skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company you sell to cannot legally bind you to working for them - that is indentured servitude. You can always leave any contract or job any time you want. The OP mentions "once the check clears" for good reason - because when making acquisitions your payout is usually contingent on staying around for the transition for a fixed amount of time - you don't get your payout until that deadline, and if you leave before then you void the obligation.
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There are two main differences between screen-scraping content and screen-scraping transactions.

First is that copyright applies to written content (even short content such as tweets) and does not apply to factual data.

Second is that whatever rights may apply to the data, in the fintech scenario the users are scraping their own data.

So all kinds of copyright-specific laws, of which there are many, don't really apply in this case - and those are the laws that can easily get used against the service provider, unlike the possible ToS violation where the bank would have to against their own customers to enforce it.
My company had a fairly expensive lawyer on retainer when we had a $3-4k bill go un-paid and was forced to start a small claims proceeding in order to get paid. Since we had never been through something like that we asked him for help, and he did help us quite a bit, because it became quite a hassle.

I assume that he assumed it would just be a couple letters drafted and they would cough up, but they really dug in their heels and used the dialog between the lawyers to extend hassle, and it took a bit more than a few letters. We didn't settle until the day before the court date.

Needless to say the $500/hour bill for his services pretty much nullified the settlement, and when the process concluded he politely informed us that this was a little below his scope as our retained lawyer and to gladly not bother him again with things quite so trivial and time consuming.
Have to login to linked in to read. Is that flaggable?
if you have one big consumer that is eating the major part of [the pipe] every day, making the others miserable, isn't it reasonable to limit that consumer's bandwidth somehow?

The "somehow" is key here. There is a neutral solution called per-customer fair queueing but most equipment doesn't support that so some ISPs end up using non-neutral "solutions" like just banning Netflix and BitTorrent.

Also, I want to caution people about reasoning by analogy since ISPs aren't analogous to restaurants or grocery stores or really anything else. A real argument doesn't require analogies.
More than their entire R&D budget for 2016....I sure hope they have something up their sleeves...
at the upper bounds (350 million) (10% is 35 million) with 22.5 million invested in 9/2016 and the sale shortly after that is a nice flip and a gain of 10+ million
Price comparison shopping is Amazon's home turf. They're not afraid of it. So this interpretation that they're looking to keep people from comparing prices in their own stores is terrible analysis.

This is defensive. Amazon wants people to be able to check prices on Amazon.com when they're in brick & mortar stores. They patented these techniques so they can keep retailers from using them to block access to Amazon.com.
They contributed value by giving a pile of money to the previous owner (part of the economy). Now they're recovering their investment. If they can't recover it in rent/resale, then why would they buy in the first place? Then where would the previous owner get their pile of money from? Ultimately it went back to the original developer who was smart enough to build a house in a good place that people in the future will want. Without that chain of incentives, he could just as well have built it in the desert. That's what I think the value is - incentivizing property development where it'll be needed in the future.
I would be quite happy to see Apple fail, not because of Schadenfreude (Honest, I swear!) but because it could have a normative effect on other tech companies to reduce the amount "late-stage capital"-type behavior they engage in.
What defines "decent"? And even if you could come up with an appropriate algorithm for it, you realize this essentially constitutes price fixing, right? And that it won't actually fix the problem of getting Americans to take jobs that they wouldn't ordinarily take because the wage for them is too low?
The article links to the page from which you can download it.
This is bad for those people, but not necessarily bad for the US.

India and China really need to get a handle on their burgeoning population.
illegal immigrants.
Frame-Based Editing [pdf]
Sounds like users are mostly teens or younger too.
::shrug::
Also, dear moderators, how is this getting past the URL matching algorithm for previously posted material?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14566264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14609042

respectively point to the identical:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/15/15812986/amazon-patent-on...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/15/15812986/amazon-patent-on...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/15/15812986/amazon-patent-on...
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When so many people live in one country, the value of the average individual to the country as a whole is usually negligible.

Do you think very high population density is more or less healthy for the individual? What about the effect on the environment?

What happens once the US has 1.4 billion people and global birth rates have stabilized so there is no one else to bring in?

Maintaining economic growth may be important but it is only one consideration. Bringing in the best foreign workers is a somewhat easy and temporary fix, which dissuades the US from investing in its own citizens.

How many citizens who are down and out would actually be able to contribute a whole lot more? Is the onus solely on them to compete with already educated foreigners?

It would be more less selfish and more sustainable to concentrate on nurturing a national culture of intellect, learning, creativity, entrepreneurship and cohesion within the US rather than supplementing our deficiencies with the best of other countries.
I thought you were someone else, you got a funny mail at the gmail you mention in your profile. ooops.
Yep, let's imagine if the Chinese government bans Apple products tomorrow in China, what happens?

Instantly we'd see Apple's stock crashes by 40%, wiping out over $300B in market cap, if not more, in a single day. AAPL is a heavily weighted member on the Dow, and it will trigger a chain reaction that will crash both S&P 500 and NASDAQ.

Apple pissing off the Chinese can literally trigger a US recession in the short term.

The silver lining is that WeChat/Tencent != Chinese Government, and I think Apple isn't crazy enough to be pissing off the CPC yet.
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The website's layout certainly didn't help either.
Grocery stores are directly selling things to you, and they cost different amounts based on their costs to the grocery stores, handling requirements, etc.

ISPs are like mail services: a letter is a letter is a letter. A package is a package is a package. And a packet is a packet is a packet.
They already did, Snap Maps launched today.
Some of those won't be easily turned into a product, since various services forbid connecting with third-party software (e.g. WhatsApp or Signal).

That said, Pidgin, BitlBee or other multi-messengers are still around and have interfaces to a surprising number of services, sometimes flying under the radar (e.g. Skype apparently works better than ever, thanks to people adapting the API their webinterface uses). Not all that comfortabe to use from mobile sadly.

So no, to my knowledge nobody is really solving it, but there are bits and pieces that can help.
Sure. But that doesn't meaningfully negate my point. In fact it strengthens it - if you can generate alpha on the strange "homomorphically encrypted" data they've got, you can do it in the actual market with transparent data and more control far more profitably.

I'm not saying someone is going to do well and leave with the data. I'm saying anyone who can do well should probably just participate in the real market.

And as another point, Numerai lacks entire categories of data outside the conventional "core financial" that is useful for finding alpha.
>According to recent reporting in Bloomberg, there was a temporary dip in market share due to the #deleteuber campaign, which has since recovered.

Based on what? Uber isn't public, they aren't forced to release any information on their ride sharing, and what info they do release isn't subjected to any real verification.

The only article I see is based on "number of app downloads" - that has literally no relevance in the number of rides they're servicing. I've got Uber on my phone and I haven't used it in 3 months and I don't see that changing anytime soon. They didn't lose me outright as a user, but they, for all intents and purposes, lost my business.
Can you give a proper source for that allegation preferably from the BBC.
Well if you can't get a US visa your wage there is zero, so I'm not seeing your point
Right now I am reading again "More Money Than God"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God
I don't have a linkedin account and didnt have that issue.
Data caps or outright banning traffic to certain IP ranges does not necessarily reduce the costs for the ISP. For many ISPs, you are negotiating on bandwidth, not on total data rendered to the backbone, and you find your peak bandwidth needs are being generated when everyone is online and saturating their access between 7-10pm every night.

Bandwidth usage whales are just those that constantly use the bandwidth they paid for - which, outside of those peak traffic windows, isn't actually costing you anything to provide, because you aren't saturating your bandwidth anyway.

If ISPs want to cut costs, they rate limit customers (globally or during their peak usage times). That reduces the amount of routing hardware they need and the amount of backbone bandwidth they need to buy. If they institute data caps or try to break the Internets P2P architecture, they are just destroying the intent of the Internet while still having the same peak bandwidth rates they always did. Their routers just run cold now at night because nobody is using them for anything.
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. Barbers, too, until some enterprising barber automated his own job and retired and forced the others out of a job too.

Excellent book.
> old versions of Rust absolutely intended to replace C++

is that true? Old versions of Rust looked like Go, IMO.
This is like arguing linguistics is invalid because language is art.
> I'm already doing bank screen scraping for myself

Any tools you recommend, or is it all hand-rolled?
With a high resolution I could see full VR being pretty great for programming, considering how hard developers often try to remove distractions and go deeper into the problem, and how useful multiple monitors are

Just a pitch black room, full body tracking, voice and gesture interface, probably a few keyboards around the room (glowing within the headset) if you want to those for some tasks
When someone shows me a picture of exponential growth I always ask whether they're sure it isn't a sigmoid curve. In the case of population, extrapolations such as yours rest on the implicit assumption that motivating factors will never change.

For example, I was a bit surprised about your mention of the Amish population doubling, and went to read a few articles to learn more about that. Consider this quote from one in a Lancaster County, PA paper (which seems like a well-informed source since it sits in the middle of Amish country):

Ben Riehl, an Amish farmer, said the local settlement is growing “as fast or faster than it ever has.” However, he thinks families are getting somewhat smaller. A family may have five children these days, rather than nine or more.

He attributes that to the shift away from farming, a vocation that lends itself to large families.

Demographics are just not a one-way street. Certainly there are strong incentives and traditions to pop out lots of children in some contexts. But those incentives change, and do people's behaviors. We're going to be overrun by _________!' is a common anxiety that has been refuted over and over again by anthropological studies. It only makes sense in models where you assume everyone acts independently and populations and individuals don't really interact with each other.
This isn't really a cost argument, but ISPs are currently double-billing for traffic, so presumably their revenue would go down under NN. Presumably under NN ISPs would raise prices to maintain profit margin.
Laziness, I try to automate everything possible so I would never have to do it again...
"...1000's of models..."

So, you want an index fund work the additional overhead of a cryptocoin mining operation?

In the absence of learnable signal, am index fund is essentially what you'll end up with...
It is a pity that regex engines based on regex theory have just come into widespread use when the theory has been in place for decades. Why many language standard libraries use exponential algorithm is beyond my comprehension.
You may as well ascribe Japan Rail's punctuality to nefarious behavior, since clearly no good actor could achieve such a high standard.
The Chinese can do without Apple easily, but they cannot do without WeChat. It is far more integrated into society than Facebook ever was. Not having a Facebook account will get you weird looks in the West but not having WeChat will make people stare at you in disbelief unless you are a foreigner or very old.
The Lottery numbers for the big jackpot...
AR is coming back in a big way, maybe not through the glasses at first, Google’s miscalculation was not seeing the phone as the starting point in this technical evolution. As soon as the phone platform gets good enough, its time to jump to apparel.

This company -> http://aipoly.com <- is really onto a great use case for AR products, although I think their product could use a lot more work to be more applicable.
You just tap a button or scan a qr code if you want to give someone money. It's quick and painless.
Why did they stop Google Glass in the first place??
Teller is amazing (kudos to Stevie), but if you're looking for an open source solution you can take a look to:

https://github.com/bankscrap/bankscrap

We already support major banks in Spain and we're looking forward for people who can contribute with adapters to support even more banks worldwide.
Compliance with net neutrality doesn't actually add overhead. Neutrality is the default. Treating different traffic differently requires effort.
That's not what GP was saying.

The standard, non-library way of handling state in React is to use plain old mutable Javascript objects, and just pretend they're immutable (i.e never perform any mutable operations on them). The popular claim is that Immutable "enforces" immutability, leading to less "accidental mutation" bugs. (A claim which is bogus IMO. 0 !< 0)
Author here. We're thinking of this as kind of a "numba for R", where Rcpp is the "cython for R". Any feedback is appreciated!
God forbid that Americans want to hire and grow American talent, right guys? I mean that's just awful.
They really don't. Uber represents itself as profitable for Uber drivers, but this is only true in the short-term. When you factor in car maintenance and depreciation etc, the "profits" that Uber shows you essentially go out the window. It's equivalent to selling a tiny bit of your car's value.

If Uber raised their prices, the average real value would drop from its current real value of $2/hr, to...

Hell if I know, but it could well be negative.
I don't know who you've been talking to, but most people I know think "raising babies" is the fulfilling part, not other stuff.
They also have a billion dollars in revenue, and generate cash.
I did not compare D to C, but rather to Rust, Swift, and Go. Compared to D, Go already has huge marketshare. Rust, similarly, excels in spaces that D does not endeavor to work in (no-managed-runtime settings), and is beginning to see adoption in areas where performance is critical.

From what I have seen of D, it provides a C++ without some of the cruft, but without trying to solve other issues with C++-like languages (for eg: usefulness of Algebraic Data Types). Why should someone choose D today over Go or Rust for any project? I have yet to see a convincing answer.
I've tried VisualD, DlangIDE, and VSCode plugin. All seemed to be handling completion very poorly, and "Go to definition" basically not at all.
oh sure get joe blow former coal digger to be a node developer
On the spot to express the point. The Matrix is just an easy go-to when referring to possible negative outcomes of the future with AI, and the point I'm trying to express is that as scary as it feels that people, not just jobs, may actually be automated out of existence, that doesn't necessarily have to be as bad as it may sound.

I read a lot of science fiction of random quality and length[1], and there's enough of a scattershot of ideas that an expansive humanity and humans dying off are not entirely uncommon ideas, so I've had reason to think about it fairly often. While I understand a lot of people might be upset at the idea humanity dying off, being a father myself and the understanding that while I can't stick around to experience everything myself, part of what I am (in the *intellectual sense more importantly than the biological one) continues on in part through my children (one of which is not biological, but just as much a continuation in the same sense).

That we might engineer our own obsolescence is scary, but so is the knowledge that we all die. Similar to in our individual lives, I find some comfort that in my old age I might be taken care of by my legacy.

Also, using humans for batteries is stupid. There's plenty of better reasons possible and that have been put forth for that plot point. That's just low hanging fruit for nerds. ;)

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/ - If you don't know what this is and you like science fiction, you're in for a treat. Check the sidebar for quality classics.
> Discounted gift cards

You got me interested. How deep of discounts are we talking here? And for what businesses? And have you gotten screwed ever?
Obama inherited the market on a low. We are at a high and what may have been compatible with growth at a low may not be good enough for improving the market on a high.
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Essentially, yes I do and I'm fully aware of the operational and philosophical difficulties of such an undertaking. I have ideas about how to implement a distributed governance approach without falling back into patterns of autocratic central control, but am still working on how to make those robust against attempts at hijacking and so forth.
Is the D standard library GC-free?

If not, then I would posit that it's not correct to say that it matches my definition.
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You can if your complaint (as above) is that the economic system has adverse effects on the political system or vice versa. Would you claim you shouldn't attribute the resulting explosion to water when you pour it on sodium because one is a liquid and the other is a metal?
I found this justification particularly ridiculous: "Imagine shop windows that react according to the movements of passers-by."

Who would think this is compelling enough to put within the elevator pitch for the concept?
That metaflop link is not only a great visual example of what makes this tech cool, but is also fun to use. The immediate feedback which shows input-output relations reminds me of fun had while messing with character-creation sliders in games like Elder Scrolls and Dark Souls.
Right, but what if one is not the cause of the other, but rather they both have the same root cause. e.g. Well-off people have a personality that both makes them less likely to procreate and also likely to be a big earner.

Then, you give people that don't have that personality trait a bunch of money, you can't expect that persons behavior to be the same.
Because the exponential algorithm (1) easily supports backtracking and (2) can often be implemented with less constant factor overhead than the Thompson NFA. Building the NFA and doing NFA to DFA conversion takes time. The simplicity and resulting speed in non-pathological cases is why JS regex engines all use the exponential algorithm.

Think about quicksort. Quicksort is O(n^2) worst case, so it must be awful, right? Well, no, not really, because with a sensible choice of pivot you rarely hit that case, and the constant overhead is significantly better than the guaranteed O(n log n) mergesort for common input. Regex algorithms have a similar dynamic.

My understanding is that re2 and rust-regex manage parity with the backtracking algorithm for non-pathological regexes, much as the complicated mergesort-based Timsort can achieve parity with quicksort, but they have to do a lot of work to get there.
None. The fall of the Berlin Wall had the same or more social impact that any or some of your points joined. I'd point the rise of China but it is not tech oriented but politically.
On the one hand, patents give companies a reward for innovation and result in them doing research they might not have otherwise done.

On the other hand, software patents.
I don't think a "better Python" can be statically typed - dynamic typing, and all the associated runtime tricks that you can do with it, is kinda part of what makes Python distinctive (whether for good or bad, opinions differ there).
Any viable competitor will necessarily have the resources to strike a similar deal. I think your argument boils down to "is unfair that Facebook has more resources than a competing startup", which is no truer without NN (in my mind, anyway).
Sure. That double billing is just shifting costs, though. You end up paying for their double billing anyway.
Still a net loss against public transportation, the current savings are also largely driven by artificially low fares that Uber subsidizes with driver bonuses (to undercut the market).
When importing from csv, can you import to a deck multiple times and have it just update? Or do you have to create a new deck each time?

Also, can decks be shared?

Love the design and it's a welcome change of pace coming from other SRS apps.
GG would become so much more popular if it would aim at certain niches first, like security, technicians, doctors and public servants (partially the way Segway did) - it should invest in showcase apps that cater for those niches and build up market from there.
>Power is enacted through multifarious means, with wealth being one of them. Wealth isn't a requisite for power

Name the other sources of power in the United States in the year 2017. Whatever you can come up with, none of it is as significant as wealth.

>The point is that yes, for these reasons and many others, we should "believe women when they report harassment in the workplace."

You did not answer my question. Do you think abuse of power will suddenly end once the majority of wealthy individuals are women instead of men?
Indeed. With C# especially it is rather ironic, because the timeline of its development closely overlaps with D - I remember learning the newly released C# 1.0 as I was experimenting with those early 0.x versions of D.
The "because I say so" argument isn't very compelling. I probably agree with your conclusion, but the argument is lazy.
Thanks for the reply! That helps a lot as my search for LINQ in D was a failure.
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