skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Testing titles isn't that innovative on the whole but coupled with different teasers on the homepage and automating that test seems to be something you don't often see.

For example, on the homepage now the primary headline is "Trump, Sanders roll to victory." It actually goes to the same story as "Jumbled finish could keep GOP field from thinning." I suspect bandito would test headlines but also integrate into which story to put in the headline to increase engagement.
By 'says' in your comment, I hope you mean 'tweet'. Andresseen has said and done many smart things.
Someone not sensitized by the net-neutrality debate would probably call a slow, spotty or censored internet connection still internet. But as frontiers are already pretty straight, qualitative differences in internet access already constitute a difference to what the net-neutrality side would be willing to accept as part of what can be called "internet".

This makes it funny that you name his wording "Orwellian" while subliminally reproducing this carefully crafted and politically loaded understanding of what qualifies as internet.

It in fact already is seeking political influence on a grammatical level.
I was surprised to see that Qihoo 360 was credited in most of the qemu CVEs from earlier this week:

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
It's more likely to tell you that journalism is a dead art.
Question, how can I expand Deepstream.io? For instance I want it to become an install-able API server for blockchain (like Ethereum). How do I do it? Is there a plugin architecture in place? Would I have to modify the main source code?
Twitter Will Offer Selected Tweets to Keep Users Coming Back
That's not what neutrality means. That means the ISP doesn't take anyone side - either by making certain services faster at the expense of others being slower, or by setting preferential pricing. If facebook really cared about access to internet, they could negotiated 1 free GB of traffic / month for everyone, not just access to facebook and a few other websites that they picked.
>jumping reflexively to the most uncharitable interpretation of what the person said.

There isn't a charitable interpretation to what he said. There's only a "damage control" interpretation. And that one doesn't really fit well with the fact that he blocked people who retweetted (and hence gave more prominence) to his original tweet.
This question comes up a lot, I once saw this asked on Quora, will update this post once I get the link. IMHO I think most self-taught developers lack the basic CS concepts, myself being a self-taught developer created a list of topics that I study every morning -> https://github.com/nkudo/daily-study

Currently learning algorithms and I've been enjoying it so far, learnt a lot and some of the knowledge gained helped me in a recent interview where I was asked what data-structure the HTML DOM used. I am a JavaScript person so I'm reading this book -> http://www.amazon.com/Structures-Algorithms-JavaScript-Micha...
There are two things for this situation

-On one hand Intel is disabling a "Feature" of their cpus
as a way of preventing users to get "More expensive
performance" without paying for it; you can think of it
like intel is just covering their back; we can assume the
difference on their cpus is just related to binning [0]
and they are just protecting their customers by not
allowing less performant cpus perform better therefore
increasing reliability.
-on the other hand you can see how hardware is not
anymore something you buy and expect to behave in a
certain way.
For those paranoid... would this mean they can also alter
how instructions behave? **cough**security**cough**

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
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I understand colonialism perfectly. My country was under British rule for almost 900 years, longer than any other country on earth. I wasn't supporting him in his statement, actually I disagree with at least 80% of what he tweets, however if there is to be a backlash against the likes of Marc Andreessen then it should be for legitimate reasons and not that he endorsed colonialism which he didn't. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be pissed with SV elites who say and act as they wish without making up fake reasons.
How have any of those affected you? You state you are worried they might happen, not have been subject to.
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If any of the affected apps or anyone else is looking for a more secure updating solution, please contact me (Alexander Hektor). We have put a lot of time, effort and money into our system over the last couple of years and it is used by millions of users (jdownloader.org) and recently also by some B2B clients.

Open Source and noncommercial projects will get it for free obviously..
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Yay let's everyone miss the point of his tweet and focus on what language is allowed in social media, because that's all that matters.
They send me the voting letters to my Japanese home address. Free of charge.

I get letters like that, too, also addressed to Japan but bearing a conspicuous bald eagle. An American citizen is a resident of the last state one had legal residence in for voting purposes even if one has no particular intent to return to it. One's friendly local State Department employee will happily confirm this:

http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/legal-ma...

For voting purposes, your state of legal residence is generally the state wherein you resided immediately before leaving the United States, even if you no longer own or rent property or intend to return there in the future. Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia specifically allow U.S. citizens who have never resided in the United States to register where a parent would be eligible to vote.
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> Vector Networks

You mean "graphs".
Read this blog post from the founder of Freshdesk :

http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...
Thats amazing! Ik12 was already known as the "ycombinator of edtech". Joining forces will help both sides to thrive.

Congratulations to the team!
Do you search by article name or DOI or link? I prefer DOI, because, I guess, it easier for the engine to find a paper. In 95% cases I find a needed paper by DOI.
Not sure what you're trying to say, exactly. "There is proof that road rage exists"? OP didn't say "Road rage doesn't exist", he said "It's not universal". A universal quantifier ("all" or "none") can be disproven with a counter-example (op to article), an existential quantifier ("some" or "not all") can't (you, if I understand it correctly, to op).

He's just saying "speak for yourself."

Or did you mean something else?
I remember when I was younger I would snap at the silliest moments, mostly when I wasn't getting my way. This went on for about 16 years, so there was a point I was very dangerous to be around if I lost it. What I find interesting looking back is how now I don't really get all that mad and at worse I'll just snarky or rude. I don't know what's changed over time (hormones maybe?) but I do know that unless someone really pushed me I probably wouldn't go into a ragefit.
How is this different than this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071916
The last. The OP for instance was low on content. I found this 'fact' : “We have a lot of threats to the water supply”
The whole movement started with opposition to Airtel Zero (an Indian company) and Flipkart (again, an Indian company). People have lauded Google for respecting net neutrality in Project Loon.

I don't know where this perception of an anti-west sentiments is coming from.
> Their prices are as high as they can go already.

"As high as they can go" in what sense? If you mean their prices before regulation were determined by supply and demand, then the market was working and there was no need for the regulation. If you mean their prices were determined by something else, what?

> Harmful regulation raises prices by raising the price of inputs

That's one way regulation can be harmful, but not the only way. Another way is for it to outlaw positive sum transactions that, in its absence, would have taken place. You're assuming without proof that the regulations in question "know" exactly which transactions are the "right" ones to outlaw. No real regulation has ever been anywhere close to that accurate.
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This is a great move. I've never heard of IK12 before, I thought Panorama Education was funded by YC but it's great to hear they're creating an Education vertical. I'm really interested in how the EdTech space will change in the near future and it's great to hear YC is going to be a big part of it.
Net neutrality is not anti-West.
Anyone interested in a concise, passionate, but well-researched account of India's situation while it was under foreign rule should check out Will Durant's The Case For India.

It's eye-opening.
> ...the most beneficial infrastructural policy...

That's a nice objective view of free basics. I honestly believe, as I believe the parent to your comment does, that free basics really is bad for the internet and that none of the big players supporting it, e.g. the board of Facebook, are ignorant of the massive walled garden effect that they expect and hope it will create.

At this point I think it's pretty close to an evil plan. Imagine a privately run "public" transit system that dropped you off inside buildings with no exterior doors. You'd be hard pressed to argue that the creators of such a system would not be aware of the effects it would have om the businesses inside such buildings, much less that they're creating this network out of the kindness of the hearts to honestly just give people who are in need access to transportation.

(little straw-many but i reallt hate the idea and implementation of free basics)
Director of National Intelligence will discuss AI risks during Senate hearing
If one is trying to figure out what characters will say in future episodes based on their speech in previous episodes, then you are in a prediction context, not significance testing context.

As far as I can tell, there are a lot of people out of their leagues going around with the title "data scientist".

This is not a sample. This is a census at this point in time. The fact that there will be another population tomorrow does not change the fact that you have the entire population of all words spoken by all characters up to today.

I am not a statistician. I am an economist who knows enough about statistics and econometrics to know when a significance test is applicable.

Also, do note the issue that R's csv parsing is going to mis-attribute some characters' speech to others. GIGO speaks loud.
What about third party clients?
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An esoteric audience isn't going to pay their bills and the non-esoteric one can figure out what they mean just fine.
>Of course, that document was written by another VC who likes to run his mouth on Twitter. So there's a legitimate discussion to be had about whether that document is poisoning the well of criticism.

This comment itself is further argument that more people here could stand to read it. You've literally ignored the ideas within and just made an ad hominem argument based on the author instead.
No. Perhaps they're rolling it out gradually.
>Marc Andreessen is an extraordinarily influential person in tech, and that influence is based on his reputation.

And that reputation is based on his position as an early luminary that made direct and real contributions to the progress of the field, and his continued ability to make great picks for VC. Andreessen, like Paul Graham, is one of the few VCs who actually understands the technical underpinnings of what's going on, which seems to seriously enhance a VC's performance.

Andreessen's political beliefs are totally irrelevant. Frankly, it wouldn't matter if he were a neo-Nazi.
Incorporation is a legal technique that greatly the personal legal risks of the individuals who run the corporation.

>The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

-John Kenneth Galbraith

As shown in 2008, globalized corporations are able to receive nationalized bailouts even though they are not subject to the same national restrictions of citizens.

Though they don't always get away with it, large corporations such as Lehman are able to commit massive fraud and face no jail time.

Other multinational corporations like HSBC are able to launder money for drug cartels and terrorists but face no jail time.

See also the LIBOR interest rate fraud. No jail time for anyone involved.

Bookkeeping fraud is just the tip of the iceberg. If you are interested in more nefarious activity, like that of the human rights abuses of Shell Oil which runs Nigeria, there is plenty of information out there about it. Slavery, environmental destruction, torture, execution and when any attention is brought to it, the usual punishment is a small fine which is far less than the money made by engaging in these activities.
Another view is that Yahoo! began facing stiff competition from a few of the greatest minds in the world before she was brought on and playing catchup is nearly impossible unless missteps are made by those in the market lead.

It's possible that the situation at Yahoo has been too tough to remedy for years and no matter how competent she was she couldn't turn it around.
Twitter used to be an amazing social network with ongoing conversation and discourse but lately (The past two years) it's felt increasingly like the anger megaphone. Not sure that's a culture they can stifle with algorithms but I'm optimistic they do.
Manchu Qing Dynastsy was foreign invaders that "got assimilated", too. Chinese people were glad to get rid of them and okay with Britain countering their presence.
One of the main arguments is that the "them" doesn't include the people who would actually be benefitted.
"partial Internet connectivity." which is fully profitable to him as a Facebook investor.
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What happened to the future?
>> Here's how it works. You flip on the feature in your settings; then when you open Twitter after being away for a while...

That's perfect, I need to flip it on, just how things like this should be added to anything!
It makes sense if it is bilateral ( US giving money to France for French people working there ) and common enough that both countries don't want to deal with the hassle.

The real problem is that the US is the odd one here. Every other country save 1 or 2 tax people income based on residence . So there is a legal clash that probably prevent any kind of sane and simple bilateral agreement like the one most of the first world countries have between themselves.
whats with sudden needs for "flexible open-source realtime server with pubsub"
referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071916
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> The 1986 drug stuff was in response to some basketball player, Len Bias, that died of an overdose.

Some of us were already adults when that occurred. Fuck you, Nancy Reagan.
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I cannot find it either...
My niches were not meant to be a knowledgeable insight, just examples. And you have a good point about buying cash-generating companies (companies that are winning the niche battles). But they really need to focus- and only buy companies that are in that focus. If they are a media company then they are competing with Condé Nast, Youtube, and bloggers everywhere. But if they are, for example, an educational media company, then the scope is clearer and they can muster some leverage.
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It's kind of frightening that people are leaving university with a developed hostility toward the notion of sexual dimorphism in humans.
No, a human or group of humans is responsible for the HFT algorithm.
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It was just pure ignorance. Some of the larger impacts of colonialism:

Indian share of world economy went from 23-24% before colonialism to less than 4% under colonialism. India's share of World Trade went from 27% to 2% under colonialism.

India's healthcare worsened during colonialism because all the resources were exported to Europe for cheap and in abundance

India's literacy was worsened during colonialism and was just close to 10% during Independence.

India's revolutionaries who opposed colonialism and raised against the British were brutally killed or hanged under British rule.

Anyone who spoke against the colonialism were jailed.

British Divide and Rule policy still affects India today.
Evans has been called out for his idiotic behavior before[0]. From what I can tell, his only contribution to a discussion is to say the most banal things (ex: there will be 5B smartphone users in 2020) in a way that makes them sounds original.

0: http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/benedict-evans-wants-to...
To be fair, that's probably a good thing. Every state has slightly different difficulties that the AI will probably have to learn to overcome. Though it might slow down technological progress, it's probably a safer way to roll out.
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Nice thanks. I don't have twitter. Also don't present me as the inventor of this technique because I'm not. I've read this long time ago on some dark corners of the internet :-) I'm just pointing it out.
> but none of them result in mapping "anti-colonialism"

And only a single stupid interpretation results in mapping "against anti-colonialism" to "pro colonialism", but you chose exactly that one.
This was my initial reaction too! I wonder how is this different from graphs.
The use of the term "expat" rather than "immigrant" is interesting. I read a piece in the guardian the other day which framed that distinction in terms of white vs non-white (http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-...), but it's obviously a bit more complicated than that. I don't think the two terms are synonyms, but they are very close, and once you try to pick apart the differences, I think the distinction does start to unravel.

Thought experiment: think about how the article would have felt had it been titled: "Why American immigrants are giving up their passports". I think it would have felt different, and I wonder whether an American reader might have felt slightly insulted by that change.

I'd be interested to know whether other languages/cultures draw that same subtle distinction between "immigrants" and "expats", or whether it's just some vestigial remnant of the UK's colonial past.
A data-driven argument on why Marc Andreessen is wrong about Free Basics
Yeah, that can totally happen. I know people who burned out pretty hard doing things like running MMO guilds or trying to compete in PvP games like Hearthstone.

Definitely, do what works for you at that time.
One thing I never see mentioned in this debate is the fact that America was a British colony as well, and colonial status definitely drained American wealth for centuries (though obviously, the occupation of India was far more brutal). But I think it's highly unlikely that America ever would've become a superpower without the benefit of British culture, institutions, and law.
Ok, so you can't get cost-effective parts. Cheaper to buy a new bike, than keep buying hard-to-find expensive parts.

Anyway, the subject was, how fast bikes change. That's unrelated to how clever we are at finding old parts - the fact is, new bike parts are invented every year.
I was actually using the terms "real" and "imaginary" non-colloquially to denote real and complex numbers (5, -1, pi, e, -1^-2, etc.).

It's true that nonnegative numbers are just abstract ideas that we come up with to represent quantity, but that's just it: quantity is a real thing. Is there such a thing as negative quantity? That's my question.

I like the reference to the contention of what we currently denote as imaginary numbers and how they should be compared as just as real as other numbers. This is the same issue I'm questioning but from the other side. I'm questioning if we should count negative numbers as real as opposed to understanding them as a set that is at least imaginary, if not complex or irrational.

I also like the point about a counterclockwise rotation being just as real as a clockwise rotation. This is where the non/negative sign is used to indicate a vector. As long as you have a point of reference, this is always ok because it's simply referring to what type of amount of whatever quantity/magnitude/etc we're dealing with.

But I believe this is different than what we often do with negative numbers when working through many of our problems that involve unitless numbers/constants or take an abstraction and apply it as a physical theory - in these cases the negative numbers were treated as separate and real when in fact they should have been directions, unit movement, or other information about actual physical quantities. This is where I'm wondering if we should treat negative numbers as a different set altogether.
What good have the Romans ever done for us?
Fair, I accept that slow, spotty, and maybe even censored internet connections might qualify as "partial Internet connectivity."

But that's not at all what we're talking about here, right? The service in question allows connecting to just two sites or something?
Whatsapp doesn't. I'd say this was huge at driving its adoption.
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This looks like a promising tutorial:

https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/video-editing-blender...

Part 2 of the tutorial is about basic editing, but the first part is interesting due to color correcting/processing the clips first...
I ... refuse to answer that without my lawyer present.
http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
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He's one of the original creators of one of the first web browsers - arguably one of the early architects of the web. And since has parlayed his fortune to become one of the top investors in silicon Valley.

And now, apparently a self-righteous hypocrite who is arguing against net neutrality because it suits his financial interests in Facebook.
And so what if Andreessen is pro-Colonialism? It seems to have nothing to do with his performance as a VC or his early record as a tech entrepreneur, which is why he's noteworthy.

He's not running for political office, so his political beliefs shouldn't really make a difference. We need to be willing to accept a diversity of belief instead of feigning shock and manufacturing outrage to try to lend undue credence to our own ideas of social equality; doing that is really just an admission that the argument is on shaky ground to start with and that you don't want to allow anyone to attempt to challenge it (for fear that the ground will crack and cause the shaky belief to collapse).
You can't add in-message active content, though. (At least not without some serious hacks, like that thing LinkedIn did.)
Also this one: The problem is that, acclimation aside, Pudding is still a cat — an innate master of not doing what you want him to do.
It's a social construct as well.

Look at children: male brains develop differently to female brains. Their blood contains different chemicals. There are differences and those differences have effects.