skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the point you're trying to make and Google is rather vague on details, but I highly doubt it was as simple as a git clone. If for no other reason, it's generally considered an anti-pattern to have 10gb of content in a repo (not including revisions, but just content).

They were also very specific in the legal documents about how he "covered his tracks", I'd recommend reading it rather than the cliff notes version linked here.
In order for this to work, you have to define "universal" in the context of how automation affects the global economy, not just the US or any national economy. Example: are we going to send a stipend to Bengali citizens who are displaced from textile manufacturing jobs by robot factories in the U.S.?
> the automation of jobs will result in the smartest and fasted humans owning the vast majority of wealth and influence while the rest of us sit in mud.

So you are arguing the rich are rich because they are the smartest? I would tweak your assessment. The rich are rich because wealth perpetuates the capture of wealth at a rate greater than the expansion of the economy.
The United States is a maritime superpower, able to project power across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Losing the Pacific coast would end that. I can't imagine it being let go easily.
If a throwaway really needed to say this? I bet there's enough people on HN who have already come to this conclusion.

The obvious courses of actions have also been discussed here - governing and ethics bodies for code/coders as a start.

It's even likely that in the future unions may be required as the industry grows older as well. This is probably the least popular opinion to state on HN.

But That idea isn't an issue. We're relatively far off from that happening or it becoming a political/collective necessity.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.

As you say, I think you'd have to be a German to consider that typical bread. :P
Really? Where is the NY Times citation, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic? Please cite links that refer to the ADL statement about Ellison before the DNC election.

I did google each of these publications and found nothing. Nor did I find anything that cited how he was one of 8 members of Congress to vote against the Iron Dome anti-missle system that has protected many Israelis civilians from Hamas missiles.
Whataboutism is actually the independent stance: caring to judge all actors in a situation for what they are.

Condemnations of whataboutism is just sticking with one's side, and attributing all evil to the other side.

Instead of having a historical, and morally accurate, perspective.

And it's even more hideous and morally outrageous if the side one is not willing to criticize is several time worse than the other.
Comps have nothing to do with loan value. Your income, credit, and assets and debt decide what your max loan value is.
It's a lower-level "database engine" that allows you to build different types of higher level databases based on a very simple foundation:

1) BTree-based K/V engine (which gives you an ability to iterate over lexicographically sorted keys)
2) Strong immutability guarantees (data can not be overwritten)
3) ACID transactions
4) Server-side executable imperative language that gives you a control over querying costs

In a sense, it's as much of a database constructor as different MUMPS systems (GT.M, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT.M)

PumpkinDB also aims to provide a good set of standard primitives that help building more sophisticated databases, ranging from hashing to JSON support, and more to come.
"isn't that one side or the other is doing these things; it's what BOTH sides are doing to US."

There's a weak implication there that the Democracts are doing something similar to Big Data + troll armies that this article covers. I'd have asked for clarification before jumping straight to "Obama doing same thing" but I see where kristianc is getting the impression.
...Moral high ground? We've been manufacturing that since Vietnam, and people still haven't caught on well enough to stop it happening again. The economic devastation brought about through secession would be the casus belli anyway.
I do see your point, but I personally like the delineation of "web app" being something that has higher modern web requirements and "website" being something that should work on something like IE9.

That is not to say that UX should be thrown out of the window for the former, of course.

I do agree that something like NYT shouldn't be a web app.

EDIT: I should mention that a lot of these things come down to requirements, of course. I don't think it's fair to say that every web app must be PWA compliant... it depends!
That makes sense to me, thanks for the explanation. I don't suppose you do guided tours of the Python standard library documentation? :)

And I get what you're saying about having nothing against asyncio being in the standard lib: I mostly agree. You can ignore it if you don't like it. And it does allow the more skillful python devs to do pretty amazing things (e.g. sanic, that uvloop pgsql driver etc.). I guess the small niggle I have with asyncio is similar to the one have with the standard library documentation (and Gnome, for that matter): I can't understand what the authors/developers were trying to achieve when writing it.

Take the std lib documentation for instance. It's only my opinion, but there seems to be very little consistency between libraries, and much of the documentation reads like a stream of consciousness punctuated by the occasional "oh and there's this thing too". This makes it very difficult to learn about what is being documented.

I mean, that's fine, it's their project and their prerogative and it isn't all bad. But it just seems self-defeating to write documentation that is incomprehensible. I suppose one could view technical documentation as a work of art that has some kind of intrinsic artistic value... Otherwise it just seems like wasted effort to write documentation that doesn't convey information in a useful way.

Sorry this turned a bit ranty. I'm only speaking for myself here; it's entirely possible I just happen to think in a way that is very different to how the std lib doc authors do.
Not just the economy.

You'd also need high level US military leaders to go insubordinate, voluntarily ignore their chain of command, and "donate" the assets of the US armed services to the Republic of California.

Texas is the only state that could probably put up a fight, but it'd be very ugly and very bloody.

Secession almost always equals war.

I think the folks advocating for secession trivialize the fact that the end result is armed conflict and not knowing which side your neighbor is on.

And Brexit is not precedent whatsoever -- Britain can exit from the EU because there was no large amount of shared military/defense assets based within the UK, and the EU is primarily an economic cooperation effort.
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"It can be expected that supercomputers will soon surpass human capabilities in almost all areas—somewhere between 2020 and 2060...Is this alarmism?"

Short answer: Yes.

What is the evidence for this claim, upon which the premise of this article rests? The existence of algorithms that simulate human game play today is hardly it.

The authors have fallen into the trap of accepting the nomenclature of "artificial intelligence" without further questions. There is nothing "artificial" nor "intelligent" about it.

Rather, machine-learning algorithms are trained on a diet of human-derived data that is simply a reflection of existing human biases. The danger is in their human programmers being non-introspective of those biases, not in the algorithms themselves. Thus I personally am much more fearful of human-made decisions than non-human ones.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
A significant portion of any real-world AI system is dedicated to extracting relevant features from raw sensor information. Doing that digitally has proven to have a very high cost rated in both watts and operating temperature.

Most machine learning algorithms are by design resilient to random noise. They can even be learned to be resilient to systematic noise (due to say.. variable hardware performance in mass production).

In those cases; a low power analog device with lower reliability guarantees is 'ok'.

I suspect the "decision engines" (the computation enforcing complex logic based on sensor readings) will probably continue to be on CPU's for some time.
It's funny I have the exact opposite approach to the standard library. Sure some modules like urllib are really bad and I avoid them, but for the rest when the standard library gives me something I use it.

I often find myself going through the standard library documentation and it's a real pleasure to read and discover things that I didn't know were just an import away.

I use the standard json module all the time and I never felt like it was holding me back. I don't write performance critical software so I tend to value the simplicity more than the performance gain.
"how the Republicans' failure to do this proved they were behind the times"

I distinctly remember that. Then there's a fit now among liberals that the Republicans are doing what liberals say they should've been doing. Hell, they're doing it better. Liberals will need to up their game plus have a final candidate that's worth something in next election.
My reading is that the movie was set at JFK in New York, based on real life events which took place at Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
What hardware are you running on?

Also:

> I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery

This is not JS (or Electron) specific.

> I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop maxing out a core

Again, this is not JS (or Electron) specific.

> I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations.

This is not JS (or Electron) specific either.
Cali represents far too much GDP, far too much raw valuable coastline to ever let go. It would be cheaper to kill every last man woman and child in the state, and repopulate it, than it would be to let it secede.

Never mind what Lincoln knew... if one goes, the union will wall.
Thankfully, this treats the subject of revalidation, as opposed to simple caching setups/write-ups which merely set expiry periods for cached resources. Varnish (considered otherwise a competent cache) didn't handle it at all before V4.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34938706/varnish-4-does-n...
This planet perhaps. The divide between rural populations and urban populations have grown so far that people in city hubs feel more kinship toward other major cities around the world than they do toward their rural co-citizens.

Division is a dangerous thing. The us at large might not have a choice.
> And no shared border.

TIL MA and NY do not share a border...
Freedom of press will easily survive an ephemeron like Trump, maybe even come out stronger for the short-term tribulation. He's superficial.

The more insidious statist leaders create deep, subtle, lasting harm. It's the Bushes and Obamas who set up the largest illegal domestic spying operation ever and got away with it because, even when called out, people trusted them not to commit evil acts with the store of data they were collecting. It was Obama who routinely violated journalists rights yet continued to be generally supported by mainstream news outlets.

That genre of politician will be making a comeback after Trump, and that's when people will start feeling comfortable again and go along with anything that promises stability and safety. And I believe that's the environment where the type of manipulation described in this article ("liberal paternalism") can really thrive.
The point is the ADL issued a statement about Ellison and his fitness of leadership for the DNC. Certainly newsworthy, but the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and other news organizations declined to report this vital piece of information.
So what's the best way to multiplex then?
To be honest I think actually direct meritocracy would be beneficial - you build up a page rank as a human being based on your contribution to society and that reflects your ability to vote in the system.

It would essentially remove the career politician and allow people to actually understand things like what their politicians/highest value contributors did rather than now what we have. No-one would ever go for it, but I actually think it'd be great if nurses, doctors, social workers, environmentalists, and yes entrepreneurs who had done well, charity founders, bin men etc. all got more voting rights than me who types into a computer all day for no real societal improvements.

The rich get a disproportionate amount of say anyway, it'd be more even than it is currently.

All public good works would obviously have to be recorded through the system and you might eventually be able to do away with money based upon this. I think it could definitely be worth building and doing away with local government as a starter ;-)
Thanks. How ironic that my question about how to handle "not reading the article" comments could have been resolved if I'd read the article on how to handle mentioning reading the article.

I'm just off to dive into a singularity of self-reference. See you later.
Deploying PyQT (statically, most end users don't have it installed) is a major PITA.
I don't think anyone will move out of cloudflare because of the incident. Like most news these days, there is a lot of noise but very little action.
I think there are several connotations to 'startup' in play here. One connotation is that a 'startup' is the sort of company that is attractive to angel/venture capital another connotation is a 'startup' is more or less any new company.

The first connotation is a bit circular, but it has the feature that startups are companies that might have some plausible avenue to becoming a unicorn. Some sort of new software as a service (SSSAAS) might be a startup under this connotation but a new Chartered Accountancy firm most likely not (even if people in Topeka, Kansas will refer to the new Chartered Accountancy firm as a 'startup').

Angel/Seed/Venture capital doesn't make money by funding SSSAAS startups (in the second connotation) at random. It bets on the SSSAAS's that seem most likely to become unicorns. Angel/Seed/Venture capital looks at staff and track record and the business model: the one that is easiest to change is business model and another name for business model is idea because from the point of view of capital, a SSSAAS isn't a technology it is a business.
It also doesn't fit the real estate agents incentive structure so they don't show the foreclosed homes and thus less competition for purchase and thus lower price.
I wonder whether there will be a cheaper version for developing countries.
The history of American democracy is the rebellion of the marginalized against the grotesque hypocrisy of our stated values, faced as they are with the reality of their social conditions. The only reason we have any freedoms is because the oppressed weaponized the noblesse oblige of a bunch of slave owners to carve it out for themselves.

There is no reading of American history where the press or the judiciary function as some conduit for the immortal "brilliance" or protection of the framers. One needs to only look at recent history, the condition of minorities in modern carceral state, being lied into war in Iraq, to recognize this. Further back, the judiciary was used to justify segregation, eugenics, and mass disenfranchisement. And the history of the press speaks quite bleakly for itself.

This kind of mentality, where individual agency is sacrificed in favor of "mythic" protections, is a big part of the reason things have become so precarious.
Seems like an extreme extrapolation.

I found this page listing Fortune 500 companies that failed from Dec 2000 to Jan 2012:

http://traderhabits.com/86-of-the1955-fortune-500-have-faile...

I don't know how accurate that is, but it lists 24 failures (about 5% of the Fortune 500), of which one company (Hostess) is listed twice, and at least two (American Airlines and GM) are still around.
He who controls the nukes, controls California's destiny.
Is sustainability sold at supermarkets or farmers’ markets?
> Anti-Zionism is often just a proxy for hating jews who live in Israel.

I mean, do you include Israeli settlers within 'jews who live in Israel'?

When people argue that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, and must be a priori excluded, then debate and engagement is impossible. There is a difference between criticizing Jews and criticizing Israel, and erasing that difference necessarily forecloses on conversation.
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It wouldn't continue uninterrupted forever.

Those power exports are paid for in currency denominated by the US dollar.

California is no longer part of the US, remember?

Each of those states would have to negotiate with the new Republic to receive something in equal worth to the power they were delivering.

And if they don't get it, they're not going to give away power for free. Their governments won't let them, their constituents won't let them, their budgets won't let them, and lastly, the FERC won't let them.
They could use their ai to match you with advertised products. You wouldnt need individual data in this case.
Or AMD, which supports ECC across all (most?) CPU lines historically. Again, the argument is about limitations of Intel consumer lines.
your financing can be denied if the house doesn't appraise, depending on your deal with your lender
Defaulting isn't a big deal even to the banks. They can just price it into the product.

What would be interesting though would be credit offerings, cards for instance, that are not dischargable, but with better terms or interest rates.

My concern though is mandating classes of debt as non dischargable by law, banks wont necessarily pass the savings along to the customer, so the laws should allow certain types of debt to be dischargeable but subject to your agreement with the bank. So you get a non dischargeable card at 2 pts less than the normal one.
The article seems to be a good example of why people don't trust the press anymore. Little actual information, but a lot of fear mongering: "billionaire trying to control the world", "data analysts controlling our emotions", the ad ban on Breitbart as a proof that they are evil and antisemitic (rather than showing examples of them being evil and antisemitic), and so on.

Obama already used data science in his campaigns, and Hillary spent more money than Trump afaik. Advertising and user targeting are not new inventions.
Most browsers will still connect if the leaf certificate has certificate authority information access extensions, the browser can use them to download intermediate CAs, and then construct a valid chain back to a trusted root. Does Firefox not do this?
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What would you propose as an alternative?
Yes, I 100% agree. I struggle with this decision constantly on my platform (https://www.tiingo.com). People have called it a "Bloomberg Killer" but I strongly disagree. My goal is not to replace bloomberg.

But one thing I constantly iterated was getting that blend. I also found though, some users didn't use some of the features like keyboard shortcuts. Also the way iterative web design works, is it kind of runs counter to developing keyboard shortcuts. You want to develop quickly, but at the same time keyboard shortcuts need to stay the same alongside a fast UX. If you constantly change things when people prioritize predictability and speed, you run into what Excel did in 2007 when everything changed.

It's a tradeoff and I think there has to be some semblance of stability before you can optimize the UX. I think I'm now at that stage but the current paradigms of iterative development make this difficult to pull off in the short-term.
There's at least one remapping to make it dvorak friendly.
"Contributing to society" is a very broad and ill-defined subject. What I may consider beneficial, others might not see it that way. It is very subjective.
Who picks the ranking algorithm?

What we have now is basically what you propose, except with an ensemble of ranking algorithms based on algorithm selection and execution from the public.

Without a better source of algorithm selection, why would it end up any better?
whoops! You're totally right. I had heard of the name of the USA process before and when looking it up, that was the top result in google.. i should have more closely read it to confirm, but you are totally right. the usa uses a different industrial process cause our wheat is more protein-rich.
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I suppose the idea is that they'll spend the money in th local economy and prosper as a result. The starving man can't do much, but the guy who has more than he needs to survive can participate in the economy not just as a consumer.

Can't say that explains it all but presumably there are other things like that.
Mac and Swift/Obj-C fanboys will always rail against anything that fails their purity tests. Electron certainly has some issues they need to work out, but Electron criticism doesn't need to dominate this comments section to the rate that it is.
Maybe cloudron.io fits the bill. You apps,data are part of your history.
Is it fair to judge a web site by their comments section? I'm sure "The Guardian" or even Hacker News get pretty nasty comments, too.
You could demand censorship, but maybe some people simply are against it.
And no shared border.

Massachusetts borders New York to the east. Or were you thinking California?
I don't see how epub can be pixel-perfect. It's almost as much a markup format, as fb2. Clearly more explanation of how should it be done is in order.
"/rant/ So another hit piece on someone that supports Trump. This is the new left-wing extremist strategy... ie, destroy powerful voices fighting to safeguard our country and improve American lives. "

They haven't safeguarded anything. The last time Republicans were in control of the military-intelligence complex led to wars on false pretenses that killed more Americans and foreigners than 9/11. The cost was hundreds of billions of dollars with estimates of several trillion in long-term liability. Money that could've been spent on education, healthcare, infrastructure improvements, business subsidies... anything with provable benefit to Americans' lives. ISIS formed as a direct result the Iraq war as predicted those of us protesting. They killed even more people. The local surveillance then failed to spot a guy in Boston spewing out hate speech online and visiting red flag countries... the ideal case for mass surveillance.

So, conservative policies previously led to the murder of thousands of Americans, maiming of thousands more, more terrorists in Middle East, tons of tax dollars lost w/ no gain to average voter, and some defense CEO's getting richer. That's not safeguarding our country. That's an active threat to it. It will be interesting to see whether history repeats given the new Republican President is quite different from priors. More like a knockoff of Silvia Berlusconi in Italy given all the campaign stunts/claims on top of corrupt, business dealings.
I think it's a bit more forgivable if they did it in response to this message. A good blend of cheeky and poking with a stick.
Value just isn't one dimensional like that.

One man's junk is another man's treasure!
Whether it's good or not Cal would instantly get a civil war with the Jefferson people unless the exit agreement included allowing a State of Jefferson to replace Cal.
What "antics" - using data to advertise?