skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually highly doubt that. Most of the "research" done by these people, or those that they rely on, are papers published by think tanks and institutions funded with money from conservative billionaires (e.g. Koch brothers). They essentially live in a different system, one where the person who commits to certain principles most feverishly is considered better. This is not unlike what we have seen in other ultra-religious groups throughout history (e.g. Spanish Inquisition: "You're not Christian enough, so we're gonna kill you").

There was an op-ed published by Krugman yesterday which argued that tax cuts wouldn't really benefit the wealthy all that much since they have already so much, but cutting benefits really impact society's most vulnerable. But Republicans continue to push for tax cuts. Why? Because they live in that alternate universe.
My father insists that the productivity failures of the late Union were due to large-scale theft, corruption, and lack of accountability on the part of... Pretty much everyone in the supply chain. Even if some factory director were doing a good job, there were a million and one reasons outside of his control that impacted his productivity. A third of the GDP going towards the Red Army did not help.

If that is indeed an accurate assessment of the situation, then computer-driven planning would not have done one whit to fix it. You can't fix these kinds of institutional problems, without changing the management culture - as anyone who has worked on a 'agile-in-name-only' team could attest to.

Anecdote of the theft: My mother's uncle was some regional agricultural inspector/manager/auditor. Didn't actually do any farm work himself. Every year, around harvest time, he would, for a few weeks would come back from work with a trunk loaded with fresh produce, meat, etc.

Now, consider that, and extrapolate it to the entire country. Yes, things got done, but not as well as they could have. Corruption is a huge tax on the economy.
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Anybody remember the kremvax April-fools hoax on Usenet (1984)?

From chernenko@kremvax.UUCP Sun Apr 1 15:02:52 1984
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 4/1/84 (SU840401); site kremvax.UUCP
Path: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
From: chernenko@kremvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general,eunet.general,net.politics,eunet.politics
Subject: USSR on Usenet
Message-ID: <0001@kremvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 15:02:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: kremvax.0001
Posted: Sun Apr 1 15:02:52 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Apr-84 12:26:02 GMT
Organization: MIIA, Moscow
Lines: 41

<.....>

Well, today, 840401, this is at last the Socialist Union of Soviet
Republics joining the Usenet network and saying hallo to everybody.

One reason for us to join this network has been to have a means of
having an open discussion forum with the American and European people
and making clear to them our strong efforts towards attaining peaceful
coexistence between the people of the Soviet Union and those of the
United States and Europe.

We have been informed that on this network many people have given strong
anti-Russian opinions, but we believe they have been misguided by their
leaders, especially the American administration, who is seeking for war
and domination of the world.
By well informing those people from our side we hope to have a possibility
to make clear to them our intentions and ideas.

Some of those in the Western world, who believe in the truth of what we
say have made possible our entry on this network; to them we are very
grateful. We hereby invite you to freely give your comments and opinions.

Here are the data for our backbone site:

Name: moskvax
Organization: Moscow Institute for International Affairs
Contact: K. Chernenko
Phone: +7 095 840401
Postal-Address: Moscow, Soviet Union
Electronic-Address: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
News: mcvax kremvax kgbvax
Mail: mcvax kremvax kgbvax

And now, let's open a flask of Vodka and have a drink on our entry on
this network. So:

NA ZDAROVJE!

--
K. Chernenko, Moscow, USSR
...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax
That's an interesting view. I see what you mean, but I don't think copyright stops us from using other's works. There's a huge cultural zietgiest that is regularly appropriated for new content that doesn't require directly copying other's words or pictures. Shakespeare taking the well known story of Romeo and Juliet and writing a play is quite different than Shakespeare taking someone else's play and putting it on with his theater company and under his name. One is acceptable under copyright law, and the other, I would argue, is unacceptable under moral law (the underlying legal theory behind copyright).

And there are provisions in the law meant to mitigate some of this: the protection of transformative use and fair use.

I believe copyright needs reform, but in the days of mass distribution controlled by a small number of large companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.), I think it might be more important than ever.
Status-Quo Bias: Why 99% of 🇦🇹 citizens donate their organs
The Caribbean boat trip that cured my fear of water
> I would argue that the hash rate follows value, rather than the other way round.

I do actually say that in the article, in almost those same words.

My (perhaps not very well articulated) point was that regardless of what follows what, the hash rate, or the amount of work, in terms of energy expended is by far greatest of all other crypto coins, especially considering the whole blockchain going back to beginning, which means to 51% attack Bitcoin is harder than anything else right now.

For this reason, if I wanted to park my money in a crypto currency, I'd probably choose Bitcoin as the safest, hardest reinforced as far as proof-of-work goes.

Of course there are other factors at play here, but it seems like amount of proof-of-work, or the difficulty, is an important factor in a crypto currency preciousness.
The "good fit" sent shivers through my spine!

I'm a bit of an odd ball in terms of background, and in my early 20's I interviewed for really interesting jobs at really interesting companies (Intel, oracle, Digital, and some more). Every single time the tech staff I would have worked with finished the interviews by saying "You just need one last interview with HR, it will be nothing, looking forward to work with you!".

And every single time the answer from HR was that " I would not fit in".

After 4 or 5 companies turning me down I thought fuck this, I don't want to fit in, I want to produce good quality work and make customers happy, and started to look exclusively for contracts. Thirty years later, I'm still contracting, every single of my customers has been very happy with my work.

Funnily enough, nobody tried to hire me as an employee in those 30 years! And they were right, I'd probably wouldn't fit in. I don't accept status quo, I don't buy in cargo cult, I'm not interested in coming in to wait for the hours to go by.

Remember, "fitting in" is not necessarily a good thing. People hire me because I don't.
"Translation Memory". Thank you I could not for the life of me remember that. 5 years was so long ago !
Not to mention cognitive impairment:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696341/
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> 2 hours is fine for an interview, but it's way too long to spend on a speculative application for one company.

So... you limit yourself to no more than 4 hours effort applying to any company? Doesn't that limit your choices greatly?
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wouldn't one of the real answer to this x86 emulation on ARM? is the reason why it's not happening because of patents only?
Not a single link to Breitbart in a piece about Breitbart. Are they so afraid of the site that they feel they can't link to it?

The result is I can't evaluate what they're talking about. What Breitbart articles do they have in mind? I found a bunch of neutral articles about SpaceX there, and this negative op-ed:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/18/elon-musk...

Is that what they're talking about?
The first thing that comes to mind is that debt stops making sense. In addition to your interest rate, your principle becomes more expensive over time.

A mortgage, a car payment, becomes more expensive over time since the deal was struck when prices were higher. A bitcoin can buy you a heck of a lot more now, but the mortgage you signed in 2014 was for 200 bitcoins. Uh oh...

Now, of course you can argue the necessity of credit until the cows come home. The bottom line is whatever credit is to you, deflation really throws a wrench in it.

Naively, other things the same, the best time to take out credit for something you need is now. Under a deflationary currency that time is never.
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It sounds like you're spending too much time in focus mode and not enough time in diffuse mode. A lot of people are suggesting your team is just incapable of diffuse thinking, but I would say it's a skill like any other.

Travel, read fiction, daydream, write down ten bad ideas right after waking up... play a bit looser than you're used to, and some new connections should form.
Apple's advertising customers certainly felt they were doing things differently.

>advertisers became increasingly perturbed that Apple refused to give them access to the wealth of data iAd had on its consumers from Apple's hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts. And it moved slowly to keep up with the latest ad-tech developments, such as cross-device retargeting.

Stefan Bardega, media agency ZenithOptimedia's chief digital officer, told us: "iAd has long been a story of unfulfilled potential. Apple has unique customer-level data that is hugely interesting to advertisers but has struggled (despite talented sales teams) to access that data in a way that doesn't conflict with the core business."

Another media-agency director who asked not to be named told us iAd got little support from the wider Apple organization

He said: "For me, they never understood that they needed to behave like a media owner, rather they could go it alone charging what they wanted, not sharing data, no third-party tracking

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-apple-is-pulling-direct-s...
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I recommend Kinesis. I was in this same position a nearly couple years ago and Kafka is seriously complicated to manage and run. Kinesis is super simple, 100% managed, and has about the same semantics as Kafka. Also the AWS ecosystem around Kinesis (lambda triggers, firehose, etc) is awesome.
Elon Musk picked up the mantle of Steve Jobs tech showman. His high visibility makes him a target. There is no public face that I'm aware of for ULA and while Jeff Bezos is certainly hated in that crowd for his ownership of the Washington Post, Blue Origin gets very little criticism. Some of that might be due to differences in what entanglements each has with the government but Bezos also avoids the type of spotlight Musk goes to great effort to stand in, at least when it comes to rocketry. If Tom Hanks somehow became the face and chief string puller at ULA, he'd probably get the same hatred that Musk receives.
I don't think so. Would the open-source license be a problem?
Both at different times. My Mono projects started breaking and getting .NET Core/Standard running on anything but their blessed distros is difficult.
"In 1985, Freada Klein (then head of organizational development for Lotus) did an experiment... With Kapor’s permission, Klein pulled together the résumés of the first forty Lotus employees... Klein explained that most of these early employees had skills the growing company needed, but many had done “risky and wacko things” such as being community organizers, being clinical psychologists, living at an ashram, or like Kapor, teaching transcendental meditation.

Then Klein did something sneaky. She submitted all forty resumes to the Lotus human resources department.

Not one of the forty applicants, including Kapor, was invited for a job interview. The founders had built a world that rejected people like them."

http://vault.theleadershiphub.com/blogs/if-you-werent-boss-w...
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We're coming up on a full decade of people saying hyperinflation is "just around the corner".

How many years can it be around the corner?
US has a bit weird definition of conservative (similar to the term liberal), European definition of conservative is not always pro free market nor always pro free trade.

simplified European definitions on space travel:

socialist: all government run ("planned economy")

social liberal/social democrat: political co-operations (unions) partly funded by government, private corporations funded by government and government corporations, all government regulated ("corporativism")

liberal: privately funded, government regulated ("free market")

neoliberal: privately funded, privately regulated ("capitalism")

liberatarian: what have space done to us?

conservative: national effort to travel to space ("corporativism")

US term of conservative is a mix of liberal/neoliberal economics with conservative traditions.

Breitbart/Bannon conservatism is more like European conservatism on economics.
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Our company was founded at the beginning of 2017, you’ll be joining the team of three founders. We’re about to go live with our first major client. In preparation for growth after that we’re looking to hire engineer #1. Day to day you’ll be working with CTO (myself) building our web app, APIs, infrastructure and helping to grow our team.

For the first version of our platform we’ve decided to keep our product as simple as possible. It’s small monolithic application written in python (django), deployed on aws, using circleCI for builds, our infra is defined with terraform, we’re using postgresql for data store and pure html/js for frontend. Experience with specific technologies we use right now is not required as long as you have worked with more than one stack during your career. We’re planning to keep open mind when selecting tech for new parts of our product.

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Ron Paul has always been seen as a crank, even by other conservatives.
Indeed, I was on PPIs for years. Before them, I used to wake up choking on bile, I was eating tums like candy. Then I changed my diet and starting taking baking soda in water of all things. When travelling I'll go back on PPIs for the trip, and notice a distinct feeling of unwellness. But I simply don't want to deal with questions of the form; 'what's this white powder in your luggage?' so I deal with it.
Amsterdam has plenty of suburbs, they just look different from US suburbs because of the different land-use and planning approach that they have in the Netherlands. Interestingly, Amsterdam actually does have urban freeways, though they run in a ring a couple miles out rather than right through the urban center. But they've also invested a lot in their train network and most people commute that way. I wish I had more to say about Dutch land use planning, but unfortunately I just don't know most of the details.
120K Instagrams by Russian election attackers hit 20M Americans