skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm linking "people in the street" to unemployment, because you didn't mention how it relates to taxes.

Make statements like "I live in a country where we're not OK seeing" only if the solutions to these problems in your own country is stable - many European countries aren't clearly so, so the idea that these are just matters of public choice isn't fair.

Choice WP snippets:

"The French healthcare system was named by the WHO as the best performing system in the world"

"the rising cost of the system has been a source of concern"

The latter seems to be a common problem, and is what I mean by "stable".

> everybody feel their effort as the same as their neighbor

If this is true, do the rich use public services proportionally more wrt their tax contributions?

What does "feel" the same as their neighbor mean - a service costs $10, my neighbor pays $1.50, I pay $8.50, which is fair because I earn more? Who says I didn't work harder in order to earn more; Where does my neighbor share the burden in that? Maybe I contribute more value to society, which is why I earn more; Why is my reward for that reduced?

Aren't the fixed tax band fairly arbitrary? Let's actually work to reduce corruption and un-fair money-making, but otherwise tax people in proportion to the value they get from society.
I agree, even if it was deliberate. With a clear draw, but that board position, both of them played out the stalemate. Not saying they deliberately drew, but just, in that situation with a certain draw, why not make it a cute one. I like it when top players do that. Like Ernst letting Magnus play out his beautiful epaulette mate in '04.
IIRC, Ghostery was scorned in the not so distant past for whitelisting sites for money. Is that still the case? Because ever since then I have used Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) which is made by the EFF which I know is financed mainly through donations and in recent years more and more through the Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/) so not financed by companies that would want their trackers etc. in sites regardless of user choice or as opt-out.
My point is that all of these things are running slower than flash did on much older hardware. The technical sophistication of what the average user does with computers hasn't changed much in the past 10 years (for the most part), but these bloated web stacks have made real world performance actually go down as raw hardware performance has gone up.
That's a common offering here in my home city by any company. You can ring them up and agree a price.

On the technology side... Gett.com seem to be offering an identical solution to Uber with the bonus of fixed price service within certain bounds. Looking at trips within a few miles of the city centre it'll offer a fixed price or "by the meter". Anything too far out however and it'll offer only "by the meter". Still, worth a punt?

EDIT: Bit more of a review...

I've contacted their support in the past and it's been pants. A couple of weeks for a human reply.

I also don't like how you have to decide the tip before the trip ends. Once you're dropped off, 'bing' the money is gone. I guess this is a culture difference but I prefer to decide to tip once I've decided I'm happy with the service. it's not a given.
I'm not so sure, I think the media gave plenty of time to sane counterargument. Even CNN, which I constantly see blamed as an evil by both the left and right, they'd air his stuff, then go and critique it and debate it for quite a while afterwards.

I think ultimately not as many people are interested in the critique and debate portion and perhaps more importantly, and I think many supporters just didn't care about a lot of the outrageous stuff he said because their alternative seemed even worse. They were basically left no choice but to dismiss it.

If the options were better, even just one of them I think this whole thing would have worked out a lot nicer. But instead a lot of people were caught in the middle debating the better of two evils.

I'm sure many will argue it was clearly one way or the other, but I'm pretty sympathetic to both arguments here. Education, debate and rationality can't solve that in a really significant way, only better options can.
Well, I see his point. 3rd Party AV vendors have hacky hooks into the kernel to do what they need to do. And at that point they become kernel-level so they are a juicy target.

Symantec and other AV vendors have had stupid flaws (someone else linked to it in the comments) that allowed remote access and privileged escalation from just knowing the host has a certain AV installed.

All AV seems hacky--except for Microsoft's own, which is what I use and suggest all my friends use rather than shelling out for those subpar products.
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I think it's unfair to characterize a company with over 200,000 employees as a technical sweatshop. The organizational structure is flat to limit the reach of poor management and lacklustre engineering.

I loved my job as an intern there. My manager was great. My team was great. Everyone worked between 8 and 10 hours per hours, with those on the latter end of the spectrum being intense, CS-in-your-veins types.

I can respect your perspective if you've worked there and your experience left much to be desired, but it is still a bit silly to make sweeping generalizations for a company as large and expansive as Amazon.
I would say you did an impressive first step towards your goal of filling up a coding gap. This is spot on regarding utility! Congrats on shipping and implementing such a useful tool :)
That's insane, when you know that this is exactly the buisness model of one of France's largest, if not the largest, tech company Blablacar
Because readers have different needs? Seems pretty obvious to me.
yes but as long as the laser beam can carry absurd amounts of data, that linear coefficient is just fine. Nobody needs to sync trillions of cat videos (which is the source of exponential growth) between Mars and Earth.
Is it the directions or the UI that bothers you? I don't have an iDevice so I don't have much experience with Apple's map application, but I know my friend prefers it because the intersection/lane guidance stuff is more clearly presented, and the directions always seem pretty reasonable.

OTOH, Google Maps always seems to give me the weirdest directions. It usually puts me pretty close to my destination, but it often has weird ideas about side roads and shortcuts. Maybe that's just because I moved to an area with terrible drivers, and Google derives trains their software with vacuumed-up user data.
I completely understand people's over-estimating the power of President. They do have an ever widening ability to declare war without Congress, but they don't control everything.
>and life made difficult to anyone who calls bullshit on these kind of intrusive laws

That started over a week ago.

A spokewoman for the Home Office said this when asked about ordinary people circumventing logging by using a VPN:

"Terrorists and serious criminals will always seek to avoid detection"[1]

In that context, this is basically implying that anyone who values their privacy must be a terrorist or criminal. It scares me where we are going with this...

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38068078
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Well, he seems to be defending the practice of using CDN libraries, and the article talks about how this practice, which he says he won't change, invades user privacy.
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You are mistaken. UberPOP is already not operational in Sweden. UberX is what's being targeted.
The problem that is supposed to come with low central bank rates is a debased currency, not a stronger currency.

People are buying dollars in spite of the low rates in the US.

Or are you saying that the low interest rates have precipitated a global economic collapse and that US dollars are the most likely to be worth something later?
I don't particularly like the hypocritical (fiscally irresponsible deficit nags) borrow and spend financing that those two pioneered based on the misapplication of the Laugher Curve, tax policy, and Trickle Down. However, it seems like the real problem the world faces is not inflation (as rates have fallen for 35 years), but deflation. Perhaps this has been caused by dramatic technological productivity improvements and falling global birth rates?

The problem with trying to inflate your way out by adding debt is that profitable debt (eg when it is repaid!) is always longterm deflationary. Ultimately, the debts are either defaulted on, the rates reduced below average inflation, or $ are printed to pay them off.

People who hold lots of money hate inflation! They (banks) like deflation and increasing debt. A functional economy (due to human nature and our monetary system) seems to require a bit of inflation so everyone else would probably be happy with a bit of printing. If nothing else, it's the cheapest way to tax the population of $ holders that you'll every find.
"A photo illustration shows the Uber app logo displayed on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph in central London" - that's some caption!
"1) Cheating on taxes is quite literally stealing from every other person in the country. That being said I think there is a lot of small scale cheating going, especially for small cash-driven businesses."

I disagree.

One monkey says to a group of other monkeys, "we all need to take one of the 5 bananas we individually have and place it into a central banana disbursement fund".

Then, another monkey from the group refuses to give up one of his bananas. How is this refusal equal to stealing?

The real question is why taxes need to be /forcefully/ collected in the first place.
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I guess a "Neomacs" was inevitable after Neovim.
I'd love to read some historical data that correlates this, I'll raise you Frederick Lewis Allen, check out any of his books really. They'll open your eyes.
The issue is that there is no meter on the "fake" taxis. In other countries, you can easily tell if you're being ripped off based on the meter. If it's off, then you can be 100% certain.
The Nordic companies are not 'the best' at startups, not remotely close.

They have some nice attributes.

I worked for the EU government studying these issues a decade ago.

One of the primary reasons it's hard for startups over there, is that there are really weak eco-systems - you need 'big pocketed' acquierers (among other things) to sustain the model.

Paradoxically, the (admittedly older) 'anti business' attitude, which again doesn't really exist so much among younger people today - doesn't imply that they are 'bad at business'.

I would actually agree, that 'pound for pound' Swedes are decent at startups, but because of other factors - i.e. market size, eco-systems, language, geography ... it's hard for them to compete with Valley startups.
That's not why economics is called the dismal science.

Economics is called the "dismal science" because of it's "find[ing] the secret of this Universe in 'supply and demand,' and reducing the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone".

Carlyle took a different view, feeling that the "idle Black man in the West Indies" should be "compelled to work as he was fit, and to do the Maker's will who had constructed him".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dismal_science

Mencius Moldbug also has an interesting take on Carlyle, suggesting that his views on slavery and hierarchy were significantly more nuanced than what my pithy summary above describes. I have not managed to read enough Carlyle to form my own opinion (maybe on my next 24 hour flight).

https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-ca... https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/carlyl...
I'd wager this is already basically a trailer full of racked snowballs, perhaps without the ruggedized enclosures.
"this here" is redundant; "This" being something near the speaker, "here" being near the speaker. This type of redundancy is often found in rural and vernacular speech in the US. A similar redundant construct is "I don't got no..." meaning "I do not have any...", but one that is entirely more grotesque to my ear.
Oh stop. I haven't driven to work more than a handful of times in my entire life. I've recycled my recyclables my whole life. I only fly once or twice a year, and I can even cut that out if necessary. I eat meat once a day or less by now (red meat is only a part of that), and not in very large quantities or expensive cuts either. I walk or bike everywhere and take public transit when I can't.

I'm happy to pay higher prices for meat, higher prices for airline flights. I'm happy in general to ration out personal luxuries more thinly than I already do. I really do want to avoid the end of the world.

But at the same time, I want some damned personal security in exchange, and right now I'm not getting any of it. We don't have much personal security if something bad happens in life, and the world is ending anyway.

Carbon tax or bust.
AV vendors are even worse, they don't just play fast and loose with incoming files they also fuck up other processes in the system, bundle de-secured versions of other software (e.g. Chrome) or enable security holes (remotely accessible local debuggers) by default.

Check out issues reported by taviso on Google Zero: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

Examples: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=67... or https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=77... or https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=70...
When has he expressed support for renewable energy?
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Donald_Trump_Energy_+_Oil.ht...

Or even business like consideration for technology that's rapidly dropping in price? Since the election, he's been making promises to coal workers: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602853/trumps-empty-promi...
The W3C has a thing called subresource integrity, which is basically what vbezhenar described:

https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/

However, there are reasons why e.g. hash-addressed JavaScript are not used as a shared cache:

https://hillbrad.github.io/sri-addressable-caching/sri-addre...
I know how DNNs work -- I've even designed my own.

The existence of a component that is difficult to analyze for safety doesn't justify ignoring well-established safety engineering techniques throughout the rest of the system. That attitude would have us throw out seat belts and snow tires just because the ACC system might be buggy sometimes.
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> You just need an extended driver's license, an approved taxi-meter (same as how grocery stores need their scales to be approved), and the pricing plan listed clearly in the window.

You're omitting the most important thing here: the actual taxi traffic permit. That's the hard part in this process.
If you look at the graphs that have greater time lines than 100k years, you will see this is a pattern.

No doubt we as humans are speeding up the process and making it worse, but it seems likely that its going to happen regardless of what we do.

For this reason, I'd suggest we are 'gonna change' when the time comes.
P2p proximity is the trendiest word in the events industry
It is no secret that proximity is one of the latest technological trends in the events industry. According to a Proxbook report, more than 50% of sports stadiums in North America have started leveraging the technology. Meanwhile, world leading exhibitions and conferences like CES, SXSW and Cannes Lions have started to experiment with proximity solutions as well.

This rapid change has been mainly driven by technologies like beacons, GPS and NFC even though those are far from perfect. Beacons are hardware intensive and bound to a certain location, GPS is not accurate indoors and consumes battery, and NFC remains unavailable on some development platforms.

However, the obvious limitations noted above could be overcome with peer to peer proximity technology. But what exactly does it do?

p2p proximity enables apps to understand their proximity to nearby devices without any additional hardware. It works directly between devices, is highly accurate indoors, doesn’t drain the battery and requires no additional maintenance.

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I heard that they are as competent as private sector.

They are much, much better than that. They hire the best grads and pay lots, but expect a lot too:

One thing that stands out in Singapore is the quality of its civil service. Unlike the egalitarian Western public sector, Singapore follows an elitist model, paying those at the top $2m a year or more. It spots talented youngsters early, lures them with scholarships and keeps investing in them. People who don't make the grade are pushed out quickly.

http://www.economist.com/node/18359852
Of course Uber has $2B in annual losses, that's by design. Do you think they would take $13B in VC capital and then not spend the money?

The profit margin is stable at around (100%) because it is kept there artificially, balancing how much of the expansion is paid for with revenue and how much is paid for with VC money.

The rest of the article was super interesting - but the conclusion of what Ubers current losses means I think seems off.
being able to look things up is a different skill than being able to understand and properly apply what you looked up. Or being able to understand what you are looking up and why.
Adblock seems to be blocking it by default - pause it, refresh and generate, then resume it
My understanding is that Plex has centralized media servers with one or many thin client where as Kodi is an all-in-one solution. You can run Plex server and client on the same box as well.
There's an export option in Unity by default to turn your game into a packaged application. Tons of indie games harness this to create platform-specific binaries. There's even an export option for HTML 5/WebGL if you're into that.
It's like trying to make somebody enthusiastic about computer science by having a long monologue about the wonders of the "rm -rf" command.

:)
Thank you so much for these posts, fpgaminer. They've been extremely helpful to me in framing how these things could be used.

Once upon a time I thought seriously about going in to hardware design. I took a couple different courses in college (over 10 years ago now... sigh) dealing with VHDL and/or verilog and entirely loved it. If not for a chance encounter with web programming during my co-op my career would have been entirely different. With AWS offering this in the cloud if it is not prohibitively expensive I'll be looking in to toying with it and hopefully discovering uses for it in my work.
> the entire source code for the human brain has to be strictly less than 700 MB, because the fully sequenced human genome which obviously encodes the full human mind is less than 700 MB uncompressed

Actually those 700MB are compressed, in a way so sophisticated that we don't really know how to uncompress it yet - or whether it's even possible without the external resources our planet provides. And keep in mind that those 700MB only describe how to prepare the basic concept of the brain, whose memory is then packed with information we get from the culture.
At least in the case of Google Web Fonts and FontAwesome, I am almost positive there is no issue with hosting locally.
Can I migrate EC2 instances?
I think people of a certain age might prefer taking their watches off when they go to sleep because that's how it was supposed to be. Some watches are also heavy.. You can damage the watch if you wear it at night or accidentally wake your significant other.
even ignoring the attack surface, the tools seem to always cause the same kinds of system performance degradation that actual malware does. I'd rather be occasionally hacked!
Great - thanks for this - simple organizing of the files as well. Can you add org mode and others as well?
So this is absolutely a honeypot then, right?

There's no way to verify that this truck full of my corp's valuable data isn't stopped somewhere along the way and cloned and then driven to NSA or something.
I disagree. Play with Go's go routine and channels and see how easily you can spread a simple or complex job across 16 cores, and then bring that data all back together. JS has nothing on that.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13073779
A lot of my enthusiasm came from things like Core Wars and abusing C to crash my computer by overwriting code (hooray for old systems with no memory protection), so, yeah.
Leaders who try to explain this to the public inevitably get voted out of office, because the opposition will explain the exact opposite and the public can't tell the difference.
It also seemed pretty dubious that Vess kept hammering the "insecure because we lack hooks" point, while skipping the repeatedly-raised issue that AV itself is usually full of shoddy, high-risk code. A couple of the most-used AV products are infamous for not just using dirty access, but being so poorly-executed that the AV is what enables escalation in the first place.
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No, that's the point: The game continues until a player reaches 6 wins. If you're 5-0 down, you can either resign or play for 6 wins. Draws don't help you.
The point is that the evidence seems credible if somewhat incredible.

It might not be convincing and certainly not conclusive but there are a series of remarkable coincidences.
So if I have a subscriber that simply publishes a transformed message onto another topic I can have a guarantee that if the publish fails it wont move on to the next message in the subscription?
1. Trump will spend, reduce taxes, increase debt, and therefore US interest rates will have to go up.

(This happens whenever a government promises to spend a lot on infrastructure improvements.)

2. Foreign investors anticipate this and are buying US dollars. This makes the dollar stronger w.r.t. other currencies.

I think a strong currency is usually a good thing in a scarce market environment. It means that your country can buy a lot of the world's natural resources easier than others. This should usually be a good thing (for the US).

But there is a problem:

The US doesn't actually do anything with natural resources anymore, we don't make things like steel or plastic etc anymore, or rather, we don't "add value" to natural resources. Instead, with a strong dollar, we let others add the value and (import) buy their finished goods. The few things that we do make become more expensive to others, so our exports decrease. Domestically, there are fewer "manufacturing" jobs.

Trump will try to stop this and the only tool he has is to increase import tariffs. This article seems to equate that with global financial ruin, and it is the point of contention that I want to raise.

These two facts: raising import tariffs and a strong US dollar may help cancel out the effects. Instead of destroying foreign markets, it may simply "transfer" who gets the surplus generated by the strong dollar from the foreign markets to our tax base.
I work in a start-up hub surrounded by about 50 different start-ups, all trying to make it.

Swedes are PLENTY entrepreneurial.
I'm talking about first to 6 wins. Like the 1984 Karpov vs. Kasparov: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55015
If you look at many factors Sweden is way more livable than the USA. Perhaps that explains why culturally they don't mind paying higher taxes. I've worked in the US and Canada. I pay more taxes in Canada but the social services and health care are much better here and I can go to great public facilities like gyms and pools that I had to pay for privately in NY
Speaking of duration: it can be really long, way longer than regular 10 hours. Once a trip on piracetam+L was 40 sleepless hours. Shrooms for starters.