skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that same way. I wanted to host everything myself, so I could control, and make sure everything ran the way I wanted. It took me a while -- not sure how long -- to realise no man is an island.
Wait, does this mean I can blacklist any image I want by claiming it's a naughty picture of myself? And assuming they thought of this problem, who's the final judge, some dude sitting in a cubical in Indonesia whose job it is to look at naughty pictures all day and see if they look like people's profile pics?
Well I think both of you are right. Inflation starts as a monetary phenomenon but it's net effects are not always monetary. Inflation is a policy choice, not a 'feature of the universe'.
Normalization matters. Well put.
The world would be moving away from poverty a lot faster if there was less inequality.
Google and Rackspace developed a POWER9 server https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Zai... but I don't think it's available to others.
Same thing with Nest and Dropcam and pretty much all of the IoT trash. It's sitting there in my house, within WiFi range of any device that would be controlling it, yet it has to route all commands (and maddeningly, video, in the case of Dropcam) out through the Internet connection and back into my house through the same Internet connection.

Total bonkers. Silicon Valley only knows how to make web services apparently.
That’ll work great if every nation simultaneously agrees to it, but is potentially catastrophic if they don’t: all the tax-dodgers move to your country for tax purposes while continuing to make and sell everything else exactly as before.

And if every nation agreed to have identical tax laws, we wouldn’t have a problem with lawful multinational tax minimisation in the first place, because there would be no advantage to it.
No - but they could optimize it internally to keep it out of caches, deduplicate to a single server, etc.
what about the countryside?
And once upon a time it had an almost sycophantic pro-tech/SV bias.

Think about what has changed instead of just dismissing an argument outright without addressing any of its points.
A pantograph is a simple machine that came along quite late. I can imagine a similar machine for carving, but I think it's quite easy to view the past with our own perspectives. The pantograph, and this speculative carving machine, are labor saving devices. I assume the Minoan sealstones were custom-made, one-of-a-kind items for those important enough to use them. While labor was cheap in most cases, those in need of this specialized skill were able to pay the cost.
It definitely depends on the audience you are trying to reach. I just finished building a feature selection algorithm to plug into sklearn: https://github.com/chasedehan/BoostARoota

I'm also trying to figure out the best ways to do that. What my plan is:
1) I presented it last week at the ODSC West Conference and have seen a couple people use it and give me some comments.
2) I am planning on incorporating the algorithm into some Kaggle kernels so people can see its value. It definitely works better than some other outlets.
3) Respond on Quora or other places for cases when it might be useful
4) Shamelessly plug on HN ;)
Wealth could be defined as consumption. (Not necessarily in the sense of using up resources. You could include externalities).

Winning is defined as increasing consumption. Everyone can have access to more of something. For instance, there are more books available to everyone. (Trying to think of a neutral, apolitical item).
kuddos to Indian Govt. for taking this step. South Asian economies are rife with black money and small vendors and regular citizens rarely pay taxes.

Any attempt to rectify this menace is a welcome step -- hopefully regional countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan can implement similar measures.
I've gotten it to do around 40-50k inserts / sec but that's a different scenario - nfs drive, different table and indexes, different queries, different configuration, etc etc. Also I didn't know if he meant that the inserts were disappointing or the overall results were (e.g. a suite of tests including reads / writes of all sorts).
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Having worked with both Kafka and Redis, this certainly rings true for me:

"Redis streams aren’t exciting for their innovativeness, but rather than they bring building a unified log architecture within reach of a small and/or inexpensive app. Kafka is infamously difficult to configure and get running, and is expensive to operate once you do. [...] Redis on the other hand is probably already in your stack."
The boredom of internetlessness has strange side effects...
I know a fair few police officers; they're just regular people, too. But still...
You can use News Feed Eradicator Chrome plugin and Facebook becomes a chat app without having to unfollow everyone.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
I don't know if 'Contrarian' is exactly the word - but yes - the company name 'Dopamine' is definitely a smarty-pants branding strategy to get hype.

Startups are dead -> they're all rock bands now.

VC's are record labels.
In addition to this, the amount of effort/computation required to find winning strategies is going up all the time, because as market inefficiencies are exploited by people they start to disappear.
It was the 2016 model of this:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-UN55MU6500-Curved...

As an aside, I absolutely love using it as a monitor hooked up to a MBP.
I use the tuner, but, on the other hand, some budget TVs don't even have them. But like the other guy said, I haven't seen a lot of great deals on 65" monitors.
Or more likely I am already somewhere other than home and am trying to get pizza there. Who plans out where they are going to get takeaway pizza in preparation for going on a trip?
> the new privacy invading feature should be opt in.

I agree. The new features, however, are not. They even ("temporarily") collect IP addresses by default when FF calls home.( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ )

And, naturally, they also intend comply with the law. In other words, they hand over data to governments.
( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/ )

What Mozilla are doing here is despicable.
I dispute the claim: "ME-11 management engine chip [is] used on almost all recent desktop and laptop computers in the world". AMD chips are popular in both consumer and business applications...there's no way that whatever fraction of chipsets Intel delivers are "almost all". Furthermore, Intel's documentation seems to state that this is a chipset feature, not a processor feature:

> Currently, we support the following chipsets regardless of your system manufacturer or the motherboard in your PC:

> Intel® Q57/H57/H55/P55 Express Chipset

> Mobile Intel® QM57/QS57/HM57/HM55/PM55 Express Chipsets

The wording is sufficiently vague that I can't be 100% sure about it.
Are any of these embeddable like SQLite?
Another big factor is growth. There is vastly more real wealth and productivity now, and much of it only makes sense if it's in the hands of the people.
What is the reason to have CSS at all? It just adds to page download times, and I see no positive effects from page designers tweaking margins and padding and colours. Why don't we just view pages with the browser's built-in default styles for all the HTML elements?
Why would it be either of those things?
Monitors are less expensive at small sizes, I think. But otherwise I would agree.
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Well given that quantopian hasn't existed long enough for their machine traders to be trained during adverse market conditions, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Font is fine but the UI examples are horrible for the content they're supposed to show. Most look completely unusable. I hope BlueMix doesn't adopt this.
The micrograph details in the second link are staggering. Honestly none of the photographs in the original article do it the slightest bit of justice. You can see the fallen warrior's locks of hair, and the patterns on his dress. That's insane. This would be an impressive piece of art coming from any culture at any point in history.
Apple may be working on an AR headset for 2020
I maintain Bulma: https://bulma.io/

1) I started it because it was simply a personal CSS framework I was using myself to kick start my projects, and I wanted to share it around.

2) People found it through various websites, organically I guess.

3) I initially only posted it here on Hacker News I think. Then it was trending on Github, and other people posted it on Reddit, and other websites like Codrops.

4) I've never really tried to market Bulma. It's just a solution to a problem I had, and it also happens to solve a lot of other developers problems.

I think if your open source project solves a common issue, people will eventually find it. I discover lots of valuable tools when trying to code something.

If you need a strategy, just copy what a successful startup would do: solve a problem that lots of people have. An open source project just happens to solve a problem you personally have, and you assume others will to, so you share that knowledge.
No, it wouldn't be "nice". It would be anything but nice. Too many people are having their view enforced over something that is beyond their control.

Should Pentel say you can't write certain stuff with their pens and pencils?

Why is HobbyLobby wrong if they want to have string attached to certain dollars of that they pay to their employees, specifically the healthcare dollars? I think HobbyLoggy is wrong is having those strings attached to something that the employee earned.

Andrew Tanenbaum would have been wrong to ask Intel to not use Minix the way they used it. Hold Intel and may be US government accountable, not Andrew. I respect him more for what he said.

It was refreshing to see a developer stick to the promise of the license and leave it at that, in true spirit of open source.

When you have freedom of expression, you have to bear other's voices as well, however much you dislike them.

Some gloating and one-up-man-ship was expected/inconsequential.

Thank you Professor Tanenbaum for upholding the morals of open source licensing.
If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, subsidize it.

Wealth has been increasingly taxed, poverty increasingly subsidized. For the bottom 50%, this matters.
Note that "marketing" includes a lot more than what you're asking, which I believe is closer to "promotion", or "publicising".

Marketing is traditionally understood as the complete relationship of product and market, including, for example, deciding on a set of features, naming, pricing (yeah, I know–but choice of license may be a close analogue), connecting with other products, and much more.
I'm not trying to advocate staying on these platforms if they don't work for you. I'm mainly trying to say if it doesn't work for you, just move on. I'm saying don't linger on past abusive relationships, find something better and don't harbor the negativity from the past. I know what I said is very naive and has plenty of holes in it, but I was taken aback by the negativity of this post and responded with the inverse.
For the same reason that I'm seeing it posted here for the first time.
Wasn't this their April fools joke not too many years ago?
100% related to the Facebook having an algorithm to blacklist photos based on naked photos of ppl. Snapchat has those already for like 35% of its users or something I'd bet.
More censorship: Twitter apologizes for 'bisexual' technical glitch
> I just believe that as a general strategy, we should be continuously attempting to reduce govt power and involvement while allowing the free markets to work.

Sure, I can agree with that. But what if the lack of government power is what is preventing free markets from working? Things like anti-monopoly legislation. I mean, I'll give you that the reason these things exist is because private companies use the government to enforce their monopoly. But how do you plan on opposing that without using some sort of anti-trust action?
If I had your requirements I would look into isso too! Tinkering is a great way to learn as well, keep up the the great work.

If you decide that you would rather tinker on something else, and just want a hosted comment service to be a solved thing for your personal blog, please reach back out and I'll try to work with you.
I stick to this philosophy for many things, tracked for many months the more efficient GUIs for neovim (mainly neovim-qt, see full list at [0]).

However I really wanted to have a little more interactivity (and visuals) than what the terminal can provide and so far Oni has delivered it good enough for me.

That said, there are a lot of daily editing issues to be solved before it can be said battle-tested.

[0]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui
Krugman misidentifies the problem with the co-op. Basically the whole thing is a failure in the exercise of price controls.

An arbitrary authority decides on a unit of a resource that shouldn't have fixed value should have fixed value, and his solution is to introduce inflation... I suppose when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
If that motherboard could fit in a reasonable desktop tower chassis, it'd be cool to be able to piggyback on Google's and Rackspace's work.

BTW, I assume both companies would somehow benefit from having machines like those on engineer's desks - it's certainly convenient to do local development on the platform you are deploying to.
This feature is also a security problem. Putting on my engineering hat, this stinks!

I understand the needs of IT, but many ´helpful’ IT tools I’ve seen installed over the years on corporate computers have been making things less secure and not more

Edit: fixed spellings
Thanks. It's just a proof of concept at this point.

What do you think a good summary consists of?
The unified log pattern - and event sourcing based on that - is a very powerful pattern.

We are doing some work at my job right now inspired by this approach (in no small part, that LinkedIn article). I hope we can open-source some of this tech, or at least start blogging about the concepts as nobody really talks about it, and the mechanics are a little tricky to get right.

We currently think the best approach is to bring ideas from DDD (specifically the idea of a bounded context and a domain), a unified log which we call the GEL (for Global Event Log), domain-specific event logs, event-sourcing with CQRS and then some quite lightweight means to produce "projections" (different structural representations of data).

We therefore have a few pieces that get names and become easy to reason about: every event goes to the GEL. Domains have systems that listen to the GEL for events they are interested in and map those events into commands on a command service. Clients can issue commands directly, as well. Commands alter projections and produce events back to the GEL. Clients and domains can query a domain's query service.

It's not really rocket science, these ideas are as old as the oldest mainframe you've ever heard of, but it affords incredible flexibility and unrivalled performance.

We're using Kinesis for our GEL that has a read performance issue, but not a big enough issue for us yet to look at alternatives - the zero-admin cost is attractive to us right now.

For me, now, MVC and CRUD style applications look like really odd anti-patterns. I'm amazed we got as far as we have with them.
Honestly, many apps could just as well be developed with red[0], maybe not in javascript, but with the smoothest cross-platform compilation I've ever seen.

Runs in 1mb of ram, and the download size of most apps made with it won't exceed that either.
It's no C for sure, but it's really amazing to have cross-platform gui-support bundled into the language itself (windows & mac is ready, android and linux are in the works)

So yes, no re-use of webdev skills, but a really fun language, and immediate results - had I known about red before javascript, I would've never picked up JS.

[0] http://www.red-lang.org/
So very true!

A point to be noted, is that the arbitrary per country cap for EB green cards, was added in the last 30 years, to surreptitiously add a subtle anti-Asian bias, to reduce the number of Chinese immigrants entering US. Looks like Indian and Philippine citizens are caught in the cross fire now.

If you speak to high skilled immigrants in US who understand the situation, you'll see them being equally highly frustrated with the Democrats and the Republicans, and their respective supporters. Everything seems to be so focussed on DACA and illegal immigrants, that the legal ones are left in limbo.
I'm implying that Google "learns" over time that I'm more interested in ruby the programming language and that a jeweler would over time get more gemstone related resources.
Are you referring to the fact that SV was initially founded by the defense industry -- which was in turn all funded by the gov't -- in its early days?
Dupe. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651710
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See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8315... - there was an excellent BBC Radio 4 program about this guy.

He works at night to limit traffic vibration, has learnt to slow his heart rate, gets Botox injections to stop from blinking, it's an obsession - not altogether healthy IIRC.

Very interesting.
This seems to be the first way to disable pull requests - I have a few repos that are OSS code dumps of an internal project, rescues abandoned CVS repos on SourceForge, weekend-long experiments that I gave up on, etc. that I am not paying any attention to any more, and I imagine I'll archive those basically immediately.

I still wish there were a direct way to disable all pull requests, though, to set appropriate expectations. (People are still more than welcome to fork the repo and do what they want, there's a free software license on it. But a pull request is asking me to maintain it, and I don't intend to maintain most of the repos on my GitHub.)
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Personalized disambiguation can be really handy. I'm a hobby woodworker, I've recently bought a vintage Record #4 hand plane and wanted to learn more about it. I found out this model was manufactured in 1939-1945.

So without thinking I type record plane 1939-1945 into Google. And guess what? I get information about hand planes, pictures of hand planes in the images section, links to ebay auctions for vintage planes etc, and in between these there were only a few results related to aircraft combat during WWII.

The same query in incognito mode doesn't return even a single link related to hand tools.
If your 401k went up 100x, you could quit, roll it over to an IRA, and pay early withdrawal penalties. Done.
Develop a FOSS product and license it so that anyone can use it for free and modify it and not require to publish the code. (core principle of FOSS community)
But somehow prevent big guys from misusing it. (in this case)

I guess we need laws to prevent this from happening, just like you cannot hide ingredients on a food packaging, you shouldnt be able to 'hide' software (but still be able to protect IP rights.)
FDA equivalent for silicon chips - Silicon Valley Administration
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Too poor to retire, too young to die (2016)
The desperate inequality behind global tax dodging
Because there are no article summaries on HackerNews so it's hard to find the right keywords to search for when looking to see if what you're about to post is a dupe.

The search engine "and's" the keywords together making it harder -- if you search for "Facebook explicit", then you won't find an article titled "Facebook nude photos"
in general, it is difficult for me to separate a reasonable concern borne of the knowledge that a thriving economy is important from a sense that, so far, the big retail chains that are closing many locations sell junk that i both do not want and think is largely superfluous anyway.

Anyone got a reasonable way to synthesize those competing thoughts?
I don’t necessarily believe it will work to beg them to show fairer behavior.

But then, the issue that many businesses and corporations don’t consider fairness and moral as factor in their decisions and behavior is an urgent one.

I think it’s a big problem that leaders of a company might even be sued by shareholders for taking a morally good decision (as long as the other option is just bad in terms if moral, but still legal) that leads to even a slight loss in financial gain for the company and shareholders.

This goes for such tax avoiding schemes but also for any other decision with effects on society and nature.
Being fair and sustainable in society, social and environmental aspects simply is not a goal for any company that way.
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This seems like confirmation bias, or selectively interpreting the data. Which metric are you using for net opportunities and how does it correlate with wealth/income inequality?
We are talking about an influence which has heavily shaped the public consciousness of whole generations and will most likely keep doing so for the foreseeable future. Not just for the US, but pretty much for major parts of this planet, imho Disney has pretty much changed course for human civilization without most people even noticing it.

Maybe there are no "evil" intentions behind any of it, the end result is still something evil by its sophistication and sheer impact, hidden behind the mask of smiling, supposedly friendly, mouse.
> Wait, does this mean I can blacklist any image I want by claiming it's a naughty picture of myself?

I could imagine they'd also ask for a copy of your ID or something like that. They already have the impudence to do so when they doubt a user's identity.
But have you done the calculation on option 2 to see what you will end up paying in tax (Both corporate as well as personal income tax) when you do pay out those dividends?

You will realise that you have not "avoided" any tax really compared to a normal salaried employee due to not being able to reduce your corporation tax in the way other big organisations do.

Accountants make it sound really good but when you get down to the actual tax being paid you are not saving much, if any given the new rules implemented in the last couple of years.

Have a look at the example that I have shown as a reply to your parent comment. I would be very interested to hear your take on this.
Well, the two aren't necessarily incompatible.

Although, strategically, we should be supporting the "nerd black face" image.
Trading algos are trained on historical market data, this can (and should) include crashes etc.
That should probably be based on access patterns, not on mutability flags. If it's "archived", but has 1K downloads a day it should be in cache.
I wish GitHub made it easier for the community to continue working on abandoned projects. All too often, a project's owner goes MIA (without adding more members), and the pull requests just keep piling up and are never acted upon.

The only way to discover if a project has a more active fork elsewhere is to go to the network tab and scroll around in the graph... Ideally there would be a way to add a banner at the top of dead repositories with a text like "This project is inactive, but there is a more active fork <here>", as otherwise most people visiting the project's page would have no idea such a fork exists.

I've successfully revived an abandoned project (with an owner who ignored all my attempts to contact them), but only because the primary resource for the project was a wiki on another website, so it involved changing the links there - but this isn't the case for projects whose GitHub page is their main website.
Retail is dependent on consumer spending. As more stores close the remainder should be more profitable, which should minimize ripple effects.
How long until Facebook literally asks for my soul?