skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voting in the general isn't about picking the perfect candidate. It's about picking the best candidate out of a limited selection. It's not even really a political decision but a game theory one. I am willing to vote for someone I don't like because he's infinitely preferable (or even somewhat preferable) to the alternative. That doesn't mean I own every bad thing Trump does. Like you said, I asserted my will and made a decision.

I also know that I would face a lot of criticism, ridicule, and yes, hatred for expressing that truth (and I can already hear the chorus of, "But you deserve it!"... I'm not impressed ). Well, here it is. I voted for Trump and I'm glad I did.
There are also sleeper trains to the highlands.

They leave a little earlier, at 21:15, and stop at the stations in the Highlands between 7 and 10 the next day.

If you wake up with the early sun, like I did, then the views from the train are wonderful.

https://traintimes.org.uk/London/FTW/21:00/today

https://www.seat61.com/CaledonianSleepers.htm
Lookup Operation Earnest Voice.

It's the US version of China's "50 Cent Army" and Russia's "Troll Farm."
> how can any private ISP compete with that?

If the answer to your rhetorical question is supposed to be "they can't" then government-provided broadband is manifestly superior to anything the private sector can provide. Why would we as a society not want that?
I am usually consulting for established companies with what they perceive as scalability problems but too often turns out to be a performance one.
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She is not being penalized for her attractiveness, quite the contrary. Her choice of clothing has allowed her to gain a substantial media following without the need for advanced technical ability - she has admitted herself that most of her projects were on a "middle-school level" (hyperbole, but still demonstrative).

It's not the case of a person who happens to be attractive doing technical things and being judged for it - it's the case of a person becoming popular because of their attractiveness, with the technical abilities being secondary.

Plus, if you look at the media reaction to the events, it is almost entirely supportive. Dale Dougherty was blasted by the media and had to apologize for his remarks.
Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism
What are "proof of space"/"proof of work" ? How do they compare to proof of work/proof of stake ?
bingo.
so we are going to go from spending energy for "work" to spending energy producing drives for "space". Time to buy some digital storage stock ;)
lol google and their releases with waitlists.
Unsprung weight would make this a terrible car to drive - it would handle like a truck at best. The motors should be mounted where differentials currently go. Four motors, with an axle out from each.
As someone else pointed out in the comments, then why not have the city put the fiber in the ground, but let private ISPs run the network devices and ISP stuff (ie: a bit similar to TekSavvy in Canada which uses other ISP's infrastructure - I assume they use more than just the fiber though)
The pendulum has swung so much further in the other direction that it's become trendy to be a victim. That's a very self-limiting mindset to have.

If you're watching the media then I assume you saw the article today about the bigoted statements that occurred last month at the Air Force academy? Turns out the "victims" were the ones that wrote those messages> Because claiming victimhood status is socially beneficial these days.

Not to say there aren't real problems out there, but we're deep in "boy who cried wolf" territory.
It really depends on what you're after: dramatic effect, or convincing somebody of the actual relation (here that it's exponential, and not, say, x^5 or so)
"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression."

Change doesn't happen in a vacuum, and what you describe as "a growing problem in our society" feels like the beginning of a long-overdue good start to many others.
The price swings are probably driven by people with future positions on one chain or the other.
How to Evaluate an Accelerator Offer
The other option is for them to sell off Direct TV and retain Turner Broadcasting... Seems like some good ol' monopoly busting/prevention is finally coming out of the DoJ.
>> And frankly I'm sure a lot of people just buy whatever guitar anyway, especially thinking back to the never-used one I used to have

Surely you recognize that your mindset while purchasing that guitar was different than that of a serious musician investing a substantial sum in an instrument they'll play for thousands of hours.
Oh, gotcha, I misread your original post. I thought you were talking about truly "dumb" TVs.

Non-smart TVs basically don't exist anymore (Sceptre is the only brand I can find). You can usually get a smart TV and keep it off the internet, but I've seen horror stories of some TVs not working at all until being "updated" after unboxing.
(I live in Boulder County, which passed something similar.)

As far as I know, competition is allowed, it just doesn't exist. The market has failed to provide us with broadband options. This vote is not actually for the government to run it themselves, it's just to override a state-level ban on municipal broadband. The next step will be for Comcast to lobby against municipalities actually setting up competing broadband offerings. A few steps after that and Comcast might actually start responding as if they are competing in an actual market, for instance by improving their services and/or lowering their prices. If they clean up their act enough, they might even get to keep their monopoly. But their reputation is already so bad that it seems somewhat unlikely at this point.
>Your comment asserts that corporate tax has zero impact on corporate profit.

I didn't intend to "assert" that, and I think it's fair to ask you to elaborate, as I believe there are assumptions embedded in your interpretation of what I wrote.

edit: Grammar.

edit1: Do you think Apple incorporates the cost of the tax burden into the price of an iPhone? I think it really comes down to whether you think Apple would reduce their unit price if it would ultimately result in gross profit increases. It's like taking VC financing, "Do you want to own 100% of a $500K/yr revenue company or 49% of a $3M/yr revenue company?"
Is it possible to create a performance review system that somebody won't complain is sexist?
By the way, this is a nice article, but you unfortunately mix up "frequency" and "period" in your quantitative discussion. (A function that repeats every 50 units, for example, has a period of 50 units, as opposed to a frequency of 1/50 1/units.)
Sounds like IPFS.

Why do we need an ICO. Can't we just do it like bitcoin and download a client to start 'mining'?
Applied Deep Learning: Convolutional Neural Networks
It is cover for forcing the sale of Turner Broadcasting. The DOJ knows that AT&T has invested heavily in integrating DirecTV, DirecTV Now and their U-verse TV service together and leveraging them to help sell their wireless services. Given a choice between the two the DOJ is fully aware of what the decision will be.
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To put this more simply, when the media acts like the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, they are only preaching to the choir (who already agree with them), and the ignorant, who are gullible enough to believe the media are objective.

They aren't persuading anyone who is informed, unless they already agree with them.
Amazon is extremely good at that, and they have a strong financial motivation to do so.

I'll agree with and extend your remarks on a tangent that at one point in human history literacy was nice but not required to participate in the economy. Currently shopping by catalog and spec and datasheet is for the cognitive elite like engineers, but soon enough its going to be a required new higher minimum of economic participation. You'll pick out your next bicycle by reading technical manuals and holding a ruler up to your leg, or you'll fail miserably at buying a bicycle. Just like its sad that illiterate or innumerate people get screwed in todays economy, people who can't shop like an engineer are going to get screwed in coming decades. What you're looking at is evolution of the economy to increase income inequality as it always does and increase specialization as it always does and require more work out of people as it always does. There's nothing really new about it, its just people who can't shop like an engineer are just not going to be able to shop anymore, at least not successfully, just like someone illiterate has a rough time shopping today.
Yeah and it's not obvious that there's any way to get Kafka up and running without Zookeeper, or what their interaction is. And you can get Zookeeper and Kafka running on one machine, but it's such a pain and there's nothing to help really in the docs.
The Internet Sees Nearly 30,000 Distinct DoS Attacks Each Day
The federal income tax is a small part of the annual taxes paid in the US, you aren't showing enough information to provide more than a guess about how fairly the tax system is working.
I thought Toronto was part of North America...

Also, doesn't Montreal have the Underground City specifically for staying out of the cold in the winter?
They banned Facebook in 2009 because the 2008 Olympics were over and they no longer had to pretend to be opening up to the rest of the world (they used Uighur separatism discussion as an excuse). They’ll probably ban it before the 2022 Olympics to redo that show for face purposes only to reban it again afterwards.
Obviously, yes.

Problems like this are endemic to zero-sum schemes like stack ranking.
> Libertarians would free property owners from government restrictions on their rights to control and enjoy their property

This fascination with property rights is why libertarians are so often dismissed. Liberty should mean a lot more than base selfish "get your hands off my property." It's also not workable in a vastly unequal society. With a lot of the world's wealth having been accumulated by birth, status, or cultural capital, all diametrically opposite of any notion of having earned that wealth, it's a non-starter to suggest that the rest of us "have-nots" dare not place any limits on what the haves can do with the property they magically acquired.

You want absolute property rights? I'd be fine with that if the inheritance tax was 100% and everyone started off on equal footing, with an equal chance to succeed based purely on their own hard work. That'll never happen, and that's exactly why we need to place serious controls on excessive wealth accumulation.
Not sure where you'd see 200 companies (we've had more than that for most of Sentry's lifetime). Not every team lines up to a company, but napkin math I'd say we have 10k - 20k companies using our cloud service. That's also excluding all of the open source installations, which is a pretty large number.
The situation is that the free market has said "We're going to pass on doing this". So the free market has left the door wide open for the government to do it.

The free market spending a half million dollars trying to keep the government from even coming up with a plan for what municipal broadband would look like, after not doing it themselves, is hilarious.
There is "competition" in my metro area too. They compete for city contracts. No one company handles the entire metro space.

Somehow that all went wrong with ISPs/cable/telco service

Suspect it has something to do with how these businesses came up in a period where we were bought in deep to corporate overlords having control, whereas garbage is pretty old and less sexy/lucrative to monopolize generally
>Imagine speed limits that dynamically change based on time of day or traffic conditions, streets that dynamically switch between being one-way or two-way, etc.

Seattle already has both of these things using dynamic signage.
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Thank you, you outpedanted me. I tip my hat to you. :-)
You can't simultaneously advocate for superior free-market solutions and then complain when the government outcompetes the private sector.
"What they then choose to do with the money after that, and what taxes individuals pay on their own investments, are not part of Apple's tax rate."

It's not part of Apple's rate, it's part of the rate at which the entire investment is taxed. The US taxes profits on corporate investments in the range of 35-70%, do you really think that's realistic? A business owner has a large number of countries they can just re-incorporate in to be able to keep 3/4s of their profits instead of less than half.
DirectTV, AT&T UVerse and TimeWarner all offer cable and ISP services.
How?

Edit:
The parent post was edited.

Are other employee evaluation schemes free of appearance of sexism (or actual sexism), or is it harder to see?
So you're saying it's not the system, or at least not solely the system, and that the managers are almost certainly biased?

I can appreciate that. It's almost certainly true. Most people are biased.

The point of my comment wasn't argue differently, or to defend Uber or their managers, but to show how choosing a sexist system is the same as being sexist, in effect.
Jupyter switch really easily from Python2.7 to Python 3 to C# because the front end and backend are separated. Not sure why they are having issue here.
I have no experience in this area but I assume these waivers come with "job like" research, teaching, and/or administrative support obligations attached, in which case the tax seems appropriate (and, as the author suggests, Universities would likely adapt to a new system, net-neutral to grad students).

If there are no such obligations attached, then how is a tuition waiver different from a merit- or need-based scholarship?
welp, i'm convinced!
Why vindictive?
I've never been in an American RV, which I know are huge, but still narrower than a train. The ride on a train is usually much smoother than the best road, and of course you can walk around, use the dining car etc while the train is moving.

There are some pictures of various Amtrack train interiors at [1], aimed at tourists. That toilet next to the seat is weird, I think I'd prefer a shared toilet at the end of the corridor. But overall, the US has very spacious long-distance trains.

(I have taken one long-distance Amtrack train, for about 11 hours. The standard seat was as big as a first-class seat in most of Europe.)

[1] https://www.seat61.com/UnitedStates.htm
Yep, I never found the github "network" thing very useful. The fancy graph is difficult to scroll and analyze.

Bitbucket has (for local branches) a simple behind/ahead visualization [1] that IMO would be very nice to have on forks!

On top of that, they could integrate something like [2] as I pointed in another comment

[1] https://blog.bitbucket.org/files/2013/10/branch-details.png

[2] http://forked.yannick.io/jquery/jquery
The Migration Period
I’ve had a lot of varied bad experiences in my career, so it’s all about the bottom line now. Pay me enough to make it worth dealing with the inevitable frustration and stress of working there.
Coinbase had one million new accounts opened in a seven day period this month. The rise is substantially organic in new people coming in.
It calls out some of this debt being from 2007, and some cursory checking on my part suggests things were picking up again to a notable degree more recently. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uslbo/cheap-financing-fuel...

Anyway, at best it contributes to a negative feedback loop.
I doubt software written in Rust has no bugs.
seriously though, that gif of Matt is excellent
>Every country has good and bad parts. That's the point of averages. How else would you compare countries?

Surely you understand that averages are often misleading and can be worse than useless.

The US is the most diverse large country in the world. Averages do not work well when comparing highly varied populations.

>And I don't see how population size is important, as you say.

There are many smaller countries with better average educational outcomes than the US. But none of the countries with higher scores are anywhere near the size and diversity of the US.

The only country even close to the US in population is China and you'll note that test scores are only available for the highest performing provinces.

If you want to make a proper comparison, you'd need to compare the US with something like the entire continent of Europe.

Finland is more analogous to say Massachusetts than it is to the entire US.
of all the mottos the only one that should remain is "lobby free"
There are still some major irrational points that I see:

- Bias (conscious and not) is assumed to be a problem mainly perpetuated by white men, when reality is that, for example, women may have as much or more bias toward women than men do. I.e. the factor of women enforcing gender roles among themselves is dismissed.

- The success of white men in startups is assumed to be caused by them excluding others, rather than because they share a culture with each other from an early age with a lot of positive characteristics. Saying we excluded girls from programming and chess teams, or from spending long hours alone at a computer instead of socializing, is at least an oversimplification.

- Men being attracted to things and systems and tinkering vs socializing and people is real. It's more than a standard deviation (i.e. differences between groups are more than differences between average individuals), it starts hours after birth, it correlates to pre-natal testosterone levels, it happens across species. Scientifically it's a slam dunk and it is a pretty plausible hypothesis for why women are poorly represented in coding positions, compared to other equally demanding jobs, e.g. doctors and lawyers where women are doing just fine.
Well, I never! How crude! I mean just poo-poo on this sort of thing and anybody amused by it!
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I love to see cities exert their power. In some ways we’ve acquiesced to a powerful central government, whether it be federal or state, but its local governments that should be powerful. After all, they have the best handle on the needs and desires of their citizens.
Hard forks aren't dangerous. Monero has scheduled hard forks all the time. It's the best and cleanest way to upgrade.

> The biggest difference Segwit2x would make in centralization is the fact that block propagation latency is already very slow, and if it gets to over 10 minute for the whole network, the network can split.

Yet there's no research to remotely suggest a meager increase to 2MB would have any effect. Compact blocks and Xthin (and recently Graphene) also improves on this immensely.

> Bitcoin is an amazing store of value, and those of us who hold the currency wouldn't accept any risk of increased centralization

Typical black and white thinking. Bitcoin must have a primary use case that's not a store of value otherwise it will crash down when no new money is injected.

> just because non-holders want low transaction fees

Yeah because non-holders are the ones who want to use Bitcoin as was always intended. Pure holders are only in for the speculation.

The title of Bitcoin's whitepaper is "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" not "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Store of Value System".
Even if you are pointing out this car is more fantasy than reality, I think this anecdote is more telling about the shift in perspective towards electric vehicles.

When children design the Batmobile of the future, it used to feature a rocket launcher. Now it might have a "self-healing" battery.

Before change can happen in reality, what we aspire to, or what we consider desirable has to change.
> A bitcoin transaction wastes

^H^H^H^H^H^Hcosts -- FTFY. It's not a waste if you actually got something for it. e.g. your chemical ICE in your car produces heat that is useful in cold weather. Not waste heat if it has utility. Electric cars have to spend electrical energy to generate the same heat.

That said, the fact that this keeps coming up would indicate that there's definitely a marketplace for a coin that costs less energy/emissions for the same features.
Nothing Apple does violates GAAR. It pays all the taxes it owes in every country it does business in, then it takes the remaining profits and moves them to a low tax location because repatriating them to the US would cost at least 40% in additional taxes.
I uninstalled uber when the shit hit the fan. I won't ever reinstall it, and I actively suggest others do the same. I won't support a company that sounds like a sorry mix of aws corporate culture and /r/incels social culture
The pure speculators I know invest in smaller cap cryptocurrencies to maximize their gains. The only people I know invested in bitcoin are in because they believe in its long term value.

Anyway at this point you're trying to predict the future and I'm sharing anecdotes so we're not getting anywhere, let's tackle your main point:

> The lack of arguments against on chain scaling, backed by actual research, is what's lacking.

The value of full nodes is widely understood by bitcoin contributors [0][1][2]. Increasing the block size directly increases the amount of resources required to run a full node. Increased bandwidth requirements is especially a problem.

It is up to the candidate (s2x), not the incumbent (core) to show that no, it won't be harder to run full nodes, or to show that you can have just as much security by running an SPV node. Because the candidate has failed to back up their proposal with evidence that security is not harmed, the proposal cannot be allowed to move forward. Makes sense?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/3eq3y7/fu...

[1] https://medium.com/@morcos/no2x-full-nodes-889c20100a8d

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node
Ahh, okay, so $4403 of AWS egress charges to match the 50TB included.
Sexual reproduction for the blockchain
So maybe VR headsets and microdoses of LSD and Cocaine?

Sounds like we are working on a script for a remake of Lawn Mower Man [0]

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/
Wow, confusing article. Break it down:

1. AT&T owns DirecTV

2. Time Warner owns Turner (which owns CNN)

3. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner

DOJ requires the merger to either sell DirecTV or Turner. Whew.
Someone masqueraded a third party software bug as a protocol problem and you fell for it?
32-bit support prematurely obsoleted (Distrowatch opinion column)
"provide some kind of experience"

There's the food court.

Also see the constraint on "mom is stuck with the kids" to this day even in 2017 etc. So a movie theater is a hard sell if mom has the baby in the stroller.

Of course going to the mall implies having money and a car, which means the library is accessible, so having story time at the mall merely replicates a service that's barely getting by somewhere else; better off just driving to the library or whatever rather than imitating it and splitting the participants such that possibly neither can be a success.