skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many indefinite article can be confusing, especially when you're talking about politics and people's/group's interests.

> I think it's a mistake to read this as being entirely favorable to those banks

You're referring to the EO, or the campaign promise?

> They are still trying to figure out how to profit off the move away from globalism

Are you referring to the banks or the interests backing Trump?

> there is no question that their core principles are opposed to those stated here

We're talking about the banks?

Clearly the banks don't like the rhetoric of "too big to fail". If Trump manages to show an effective display of power over the next 100 days, he may have the leverage he wants to do something. Now, I think it's silly for anybody to speculate what that something is because he's been very vague about it. That works for him because it gives him the option to save face with his supported by producing watered-down reform if he's unable to affect truly effective regulatory change.

The question is: What might Trump want from the banks? It's important to enumerate both selfless and self-serving reasons. Does he want something personally, or does he want political support for something he wants to do? What is he willing to negotiate?

Taking on the banks is not an easy feat. I suspect Trump has cozied up with other special interests that will give him the backing to take on the banks, but it will probably cost us our environment and it could very likely lead to more antagonism and campaigns in the Middle East. Some people think he's being dopey when he says, "We should have taken the oil". I suspect he's securing another option that he can call on when he needs something.
Say what? Maps, Android, one of the best Spam filters anywhere, the best search engine, the best image search engine, Youtube, one of the best web browsers...

Much of this isn't "pure" Google development, yes. And god knows Google has woeful privacy policies (personally, I use StartPage, and try to use Google services as little as I can) but to think of them as serial-money-wasters is a bit rich.

Also, that needless, typical HN, "big companies bad, startups good, free markets GOAT" bit at the end is really wearisome.
I would love a normally priced TV with no smart crap, but would absolutely not back a Kickstarter for one. It's really just not the right platform for that.
We have some naive heuristics to try to detect bot movements (low ping, not many queued moves, moves every turn, etc) in the works, some of which are already implemented to try to reduce the numbers of bots on the main ladders. It's a tiny bit tricky to do however, most of the methods are still just going through testing.

We're hoping that people consider the reason we're trying to limit their access to the main ladders and do the honourable thing of keeping the bots in the bot ladder. It's slightly harder than just changing the URL, which we hope will help dissuade individuals.
You can rebut an argument you disagree with without being uncivil. In this case, I agree that the wording of the EO doesn't talk about deregulation. Unfortunately for your argument, Trump has in fact spent the day talking about pruning back Dodd-Frank.
Please provide some evidence that the majority of Google X projects are "poorly done."

Self-driving cars -> Not only has it become its own company (Waymo) but it also motivated many other companies to tackle the same problem and develop self-driving tech of its own.

Life Sciences, Google Contact Lenses -> Now its own company, Verily.

Google Brain -> I quote Astro Teller "It would be fair to say Google Brain (now called the Neural Network Project) is producing in value for Google something that would be comparable to the total costs of Google X — just that one thing we’ve spun out." https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/googles-captain-of...

Hard science and engineering problems take non-trivial amounts of resources to solve. How many start-ups are tackling the kinds of problems that X is trying to solve?
> In the US, all of these people get swept under the rug of "friends" in the FB era, and it's in this way that they are less granular if "friend" can mean just about anybody you've ever come across.

"FaceBook friend" maps roughly to "Anyone I have had some form of contact with and either don't actively hate, who says things I'm interested in hearing, or who I haven't gotten around to deleting". It's a completely distinct concept from "friend", in my mind. A FaceBook friend could be more accurately be described as a "contact", the way that I usually see it used.

I know some people who are deep in the FB Kool-Aid, or who label all acquaintances as "friends", but that doesn't accurately describe most of the people around me.
Well, email is a hard problem.

Hosting it yourself requires quite a bit of effort and knowledge to achieve high deliverability and low spam. Any solution is going to require you to be a mail server admin, which isn't for the feint of heart. You can't really be a casual once-in-a-while admin to get good results.

Sometimes it is worth paying a hosting service to take care of these problems for you.

With that said, Zimbra is a wonderful, easy to setup, all-in-one solution (email, calendars, contacts, etc)... and it's free (the Open Source license version).[1]

It works for small setups (<5 users) all the way up to huge installations (Comcast uses Zimbra for it's webmail service).

[1] https://www.zimbra.com/
Git Annex is only a partial solution, since it only solves issues with binary blobs. It doesn't solve problems with large repos.
Hacker News is not a site for engaging in political battle. Most politics are off-topic, but a blanket ban would deprive the community of topics that are indeed intellectually interesting, or representative of new phenomena. The political discussions that we do have, then, are for the community, and the expectation is that comments are thoughtful, patient, civil, and substantive.

Creating accounts that only post politically is not good community behavior, nor is reposting comments that have been flagged, nor is making deliberately inflammatory (troll) statements as you have. These behaviors are against the goals of this site and they just don't belong.
I understand that sometimes two products have the same name, but they usually have very different scopes/usages.

In this case, they're both called GVFS AND three of the letters have the same meaning, and they both do relatively similar things.

Even the tooling, and the output of `mount` is bound to be incredible confusing.
Good work. More here

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
PaintsChainer – Neural network to paint a picture based on lineart
I've done a lot of online classes, and I have a job. But I also have 15+ years of experience as a developer, so it would be hard to suss out exactly which attributes did or didn't contribute to my successful candidacy the last couple of times I changed jobs. Subjectively, I feel like that stuff helped, but it's hard to be sure.
This assumes you can have good quality news with this invisible pact.

I disagree with that. The invisible pact turns media into a clickbait factory.
A lot of the diversity data that companies have put together recently doesn't show the magnitude to which companies depend on non-citizen labor.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with consensus and etcd. That doesn't have anything to do with the end-user experience using k8s on a product like Google Container Engine.

When I say k8s is like borg I mean: it has the same concepts of tasks, jobs, and allocs. The scheduling of those is handled by a k8s scheduler which resembles the borgmaster scheduler (a lot of hand waving here), and the containers themselves execute in an environment much like the borglet provides for containers.

Many of the valuable features provided by borgmaster and borglet are provided in k8s and you configure them through similar mechanisms.

Beyond that, how they are implemented specifically, there are a ton of differences but for an end user who is just using k8s, not setting up and managing k8s infrastructure, it's conceptually isomorphic.
It's my hunch that having immense data on all humans in one place, along with the potential to take programmatic action based on that data, may significantly increase the risk of massive, harmful affects on society on the decade to century scale.

This may involve governments or other powerful entities co-opting the data, which there are increasing hints of. It doesn't even have to be some kind of catastrophy. One scenario I imagine would be something mundane like preventing an alternate future where the majority of people are twice as happy and have twice as much autonomy.

Obviously, this can't be proven. But this hunch gives me great pause.
Are there any good options for cloud services outside of the US?
Working memory, and concentration are adversely effected by sleep deprivation, which seems like another piece of evidence.
I switched to DuckDuckGo a couple of years ago, and it really does just fine. Besides, if DDG's results aren't good enough, you can just add !g to your query string and search again - this time DDG will act as a frontend for Google search. I used to do this frequently but DDG's results have improved steadily while I've been using it and now I rarely bother.
With any luck, that won't be an issue for a long time considering self-driving cars are on their way.
> America not only doesn't extord us for loot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America
So Walmart gets reduced to things you need right now, i.e. groceries and random low cost convenience items.

Population has been shifting from rural to urban for decades, Walmart's advantage is in a shrinking market.

Drone delivery is marketing nonsense anyway.
I have recently given up Google and most of it's products. And I find some of the things on this list are not relevant for the average person. Here is my personal list:

Google Search (DuckDuckGo)
Gmail (ProtonMail)
YouTube (There's pretty much nothing because of the networking effect YouTube has. But, if you just want something to share videos, there's Media Goblin)
Google Drive (NextCloud)
Google Keep (Wallabag/Pocket)
Google Maps (OpenStreetMap)
Google Calendar & Contacts (NextCloud)
Google Docs (LibreOffice Online)
To your first point, I'm not sure how this helps the sufferers. What they have shown is that there is a different neural signature correlating with a different emotional response. There's no causal link here, meaning that I might still tell someone to just shrug it off. Maybe they can control their neural activity, just like I can control my neural activity related to thinking about elephants by not thinking about elephants.

To your second point, I would offer two responses. First, while being able to measure something is a win in itself, we need to be clear about what they're measuring. They have shown that suffering ailment X increases the probability that they find neural signature X. They do not know the reverse, meaning this isn't going to unlock early diagnostics or anything. It is unclear how discriminating this response is. Second, it's not clear that this is the product/effect of the way their "brain is wired". Perhaps changes in neural activity caused the observations of different neural connectivity. Perhaps some other factor of their experience or biology caused this sensitivity and the visible differences in connectivity, neural activity, etc. We just don't know.

(P.S. Listening to people eat drives me insane. I'm not going to self-diagnose, but I just want to be clear that I'm not criticizing the finding/report because of a lack of empathy for the sufferers.)

(P.P.S. I'm a recovering cognitive scientist who had to hear about a lot of neuropsych findings that all boiled down to, "This part of the brain lights up when we hear/see/do this! Give me another $5mm grant!").
In this particular case, the name is THE SAME (GVFS / GVFS). And they're both virtual filesystems, so there's lots of rooms for confusion.

I can image people at a forum:

"Hey, GVFS isn't working for me. It crashes with error -504" when I try to mount /nfs/company_data".

Try guessing which GVFS that is.
I don't personally know much about him, but your first two points do nothing to make him look less like a political pundit.
That kind of brutal metal usually has several small pauses and other almost quiet moments in the songs, so outside noise can be heard during those moments. More melodic subgenres of metal usually have more continuous song structures. Melodic metal fills in also in the higher frequency bands better than brutal metal.
> As a result, I must agree that it is possible that a woman in an interfaith marriage may be executed for it, with no other reason necessary, under recognized interpretations of Sharia law.

The thing with Sharia is that it is loose enough to be interpreted in many different ways. As the saying goes in the Muslim community, if you find something you want to do badly enough, you can find a "scholar" willing to give you a fatwa for it. This can range from honour killings to an exemption from the ban on drinking alcohol.

However, as you mentioned yourself, this particular set of opinions is rarely drawn together in practice to come to this conclusion, and when it is, it is often to justify other forces at play - tribal cultures and so-call "honour killings".

Ps. Not sure why you got downvotes for a well-researched and well-presented statement. I gave you an upvote for it.
Do these employee counts include the Integrity Staffing warehouse workforce? The ones who aren't actually Amazon employees.
> But restricting immigration is certainly not the solution.

Why not? A restriction signals immigration as an unreliable source of labor, hence de-incentivising business to depend on it on the basis that it is a risk.

> If you're arguing that the labor shortage is not a problem

There may a problem, but labor shortage itself, is not. An excessive shortage, or an industry-crippling shortage is another thing altogether; In either case, a shortage is a necessary, but not sufficient condition of the problem.
same, but to the current directory:

wget -c -nv -r -nH -np --cut-dirs 2 -k "https://landing.google.com/sre/book/index.html"
Deep Learning is mostly just about automatically creating good features. As an example if you had the driving data and were too lazy to hand engineer features for what looked like loops looking for parking. You could use deep learning and then use logistics regression ontop of the features you learnt
Indian IT companies need to stop using H1-B visas: Narayana Murthy [1]

He said " Our managers will have to learn with non-Indian professionals, how to get the best out of them, how to work in teams that are multi-cultural, how to make sure that we understand the rules of crossing cultures,”

--

I see this as "Its hard to find slaves from other-countries. I know lot of Indian IT professionals _hate_ their managers. Because they treat them as 'slaves' and force them to work for +9 hrs day regardless of work is there or not. I bet his (Infy or others body-shopping) managers can't do the same to non-Indians"

[1] http://www.livemint.com/Industry/VtFnghv7Wqu6r5J7M9n3EN/Indi...
On the other hand, Abigail Adams was a remarkable outlier to this general trend. She was a feminist before there was really a feminist movement, and asked John to include women's concerns in the new American government. He largely declined. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Adams)
Paper maps and a bit of awareness of your surroundings will get you a long way.

I'm actually a touch annoyed with some of the online maps for the lack of the right details. With a highway number and mile marker, I can pinpoint my position on a paper map. Can't do that with Google maps.
SPW: High frequency oscillation in the hippocampus which occurs during rest and sleep. The characteristics would suggest they are critical in memory management.

If you google "SPW neuroscience", you will find many resources.

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

Brain science is highly interdisciplinary. Each expert should spend time to familiarize themselves with the various approaches used by other experts. In particular, machine learning theorists should spend time to understand the latest results (their implications, at least) in neuroscience and neuron biophysics. At some point, an ML theorist is not too different than a biophysics theorist. They just use different abstractions. This is why I am particularly interested in Google's and Hinton's work. That work seems to be subtly motivated by neuroscience and natural science...
Or you could lift your eyes from your bloody phone for a minute while you walk and see that there are signs on or above store fronts which say "grocery" or something like that...
> This is why U.S. tech can't be trusted.

Do they not have warrants in other countries?
I would agree with most of the content but not the tone here.

You do need some experience and a skillset and a LOT of learning to be fully able to contribute well in a remote job. It won't necessarily be easy to learn, but its certainly possible.

The industry is pretty forgiving in my experience - I was fully remote after about 2-3 years of working in an office (negotiated heavily) and had no problems afterwards. If you're going for one of the "great" remote-entirely jobs remember you're competing against a much larger group of people. So managers/people hiring can either work with people who know that you can do it, or they'll try to find someone who is a head above everyone else. Or you can make your own business if you like.
he says they will focus on "expanding broadband deployment" - i assume that means like this:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...

"encouraging innovative service offerings" sounds to me like they mean - "encouraging innovative service offerings... but only from the now further subsidized natural monopolies that we have already decided will win."
Any comments on why you picked GitHub (propietary) instead of GitLab (FLOSS) for FLOSS projects?
I'll gladly whitelist things that are obviously small-time labor-of-love efforts that only have ads to help with hosting costs (also Project Wonderful).
Or !sp which sends your result to startpage which is a proxy for Google.
Right, my comment retarding truth tables was only in reference to combinatorial logic. That said, pure circuit models of computations exist, and are interesting from a theoretical standpoint at least. They don't translate to hardware, though. As you noted doing arbitrary computation with (finite) circuits requires some type of feedback/sequential logic.
I just installed Firefox with ublock, thanks for the suggestion.
Nothing about that seems wrong at all.

1. doesn't matter. It sounds like this is your day job unrelated to the hypothetical company.

2. this is OK, you can do that.

3. this is where it becomes a little more difficult. since you are presumably working from Germany, the value is created in Germany and therefore is going to be taxed there. sounds like the obvious (and fair) thing to do to me.

4. income is taxed where it is created, not where you originate from. Consider it like this: If I'm a German and live more than 6 months in the US, my primary taxation point is the US. My origin doesn't matter, it is where I live (and in essence whose state services (what taxes pay for) I use). The same goes for companies. If the company is registered in Estonia, fine, you can do that. But if the company is actually _operating_ in Germany, well, you have to pay taxes over there _just for the business you do over there, NOT for business you do from Estonia_.

5. yes, this is personal income. You'll pay taxes in Estonia which you can match up to your taxes in Germany. In no circumstance you pay twice. Again sounds very correct to me.

To be honest I'm not entirely sure this is the actual situation, but nothing about it seems wrong :-)
70-80% of H-1Bs are migrant server coolie workers for ultra-cheap mass labor camp shops. The Silicon Valley companies see the entire quota eaten up by those el cheapo slave drivers.

With a real salary floor, the qualified engineers that serious companies want to import will find it much easier to obtain spots under the quota. The low wage cheaters will be cut out of the lottery and productive businesses will get those slots instead.

It's probably the best thing that could happen to companies that want to import actual qualified smart engineers from overseas.
>The court also argued that this outcome was needed to avoid absurd results.

Sometimes it feels like the law is just a means to an end. USG wants access to data regardless of jursidiction, so that's what it gets.
I couldn't figure out who has the move!
You linked approvingly to that comment. I downvoted your post and your upthread comment as a result.

I would flag that comment if it were posted to HN, and I'll explain why below.

The comment argues that a woman (a "girl") should have no more or less control over her body than a corporation should have over its employees.

One reason that's immoral is that people want autonomy, they thrive under it, and they deserve autonomy as a basic human right. Therefore, we should minimize the amount of control that corporations have over employees and maximize the amount of control people have over their own bodies.

(And for too long, too many men think they should have control over women's bodies, especially deciding who women should be "allowed"/forced to partner with, so it's especially important that women be allowed to control their own bodies.)

The comment you linked to isn't just incorrect; it's gross. It reduces the quality of HN as a forum, and it leaves me unwilling to read your upthread comment in a positive light.
This is from 2013.

The author has revised his thesis (Q4 2015) [0], though he remains bearish on AMZN longterm.

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/12/9/9873174/amazon-never-profitable
I will vote for no advice. It's too easy to exploit this.
That one is unusable to me. I nearly throw my phone in frustration just trying to enter the destination. Region, City, Street, Building... wtf? Not only backwards, but four fields. Can't even search by destinations, like "Pi-hi cafe". You can enter fields, which never even works, or stick a pin on the map. It makes me furious just thinking about how awful it is.
Curious: Why would you trust a cloud service operating outside the US more than one operating within?

If you use Google, your data is basically guaranteed to be secure - the biggest vulnerability is search warrants from the US government.

If you use some provider in another country, the attack vector has to be way larger, right?

This is an honest question - people always talk about using their own servers or non-mainstream providers, but I don't see how they necessarily reduce your risk.
No one use jet.com. Their service is horrible
$125/household - that's an amazing deal. We're blessed with some high-quality programming from the CBC here in Canada but would happily bump in a contribution to add BBC to the mix.
Which is why I'm left wondering, why is it that "Silicon Valley Is So Nervous About H-1B Reform". Unless the headline is simply clickbait, I don't think the question was answered...
You'll be horrified to learn that many businesses also have "compliance officers". Because that sure sounds like an evil plan to enforce newspeak – if you manage to achieve a certain level of ignorance.

It's also terrible (, terrible) how many companies are wasting money on "Quality Assurance", "Accounting", or "groundskeeping" when a business should actually be profit-driven.

If only we could get out from under the yoke of political correctness. We'd give every employee the title of "profit maker".