skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webpack standardizes JS build process. It is a massive improvement from Grunt - plugin dumpster, Gulp spaghetti code and makefile - DIY everything.

Issues you might have are related to broken web frameworks (angular4) than webpack itself.
Is it possible this is just a bit of PR spin by Wallmart to position themselves as being cheaper than Amazon or have I been working in marketing for too long?
The Bionic Office
Another day, another alt-right account that sees nothing troubling about ties to Russian state interests. And then engages in some whataboutism regarding China for good measure.
Providing liquidity across markets.
Thank you. This is interesting. Is there somewhere to read about examples of each?
Please don't bring politics into a thread that has nothing to do with politics
In that case, I am really confused about what the point that's being made here is.

> If a state-backed investor invests in your company, and you don't know about it, that's cause for alarm in itself.

Is the only difference between today and yesterday is that yesterday there was no direct evidence that rich people associated ("backed by", "working in" - I am not sure what terminology you prefer to suggest nefariousness) with the Kremlin gave Milner cash to invest? If that's the concern, then, once again - anyone who believed yesterday that Milner was not $funded (once again, insert preferred terminology) at least partially by the Kremlin is an idiot. All they had to do was ask someone who is an immigrant from the Soviet Union.
I'm always interested in these kinds of data.

A few months ago, I was looking at different open sources to geocode a lot of addresses around the world.

I have tried openstreetmap and some VM from datasciencetoolkit - both have poor results.

Are there other sources aside from Google? Google appears to be the most accurate.
It's also dangerous. There's going to be people looking up what 1% wealth is. Repeat it enough times and large enough groups will start taking it literally. Just like any social welfare improvements cause disagreement these days in some circles because socialism is bad, and it's halfway to communism, and that's terrible.
That would be great if implemented in hardware on phones. Are there already some contacts with manufacturers?
Web scraping tips no one tells you
A friend made the observation this past January that gets to the heart of the matter:

because of a high percentage of the population being present, there is now substantial power to be had by influencing the discussions that take place.

Source:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/RCyGi3HQ...

Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...

What she said, in conjunction with a lot of thinking and research on my part makes me realise that media, communications, politics, and economics always have been very, very tightly interconnected, though we seem to like pretending this isn't the case, or that the consequences don't matter.

(This ties into another observation: that masterminds are very often not so much evil and geniuses as uninhibited. And that removal of inhibitions can come through various mechanisms, including ignorance, stupidity, and denial. I suspect several of these are at play, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in particular has been slow to realise that connecting a few billion not-entirely-BFFs might reveal some interesting dynamics.)

What a still-in-process review of the field of media studies and philosophy is turning up is the fact that very nearly every major revolution in communications has resulted in massive and often painful or devastating disruptions to social order. We see this in the written record going back to the origin of the written record itself, and there's anthropological evidence to suggest that speech may also have contributed to an accelerated divergence between various proto-human clades.

Writing, maths, accounting, insurance and risk, printing, calculus, literacy, telegraph, telephone, phonographs, radio, cinema, television, and subsequent technologies have each produced major shifts in political and military systems. Printing and literacy are associated with the Protestant Reformation (just celebrating its 500th anniversary this week), the 30 Years War, arguably the American Revolution -- the first of the modern revolutions -- and the French and many revolutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The rise of Fascism is very tightly tied to the emergence of radio, public address and recording equipment (Germany remains a centre of excellence for same), and mass distribution of cheap books. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (a/k/a "The Little Red Book") rivals the Bible as the most published book of all time, with estimates ranging from 2 - 6.5 billion copies printed.

And Facebook can reach two billion people worldwide. It is quite literally the single largest media platform ever developed, with global and instant reach.

The thought that parties interested in power, manipulation, or disruption wouldn't seek to influence this is ... frankly, idiotic.

And the truth that the impacts of any such manipulation extend far beyond the management and beneficial shareholders of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Reddit, etc., is a, pardon, trumping argument for why these platforms must be regulated.
>It has been a while since the United States forcibly annexed another country's territory

And why is this should be considered of any importance?
Not really a game I think. There are no game like features. It seems it is nothing bug a sink for ether at this point. As an avid fan of incremental games I was interested but there is nothing there.
Why should the superdelegates have flipped their votes against the popular vote? This makes no sense.

The only way Bernie would have won is if he convinced superdelegates from states that came out for Clinton to go against the popular vote in their state and erroneously vote for him. He still would have lost with no superdelegates, or if their votes were awarded to their state's primary winner.

Fantasy land.
My friend does exactly this between IKEA and Ebay.

Here in Australia, IKEA does not ship (not sure if they do else where) so she buys a heap of items at the Ikea stores and flips them online. She's been doing it for years and does pretty well at it.

Here in Australia, IKEA stores are few and far between so her arbitrage is a huge value add for a lot of her customers since IKEA cannot (won't?) ship and traveling X KM's to pickup an item isn't an option for most. Personally, I'd rather buy X item from another retailer that has a product similar to the Ikea equivalent rather than use a middle man but. People really want to buy IKEA goods rather than the alternative.

I can't see how this gentleman's equivalent will stand up in the long run but till then since Walmart's goods are less unique and more importantly, much more accessible. But still he's exploiting an OK market for now.

The self help angle he's now peddling makes me suspicious that his income hasn't scaled as well as he would like now his business has grown.

He's now got 11 employee's and a much larger footprint. His business overheads would have significantly increased and dropping from $150k to $60k a year for his salary would indicate his business Net has either diminished or hasn't grown as expected.

Hence, peddling self help to generate additional income and exposure for his business.
Where do you see price reduction here?
This is cool. It reminds me of another three person team I’m familiar with that works on Amazon Prime arbitrage full time. They have a warehouse and an employee responsible for overseeing shipments in and shipments out. The entire business revolves around algorithmically identifying non-Prime merchandise that is undersold because it lacks the Prime label, purchasing the inventory, then reselling it under the Prime label with delivery and tracking guarantees.

They found out pretty quickly that many customers preferentially buy Prime listed items over non-Prime items, and specifically purchase items they can quickly resell for a profit.
The difference is that I don't want all my Go programs in a different place. I have my place where I put projects. I have ~/projects, ~/oldprojects, ~/defunctprojects. I have ~/contribprojects for things that aren't mine. I decide where my files go.
So if blood money is used to invest in tech to clean it, and make them profit it's okay?
> By the way, we are not at risk of going back to defending ownership with violence, for the simple reason that we haven't left that situation. Property is defended with violence and the threat of violence every day in the most civilized of countries. That's what police and prisons are: violence.

True. That's why I added "even on the individual level". It's difficult to explain what is different about the way say a lion defends his territory by attacking any intruder and the way a man defends his house by calling the cops when burglars show up, but I'm sure there is a difference, and I believe it makes sense to say that one of the method is civilized when the other is not.
could someone explain, is the reveal here only that a state bank chose to invest its capital in american companies? should a bank not do that? I mean, Putin can lick my tiny gonads but I also think Al Franken and much of the media are channelling the dead corpse of McCarthy when they assume everyone should be suspicious of anything russian, so I'm generally suspicious of much of russia-bate being thrown out there. To me, when I read this article, I see greedy capitalists finding a profitable place to invest there capital, not much more.
I saw some defenses of Hillary's actions (i.e. the 'bailout' was an ultimately good act, done to strengthen the DNC, proving her commitment to defeat Trump and protect progressivism etc.) which doubles as a cynical defense of Putin/Russian oligarch money in tech (it keeps Silicon Valley running and adding to US employment numbers)
I'm actually starting to find it quite amusing.
Ad hominem attacks do not change the fact that your original point turned out to be false
I'm not changing the argument. I answered your question precisely, and added new information about criminal activity at the building in question. You have not given a satisfactory explanation of the discrepancy between what the market pays, and what Trump pays. Lacking subpoenas, it's unlikely that we can know what the other side of the trade was. But Mueller's team surely knows. That's why Mueller hired a team of financial crimes experts with Enron experience. They were able to nail Paul Manafort for money laundering, tax evasion and failure to report his status as a foreign agent. Trump is guilt of all that by 100x. The coming months will bring it all out.
> anyone who believed yesterday that Milner was not $funded (once again, insert preferred terminology) by the Kremlin is an idiot

Then more of us are idiots than you give credit for :). At the very least, I was an idiot and pg was an idiot [1][2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143894

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144475
Thanks for those.

In its print edition, The Economist begins with a set of "leaders" -- brief introductions to a topic, for which there's almost always a much more detailed briefing.

The first item you link appears to be the corresponding briefing to the leader I've posted here.
Immediate response: no way, why would I want to do that?
Second thought: maybe if I were terminally ill and had nothing special left to do on Earth.
Third thought: ... but given my usual luck, in that case a cure for my condition would be announced as soon as I had passed the point of no return. :P
More likely a PR piece by Amazon- hey, go do sale arbitrage for us and we can both make money.

Remember, FBA charges you money to use it beyond the cut Amazon seller already pay to sell in the platform.

(Neat thing: a friend of mine was one of the devs on the Amazon FBA seller app that lets you scan barcodes at other stores and see how much you'll make selling it on Amazon)
How do they identify those products?
Duplicate - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-faceboo...
How do we get a piece of that pie? In other words, how do we play the same game? How do we put our money offshore like them?
It’s funny that the people opposed to this keep using the “blood money” talking point. As if anyone knows the root source of the funds. Claiming otherwise is wild speculation.
We'd all be surprised, sure. But Google's biggest bet is cloud and I think they are willing to sacrifice a few things for the big win.
I agree. It's just dumb to bring in irrelevant comments and even dumber to call someone a kremlin troll for defending Facebook.
Sure, I agree with you, it's not an unusual thing. Still, the question remains.
A lot of it is being at the right place at the right time.

Let's take a successful product: Pacman. Launch it in 2017 instead of 1980, the result would not be as good.
Any money coming out of Russia is somehow related to Putin and his oligarchs. If you want to stop the Russian government from laundering money you'd need to stop trading with Russian companies in general. There's little separation between state and private interests. Money just doesn't come out of Russia at that level without the state being involved.

Regardless, it's likely this move was more financially motivated than politically. Diversification is the key to any portfolio and with Russia's economy tanking it was probably to ensure their billions stayed billions and wasn't held in worthless rubles or corrupt state companies.
I agree venturing is actually good with just a simple folder, though IMO (with the benefit of hindsight), gopath was a mistake, and a per project vendor folder for dependencies would make much more sense for collaborative projects outside large companies.

Go get does have support for tags, but it was intended for they have code in go get to find tags like go1 and go2 which are as yet unused (I wish they'd used it for dependency version tags like v5.2 etc instead, it may never be used):

https://golang.org/src/cmd/go/internal/get/get.go#L524

Really some simple additions to go get would have gone a long way - recognise semantic version tags like v1.2 on go get and put them in vendor with some command like 'go vendor my/dep -v 1.2'.

Not really sure they need diamond dependencies, updating them automatically up to version x, manifest+lock files and all the other intricacies which in theory a package manager should solve - humans can resolve them as they come up and in real life use they're not a huge deal (as the incredibly simple go get we currently have shows).
There are definitely quite a few people out there doing this. This guy is neither the first nor the last to be doing this type of product channel arbitrage. There is an acquaintance of mine who lives no more than 8 minutes from me who does this as a side-job and it brings him in an extra couple hundred to a couple grand a month. He obviously spends time as shown in this video going to WalMart, buying certain items, and then listing those items as being for sale through Amazon. His margin takes a slight hit sometimes when uses Amazon Fulfillment services to keep the item in Amazon's stock but he also spends time shipping items from his own basement. I imagine his fingers get a bit dry and cracked after handling so many cardboard boxes after awhile.

Additionally, he does use price tracking and discovery tools to try and find the deals with bigger amounts of arbitrage between Amazon and WalMart. Because pricing is so dynamic and changing all the time, occasionally an item just barely breaks even as Amazon will sometimes magically update prices for its own goods to match or beat what might have been available at WalMart in their store. But it all depends and varies a lot.
Let say I would like to fork "echo".

Echo is using some imports to their own packages inside the project.

IE: https://github.com/labstack/echo/blob/a098bcd3b0c445dde3d380...

So if I fork "echo", I have to replace the urls in their imports so it imports my fork packages.
Did you read the article you posted ? Where does it say he bought it for 1/8th the price ? It doesn't say that anywhere in your article
I live without a car. I work remotely. I barely showered for nearly 6 years (cough... while homeless).

No one wants me as a role model.

Note how the guy lecturing you to cancel your plane tickets went to Morocco with his wife. He has a genius award. He is an award winning author. You generally don't get there by keeping your butt at home.

This is so very "Do as I say, not as I do." If this is such a great thing, why did you speak at the conference in Morocco? Why didn't you turn it down instead of bringing your wife and then calculating the total damage?

Edit:

Ah, a downvote. How ironic. "We don't want you as a role model and also shut up. No one wants to hear your opinion either. "

Weirdly validating.
Indeed. I thought Lesson 8 was simply a statement of institutional-scale masochism.

>MIT students often complain of being overworked, and they are right. When I look at the schedules of courses my advisees propose at the beginning of each term, I wonder how they can contemplate that much work. My workload was nothing like that when I was an undergraduate.

Ok. How is that at all healthy, not just medically but academically? There are limits, and when you push too far past them, you reduce long-term performance. The human machine operates within engineering tolerances like anything else.
Napoleon says "no". You do that and then one day 300000 people show up with guns. The lesson of modernity is that citizen armies beat all other forces hands down every time; contractors may be incredibly skilled but at the end of the day they are not fighting for the future. This was what the Prussians found and the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Taxation isn't about morality, it's about functionality. It's about economic efficiency and social management.
Populism happened before. When we went from an agrarian society to industrialized, we got a civil war, about 45 years of populism (1890~2035), and WWI. Now we are facing an equal if not larger economic dislocation. People are rightly afraid.
I had the chance to speak with the/a rep from Amazon who at the time was working to make the Landsat8 data available on AWS exactly a year ago at a conference. From what I remember, AWS covers the hosting cost of the datasets in exchange for being able to incentivize the use of AWS in working with them. The data storage and transfer costs, as well as logistics are enormous. I don't recall how the transfer was being managed but it was certainly describe more or less as a partnership.
PG likely had a pretty good idea where the money came from (i.e. Russian mobsters/oligarchs with direct ties to Putin). But you don’t get to be a big-time VC by turning down giant piles of shady foreign money.
What is an ICO and how does it work?
How slot machines are designed to be addictive
Superdelegates shouldn't have existed in the first place. It's antidemocratic.

You are the epitomy of what happened during the election - bullying and deciding on how the election should go for others.

All the media and political establishment took Hillary's side. If they treated them equally he would have won.
Here in US people are doing that with IKEA. The closest IKEA is about 2.5 hours way and you can put in a order through them and they make a weekly trip to buy your item and you can pickup it up locally.
Of course you should make your own judgment of the validity of the source. In this case, it would seem to be a difficult task to invent all of this.

"The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 media partners explored 13.4 million leaked files from a combination of offshore service providers and the company registries of some of the world’s most secretive countries.

The Paradise Papers documents include nearly 7 million loan agreements, financial statements, emails, trust deeds and other paperwork from nearly 50 years at Appleby, a leading offshore law firm with offices in Bermuda and beyond."

https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/
Sigh. HN has always done this to reduce editorializing in headlines. You're an oldtimer; how are you unaware of this?

Remember your priors.
Not to neglect that she actually did win the popular vote. The majority is being held to the beliefs of the minority.
Can you recommend a more technical version of OP's article or a video-taped talk?
Sanders would still have lost if there were no superdelegates.
It’s interesting. In other third world countries like Tunisia (my mother’s homeland) income inequality is even worse, yet the lower classes are content with where they are. In America it seems like everyone is crawling to “make it.”
I don't know what to take away from this. What is the different story? That there's nothing to fear... because the West's terrorist prevention efforts work? Terrorists don't really care about the West? The West is not very vulnerable? It's all about location? I can interpret the author's data in different ways.

I'm interested in also seeing the data on attempts and credible threats.
There is a misunderstanding: Daphne Caruana Galizia was the leading journalist on the Panama Papers in Malta.

The main source for the PP revelations was the Süddeutsche Zeitung (same guys as this time) and lot of other people were involved all over the world; Caruana Galizia was only one of them, not "the" person.

As far as I know, no reporter from the SZ, the Guardian and other ICIJ members was harmed after the PP revelations. Malta is a very shady place, very close to Southern Italy for political culture.
Who keeps trying to login to my server? (infographic)
That might work. However, it would also have the effect of making the entire screen less bright. OLED burn-in is the opposite of CRT burn-in - pixels that have been used more than others shine less brightly. To compensate for that you'd need to drop the brightness of every pixel down to the worst affected pixels. Perhaps you could attempt to increase the power to 'burnt-in' pixels, but that would presumably only compound the problem and reduce their lifespan.
Of course we can't do it perfectly. We can't eliminate murder either. But we can greatly reduce it.
From an article (https://thevarsity.ca/2017/09/18/professor-jordan-peterson-w...) about the announcement[1]:

"Peterson has emphasized his desire to provide students with better and more affordable education. “There is absolutely no reason why high quality education can’t be made available to masses of people at low cost,” said Peterson in a recent interview on CTV’s Your Morning. “I think it’s a scam pretty much from top to bottom and it’s a very expensive scam.”

"He has not clearly stated when he will form the online university, though he said on Your Morning that he will soon start a website that will distinguish between postmodern and classical content and “cut off the supply to the people who are running the indoctrination cults.”

"Peterson also expressed that his online university would be an alternative to traditional universities, which he believes “have abandoned the humanities.”

"“About 80 percent of the humanities papers are never cited once and the humanities have been dominated by a kind of postmodern neo-Marxist, cult ideology,” said Peterson. “[The humanities have] abandoned their mission to students. Their mission should be to teach students to speak, to think, and to read, and to become familiar with the best of the world fundamentally.”"

[1] I think they're talking about this video (http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1169448), but CTV doesn't seem to do transcripts and I live in the wrong "region".
This happened to me on a very popular brand of motherboard at the time. Now I like it when I see Nichicon capacitors on the product description.