skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question isn't how much desert or glacier a country has. It's whether a family can afford a place to live and if you can get where you're going in the city without waiting forever in traffic. America is failing badly at both those essential criteria.
Kind of sounds like the hypothetical "technocracy" [1]. I'd be wary of too much science at the same time - needs some balance. What stirs the beating hearts of people on HN likely does not do so for everyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
The only characteristic unique to firefox is a customizable UI, everything else can be done by existing browsers.
Gotta tell you, that "giving a shit" scale isn't true in my case. I work for an agency and we give much more of a shit about our client than the client's internal devs do... about the code, about the business, you name it...
The specific relationship that they find is that startup creation is associated with home prices. This makes sense in the US, as home prices are a good proxy for middle class wealth. Here's a quick not fully vetted interpretation of this finding: When the middle class is relatively rich, they start businesses. When it is relatively poor, they don't. The aspirational income inequality that Graham posits doesn't immediately jump out when looking at year by year new startup numbers on a graph. I'm currently analyzing these numbers, but it's pretty clear that they don't support Graham's assumptions.

He addresses this line of logic in a separate essay: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

"A surprising number of people retain from childhood the idea that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. There is, in any normal family, a fixed amount of money at any moment. But that's not the same thing.

When wealth is talked about in this context, it is often described as a pie. "You can't make the pie larger," say politicians. When you're talking about the amount of money in one family's bank account, or the amount available to a government from one year's tax revenue, this is true. If one person gets more, someone else has to get less.

I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy."
That's the document to which I was referring initially. And it definitely reads with a contrived voice, in contrast to most other ACLU lit.
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This is such no-brainer reform. I really hope the Valley comes together and crushes the H1-Bs used up by employees of Wipro, Infosys etc. at the expense of much more exceptional people employed by amazon, google etc.
Speech Synthesis on a Raspberry Pi Using Node.js
bb611 says> "The president ...signed an order legally barring hundreds of millions of people from entering the US ..."

But the reality is

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-anti-trum...

"The fact of the matter is 325,000 people from foreign countries came into the United States" on Saturday, Priebus
told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd. "And 109 people were detained for further questioning."
> There are lot of people in rural areas in the US who not only do not have a lot of education but who have an active antipathy to it.

When a farmer's interaction with "educated folk" are people such as yourself who look down their nose at him because _he's a farmer_ and you have a degree in _gender studies_ ("I mean gawd, that poor hick doesn't know anything!"), can you blame them?
I feel it's kind of bullshit because we already perform exhaustive checking on applicants for refugee status, and while it's certainly harder for someone coming from a war zone to provide official documentation of the risks they face, there is abundant detailed guidance for consular officers and other immigration-focused employees of the government to assess risk factors. Unverifiable claims can frequently be validated through circumstantial evidence like medical inspections.

If you don't mind legal reading, most large cities have law libraries and most large law libraries keep copies of Bender's Immigration bulletin or Interpreter Releases, two professional journals which chronicle legal proceedings in immigration cases. You may find it instructive to study some in order to get a better idea of the quality and weight of evidence offered in such proceedings.

Our Visa and refugee policies are the product of over a century of operational and historical experience. It's not as if we've never been faced with such complexities before and can't figure out where to begin. The claim that we can't figure this out right now is literally an appeal to ignorance. The reality is that we have tough and elaborate screening procedures in place already, and abundant data on the risk factors.
> I'd rather be able to do things like run a proper IMAP, XMPP, SSH or SIP client on my device without disconnections, etc. Those seem like pretty major use cases to me, ones which Apple shouldn't be making decisions for the user about.

I learned recently that this isn't just a matter about the OS vendor making decisions, but that the OS vendors negotiate with the cell providers for longer timeouts:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000...

"The advantage GCM has is that Google has made agreements with mobile carriers not to timeout connections on those networks. Without those, websocket connection idle timeouts on mobile data connections will be unpredictable, and they tend to be more trigger happy (and also often just silently close without sending an RST)."

So, if you want to run a proper IMAP (IDLE, I assume) or XMPP or anything client, you'll need to negotiate with your cell provider for better timeouts.
"But for the most part, according to a BNEF analysis, the costs of new projects would need to drop by half in order to be profitable on a wider scale in California, and that’s not likely to happen for another decade"

The plunder continues...
Round and round you go with circular logic and rationalizations. This is at best security theater and a dumb executive order designed to appeal to emotion rather than reason. That's putting aside any ethical considerations. You can keep trying to sell it, but nobody with a brain is buying it.
What makes you think Hillary supported or supports Mexicans or Muslims? I mean, granted she used those groups as a foil to beat up on Trump with but as a rule her past actions (e.g. as Sec. Of State) indicate at best a casual (and in my view cruel) indifference to those communities.
And even if it's true, so what? If we have created an environment in which this kind of activism is a profitable marketing move, why, that's awesome, and let's keep it up! I trust the profit motive more than I would trust altruism, when it comes to corporations. It's our job as a society to make sure that doing the right thing is also the profitable thing (and vice versa).
Consider a game played in a series of rounds in which N% of rounds are decided by luck (random player wins) and (100-N)% are decided by skill (better player wins). As the number of rounds approaches infinity, the win percentage of the better player will approach (100-N/2)%

That is, if the game is 100% luck, the better player will have an expected win percentage of (100-100/2) == 50%

If the game is 0% luck, the better player will have an expected win percentage of (100-0/2) == 100%

If the game is 95% luck, the better player will have an
expected win percentage of (100-95/2) == 52.5%

Conclusion: If there is any non-zero amount of skill in the game, the better player will win in the long run.
Before and after tradeshows
If she could not in good conscience discharge the responsibilities of the AG, which include supporting the chief executive, the morally consistent option would've been resignation.

I agree with most of what you say, but why do you feel the actions she took were morally inconsistent? What is the moral imperative to quietly resign rather than to call attention to an issue you feel merits greater public scrutiny? While you can accuse her of having the wrong moral framework, I don't see how you can conclude that her behavior is inconsistent with the framework she believes in.
>All the actual best players play for millions and have a reputation to uphold.

All these players are high stakes players. I think you're underestimating the fun factor. As for reputation. For a poker player having a reputation as being beatable is a profitable thing to have.

>but they aren't the best of the best.

Who do you think is? Like how many people do you think rank above this group at HUNL?
IMhumbleO the redundancy is at issue, because CSS is simply nested key pairs and so say that HTML should handle only text and tagged divisions in text with IDs and classes, and leave all the semantics up to the sheets. Folks who point out that style is semantic are correct, so it's redundant to allow all these structural tags in HTML that are intended to give semantic formatting to text, and instead CSS should be reliably the only source of semantic formatting. Therefore, only one HTML element and everything else attributes or key pairs in the sheets.

Also I find js2css works well to keep component style in place with MVC web components.

(This comment is a response to the multiple inevitable discussions on the merits of HTML/CSS and what is bad or good and how it all should be different, great stuff, thanks for it)
It seems like once they get their costs nailed down leasing them, and basically taking the first X% profit, giving 'green' thinking people new tech to show off, leverageable during power events at a profit if done in concert with energy companies.
No, much of it hasn't been done by past administrations, which is why whenever someone tries to trot out a supposed concrete example, it's usually a wildly different act than the one Trump did that is supposedly similar to, either in substance or relevant context or, most often, both.
tl;dr:
- Axel Springer (huge german publisher) has an ongoing legal battle with them over copyright infringement
- Springer accuses Eyeo of making false statements in court
- public prosecutor is investing
Protonmail is awesome, thanks. Never seen it, and I totally like auto expiration. In that manner its similar to Wickr or Signal.

I plan to switch to locally hosted nextcloud over Google Drive.

I am not interested ATM in full privacy - it doesn't sound practical at all, but I want to be aware of services that can provide temporary escape when I need it and of those very intrusive services such Google Search.

I want to struck ballance between too much of the privacy which leads to every day usuability problems and the situation where I get bubbled and spammed with irrelevant stuff.

> And never forget that your ISP can monitor everything you do, regardless of what services you use.

No, it can't monitor SSL trafic.

> Dont have too many extensions as it leads to an easy fingerprint

I am sure only few of them will fingerprint me - for example only one of them - vimium - already reduces the surface quite a lot IMO.

> Use an alternative non mainstream browser

Chrome can be setup securelly and I can still use it for syncing data that I don't think should be hidden. Too much privacy is probably suspicious by itself on the other hand...

> Get Ublock origin and PrivacyBadger

Is there any problem using them both ? I already use Ublock.
Ok, going purely by 2015 numbers, we spend 609.3Billion on Military. Only 16% of the budget, right?

Then how can China (our next biggest competitor) get away with spending only 150-200 Billion? Why are we spending more than three times the amount China is spending on military? How can Russia (our perceived biggest threat right now in the media zeitgeist)...only get by with threatening us with a paltry 66 Billion? Think about that: we as a nation have collectively decided to outmatch Russia by ten fold. This way of spending is out of control, and I'm not sure how else I can get this very simple point across.

I think it's clear to anyone that we could easily assuage some of the real problems of homelessness if we just cut our Military budget in half.

That would still put us ahead of China, far ahead of Russia, _and_ we'd help those who cannot help themselves immensely.

But I know what the response is going to be: "Big Stick" and all that oft-repeated Military-Industrial justification.

I'm sorry but there's no excuse no matter how you slice it, even if my initial numbers are wrong (which I concede) it's still a terrible situation.
Certainly some do. Max Tegmark would be an example[1]. He posts a sort of "all possible universes with all possible laws". (I think "possible" in this context roughly means mathematically consistent.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...
> So, if you want to run a proper IMAP (IDLE, I assume) or XMPP or anything client, you'll need to negotiate with your cell provider for better timeouts.

Or just send TCP keepalives and accept worse battery life. I still get enough to get me through a day with my phone almost never sleeping fully due to all the shit I have connected constantly.

Also, note that that comment is completely unsourced - I'm curious if there's any evidence backing that or it's just bunk. It wouldn't surprise me, but I also don't see any references to that anywhere else. Moxie is known to hate the 3rd party app stores and stuff, so it might just be him bullshitting about a possibility.
Where you see a difference in ideology, I see a difference in posture. I think you'll find 'libertarians' somewhere between mute and meek in their criticisms of Trump. This is their former standard bearer:

http://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2016/12/14/of-cabinet...
You mean like Galt's Gulch? That would be great. We'll be better off without people who only doing things for personal gain, to amass the greatest share of the world's wealth and power that they can.
Good idea, I'll try that
Doctors and the Pitfalls of Extending Life
That's nice. The typical H1-B employer has been breaking the law and ruining prospect for American families for decades and there's no enforcement of the rules in sight anywhere. At this point, we'll take whatever means of enforcement we can get.

This is what blowback from years of privileged abuse of the law looks like.

Heck, the entire Trump phenomenon is what blowback from extended abuse of elite privilege looks like. It isn't pretty, but the elites refused all other means of curbing their exploitation.
That has to be the most fascinating piece of startup advice I have ever read.

Alternatively, you can identify the same set of people without actually running the ultra by looking for people who descend stairs backwards.
That's only true if the humans made decisions about what computations to do after each day's play. The computations could have been determined in advance, eg. always run some algorithm to analyze the opponent's play for weaknesses. That's not cheating because the human players get to do the same thing. It's impossible to enforce a "no thinking outside the game room" rule for a multi-day tournament.
It's of course not "Speech Synthesis on a Raspberry Pi", but "calling an API from a Raspberry Pi".
Can you can buy a Chinese citizenship with a Mastercard or Visa and not even appear in the country? Buying passports in these countries are almost exclusively used for hiding money.
There seems to be an argument here that runs something like this "I've bought a ticket into this walled garden and I don't like the walls, and why do we only get to eat apples?"
Yet, next door is a lovely (by all accounts) meadow where you are free to roam and even plant other fruit trees.

Apple's environment is a walled garden. They don't hide this - in fact they make a virtue of it. And the market is so competitive that there are plenty of viable non-Apple alternatives.

It's one thing to argue the merits or not of a walled garden as a business strategy. However most of the arguments being made here seem... petty?
Does anyone know the technical details of how to train and AI bot for a game like poker?

I imagine it's just reinforcement learning where the inputs are the actions of the individual players (hold/fold/raise, timing etc) and the statistical probabilities in terms of expected cards. Train a neural net to predict probability of the opponent's hands and act accordingly.

Is it just that the professionals all act similarly enough that the bot can learn based on other players?
>AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers"

Hedge funds are already using A.I. successfully. I talked one manager who's team was trying to layer successful individual neural networks into a "bigger brain".
Agree 100%. It is not possible to organize a political movement for facts and expect the facts to remain apolitical.
Like many major events in history (including most wars and revolutions), it's probably best interpreted as the product of both large-scale and systematic factors as well as happenstance and small-scale interventions -- like the timing (and relative speediness, compared to a boat) of this particular chartered flight.

To refer to an even larger-scale example: clearly the Russian Empire was in the throes of an extended period of turmoil and conflict in the last years of the House of Romanov, which by that point was unlikely to stay in power for very long in any case... but at the same time things might very well not have turned out quite the way they did had not the German government approved that famous train ride from Zürich to Petrograd for Lenin and his entourage in February of 1917 (as nifty way, so they thought, of seeding just the right amount of chaos to induce in the Empire to soften its resolve to continue the fight against the Central Powers).
Mhmm. Really with all those things, i'd give it a serious try for my game development side projects. Currently using html5 for some, libgdx (java) for others.
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Probably not the best response for a CEO to be making on an online forum. This is not the message you should be sending to potential clients and employees.
Congress? Someone should. Society has decided that a greater good is promoted when someone decides on a minimum wage. Why can't someone decide on a maximum wage?
You make fair points, however the cost of living is dictated primarily by: transportation, education, housing and health costs. Has technology made these significantly cheaper for someone in poverty?
> "So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I'm not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus."

FFS, if you're not willing to read a paper with BASIC CALCULUS (it's HS/college, not advanced like fractional), then I'm not sure machine learning is the right place for you.
Imagine a world in which officers of the executive branch were completely free to defy the president. Would there not be chaos? It makes sense for a president to fire insubordinate subordinates.

The AAG was likely trying to score political points by going out the way she did. I respect her acting according to conscience, but do think making a show of it like that dilutes the message a bit. Probably more effective for her to have made a statement outlining her objections to the EO and unwillingness to defend it, and then resigned.
Society underestimates the long-term economic value of a child raised by a full-time, invested parent. Parenting and babysitting are apples and oranges.
TRUTH make me, quit for 10 years now, want to light up. That kind of half-truth fearmongering to kids is the posterchild of ineffectiveness. Moreover is sows distrust of the very channels to use to provide valuable public info. Calling it 'truth' was just the hypocritical icing on the cake.
Fuck you Peter Thiel. I realized you were a major douche when you supported Trump's madness while simultaneously BECOMING A NEW ZEALAND CITIZEN.

After you guys rob the country blind y'all have a nice escape hatch and just leave the mess y'all made to the rest of us.
> that's up to the developer

Most of the time my concern isn't with apps that have a dedicated service backing them, but with apps which don't. I don't want Apple notifying me when something changes on my SSH session because I sent my SSH credentials to some 3rd party server that notified Apple to notify me.

I trust absolutely no one to handle those credentials properly, I need my device to do it. And I need it to do it by interacting directly with the server.
If you think banning access to international talent will make next startup owner to set up shop in Omaha, you are sadly mistaken. It'll be Toronto, or Vancouver.
The two labels seem to come from completely different cores to me. Namely, libertarianism stresses autonomy, personal liberty, and individual self determination. Nationalism tends to in contrast endorse a more collectivist viewpoint.

The reaction to Trump's executive order actually seems to personify the inherent conflict between the two sides -- while a lot of conservatives (including, I would say, those with more nationalistic viewpoints) approve of the executive order, the libertarian side so far seems to be pretty vocal about their disapproval.
Sourcegraph CEO here. Happy to answer any questions folks have. We're excited to get this in your hands, and also to release support for many more languages soon.
They are at worst top 15 HUNL players in the world.
Since you're interested in the implementation of synchronous languages you could also take a look at Quartz [1]. Their book is a fantastic resource about the topic.

[1] http://www.averest.org
I agree, these probably aren't the best.

Same as in programming. There are some great programmers that we all know and that are public figures. But the absolute best? Probably making high 7 figures working in a dark room somewhere.
Been there, done that (well kind, of, via several small specialized nets). Actually a pretty good trading strategy, but works better if you actually have capital to use it....
There are some people out there that are culturally conservative personally, but don't believe in forcing their beliefs on other via laws. Not many, but they do exist. And they generally vote libertarian.
Look at companies the fast forward accelerator features on their website (mobile or would link otherwise).
Islamic Jihad master hacker pleads guilty to hacking IDF drones in Gaza
The electoral college was designed so the highly populated states don't have too much leverage over the rest of the country, and worked as was intended. There are many areas of the country seeing a declining quality of life, and those areas happened to vote for the candidate who spoke of economic issues more.
40kg for lead acid equals 13.6kg for lithium so that's 66% lighter.
Exactly we are at a peek. Like a bubble in stock. It is about to pop.
I feel like you have that backwards. All evidence indicates that legal abortion results in no more abortions occurring, but those that do occur will be safer. Legally speaking there seem to be a fair number of people who want to outlaw it anyway.
Craft CMS 3 Beta
It's just that AI researchers are exploring and finding every single field where deep learning algorithms perform better than humans. Play poker, run hedge funds...

But for instance understanding and specially producing meaningful language, let it be natural language or programming language? I hope not so.

Because otherwise, your average joe hacker might as well shut down their IDE and say good bye.