skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“I just think Canadians realize better than most that there is an opportunity here”

We have no atmosphere of innovation because our salaries are garbage compared to the US. This is the problem, every single time. Most of my Canadian graduate friends work for US companies, some remotely. We literally do not have economic reasons to stay here. No amount of lip service will ever transform 100k into 300k.

>“consequences of AI, the consequences of automation,” and the “economic imbalance of those who own the robots and those who are displaced by them.”

Wasn't this shown to be a meme? That automation has already been happening very slowly, it's not going to be some sudden iRobot level change. Example: as a web dev now you only need one full stack guy to launch a production app, does the job of the designers, devops, frontend etc through various tooling that helped him automate processes that other developers would have done in the past.

>Canadians have a tendency to travel, Trudeau said, and that results in a global outlook on how cities work and their different approaches to things like traffic and how people live in urban environments.

More like I can make 3x for the same job here.

I refer to my previous comment with respect to the waterfront, when will this tech bullshit be over? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15550745

This all reads like crap propaganda without saying anything, just some nice meaningless buzzwords. Actually it's even worse, looks like a paid for advertisement by Google and they have Trudeau in their pockets using him as an advertising puppet.

Trudeau is a prime minister who was born into riches and surrounded by royal families since birth. This guy hasn't the faintest idea what he's talking about with anything related to real life much less tech or fucking AI.

Nobody wants a 'smart city'. It'll just be another data mining project except now they will literally be optimizing your entire life for their profits. You can't meme a city into existence like all those cute little renders. Cities/villages have to rise up organically and then be tamed and incentivized to grow, not built with extreme robotic precision using data from the ground up. At best it's going to be some hip little place with crap corporate chain bars for working professionals just like it currently is cause that makes the most money, anything else is a pipe dream. Completely sterile and devoid of life, like all these projects turn out to be.

>If the initiative proceeds, it would include at least 3.3 million square feet of residential, office and commercial space, including a new headquarters for Google Canada, in a district that would be a test bed for the combination of technology and urbanism. [0]

[0] - https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/google-sidewal...
No, nor would I let my kids play, walk, or bike along roads where they are allowed.

What safety feature? A licensed, sober, employed school bus driver.
Are there that many Canadian companies (as opposed to US companies with satellite offices in Canada) capitalizing on AI? If not, does Canada really "get it?"
Which doesn't even take into account other serious externalities like smog.
Having done a ton of scraping in the past (especially around ecommerce and products), this looks pretty cool.

A couple comments in general:

1. Personally I think its better to be great at extracting one kind of data instead of average at many types. It makes sales and growth efforts easier. Pick one of those things (products, recipes, social, etc.) and just focus on that and get great at it.

2. I don't think you need the credit <-> request abstraction. Anyone using an API knows what a request is (I hope).

Now, a few comments regarding products specifically:

1. I got 500 errors on a couple random product URLs.

2. On an Amazon product that's on sale, I got back the original price but not the sale price.

3. If you truly want to be GREAT at scraping products, the 2 things most people in this space can't do are: (a) extract ALL high-res images for a product, and (b) extract a product's options and variant data (colors, sizes, etc. and availability for each combination)

Personally I think there are a ton of opportunities in this space. This is a good start and I wish you the best.
{being pedantic} In Python, you can't use the '-p' suffix because Python will treat it as subtraction.

{being unPythonic} If it makes you happy to use '_p', do it. Explain it in the documentation if it might cause confusion. Be flexible enough that you'll change before letting yourself be voted off the island because it's not that important.

{rabble rousing} I think there is room in the world for an alt-python movement...https://github.com/altpython
While I don't see a definitive posting date for the article, the comments on it go back to 2011.

Discussion from 6 years ago (107 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2833604
Because enforcing politeness and civility in large groups is impossible without top down leadership enforcing it, which Linus doesn’t appear to want to do. He has chosen code over comfort as the de facto leader of the project.
Location:Los Angeles, CA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Only within the Greater Los Angeles Area

Technologies: Java, Javascript/Web

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Email: andrewberumen1991@gmail.com
I didn't research, I just picked one at random. Please replace Texas with whatever state you like. That isn't really the point.

Edit: And also, I just checked and Texas does NOT do very well on CO2 emissions per capita.

Edit: Also I did some more checking and Texas is not leading the country in renewable energy, it is 22nd
Anyone who agrees with this hasn't lived in Canada.
Estonia revokes certificates for 760.000 id cards
Estonian government decided to revoke certificates for the majority of ID cards used in Estonia before Saturday this week due to a known vulnerability. The software and certificates for ID cards are being updated. See http://id.ee/index.php?id=30519
NASA looking for private organizations to take over Spitzer mission
Welcome to React.

"I use React over Angular because it is so small! Also here are my 2 MB of 3rd party modules that are loaded directly on the home view, that the other frameworks come with and lazy load when needed".
I think this is even worse: these people are selling hosted Ponzi schemes as a service https://hyipsoftware.com

It is not a joke, there are real Ponzi schemes out there based on this stuff.
[edit] Disclosure?
Not at all. Most of the pyramids, and many many other burials were ransacked by graverobbers and scavengers in antiquity - in a lot of cases, even while there were still pharaohs. It's assumed that a lot of them were robbed immediately, by the same workers who built them - in fact, even as early as the Middle Kingdom, there was a thriving trade in robbed grave goods for the explicit purpose of reuse in another burial, so it's far from uncommon to find people interred with spells on papyri that are centuries older than them, but have had the original owner's name scratched out and the new one inserted. If anything, the respect shown for the Giza complex in the last hundred years or so is the exception in its history. Heck, one of the two smaller pyramids has a huge hole in the side from where a 16th or 17th century caliph tried to demolish it.

Essentially, humans have always been garbage.
Don't see much insight here. Canadians love immigrants (apparently more than the US, but do numbers really play that out)? Canadians love to travel, too, apparently.

It's a lot of vague rah-rah PR between Trudeau (who is the master of that) and a major CEO.
Just to point out... SQLite comes built it to pretty much every OS these days too. :)
Based on EPA estimates of global greenhouse gas emissions, converting every US passenger vehicle to electric, assuming those vehicles are then driven for at least seven years, the net reduction to global emissions is roughly 1%.
Does batch size matter?
That ISIS got funding from oil is not controversial that I’m aware of. The Independent did a lot of coverage of it at one stage. I’m sure they aren’t the only group too. Depending on your politics, the Kurds make money from oil too, but they are a state waiting to exist in my view.
> I think you're confusing the present state of cryptocurrency as being its conclusion.

I think you didn't read the context. My post was concerning actual, current use cases, not speculations about a hypothetical "conclusion".
Yeah, my info was out of date. I edited my post to something way more conservative.
Scheme, according to the file extension, .scm
Sure it does. The USD has surged in value in the past few years. It's gone up like 20% against most other major world currencies in the past five years.
> 0:00 - 00:10 Useless video animation

I'm happy when it's only useless. It's often useless and loud.
FTA:

"...we have faster connections, better browser standards, tighter security and new media formats. But it is also different in the values it espouses. Today, we are so far from that initial vision of linking documents to share knowledge that it's hard to simply browse the web for information without constantly being asked to buy something, like something, follow someone, share the page on Facebook or sign up to some newsletter. All the while being tracked and profiled."

The author is absolutely right that the _values_ of the web have changed. IMO this is due to the much more vast penetration of the web and the bubbles which have been birthed as a result of attracting very aggressive profit-driven actors. Rebasing the web's economic model on advertising has fundamentally changed the conception of users, and the expectation of enormous profits has steamrolled the egalitarian principles of early web citizens.

I kind of hope that the web will reboot itself in dark corners, away from the mega actors, away from the tracking and surveillance, and the torrent of the current web can keep on going for the masses.
Right, they are talking about the situation where someone only owes $6,000 in taxes. They get a $6,000 tax credit.

So setting aside whether this is fair or unfair, people that owe more taxes clearly get a bigger benefit from the credit.
To be fair if you keep the EV long enough then it will work out to be better for the environment.

Though I can't find a reliable number for how many years that actually is and I'm not sure if the average person who owns an EV would even keep it that long...
Netflix isn't using DRM for the customers, its using DRM for the content providers. It isn't there job to fix the rest of the Internet
I did not say that the purpose of writing is "business communications first and foremost". Business communications are a good way to measure whether or not you're being understood, because people's actions are affected by what they think you mean.

I would hold any day that the purpose of writing is to have something understood.

P.S. "late capitalism" is not "capitalism", it's a phrasing meant to normalize the implication that capitalism is expiring and/or coming to an end. This implication has been popular with socialists for well over a century, so apparently it's never been too late for capitalism. ;- )
Poland has 30x the population and likely 30x the number of immigrants to the UK.
That will never happen though, since the biggest O&G subsidy is the fact that the global oil market is denominated in US Dollars which coincidentally also happens to be the source of almost all US soft power.
There are many more components to a pyramid scheme, you've purposefully left out the ones that clearly don't apply to bitcoin and gone with a definition that is too broad to fit.

Further, your first component leaves out the necessity of a purposefully fraudulent bad actor to redistribute the new investors' "investments" to old investors, instead of investing them. This is clearly impossible with a distributed ledger. Returns (and losses) to all investors, new or old, are equally distributed.

Your second part is clearly much too broad, in a pyramid scheme new members are promised a share of the money taken from every additional member that they recruit.

Simply saying "hey, this could be a good investment" doesn't make something a pyramid scheme, unless Apple is a pyramid because my financial advisor told me and one more client to buy shares of it.
“now see what you've made me do” is what abusers say, y'know
It's also harder to block the ads if they're woven into the video itself (in the form of endorsements / product placement, or in the form of commercial breaks in traditional TV broadcasts). Same with audio. Text-based media can emulate that somewhat, but (IMO) with nowhere near the same effectiveness.
I guess the patients knew they were taking part in an experiment, and got paid for it.
Yes, the segmentation could be better. I still think you're not pointing out fundamental issues though. :-)
I wonder where this fits in: https://twitter.com/poorlycatdraw/status/924696744713228288
Russia inquisition is the establishment's plot to take back information control
666.pdf

hmmmmmmm
It's hateful trends like this that make want me to leave tech for ever.
> The problem is that external costs like pollution are not being priced into the cost of ICE vehicles by, say, a pollution tax. This limited subsidy is a backhanded way of doing that.

Using the carbon offset market, you could offset 760 Tonnes of CO2 with $7500. That's the carbon equivalent of driving an ICE for over 2 Million miles.
But used cars eventually do have to be replaced, and in the long run it is better to replace them with electric vehicles. It may not be an immediate net benefit but new cars are being built either way and increasing the percentage of new cars that are electric is better in the long run unless Y in your equation is greater than X + the total amount of carbon produced by a internal combustion car across its lifetime.
Automated or not, the nature of the military mission guarantees it will take the lives and destroy the property of innocent people. (So don't take this as an endorsement of what the military is doing.)

If all you care about is winning and you accept that human sentries sometimes shoot the wrong people, as all military forces do, then automation of sentry tasks makes perfect sense.
Under that definition, then, VMs would not be lighter than containers, because they require overprovisioning and don't (by deliberate design) dynamically communicate memory or CPU usage to the hypervisor.
Bug report: when I try out the service on your frontpage, the URLs seem to get converted to lowercase internally. So if I try to fetch this URL https://goo.gl/DKukBD (which points to this very HN submission), it actually queries https://goo.gl/dkukbd (which points to some random website)
More Valuable Than Boardwalk and Park Place W/O Fake Monopoly Money
what if older you is wrong about being wrong about younger you? ;)
Sometimes. You can throw money at the problem, but yes, it's a gamble. It should be all that easier for banks to beat this, but they don't.
Done. It's my product.
Obligatory "But what if you just used Bitcoin!"
Which OS doesn't come with SQLite?

• Win 10 apparently does (I don't use it, so can't personally verify). Win7/8 don't.

• Every version of OSX for many years does

• Fairly sure the main Linux distro's do

• FreeBSD does, not sure about NetBSD/DragonFlyBSD though.

Checking a local OpenBSD 6.x box just now, sqlite/sqlite3 aren't in the default user path, so maybe that's one that doesn't.
I think you're right, but one issue is keeping the problems of the "web of the masses" from spreading to our secluded dark corners once they pick up traction.
I've literally never seen a video in my feed. Granted, I have about 100 friends, who are my actual close(-ish) friends.
About a day in elapsed time, probably about 6-7h of actual work.
> Ironically this might have been true in the past when your only EV option was a Tesla; however the Chevy Bolt is selling like mad, the Chevy Volt continues to sell well and you have quite a few choices either out or coming to market in early 2018, including the VW E-Golf, Hyundai Ioniq, Kia Soul EV to name just a few that are under 30k.

IIRC to get the full $7,500 it needs to be a full electric with a battery large enough for X miles so the Bolt wouldn't qualify (for all of it).

> Removing the EV Credit now makes no sense; perhaps a better approach is to limit the EV Credit to cars that cost under 50k; this would ensure the credit isn't used on luxury EV's and allow the market to continue to grow.

You also need a tax bill of at least $7,500 to take advantage of the full credit. If your tax bill is only $5,000 then that would be max you could get back.
Exactly. You could put it in one table if you really wanted to (not that it would be ideal by any means).
Actually, we're talking about standing next to someone for 5 minutes, once or thrice a day, outside, while they smoke a cigarette. @amai was talking about blowing smoke into your face in an enclosed area for 7 hours a day.
The market doesn't care about external costs, you're right.

One thing to keep in mind though is that we may be nearing the time in which the market could handle this because renewables are getting very cheap. I'm not sure if we're at the point where if you dropped all oil subsidies that renewables would be cheaper (maybe not? I haven't done the math) but we should be getting close if we're not already there. At that point the market could, in theory, move to the one with the higher profit margins while still not caring about external costs.
This is known as Gresham's Law: Good money drives out bad money. Smart people will trade away their bad money and hold onto their good money when they can.
"Stenting is so accepted that American cardiologists said they were amazed ethics boards agreed to a study with a sham control group.

But in the United Kingdom, said Dr. Davies, getting approval for the study was not so difficult. Neither was it difficult to find patients.

“There are many people who are open to research, and if you tell them you are exploring a question, people agree,” he said. Nonetheless, it took him three and a half years to find the subjects for his study.

Ethics boards at many American hospitals probably would resist, since giving such patients fake procedures “flies in the face of guidelines,” Dr. Boden said."
Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide
To be fair, you sound like one of the harder people to track accurately.

However, I as well have been "disappointed" by the ability of websites to judge my interests. After reading about cases such as Target, who have "spooky" ability to gauge interest, I was expecting better.

So I searched for a very specific motorcycle jacket with very specific features and now my page is inundated with every clothing item that has the tag "motorcycle_jacket?" That's.... it? The same result I'd get for hitting google with "site:amazon.com 'motorcycle jacket'" ?
Canadian here: I couldn't name one.
I'm not a Trudeau hater (or fanboy, for that matter), but this is definitely all hollow lip service.

Edit: I'm also not really sure what he means by "get it".
The consolation is that the internet probably has far less influence on voters than Twitter etc. would have you think.
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> Videos also prevent skimming, and demand consumption of all content.

To an advertiser, that's a feature. This is half of the problem.
I recently had a client ask me to pay them with Transferwise. It was a horrible experience. After weeks of trying to get it to work, even with the help of support, we eventually gave up and used bitcoin instead.

The Transferwise website was horrible. It gave error messages and kept telling me to fill out some field that didn't exist. After sending screenshots to their support team, they just sent me back links that didn't work.

After several back-and-forths with support they eventually fixed that issue, but then on a later step the website told me to upload "the documents" and gave an upload control. I carefully read every piece of text on the website, and nowhere did it explain what documents it was asking me to upload. It wouldn't let me proceed until I uploaded "the documents". I sent screenshots of all this to the support team and they didn't know what documents I was supposed to upload either.

Eventually support helped me fix that, and I got to a later step, where it asked me for the username and password I use to log into my bank. I am not comfortable providing this to anyone, so I refused. This was the last straw that finally led to me giving up at using Transferwise.
The poor don't have taxable income. You can only claim the credit if you itemize which is restricted to even higher tax brackets.
In my experience, it was never 15 minutes - more like 5. Also, in terms of total time it never seemed all that different from the people continually visiting the water cooler or getting hot drinks. It just seems more visible with the smokers because they actually leave the building.
> This bit is not necessarily true. In practice, and given the high dimensionality, it is (apparently) quite hard to get stuck in local optima. [0]

In almost every optimisation problem I've encountered in practice, you do get stuck in local optima using simple techniques like SGD. Interaction effects are everywhere, and create local optima.
I had the same thought! However, the article mentions at some point that the drugs were the "optimal treatment"... implying that the exact value/necessity of stenting is... a little... unclear? Maybe I misunderstand, but perhaps a stent is like the cherry on top of the aspirin/statin/blood pressure regimen.
I don't think that a 12 inch hole drilled big enough for a drone in a section of the pyramid that is protected from the weather and not visible to the public is "Destroying a monument".

Do you think that the DNA test of King Tut was also destruction?
So basically, your argument only works if you assume that the people buying EVs would have either kept on driving their old cars OR sold their old cars and replaced them with a used car?

So now EVs are some kind of evil temptress?

I think I can do without reading that source now.
This also doesn't take into account that most of the energy used to power/charge these EV cars is coal based, which is orders of magnitude more dirty than burning gasoline.
Geoff Hinton is from University of Toronto. Waterloo is great source of talent as well
MitM is blown out of proportion. Afaik, only dns poisoning attacks will result in MitM as effective as phishing or botnets, and poisoning can be mostly-solved with better resolvers. No criminal anywhere cares about your password going over the wire in a coffee shop.