skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish more people knew the basic economic theory of monopolies. Because virtually all common public arguments, including yours, show abysmal misunderstanding of the issues.

First let's start with something that your article got right.

Virtually every monopoly is worth more in pieces than it is together. That is because maintaining the monopoly requires having profitable parts of the business subsidize other parts which are running at at unprofitable prices to shut down potential competition. The result is the sum of the pieces of monopolies that were divided by law were worth more than the original monopoly was. And THAT means that a divided monopoly almost immediately COSTS consumers more.

So, as your article concludes, saving consumers money in the short run is not a reason to shut down monopolies.

This immediately raises the question of why monopolies come around. If a monopoly is worth less than separate companies, why make one? The answer is that a monopoly is worth less than the entire area of business that it would monopolize, but it is worth more than any individual piece of that business. Therefore creating a monopoly is personally profitable to the one who does.

OK, with that out of the way, why should we object to monopolies? The answer is simple. Monopolies are about establishing control. In the area that is controlled, the monopoly can make any unilateral decision that it wants. This is really, really bad for innovation. Innovation requires many different players trying many different things.

With innovation, in time it is quite possible for consumers to get both better features and more competitive pricing than the monopoly would have managed. Getting rid of the monopoly is essentially always bad for consumers in the short run. But the long run could be a different story?

As a concrete example, one contributor to the dot com boom was that the web offered a way to create businesses that Microsoft's monopoly could not squish.

As another example, before the breakup of Bell Telephone, customers couldn't even choose what color they wanted for their phone! If they had not been broken up then it is unlikely that we'd have seen the rapid spread and improvement in things like smartphones.

The long and short of it is that we should expect (relatively) cheap prices from a monopoly. And saving money is not reason to break one up. Our areas of concern should be continued innovation and availability of customer features.
Taking large doses of anything is never a good idea, normal doses of zinc over a long period is excellent starting advice for many dermatological conditions.

Zinc in general is one of the few supplements shown to actually have benefit for the average human.
As a user of AdBlock, unless it's a site I desperately need to function (there aren't very many of these), having it be broken with AdBlock turned on clues me in that something shady is going on. I'm more likely to simply leave and never come back.

Note here that I'm not against certain kinds of advertising, and I'm all for subscription models and donation incentives and a great many other ways to fund sites. But third party advertising networks have forever lost my trust, and I simply won't tolerate the security risk nor the annoyance any longer. Your site is welcome to require me to disable AdBlock, and that's fine. I don't need to read your posts that badly anyway.
I dont think you can put "supply and demand aside" because the market wages are by definition of where supply meets demand.

ROI is a different concept -- you are right that someone needs to generate ~1.2M$ to be worth paying $300k. But that does not mean there is a shortage, it means the business is not a viable business.

Consider this example -- I'm going to create cars and sell them for $5000. I need a crew of 10 people, paid $500/yr. I cant find any crew willing to accept that. That doesnt mean there is a shortage of auto workers. It means I'm not paying enough. Just because I've come up with a faulty business (selling cars for $5000) does not mean that people must work for me for peanuts. It means my business is flawed because it relies on underpaid workers.

Also, w/r/t you increasing a pay rise for burger flippers - that is not how businesses function. Business would not generally raise salaries as long as they could find workers at depressed salaries. If they did, their Board of Directors would quickly fire the CEO. You could choose to do this for your own company, but that is not representative of how large or most companies work. Companies are constantly hiring McKinsey or Towers Perrin to benchmark labour costs to ensure they are paying as little as possible.
I have Prime and I don't feel the list bit locked in. I get enough value from the streaming video to justify the cost, free 2-day-ish shipping is just a nice bonus now. I'm also definitely aware of how their prices are no longer automatically the lowest. I shop around, factor in 'how soon do I want it', and sometimes I buy from Amazon, sometimes not.
I doubt this - Walmart have scale, experience and infrastructure over Amazon but what they're lacking for in these areas, Amazon more than makes up for it in engineering culture.

Amazon is first a foremost a data-driven company. Companies say this so much that it's now a cliche, but you better believe it with Amazon.

As an exclusively online (until recently) retailer, every single sale goes through their data warehouse. Every single product, price, clicks are all stored - think of the analytical capability of that consolidated store of data. Amazon is probably the singly largest reserve of economics data.

Moreover, I am fully certain every one of their products, cars, trucks, planes and even people are hooked up into real-time tracking. When you have that much data all centralised, and the scale of Amazon, real life problems start to resemble CS problems and Fulfillment Centers and logistics start resembling CDNs.

If only Amazon has extensive knowledge of the workings of CDNs... oh wait.
Apple also has a massive retail staff and retail organization, and especially the former group makes it considerably easier to show 'numbers' that are more 'diverse'.

As far as their high-tech and HQ staff, I don't see any reason to believe that they are materially different from Google or Facebook.
I didn't have a plan for replacing the social contact of Facebook when I quit. I lost contact with a lot of people. But it turned out that most were acquaintances, not friends, and I could do without them. My acquaintances now are the people I see every day, the doormen and baristas I meet but don't become close with, and I find this means my acquaintances include more variety of people as a result. And the real friends, I've kept in contact with; there are only maybe 10, so it's not hard to text them occasionally.
I would guess that losing 30% of the traffic would impact visibility and market share, and that is more costly than giving 30% of viewers content without ads.
Anybody knows what does Linus think about it ?
Try it without `sqrt(c)`! It adds a bit of ambient lighting so you can see the sphere when the light is added in. Without it, the dark side of the sphere fades into the background.
I wonder if taking the square root of the color inverts the original color. I also wonder why he is taking the square root and don't know why.
What's an SPW?
> Almost everyone who is against capitalism point to the real world problems with it but talk about an "ideal communist society" as an alternative.

Almost everyone I encounter that opposes the slide back toward 19th century capitalism from mixed economies favors maintaining mixed economies with basically capitalist property rights, with very minor additional compensatory measures to treat some of capitalism's failure modes. You can find people supporting classical utopian Marxist ideas (or the divergences from it rooted in Leninism) but they seem to be o creasingly rare even as a proportion of critics.of capitalism.
It's not about the topic, but mostly the technique. You have to record and process a few hours of human speech in a studio (when I was there the "studio" was a closet with blankets on the wall). Most of the words are not cut in the same way as others text-to-speech engine would do, to preserve intonation, hence longer recording times and a "grammar" limited to the the span of the recorded vocabulary (see if you can catch how the topic is always about the rain. Maybe it was due to us being in britany, a very rainy french region)

However, given the number of complaints here, I don't think a cap on the number of topics she can discuss would be an issue for Alexa.
Well, the first place to look would be in ethnic studies departments, which examine (exactly* such questions. Secondly, you might want to consider that 'East Asian' works OK as a geographic descriptor, but you're assuming that a western-originated social construct of 'East Asians' is held by the people who live in that region, most of whom I think would argue that their genetic similarities are superficial, just as almost all humans have two arms and two legs etc. I could also point to the rather complex internal history of the Asian countries you mention to highlight the existence of internal disagreements in those countries about the nature of identity, but that would involve a long historical detour and a ton of background material that neither of us likely has the inclination to review.

It might be worth mentioning that I regard your view of East Asian identity as extremely simplistic partly because I'm married to an Asian person and have had a disproportionately large number of friends from that region for several decades. Your homogenous characterization of the region is superficially persuasive but falls apart as soon as you look at the history of the region in any detail.

As for lacking the right to control immigration policy (a subject that was not in discussion but which is clearly what you want to express your views about, arguments against the restrictive immigration policy that obtains in the various East Asian countries are made all the time - not on the basis of those people lacking rights of self-determination but on the basis of economic utility. Finally, you overlook the fact that the the US (where I suspect you are based and whose immigration policy you're indirectly commenting on) was, unlike the East Asian countries you mention, explicitly founded on inclusive liberal ideas (as exemplified in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence) rather than on an ethnic nationalist identity and that it's not unreasonable to evaluate US policy in the light of the assertions upon which it is nominally founded.
Really helpful when deciding between similar products.
Perhaps, but this way no one has to go on the record stating that they're in favor of repealing the rule that financial advisors have to act as fiduciaries.

Of course, one would also think that no one would want to go on record voting to repeal a regulation designed to stop miners from dumping their stuff in our water, but apparently one would be wrong.
Sweet article, what are you focusing on in the master thesis?
People Are Canceling Tesla Orders Because Elon Musk Is Advising Trump
Docker inc. is a key member of oci which is under linux foundation

https://www.opencontainers.org/faq
I loved Ken Perlin's java applets years ago. Sadly, the demise of Java as webapps means they now require jumping through a few hoops to get them running nowadays.

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

Tangentially, there's always a bit of heartache when I use the text input in Steam's Big Picture mode, as I wish Perlin's innovative input modes saw wider usage (see the "pen input" section of the above link). Of course, I understand why not: it faces the same hurdle of teaching people a new input layout that dooms all non-traditional input methods.
Any reasonable bar for incivility must surely catch the kind of name calling present in your comments (and specifically mentioned in the site guidelines), not to mention reposting it once flagged by the community. There are civil and uncivil posts on both sides of most issues on HN, including this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As of version 6 of git annex, the only thing an unlocked repo need other than the usual workflow is a `git annex sync`, that could be easily configured as a push hook.
Preventing bailouts might have been a charter goal for Obama, but his administration actually made the "too big to fail" institutions larger, and it seems like everyone still believes that the government will provide bailouts whenever the next crisis happens. Those regulations increased (fixed) compliance costs, and improved economies of scale, making it tougher for 'small' banks.

I am not sure if the Trump administration can or will do anything about that.
Can we use an API to help test parking prediction by using it in our apps?
New thought: maybe Carmack didn't wipe his own laptop, he let someone else do it? Both partys' statements would still be true if this were true.
The question is whether some advice is better than no advice.

There are arguments on both sides.

See e.g. https://qz.com/638603/sorry-senator-warren-your-plan-wont-fi...
Google doesn't really excel at markets such as Looker's.

We happily pay for Looker and get excellent support from them.

It'd take many, many years of hearing success stories with Google before I'd even consider moving off of Looker on to a competitive product by them and even then the switching costs would unlikely to ever be worth it.
Millions of tonnes of copper are mined every year. Dietary copper is on the scale of micrograms.

Your conspiracy has a problem of many magnitudes.
Mmmonospace.
Garbage. Downvoted. I hope this gets removed from the site.
> I think the biggest downside of voice UI right now is a lack of authentication. Someone outside the window could yell "Alexa, open the door".

I think this is the most overlooked use case that needs to be addressed. Even in a secure residence, if you leave a 2nd story window open it might be possible to get the audio to Alexa. Though I suppose these skills could add a 2-factor to the unlocking mechanism.

"Alexa unlock the door."

"Ok, what is the passcode."

<get's out phone, retrieves token>

"123456"

"Thanks, unlocking door."

The problem I see is I don't want 2-factor on everything.
>Amazon is probably the singly largest reserve of economics data.

Walmart had 4 times the annual sales revenue of Amazon and they store every single transaction as well. They don't have the click data, but they certainly have far more actual purchasing data.
> I can't wait until they are connected and I can issue a command to move streaming from one device to another one in another room ("Alexa, pause for Jim", "Alexa, continue for Jim").

Too much overhead. It should be able to identify you by voice, so you can just ask it to "pause" and "resume".
Ask HN: What are your good, bad, and ugly refactoring experiences?
It can be refactoring, retooling, upgrading to a newer version of a framework, adding tests, etc. There are times it goes well, and there are times it goes poorly.

Could you tell me about your best and/or worst refactoring & retooling experiences?

Details I'd really love to know:

- Why did you choose to refactor? (testability, personal desire, preparation for upcoming features?)
- Who did you talk to about the refactor? (other engineers, product, team leads?)
- When did you talk to them about it?
- How long did you expect it to take?
- How long did it take?
- What went well?
- What went poorly?
- What did you learn?

Context: I'm researching to write a blog post about good processes for refactoring on a software team. I'd also love to hear from PMs & non-engineers about their experiences with their teams doing a refactor.
Same here. I've been using Amazon Prime less and less, because once you notice they hide the "Free" shipping costs into the price of the item, it's difficult to justify larger orders with them.
Thank you for your writeup; it was thoughtful and well-phrased.
Exactly. Can't an Uber driver pick it up for me and deliver it to my house?
Self-Driving Clouds: From Vision to Reality
The data recording process: How the process of recording information to a blockchain system can be trusted. A corrupt person or a compromised/hacked hardware might enter erroneous data or refuse to enter any data at all.
Anyone reading Starship Troopers may also want to read
Joe Haldeman's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
of which Heinlein apparently said [it] "may be the best future war story I've ever read!"

However, given its fairly pessimistic view of war,
it may not appear on many military reading lists.
You give a really vanilla use case and than suggest Google Home is superior. Can you give me a use case where it actually demonstrates it is far ahead.

The Chromecast example isn't supporting your claim in my opinion.
Did you ever think to change the type of ads you are showing on your site? I'm saying this under the assumption that you are using an ad platform where you plug their code into your site and then they show your user's ads.

Have you thought about handling the advertising yourself and hand picking products and services that are directly applicable to your users and displaying them in an unobtrusive manner?

And as a side note: I consider ads from any ad network to be a security risk and while I respect sites for "politely" asking me to whitelist them I feel it's a misguided approach.
Or what about how they refuse to carry competitor electronic products, like Apple TV or Chromecast?
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving on H-1B Plan and Trump
>it is passed to Amazon.

Incorrect. If that is true, it's only temporary. It is passed to the consumer via lower prices due to competition pressure.
Cool project John!

Wanted to give a shout out also to fabtools [1]. Helps with setting up nginx, supervisor, and more with fabric.

What makes fabtools cool is it takes fabric the extra mile to handle stuff one of the things a configuration management system like Salt/Ansible would.

- `fabtools` is modules designed for configuring daemons, users, and other settings at a low level [2]

- `fabtools.require` houses functionality similar to saltstack's states. It checks if a package is installed if it's not already, or that a user exists in postgres. It makes fabric tasks friendly to re-run. [3]

It hits the sweet spot between wanting to go with fabric and bringing in a full configuration management system.

[1] https://github.com/fabtools/fabtools
[2] https://fabtools.readthedocs.io/en/0.19.0/api/index.html
[3] https://fabtools.readthedocs.io/en/0.19.0/api/require/index....
The game seems to be buggy: "King's Indian - Steven Cordy vs Martinez Garcia, Warsaw, 1991" -- it just keeps going in a loop endlessly. Neither the AI nor the game engine seems to be aware of perpetual move draw:

5 Qh6+
Kf6
46 Qg5+
Kg7
47 Qh6+
Kf6
48 Qg5+
Kg7
49 Qh6+
Kf6
50 Qg5+
Kg7
51 Qh6+
Kf6
52 Qg5+
Kg7
53 Qh6+
Kf6
54 Qg5+
Kg7
55 Qh6+
Kf6
56 Qg5+
Kg7
57 Qh6+
Kf6
58 Qg5+
Kg7
59 Qh6+

etc
Trump may not do what you think -- Bannon hates the hippies/anarchists from OWS, but also despises the capture of the government by the big banks. Watch his documentary/propaganda piece Generation Zero to get an idea of his thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SLtP10NQ8
What part of repealing the rule that financial advisors have to act in the client's best interest, instead of their own, is "great", exactly?
Walmart has consistently low prices but Amazon has consistently odd prices and a third party fulfillment quality problem.
YOLO in tensorflow
Duke researchers develop HIV-destroying antibody
Not saying that I disagree that the standards aren't being lowered, but that conclusion doesn't necessarily logically follow. Where you only have one side of the data for your anecdotal experience, it's also possible that you didn't do well enough in the interview for the well-meaning-but-super-racist bias of lowered expectations to bridge the gap.

Anyway, good luck with the interview process and I hope you land something great.
Well, if it was

"Alexa unlock the door."

"Ok, what is the passcode."

<Looks at smart watch>

"123456"

"Thanks, unlocking door."

Now that I think of it, as someone that has 3 different 2f tokens.. smart watch integration would actually be useful in general... If I had a smart watch.
That's awesome! I stand corrected.
You can't write a blog post on how to build a statistical model without stating how good the model is in actuality, along with validating the other regression details such as independence of features, train/test split, etc. (I am coincidentally working on a blog post along a similar San Francisco dataset which specifically addresses these concerns, so it's on the mind)

Logistic regression in particular has many features which provide more information about feature importance or lack thereof and many metric to confirm model quality, and it is disappointing to see this post only do a high-level overview. Yes, it may be a Google trade secret, but there has to be give-and-take.
We have a free app that uses AI to find unprofessional Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter photos used by over 50,000 college students:

https://www.renpup.com/
NewsBits:ScyllaDB 1.6,Gitlab DB Troubles,Elasticsearch 5.2,Node 7.5.0,and More
Location: Connecticut

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Rust, Linux (x86 and ARM), Scala, Python, consumer 3D printing, Bash, Haskell, PCB manufacturing, Android

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: jacqueline.outka@aya.yale.edu
Original:

if i > 0 then

non-literal copy:

if index > 0 then
Your first link there is for Arch, are you suggesting to use Arch or just grabbed a link? I saw that you said "...done by distribution..."

Also file indexing, is that like a constant polling event to check for modifications?

Thanks for the check list
Yeah, was it 200? Wow. I thought 50 or so.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-cautionary-t... is a great article of how even when you come I to a place of power, preventing genocide is much harder than it appears.
I should mention that we've tried the usual stuff -- subscription service to remove ads. Asking our users nicely to add our site to their whitelist, etc. Both of these have had minuscule impact.

There was a time that might have worked. It would have worked with me, anyway. A time when others were using ad blockers, but I had an attitude of "meh, they gotta pay the bills". I might pay a little money to turn off the ads, and were I to use an ad blocker I might whitelist a site or two.

But a threshold was crossed. I can't tell you what that threshold looks like, or name any particular event that set me off. Maybe it's the malware, maybe it's the jiggling belly fat ads, auto-play videos, I dunno. But at some point I said "enough", and I quit giving a shit about anything to do with that industry. The well has been so poisoned that I don't care about finding an antidote anymore. In general, I don't care if websites go under. The poisoned well metaphor breaks down in that I can't do without water, but I can sure as hell do without most of the ad-laden websites out there. I'll miss them, but not enough to be bothered to expend even the minimal effort to whitelist as site.

I don't want to be that person. I want to be empathetic to at least the small content producers just trying to scrape a few bucks. But I've been worn down, and not in the way the advertising industry wished I had been worn down. No, I'm worn down such that it's just easier to run an ad blocker and quit caring. And it's unfortunate that companies like yours get caught in all of it.
Ask any "East Indian" what their population and subgroups actually consist of and you will get an immediate list of subgroups, immigration history and ideological differences.

You're right that those are all equally social constructs. Same with Arabs, that's a massive group.

When someone is discriminated against with a broad brush their list of qualifications for "an ally" is often the other people equally maligned in that group, so if "Arabs" as a group talk back to discrimination against "Arabs" then that's an unsurprising development.