skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, my speeds are about the same as those in Korea as I live in NYC. Which makes sense because South Korea is almost entirely urban much like NYC. It's not really fair to make cross country comparisons between countries with vastly different geographies.
What I find interesting is that Hacker News manages to hold the same mentality that there's a startup bubble, this time it's not different, while at the same time holding the mentality that AI is going to take over, this time it's different (in aggregate, I'm not saying everyone holds this view, this seems to be the plurality view).

Many of the same arguments used to argue how AI is different this time around are the exact same arguments you can use to justify that it's not a startup bubble this time.

My guess is something about the fantastical sci-fi aspect of AI captures the deep-seated imagination and wishful-thinking of many engineers, whereas the rush of money, business-people, and focus on sales/growth aspect of startups draws out deep-seated disdain from many engineers.
Could you have a single one outlet pump but then have four tubes coming out of the jar going to different plants?
I'd recommend starting with Google VR and Unity.

https://vr.google.com/developers/

http://unity3d.com
resource consumption would increase by a factor of maybe two

That's significantly lower than most estimates I've seen. Jared Diamond for example says that the first world versus developing world resource consumption ratio is 32, with the majority of the world's population being much closer to the developing world:

The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32. Most of the world’s other 5.5 billion people constitute the developing world, with relative per capita consumption rates below 32, mostly down toward 1.

He goes on to say that if China was to increase to match US consumption levels --- with no change in population or change in consumption elsewhere --- that alone would double the worlds consumption:

Per capita consumption rates in China are still about 11 times below ours, but let’s suppose they rise to our level. Let’s also make things easy by imagining that nothing else happens to increase world consumption — that is, no other country increases its consumption, all national populations (including China’s) remain unchanged and immigration ceases. China’s catching up alone would roughly double world consumption rates. Oil consumption would increase by 106 percent, for instance, and world metal consumption by 94 percent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02diamond.html
Some of the decisions made were considered strange even at the time: the choice of Prolog instead of Lisp seemed to be largely down to it not being American. The main hardware they wanted to develop was dataflow, for which Prolog isn't a particularly good match.
We don't and never will. Does that mean that US law is irrelevant? From from it.
The issue is still very important. Let's shift the blame off the researchers if they're already at saturation and try to assemble a organ/institute that could help deal with and improve things.
This is a great presentation of a great deal of interdisciplinary work being done on economics and its sacred cows. It's adapted from this larger publication[1], which I think is certainly worth anyone's time.

[1]: http://www.ippr.org/files/images/media/files/publication/201... (PDF)
And apparently the two students even endorsed the letter.
Is there a list of alternatives with various tradfoffs mentioned?
They also have 1/6 the population density as the United States.
It might be a better sell if you try to introduce Elixir, and I am guessing its Phoenix library/framework as well.

I've tinkered a bit with Golang and I love it but IMO it's too much extra work in the Web development part. It's exciting and very educational to pop the hood and understand how many things fit together, especially if you're coming from Rails, but you should be aware that after a while the novelty wears off and sooner or later you'll start looking for the quicker paths to introduce trivial Web cruft.

I am yet to experiment with Elixir + Phoenix but the community feedback so far has been fantastic.
The Good Wife is one of the few shows I've seen that does tech right.

That episode in particular was an excellent example of balancing technical accuracy and artistic licence (e.g. the creator's alias is "Mr. Bitcoin" instead of Satoshi Nakamoto).

A lot of shows that do their research seem to feel a need to show it off by having nerds spouting word salad, which while completely accurate, is not something anyone would actually say.
Your first description isn't a Nash equilibrium because you're considering second-order effects (you're considering the reaction of other players to your changes), when Nash equilibrium only concerns itself with first-order effects - you assume other players do not change and if under that assumption every player is at the best action already, then you're in a Nash equilibrium.

I don't think cable companies are at a Nash equilibrium, but they may be at other forms of equilibrium that I'm not familiar with. Also this game is iterated so there are other (crucial) dynamics at play that I am not familiar with.
That's not complicated at all. That's people censoring what they receive, not the government.
To provide 1) rule of law and 2) services that benefit from economies of scale yet are too important for privatization (e.g. national defense)
Nope. http://m.hoax-slayer.com/man-dog-face.shtml
In an American or western tank? Maybe, those are heavily designed for crew survival. In a Russian/Soviet design? Who knows.
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Python 2.7 is not going away and why do you care anyway? People like you and the author of this website should just fuck off. People like Python 2.7, just let them.
Very interesting, it's not a typical hackernews topic, but I'd be interested in hearing more about your experiences with these.
I really liked Mr Godwin’s likening of the use of glib and frivolous invocations as a kind of forgetting. Specifically with regards to Hitler, I’ve always found those youtube videos where someone has taken footage of Hitler, or a movie depicting him, and added their own, supposedly humorous subtitles, a bit distressing.

I understand that humour is subjective, and can also be used as a way to cope with or process serious events, but doing so is a difficult needle to thread. Perhaps the difference is if you are using humour as a vehicle instead of the end goal.
Thanks for explaining! Do you have any resources to communities or guides?
I'm cool with it, as long as new projects aren't started in python 2.7.
> A couple thousand a month

I think your off by a couple orders of magnitude on that one.
That's incredibly naïve. Python 2 will be around and have new software written with it for at least a decade to come. Keep saying "Python 3 is the future", that will surely make companies invest in switching. Meanwhile ford still uses 40 year old IBM mainframes with COBOL, and will continue to do so until they are physically unable.
That's kind of what I was trying to say.
Funny thing is the kids love Bernie
It's a matter of degree. It might be a good risk to run a licensed recreational pot business in Colorado. Technically you're committing a federal crime, but there's a non-enforcement policy and as long as there's safety in numbers and a D in the White House you're probably OK. However, it's a bad idea to run a recreational cocaine business in any state. Requires a knowledge of the specific regulators, their views, and unofficial policies, to get this kind of decision right. Bringing this back to bitcoin-land, it seems that many bitcoin exchanges have knowingly operated without required state licenses for some years. However, the founders are not in jail. Why not? I think they have taken a considered approach to "partial" compliance, working out informal agreements with state regulators for eventual compliance, and avoiding operations in states that take a more hardline view. Eventually the top exchanges like Coinbase will get whatever licenses they need to, just a matter of time and $$$.
A friend of mine, aged 46, recently graduated with an IT degree.

He has had many interviews, and in about half of them he tells me he was rejected by the interviewers at the end because they're "looking for someone 'fresher'." One interview he had started out with a phone interview, and they loved him and his experience. He turned up for the interview, and the first question it was some time before the first question was asked because of all the awkward ways the interviewer tried to broach the topic of my friend's age.

I'm 41, with a Computer Science degree, and I don't even get half the number of interviews he has. He previously worked for an educational institution, I worked for what turned out to be one of the least reputable employers in town. That guy's business practices destroyed any hope of finding work that I've had. (In my country, if you're unemployed and signed up with the government support agency, whether receiving financial support or not, you agree to accept any reasonable job offer.)

Aside: in the last eight years, I've had three interviews. The first one found out that I have a disability, and much like your interview, he forgot that he'd told me I was well suited to the role due to my knowledge and skills. He turned bright red and started screaming at me, literally screaming. He was threatening me with legal action and bills, for wasting his time because I didn't have enough experience, threatening to lay a formal complaint with the referring agency.
(My own views align closely with http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/we-dont-need-net-... and http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-13/forget-net...)

Do you have any evidence that cable companies wanted to charge for preferential treatment for traffic? I've seen that claim repeated a lot but never with evidence.
You can with dnsmasq.

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
just as it was becoming clear that Expert Systems were not going to yield Strong AI Real Soon Now

It's fairly clear that deep learning isn't going to yield Strong AI Real Soon Now.

If it's profitable, it will be sustainable anyway.
Ads in most contexts are intrusive and more often than not aren't targeted and irrelevant. Yes, they ruin the experience.

They rarely ruin it enough that is just close the tab and not use the site, but that doesn't really mean anything. If we can do without them I think we should.
Oh they know, they're just all on the take:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2014&id=D0...

Relatedly, it's depressing just how cheaply you can buy the house/senate.
I mean, I hope you're right and that China will prove to be a paper tiger, as it were, but I'm not so confident that it will be so, and it therefore seems prudent to spend the money needed to have a military capable of containing them.
> The US has a different problem where only 4% of the population lives in a major cities

That requires a rather narrow definition of "major cities".
Though you have to admit, being a pet (especially a cat or dog) must be a great life, especially if you're got decent owners.

No work, everyone tends to like you by default, free food and housing for life and various toys to play with. Arguably even more so for cats, given that their life comes down to 'do what they want' pretty much all the time.

But yeah, it must be a lot harder for non pet animals, and horrible for a lot of ones used as food too (especially in some modern conditions).
+1 (From former SWE at Google).
Yes! If there was ever a case for trust-busting. Just noticed last night that Comcast is blocking some streaming apps that I use on my home PC. Certainly not the worst thing they do, but does remind me of how Standard Oil used to tie up rail capacity to keep it out of the hands of competitors.
I don't think so. I know it's popular to hate on Python 3, but the community has not rejected Python 3, they've just taken a while to cozy up to it. The transition was always intended to be gradual (perhaps not this gradual, but still).

At this point, the chicken-and-egg problem has effectively been solved for Python 3. Practically every major Python library has Python 3 support these days. The mainstream Linux distros are switching to Py3 as the default this release cycle. The largest remaining holdout will probably be PyPy diehards, but 3 years is a long time and I'm confident that the community's increased interest in Py3 will be made manifest to the PyPy development team in the not-too-distant future.

I believe that the posted site is correct, Python 3's time is now. While there probably will be a fork specifically intended to provide security backports for legacy applications, I don't think it will see widespread use (the people who continue to run Py2 applications at that point will probably keep running the never-to-be-updated again CPython runtime).
Primarily because when they are done at the post level, meaning, when those that post add them there's a misalignment of incentive in many cases.

In this case however, since the posters aren't putting them in there's no incentive.
You've just proved his point by comparing Python 2 with 40 year old mainframes. There will always be users of legacy software, but that doesn't stop it from being, well, legacy software.
$50k for a round equivalent to a multi-million dollar smart munition is an incredible deal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020

Far as surviving ones, Burroughs MCP and GCOS are still around. BeOS is being cloned by Haiku. Amigas are still around with MorphOS being good. eComstation maintains OS/2. The THEOS OS and GEM(?) window system still exist. Plan 9 of course. GenodeOS continues microkernel-style tradition. JX continues language-style security trend. Oberon legacy last iterated as A2 Bluebottle OS.

So, there's several I recall.
We have no natural right to forage any given plot of land.
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Im sure $15-20 Xiaomi Mi Band fitness trackers have nothing to do with it.
There's a Kickstarter project to fund the production of the new version: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2142694884/the-chemical...
Not on this topic. There was one built in minecraft that was mindbending. Look up CPU in Minecraft.
US law is not applicable in some countries, because they maintain independence from the US legal system.
I just recently started learning Python for the first time, and at some point I switched from playing with 2.7 to 3.x, and my uninformed opinion is that I'm shocked at how many seemingly completely unnecessary breaking changes there are.

Did the parameter names to open()d really need to change? Why did I have to change from io.open() to open() for a stream? Did str.lowercase really need to become string.ascii_lowercase? The number of errors in my toy little program upon upgrading really surprised me.
I wasn't being clear:

As I understand it, from all known rational viewpoints everything about our lives are entirely meaningless because the evidence shows that nothing about our lives will remain or will be observed.

Everything about you will not exist in a few short years.

Everything ever built by anyone will either not exist or will be no longer have any energy (and no observer) once the universe collapses or goes through heat-death.

To be a Christian is to accept reason - and then to have hope.
Sounds like a good pipe network analysis PhD subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_network_analysis
Your numbers are probably closer to the truth, as I said, I never did the math or looked for existing calculations. I just looked up the energy consumption in 2008 - EU-27 40,821 kWh/capita, World 21,283 kWh/capita - which gives a factor of 2 and hoped that energy consumption would be a reasonable proxy for resource consumption. I definitely expected something more than 2 but would not have guessed more than maybe 5.

A factor of 32 is a lot but that is also the extreme. China at 11, that leaves 5 billion people. If they were all at 1 that would drag the average down to 2.7. So maybe between 3 and 5 in the end? That still means a 5 to 10 fold increase in their resource consumption and matches my expectation. Suddenly needing twice as much of everything is probably already way harder than it first sounds, but up to 10 times...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FBEMb-Ra14 | My update from 2 months ago, I'm due for another update video in the next couple days.
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That's fairly typical.

An AS (identified by an ASN) is an autonomous system. It's comprised of multiple CIDR blocks, contiguous regions of IP addresses. The network definition (by CIDR block) is fairly dynamic, as blocks can be added, deleted, or consolidated.

An autonomous system is a single administrative domain over public IP space. Essentially, autonomous systems are what the Internet is inter-networking between, through BGP (border gateway protocol). BGP and AS are what Cisco (and other router) gear are ultimately all about.

So yes: organisations typically have one AS. Exceptions are typically the result of corporate mergers (not uncommon) or government space (where the domains are large).

(Disclaimer: I'm not a networking bithead, don't muck with routers much, and have a rough knowledge of much of this, though it should be vaguely accurate.)
So voat is like 4chan but without the charming community?
Perhaps something like Digi-Comp?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
I see your points, but I think you are speaking about this at a higher level that isn't necessarily specific to this particular implementation.

I agree that when used by the direct posters, affiliate links cause a misalignment of incentive because the poster isn't necessarily adding value to the community but rather to their affiliate account. This can be done very naively or be abused. Users suffer both ways.

This however isn't the case here IMO because if Reddit is auto tagging all links the posters are pretty much in the same boat that they were of Reddit hadn't tagged those links.

You could say that because this is a revenue channel for Reddit they'd optimize tagged posts over non tagged ones when promoting content. That however mostly gets resolved by the same logic as above, plus we all know how stuff gets to the top of Reddit...

Lastly, communities making some revenue is, again, not a misalignment. Using the same logic as above, all auto tagged links are again just links. Hence, a community that generates good content would get some revenue. It's pretty straight forward in my opinion.

Lastly, most affiliates pay commission on sales and not impressions (and if they do it's really tiny). So the context and the targeting are the most important pieces.
That's a really valid point, especially if they agree not to collect additional personal information...

My guess is that they kind of have to because they have an agreement with the 3rd party that's handling this.
One morning, I woke up with the realization I hated everything about what I was doing with my life. I tossed on a pair of jeans, a white t-shirt, and flip flops, then went into work to quit (I had been in sales for 3.5 years). As soon as my boss saw me, he knew what was up. We sat and talked for a bit, but it was mostly a formality.

I had no plan. I had no replacement job lined up. I had little in savings. I struggled for the next year. I fucked up and lost a lot. But I forcibly put myself on a path to do something I loved, and invest the time necessary be good at it. This opened up a world in which I don't hate my work or life, rarely have a bad day, and typically work no more than half the year.

It was the best decision I ever made, and I've never been happier.
Most everything good? Like high quality unicode support and async def?
I don't understand the reasoning behind the overly complicated air pumping setup. Why not just use a small submersible aquarium pump?
I guess. Until Gawker finds something juicy on them...
The largest 10 cities are home to 16M Americans, the 10 largest cities in the UK are host to 12M Brits.
The 100 largest cities in the US are home to 59M Americans, the 100 largest cities in the UK are home to 34M Brits.
The US is 5 times as populous but there is only 30% difference between the top 10 cities in the US vs UK and 50% in top 100.
Most people in the US live in cities under <100K residents, most people in the UK live in cities with over 250K residents.

The rest of Europe isn't that much different.
WW2 caused a major shift of population to major cities while in the US it didn't while the US population is still very urban they size of cities/towns is smaller in general.

Also i really hate when people compare the US to a specific EU country the US is bigger than Europe go out of major cities in Europe and you'll have shitty internet, there are towns and cities in Germany where the best you can get is a 10mbit DSL and it's not a unique case in Europe.
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People here keep bemoaning the golang designers' decision to not upgrade their language with things like generics, but suddenly their panties get twisted in a bunch when the Python community actually decides to fix problems in their language.

Get off your high horse and upgrade your code. So many people did it before you, and so can you.
Given that all of this took place legally in a courtroom I don't think anarchy should be an issue now or in the future.
As few mistakes as possible.
> Do you have any evidence that cable companies wanted to charge for preferential treatment

Did you read your own links? Netflix is being charged to pass bandwidth to residential customers because of a structural lack of competition.
A lot of people really dont care about the future of python, they just want to write code.

...and honestly, whats wrong with that?

really, what difference does it make if people use old python versions?

Other than the core python team, which get to be embarrased that many people have zero interest in the work theyre doing?

Does it affect you? nope. Does it break the ecosystem? nope. Does it make library authors suffer? nope (dont support it if you dont want to).

Come on. Live and let be.

If you love python3, use it. Dont winge pointlessly (not you personally; all the hostile frothing at the mouth python3 advocates, especially on reddit)
Another challenge is that there is very little corpus data available for ASL (for one thing, there's no natural orthography so notation systems can vary wildly between studies and have only started coalescing recently). So you really can't build a statistical MT system the likes of Google Translate because there simply isn't the raw data to train it on.
I've actually heard of some sites doing this. Not because they 'care' for anyone or are trying to make a point, but because their owners thought their sites should reflect the physical shop opening hours for some stupid reason.

It was a bad idea then and it's a bad idea now. Why? Well, a few to start off with:

1. Night shift workers/other people with different waking hours

2. Free time, because hey, they're at college or something and want to do something other than sleep or get drunk.

3. People who wake up in the middle of the night because they just had a revelation about something and want to talk about it on the forums.

4. Those who just forget they need to use the site until too late.

5. Anyone who doesn't work but has a slightly different schedule to other people (like, maybe 2pm to 2am or something).

6. Anyone who's caught travelling at a later hour due to a late flight or train or bus and wants to check something on the site.

7. People getting ready to go to the airport

8. Anyone who just wants to talk to/interact with people outside their current time zone.

9. Someone who's screwed up the system clock.

Really though, websites being open all hours makes sense, and I don't think it's fair to try and tell people when they should be 'allowed' to use it.