skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operating System is a heavy word to throw around for something that's just a Debian derivative.

Opened hoping for something microkernel-based... bummer.
> will Amazon be able to keep it's very high stock price

People have been asking this question about Amazon for many years now. I am not saying it wont go down but its a bit tiring hearing the sky is about to fall for Amazon.
My guess is that they don't delete anything due to regulatory and legal reasons.
That's certainly another possibility, though it seems some of them are either totally brand new (IE < 12 hours) , or been around forever and never posted in any of those types of discussions previously, but suddenly are first to comment on this one with, like i said, very well prepared comments and quotes and links to things from lobbying organizations that strongly support the policy position taken here.

I feel like i'm allowed to find that a little odd.

But yeah, you are right, it could be that they just decided, this second, this is the place they wanted to jump in first.
Conservatives are not aware of techie condescension (0 effect in most of these peoples daily lives, really sort of an arrogance to even think that) nearly as much as the liberal tendency to try to skirt around hard truths, to censor.

Imagine a wife/girlfriend who is PISSED because you won't get into a heated argument, you just stay all cool and level headed, hedging statements and whatnot.
Instead of using noise cancelling headphones, put in a set of foam ear plugs and then add a pair of headphones over your ears playing static.
From personal experience, I've gathered that ~80% of vcs are "dumb money". There's a reason why a small subsection of vcs firms dominate the profits.
The elephant in the room here is the assumption that newspapers or other media that rely only on ads to survive should automatically have a viable business model just because they had a viable model with printed media.

Clearly, this is not the case. One can't adblock printed media, but can certainly adblock websites.

The solution? Find a better business model. For example, stack overflow uses non-intrusive, pertinent ads to entice people to white list the site, and separate revenue streams like a job board to keep the site running.

I understand that this might sound simplistic. I am perfectly aware of how hard this problem is to fix -- however the world moves in the direction dictated by the big economic trends. Websites have almost zero variable cost -- most cost is fixed and does not scale as pageviews increase -- so economics tells us that competition will drive the value of a pageview to zero.
I keep a dummy Facebook account for precisely this purpose.
> Why would you trust a cloud service operating outside the US more than one operating within?

Because I'm an American in America. If you aren't in America's sphere of influence, the United States may be one of the best places to host your data. (No data retention laws; freedom of speech; working courts; et cetera.)
Yes. Though I like my agent. He's been good to me and the mutual insurance company we are with has really low rates. So if the case could be made that the chosen insurer would actually be there when I had an accident or needed to make a claim, maybe the chosen company could reach out to me and say "congrats we were connected I'll be your agent..." etc
> True net neutrality is getting the government out of dictating how the internet – and companies who provide access – should work. Leave that up to the people to decide with their wallet.

If we're re-defining 'network neutrality' such that any networking policy defined by a private corporation qualifies as neutral, does the term have any useful purpose at all?
Those ads are just ignored overtime. But I'm talking about things like a big budget well made video ads about your favorite car/brands etc before every youtube video you're going to watch in the next week.
sampo posted an article about misophonia in China: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1030060.shtml
Firefox en english (the default, not en_GB), Celsius by default. (geographically in Argentina).
Just a shot in the dark, but I think VC's probably see this as game changing tech if someone can pull it off. Something that would pay off big and that slot of risk must've been acceptable.

Also possibly to fill diversity requirements.
The money quote:

> True net neutrality is getting the government out of dictating how the internet – and companies who provide access – should work. Leave that up to the people to decide with their wallet.

Which is fine, if consumers actually have a choice. Where this doesn't work is more often in cable where many consumers have few, if more than one option at all.
I'm doing ECE in my first year on university now, and so far the labs are pretty boring, except for where we are making our own CPUs using xilinx then loading those onto an fpga. We're way ahead with state machines etc. in the digital lectures.

Analogue is the hard part for me, I guess you didn't do so much of that in digital systems engineering.
A law to subsidize broadband access to the poor...

Good idea; when's it coming?
Same here. I think this is evidence of genetic factors - i.e. my dad has a mild case and it manifested in him being very emphatic about training us not to make sounds while eating.
Using ºF is an odd fallback, considering it's just one country that uses it (just make sure detection works ok for it and you're done).
Radicalizing the American population and fostering identity division for the sake of votes and views is not a gentle pressure. Being against Trump is not mutually exclusive to holding media accountable. Lastly, Declaring Positive statistics, like you did, does not offset discriminatory attitudes.

> White people and in particular white men still dominate the capital of a very large portion of the world.

Does this fact make slandering any better? what's the minimum economic divide that gives me a free pass over hate speech?

> They're still over-represented in every growth sector of the economy in the US.

The Japanese are over-represented in every growth sector of the economy in Japan. The Chinese are over-represented in every growth sector of the economy in China. US is majority white, plus there's a constant flux of people from Europe. People of different cultures, but mostly sharing the same skin color. US is also leading the efforts toward more diversity.

> They're still receiving more leniancy for crimes than equivalent socioeconomic substitutes that are non-white.

Statistics alone don't tell us the reason why. But you should try going from prison to prison to teach white inmates about their privilege. And, again, poor white people are not fed and sheltered by magic of statistical average.

> Are you mad because people notice this and are frustrated with the pace of change in your Facebook feed?

I'm afraid people think physical violence is something to be celebrated and used against political opponents. But your condescending tone is not worthy of further discussion.
I believe the required testing for FCC Part 15 certification only covers what your device emits, not how it responds to the emissions of other devices.
This is a PR piece as it ends with double speak:

"True net neutrality is getting the government out of dictating how the internet – and companies who provide access – should work."

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
"Users were apparently willing to tolerate a degree of advertising (which, BTW, is a loooong way from any kind of a pact), but after a point they'll turn the tap off if there are tools available to do so."

The issue is that it's no longer in the hands of the users. It's in the hands of the creators of the Adblock software. They decide what is actually displayed and they even have a white list where a company can pay to get onto it.

This will backfire on the people rejoicing, however. Instead of advertisements on sites, we will see entire advertisements disguised as actual content (which can't be blocked).

Real journalism costs money. Plain and simple. When you take that out of the equation (because Adblock has destroyed many revenue streams), you get articles written on speculation that can be done from the comfort of an office chair.

Online advertisements are one of the only ways a person without a big company can actually make a living. I've never really understood this massive push against it from Hacker news, which is supposed to be about startups and the startup community.

I guess an actual path to profitability is never factored into the equation.
Right, but is there any way to enumerate the top 1%? Or a proxy for it.
Hmm interesting. So it seems the Boltzmann machine explanation of dreams that I described becomes less convincing when you consider that running the waking and dreaming phases of the training algorithm in separate long "chunks", instead of simultaneously, seems to not work well in practice.
I could go on an on

No doubt, but perhaps next time you'll provide a reference or two?
You're right, let's not discuss the merits of any technical solutions. The purpose of a comments section is to shower people with praise. This is because negativity is bad and positivity is good.

And whatever we do, let's avoid discussing software design choices at all costs. Surely the gains in positivity will make us better programmers.
You could be wrong.
http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20170202-amazons-shipping...

"Amazon.com Inc. said late today that its fourth-quarter global shipping costs soared to $5.6 billion, as the Seattle-based e-tailing giant grappled with increases in fulfillment demand brought on by another peak-season quarter of double-digit sales growth.

At the same time, fourth-quarter global shipping revenue came in at slightly more than $3 billion, continuing Seattle-based Amazon's multi-year pattern of shipping costs exceeding revenue. For the year, Amazon spent about $16 billion on shipping services and took in about $9 billion in revenue."
the only thing python is missing is a good, pythonic, easy-to-get-started, cross platform GUI API and I think beeware could be it. This is really neat.
When capitalists go on strike
The app injects some JavaScript code on the page loaded. Then it calculates the statistics based on DOM.

This couldn't be done loading a JS script in a web page. Or it would need a server to make the request.
Right. So when you are calculating costs, you need to include how much you are going to get for your old battery at usedlionbatteries.com. Of course, the faster new batteries get cheaper and better, the less you old battery is going to be worth.
It needs to exist; you're indifferent to it because you don't benefit.
Takes money to make money. Plus, if you grow up in the top 1% the way you see the world, and the opportunities you're exposed to are dramatically different to those in the bottom half... Or, really, even in the 80th-90th percentile.
Net neutrality is relevant, and so is affordable Internet.
Did you order it in December? And choose free shipping?
> but I think VC's probably see this as game changing tech if someone can pull it off

I'm sure it would be. But what I don't understand is why not hire someone who knows what they're doing to try to pull it off? Why hire an inexperienced person with almost no domain knowledge just because she happens to have a very basic idea sketched out.
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As a semi-Marxist myself, I just laugh at such comments.
"Don't eat too much" is a tautology, and "mostly plants" has been debunked.
While Quicksight is game-changing in their pricing and trying to disrupt the usually-overpriced BI market (the same thing it did very successfully with Amazon Redshift and data-warehouse market), as the other comment pointed out their product is still not up-to-par with existing ones.

If you're looking for affordable BI platform for startup, check out Holistics [0] (note: I'm cofounder), we are very tech startup-friendly, and our pricing starts at $49/mo for up to 5 users. Our customers range from 3-person shop to 600+ person unicorn startup.

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I did a quick comparison of Microsoft's fork and it appears they have done quite a bit with it.

Microsoft's fork contains 67,522 commits. The official Git repo contains 45,810. It appears the bulk of the work started in 2010, with significant ramp up of development in 2015.

https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/history.png

Looks like Microsoft only really introduced about 100 more new files.

https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/files.png

Microsoft's repo contains 1712 contributors. Git's repo contains 1685 contributors. So it looks 20 - 30 employees worked on Microsoft's fork.

https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/mgit-contributors.png
https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/git-contributors.png
I'm not sure if your assertions are supported by past events.

Prices rapidly declined after the Bell breakup. And the Standard Oil monopoly had a clear negative impact on all manner of prices thanks to the manipulation of rail freight.
There is another point I missed -- NOT accepting market wages can carry real consequences. In the tech-heavy markets like NY and SF, home prices closely track a constant multiple of market wages overall (tech and non-tech.) As market wages go up, so do home prices. People are often pushed to their breaking points in terms of what % of their income they give up to a mortgage.

These seem like silly details for those in their 20s. I had a roommate. Having a roommate doesnt really work when you are married with children. You start competing with your peers for homes. Making less money than your peers puts you at a disadvantage. I was pretty lax on salary when I was young, optimizing on growth and experience over salary. That was a good decision. In my late 30s now, i negotiate to get market rate. Not doing so translates into serious consequences for me and my family. So to answer the parent's post -- absolutely...if the company next door is paying more, i'd work there all else being equal.

Also, dont forget medical expenses. Once you have a family, you eat through those deductibles like crazy. One complicated pregnancy will set you back $20k+ depending on your health plan. At that point, some prospective employer's ROI is of little consequence to your very immediate needs like co-pays and the collection notices which roll in daily.
How are companies themselves any different, except that they lobby publicly, with propagandist PR fanfare?
The important question is whether li-ion battery improvements will stop before EV's become decisively better than ICE.
> I hope someone will...mention a variety of noise canceling headphones that block out voices.

I don't think that is even possible, since noise canceling is by statistical analysis of ambient sound. What you want is a white noise generator. Rain sounds nice, but I've found the rumble of a large fan to be more effective at covering the most bothersome frequencies of noise.
While quantum computers are of limited use in inverting a hash function (which remains infeasible for 256-bit hash functions), they would be a tremendous boon for cryptocurrency mining on a Hashcash proof-of-work system, such as the one used in bitcoin. In fact this is an obvious application of Grover's algorithm [1] that can find an input x satisfying a predicate P(x) in time O(sqrt(N)) where N is the domain size of P. The predicate P in this case is just that SHA256(SHA256(x)) < difficulty_target, while N is about 2^70 at the current difficulty level.

This gives a nice speedup, even if the quantum computer cycle time is a million times slower. As a result, mining would centralize to outfits having the most advanced quantum hashing chips.

Of course this ignores the bigger issue bitcoin would have with its signature scheme being completely broken on quantum computers, rendering all exposed public keys unsafe (addresses, being hashes of public keys, remain safe until spent though; hence the recommendation against address re-use).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm
If you really want to go there, "you and I" is never correct by the rules of English grammar. It's only when we apply the foreign rules of Latin grammar to English that we wind up with things like "you and I", which needs to be taught. It has, however, become a marker of education and good manners, so even though it is manifestly incorrect, it is often a better choice to use it in subject position in formal circumstances. Expectations outweigh correctness in this case.
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Considering reader mode is open source, adding that feature is quite easy. I obviously can't confirm nor deny if I have done so before.
Yup. Amazon's in uncurated listings are getting worse and worse, while Wal-Mart's online shopping offerings are getting better and better. Plus Wal-Mart can offer cheaper shipping with their in-store pickup lockers.

They're going to give Amazon a real competitor. Amazon may be getting better at a lot of things, but the actual experience of shopping online with them is getting worse. I search for an item and i get a hellscape of poorly categorized over-MSRP 3rd party sellers.
Let me know where to submit my invoice so I can get paid!

Seriously though, I'd much rather be accused of being pro market than pro government meddling.
I only have a minor complaint: It only lets you view real time data and forecasts up to 2 weeks out; there's no archived data like earth.nullschool.net (which has data going back to 12/2013). If there were a site like that, or even a way of creating a DIY site that uses archived numerical data but maintains a similar UI/visual appeal as Ventusky (e.g. the wind streamlines, which I think look much more appealing than on nullschool), I would pay actual real money for this product.
I would guess the number of people using the Brave Browser is too small to register with anyone who cares about such things.
Census data, land ownership, shareholding, etc etc... It's a research field for a reason, figuring out this sort of data is not trivial.

Edit: btw, this is why Piketty's work is so famous: he supposedly crunched more numbers than others, and produced extensive references. And still, there is/was a huge diatribe on how he crunched and what he crunched...
Do you know where to get archived numerical ECMWF/NAM/NEMS/GFS data? Not necessarily on a map.
Hunting for evidence, Secret Service unlocks phone data with force or finesse
> What do you mean "under stressful foreign environment"?
That's the whole premise of my argument. If backlash against immigrant tech worker continues for an extended period of time, think 5-10 years not 5-10 months. You can expect exactly what I have stated.

It's not pleasant to come thousands of miles away from home, leaving family and friends behind, paying proper taxes, being a responsible community member, and doing as best as we can. Only to read all these and live thru uncertainty.

Nope, Thank You.

I'd really hope these backlash would continue for a long period of time.
Landline Modernization Order[1]:

Legal Authority

38. The principles listed in section 254 of the Act make clear that deployment of, and access to, telecommunications and information services are important components of a robust and successful federal universal service program, including the directive to address low-income needs.86 In section 254[2], Congress expressly recognized the importance of ensuring that low-income consumers “have access to telecommunications and information services, including . . . advanced telecommunications and information services” and that universal service is an “evolving level of telecommunications service.”87

...

41. Our approach is also supported by section 254(c)(1)(A). Under that provision, the Commission considers whether a given supported service is “essential to education, public health, or public safety.”97 We explain above the importance of BIAS to education and healthcare, among other things, along with the need for discounts in order to enable low-income consumers to realize those benefits.98 We therefore conclude that BIAS is essential for education and public health for low-income
Americans.

42. Section 254(c)(1)(B) directs the Commission to consider whether the service at issue has “through the operation of market choices by customers, been subscribed to by a substantial majority of residential customers.”99

footnote 92. ... Even before that, however, during the time the Commission had classified BIAS as generally an information service, it recognized the possibility of broadband Internet access transmission being offered on a common carrier basis as a telecommunications service. See, e.g., Appropriate Regulatory Treatment For Broadband Access to the Internet Over Wireless Networks, Declaratory Ruling, 22 FCC Rcd 5901, 5913-14, para. 33 (2007);[3]

[1] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-38A1.pd...

[2] 47 U.S. Code § 254 - Universal service https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/254

[3] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-30A1.pd...
There was a pilot project in 2015 for broadband subsidization. From what I remember, it went well and they were going to expand the program to cover it, but I haven't heard anything about it since.

As the owner of a small ISP, I'd like to figure out a way to provide to service to everyone regardless of their income. Internet access is critical at this point for even the most basic societal functions.
Maybe sites like Stack Overflow have 0 variable cost but this is more of an exception.

The viable model is paywalls and that's where quality content will go. I don't see a big deal with that as I will gladly pay for content that I value.
I was hearing similar stories until the current CTO took over. From that I've heard some fairly negative takes.
I am really skeptical about this being worth $5 a month. I suppose you could look at it like you're "buying" 12 free games for $5, since you do the discovery and vetting for me.

But ... the spectrum of quality in free games is HUGE and the percentage of games at the top of the spectrum is relatively tiny. I imagine this subscription would start with the heavy hitters but quickly devolve. And who's the target audience for this? Aren't most gamers relatively "in the know" in the free/f2p space? Can't someone who knows nothing about free games just Google "best free games?"

Even the quantity feels off to me -- 3 per week is too much. In the best case scenario, where you inform me of three games I didn't know about but I want to play, I can't get through them before you deliver another.

I dunno. Maybe I'm just not identifying the target audience for this; maybe they exist, but I can't imagine dropping any amount of money for this.
No, because the original work is not protected by a technological barrier, the script does not violate the DMCA's prohibition on distributing circumvention tools.
Net neutrality is, by definition, the government requiring non-discrimination.

If you want the government to avoid intervening at all, that's something else altogether. Net apathy? Net noninterventionism? Net libertarianism?