skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people seem to be evaluating this question on an egalitarian premise: what's best for the greatest number of people? On that premise, taking money from very wealthy people and giving it to others will always seems appealing (even though it destroys wealth).

But let's evaluate it from the premise of justice. By what principle can we remove control of these companies from those who created them? From those who have worked there and earned equity in them? From those who have invested in the public stock in order to fund growth and earn a return? By what principle can a government interfere with a private contract, one that has governed how a group of people work together for 15 or 20 years, and unilaterally break it?

The argument is that the companies have too much power. But what kind of power? Can they take money out of your paycheck without your permission? Can they prevent you from erecting a building on your property without their approval? Can they imprison you for failing to appear at a hearing?

There is a difference between government power and economic power. Government power is the power to compel, and it the source of the power is the army and the police, or, more bluntly, the gun.

Economic power is the power to create. The source of economic power is the value that is offered. Sometimes a business offers something so valuable that people shape their lives around its presence and start to take it for granted. These are the businesses we punish most.

Should we turn economic power into government power? The immediate implication is frightening. All three of these companies have well-staffed legal departments challenging the government's requests for private information about their users. Who will fight those requests when these companies are agencies of the executive office?

The long term implications are devastating. Who will create the next Facebook, Google, or Amazon with the prospect of working 20 years and having it taken by force, as punishment for succeeding too much?

And would a nationalized Google have created a self-driving car? Would a nationalized Amazon have invented AWS? Would a nationalized Facebook invest in high-speed internet for Africa? Nationalization destroys growth.

Economic growth follows economic freedom. The world has experimented many times, and the theory and the experiments agree—Venezuela is only the most recent tragic example. At the root of any other argument is a desire to redistribute wealth.
Where would you prefer the funding to come from?
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The Guardian uses clickbait just like any other site. Those ads aren't going to display themselves.
They care because if I expand to the foreign market rather than in the US market because I can bribe my way to advantages, that's competing on very unfair terms with competitors that stay in the US.

That and the fact that OECD has a convention against bribery, so if you want to trade in the largest trading block in the world on good terms, you better help enforce the rules.
People had voted to give them this power, by signing up to use the services. They are free to leave any time.
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> I think a lot of the "oh my gosh nationalisation is such an awful idea" / "not in my free society" comments are missing the point.

They really aren't. Far larger, more entrenched monopolies have existed before; when they needed to be resolved, they were simply broken up.

Suggesting to nationalize them is not only entirely unnecessary, it contradicts decades of experience in dealing with monopolies.

IMHO, nationalizations are either bail-outs or power-grabs.
It isn't just "the first time" that is slow for the LUT solution.

Each time the table access hits a new cache line, there will be a stall. Say your LUT has 2048 64-bit entries, that's 256 cache lines. So the total stall time waiting for cache lines to be filled could be as bad as 210 cycles * 256 = 53760 cycles. In that amount of time, the std library function could have returned about 1000 results (assuming the std library takes 50 cycles).

And, as well as waiting for the table reads, the LUT based function has other work to do. If we are comparing performance to the std library function, it handles input from the entire range of IEEE 64-bit floats. It isn't practical to do that directly with a lookup table. You would need to clamp the range down to something manageable. Once that's done, if you want anything like decent accuracy you need to read two values from the table and do a linear interpolation between them. Or you could have a HUGE table instead of the lerp but it would have to be far too big to fit in L1 cache, and thus also quite slow.

My guess is a clamp and lerp'd lookup table will take ~10 cycles once the table is entirely in cache. So, I guess I'm claiming that the LUT would then be 5x faster than the std library.

I don't have a lot of confidence in that prediction though. There are lots of other things to worry about if we were to do this analysis properly, including: a) how the input pattern alters the effectiveness of the branch predictor, b) how exactly you are finding some input data to operate on without polluting the cache, c) whether we are measuring latency or throughput.
Using base 60 makes no sense for computer graphics.

However, doing everything possible in terms of vectors and never using angle measure unless interfacing with humans or legacy software is a generally good idea.

If you want to represent a rotation use a complex number of unit magnitude. If you want to represent a 3-dimensional rotation use a unit quaternion. If you want to store one of these using only 1 or 3 parameters, respectively, take the stereographic projection and optionally reduce the precision of your floating point numbers afterward.

This doesn’t imply turning everything into Wildberger’s rational trigonometry per se, but if you need metrical comparisons then you end up developing/using some of the same machinery.
OrbitRemit works very well for us
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Six figures is a pretty useless distinction these days. It's like how every homeowner is technically a millionaire. The term sticks though.

In any case, freelancer is a vague term. Working on smaller, ad-hoc tasks it is probably harder to make a big payday, but working longer contracts (also called a contractor) can pay very well.
Swan-dns
I think you're basically making a bucketing error here. As Scott Alexander points out, the exact same things he wanted to do were already being widely done elsewhere to no ill effect with no such worrying about consent. Why then does it make sense to group it under "research" together with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and conclude things about it from that experiment, when the two have nothing in common except being research? I think that's a mistake of inference. Like, why should we conclude that we need that sort of consent to administer a questionnaire for experimental purposes (i.e.: gaining generally useful knowledge), but that there are no substantial issues of consent when it’s for diagnostic purposes (i.e.: gaining information about that particular patient) instead? Wouldn't it make more sense to group this case with the case with similar risk profile but a different purpose, rather than a related purpose but an entirely different risk profile? Something being research isn't what causes problems.
Or even less! Sent some money from Brazil to Sweden and in Brazil it's a convoluted process of paying invoices that need to be cleared by the banks, normally taking 1-2 working days. Even with that had my money from TW in 1 working day, pretty impressed.
In modern times the best solution is to usually never bother with angle measure, and just stick to pure vectorial methods.

If you happen to need an angle measure for whatever reason (e.g. interacting with legacy systems) you can then compute it to however many binary digits are appropriate for your needs.
Ripgrep: the usability of the Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
Whoopi did it first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115580/
Agreed. We used Asana but I didn't see the point in paying for a slow product.

Switched the Trello. Never been happier.
Curated odesk/elancer/freelancer is area of strong need. Original thesis around fixed price generic development was a false offering that did not work well for clients or them - logical that they dropped this. Marketing of top tech talent is also a fraudulent statement according to many who have worked with them. They would do better to pursue the real opportunity with out the misleading marketing.
A friend of mine got something like this for her daughter, who seemed to have loved it:

http://www.snapcircuits.net

I'm not sure about the current state of littlebits, but I remember it being very promising :

https://littlebits.cc
This is simply great!

It means Air BnB can scale even more, take savvy incorporated entrepreneurs in the field for example. They can even pretend to be a private home holders.. Now it is all in the books, reported and regulated.
We need [Trump]'s administration to run Google.

We need [Trump]'s administration to run Facebook.

We need [Trump]'s administration to run Amazon.

In 4 years, substitute your own -- no thanks.

No offense, Nick Srnicek, but please keep the authoritarianism on that side of the pond.
Thanks! Also, I'm confused. Why did this one not show up when I read the entire comic back-to-back (by starting at the most recent one and going back)?
> He most likely has sufficient training and knowledge about the ethics given his profession.

Sure but the mockery in that post suggests he either doesn't care about them or thinks they're stupid.

Also do we really have to point out that just because someone is a doctor doesn't mean they have any authority when it comes to medical ethics? I mean, there's hundreds of cases amply demonstrating this even just this decade.
Entering "cofounder" in any HN search box brings it right up.
Yeah, it's total nonsense.

The current government in my state won on a platform of not privatising the main electrical utility.
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curl -s -D - https://www.ceondo.com -o /dev/null | grep Terry

I think we are many fans having this running since 2015.
I wonder how Uber approached the topic of his $180m Expedia stock...
> But one thing I was wondering was how much it depends on basic science. Now that we've discovered EM, have we exhausted the basic knowledge about the world? Is every tech going forward just refinements on particular aspects of nature, or is it unlimited how we combine things?

People centuries ago probably asked themself the same question. Let's just assume we are missing massive chunks of informations.
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This might look like a silly comment, but it really isn't. Let's say FB was nationalised. So now if you want to contact your local government office you do so through Facebook. The library service is accessed through FB. Drivers Licenses and professional certifications are linked to your FB profile as are medical and criminal records.

Government information and services would only be indexed in Google. Amazon would become a branch of the postal service and used to deliver passports and driving licenses. In practice you'd hardly be able to function without using them.
I build algorithms, apps, websites, and APIs for startups.
They are most likely German and meant to say competition.

Konkurrenz in German = Competition in English
And given that Google is an American companies, there is a strong possibility that they got helped for the FTC that they will not have with the EUC.
Bless your Grandpa. Sounded like a great Pa to have.

I think his spirit and mindset is being lost in to the lust and herd mentality stemming from capitalism. Who would care throwing unknown molecules on your crop.
Mouse to RAT: vulnerabilities in  most of the Logitech Unifying dongle devices
Maybe IoT can be the answer, although not the kind of security hole of devices talking straight to their cloud, the kind of IoT where devices talk to a central command and control device located inside the home. Then this controller can ping the devices/ask for their status and upload a statistics of how often devices say "Repair required.". And obviously no manufacturer will volunteer to do this...
At a minimum you should be able to export your data for some period after account suspension. At the moment are there any cases where they summarily delete everything?

I've been thinking about automating a periodic export but not got round to it. I know they have APIs and services for this under the DLF project but I've not looked into it yet. Does anyone have experience with this?
surely someone would be able to check the registered directors and see no mention of Keith Mann and were there one wouldn't it be illegal?

Of course they just deploy that persona for problematic people that wouldn't be smart enough to cross reference company registration documents.

This also reminds me of the show Remington Steel.
Not wanting your balls in the hand of the enemy is a fair reason to migrate.
What math level should I have to understand this book?
Wow, KaKaRoTo is still in the hardware scene, damn.
Nonsense. How can any democratic government force to use Google search, post pics in Facebook or buy from Amazon?
I think you make his point. You work in medical research, all of these hoops to jump through are a real benefit to you. They keep you from being sued and act as moats that protect your livelyhood from external disruption. Do the hoops protect the participants in the research? Of course. But at what cost to the participants and at what cost to less well equipped researchers and at what cost to science itself? It's good that you won't be sued, and your training in filling in the various forms is commendable but maybe there's another side to things you're too inculcated to see clearly.
It's really nice to see that the author includes detailed instructions for installing without root. It's pretty much how you'd expect it, but a lot of software these days assumes you'll give some random library root access or worse pipe curl to bash:

https://github.com/abaldwin88/roamer/blob/master/doc/faq.md
Sure we do, they're called patents.
For 99% of the situations you just need 2 boxes.
I notice I use graphical applications over the network less and less. A lot of my work happens over ssh connections and the most graphical stuff is curses based. Last time I used it a GUI app was running a heavy IDE on a beefy machine from a relatively puny laptop.

That and working from a really cool vintage RS/6000 box with AIX with everything running off my contemporary Linux box.
I understand it's not necessary to register cofounders on such a register; just directors.
@thr2178008 Hey there. I'll give you a proven roadmap to six figure freelancing right now.

1) Pick a new up and coming language or framework. Something like elixir or pheonix or something else that is really hot and just starting out.

2) Learn it. As you learn, write a series of really awesome tutorials and articles on your blog about that stack.

3) Help people out on SO and other forums that talk about that tech. Point folks to your posts if it looks like it might help. Add your blog to your profile page.

4) Try to guest on some podcasts about this same technology, or maybe even create your own podcast.

5) Keep doing steps 1-4 with constancy and over time your luck surface area will grow and new opportunities will come your way.

When you start contracting in that tech you'll be able to charge much better rates than your old rate because you will be a thought leader in that space.

Also, you will be able to capitalize on sites like airpair.com

Hope this helps!
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I believe that the fact that the article doesn't compare the solution of nationalization with the prevalent alternative of breaking-up says all you need to know about the quality of the article.

Hell, it doesn't even mention the alternative, even though it's the prevalent one.
That’s one of the previous interpretations. If you read this paper you’ll find out why these authors think that interpretation is implausible.
This might be an older version: https://github.com/stephenc/high-scale-lib
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> For my interest as a hobbyist roboticist, 5kg is kind of the tipping point where you can automate some truly interesting things.

Could you provide some examples of payloads that are over 5kg?
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There is a way on how to time a recession, that is able to indicate it right before it happens, see:

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/02/uetrend/

And it is also possible to have a slightly better ROI than buy and hold, even if you don't have the timing of future recession dates. See http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/01/gtt/

In that last article, you also see that "perfect recession timing" (looking backwards instead of to the future) actually doesn't have that much improvement over buy and hold. So for me, it doesn't seem like the return is worth the effort, so I just buy and hold.
Gigster had some controversy here 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541162
This one is more up-to-date: https://github.com/cliffclick/JCTools
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>We’ve only begun to grasp the problem, but in the past, natural monopolies like utilities and railways that enjoy huge economies of scale and serve the common good have been prime candidates for public ownership. The solution to our newfangled monopoly problem lies in this sort of age-old fix, updated for our digital age. It would mean taking back control over the internet and our digital infrastructure, instead of allowing them to be run in the pursuit of profit and power.

The article is a mishmash of sensationalism and trending buzzwords.

OK let's accept the argument that said companies are "too big". Why nationalize them? To nationalize a company you first have to ask the question what are the consequences for the nation if company X increases prices/fails/stops offering services? If the answer is not dire, you don't touch them

I'll buy that search is important, but what's the vital utility of google apart from that, e-mail and maps? Android? Facebook is a chat/opinion/vanity medium, are we really saying that losing facebook (or whatsapp or whatever) access is a national emergency? I can't buy the argument about "our data". Privacy is important and mishandling of personal data should be severely punished, but that's not an argument for letting the state operate those companies - that's an argument for better laws and enforcement.

And how do you nationalize a globally accessed service with limited physical national presence anyway? This is getting more silly by the minute

There are antitrust/competition laws in every capitalist country, if a company is too big just break it - it won't be the first time or the last. If you think a company mishandles or has privileged access to something it shouldn't (your citizen's data) just punish it and limit its access.
I joined about 2 years ago and have probably earned $50K+ on the network. Pros (at least in the past):

* Paid on time.
* Paid pretty well considering no sales, customer service, debt collection.
* They (sometimes) let the developers make decisions on architecture, stack etc.
* On most recent project was able to define deliverables and milestones.
* Met some cool people.

Cons:

* As they move to Enterprise focus, flow of jobs has slowed to a trickle. I expect $20mil will help fill the sales and project pipeline though.
* They are really pushing a subset of tech (Swift, React, some homemade stuff)
* Hard for new developers (who don't know React) to get work. Teams have formed/gelled and tend to work together.

I have more or less moved on to focus on my own startup full-time but haven't ruled out trying to pick up a gig in the future. I'd likely need to level up on React which I don't want to.
Is that considered bribery in china? Is it illegal?
Don't know about other countries, but at least in Lithuania there are laws against such scenarios.
Will this work on both Qualcomm and Exynos variants of the S8?
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> If your intellectual property blows through the wind and contaminates your neighbors, you should be liable, not them.

More importantly, seeds should not be considered as intellectual property. In particular, it's ridiculous that you are not allowed to replant seeds from your harvest.
The two are orthogonal.

There is a substantial pro-immigration section in the Republican party, and that doesn't seem to change their views on gerrymandering.
How does he deal with the diagonal of the square? because that needs sqrt(2).
In other words, it is not a technical advantage, but a social/political one.
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DosNavigator was "the shit" back in the day
Same here. Asked by my mother, "why wasn't it you who created YouTube?". This was pre Google acquisition.

I remember just staring at her for a moment, as my mother is a very sensible woman, and then just shaking my head and saying, "Mum, you realise that YouTube bleeds money don't you? It's not a real business. You can't pay for free video streaming with banner ads, that doesn't work as a business model".

There's definitely a lack of understanding in older generations of how wealth creation in tech works, and it's definitely due to the flood of irresponsible VC money sloshing around the Valley. Good luck trying to get investment to do a YouTube anywhere but California: even the most basic questions like "if nobody buys you, will you make money" would rule you out right away.
There's a list of sites 'broadcasting' over at https://www.reddit.com/r/GNUTerryPratchett/
Anti-trends in web development. Get rid of these until the end of 2018
> Scripts for GC languages wouldn't be compiled directly for WebAssembly -- their runtimes would

It is not a walk in the park to compile runtime into WebAssembly (unless you are just compiling an interpreter).

Performant runtimes usually include machine specific backends and/or hand written assembly code. You'll need to port that all to target WASM too.
Doesn't the iPhone 8 have a depth camera?
My problem with them is simple: "how the hell do you turn them into actual money?"

I have/had 50€ worth of bitcoin and I tried to turn them into real money. Now I have ~50€ in some wallet on some service and I haven't been able to figure out how to get them out.

In most of the world cryptocurrencies are not practical in any way.
Nobody said anything about a nation state (in this subthread). Just non-profit and tightly regulated.
> Do we really need to send plain versions or it's just a second system syndrome of doing everything "right"?

Yes, you do need to send plain versions. I make my e-mail clients to use plain
text version first, and if that's not available, HTML version dumbed down to
plain text. The cases when somebody needs to send formatted e-mail are really,
really rare. Though...

> From day to day, we send lots of emails and a huge fraction of those are of marketing nature.

...I delete marketing e-mails on the spot.
Great selection of helper HOCs!

If you are not familiar with higher order components, maybe this article, a gentle introduction to higher order components [0], helps.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/gentle-introduction-higher-order...