skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only have my word for it, but I've had the highest marks from both co-workers and managers at reviews and have gotten higher than average raises.

But my last job was for a consulting company and we finished the job in 10 months and it wasn't that clear what other gig I would be moved to so I accepted a job with someone who I had worked with before and was now a technical manager (another point that I'm not someone you wouldn't want to work with). My job before that I finished a project in 18 months and was transitioning into maintenance mode. I was bored and under paid, so I took another job offer also with someone I had worked with before. Each of these were 10-15% raises, so that was incentive too.

So your intuition might fit some cases, but definitely not all.
It's more like a turf war between gangs. The US is just the world's meanest bastard, and isn't reticent about using its power.
It's a flashy ad designed to trick stupid, greedy VCs.
Another still actively developed alternative is SliTaz [0].

Comes in images from 45Mb for a working desktop down to a bootable floppy, rolling release, runs in RAM with no persistence by default, and uses a custom package manager that, outside of having its own decently sized repo, can convert packages from Debian, RPM, Slax, Puppy, Slackware, NuTyX, Arch, Alpine, OpenWrt, 0Linux, paldo, Void and Tinycore according to the manual.

[0] http://www.slitaz.org/en/about/
Cops being able to keep what they find in a drug bust sounds like it creates some horrible incentives and that a policy like that would almost always be negative for the person apprehended.
> This technology is patent-protected

Ahahahahah! Come and stop me from using it. Better bring lots of guns.
The term has a specific meaning in economics: a natural monopoly occurs when the most efficient number of firms in a market is one.

This can occur through a number of dynamics, generally attributed to economies of scale, though network effects also come into play.

I'm exploring the idea that monopolies (natural or otherwise) are almost always strongly tied to network phenomena (not just in a physical sense), and are largely synonymous with the concept of economic rent.

There are a number of elements which accompany monopoly status, only some of which are strictly economic. Many of the others involve overt political or other power.
It doesn't hurt to ask! It can be nerve racking but I've done it and it went over well. It can be a simple conversation, plenty of articles on how to do it genially.
Right. They can target anyone they like, and create some plausible bullshit to justify it.
Must answer questions before posting comments to prove you understand news
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NB: it was oil transport and most especially refining which seemed to capture true monopoly rents, most especially where oilfield control was not unitised.

In the case of unitised oilfield control (that is: a single company or other entity controlled all extraction from a single resource), other monopoly powers might exist, most especially if the field exhibited lower-than-average costs (as in Saudi Arabia).
Man-in-the-middle wireless access point inside a docker container
Most of the code I've written in my career is JS/TS, with Java and Python probably tied for second. I'll admit to not liking Java but it's got nothing to do with not wanting to learn a new language. Most Java code is extremely verbose, with tons of boilerplate for doing simple things, like copying props from one object to another.
The article literally says that the Post was not less critical and scrutinizing of Amazon then other news paper, falling right in the middle.

Therefore, I have to conclude the title is clickbait. And this makes me feel less confident that FAIR has a valid point in saying Amazon appears to evade scrutiny, and more likely to believe there's nothing scrupulous to report about Amazon, except for FAIR wanting to make the headlines.
In the multiclass problem, they have the same number of degrees of parameters. You can see this by choosing a reference class c_y. The NB parameter for class c_x and feature w_j is f_jxy = log(p(w_j|c_x)/p(w_j|c_y)). If you want a new reference class c_w, you can see that f_jxw = f_jxy - f_jwy. No new learned parameters needed. You need one of those parameters per N features and (K-1) classes that aren't c_y. So you get N(K-1) features. This is the same as for multiclass softmax regression: N(K-1) instead of the NK you wrote (which you can see by working it out with a reference class c_y). It really is the same parametrization. The analogue with NK parametrized softmax may be more straightforward if you just use NK naive bayes features of the form f_jx = log(p(w_j|c_x)) for each class and check the equivalence with softmax.

It really is just a special case of a more general rule that a given PGM with a fixed parametrization can be trained discriminatively or generatively.
Huh? What does this have to do with the original point: that finding two negative articles on google doesn't necessarily contradict anything in their analysis about the breakdown of positive/negative articles?
My business has an AWS China account and below is the email I received on Friday. It is definitely a crackdown year, on several fronts even other than the internet. Like this year I was forced to pay a $300 fine because I didn't report to the police station within 24-hrs of re-entry while living in my own leased home. Now, my company is not huge but I've employed +100 people and we pay a lot of taxes, social insurance, provide jobs for local families. They do not give a shit about that you will follow the laws of China to do business here or you will be thrown out.

Overall, this year has really chilled my enthusiasm for getting too comfortable with the thought of living here the rest of my working life. In this age with so many elite Chinese being trained and educated abroad, it is really hard to beleive things are going in this directon. I mean, IT Is already hard enough, we need a server in our office that is connected to another server in France, and we need it reliable and without issue. Making this type of stuff even harder on us as a business is really irritating. I really do tell myself every day "if it was easy everybody would be doing it".

"Dear Customer,
According to the telecom regulations and the requirement of MIIT/MPS and Internet supervision agency, please check up two parts below.
•	The illegal “over the wall” proxy sites and provide hosting campaign service for illegal “over the wall” proxy sites.
•	All main domains which don’t have ICP recorded number via MIIT and All websites which have illegal content.
We will continuously receive notification from the regulators to close such services or shut down server deployment immediately. In case your will be involved in any consequences of such violation, please stop immediately if you have such illegal services and deployment. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

Regards,
AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by SINNET"
There are some, but also having it on at all times wouldn't solve the underlying issue. Specifically, drugs could be easily planned a few hours before while the cop was not on duty. Or by paying someone else to do it at specific time.

Always-on cameras definitely help in case of bad interactions with people stopped on the street, since those can't be scripted. But anything you can do ahead of time - not so much. It's trying to have a technical solution to a social issue.
It looks like the website itself deserves a dart-board. It puts the beautiful illustration of radiation dosage in with the worst graphs, but that horrible network visualisation in with the best. There are numerous such examples.
So what about the people for which this matches reality?
Do you believe that they exists or not?
Awesome! I remember seeing the Shark Tank episode, nice to see that you didn't let them stop you.

Quick question: how does the device know when to shock you?
There is still Tom's root boot, which fits on a 1.44MB floppy, if you still have a drive accessible.

http://www.toms.net/rb/
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A nation state doing traffic analysis will have people working full time to subvert the initial weak link of getting the software (which nobody else uses so simply possessing it will be seen as a sign of criminal intent) and keying information, doing statistical analysis to find why people have unusual access patterns to that innocent content and correlating people not known to be connected who are showing those same atypical patterns around the same time, etc. It doesn't matter if your source data is entirely fluffy kitten videos if there's a set of users inexplicably accessing the same set of videos in temporal or geographic proximity without a known link.

The other problem is trust: you said you'd have no idea where the key came from. Ignoring the high possibility of the state recording enough history to answer that question, the bigger risk is active subversion: using that software is evidence that you're trying to evade surveillance, which is risky no matter how warranted, and making those requests is clear proof that you're doing so. The hardest problem here would be detecting moles and honeypots: secret police distribute software versions which leaks your activity to them, distribute keys online and in person, etc. They're not going to arrest you as soon as you install it but will wait, possibly for years, seeing who else your activity links in.
Frankly I think that anyone who applies to be a cop should be automatically blacklisted, and that police should be essentially conscripted for, say, $total_training_time + 2 years after education, the way some countries do with their military.

To me, the mere act of wanting the authority to arrest and shoot your peers means you are the last person I want to have that power.
I blame Calvinism

If you blame Calvinism for either medievalism or postmodern bureaucracy, let alone the drug war, I suggest you don't know what Calvinism is. I'm for drug legalisation, but if you want the UK to adopt the policies of Portugal (or something similar) it will not help to blame the problem on the wrong people. You ought to be directing your anger at the social planners and the nanny state. That group, I can assure you, is very decidedly anti-Calvinist in nature.
blockchain has what i call 'effective anonymity'

if you buy 'into' BTC in an anonymous manner and make purchases 'within' BTC the transactions are wholly traceable but the source is anonymous

anonymity is lost when moving 'out' of BTC 'into' other currencies that require, or have subsequent effect, of identifying the user
I ran Gentoo for years. I finally decided that it took too much time to maintain it, went with a simpler system.
> Japanese exchange run by Frenchy gets hacked by Russian, fences BTC through a Bulgarian exchange and is arrested in Greece for USA warrant

https://twitter.com/cactuspits/status/890358676300718081
Older hardware hasn't quite been solved by windows yet AFAIK. Being the "computer guy" in my family, I'm frequently handed old W7, Vista, and XP laptops that are "running slow". Since a lot of my family isn't too well off, "buy a new laptop that isn't a 1.7Ghz processor with 2 GB RAM" isn't a viable answer. I can't leave them with W7 anymore because of the near future of missing security updates, so lately I've just been wiping them (after backing up everything important of course) and throwing ElementaryOS on there. Runs like a charm, unlike fresh W10 installs on these machines which I can only classify as "almost unusable".
eBay, Snap/Twitter, Bing.
Not hyperbole. Having the majority of content producers be unable to continue operation would be a blow the Internet has never seen.

Massively destructive. Nothing would come close that’s happened before.
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Politicians as well. Those who seek power rarely have the necessary moral fortitude.
Worth is not what is at stake here. It’s become obviously apparent that the public - even if they see value in something - prefers to get it for “free”.
I highly doubt that scenario exists without some other incriminating action, behavior, or police observation.

Civil Asset Forfeiture is an attack on private property and the legal principle of "innocent until proven guilty", but there has to be _some_ suspicion of a crime (usually alleged drug paraphernalia) or simple corruption on the part of the police and/or judges.

There is a money-laundering-related charge, IIRC called "structuring", in which the reporting threshold of $10k/day/person is intentionally avoided (eg. by $9,999 transactions on consecutive days). This isn't usually charged "out of the blue". In the recent Hastert structuring case[1], he told a bank employee that he was avoiding the reporting threshold even though his money transfers weren't actually money laundering after profiting from a crime.

There is a lot that I disdain about money laundering laws and civil asset forfeiture, but I'm not inclined to believe that "rothbard-rand" (the surnames of two famous Libertarians) has no dogs in this fight, so to speak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert#Indictment
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For more interesting bad visualizations, see also the /r/dataisugly subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly/top/

Unfortunately, submissions to /r/dataisbeautiful tend to comprise most of the modern submissions to /r/dataisugly nowadays.
That's the point. It undermines the idea that publicly funded news organisation follow the government line.
I actually meant what I said, though.

HTML (in some reasonable form) is my favourite format for reading text.
It implies nothing of the sort. It just recognizes a group that produce content that is consumed online.

Your biases are irrelevant
More to the point, why was the officer's camera off in the first place?
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Fast food begs to differ: you can make some pretty tasty stuff with terrible terrible ingredients.

It's tasty alright... Just don't expect to wake up feeling great the next morning.
Where is this divide? It is some concept I am unaware of?
Some people become police officers because it's a stable job with a pension. I have a buddy who might become a corrections officer but I don't think it's because he's excited to baton an inmate as much as the salary and benefits that is the driving motivation.
That's not true in Australia. Our national broadcaster is considered by the (conservative) government to be too left wing, yet it is too popular to defund.
You should just start with a managed setup; a VPS could work but AWS gives you an overhead to manage and be aware of.

While your building up; you may switch to AWS once you need more scaling ability. But if you pick some hosting provider like Internap you can get hardware pretty fast and will be cheaper in the longrun than any public cloud.

Sad; classic hosting is now trying beat the public cloud. The public cloud is trying to get everyone on it and kill classic hosting.

It will never die however; because even Amazon needs a datacenter.
It was 1981, but this technology got me my first date. Community College Fortran (77) class, punched (IBM 029 keypunch) cards fed to a 360 emulator running on a Burroughs 6800. Had to hand the cards in at a window, wait anywhere from hours to the next day for a green bar printout usually laden with errors. Lots of time spent desk-checking, going over cards. Because of the setup and the time involved, the keypunch/window room was a sort of social center. After some initial struggles, I sort of got the hang of things, to the point where people would ask for help. I didn't think anything of offering the help. One day a girl said 'Let me buy you lunch, as thanks.' She had other plans romance-wise, but we were friends for years, and it was the first time I even had an inkling that being a geek didn't have to mean a life alone.
I wonder if something like this could be built around torrents, or maybe one of the persistent distributed archive networks (whose names escape me at the moment).
It could show that there is some other effect happening here. Maybe that effect is that newspapers arent generally critical enough of large cap tech companies.

But it could show that the Bezos connection between WaPo and Amazon is not the primary issue.

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I made an IPFS(the torrent+git+ thing) based fork of this because of these reasons.

It uses IPFS gateway setup in local network, this enables:
* Caching of downloaded data (this is useful when using it to boot multiple computers in one LAN)
* More trust: boot menu is served from local IPFS gateway using immutable hashes. It is also really easy to review it by hand.
* It's a bit more service-dies-scenario proof

Downsides include lack of better documentation and messy code in places - it's a large scale refactor that changes the basics of how the tool works and isn't quite polished. It lives at https://netboot.devtty.eu/. There is no set-up instructions(tr;dr setup: run lan-open ipfs gateway, add A dns record 'ipfs.local' pointing at it in your lan DNS server, rest like netboot.xyz).
This is a cool design. I think the group from University of Maryland developed a single motor single actuator drone back in 2009, here is a link to video...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u23Hqq8QbeE

And article about students involved...

http://eng.umd.edu/news/story/maple-seeds-inspire-robotic-fl...
Which countries are you comparing to? Asking as I've seen some impressive libraries in european countries (e.g. Sweden) too.
I don't know of any Bay Area library system that filters any adult content.
This is silly and short-sighted. There are many people who genuinely want to 'serve and protect', multiple generations in some families. Some people take duty very seriously and in good faith. Applying to be a cop in no way implies that a person holds arrests and the use of deadly force as anything other than a necessary component of the real-world, end-to-end justice system.
This is pretty easy to reason about: the electorate benefits from information privacy more than it could benefit from thought police.

The electorate would benefit less from total financial privacy than it does from the ability to enforce taxes and civil judgements.
This is super cool. You could sell this as a service to IT departments. Give each customer a subdomain, let them manage their own ISOs, maybe throw in kick-start support, and you've got a real product.

Edit: and this would be a great way to build trust, your paying customers would support the public service and distribution maintainers could get official accounts on your service to distribute to their users.
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Sure, so if you want to use circular logic to say the real crime of money laundering is tax evasion, when money laundering actually results in more taxes being paid, that's fine. But don't expect that to be a persuasive moral argument for making money laundering a crime.
In Design of Future Things, ex-Apple UX designer Don Norman interviews (anonymous) engineers of a self-driving car:

DN: "It sped up when we left the freeway instead of slowing down on the exit, that was dangerous. Why did that happen?"

ENG: "Car saw it was on a straightaway. We'll add a rule to handle that."

DN: "So you have to add rules for every possible situation? Doesn't that mean that the car is always at risk for what it doesn't know about yet?"

ENG: "That's Not-A-Problem. We will classify everything."
If I package up my app and ship for Windows, and you package up your app and ship for Windows, how do the two apps use a common runtime?
Ah, foundations of math, start with applied math for making money, descend to applied math that doesn't make money, descend to pure math, descend to foundations, and, there, down in the dark basement try to make some sense.

I've been there, done that, never made even 10 cents there! So, get to Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, the axiom of choice, the work of Kurt Gödel and Paul Cohen (I still have the copy of Cohen's paper Max Zorn gave me!), etc. A friend worked in forcing arguments, Ramsey theory, etc. and never made even 10 cents there either.

I climbed out of that dark basement and don't want to go back!
Are you familiar with Derek Parfait's "Repugnant Conclusion"? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/

It does not necessarily hold that killing lots of dumb things is worse than killing fewer smarter things, but it could.
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No way to discover because of the immense search space? And/Or that if the backdoor was triggered, no way to immediately detect its effects?
There is nw.js:

https://nwjs.io/

I used it to port a frontend for an application that requires multiple toplevel windows and found its API way easier for that particular problem.

Edit: also a rather informative statement by the author on the relationship between nw.js (which used to be node-webkit) and Electron:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nwjs-general/LIrC7zH...
Agreed that libraries are exciting. I too view them as Halls of Learning. I do occasionally check out books still. I'd like to see them be a source of free classes put on by the community like you say. Imagine how many people would sign up for coding, electronics, language, history...etc classes? I know there already are some classes, but I'm not interested in Microsoft Office basics, although I know it is important to some.
Simply not true. Look up Hawala, a money transfer system that's been around for over 1000 years. Use it in the US and be prepared to deal with money laundering charges, regardless of the lack of crime. Or just try having your small business make repeated $9000 deposits of completely legit and clean money.

Money laundering is now about not reporting all your financial movements to the government. It's surpassed the even controversial idea of using it against criminals in lieu of real crimes.
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> The total number of Amazon shares has been slightly increasing over the last 3 years [2]. I wonder why that is?

Maybe stock-based compensation? (I've not checked)
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Seems a perfect match.

A sure moneymaker of a business model. You could call it Borders.
Can anyone describe the difference between this and standard optical connections?

Is it saying that it would give a 36 bit bandwidth over that of today's optics?
Good points. I guess "bias" is more of the word that I was looking for than "agenda". My concern is that they're parroting unproductive fears about nuclear energy that society has gone critical with without pointing out some key facts that are pivotal to fighting climate change, such as that nuclear reactors are gigawatt-scale, 24/7 reliable, carbon-free electricity generators that demonstrably have killed fewer people per kWh than almost anything else out there.

But you're right that they're parroting what many people would parrot because that's how social memes work. I guess it's on me to expose more people to reasoning that convinces them that atomic energy is a good path in our fight against climate change.
it is something of a massive troll, but this essay does take your idea seriously: http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/papers/consistent-vegetarianism-and-...
In true style, I've thought for over a year about creating something like this.. turns out it already exists. Yes!

Side note, iPXE is awesome.. most recently I was using it to test a bug with iBFT (how the BIOS describes an iSCSI root disk to the operating system).. since iPXE lets you setup the appropriate stuff to do iBFT insteading of needing the relevant network card. So many good things from iPXE
Wouldn't that qualify as operating an ad network on instagram, something that is explicitly forbidden via the instagram terms of service?

"Don't transfer any data that you receive from us (including anonymous, aggregate, or derived data) to any ad network, data broker, influencer network, or other advertising or monetization-related service."