a thing, but it's not really useful and I forget it exists all the time too.
$75k is approximately where money starts to have substantially diminishing marginal value. (Then add overhead when you consider that most people forget to plan for retirement and emergencies)
The ASCIZ directive on the PDP-11 assembler took a string literal and blitted it to memory with a trailing NULL, so there was a convenience factor there. BCPL and B used null-terminated strings, so it made sense for C to inherit the practice.

Pascal strings were significantly size-limited due to memory constraints (an implementation detail), so there was a reason to prefer null termination, but in essence we're still slaves to an obsolete instruction set.
If they start losing copyright, they start losing back catalog. I doubt there's a huge demand for the 1920s Steamboat Willie [1], but in 2032 they'll lose Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and in 2035, Pinnochio.

Of course, that's an awfully long ways off by a time-value-of-money analysis at the rates a modern company would normally use, so the other thing to look at and be... outraged? perturbed? surprised?... at is just how goddamned cheap Congress has historically been. Did you notice this line:

"In one instance, Eisner paid Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) $1,000 on the very same day that he signed on as a co-sponsor."

I mean, I presume that's not necessarily their only cough "donation" to the Senate Majority Leader, but one presumes that the Majority Leader ought to command a price premium, too, and for $1000 to be a notable donation to talk about, well, holy cow. I'd bet Disney wouldn't pay $10 billion as a lump sum in 2023 to extend copyright again... but we're not talking anywhere near that sort of money to get copyright extended. If they can do it for <$10 million, the cost/benefit is a no-brainer.

Remember, the value to Disney only has to exceed their expected costs. If their expected costs for a copyright extension is an accounting rounding error, of course they're going to try to extend it.

[1]: Which, if you've never seen it before, I recommend giving it a view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 The past is a foreign country!
I think it's simplest to tax copyrighted intellectual property like other property such as real estate. If you want to maintain it beyond some standard copyright term. (and make that term shorter than it is today)

So if one wants to continue to hold some copyrighted material out of the public domain for longer than the original term, sign up on a form to list the property. The gov't audits the value of that property and takes some small percentage of that value.
If we have to choose between giving Disney the exclusive right to a perpetual money machine, or to give all copyright owners the same, because Disney is so ingrained into the governing oligarchy, then I think the former choice would be better for society overall.
Why? Releasing the workforce from an unproductive company is exactly what society needs.

The opposite is zombie companies.
> While it is impossible to say for certain whether or not Disney’s efforts directly impacted politics, the results heavily worked out in their favor: the bill quietly and unanimously passed in the House and Senate with no public hearings, no debate, no notice to the public, and no roll call.

Of course it's possible to say that: "Disney’s efforts directly impacted politics". There, I said it.
Let's take Instagram as an example since it is a straightforward feed. If 1 person posts a picture every hour (oversharing), but everyone else posts 1/day, then I have to actively scroll past all those pics from the 1 person just to see what else I (may have) missed from everyone else.

In snapchat, I can quickly tap thru or totally ignore (never see, never spend a second messing with it) if I so choose.

I want to see posts from everyone, but one person (or a handful of people) can seriously damage the experience on Instagram type feed based platforms.

I suggest playing around with snapchat to understand why it's a fundamentally different approach to interacting. Follow some active users like DJ Khaled.

Regarding how Snapchat handles a large number of followers, I don't really know how to address. I follow 50 people, maybe 10 post daily.
Consider that the OS that powers all kinds of devices from satellites to embedded devices is Linux, an open-source project where payment isn't a top-priority for developers, but merit is!

Of course, something that satellites and most embedded devices have in common is minimal need for user interaction. It would be perfectly unsurprising if the world's best embedded OS turned out to be the world's worst desktop OS.
The "inventor" at Onewheel, Kyle Doerksen, quickly changed the conversation to about the 'safety' of 'knockoff' products. What does he know about that? Or is he full of it and just slandering another company with a product that looks like "his"? Disgusting attitude for an "inventor".

Hello!!! McFly!! The inventor of the Segway, Kamen, and the inventor of the unicycle, Myers, want to have a word with you...
Being old and creaky sucks even more when you still have to work for your hardscrabble life.
The statement plots two points. You can interpolate.
In other words, "The dose makes the poison".
NPR's Planet Money podcast released an episode a few weeks ago where they tried to find the original inventor:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/episo...
http://www.theopeninter.net/
The poster in that thread was doing the equivalent of stepping line by line through a block of code manually, ignoring all of the errors and manually executing the next line anyway.
> Instagram is the 9th circle of hell where everyone feels inadequate about their photos of bottle service, Michelin star dining and helicopter rides.

OT: That's... an interesting take.
I don't know what that does in evernote. I just copy and paste stuff from the browser and it pulls all the formatting and the link too, in the note. Also, there is a built in screenshot tool. I use it sometimes to take snippets from the browser.
> I mean, I presume that's not necessarily their only cough "donation" to the Senate Majority Leader, but one presumes that the Majority Leader ought to command a price premium, too, and for $1000 to be a notable donation to talk about, well, holy cow.

The limits are pretty low on individual donations.

http://www.fec.gov/info/contriblimitschart1516.pdf

For 2015-2016, you can only give $2,700 to a specific candidate as an individual.
It's pretty clear to me that the OP is saying that a Patent is basically worthless outside of it's capacity to draw force from a state actor. Specifically in this case, that coercion took it's most direct form with armed federal officials seizing property.
I wonder if 10% is enough of a cut to make the business viable again, or if this is just pandering to the market. Seems likely that someone picked this number out of the air to make a statement.
> It's only the people who did the work and made the stuff who will be laid off.

Well... what do you expect? You're either the job creator or the job filler.

If you could create jobs and had the right motivation and ability to do so, you wouldn't be filling a job.

> Their fault for not cultivating the right connections.

And yes, knowing the right people is part of that game.

And yes, sometimes the job creators must destroy some jobs in order to save the rest. What's better... 10% of Yahoo! laid off... or 100%?
No smoking on my property