skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't blame 4chan at all, and neither does the author (who, BTW, doesn't talk about "4chan" but about one specific board). Hilarious that you read it this way. But when writing a piece of cultural criticism, it's important to categorize social groups based on cultural narratives (or currents), and the narratives on that 4chan board overlap with those found in the murderers' manifestos and intimidation campaigns. That within every narrative-group some people take things much, much further than others goes without saying. It also goes without saying that discussion groups -- online or off -- are better indicators of the "mainstream" of the groups they represent rather than the most extreme (people who end up behaving violently often eschew gatherings), and most certainly cannot be blamed for violent action. Nevertheless, all sorts of ideological violence are associated with some non-violent ideological groups in some way, and it is disingenuous to claim that there is no cultural association whatsoever between those anti-women rampages and certain online communities.
> I respect the hell out of those choices

Why? What's noble about leaving money on the table?
Can you expand a bit on the bureaucracy in Europe? Do you think it's hard to create a limited responsibility company in Europe? Is it better in China?
I knew a guy who grew up poor and as a result he didn't have much to eat growing up. So whenever he had free food he'd eat/steal as much as he can because he'd never know when his next meal might be.
> Skype and MySQL were Swedish

I never suggested that Skype or MySQL were Romanian - only European.

Correction: Skype is definitely not Swedish. Skype's founders are pan-European - 1 Swede, 1 Dane and 3 Estonians. The company itself was widely considered to be Estonian[1]. I frequently I confuse Estonia and Romania and I was thinking Skype was Romanian.

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stories/skype/skype-chapter-...
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514455

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11513207
> Where do ideas for experiments come from if not somone's unsupported fantasies?

They come from small, modest guesses in accordance with Occam's razor. You have got to be able to distinguish between (1) reasonable hypothesis generation and (2) unhinged fantasies with a thousand moving parts unsupported by data.
The cause could be that people with poor SES still have worse nutrition (lack of some nutrients) and thus the urge to consume.
(I mean, in addition to the urge caused by malnutrition in childhood.)
I'm torn about this. Some XDG-aware applications use a very convoluted sequence of subfolders to end up placing just a dotfile.

Whereas classical Unix applications simply have one easy to identify dotfile in ~/.
Or a scene out of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911".

Nor am I the first to tie the NY Post coverage to Moore - the Post first covered the Bush-Saudi claims in 2013: http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/12/15/murdochs-nypost-today-b...

The article also points to a 2003 Vanity Fair story by Craig Unger, "Saving the Saudis".
While I agree we've no way to know if Zipf's law applies to alien firms of communication, it seems extremely unlikely that it would apply to random or natural signal profiles that were not communicating information.

So failing to conform to Zipf's law doesn't prove a signal is not meaningful, but confirming to it is likely to be very strong evidence that a signal is a form of communication.
Another question that's coming up more and more is whether companies like Facebook and Twitter need to be regulated by the FCC as broadcasters or telecoms. Facebook and Twitter have been blatantly influencing feeds and content for political ends and at some point people are probably going to decide they shouldn't be allowed to do that.
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In the physical shop, the purchase happens in country the shop is in. The taxes paid should be those taxes paid by shops in that country.

But what country does an online purchase happen in, and which country gets the tax money?

The company can register in a tax haven, or host servers abroad etc.

The customer can connect via a proxy etc.
Trump is a populist running on his party base's concerns after they've been whipped up for the past decade about how evil everyone else is. And reaping the long-term consequences of the Southern Strategy of the 1950s/60s Republican party.

Also, he's #121 on the Forbes 400 richest Americans.

Sanders is funding from small donors, but he's #2 in a two person Democratic primary race.

I'm not seeing an explanation here that consoles me about money not having an oversized impact on American democracy.

And "what everyone kind of knew" (but was illegal) is far different from 'explicitly condoned by the Supreme Court.'
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Uber is a bad example because it's losing billions every year. It may just evaporate when the current bubble pops. In my opinion, they are mistreating employees because they are getting desperate to find a way to make the business profitable.
Great recipe to burnout yourself.
I'd go for AWS since it has already proven its trustability, stability and usability in the context of daily routine/providing solid solutions for hosting high access-content.

GCE is interesting however, I'll definitely keep that in mind for future "testing" but at the moment I'd take AWS as my "out of the box"-solution.
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I did indeed. Not the best process in the world, but I was only there a week.
Also keep in mind that when you are inside of a cloud (or at least a region within a cloud) you typically do not pay fees between things like EC2 and S3, for example. If you were to build parts of your infra on AWS and other parts on GCE you would pay for data to go between those deployments.
Ok, but in order to analyse a form of communication, you have to have communication to analyse. Do Cephalopods meaningfully communicate? If not, your investigation isn't going to get very far.
Soldering surface mount devices doesn't seem to be too bad, actually. Here are a couple of short videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NN7UGWYmBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uiroWBkdFY
A phobia is an irrational fear of a particular thing. Xenophobia is fear of outsiders. Refusing to sell to them is not fear of them, it's fear of the consequences of not following the law. Which is a rational fear rather than an irrational one.

So the charge of xenophobia is wrong on both aspects of the definition that matter.

But by all means, reiterate your loaded terminology.
As far as creating an in-house sales team via bootstrapping, I've seen it be successful. The trick is to have a service based company with just enough sales and marketing to keep generating revenue. The hard part is for the partners to have the foresight to not pull all the cash reserves out for their personal gain and instead reinvest the revenue in creating new products until one takes off and becomes the main revenue generator.
Where we agree:

"Ideally, doing the "right thing" should also be profitable so that the Free Market can efficiently optimize towards it."
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"It has taken markets a long time to catch up with how obvious it is."

"There is nothing negative about doing something good simply because it's efficient and profitable"
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the absence of anything negative said about it. I said it was obvious [good], efficient [good] and profitable [good, but mostly for Apple]. And that they're congratulating themselves to reap PR value (absolutely true).

"...taking into account life time costs, capital requirements and so forth most places have found that it has not been worth it."
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"It has taken markets a long time to catch up with how obvious it is." And the reason they're catching up now is because of scarcity, and because costs of wholesale looting metals from the commons are beginning to climb to their true value, i.e. irreplaceability. Apple's costs for recycling include the gift card they give you for turning in your old device -- which is some quantity of their own goods & services at cost -- and shipping & processing costs, all of which are surely considerable but will soon be dwarfed by mining costs if they aren't already.

"Even if something like this is efficient and profitable once it's up and running there is still significant capital expenditure (both material and human) involved in setting it up in the first place."
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"...they'll be glad they already have the infrastructure in place." Starting to think you didn't read more than 10-12 words. And also why are you trying to make the argument that it's difficult and costly for them, when this is the much-hated self-flagellation argument?

Where we disagree:

1) Free Market, not being a proper noun or deity, should not be capitalized, no pun intended.

2) There is no answer to "What is 'good'?" and there is no answer to "Is recycling 'good'?" "Good" and "bad" are overrated and overused concepts best suited to the cognitively impaired, religious folk, others who desire a simplistic mental model of the world, and those who want to play out emotional issues by getting all worked-up over good-bad absolutes instead of talking neutrally. Lots of people say "It is what it is" but few actually mean it.

3) There is no self-flagellation involved in noticing that when someone does something rare, unpleasant and costly, it's remarkable for those very reasons; whereas when they do something efficient, profitable and (from the standpoint of someone who already recognizes the irreplaceability of Earth) obvious, it's somewhat less remarkable. German and Dutch companies (for just one example that I've personally witnessed), have been quietly recycling for decades.

4) I'm not in love with Apple.
Use it everyday, we host basically everything there. Have played decently with Amazon and my preference certainly is with Azure, but I'm quite biased (.NET developer).

The ease of certain things (the integration with Visual Studio for example) simply surpasses anything I've played with for Amazon. I use the portals less though, and mostly rely on the tools provided in Visual Studio (explorers, deployment managers etc).
I'd like to play with Linux on this multi-nic board when I get some time and money http://www.banana-pi.org/r1.html
Man am I lucky to be a twerpy white guy (some days).

When I travel I opt out of the scanner every time, ask the pat-down guy what happens if he finds drugs on me, and sometimes refuse the search by asking them if I'm under arrest ('if not, am I free to go?').

If the TSA agent won't let me leave without a search, I demand they call the cops, who are obligated to let me leave (not enter the airport, though) because I haven't committed a crime.

One time in SFO they called the bomb squad because I tested positive for fertilizer (or something) and I still went through all this. I refused something called a 'private room crotch rub', which I regret a little.

When I talk to friends who are any shade of brown they tell me 'you should have had your ass handed to you'.
It would be great to have more solid data; I feel that speculation only clouds the issue.

> Yes, I know it's from Breitbart, but the point still stands

Not if you don't believe Breitbart
It used to be that incidents like these would be reported as UFOs. I wonder if someone had advanced drone technology 50 (ish) years ago? Or are some of the current "sightings" UFOs but there's now a plausible explanation (drones). The most curious report is the drone with the "balloon-like center" - might this have been reported as a weather balloon in the past?

Note: I'm using the term UFO as it's original acronym and don't mean to imply they're flown by the proverbial little green men.

EDIT: I'm using the term "little green men" in the gender neutral form and am not intentionally impuning the flying capabilities of little green women.
We don't. But because the types on content are so similar we can compare results to look for systemic faults.
I don't begrudge people who are in it for the art, or for the love of the game. Some of them are naive, sure. But plenty others make that choice intentionally. For reasons of game design, or reasons of personal ethics. And good for them.

I have several very close friends who graduated cum laude from fantastic schools and chose to become high school teachers instead of lawyers or bankers. Should I begrudge them that choice, as well?
It's only an assumption that, existing in the same universe as us, they would be subject to the physical and chemical laws of that universe. Or are you considering aliens residing in other universes?
Have you seen that law about taxes for ecommerce in Europe? In the US, the shop collects tax for the country the shop is based in. In Europe, the shop has to pay taxes related to the country the people buying the products are in. This significantly increases the complexity of running an ecommerce business in Europe.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-dig...

It was an idea with some logic behind it, but it basically cripples European internet businesses compared to US ones by making taxes that much complicated to calculate.
Almost didn't touch on /pol/, what a missed opportunity
There are tool using dolphins.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/these-...
Yeah, I'm trying to pick up babes here on HN. (grin)
First paragraph:

> Ok, I lied, there's no weird trick. However, you can easily reduce a Go binary size by more than 6 times with some flags and common tools.
I suppose intent matters too. A drone hitting a plane by mistake is apparently not unlike a bird strike, but how do you tell if a given drone has an explosive payload and is being aimed intentionally at an engine intake? It's only a matter of time. It makes sense to keep drones out of airport flightpaths. More sense than most of the post-911 security theatre, at least.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11458951
It is first sign of burnout: your brain need time to clean, repair or/and rewire your brain.

Sleep well, exercise often, take long vacation, i.e. procrastinate well.
> Refusing to sell to them is not fear of them, it's fear of the consequences of not following the law.

Except there is no such law (unless we are talking about some xenophobic country, Third Reich style). Rather than any laws, they fear that their crazy partners will pull a plug on them. And they are being xenophobic to oblige their insane content overlords. Their exact intentions don't matter however for the end user who is being discriminated. What matters are their actions.
med school app?
Easy to rationalize after the event. Perforce because of our partial knowledge, we use prejudice (and faulty logic in the heat of the moment) everyday. It's also known as pre-judgement and it often gets things wrong. I don't know anybody these days who doesn't look round at his or her fellow-passengers on a flight, and wonder.
Discerning motivations and monday morning quarterbacking whether they were justified or not is a quagmire of futility. Really, the victim just needs to be made whole - force these organizations to stop creating externalities out of their self-created costs. To me, it sounds like the victim in this case is owed an automatic payment of at least several thousand dollars for the lost day, emotional distress, etc. The civil damages in a general kidnapping/wrongful imprisonment case are also a good reference point. He really should sue - free apologies don't reform bad incentives.

Southwest should have also removed the reporting woman from the plane so the victim could face his accuser, and also to reduce frivolous complaints. If she really thinks he was a t'rist, she should be wanting to get off that plane regardless.
We recently had our first huge sale to a single customer. It started out as an inbound inquiry to the general email address. I wasn't involved at this time (there are 6 of us, but only one other person handles anything sales/customer related). I believe there were a total of 4 emails outlining the general service, our products, current pricing, and what we could offer in the future. I later learned it was a very junior member of their team who was collecting this information.

The final email, which included a presentation, led to the scheduling of a call with about six people from their side on the call (and two of us). This call lasted about 90 minutes with me talking almost non-stop. After the call they asked for an NDA so that we could share more details. It took about two weeks to get the NDA in place.

The NDA was followed by a request for me to visit them in person for a couple of days. We're based in Chicago and it was a three hour flight. The meeting lasted about 10 hours, with about a half-dozen of their staffers involved, including their consultants. Consultants were involved to offer advice on build-versus-buy.

After I went home, I was asked if their management team could come to Chicago. This ended up being an 8-hour meeting. At the close of that meeting, I had a verbal approval. The paperwork took another week or so to get in order. The initial funds were wired immediately after the contract was signed.
Because those are, as far as we know, constant throughout the universe?
On the other hand, objective reality indicates that Andrew Jackson was in fact a genocidal slaver.
Faults?
Azure is shit. The portal is insane. It's as if the Windows 8 UI people took over. It's slow and buggy. They actually call series of navigation steps a "journey", reflecting how difficult it is.

Their SSD story was late and pathetic. At first, they started offering SSD ... as temp volumes. Zero real-world use cases (except as a SQL 2014 "Buffer Pool"). Like, why would you even announce such a weak offering?

Then they added full SSD ("Premium Storage"). You need special instances to use SSD, it's not just a bit you flip on your storage options. AND, you need to pick 1 of 3 sizes. If you need something between, round up. Need more performance? They suggest you software RAID things together. It's laughable.

Everything is SLOW. Machines take forever to start up. Windows boxes often enough get stuck, requiring resizing (change to larger, change back to orig size) to get them unstuck.

The networking is dumb. "Cloud Service" = 1 public IP, then each VM gets NAT'd. This is a holdover from when Azure thought they could PaaS their way to fame. Oh, I tested restoring an Elasticsearch backup that was stored on Azure blob storage. Restoring to a GCE instance went about 10x faster.

Pricing is very high. On some instances, GCE was 10x cheaper, though the average was like 2-3x and that was including Azure's "enterprise" discount.

Azure is squarely aimed at old MS-style customers that want "cloud" and don't really know more than that. "Ooh Hadoop... in the Cloud!" That kind of thing. They know they can make a killing by just migrating on-prem customers to their own thing. And they're probably right. Why would an enterprise with a big AD deployment decide to take a risk by not going with Microsoft?

Oh and did I mention the portal will cause depression and frustration? Cause it will. It's beyond comprehension how anyone thought it was a good idea. Oh, and there's 2 of them. The old one is not-as-bad and last I checked, was still needed for things they didn't include in the New Tablet Edition Portal.

You literally could not pay me to use Azure over GCE: I was looking at something that might get BizSpark Plus, with $$$$ in free Azure credits, and it wouldn't be worth it.

Edit: Oh another awesome part. Global Namespace! Everything you create is scoped globally, so if you're naming things like mysite-web-1, better hope no one else decides on that prefix too. But hey, maybe it's 2016 and we're supposed to use guids for names and container managers so this doesn't matter. Just another poor decision decision.

I know I accurately summarize many of my coworker's opinions when I say: Fuck Azure.

Disclaimer: I used to be a huge MS fanboy, and I still really dislike Google as a company. If I sound bitter and biased, it's because I've dealt with Azure for ops for around 2 years and they've earned it. I've less exp with GCE but it's been so, so, refreshing. Like a cool minty breeze.
Can you clarify what you mean by advanced?

Edit: I can't reply to your reply, but I can edit this post.
Unless the form that mate selection takes radically diverges from evolved patterns I don;t see how that makes much difference. Since survival for intelligent species is much more loosely coupled to their biology I don't see why sexual selection strategies would mitigate against that. It seems to me they'd follow the same pattern in devaluing biological fitness criteria as not being as significant as they were pre-sentience.
Sorry for the (probably) stupid question: what's IAP? I can't grasp it from the context.
The fact that a single experiment needs to be an attempt to test a modest guess doesn't mean that this is how every scientist experiences the process of coming up with ideas for experiments. There is nothing about doing science that requires you to refuse to fantasize about the big picture, even if the big picture has a million moving parts (which it always does in social science).
Depends on how much C4 is attached to it.

Seriously, you're talking about hundreds of lives and a few hundred million dollars of equipment. Why do you want to take the one in a million chance?
cuttlefish are the coolest!

Their mimicry skills stay sharp across generations because during breeding season, while the strong males are competing physically for access to females, the smaller males with better mimicry skills are mimicking females (!) and sneaking past the boxing ring for a quickie.

The female cuttlefish can also store lots of sperm and decide later whose to use. Gross.
yes, survival of the fittest makes less sense if the fittest don't survive
I think this has to do with a mixture of fear of failure, having "smart" be part of your identity and having somewhat of a fixed mindset instead of a growth mindset.

The procrastination protects your self identity because you can discount failure as having not tried that hard.

It's better to keep your identity small and value continually learning over "being smart".