skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on your setup I guess? I have a a GCE cluster setup where I can:

1) Point a metadata variable at my git repo

2) Spin up 100 GCEs

3) Each will pip install requirements.txt from the git checkout

4) Each will read a metadata to get the command and run it. (Could hardcode run.py or something).

Realize not everyone has this sitting around, but you can do it in an afternoon. Then gives you instant Python supercomputer for anything you want across many projects.
The S&P is growing because companies are borrowing to buy back their stock. It is illegal stock manipulation but that law is no longer enforced. This makes money that used to be taxed as dividends eligible for capital gains treatment and it taxed at a lower rate than it would be as dividends. this lowers tax income to the government. A downward spiral with no end in sight.
The media is spinning it and reporting it now. I'm fine with the release, I'm not fine with essentially doxxing all the donors.

Also, Assange is currently putting his own spin on it implying the DNC staffer that died was murdered. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
It's really a great idea. It's something I didn't know I wanted until I saw it. My (admittedly potentially naive view) is that it has the potential to simplify many things in the mapping/shipping world - it's so specific. No messy address ambiguity.

I also love the idea of an embeddable "Xaddress badge" (e.g. this image: http://bit.ly/2biI3YY) - unless of course I misunderstood what that is.

Maybe you could work the "legacy" address into that badge as well? Just thinking it would be useful for mentally placing an address - e.g., if you give me a raw GPS address, I have no idea where that is - but if you tell me it's somewhere on 5th avenue in manhattan, I know roughly where that is.
> Until password management or authentication are substantially overhauled on the web, the most optimal solution for protecting yourself is constant, militant vigilance with passwords. I don't know any of my passwords at all, and what's more, I even have randomly generated answers to security questions.

This is a good point. Those "On what street did you grow up" security questions do not increase security. If answered with real answers, they decrease security, since a lot of this stuff can be looked up online. It boggles the mind why a company would go to the trouble of encouraging users come up with a strong password, then turn around and deliberately provide a softer attack vector.
No, because they don't know anything but about keeping a mobile platform safe from attack.
> The DNC isn't even a government, wasn't the whole point of WikiLeaks to hold governments and their leaders accountable?

I agree that this was personally motivated, but that's a pretty laughable claim. A major political institution was attempting to manipulate an election for the US Presidency, but it's outside Wikileaks' purview because the DNC isn't technically part of the government?

Vetting and bias are topics worth discussing, but when political officials using 'neutral' funds try to reshape an election, I'm quite happy to label that a "government accountability" issue.

Edit: removed "state funds" reference, I had misunderstood part of FECA. I don't think it changes the point.
No. Consider a small perturbation (i.e. Poking) the ball on your table. At least for a small enough poke and/or a big enough table, friction slows down the ball again, and it stops.

Now consider a small poke on a Dyson sphere that was (before the poke) perfectly balanced. The part that got poked is slightly closer to the sun, and the point opposite is slightly further away. So the closer part has some gravitational force acting on it, and the opposite part has a lower gravitational force acting on it: O(1/(r-e)^2) vs O(1/(r+e)^2). The imbalance causes a net gravitational force in the direction of the poke, which eventually crashes into the sun.
I would simply like MacBook Airs, 11 and 13 inch screens, which 1080 screen resolution, and slightly thicker to accommodate the larger battery that would be required.

I am not the typical user since I do much of my development and long calculations on beefed up remote servers.

I am almost to the point of being able to use a tablet when I only need one SSH shell and a Chromebook when I need many shells open and visible reference material on the screen. My 1080p Chromebook and my iPad Pro are so useful for getting stuff done that I may never buy a conventional laptop again (I have 3 very functional Linux laptops, which should be sufficient for years).
I'm sure many Sanders supporters were happy for ammunition to help their case that they were treated unfairly, but I don't think catty behavior at the DNC is anywhere near as important as Wikileaks' earlier work uncovering potential war crimes in Iraq.

And I find Assange's overt attempt to influence the outcome of a US election much more distasteful than anything that was in those DNC emails.
FYI, there is also `go build -i`, which is behaves like `go build` in terms of what executable artefacts it produces and where it puts them (i.e. it doesn't install stuff in $GOPATH/bin) but preserves object files for all the dependent packages like `go install` does
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You're welcome. Sometimes stating the obvious is still necessary to remember us we're in a comfy bubble, from which we look and judge the world (and business choices). :)
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I call this "the other UX" pattern: Useless Experience
Surely the correct thing to do is to add telemetry to the application to get metrics on feature usage.

And when the popularity of feature X happens to correlate with people running in environments that don't let the tool phone home through their default-deny traffic filters?

Fuck them and their use case for not letting you monitor ever little thing?
There are definitely good/great teams at Amazon. However, a big problem is that the overarching corporate culture, corporate leadership, and corporate policies are toxic and corrosive to job satisfaction and healthy working environments. That means the good teams are much less numerous and also constantly under threat. It also means, as an individual, there aren't corporate level resources (HR, etc.) who are in any way invested in helping you advance your career or improve your work experience.
Must science be testable?
You're right. And I think it feels that way for inexpensive items. If I put $30 into a board game and it never gets made, oh well.

But if I buy a $300 smart lock and it never ships or it ships to me a year later and is so poorly-designed as to be completely useless, it starts to feel like a really bad store.

I think if it feels to backers like a store, it'd be nice if Kickstarter and the people who put projects up treat it like one too.
Or just more objectionable.
I love how your use of a double parenthesis just makes my point stronger :D
This is precisely highlighting the point from the parent comment. Is ZeroHedge an untrustworthy source? Heck yes it is! The problem is so is CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and Fox. Nearly every traditional American news source is now viewed as untrustworthy by a very large amount of people.

You can argue with me on it, but what matters is that MANY people now believe this, for example nearly all Trump supporters (and there's a lot of them).

In my opinion, this is the single biggest issue in our new political climate. There is a large, and growing base of people who no longer trust either politicians or the media reporting on them. Conspiracy theories flourish in environments like this, and when enough people believe conspiracy theories are true... sometimes they take actions.
how does your friend like it in Tdot?
I think American Indians instead of Mexicans would have worked better in your example since the Jews basically kick the Palestinians out of the area in order to take it over.
I think it's mostly a matter of Occam's Razor, Kolmogorov Complexity, the pigeonhole principle, etc.

There aren't many clean, simple equations (relatively speaking), compared to long, ugly ones.

Each time you make an equation longer, you have a huge variety of choices for the new bits; if we take "ugliness" to include things like asymmetry, arbitrary constants, lack of relationships between the parts, etc. then there are more ugly equations than beautiful ones.

It's more practical to look for simple, pretty laws since there are far fewer of them to try. Once we've exhausted them, we can try making things a little uglier, and seeing if that works; and keep incrementing.

After all, if you have enough epicycles you can explain any motion you like (since you're basically taking a fourier transform)
> Bezos wrote an email encouraging people to contact him directly if they suffered abuse.

> Apparently if you actually try it, you get fired

Apparently, firing ensures that there is no further "abuse".
Oh I agree - I was making the point that the use case is the same for the macbook air vs "The Macbook" ... But the Macbook Air is faster and superior.
In my opinion, "classified by default" is not a thoughtless, reflexive policy when discussing espionage and counter-espionage work. It's a principle that you'll come up with after pondering the risks and benefits of other processes.

As a concept, it's similar to policies in corporate offices where doors are locked and guests can only walk in through a reception, accompanied by a trusted employee. Yes, you're applying a process that is unnecessary in 95 % of cases, but still it's one of the "best practices" in the business.
None of it appears to be translated to English apart from the messages displayed to the user. Without comments in your code and especially when you abbreviate variable names, it's difficult to visually scan the code and have any idea what's going on. You have to mentally process the program to try and reason about what any variables or functions are actually doing.
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Then why would you care if Apple gets their way?
Young+Couples+Make+These+5+Money+Mistakes
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If you are seriously saying the Germans are still vassals of the US 70 years after the war ended you haven't been paying the least attention to the geopolitical landscape of much of anything.
I use F3 to search everywhere. Also my byobu actions are all tied to the F keys. I hate those laptops that default to Fn instead of F and provide no toggle between them.
I agree with this. There is no vast media conspiracy. If nothing else, Fox would be all over it, as would the tabloid (most of these days) media. There's no honor among thieves.
I built a very simple Doctor Who inspired WebGL game a while back. If I had known how simple this effect was I'd have included it! The (terrible) code is on GitHub if anybody wants to remix it: https://github.com/mattfran/developer-who
Given how much money goes into an election, this level of collusion should piss you off at least a little if you supported Bernie Sanders, right? It's not an outright fix, but if the deck was stacked, any donations to candidates other than Hillary Clinton were sort of like pissing into the ocean. Maybe a little less satisfying than that.

I agree that it was personally motivated. I just don't care. I want to know if our major media outlets are coordinating with specific campaigns, or if campaign finance laws are being broken in general. I'd love to see those Goldman Sachs speeches that Hillary is looking into for 6 months now.
And how much do those work who address HRs complaints?
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Personal favorite:

https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/osha-and-...

Don't often hear about health and safety in this business.
Most Intel laptop CPU's are limited to 16GB. A few Skylake CPUs support 32GB if DDR4 is used.
Which kinda misses my point. A "secure" Apple service only available in select few countries with no ability to compete or implement your own is more useless than theorycrafting your experiences from banks to other world banks.
This isn't true. They own side-projects the relate to your direct job or that can directly compete with Amazon. If your side project is a compression algorithm and you work in website design, Amazon doesn't really have any right to your stuff.

It's actually a pretty standard invention agreement across tech companies.
You are incorrect. DNC is not state funded.
If the novels were as bad as he says they were, maybe he can crank out some random(ly bad) prose to go with it, and get Amazon-rich.

(And/or, this might make an interesting companion project.)
That's interesting. With the exception of retirememt contributions, I've never worked at a place that withheld any benefits. I have had trial periods where I got a raise after proving suitability for the role.
This is false, and your "correcting the record" is only spreading mistruths.

This e-mail in particular is clear discussion of acting on promoting a narrative (i.e. shopping it to news organizations) to discredit Bernie's campaign: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11056

I'm sure you'll find a way to explain that away though.
If this is a conspiracy and someone knows something about this murder why would $20,000 change their mind if they haven't already reported their knowledge to the police?
Can I interpret that the only reason you might have been upset at the illegal phone metadata collection program performed by the government is because they didn't release the information in an open-access dataset? Otherwise, fair game?
There were some moderately-questionable emails about where donor checks were being routed. It would take someone with more knowledge of campaign finance than me to say if it was illegal or unethical, but the recipient of the email basically answered "don't send this stuff over text, you idiot".
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Not bad.
there is also the factor of whether a sport is at the olympics. I believe wrestling is a big sport in west africa. and polo-ish games are pretty big in central asia. these don't appear at the olympics because the ioc is mostly controlled by westerners.
Medal count in absolute figures says little about which country does well in producing athletes, and a lot about the size of the population. One would think that the US, Russia or China are good at producing great athletes when looking at these figures, but reality is that all three countries do a rather mediocre job when taking into consideration the size of their populations. This is a better measure: http://www.medalspercapita.com/#weighted-per-capita:2012

It reveals that you are more likely to become an olympic medalist if you are from the Caribbean, Scandinavia, certain Eastern European countries, Australia and New Zealand, than if you are Chinese, American or Russian.

And please notice that the figures hold true for several Summer Olympics. The US, China and Russia don't dominate at all.

Also the medal count per GDP is interesting.
Laptops have always had the shitty kind of "slide" fingerprint sensors. Hopefully apple will do it right and include the kind found in smartphones.
Remember when this was a selling point for android devices? I think everyone that owned one pretty much touted it as the killer feature.
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I recently had to do some security questions with my bank to verify myself- the trick was, they were all multiple choice, and they actually said "we pulled these from public record". Furthermore, I saw earlier someone mentioned the same thing, but they had filled their questions with gibberish, so when support gave the options the gibberish stood out significantly.
Neither the DNC, RNC, nor any other political party organization is a federal institution.
Yet another location encoding. Why not MapCode[1]?

>Designed to be used in low tech environments

What are supposed uses of encoded lattitude and longitude in "low tech environments", other than simple transfer?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapCode
It depends on the state, though most are "at will." Some companies will do a "trial period" in which some of your benefits are held back for anywhere from 60-90 days, so that may be what the parent is referring to.
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Why did you redact or omit your social security number and bank account numbers?
I work at Amazon, getting paid just shy of $200k/year. My team spends like 80% of the time doing whatever we think will make the product better. The rest is devoted to operations and handling requests. I don't take my laptop home when I'm not on-call, which isn't that awful. If witnessed half as much fuckery as I see espoused on this site or in the NYT article, I'd finally respond to the google recruiters that hit my inbox weekly. Or idk, maybe start a company, or retire early. I actually enjoy Amazon though. It's an elegant organization that can create product that speaks to the customer, then iterate it to maturity. I imagine in the process of getting where we are today some highly distressed pockets developed and asinine managers got promoted to incompetence, but I haven't witnessed it yet. Also probably helps that a ton of tech companies have popped up offices in Seattle and the demand for engineers is staggering.
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You should try https://www.couchsurfing.com/ like Airbnb, but free.
> "we want a modern macbook"

All I want is a modern IBM T42 or T61 with a 14" screen. I don't care if it is ugly, big or weighs a ton. The only thing I care about is a good keyboard, a robust chassis and the fact that I can rebuild the whole thing with just a screwdriver.
> There's nothing inherently wrong with the media paying for information.

I'm tempted to agree, but almost every reputable media outlet does in fact claim that there's sometimes wrong with paying for stories, most in their own ethics handbook.

The common explanation is that "paying for information creates an additional incentive for subjects to lie or embellish the truth. And even if a subject tells the truth, the fact that he’s been paid undermines the journalist’s position as a disinterested observer".

However, this seems rather absolute for what appears to be only mild cause.
> Assange's transparent conflation of the murder of Seth Rich with "our sources" is obvious.

Exactly. It would be careless in the extreme to just accidentally out a source like this, and for all his faults, Assange is far more intelligent and careful than that.
The corruption is that they repeatedly and publicly claimed that they were neutral in the primary process and were clearly not, acting in favor of their preferred candidate as many had said they were. Bernie supporters were dismissed as fringe lunatics believing in a conspiracy theory for reasoning that the DNC was coordinating against them.
Sadly, this seems to have changed. Several years ago the policy used to be that what you developed on your own time was your own, and even if you used company resources and spent time while at work on "your own" inventions, they still belonged to you as long as it wasn't an excessive amount. For example, if you printed out something or used a copier, or did a google search at work, etc. It seems they decided that was too good for the drones though.
Oh man, those facial images are deep in the uncanny valley. Maybe on the rising side of the slope now, but still way down there.
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I guess the fine print in the employment contracts of most companies says so. The degree of enforcement might vary, though.
When you say "vetting" what are you actually suggesting they do? Check to make sure the information is actually true? As far as I can tell they did that. Check the make sure that the information doesn't put peoples lives in danger? It doesn't seem like they put any lives in danger with this leak. Except maybe their source's but I'm not sure how "vetting" the information would have helped that.

What pray tell is actually meant by "vetting?"
I agree, a touch-screen on a 'pro' laptop (unless it's a 2-in-1) is useless.

Also: Please don't ever, ever touch my laptop's screen.
That might be true, and that's a conversation we should definitely have, as we decide how we will be governed in the future. But that alone does not mean less crypto is preferable.
A while ago while dropping my MBP onto a hard floor I realized that one benefit of lighter gear is potentially less damage on impact in a fall. Of course, this assumes equal hardness, toughness, plasticity, etc. but the same fall that happened with a 2010 MBP I had in the same spot was significantly worse damage.
reddit.com/r/worldbuilding is an excellent community for such things as well
> Is it feasible to run a bank off of a giant multinational tech company?

Many German companies have exactly that, although the banks are usually only used to offer stuff like buying a VW on credit, or leasing a VW, or holding accounts for employees.

But banking and tech have been connected for many decades.
Thanks for the feedback, I will work to translate all the variables to make it more readable, in the meanwhile you can check the logic behind the problem here:
https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
Google's HR Chief likes to boast in his book, that it’s harder to get a job at Google than it is to get accepted at Harvard.

Gaining cutting-edge skills sends a strong signal to the market. And can make you more attractive to recruiters.

Don't overlook the professional network piece of making new friends and contacts amongst your fellow students. Those individuals often have inside tracks to hidden opportunities.

Here's a review of Laslo Bock's Work Rules > http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-work-rules-by-laszlo...
Precisely! And I imagine the scientific parts of them do.

But as someone with family formerly in university faculty tenure-track (circa-90s), the put-food-on-the-table part of your employment is tied up in politics. Being on the bubble for a tenure position you've worked 6-10 years towards? I would hope the department committee would be proud of my incredibly beautiful but disproved theory...
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I think you can make the argument that if you have strong local business it improves your neighborhood by keeping that money local, where it is reinvested either directly (e.g. your neighbor who owns the local hardware store has more money to buy things, upgrade his house, etc.) or through taxes. This leads to better schools, infrastructure, etc. There ARE drawbacks to having a giant centralized but convenient all-in-one supplier that can undercut the little guy on price and timeliness; you lose something along the way.

I am not blameless in this; we just bought a house, and although we have a locally owned hardware store that I try to go to first, there are so many things I have had the options of A) waiting 7+ days for them to get it in, B) getting it from Home Depot/Lowes within an hour, or C) getting it delivered from Amazon Prime tomorrow. It is nearly impossible to compete with that, but I WANT to support my local guy whose family has owned the business since the 60's. I don't know what the answer is.
"Everyone that owned one" feels like kind of an exaggeration, but it was a big feature at the time. I found it very useful for video players and was glad my phone could plug the gap while the web caught up to HTML5.
The fundamental difference between good and bad managers is usually how they deal with "shit". Bad managers are shit funnels, good managers are shit umbrellas.
It makes more sense where it's not "at will" employment
> Nothing matters more to me than the well-being of our employees, and our HR staff will continue to work their fingers to the bone— not seeing their families or friends or anything at all outside their offices [...]

Is their HR outsourced? Because they should also be their employees, right? :D

EDIT: Judging from the down votes, I guess that someone didn't get the sarcasm. :)
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