skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, quite often we see examples of "political heat" being driven by wilful ignorance and disingenuous outrage. In order to "score points" with the people who are watching them yell at their opponent. A politician might pretend their opponent has a position on something (A) and get very angry about that publicly, while knowing the whole while that actually the truth is (B) or sometimes they might even know that (A) was actually the only viable choice the whole time.
Seems to me that that is allowed (if you are allowed to bring cameras into the stadium).
I can't see anything I really disagree with, except as long as they are subsidizing rides; take advantage of the cheap rides--if you don't care about his list.

Beyond blatant disregard for following the rules, and regulations regarding Taxi regulation in most cities/counties; their are a few of his points that hit me hard.

1. Never liked identifing myself to Uber in order to use their service. I understand they need personal information because you can't pay in cash--I assume?

2. Never understood the rating system. The last thing I care about is who's driving me. The last thing I want is being rated as a customer. It's a car ride, not a marriage. The last thing I would want as a driver is being rated on how I kiss ass, or provide free mineral water. It's a ride.

Growing up-- we had Rent-a-wreck. It served its purpose. It provided cheap car rental. I don't understand this need to micromanage what gets you to opposing A to B. I have way to much to worry about than my Uber driver. I've never used Uber, but I heard they require a picture of the rider. That is unacceptable in my world. I dumped Costco over this invasion of privacy.(you don't need a membership to use their great Pharmacy.)

3. My biggest complaint with this company, is in order to "get your side hussle on"; they dictate what four door car you need to buy for your side gig. I have never bought a four door car in my life. They have horrid resale value, even four door classic cars. I've been meaning to do a study on the average ROI after buying an acceptable Uber vechicle, but I can't get corporate informantion, and driver's data is antidotal. I do know guys who ruined their credit on hopes of being a successful Uber driver.

4. That's it. Oh yea, I don't like being tracked. I guess if your going to commit adultry, and you live in a state that cares about your personl indescresions in a divorce, like Missouri; taking Uber is not the prudent thing to do. If you live in California, you could have sex with the driver, and post it all over the Internet, and it wouldn't affect that divorce settlement.

5. I thought of one more. I dislike companies with so much money they can afford lobbiests, and the best lawyers. The best lawyers, are too many times, the lawyers who are paid to drag out expensive legal proceedings. It's very harmful to spend a lot of city money hiring outside lawyers just to fight Uber.

5. Sorry, but one more; Uber is just a taxi service. Yea, they do some real research on AI? I still look at them as a half ass people mover. On the list of problems; I could care less if Uber is around in a few years.

6. That goes double for Airbnb. It's just a service that rents out to vacationers. Again--I am beyond worrying about vacations. Just can't afford them in this economy. Kinda ironic? With all the talk about the negative aspects of this new economy?
He's warming up the crowd for his new FOSS taxi service (wait for it):

GNUber
He is absolutely right. It seems that in America personal data are not properly protected and corporations can do whatever they want.

And making people work long hours is bad too. Isn't sleepy driver dangerous for everyone?
Man I hope so. ~30% of Indians are without power[1], and I hear they have a lot of coal naturally, so if they're not careful they could be a large growing source of problems in the future as they grid up. It's good to hear that both India and China seem to be taking climate change seriously.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/world-without-...

(edited to add link to power fact)
It's not like Obama did nothing that effected coal. The industry lost over 83k coal mining jobs during the last 8 years. Hillary lost Pennsylvania, a big coal mining state, by 68,236 votes.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/coal-o...

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/05/obama-kept-his-promise-830...
The Dark Side of Silicon Valley: A Note from Gizmodo's Editor Katie Drummond
How screwed up would the Earth need to be for this to be remotely an option though?
The coal alignment is a bigger deal than climate change. We are SOL on climate change anyway (barring a scientific miracle)--there is no point worrying about whether one administration will or will not engage in token gestures.

But coal is bad. The coal industry costs about half a trillion in externalized damage to health and the environment annually in the US alone: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/831755.

And ironically, the voters in Appalachia being courted are bearing the brunt of it so people in surrounding urban areas can have cheap power: http://www.coal-is-dirty.com/blasting-appalachian-economy.
I'm not sure any amount of wealth will be enough, ultimately. You can't eat gold, and if we end up with mass displacement of people, we either go totalitarian or anarchy as the ship sinks.

I don't think any of us will get out.
I don't think your construction matches what I am saying.

I'm saying that if you assume that most doctors shop at grocery stores that some of the people you see at the grocery store are probably doctors.

The phrasing of my statement about the traditional republican coalition isn't very clear, but I wasn't trying to make a statement about the views of the traditional republican coalition there, I was conceding that much of the support Trump got was from the traditional republican coalition.
They have been caught tweaking the algorithm to their advantage in the past:

"One example from the FTC report shows how hazy the line can be. When testing changes to its ranking algorithm, Google has “raters” manually assess different sets of search results for the same query and rate which one is better. In one such experiment, Google tried demoting “comparison shopping websites” like NexTag to see if its raters liked the results better. When they didn’t, Google tweaked the demotion algorithm until they did."[1]

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/03/...
How is nuclear power not a "unilateral emissions cut"? If we start using more expensive nuclear power, then that will 'hurt' our economy (because we could have more nominal money if we bought the cheapest power).

I think nuclear power would be great for the climate and we should pursue it, but it would be great in exactly the same way as any other unilateral emissions cut would be great (eg. tax incentives for electric cars, or a carbon tax, or replacing coal plants with wind farms).
It is a perception issue; apparently coal miners are swayed to believe a people decided to close coal mines.

For some people, it is easier to perceive that a bureaucrat is against your industry, as opposed to find out that the economic value created is exceptionally low.
When a person loses a job, it will be heartbreaking for the person to realise the job performed earlier has low economical value.

Telling someone "We do not need your services anymore" is harder than telling "Well, all those bureaucrats that live elsewhere decided it...".

I do think that economic value of coal is low and it is economically swapped out for other sources.
> I don't think that climate change is something that you can believe in. You can acknowledge or deny its existence but certainly cannot believe in it.

Is there something more than semantics here that I'm missing? Not believing in climate change is functionally the same as denying it in this instance, correct?
Because of the socio-economic momentum of fossil fuels.
I'd say it's better that it isn't a person, but a shared set of values. Harder for the PR lot to spin and counter.
People assume all Trump supporters were that - Trump supporters. Like many recent elections, it came down to who someone disliked less, for many people, for many different reasons.

I know plenty of intelligent, middle class men and women who voted for Trump despite his best efforts of acting like a racist idiotic clown, not because they liked him in any way, but because their dislike for Hillary was that strong.
I meant that it's astonishing India decides to ban notes with such a small value.
Can you elaborate? Ive never used an emulator. I'm thinking NES games have a very low need for cpu / mem resources. Do they not run as good as the original?
Maybe they don't see censorship the way you do. Maybe it is, in their eyes, about the ethical and honourable protection of their culture and social values.
Don't worry. That 4-letter word in not a rarity on HN.
GNUber's Not Uber?
If "amount of political heat" were a function of actual facts, Hillary Clinton would have been leading the assault at Benghazi herself.

Blaming Obama for the decline of coal's commercial viability was a convenient fiction.
I am currently at this stage. I needed him to fix an old issue in a tool code base that I could fix in an hour. It probably doesn't help that its a rails app and they had no exposure to the ecosystem previously. I did show them how to setup the environment and what I suspected the issue was.
I don't know, I'm not USamerican.

I was just bringing up the exchange rate in case anyone was wondering about the value of the notes being banned.
There will be or it's already happening

1.cash riots for lack of cash in every market.... Indias 70 % population use cash.

2.Normally 10% of ATM's don't work.. Now it's 95% of them not working.The anger is raising every minute.... It will be unsustainable if riots breakdown...please do something creative "Lets not become another riot hit country."

3.Demonitisation caused Prices of perishables to raise /it will kill the dealers. The big market yards all deal with cash.... It's nightmare to ask them to even do basic signature forget asking them to do fund transfer. It's far too tough and far too many people are being left behind because they are illiterate. Everything will skyrocket from here.

4.Realty will fall 40%. With it all support industries like Telecom and Infra industry. Only infra projects which get government payments will be sustainable. Rest in single sweep go down to no point of return.

5.The illiterate and masses are the most effected with this move. Remember 80% of Indians earn less than 2lakh. All they get is daily payments... I got at least 5autowalas and others to open bank account. When I looked at the scale of getting 50crore Indians onboard is far too much to little time of 30 days.

It's become war on the poor and illiterate instead of black money hoarders. I am sure there are better and more suitable solutions instead of this mess.

Dear Smart HN reader,Kindly suggest ways what do from here on,otherwise the poor will suffer because they are not smart enough to open bank accounts.
I will publish solutions suggested here to all news agencies.
Emission cuts and support for renewable energy stimulate technology that will make your economy stronger. You cannot build this kind of technology and infrastructure overnight.

EU and China make strong push towards clean energy in few years they will have cheap, clean energy.
Although a recent ruling said that Uber drivers are employees in England and Wales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37802386
> So how many Rs 500 note is $35... not a clue.

From another comment, I assume 5 notes should make $35.
Actually, it sounds like he might be moving towards a situation where "we" burn a lot more coal, do a lot more fracking and, do a lot more of the things that generally release carbon into the atmosphere.

That actually is a very bad thing.

Potentially increasing emissions during a time when not cutting them deep enough represents a catostrophic risk, is a really bad thing.
Usual technique for working with Allwinner hardware, basically - there should be similar instructions on the English-language linux-sunxi wiki. I'm not aware of any other device with an R16 chip and the image is usually customised for the specific hardware, but it might be possile to modify it.
At the rate we're messing up this planet, we'll need to find another planet real fast - relatively speaking, off course.

But have no bother, it won't be in your lifetime. Not this lifetime anyway.
They may have all 'sold' but there are 4,000+ available on eBay at the moment.
Once again, your plan is as good as the implementation. Many places have hour long queues, emergency services have been denied and the unorganized sector which mostly deals in cash has been hit very badly. There have been places where soiled notes have had to be issued due to shortage [0]. New notes would take time to reload into ATMs as the ATM machines require recalibration due to size, software and hardware [1].

The new currency notes have no new security features [2]. So, this is just a break until new fake notes will be circulated in the market. It is important to note that the same government had called a similar move anti-poor back in 2014 [3].

[0] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/demo...

[1] https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?p...

[2] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/demonetisation-of-rupe...

[3] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Call-back-of-notes-...?
> I referred to them as The Company Which Cannot Be Named (Harry Potter reference)

I don't get the reference, but then again https://stallman.org/harry-potter.html ;)
happens a lot in my city (são paulo) -- if the ride is too short, they won't take it. if it's too long, won't take it (since traveling back is going to cost them gas and they won't get a passenger).

taking to a play them deem not safe (even if it's safe)? not taking you.
Do you live in a major metro area? Because I don't think the rest of the country is shocked outside of them. I live in Chicago and I spent most of the prime election campaigning time travelling (mostly by car) on the weekends for bike races with my fiancee, and after seeing what the US 2 hours outside of big cities felt like, I was predicting a Trump victory despite all of my friends telling me I was insane.

To your other point, almost everyone has a hot button issue that matters to them. For many it's abortion, for many it's gun control, and they will almost always vote for that issue, and not the candidate. It should be no surprise someone from an Islam background cares so much about what's happening in Islamic nations and our response to it.
The climate change cheat sheet embedded in that article was rather interesting. In addition to stating what we know, it also suggests some personal actions, actions which have been routinely ignored by the population for many years. A couple of quick examples: reduce flights and reduce eating beef.

Instead of having a paternalistic government claim to solve our problems, we can do so. This election might just be a sufficient catalyst to make things happen.

Also don't forget the power to not purchase from companies based on what they are doing and who they are working with.

It is easy to get outraged and for some it is even easy to take dangerous actions, but to deprive oneself of what we want in the hope that others will do the same, that, that is hard.
This is the “Rape Joke” that's rocking Apple
I am of the opinion that the reasons the industry lost jobs, are primarily:

1. Price of natural gas is very competitive.
2. Automation. Mechanisation inside coal mines becomes more effective.
3. As old coal plants are retired, their replacements require exceptionally high capital expenditures. While running an already built coal plant can be feasible, competition for building new plants is not economically competitive.

In the end, it is the free market that took those jobs. In the end, the market always wins.
That is if anyone can get there hands on one.
"The danger of being harmed or killed by terrorism is extremely low"

Yes, but to be fair, she could be more angry about what islamic extremists are doing to people in the middle east, which is really awful and on a huge scale.

It's not clear how Obama referring to it as "islamic extremism" would have any effect on that though. It seems like the state dept. made a judgement call that describing these assholes as 'islamic' was doing more harm than good, so they changed their language; I don't have any idea about whether that was reasonable or not.
Why make a service mandatory through law? By doing this, the government is effectively securing the banks' business.
The value is higher in India, than you imagine.
They even have a plan specifically for your scenario, that doesn't require credit cards, and it is damn cheap...

and remember that the alternative to "free plan with credit card as slight security against abuse" likely would have been "no free plan at all".
Not just eBayers using bots. They are popping up on local online garage sale pages and on Craigslist for $200+, by what appears to be soccer moms for the most part.
exchange rate: 1 USA $ = approx 70 Indian rupees. fluctuates a bit.

the point was that it is a small amount. I wrote in a hurry, sorry. had a long tiring day.
VNC isn't bad, especially if you needed it to be interoperable, although there are much better options performance wise.

For performance, NoMachine[0] offers a near native experience on most connections, especially locally or in situations with sub-50ms latency.

For a portable client, AnyDesk[1] is created by an ex-TeamViewer developer and is very straightforward, while still maintaining better performance than VNC.

For general use, TeamViewer[2] is still a good choice.

Radmin still outperforms VNC in most cases, however it's competitors seem to currently outpace it, and many things about the company and software feel like a legacy environment.

[0] https://www.nomachine.com/

[1] http://anydesk.com/remote-desktop

[2] https://www.teamviewer.com/en/

[3] http://www.radmin.com/
If the US withdraws from the Paris accord, other countries like China will follow, as they will not want to be the ones that try to reduce emissions at the price of being less competitive (in the short run) when one of the largest economies in the world won't do it as well. And if the climate science projections are accurate, we will miss the last window of opportunity to reduce the heating and avoid the whole climate system tipping over. And with the current power that the Republicans have and Trump's attitude towards science it's highly unlikely that someone can stop them from going through with this.

Seems it really was too good to be true.
> Take this single term from the above sentence: "stochastic gradient algorithms", they represent three key areas: statistics, calculus and CS.

Well most practical problems require knowledge of different disciplines, so this is nothing special.

For instance, building a fluid dynamics solver requires knowledge of: physics, numerical mathematics/differential equations, computer science, computational geometry, and probably a few more.
I was offered the opportunity to build and lead a growing team. The expected VC investment never materialized. The team shrank instead, largely due to non-competitive salaries. I moved on.
This is the kind of stuff that makes some people genuinely concerned and upset about Trump's presidency, leaving alone the ideological divide between the left and the right.
I think registry he means is the proposed registry of all muslims in the US. Trump also mentioned that it should be illegal for muslims to not report their neighbors, family and friends for registration too.
Google is mostly relying on machine learning and can translate between many languages due to it, but better results can be obtained using one of the translators developed by the Japanese themselves which attempt to do actual parsing.

There are also various other apps (largely developed by the anime/visual novel community) that might work better at extracting meaning, although that's more in the direction of quick dictionary lookups.
Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”
They use rubber gripper to spin each side and known algorithms to solve. The hard part is the speed of the visual recognition.
The author claims lefties are facti, righties are truthy. So you should accuse yummyfajitas of truthiness.

But yummyfajitas is a Leftie playing devil's advocate for righties... So never mind.

Just labeling, not judging --me
The kind of thing a lot of people around him while living likely dismissed as "having too much time on his hands". (I'm not saying that, but it often frustrates me when I hear that)
The notes in circulation currently are only the old Rs. 100 notes and a few new Rs. 2000 notes. You are right that for small to moderate daily purchases costing between 500-1500, it does not make any sense. The new Rs. 2000 notes are essentially useless for now since no one can give you change for that.
I dont think it's fair to characterize Stallman as an "Armchair Economist". FSF/GNU are active efforts in response to the Stallman world view. It's the opposite of armchair IMO.

There is a distinction between frameworks, theories and models.

Stallman is probably not offering models that contain the real predictive juice you're after because he has seen the same story unfold over and over. I give Stallman credit for referencing events that support his general theories/framework.

Edit:Grammer
Yes, it is part of the first batch of the FSF's new initiative to provide seed funding for free software startups called YNotCombinator.
Why is this comment being downvoted? Is it because the facts are wrong or because he didn't provide references?
That starting fee is called flagfall and you have to pay it with Uber as well. But that's somewhat irrelevant for short trips, as Uber has also has a set minimum fare. I don't know where you're located but it's typically more than 3 euros:

New York: US$8
Paris: €5
London: £5
For more "making of" information, there's a lot of material online about Eric Heisserer who wrote the script (based on Ted Chiang's story.)

Heisserer did a recent Reddit AMA: https://m.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5ay3h2/im_eric_heissere...

It's a bit unfortunate that Heisserer made the visual design choice of a circle as the basis of nonlinear writing. It's a little trite. Overall, I'm thinking that maybe this story didn't need to be visually realized, even if it's a good script. A radio play instead?
The basic reason the polls failed was upstream from averages generated by 538 et al.

Those polls tragically expected a repeatable electorate ("everyone who voted in 2012, less the dead and plus some fraction of new voters, will turn out"). Arguably, the shy Tory effect was at play as well.

We shouldn't celebrate poll averaging as some data science genius; it is only as good as the polls being averaged.
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I retract this as I only read your posts for the last 3 days... which were not all of your posts, and you are a 10 year HNer.[I would take your commentary more seriously, from an account more than 3 days old or with some comments that are not almost entirely about defending racism. I read all your comments since there weren't very many.]

It's interesting that you want to focus only on the a single side comment on racism (referring to a foot race doesn't count), rather than the fact that Trump regularly changed his positions, denied that he had changed his position even when confronted with video of him saying it, sometimes claiming such proof didn't exist (when it was often still on youtube or twitter).

Perhaps your own comments prove the very point that you are trying to refute?
"Nintendowned: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in (null) seconds"

This is the headline I am seeing at the moment. Seems like the guy who was supposed to update the time forgot to do so.
If you plug in a Wii Classic Controller, you can use the home button on it to get back to the menu without having to get up.