skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The capitalist receives some of the fruit of other's labor

No, the capitalist actually receives all of it; the products of labour are re-appropriated at the end of production. The capitalist then pays wage, which is equal to the amount required to sustain the worker, i.e what is required to reproduce his labour-power commodity.

> And if the capitalist doesn't get paid, then he/she has no incentive to risk the capital in order to buy tools so the workers can be more productive.

I agree, though I can't see why the workers cannot band together and buy tools and capital themselves. Also, tools aren't purchased so that the workers can be more productive, they are purchased in order to increase profit, which may come at the expense of workers.

> And then we're in a world where all that really counts is the labor invested in a product, but it's not a better world.

Marx was not arguing that the world should be like this, though. It's important to note that according to his law of value, it's only socially necessary labour which counts, a manufacturer can thus increase the value of one hour taken to make his product relative to others by purchasing machinery that gets the job done faster.

> Workers using that tool create more value than would be created by the same workers without that tool.

No, the value is merely transferred from the tool to the product, no extra value is created simply by employing the tool. The products may end up with more value, or the same value.

> And some goes to the capitalist who puts up the money to buy the tool.

The surplus doesn't go to the capitalist to buy the tool; in fact, the tool is purchased prior to the good being sold. The capitalist may re-invest surplus into buying more tools, though.

> But the capitalist is also enabling the labors of others.

No, the others could labour and even purchase the tools themselves, without the capitalist. In a Communist society, this is how it would function. A property owner is not required for the process of producing useful things.

Surplus value, according to Marx, does not come out of using tools, it only comes out of the disparity between the value created by the use-value of labour power and the exchange value of labour power. The capitalist in the long run would in fact extract less surplus value with the more automation he employs, because variable capital produces the value whereas constant capital (tools etc.) can only be purchased, and they are worn down according to the value they add. Their maintenance however requires more labour, and that labour the capitalist can profit from.
This is a terrible attitude to have. Basically what your suggesting is that the government should be all powerful and then dole out rights to people as it sees fit. This is a completely unacceptable way for a free society to function.
> You could pay for Google apps for work and don't have your data indexed.

Google still virus scans and allows searching on Apps. It's plenty indexed, even if they're not showing you ads.
Ah nice thanks, tho I assume Apple will never let us set it as the default (home button shortcut) ...
How would that work?

I believe you can still get caught with such systems, because if somebody can download from your machine, that somebody could just as well be a government agent.

Unless it uses something like Tor, but in that case it could become illegal to run exit nodes. The person running the exit node could legally be considered an accomplice.
There was a great article in the WSJ about quant "factors"

>A former student of Mr. Fama, Cliff Asness, founder of quantitative hedge-fund manager AQR Capital Management, said he tries to avoid being caught out by false findings by trading on anomalies he can explain, economically or through investor behavior. To assess whether the market anomalies will continue, he looks for ones which carried on after being identified, can be seen in other markets or asset classes, and where minor changes to how they are defined don’t much affect the result. These include most famously value, momentum and corporate quality, among others.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-algorithm-an-etf-and-an-acad...
I believe there are supposed to be two keynotes this year? Product announcement and then a developer one right afterwards.
I've decided to trust Google with my personal email, and that may be what it is. But for those who don't, I suspect the difference between "having" and "indexing for ad purposes" (the data is certainly indexed for search) is pretty irrelevant.
And before you get your hopes up, it's IOS only =(
Google Adds Smart Reply to Gmail for iOS, Android – Network World
Google Cast is finally fixing its control issues – The Verge
If your mom overseas has the password, you do have the ability to comply. Ask you mom for the password. She gives it to you. You comply.

Here's another example that might make this more clear. Let's say I embezzle a million dollars from my employer, and they sue me to get it back. (Let's just pretend that I avoid criminal charges for simplicity.) When they win and I tell them, "I can't comply, I gave it to my cousin in France to hold on to," what do you think the judge does? I'll tell you what the judge does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick (This only applies to the U.S.. I suppose in the U.K. you would do two years and then be released.)
I wonder if psychopathy has anything to do with the phenomenon of "cute aggression", and being unable to restrain yourself from urges that everyone has.
Vox is not your friend, and Polygon is not healthy for gaming.
> So for now my approach is to sidestep the issue and refer to all trans people with "they".

I do the same, but also for cis people. It makes life simpler.
I was the PM on this, happy to answer any easy questions.
A New Kind of Science: A 15-year Review
Considering how mentally unstable he sounds, we should.
Doesn't? It's already a much bigger problem than Windows XP. There are billions of Android devices shipped each year, and a miniscule proportion get updates. Even the best devices for updates only get them for a couple of years.

If this isn't a disaster bigger than Windows XP, it'll only be because most of the devices end up in landfill.
That's incredibly easier said than done, especially from a cozy armchair. Have you not heard of Stockholm syndrome? Situations like this are not so cut and dry.
Does anybody know if the FPGA accelerated NIC uses a different driver on the guest VM, or just the standard hyperv net driver?

If it uses the standard hyperv driver, can a guest be migrated live between accelerated and unaccelerated hosts?
I seem to remember nappy (diaper) changes were easy to predict, they were usually proceeded by a bright red face.
Even without the zero-day it would have spread to whatever NAS was used and eventually encrypt and possibly spread - though just not as quickly.

So, it would have been game over anyway. The main advantage of a quick attack is likely that if you opt to pay to decrypt you have more infected computers (and sure, laptops - but these details are not exactly game-changing).
Show HN: 3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool
Nope.

The quality of free content is quite good, and general the bias of that content is more apparent.
Sure, but is the same true for the Philippines or Thailand?
The original comment by RcouF1uZ4gsC didn't characterize conservative views or conservative ideology on this issue; they characterized what many people believed.

Empirically, this is true.

If those many people are wrong on net neutrality because they do not understand the issues, why is it that HN commenters are the biased and unthinking ones?
You can usually have them turn off the ability to overdraw.
Building products
Google Assistant is about to be everywhere
Developer here, would love to get some feedback and answer any questions you might have.
The app is available on iOS, Android and Web (https://3dc.io/download).
There is also a gallery of user built content (https://3dc.io/gallery).
We should enable a culture where people are free to make that decision for themselves. California and several other US states allow for this - not sure about internationally.

I wouldn't want to live on life support. I'd rather my wife/kids get a nice (well managed) trust fund for the remaining savings and just go in peace early.
It's a really good example of what happens when you don't have a good editor (or don't let them do their work).

It contains an interesting overview of some of the ideas and work done in cellular automata, made significantly worse by the authors seemingly pathological need to lay claim to work that was not his, and inflate the importance of work that was. It's entirely reasonable to decide you can't get past the tone and sheer tonnage of blather to dig for the good stuff hidden inside. As you note, it's also not very rigorous (and sometimes worse) but that's mostly forgivable in a lay text like this, and would be entirely addressed if it had a good set of citations.

It's interesting to contrast this with another book that came out around the same time, Stephen J. Gould's "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory". They are of similar size and scope, but Gould does a much better job of presenting some of his own ideas in the larger context, and giving both credit and useful pointers into that context.

As far as ANKS goes, I've always thought that there was probably a very nice 250 page book hidden inside it. It's just well hidden.
No one has a real air force or a real navy except USA. Well some have, but 10% of the size and much poorer trained as well.

Haha, read this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
A Bayesian mindset. When investigating a signal you have to ask: Is it too good to be true? Does it make economic sense?

Then simulate rolling optimisation and trading to see what returns could have been achieved with knowledge only available at the time.
Google Photos "shared libraries" looks awesome!
> It's not crazy to predict a pretty vicious feedback loop where at 15-25% EV car usage that gas stations start closing...

OK.

> ... more EV cars are sold so further gas stations close...

Not so fast. For this to be a feedback loop, the first set of gas stations closing needs to cause more EV cars to be sold (presumably because it's less convenient to buy gas). But if 15-25% of the gas stations closed, that might mean that there are 8 instead of 10 within a 2 mile radius around my house. That's not going to be the tipping factor in making me decide to buy an EV.
Ask HN: Google Cloud vs. AWS for small teams 2017
Some background:

I'm currently looking at moving a Django app into either Google Cloud App Engine Flexible Environment or AWS probably using something like ElasticBeanstalk. We have a small team of developers with no real DevOps people to speak of and no time to get anyone real training.

We've been successful with Heroku but the pricing is becoming a problem. In AWS, we've kept to their managed services (S3, SQS, etc) and they've been good. Concern is taking on too much DevOps type tasks with EC2/Beanstalk such as OS patching, etc.

Are we good with using Google App Engine Flexible Environment? From my understanding its out of beta for Python 3 and the OS is managed. The more managed approach is favourable to us due to limited team members time.

Or should we go with AWS (having to seemingly take on more team load)?

Any feedback would be great.
> Stephen Wolfram's ego-trip of a book

Ego-trip indeed. There's little I find more gag inducing than someone discussing their own writing as if it's elevated cannon apart from themselves.

> But with every passing year I feel I understand more about what the book is really about — and why it’s important.

You don't say Mr. Wolfram
All fish in this Banff lake will be removed and killed due to whirling disease
FastMail is faster than Gmail for me. Where are you located?
Prior to that you had feudalism where you farmed land and shared the spoils with a king, prior to that we simply murdered the unproductive and socially unacceptable by removing them from the village. So far this seems like the best option.
Yeah, I see a lot of VPN services advertising "lifetime membership" for like $30 on StackSocial. I'll pay more than that for a 1 year membership somewhere else just because I anticipate it still existing 6 months from now.
This seems right, except that Microsoft has clearly developed a higher level language than VHDL / Verilog for writing "virtualized network functions" that compiles down to something they can flash onto an FPGA (they call it Flow Tables in the presentation). So there's a higher level language that's, presumably, more intuitive for "normal" engineers to work with. When a new FPGA comes out the compiler is re-written and high level code stays the same. Basically the same thing we do with CPUs. So they're not _inherently_ hard to program.

SDN is common, and definitely a scenario where FPGAs outperform GPUs. Same for machine learning. (FWIW, Google uses ASICs for both of these use cases.) What we need is a high level language and access to FPGAs. I've been interested in business opportunities in this area, but it's hard to monetize. What's somewhat surprising is that the language bit hasn't been solved in the open source world either. My suspicion is that the reason an open source language like Flow Tables doesn't exist (AFAIK) is that there's not widespread access to FPGAs.
Yeah this really seems to gloss over how, I at least, treated Steam the same way I did all the others until it actually started to make things easier for me. I had it installed so I could play HL2 and really didn't start using it every day until like 4 years later. The problem with the other platforms are that they haven't made that turn for me yet. GoG is getting there but even that I only have because I got my Witcher 3 install key from them.
That's a great idea, but it's kind of wordy. Maybe something short and pithy like "Hacker News" would work?
Show HN: Docker Secrets in action: GitHub integration
Brands jumping in on drone racing for promo opportunities
Google Photos gets smarter about sharing, can make books – May. 17, 2017
> Valve themselves eagerly trumpeted that they had paid more than $57 million to Steam Workshop creators over four years — an enormously impressive figure until you realize that it's only 25 percent of the sale price, which means Valve just made $171 million profit from ... setting up an online form where you can submit finished 3D models.

Yeah, come on, you guys! They barely did any of the work! They just set up a form! How dare they expect to be compensated for that? It's not like there's a huge infrastructure powering all of that, that not only required an initial investment of money, time and brainpower, but also requires ongoing maintenance!

The article does raise some good points, but the overall raise-the-pitchforks tone makes it seem less credible - especially when most of the complaints seem to be that Valve is running a profitable business while delivering value to customers. The author forgot what installing and playing games was like before Steam - better write down those CD keys somewhere safe, or never lose the cases - or the CDs themselves. (Or, god forbid, keep the manual around forever so you can refer to line 5 on page 17, and type in the third, seventh and eight word.)

And one of the reasons people hated EA was because EA abused its employees and developers, not because they had a shitty game client; if you want to compare someone to Uber/Lyft/AirBNB, they are a much closer candidate.
Google simply does not do this. They are very transparent about their security and privacy policies and I encourage you to read through the policies. Google uses the data internally to improve your experience - they are not in the business of selling your data to third parties.
If you say so, then by definition that's the way it is.

I cannot help but notice, though, that apparently all subthreads critical of Manning and/or commenting on the gender thing have been not only heavily downvoted but marked as 'flagged', while some fairly vitriolic ones in Manning's favor have not.

Not trying to be polemical, and not out to kindle further unproductive discussion, but I would be interested to see the unofficial political guidelines of HN moderation spelled out a bit more explicitly.
Honestly, as someone who has been playing around with/working with AI in some form (previously bayes nets etc...) since the 90s and trying since 2012 to build our computer vision company - every keynote from AFGAM makes me want to give up a little more each time.

It's like even with a world class AI team the majors just blow past everyone with their on demand scale, access to data, hardware, people and distribution.

In the past three weeks the products that were shown at conferences (GTC, Build, I/O) would have been 100 different independent companies, with very highly trained, specialized PhD level researchers and developers only 5 years ago. Now this stuff is just baked in to the top platforms.

This has been happening for a while, and I've been saying it for a while too. No clue where to go from here honestly.

edit: The point I didn't make here but is subtext is that, IMO ML/AI is the last frontier for technology (an IMO humanity) so if a few dominate it, its kind of game over for the existence of smaller players generally.
Was there anything damaging revealed about her? I don't remember anything.
I learned about IPFS the other day and it seems like an interesting alternative. Although I don't believe that bandwidth can be shared among nodes (seeding).
That's not related at all. A human can drive an electric car.
The demos always get a bit excessive. I'm no journalist, but I'd be way happier if they just told us what they added and moved on.
Torrenting aside, this is the second large movie forum to shut down this year (IMDb closed its message boards in February).

For ExtraTorrent Forum users searching for a new home, check out https://MovieChat.org
I think its a generational thing. Im 26 years old. Portability is extremely valuable to me, I use different operating systems constantly. Older devs may see portability as being less important if they spent most of their working lives in one environment. That being said, im still trying to learn, so there are valid points to take away from on both sides of the issue.
That's not entirely true, there are plenty of CI positions with the enlisted ranks within all branches of service. Many of the enlisted service members are also billeted within other government agencies (NSA, CIA, etc) where there titles are considered "Agent" roles. This would also include job roles with the "operator" designation, which are not solely SOF based.
Looks like Google is trying marketing spin to make what it does sound less evil.
Lying and full transparency are rarely your only options.
I know it's just par for the course, but I always get annoyed how peppy and fake these keynotes are. When they go with this kind of faux-personal style where they're staging calls to their mother on stage, etc. It actually comes across as the opposite of personal and just seems really rehearsed and distracting. I'm actually not sure who they're speaking to exactly when they go with this approach as I feel like most other people would have the same reaction as me. But I guess I don't know that for sure.
I'm so glad to see the mention of "app" directories here. I've only dabbled in Django development, but I've always thought the desire to divide things into apps didn't really make any sense. It felt like the developers of Django had said "well, intuitively, there must be some unit of reuse at this level" and then stuck the notion of apps in there in an attempt to provide that reuse.

This seems to me to be somewhat unpythonic, unnecessary complexity introduced right from the start - why not make the reuse optional?. The file system layout becomes confusing as a result. More generally, I would expect that the most minimal Django site would be a single file, that would seem most Pythonic, but it isn't designed like that. Django doesn't "feel" like most Python projects do.

I've always assumed this must be because I'm a total noob/idiot when it comes to real-world development, and that projects like Django must be doing things right and I just don't get it (although it remains entirely possible that this is the case).

It's heartening, however, to see I'm at least not _entirely_ wrong for having a gut unease about this, and it makes me wonder how on earth I can judge whether it's me or a given framework/language in the general case.

Do I have reverse Dunning–Kruger? Or did I just guess right in this case? I have no idea.
Quite the opposite, most people joke (but seriously) that we lose our wallets during steam sales. We just willingly give them all of your money.
That last paragraph is funny as hell, and I get what you're saying. I guess I'm just more pessimistic about anyone solving the problems of the language barrier and remote work soon - as with ML, once we truly have global, language-agnostic communication and physicality is irrelevant the world will be a very different place.

I guess my overarching point here is that global economics is one of the more dizzyingly complex things you can choose to worry about so I tend not to.
It's happening: Google's AI is building more AIs
It's been legal in California for a year [1], though I'm not sure if your grandfather would have qualified (would his condition be considered terminally ill?).

Regardless, this is the way we should allow it. Eating up the savings of the dying seems particularly ghoulish when the wishes of the afflicted and their family are not respected.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/10/46997075...
Google might not show you ads, but they still index your emails for recommendations in Music, YouTube, etc.

There might be exceptions for university students and the like.
Because the requirements to do it well makes it costly, which in turn makes it a gimmick.
The comment is a fun poke. Please don't take it literally! NVidia's new Volta GPU has Tensor cores that I think are very similar to what was in first generation TPU. I read the TPU papers and blogs published recently and I am seriously impressed by TPUs!
GCP sells support as a separate product. If you're a hobbyist, then that's great, as you can keep your costs lower.

If you're a business, there's no excuse not to pay Google for support. It's $150/mo; significantly higher than the $25/mo infrastructure bill the OP was discussing, but not unreasonable if you want to have a chance of guaranteeing QoS to your customers.

https://cloud.google.com/support/#comparison
Just be careful not to take nudes while your kids photos sit in a frame behind you. Auto send to mom.
San Francisco Declares War on Food Delivery Robots
It was more the hype behind Java (to a lesser extent, earlier, Lisp) that made memory safety a particularly hot topic/dispute among language evangelists. Although Rust* has made it still more common.

*Also, though I now contradict myself because they preceded Java, the inspirations for Rust's more formal/statically-checked memory model: C++'s RAII and STL.
Keep in mind you're watching a marketing demo.
>Not saying the US presidents are innocent by any means, but as far as I know they haven't been suspected of killing American journalists

Was the US bombing of Al Jazeera's office better because the journalists killed didn't have American passports?
Scaling Git at Microsoft
Yeah, there's a different driver in the VM needed
Your way to brand Legacy
Two passwords, one wipes the device the other unlocks.
2 Billion? I'm ignorant on the topic, but maybe the route they are investigating is potentially cheaper?
Steam fills a need and does it well. I have zero issues with it.
That rarely happens. In that case the incentive is actually to stay on, let your co-founders drive the value, and pocket the equity/$ for it. Easy money. Takes a rare breed to self-sacrifice for the good of the company.

It's more likely what annovikov said, the one leaving has serious doubts about the strategy but got out-voted.