skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you need to tax corporate profits because that's where the money is.

besides they seem to be doing ok with the tax rates their at.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/corporate-prof...

Corp profits $1611.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016

6% of companies make 50% of U.S. profit

Personal income increased to about 16.01 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016

Household Saving Rate in the United States increased to 5.90 percent in March from 5.60 percent in February of 2017

which leaves about 890 billion people aren't spending.
> I had my 2013 Nexus 5 until it died, even after that one software update killed performance with no change in features.

I was in your same boat. I will only use the Google Android phones, and even they had random issues. Got an iPhone 7 plus and for the most part it just works. I do keep my software phone agnostic so I could switch back, so we'll see what the iPhone 8/next Pixel bring.
Interesting. Will be in touch, thanks.
I keep a log/todo list at work. They stretch back years. Its more bullet points than a journal.

I started after a manager kept claiming they had asked for something, or getting me to revert things they had asked for but claiming they never asked for that. Back then it was my word against theirs.

If I am asked to do something, the first thing I do is write it down and who its for.

My work is now free of other peoples bad memories and recollections. I am the go to person to settle disputes and provide reasoning for decision making.
How can you utilize it? It's not "front end" per se, but you can use it to build recommendation systems and predictive models for users. Basically, anytime you need or want to make a decision involving some amount of uncertainty.
Yeah, while Google, Apple and formerly Motorola refuse to properly sell their phones we are enjoying hundreds of Chinese and Korean models, some of them even better than those phones from Default Country. Apple can bruteforce by brand image even through unofficial resellers but Google can't and don't want apparently.
For a recent example of this see "Red Pill", a documentary about the Men's Rights movement.

They were backed via Kickstarter and promised backers a "pre-release" download. Because they wanted to be eligible for an Academy Award nomination they ended up releasing the movie in LA (and New York I think?) for the minimum run necessary and then waited another couple of months for the official release as digital download.

Because of the Academy Award rules they held back the "pre-release" downloads until just before the release of the digital download version. They angered a lot of backers by saying it was still technically a pre-release because the digital download hadn't been available yet although the film had already been in cinemas and available for private screenings for months at that point.

It's a good example for bad communication. Especially when upset backers were basically told the "pre-release" would happen at the last possible moment to combat file sharing, but that's another tangent.
That's a very heterogeneous group you are addressing. Why are you grouping by a binary gender? What is it you think individuals in this group have in common?
My first SE Daily interview was with one of the co-founders of mymookh.com. Kenya is definitely a leading nation in the mobile payments space.
"The unwritten story of the Juicero debacle is that high income inequality causes capital to be misallocated towards luxury production."

- Matt Bruenig, with a better take. That, if you look a little closer, also applies to Uber/etc's "sharing servant economy", and even Tesla's "trickle-down environmentalism".
And even then only because _they_ agreed to it for the particular instance. You can't define a standard that uses tech described in your competitors patents and then force them to license those.
why not? it's free, i use it as secondary bank account, though i would not trust them with large amounts of money, but except the trust problem i don't see any problems and their transparent MasterCard had amazing design for people in IT
Regarding CSS:

- I still need prefixes for old funky phones

- I like or actually need SCSS (try changing the action color across a huge project without it or try overriding some CSS framework defaults).
Yeah well :) Billion dollar projects like the NBN are like these huge huge conquests for the big corporates involved. It's hard for startups to compete with all the resources, salesmanship, box seats at the footy and other wining and dining that goes on behind the scenes to win the bid. All up, I'm relatively happy with the experience, we built and pitched a high quality product, built it very fast, and got out fast. As fails go, I'm very happy overall with how it was executed. The bet had a very nice risk / reward ratio had we been successful.
Since this is a sample with n=1, that doesn't mean there is not significant effects in certain population of people.
I don't know. What's the difference between a movie produced by a Hollywood studio and a movie produced by you and your buddies on a shoestring budget?
> Then, when it turns out that it's wrong that is the point where people don't trust "science", and quite rightly so IMO. The story now is "science was wrong" whilst in fact it was the scientist who refused to keep to the limits of what science can offer with regards to certainty that were wrong.

Actually, in most cases it isn't the scientists themselves, it is the PR department, or the journalists that are simply looking for a story
Maybe it's a stretch but anything Elon could be seen as an off shoot of the successes of SV. He started and sold Zip2 and PayPal there. He used the money from those ventures to start SpaceX and invest in Tesla. Also iirc much of the capital for these ventures comes from SV players.
Many key fobs now (to my limited knowledge ) use an expanding one time use "code "essentially so once that transmission has been made, the same transmission won't unlock the car a second time. (On new vehicles at least )
As a fellow Frenchman I agree. Now don't get me wrong, I am for high taxes, high social safety nets, public universities, public healthcare, and even public maintenance of the arts. I am also for public money helping promote French culture and language. But the way French cinema is incentivised is a scam on the public, it just contributes to old dinosaurs putting out garbage movies to put money in the pocket of the same big name French actors, and taking a cut in the process to fill their own pockets. I would prefer that that money was put up in the form of investment for independent filmmakers, or just diverted towards our crumbling universities.
Satire would suggest humour? Like you I've read all sorts of discussion of the cartoon, not once have I heard it described as funny. Perhaps I'm reading the wrong articles. What is satire that is not funny, crap satire?

I was familiar with the affairs of the week, I just didn't read the precision of the OP because I don't think the cartoon was clever. As noted, I thought it was deliberately provocative, outrageous, and deeply, deeply racist.

I find the Australian commentariat interesting:

> So I guess the cartoon was a failure; it used racist, racial stereotypes and no positive outcome came from it.

We agree, the cartoon is racist. So why all the circumlocution around the central point? Is it because it raises uncomfortable questions about Australian culture? Is it really appropriate for your Prime Minister to, of his own volition, choose to exalt a cartoon that includes racist, racial stereotypes?

I expect the OP is a reasonable person, and I suspect I won't ever receive a response to "How would you make that cartoon racist?", because literally every ham-fisted racist trope has already been applied. There's nothing subtle about it.

I'll posit this. That cartoon would never have been printed in The Times of London, The New York Times, or The New Zealand Herald. If it had been we wouldn't collectively expend one iota of the discussion required in Australia to ascertain that, yes, it is racist. It's not really a question that requires much inspection, but here we are.

I'll accept our British, Kiwi, and American friends if they choose to contradict me on that.

And yes, the NBN is a disaster. We're in agreement again.
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How frustrating given that the rest of us have no hope of trying anything like this.
A language agnostic approach to synonym generation
The car locks usually operate on a rolling code system, where each code is only used once. By jamming the signal, you record it but don't let the car receive it, so you have one code. Then, when the remote gets pressed again, you record the second code and send the first. So, you're always one code ahead, and you can use that single code to open the car once.

AFAIK, if you let the car read a code straight from the remote, it will sync forward again, making all your stored codes invalid.
ShotSpotter IPO suggests there’s not much profit in urban surveillance
keybox, quite handy.

http://sshkeybox.com/
I'm happy to chat with people who have a deeper understanding of Lebanon. My Middle East show was more of a general overview of the region. I'm hoping to dig deeper into some of the stories I've come across. Do you have Twitter?
The average P/E ratio right now of the S&P 500 is around 25, which, historically, is on the high side: http://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ear...

Amazon's P/E ratio right now is 178, which historically, is quite low for them: https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/pe_ratio, since it often is in the 500-1000 range.

So I don't think the P/E ratio is good evidence that stockholders value long-term planning, since the best example of a company whose stockholders do value long-term planning has a P/E ratio is 7x higher—and has been above 50x higher—than the S&P 500 average.
(Perhaps) people similarly asked about personal computer kit by Steve Wozniak back in 1976: How is this better than a computer we have in that cooled back room in our company?

The benefit of this motor is the possibility of customization without steep price ... that our particular time allows to do it now. If you need a motor with a particular characteristics and it is already produced, go buy it. If not - here you go.
Australia, mid price private school in the country. I was blown away to have never had it expressed during school after learning it.
Does anyone know a good alternative for HDSDR for Linux?
> also look up the 1965 boycott of california grapes (and in general the worker's strike and organizing efforts by cesar chavez and dolores huerta).

On the other hand, not all of Chavez's boycotts were successful. That includes his final effort, a hunger strike which ultimately killed him (aside from his own death, it was not a particularly successful boycott otherwise either).
Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
>that would be better spent elsewhere

If we want to be cold about it, taking advantage of dumb money is how you re-allocate that capital to smarter people. It's low effort and an efficient want to get your own capital so you can make your own decisions and take your own risks.

The alternative is proving who is smart and will be a good use of time, money, people, and materials and simply giving them the capital in the first place.

(P.S. I'd happily take millions to launch an idea I've been working on. My thing is clearly more useful than a wifi juicer)
Up in Hull they went FTTP instead FTTC, I can have gig internet at home, they finally did something right, its not cheap but it's not expensive for what it is either.
SpatialOS is nice tech, and can help people who don't have distributed systems engineering experience.

However a couple distributed systems engineers, dev ops, and games engineers could build something similar.

It's not that hard for a team like that to replicate it from what I've seen of the documentation on how to use it.

It's defiantly worth something, but for 500 million? You could literally phone up game industry legends and get them build something amazing for that.
It seems one small approach in the right direction would be for someone+ to provide a discovery/marketing service for helping spotlight, bring to the forefront those working on the infrastructure-type projects. Thinking more along the lines of a podcast, blog, etc. that would generate revenue from sponsors. Akin to Changelog or other podcasts, but specifically focused on the behind-the-scenes/infrastructure/maintaince type stuff - the "backstory" if you will. Folks could donate to this service and funds could be funneled to the highlighted projects/developers.

The "marketing service" angle would be to provide free marketing to these types of projects. Inviting folks as guests, writing about projects, etc.

It does solve the overall problem for everyone, but it would be going in the general right direction. There may be efforts like this already, but I am not aware of them.

+ I do not have the time it would take to do this well.
Thanks for the info. That Myanmar angle is intriguing. What is the best way to reach you for a quick chat?
I don't think it's at all out of context with the functioning of contemporary Capitalism, especially in the United States. The film and tv industry in the US are used incessantly to manufacture desires and new forms of consumption, even setting aside product placements. Critics of Capitalism have observed this since the 1950s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
Not to undermine the effort, but $50K doesn't qualify as war by any measure. A war-like outcome would be seeking to bankrupt the troll or at least severely constraint its ability to abuse the legal system in the future.
Dropbox and 1Password. It's, uh, not great.
You are totally right. Thank you for the feedback!
Having "PassengerId" as the most important feature seems like a bad sign. Is this historical data, like an id assigned at boarding, or is it a synthetic id assigned to records potentially in some non-random order?
The parent is just building a straw-man. There are multiple reasons for the protection of cultural products.

One is that a country should have a lively cultural scene to be interesting to live in. If you lived in a city with a large cultural scene and another one without, you probably see the point.

Another is that a country's culture is a component of its soft power. Not having a lively culture is seen as being culturally under foreign domination.
The officially known story is that pipes originated with Douglas McIlroy and they were implemented under that name in Unix by Thomson.
Why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will never be the same again?
Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
Seems that deregulation is sorely needed here. Car dealerships are working with the same enthusiasm as the DMV.
I ran into a CloudFlare DDoS protection screen and had to enable JS.

The irony is real.
it depends if you want to be a data engineer (lots of need for that), software engineer that developers code for data scientists (Software Engineer: Machine Learner - also lots of demand), or a data scientist.

the latter, 'might' be a challenge. I started looking into linkedin profiles of data scientists of top tech companies after I realized there were more wharton mba's as data scientists than there where people who mastered in CIS in my program.

So far, 50% had a masters/phd in statistics, 25% Information / Data Science, 25% business background. However, I am still looking into it as my sample is small and I have selection bias in my sampling.
Thanks for this. I love hearing about tech in places such as this.
That's precisely what SV has become - an engine for innovation, rather than a set geographic area. About 6-7 years ago people started referring to San Fransisco as, "Silicon Valley," which, geographically is not true, but it has become accepted because people know that both areas follow a particular brand of innovation. The culture and ways of creating certain types of business models which may have originated largely in Silicon Valley have spread to other areas, much as the London-based capitalist thinking of the 1600s-1700s has now spread across the globe, or the Dongguan-based capitalist legal structure has spread across China since the 1980s.

The term, "Silicon Valley," doesn't even make sense anymore as there are no longer any silicon fabs left in Silicon Valley. When you have all sorts of cities and places around the US saying, "We'll we're the silicon valley of X," or "We're Silicon Prairie." What they are literally saying is, "we're going to start up a bunch of silicon fabs in this region," but what they are actually saying is, "we aspire to be super innovative and follow this particular brand of ethos and culture."

Technological capability tends to be spread out over the world, and teams tend to work remotely. The author of this article is not even based in Silicon Valley, he claims to be based in the midwest. I am not based in Silicon Valley but I work with people from there all the time. I also work with people in Denver, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Chicago, etc., who are interested in this innovative industry. Wrapping ones identity up in a particular city-based geographic region to an excessive degree is almost as bad as being an outright nationalist. This city-nationalist way thinking prevents the free flow of ideas.

When people attack Silicon Valley in the news or blogs, they are creating a thesis against the idea of software and internet-based business models as a whole, rather than a geographic region.
Ansible has a featur called Vault that encrypts whatever you tell it to with a password. You can then upload that to version control, and when you want to deploy, you just pass the password to Ansible (either via a file or any environment variable, ideally).

I'm using it to migrate us over from keeping our SSL cert in Dropbox and 1Password and it works well.
Docker on windows seems to be a little bit complex.

There's Docker for windows which allows for linux docker containers to be run on windows, using Hyper-V.

Then there's Windows Container Services which allows for Windows Docker containers. Those can either be run on the host kernel or they can be isolated in a Hyper-V layer.
You may be underestimating how bad Windows Search is - finding files by name is something it is inordinately slow at, and Everything is a good solution.
You can get a smartphone in the US for 20USD I can only imagine that number is lower in Africa.

In support of your point.
Enjoy writing your database tests – good practices
Starting and self-funding a software business in Eastern Europe at the age of 23
Yeah few more contributions to GPL projects from companies or/and removing GPL code base from some products using GPL without contibuting back.
"GNL GPU", must be Nvidia's new line of graphics cards.
Somewhat, Docker for Windows (in Linux mode) creates a MobyLinux VM in Hyper-V. MobyLinux then does all the container magic.
I think this is in addition to actual lawyering - it's an extra "public research" budget of sort, open to everyone, in the hope that people can help them amass bits of info to form an unstoppable wave of prior art.
Wow, man, awesome story, man. I wish I could be like you one day !!!!
If Uber suffered hard enough, do you think VC money might shift or otherwise move into Lyft? Even if all of Uber's VC money vaporized? Billionaires gotta make a living too.
Hate to be that guy, but you missed Step 0: Read The Fine Installation Instructions.

Also, the default console shell has gotten a ton of improvements.
Generate the documents in LaTeX?
This isn't proof of a plan, life does anything to live and reproduce because life without those qualities would not be sustainable. Those traits could be accidental though. The plan also isn't consistent when you step back, everything from planets to the universe do not seem to be following this plan.
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Surely getting people to refer to their vector lanes as "cores" was their biggest piece of marketing magic. Yes, they're more flexible than SIMD cores but not more so than an OoO core's execution ports.
Spain here, can confirm. Some producers even fake the mandatory movie screening that they need to keep the tax-funded grant. Even the freaking former president of the Spanish Cinema Academy is facing jail time over this: http://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2017-03-02/la-fiscalia...
Book is released on May 15.
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When did you last visit?
Expo is cool
while an important step, the last line of the article makes it clear it is still pretty early in this process.
In our new stuff at aws we are storing public SSH keys in IAM and using a slightly modified version of https://github.com/widdix/aws-ec2-ssh to authenticate / synchronise users. So far it looks like it ticks all boxes for us.
A touching story, I really hope you guys make it!
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May I talk to you to know about how can I find such opportunitiy?
I am looking to move to London, and want to evaluate my options.
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Cool story bruh
So this might just be me, but it doesn't seem creepy at all. Detecting a particular audio signal seems much less creepy than running facial analysis on everyone who walks by (https://www.facefirst.com/industry/retail-face-recognition/)

If they were recording all audio everywhere, hey, that's creepy. But it doesn't seem like that's what they're doing.
> I recoil at the possibility that some developer 5 years from now might ask me "Why bother installing your own linux distribution? You can just get Windows Go 15 and run Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE from inside there. Don't forget to disable the ads and tracking that come standard".

"I mean, the privacy is shit, but you can sort of deal with it. But at least you don't have to dance the Ritual Dance of PulseAudio if you need to do MIDI (or get as much as a hiss out of your speakers), suspending your computer doesn't garble your desktop background or desktop icon labels, you can update Windows Go 16 and it'll work after you reboot..."

I don't like Microsoft any more than I like any company of its size, but they're making a compelling case, while the Linux "community" is busy supporting cloud, IVI, and IoT vaporware.

Edit: ten years ago I was certain they were going to pry Debian and OpenBSD from my cold, dead hands. But Windows, for all its privacy compromises, is working better and better, whereas Linux desktops are getting worse (and less portable), with a never-fulfilling promise that it's going to get a lot better when they finally get stable, this massive rewrite that we started like six years ago is just about done...

Edit edit: I know my comment looks overly negative and I seem grumpy but really, I'm not, I like Linux, I make a living out of writing Linux software and I've used it one way or another for almost twenty years. That being said:

1. Please stop recommending me that I use something more user friendly, like Mint or Ubuntu. "You can update to Windows Go 16 and it'll work after you reboot" was a joke about Ubuntu.

2. This "I got this new machine and it works flawlessly out of the box, Linux is great if you get good hardware" is the wrong mentality if you're not Apple. Every operating system, including TempleOS, runs flawlessly out of the box on some hardware. It's getting it to run flawlessly on hardware other than the developers' machines that's complicated. Go ahead, grab ten high-end laptops at random and see how well plugging and unplugging your monitor works, even on systems that are officially supported. How do you think I ended up knowing xrandr's command line options better than I know tar's?

Not being able to care for my Linux box is not my problem, my problem is that I don't want to care for my Linux box. I babysit Linux at least eight hours a day at work. I don't want to have to do it at home, too.