skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've suspected this is the case at a LOT of companies. So many marketing and advertising decisions are made this way. As long as they sell enough units it looks like a success, no matter how much potential was thrown away.

This is what made Jobs so great. Most of the criticisms about him are surely correct, but he was a boss who tried to understand the customer, and succeeded at it frequently.
the problem with this argument is if you wait, you may leave money on the table in the form of:

missed dividends

the possibility that Microsoft grows its profits more

the possibility the stock keeps rising, and then even if it falls, it's still higher than the price you sold

The last reason is why timing the market is so hard. Had you sold the S&P 500 in early 1996 because it was 'too expensive', you would have never been able to buy back at a lower price, ever, even after the crash of 2000-2002 and 2008-2009, and you would have missed all the dividends.
This article is very interesting:

https://harpers.org/archive/1929/06/whats-wrong-with-the-rig...

I think it has been posted before.

As an European the "though on crime" spirit in the USA is just the oposite to what we actually have here.

Here there are very forgiving laws, short prison sentences, very soft and polite police attitude against criminals (compared with what you experience in the USA). Prissons are well equiped and there it's relatively easy to transition to more open sentences where you only go to sleep to the prison.
A lot of money is spent in reabilitation, economic help, free university and courses in the prison, etc...

In a way, if you are a law obeying citizen you feel that you are the fish and the criminals have it their way. Very unjust, even dangerous as they are able to roam openly and prey in the innocent. We really wish for harsher laws, policing and prissons.

But the reality is that now a days is difficult to find a place in a Spanish city where you can be mugged with a knife or any other weapon. There is almost no perception of danger in the streets.
Last week I was in a dinner with a district chief in the police. He says there are some property thieves, mostly youth, but they rarely have to draw the gun, criminals may run or shout to cops, but they usually don't fight them. They know they probably are going out of the jail faster than the cop finish filling the papers, so why bother being violent?.

Most criminals are not hardened psicopaths, and with this method the system removes hate and tension from the violence spiral(I don't know if this makes sense).

Of course is far from perfect, at the end of the day some very violent killers and rapists get through this very lax system creating victims and social alarm, but the overall results are very very positive for everybody. Felons get a new oportunity, tax payers save money, citicens get to enjoy a safer city.

Talking about the gun problem in the USA (somebody was blaming guns for th violence in other comment), it seems to me that the people that is trying to ban guns are just doing the oposite of what they are trying to do, they draw more attention to guns, so more people buy them. This people surely would have ignored them if nobody recalled them the topic.

For example in Spain we have a very vigorous antibullfighting movement. But I remember perfectly how in the 80s and early 90s all the bull fighting business men were worried on how the people had stoped going to the corridas. My grandfather loved them (I dont) and he watched all of them in the tv. The plazas were half empty most of the times, and the business was dying (they even were worried about the loss of the race of toros bravos that only gets rised for corridas)

Then the antibullfighting movement gained strength and all the people that had been ignoring the corridas, started paying attention and taking a stance, some pro, some against. But the net result was a very healthy increase in the expectator figures of all thing related to bullfighting.

In a way I think it is the same reason Trump got to president, way too much free propaganda and attention from everybody even if it was negative.
Doesn't exist yet but definitely something we're thinking about, mind sharing the use case? Can ping me privately (jason@fieldbook)
> You can remove parasites by sight easily.

I'd rephrase that as being able to spot fully grown parasites easily, but parasites don't always come fully mature.
What a great story! Once a person has paid their debt to society, society should be forgiving and allow the person to have a second chance.
This is very neat! It made me think of hackmd.io which offers similar features though maybe less minimalist/distraction free but with collaboration. Thanks for sharing!
Reinstalling the OS may be good enough for most people, but you also have to be aware of firmware.
So, without rooting or plugging your phone into a real computer you can:

Run a database ? (good luck running postgres with the OS killing processes all the time)

Run docker ?

Taking screen captures anywhere ? (this one actually got me yesterday while trying to screen capture netflix on my one plus 3)

Run f.lux ?

Run one virtual machine with windows on it ?

Capture 3G traffic with wireshark ?

Install a driver to read a USB key in another partition format not allowed by the OS ?

Bypass DRM ?

Resize partitions to get a dual boot ?

Run Wine ? (and they tried hard. Since fosdem 2014 at least)

Install patches as soon as a vulnerability is discovered, and not waiting on your phone seller to wake up ?

And if you just consider iOS, it's way, way worse. At least on android you have access to part of the filesystem.

The thing is, in computing, nothing works exactly right. And with my laptop, I have always a way to work around problems. With phones, I'm just stuck with it. Multitasking sucks. Automation is terrible. You may install a GNU env, but it has access to so little you can't script your way out of anything.
I believe there is an overlap with amateur radio bands and some of the wifi channels (1-6?). Can't remember which, but you can basically boost wifi to amateur radio ticket-holder powers all within regs. There has been discussion around having your encryption key in your log book, making that available for physical inspection, while retaining encryption on the wire.

Check out HSMM Mesh[0] and similar projects.

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[0] - http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/
Do you feel qualified after your bootcamp experience? I think there will always be those with a developer mindset, and even already writing code, that join a bootcamp, and those will be the ones capable of getting hired and being productive. I feel that the bootcamps leverage that to pitch to another group: those who haven't coded before, and want some of that good cheddar. In the end they aren't really ready to professionally exercise those skills without significant hand-holding, which most employers aren't interested in. (Though some may be interested in growing developers with novice-level skills at a beginning salary at 1/2 or less of the typical junior-level)
I'll be the one to agree with you, but scummy isn't necessarily the right adjective -- Soulless would be better. I rarely have any reason to go south of Queen Street unless I'm going to Toronto Islands (which I love dearly). A project like this, plus the rail deck park they want to build over the train tracks might help sway me, but what they really need is to tear down/bury the expressway so that everything south of it doesn't feel so divided from the rest of the city.
> shouldn't this be a loss for Quebec?

Agreed. It's a loss for Quebec, Bombardier, Canadian workers (who lose jobs to Alabama), Canadian taxpayers, and most importantly, for free trade and free markets - this will only establish anti-competitive policies as an accepted norm, a dangerous precedent.

Not that anyone cares about economics any more; it all seems political.
D'oh! Right you are!
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I came to see if people were talking about the robotics and automation ETF cited in the article and if it would be a good idea to buy at this point, but seems that everyone is having philosophical conversation instead of a investing conversation :-p
The alternative may have been "having no cake" since they would not be profitable without successfully fighting the 300% tariff.
Not all web pages are (or at least need to be) web apps. Logging into an account vs reading a static page is apples to oranges.

Mandating JS to get any content, no matter how static, seems like the start of the death of e.g. Linked Data and a the web as an open standards based platform. I know I'm in the minority but diversity is a strength, and there are few places more important than the web.
An affiliate link? :/
i don't know that it requires custom code, but it would require the ability to write declarative rules for selecting the content (many marketing automation systems now have a visual campaign sequencer which is similar in functionality).

it would combine essentially a CMS with marketing automation, where content can be fed into the system (either created or curated) and the newsletter template would slot the selected content into the available spaces based on the rules (and/or via machine learning).

but yes, machine-selected content would be a logical next step after what i'm describing.
When you read about his relationship with his wife and children he was not exactly easy or nice.
One cool feature would be to scroll-lock the input with the output when scrolling the output pane.

Obviously the challenge is that they don't correspond line-to-line. Embedding an image is a one-liner of input yet might be hundreds of pixels tall in the preview.

VSCode's Markdown preview does this decently when you're scrolling the preview pane.
Gotta love the modern stereotypes downplaying intelligence and pretty much put most intelligent people into that box unless they have celebrity or a large amount of money, and often even then.
This is so cool. Thanks.
Scientific Marketing: Using Data to Drive Your Marketing Strategy
Never heard about that. Maybe it was all bluster then to promote his own stuff over bootcamps.
Yes, but guess what, Docker CNI is now going to be supported, so CNI is no longer a issue. Ingress will still be a issue, but Openshift is still doing their own random route thing there anyways.

Being low on the stack is a power move. It's like a NFL lineman, the lower player has considerably higher leverage then the higher player. Docker can go in, run Kubeadm legitimately, but use Docker based CNI and volume plugins and displace Openshift.

Plus, Openshift is _12k_ a application node on AWS:
https://www.openshift.com/dedicated/index.html#pricing
On the topic of VR interfaces, I would love a VR newspaper. Something where I can read all my favorite content aggregators and not have to worry about keeping all the sections together or setting my morning drink down and leaving a ring of moisture on the article I was going to read next.
That’s very much the New Yorker style but I didn’t find it hard to read.
Off by one errors basically don't exist if you use modern languages and practices.
Out curiosity - how do you (both you and GP) come up with your conclusions without ever having met any of these people personally?

It's a bit like the portrayal of Steve Jobs. Sure, I can read testimonies about how he was an asshole - but how would I know for sure?
If you use GAE, you get a free plan on SendGrid (up to a max) and I've used it to send mails to gmail and yahoo accounts. Don't recollect anyone ending up in spam but I haven't sent them in thousands. Will keep your comment in mind as I do so..
I believe 2D canvas rendering is performed on the CPU rather than the GPU.
Yeah I also think their obsession with the diaeresis is on the precious side. But that's what I'm looking for in the New Yorker - they use discursive sentences to write discursive articles. If I wanted a neat summary, I'd come to the HN comments section :)
> the US [unsurprisingly] imposed 300% duty as a counter measure to the perceived government subsidies

Not to pick on the parent statement, but it brings up what I think is an important point: Let's not take these claims by the US government at face value. The US very well may have imposed the duty to help a US company, and used the rest as justification. Economic isolationism/nationalism is an explicit policy of the US government.
In the most technical sense both are searches encoded in to a URI form. The search for the (hopefully) GUID just happens to be for a specific mechanical object, while the other is describing the taxonomic categorization of what a matching item would look like.
I'm annoyed Chrome closed the alt-text before I finished reading it.
He's saying that per the OP:

As other people have mentioned, this is only strange because of our bizarre popular notions of crime and punishment in America.

is extrapolating. This isn't weird because of notions of justice (cue soapbox), it's weird because for anyone to become a Georgetown law professor is incredible, for a convicted felon to do it is difficult to believe, it's missing the forest for the trees.
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Loading is straightforward, unloading depends.
Minor nitpick, I'm not sure if exact match in URL slugs matters from Google's perspective very much. I do read that searchers' eyes can be drawn towards the exact match (which are frequently bolded in the SERPs), possibly leading to a higher clickthrough rate.
If your sending volumes are low a dedicated IP can be worse than shared IPs.
What's so bad about libreoffice? It's no worse than ms office, actually it's better because there are no stupid ribbons.
Keeping 100% accurate constant area would require a pretty insane closed form equation. Even ignoring the amount of area added by the stretched portions.
That is what web apps are all about actually.
I think the main benefit is the middle point. It sounds like they have programs with huge memory footprints and (I’m guessing) caches that take a while to warm up. This lets them avoid that. Fraud detection is probably time sensitive and slow responses aren’t acceptable.
The "problem" with that ETF is that there are few "pure play" intelligent robotic/automation companies in the world. There are manufacturing/farming equipment suppliers, consumer good robots doing fairly mundane tasks, chip makers who happen to make hardware that is good for AI.
Interestingly, I once built a very similar project as Rotonde but all based on RSS/OPML files with some namespace extensions to add social communication layer. It was federated, not true p2p (circa 2010) but the concepts were the same. App layer did not matter, only constructing properly formatted feeds. I think even today it would be good to base this off RSS or at least have RSS be a tandem feed.
This might be a little out of date now, but I read this book in college that covers some of that ground. (My professor was the author)

The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns

By: Samuel Popkin
Sure, but "putting in the hard work" doesn't equate to "deserving to be there" either. Add in females and minorities getting easier entry into universities, grant money and scholarships and voila, you've got plenty of people who work hard, who don't meet standards, with others that could achieve more locked out because they're not felt sorry for and celebrated with their inclusion.

Many of the women that I know in IT workplaces, that were hired under the auspices of "culture", were hired because they were attractive and notionally competent on paper or shoed-in because they fit multiple minority demographics.

When a mass of people are definitely imposters, those that fit the same demographics can definitely feel like they're imposters when they're not. I find it amusing when someone's hired for all the wrong reasons and turns out to be the best fit of all for a position. I've experienced that myself.
Isn't it kind of crazy that gmail is the ONLY place you can search Hangouts chat history??
>> "First of all, we love partitioning people into good and evil sets. If we can only root out and imprison the evil people..."

Wiser men than us thought the same thing [0]:

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13750-if-only-it-were-all-s...
Yes, the Howey decision

> The test of whether there is an "investment contract" under the Securities Act is whether the scheme involves an investment of money in a common enterprise with profits to come solely from the efforts of others; and, if that test be satisfied, it is immaterial whether the enterprise is speculative or nonspeculative, or whether there is a sale of property with or without intrinsic value.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/328/293/case.htm...
JPMorgan implements Zcash security layer into Quorum
A Pareto distribution with alpha >= 2 (and likely alpha < 5, because that's starting to look too much like Communism) and x_m >= the cost of basic necessities for one person--including shelter, water, food, sanitation, medical care, education, and their share of upkeep for the transportation and communications networks.

No one suffers from lack of vital resources. Yet it is still possible to get rich via a combination of luck, skill, and tenacity. Seems fair to me.

Of course, this leads to bickering about how to calculate the numbers, so....
Systems theory research suggests wealth redistrib. needed for economic growth
Could you elaborate a bit on that? I find that a tad surprising ...

Just hazarding a guess, but are you using the xiwi X11 replacement? That's just a dummy x server, with everything forwarded to a chrome app. Its a hack to get around the chromeos switch from x to a custom wayland'ish display server. Pretty slow.

But with crouton, you can also run a full xorg on vt-2. And I would be very surprised if anything failed to run there (from a graphical perspective). Even steam with full hardware acceleration works.
>you can almost always delegate that kind of interface up one layer in your application stack and pass AES-SIV chunks of messages.

Without additional precautions this approach is vulnerable to a fairly basic chunk-reordering attack, since any re-ordering of the "chunks" is a valid ciphertext. I strongly recommend against this approach.

EDIT: Unfortunately there is not really a better way to implement a streaming interface on top of a nonce-misuse-resistant encryption scheme: it's fairly easy to prove that any nonce-misuse-resistant construction must necessarily be "offline" in the sense tptacek describes.
Except the article says: "And if you use Calendar for personal use, click “Use new Calendar” in the upper righthand corner of the main Calendar view to get started."

Went to my calendar, and this isn't there at all. And will I get the option to go back, or is the old calendar dead?
They should try sucking less:

My most recent peeve is that its virtually impossible to order searches by cost anymore. Every hole-in-the-wall Chinese seller has figured out that you can do a multi-select on your listing and just stick in a random item with a $0.99 price as one of the selections. This makes it appear as a $0.99 item in the search results. The real product then has to be selected before you can see the real price.

Literally every product is $0.99 from friendship bracelets to jet-skis with no way to sort them. You just have to click each one to discover what it really costs.

I mostly use Aliexpress now for that sort of thing; It's just easier and works better.

And don't even think about selling an Apple product or you will learn quickly about the "brick scam" that's been going on so long and is so well know, ebay is basically complicit in it at this point.

Yes, I'm ranting but: I used to use ebay a great deal. Now I don't. They are richly earning their irrelevance.
Thanks for the tip, I'll check this one out.
Yeah, my initial reaction was "I can see how these design decisions might make sense, but the blog post is horrible."

These kinds of designs typically emerge over a long and windy history and, for someone who was part of that process, it's difficult to coherently describe the final state to an outsider. Good textbook authors have this skill. Most tech blog authors do not. (I think that part of the problem is that people don't respect just how difficult it actually is.)

My guess: restarting a large fleet of processes is a pain. The rollout will typically be throttled to avoid connection churn, among other things. For risky code changes, you probably want a slow rollout anyway, but if you're just tweaking abuse detection rules (almost just a config change), it's nice to have your changes take effect more quickly. Dynamic loading seems like one reasonable way to achieve that goal.

Tangent: people, please stop making analogies to mechanical engineering feats that are WAY more difficult than what you did [1]. People have been loading shared libraries forever; it's like adding an AUX port, not swapping out the engine. It's not even in the same league as Ksplice or as the JVM's dynamic loading/deoptimization.

[1] http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-w...
Boys taken to serve in their army all had to convert. Or die.

You think they were spreading atheism or christianity? Of course not, they pushed for their own religion.
> What I think you're finding is people used to majority privilege, suddenly finding their viewpoints in the minority, becoming obsessively sensitive and claiming victimhood for which there is paltry evidence.

Most of the egregious cases (including the Google Memo) involve liberals who are censored, harassed, or assaulted by progressives for openly inquiring or pointing to inconsistencies in the progressive narrative. Based solely on the frequency of these starkest of cases, I don't know how anyone could reasonably conclude that the evidence is paltry. Everyone should be allowed to ask questions and express (at least moderate) political ideas without fearing for their safety or income. This has nothing to do with privilege, and it shouldn't be a right conferred only to the extreme left.

> Why is it that when a majority of people hold progressive views, it's an "echo chamber", but if you're a minority growing up in the Midwest, or a liberal in a Red State, it's not an 'echo chamber'? There's some kind of weird assumption going on that somehow, conservatives should be able to expouse views and not feel like they're an outlier minority opinion.

Prior to the last few years, I've only ever heard the term applied to conservatives, who ostensibly failed to live up to the formerly-progressive value of open-mindedness. Conservatives have always been taken to task for failing to abide by progressive values (tolerance, free speech, open-mindedness, etc). Now progressives are under the same gun and it's all "poor progressives! why aren't conservatives faulted for failing to live up to progressive values?"; at any rate, the term is still widely (and justifiably) applied to conservatives.
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I don't know about typical sushi fish, but I've eaten a lot of cod that was caught, boiled, and put on the dinner table all within about forty minutes.

It falls apart on the plate, but it's also one of the best-tasting types of fish dinner I've ever had.

Once it's an hour old it's too late, though, so I don't expect to ever see such fish commercially.
We don't want kids who struggle with something to feel worthless. That tends to breed depression. Failure should be orthogonal to your feelings of self-worth. It's ok to fail, sometimes it's beneficial to learning (or whatever), but sometimes that needs to be made clear.
As long as humans are still providing input...