skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was amazing in the Batman:TAS episode Beware the Grey Ghost. That voice is just so distinctive and rich.
Funny you should say that. Austin attempted to do this but the Uber and Lyft lobbyists were able to prop up legislation at the state level. Hard to see that happening with a local taxi co.
Yes, one of the links is from DeepMind: "A simple neural network module for relational reasoning" https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01427

Another one is from Thomas Kipf: "Graph Convolutional Matrix Completion" https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02263
> Calling the local tower/airport as a hobbyist is a bad idea.

Yet, that is what the FAA says to do.

Friends in the local flying club are really trying to obey all the rules, and call the tower because they are ~4 miles away from the airport. At first, the people at the local tower were just annoyed by the phone calls and would say, "I don't care if you're flying a toy 4 miles away. Why are you calling?" Now that the new rules are more known, the person who answers is very quick and courteous, "Where are you? Stay under 400, have fun."
Use Virtual IP rather than DNS for failover.

Minutes is a really long time to go down.
Do you think their lives will get better or worse if American companies disengage? What did pre-sweatshop life look like for the families who now send their children to sweatshops in these countries?

>hundreds of millions live in hell to produce mountains of goods that end in landfills

Is it better to have hundreds of millions live in hell doing subsistence agriculture? Or is that life actually less hellish?
How would I respond? I'd tell them I was disappointed and move on with my life. You can't control the actions of others, only your response to them.
Agreed. Also, all the obvious typos, unneeded permissions, and the high in app purchase price seem like they should have been flags to dig deeper.

Unless they somehow hid all of this, it seems to point to a weakness in the app review process.
Wow, CoCalc is really cool.

I've often found myself wishing for a collaborative environment like that... and there it is.

Thank you!
From the perspective of a software engineer, I would also say "yes." It's frustrating that 80% of the available positions, even in a tech center like Seattle, are at the huge mega-corporations.
Old-Timey Jobs Are Hot Again
Wow I had never heard this program and the interviewer did a fantastic job. Demis's intellect really shows through. It's really clear how hard he works and how driven he is. This has given me some inspiration on what otherwise might a lazy Saturday.
Also mandatory insurance for kites and balloons, either of which could have caused the same damage.
we use kubernetes, helm and gitlab.. runtime configuration lives in each repo next to code - values.yaml, dev.yaml, test.yaml, prod.yaml to store applications runtime configuration -- each environment is host to 40+ redundant services.. its working quite well but has required a pretty big upfront investment... surprised there was much discussion about monitoring- prometheus and grafana work well for that
Also http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313.... , considering regexes are a subset of CFGs.
"In our times" is great too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/37pR8YxRMhVwwZvX93r...
At some point the VC money will run out, so yes the subsidies will collapse. And Uber is the McDonald's or Wal-Mart of ride sharing. When you see employees complain about Wal-Mart being fundamentally unethical, you will see not a damn thing change. That's one reason to care. Not necessarily a problem fundamental to ride sharing, but the ride sharing ecosystem may be toxic, and I don't see where repercussions would be.

Having $B of investment for an idea that is only a few degrees from "yo" (exaggeration) creates a hated company like Uber. What has Travis done to deserve money like that that a college student making a location aware app with a backend and insurance/financial pool couldn't do? It looks like a black mark on the tech investment engine to me. Only difference might be he's an ahole and they've been selling some moonshot idea.

I can tell you how bad the excessive funding situation is - my bank, Chase, has sent me offers through my credit card for free rides. A gigantic financial institution is providing millions of people with free rides. That is not an advantage that either a homebrew developer or a traditional taxi company have.

In terms of fear mongering, there have obviously been complaints from drivers and passengers alike. You need to consider those as well as true stories and urban legends of cab experiences. If you haven't heard anything bad ever, then you should be skeptical.

In Chicagoland, the number one complaint I have ever heard about cab rides is the price, and that is not an equal comparison to ride sharing apps (because of incredible subsidies, no licenses, taxes, regulations or fees).

When one company or field of companies eliminates another due to fair competition that can be healthy for the market, but when eliminations happen from unfair competition, that is harmful to the market. I never said taxis were great. I just think their extinction would be bad.

qed.
They push society forward along THEIR agenda.
That agenda can be the most open, inclusive and diverse agenda ever, but it's gonna be the agenda of a corporation nonetheless.
In my ideal world, you know who should be in charge of such a push? American friends, please, breathe deeply: The State should.
do not want to have it remotely configurable. nor want anyone to be able to "reset configuration" remotely.

some configuration is fixed, static. to change it one needs to change the image. this is intentional. hobbyist user wants this.

bootloader is on removable media user sends to provider. user is not using any provider software. user is paying for dedicated server and internet connection. that is all.

do not use linux, mirageos. do not need to. have rump. user can make own xen guest kernels and xen host kernels. anyway, this is tangent, irrelevant. user does not need virtualization necessarily and in any case not virtualization provided by third party.

simple requirements: want dedicated bare metal server. want hardware and internet connection. do not need/want provider software. will pay more for this.
What do you recommend to replace capitalism. I've seen a lot of the other attempts and they have not been pretty.
People choose defaults even when they can change them, even for important products, like a maps app.

So for household commodities ? sure they'll choose the defaults.
Not quite sure i follow. Do you mean like self driving cars, neural networks, mapping the human genome, or perhaps the internet?

I guess IC's might be a good example, but the air force was really the only buyer that could afford them.

I dunno, maybe we're moving to a new model. the 20th century way seemed to be to pour massive amounts of money into research at universities, then commercialize whatever whatever happened to work out.

Corporations do interesting work, but they're sooooo resistant to change, it seems like their inventions always die on the vine. Kodak digital cameras for example.

Are you thinking google would be willing to risk their ad revenue for a cool new tech? Or microsoft their os/office money? or apple and phones? etc.
There are features that become available after a relatively small amount of karma has been accumulated (e.g. flagging, custom top color), but for story and comment ranking it's a level playing field.
But that's true of any tax. I don't think it is specific to progressive ones. To me, the fact that larger entities are better at avoiding paying part of their taxes is an additional argument to make them start at a higher rate.
Good catch indeed! Maybe I should keep it as-is for fun. :)

Edit: I changed it.
Disclaimer: I work at Google

> The world is a better place with lots of smaller companies.

[citation needed]

A lot of things Google does -- a lot of the things people actually like about Google -- are possible only because it's a huge monolith. Divorce the ad-making money machine, and say goodbye to all the services consumers like that are nowhere near as profitable: gmail, maps, photos, chrome, android, translate, youtube, drive, waze, where do you think the money for this stuff all comes from?

Of course, if you're one of the uber technerds that thinks that Google is unabashedly evil and Linux is going to take over the desktop any day now, that probably sounds great to you. I just think the average consumer would have a different take on it.
Pedantry.

If their employer was a James Bond level super-villain about to shortly kill millions you could construct this scenario.

Otherwise there is no scenario where inflicting what you term a "brief disruption" (but what they'd likely describe as an awful, painful and expensive) to thousands of innocent customers is justified. Customer costs could easily be millions, if 1,000 customers each spend over ten hours of worker time dealing with that disruption.

If the employer did something illegal, report them to the authorities. If they wronged you, other employees, or customers, take them to court and publicize their malfeasance.

If you can't do any of those things because what the company did wasn't wrong or illegal, and instead wipe their servers, you are a sad little loser who can't handle the fact that they just didn't like you, and for good reason.
Then what does? Most of the innovation we have witnessed and enjoy in our society for the past 20-30 years has not been driven by governmental money or agencies but by private money.
a less featured expect for some reason
Also, an increasing amount of people does not tolerate critizism against their beloved Zuckerberg, Bill gates, etc... :

How you dare criticize him when he is bringing free internet to Africa?
The problems that are solved by PTYs finally "clicked" for me when I read their example of the problematic fseek/flushing. I hadn't seen such a cogent expiation until now.
How is it definitely? It may hurt or may not. Credit card systems also charge a commission and yet every pizza place prefers to pay it rather than accept only cash, because of the benefits credit cards provide.
they are certainly bad computer scientists, since its a subdiscipline of mathematics.

can they be great artisans? sure.

why do i think its not better? i said im not sure. i think the two options are about equal in readability, up to taste. yours is probably more efficient in terms of cpu cycles.
We don't even have a name yet so we are talking about whomever did it. The unnamed guilty party is guilty by definition.
"AI" bots offering marketplace auctions for fulfillment on things like "order a pizza", "call a car", etc. is the next field in advertising. I'm sure it will lead to lots of money, not sure it will make the world a better place or how much it will further entrench the dominant players.
You can still buy alphabet shares with voting rights, they trade at a ~3% premium. (GOOG vs GOOGL)

Facebook is a different case, but in the examples prominently mentioned in the article, Google and Amazon are featured and they both give voting rights to stockholders, as does Microsoft.
Integrating technologies for both decentralization and common platforms are the answer, not more traditional government or more capitalism or more communism.
That's true, but it misses the point. Capitalism and democracy work best when there is competition. Monopolies -- both economic and political -- generally lead to bad outcomes. When ultimate decision-making power becomes too unevenly distributed, it becomes very difficult to prevent monopolies from forming.
It's not really obvious that we should prefer small companies to large companies.
It's not just the reporter, and I wouldn't want to single her out.

"Important incremental progress in ________" just doesn't get an article in the Times.
> money spent at a locally-owned store is more likely to circulate in the community

This has always been a silly argument. Locally-owned businesses tend to be in the service industry. Their primary expenses are wages, paid to people living nearby. This is also true of internationally owned service-industry businesses.

Retail businesses tend to sit at the end of a long supply chain. Their primary expenses are the goods they buy from upstream. Local staff are a minor bit of overheard, like the air conditioning or the internet connection for the credit card terminals. This is true whether the retail business is locally or internationally owned.
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"Businesses destroy people all the time".

Lol. Citation please.

I'd like to see the justification for forcing thousands of customers into expensive disaster recovery because the company fired a sysadmin, likely for good reason.
The Shocking Doomsday Maps of the World and the Billionaire Escape Plans
Well at least we can get that out of the way; it is an affront then.

These 4 companies (and more) have done more good than all the goodness of your heart will ever do. We have to be pragmatic and not just be bleeding hearts because it is endearing and it will make us popular.

>to have all of us go forward as a species instead of concentrating the power in the hands of few.

This is the problem you and others that think like you have; your assumption is that it is perpetually a zero-sum game. That for some to win others must lose. No. This is just flawed. These companies should be left to be as big as they can get.

You can also start your own conglomerate! Free markets aren't stopping you but because you have a closed mindset, the only way you can see a good future for humanity is by attacking people who wake up earlier than you, push harder than you and take more personal responsibility than you.

This is wrong. Plain wrong and I'm unashamed to say it. Why do we want to repeat failed experiments with egalitarianism. Every where it has been tried, it has failed miserably. Empirically, anti-capitalism has been a disaster.
> Divorce the ad-making money machine, and say goodbye to all the services consumers like that are nowhere near as profitable: gmail, maps, photos, chrome, android, translate, youtube, drive, waze, where do you think the money for this stuff all comes from?

This needs a citation, as well.

This is assuming Google hasn't starved out potential competitors who would have provided the same service, or better service, had the playing field been more level.

My unsubstantiated opinion is that many talented folks are/have been dissuaded from trying their hand at anything that may go up against Google, et. al., unless their looking for an aquihire. (And we know how Google treats those after a few years.)

And there's another argument to be made: that Google's habit of purchasing competition stifles the innovation since it's nipping it in the bud.

(I majored in Econ in uni.)
In a good company, HR has as little authority as possible.
I'm largely a social democrat, but LOL if you think the government would be even a quarter as competent as Google at pushing technology forward.

Just read any description from people who've worked at both normal government IT shops (really anywhere that's not 18F or the USDS) and private industry how they feel about governmental technology culture and processes.

Like okay, investing in infrastructure, like putting fiber everywhere? Sure, I'm down with that. Everything else, I think the private sector has shown itself to be plenty more capable. Let's let the government stick to its strengths, shall we?

Disclaimer: I work at Google
expect was used for a lot more than modem interactions. Certainly, there are many ways to skin this cat today, but it's not crazy to want something that removes the boilerplate of capturing output from commands and figuring out how to proceed to the next step based on what it gets.

To answer your question with specifics, you could use something like this to:

- Start services, and then do something (maybe alert, maybe make a change and try again) if it failed.

- Make configuration changes across several files and check the results of the changes (i.e. did things continue to work after the change).

- Check for updates in version control and then optionally deploy them based on the results (e.g. if there's a new tagged version).

- Interact with some API periodically, and do something if results change.

- Tons of things I don't do, but somebody else might. It's kind of an IFTTT (If This Then That) for the command line (which is maybe obvious, since I guess IFTTT was an implementation of expect for the web, in the long tradition of "take a UNIX utility and make a version for the web"). It isn't for any one thing; it's for whatever thing you want to programmatically do with stuff that maybe wasn't meant to be programmatically worked with (or maybe just doesn't have a Python API).

All of this can be done with any reasonably competent programming language, including Python (I use Perl with some tiny custom libs or bash with boilerplate, usually). This removes a bit of code. Maybe only a little code is removed, maybe a lot. It depends on what you're doing, and how well the commands or APIs you're calling lend themselves to being called from a shell or Python or whatever.

Expect was a tool to make working with tools that maybe didn't intend to be called from shell (or Tcl, or C, for that matter) programs work better when called from programs. There have always been many ways to do it. If this doesn't fit the way you think or the tools you use don't need it, there may be better ways for you to accomplish similar tasks. But, it's not a crazy idea.
How not to do software updates
This reminds me of something from Sam Bowles's "Microeconomics":

Like the overnight train that left me in an empty field some distance from the settlement, the process of economic development has for the most part bypassed the two hundred or so families that make up the village of Palanpur. They have remained poor, even by Indian standards: less than a third of the adults are literate, and most have endured the loss of a child to malnutrition or to illnesses that are long forgotten in other parts of the world. But for the occasional wristwatch, bicycle, or irrigation pump, Palanpur appears to be a timeless backwater, untouched by India’s cutting edge software industry and booming agricultural regions. Seeking to understand why, I approached a sharecropper and his three daughters weeding a small plot. The conversation eventually turned to the fact that Palanpur farmers sow their winter crops several weeks after the date at which yields would be maximized. The farmers do not doubt that earlier planting would give them larger harvests, but no one the farmer explained, is willing to be the first to plant, as the seeds on any lone plot would be quickly eaten by birds. I asked if a large group of farmers, perhaps relatives, had ever agreed to sow earlier, all planting on the same day to minimize losses. “If we knew how to do that,” he said, looking up from his hoe at me, “we would not be poor.”
I agree, but then that's why we have governments and why monopolies are all but outlawed in most democratic countries.
>"what we term cancer is really a whole class of diseases with a plethora of underlying causes"

No, this is a new "talking point" come up with by cancer researchers due to their slow progress. Cancer research is up there with social psychology in terms of reproducibility problems, why not deal with that before claiming "it's so complex":

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...

http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-sc...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/rigorous-replication-...

Cancer is one disease, characterized by, amongst other things, aneuploidy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15549096

Detect and target the aneuploidy and you can have a general anti-cancer therapy.
> If you wanted to build your own csv-like library, you could build it on top of csv-core.

It's pretty cool that Rust's dependency handling is so easy (thanks Cargo!) that even such a single-task library can come with a smaller, even more reusable library inside.
> Every country that has a functioning democracy that money is not speech.

You missed a verb. And in case you missed it, every democracy has elections, and in that case, money is equivalent to speech. Good luck in getting airtime/a platform without paying money.

> Have more money than someone else? Well, tough shit, your vote shouldn't be worth more.

In a company, that's absolutely not the case. Taken to the logical extreme, should I have the same say in the operations of Exxon, even though I have no financial interest in them, rather than a shareholder with 3% of the stock?
So in summary, all we need to do to implement basic income is to take money from people trading stuff, owning stuff, selling stuff, borrowing stuff, or emitting CO2 (but only if you do it in America). Don't flinch! They'll tax that too.
It might not have been obvious, but for installation, you should use a dedicated machine or virtual machine.

That would mean your concerns regarding /root would be solved automatically.
VCs are agents of ordinary people who have pooled their resources to make investments, just separated by many fee-taking layers of Wall Street bureaucracy.

Wall Street ultimately gets its money from American workers' retirement investments (whether personal 401k and IRA accounts, or institutional pension funds).
In the multiple cases mentioned above the bank says not our problem and only reacted when it was on the front page of the daily telegraph
yet again, one of those posts. all those people who have the ability to do something, discuss and post detailed comments and then wait for next such article, and then rinse and repeat.

what is the point of discussion, if we nothing concrete, other than rhetoric can be done?
Very informative, thanks for the detailed response. To be clear, was my statement incorrect in terms of the "16%" quotation (from [0], which I now realize I misquoted in my private notes), or in the claim that the RSA key space density is low due to the dependency on prime numbers?

My private notes include a claim (original source uncited, sadly) that because the prime density from 1..n decreases (approximately) as `1/ln(n)`, then the corresponding effective key space density for RSA decreases at a related rate, which was what led to the corresponding reduction in the "equivalent" key size. If my notes on this are complete bunk I'd love to hear it. (Even a simple 'yes' would suffice and I'll revisit the subject.) Ta!

[0] https://www.yubico.com/2015/02/big-debate-2048-4096-yubicos-...
Let the world work for you.

My approximation for a solution is Crowdraising
> When you are charged with a crime, even if you can prove your innocence, generally your day to day life suffers great harm that can be considered a punishment for daring to do what ever got you charged with the crime in the first place.

Or for daring to do nothing at all, in the case of mistaken identity or a straight frame job. I mention this out only to say your points here are correct, but the situation is actually much worse than you portray.
A complete model? I don't have any. I have bits and pieces of things. And so do you. So does your neighbor, so does the CEO of Microsoft, so does the government worker in his office, so does the guy sleeping in the street. Get people together. Have them talk and debate.

Making a new model is the work of a society. Not one person. I do not believe communism is the solution, I do not believe capitalism or neoliberalism are the solution.
you still need your pet theory for the evergreen topics: diets, state surveillance, healthcare (US) and education (US)
Ah. Fear. It's cheap.

We used to play a game in high school: "How to destroy the United States for less than $100,000." One obsolete example: destroying the six mammoth machines and two spares that processed all physical checks, bringing transactions to a halt for weeks. There were hundreds of ways.

Our greatest defense has always been being a reasonable people full of smart citizens.