skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm not getting the function of this device but what does it need the cloud for? This is just a fancy remote with app support. It really should not rely on any could server expect for updates maybe. The app should just connect to the remote using the locale network.

My Apple TV does not need internet either. I can still stream media to it using any device on the locale network (which is what I use it for mostly anyways). Sure the "apps" do not work without internet but I have never used them anyways (I always stream them using my iPhone) so even if Apple shut down the old Apple TV, I can still use it just like before and only use the function partially.

If they have such heavy (and unexpected) cloud dependencies, they should warn consumers and (even better) put an expiration date on them, and say which functions are required for them to work. I remember that Nintendo games used to have a disclaimer if the game needed internet to work with (either partially or at all). This way parents (and the store clerks) can better help the consumer understand what is required to play the game and understand how it can be played without internet.
Indeed. Last time this happened, it was _almost_ funny how people argued (successfully) for an undoing of their mistake, even though their very own business proposal [0] stated as clear as it could possibly be stated that the exact code would set the rules, and come before any other interpretation:

> The terms of The DAO Creation are set forth in the smart contract code existing on the Ethereum blockchain at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413. Nothing in this explanation of terms or in any other document or communication may modify or add any additional obligations or guarantees beyond those set forth in The DAO’s code. Any and all explanatory terms or descriptions are merely offered for educational purposes and do not supercede or modify the express terms of The DAO’s code set forth on the blockchain; to the extent you believe there to be any conflict or discrepancy between the descriptions offered here and the functionality of The DAO’s code at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413, The DAO’s code controls and sets forth all terms of The DAO Creation.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160704190119/https://daohub.or...
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These days I don't see much production around.

It's probably somewhere in the industrial zones on the outskirts of cities, but it's not something many people do.

As a software developer I produce code. How would you exert democratic control over means of such production? Will it involve lots of tin foil?
This is a little unkind. Vim has actual APIs for most things you'd want to do. Ex: https://github.com/camgunz/u300Blog/blob/master/u3b.vim#L307

It's not complete coverage, but it's not "the API is just a thin Python wrapper around Vim commands as strings" as your comments suggest.
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My suspicion is they can't afford to or are no longer able to license some technology behind the scenes anymore. Probably the TV show feeds.

When a piece of software we used (local install) was bought out by a big company, they refused to renew our license and gave us a hard date after which we could no longer have it operational.

Our response was exactly this, "Sorry Customer, as of Date, Service will no longer be available." Customers were pissed, they just could not understand that just because the software could still run, we didn't have the rights to run it anymore.
it's also about spreading risk. you buy a single family home and rent it out and you can't find a renter you default on the loan or what ever your screwed.

you split it up over 10 loans and as long as there isn't a systematic problem like 2008-2009 just have a lower return.

if you have enough to do 10 rentals on your own well good for you. most people don't.
didn't they? People invest in hardware, pay electric bills, even purchase coins from stock exchanges to have them and suddenly - fork? of course they lost money.
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This is a digression, but I think it's hard to classify Thiel as a libertarian unless you view libertarianism and feudalism as equivalent.
Happens a lot to human rights orgs and NGOs also
> It is not OK if the only presence they have is a mailbox and the actual act of operation is done somewhere else.

As I said, the very point of EU (free movement of goods and capital) is that it is perfectly OK to have just a mailbox presence (e.g. to handle warranty claims and such, a service which is sold to the actual operating company in another EU country) and have the actual operation done somewhere else.

I take benefit of this all the time; for instance, I buy things from amazon.de which has much lower prices than domestic companies. They just pay VAT, based on sales, to my country, on my country's tax rate, but they don't operate here.
Also, an in-wheel electrict motor would:

1. suffer a lot more from wear and tear than a motor mounted to the chassis.

2. restrain the amount of space available for brakes. While it would be reasonable to say that a small city car could forego its rear brakes and use electric motors instead to deccelerate, coupled with brakes at the front, a four wheel drive supercar with four electric motors would have no chance relying simply on the stopping power of those motors and no brakes.

3. be very difficult to connect to a powerful cooling system. Even electric motorcycles with 30-40 bhp rely on water cooling, let alone a car 20 times the weight.

4. need serious protection from water damage.
This is a nice goal, especially if you need portability all the way down (... to IE 5.5 or something).

However, for any larger web application, this increases the testing effort dramatically, as you need to test all possible sets of capabilities (i.e. all kinds and versions of browsers and other clients). This becomes quickly unbearable burden, unless all functionality is 100% provided and battle-tested by the framework.
I think that is suspect, do you have anything to substantiate that?

Heres some actual data, which is very worrisome and is not getting the attention it deserves

Microfinance data -

>As shown in the table, PAR > 30 days has spiked drastically across most of the states. Compared to the figures for March 31, 2016, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra registered an incredible increase of nearly 100 times as on 31st March, 2017. States such as Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka experienced increases between 11% and 22% compared to the much lower pre-demonetisation levels. By 31 December, PAR>30 days had increased from a meagre 0.5% in the previous quarters to around 8%.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/jVE367mp7AamTbHD5dG0lK/Demon...

This means that money lenders are quite likely going to get stronger, because this suggests very large distress at the bottom of the pyramid.

And This data never shows up in GDP, by definition the unstructured part of the economy is not part of GDP figures.

This has a knock on effect on demand, and therefore on economic growth.

And recent news suggests that MNREGA funds have not been released by many states because they haven;t gotten them from the center.

I think this is imperiling the BJPs chances of survival. I expected some loss of seats in the next election (I know that even the BJP top brass didnt expect a full majority during the last election.) but if these canaries in the coal mine are accurate, it suggests large distress which is still to come down the pipe.
If you have two popsicles, and I have one - we could achieve popsicle equality by throwing one of yours away. We have overall less popsicles but greater equality.
Nerd blackface with a stereotypical understanding of nerds.

It's usually a disaster when writers try to create characters smarter than themselves. You get word soup based on how the writer imagines smart people communicate, filled with weakly used jargon and unnecessarily long words.

My coworkers still accuse me of using complex language even though I have worked to simplify and clarify my communication.
That seems a pretty unnecessary personal attack.

And I didn’t see anything unreasonable in his comment. He pointed out the Google policy of only making available the latest version and also suggested that if the user wanted more control including hosting an older version they should self host (which aligns with everyone else’s suggestions).
I didn't know it was entitled to want your font to keep looking similar to when you first used it.

That's a pretty basic design ask.
Privacy != security.

Chrome is probably more secure, but Firefox does a lot more to help block/prevent fingerprinting and tracking and to enable addons to do it further.
There's certainly a reason Silicon Valley got away with duplicating the components of Big Bang exactly.

Like, they've both got the stereotypical awkward Indian engineer who can't talk to women, but SV took a novel approach by not hating him. SV's weird-by-engineering-standards characters are weird for reasons outside of their nerdiness (e.g. Jared's German-language night terrors), BBT just turned Sheldon's nerdiness up to 11. (And created a really nasty autism stereotype in the process.) And so on.

(Can anyone imaging BBT finding a stereotype as obscure as Gilfoyle's occultist thing? Because that's definitely a 'thing', but it's some serious inside baseball.)

If anything, you might argue that the transition from Big Bang to Silicon Valley is a display of the changing position of nerds. More realistically, though, I think they're just aiming at different demographics.
One explanation is "laziness." Local networking is surprisingly hard (physically adjacent devices are not always adjacent topologically, AP client isolation and tigers and bears, oh my!), just polling a server Out In The Cloud via HTTP is dead simple by comparison. In other words, "1. cut a few corners, 2. trash the device in a few quarters, 3. PROFIT!"
The interpreter is the law. That's the only code that matters. If someone else owns the interpreter there is no other contract that matters.
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It is not an abuse to use a font to provide icons. What are letters, if not icons, after all! :)
We need a service that makes it easy to setup whatever structures are necessary to pay the same taxes as Apple et al. Hear me out. Let's call it "Double Irish as a Service", referring to the famous Double Irish tax strategy[0]. Similar to Stripe Atlas, you sign up, and it sets up whatever structures and accounts are necessary to get the tax advantages. Then, once every company can do this (and not just the big companies), then the laws may change.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
> I'm not sure I understand. > The whole article is just describing literally anyone in any industry.

Teachers. Surgeons. Physiotherapists. Soldiers. Artists. Grocers. Cleaners. Miners. Forestry. Farmers. Elder care. The people who drive your shuttle bus.

Most industries require contact with other humans, and implicate you in their happiness. In techland, we are already a step removed from our customers (because we create autonomous artifacts.) But beyond that, now we’re powered by overwhelming amounts of capital. And the whole point of that capital is to create vast power imbalances between you and the people you’re allegedly serving.

In a previous decade, computer programmers could have counted themselves as citizens. Connecting and empowering people. Maybe a lot us still are. But lately, a lot of what we’re doing is finding new ways to yank Jenga pieces out of society, in hopes that all the pieces will fall into our bosses’ laps.
Or Sybase Open Server.
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This is exactly what I mean though. The term "open source" has become so incredibly politicized that it doesn't mean anything any more. I used to use the term in business contexts but I don't anymore because of this. The real issue is how they treat others. For me a good metric has been if a company is willing to focus on empowering the customer and giving them freedom and liberty.

I've noticed that hammering "why" only seems to work at mid-sized companies -- in the case of a fortune 500, then the whys are usually significantly disconnected from what most employees are doing, unless you're talking to the board or senior management, in which case you are probably being paid to determine the why. In the case of a startup, everyone seems to be running around like chickens with their heads cut off frantically trying to determine the "why" but no one is really sure of what it is.
Many things, from the Liberal government's new taxes on landed wealth in the 1910s, to the advent of democratic socialism and universal healthcare after the Labour party's victory in the 1945 election, to the 'Long Boom' of economic growth that the whole capitalist world experienced from the end of WW2 up to the 1970s.

Data like these are interesting, but you still need the deep historical context to make sense of what it all means. Of course, for the overall big picture, you couldn't do better than Thomas Piketty's _Capital in the Twenty-First Century_.
Most likely it validates the success of Samsung's SmartThings platform. Coupled with Z-Wave and ZigBee devices, SmartThings seems to have 'conquered' the DYI part of the home automation market.
If you truly question the morality of murder then it might not be far wrong to say that you are a sociopath.
I see astronauts as equivalent to military personnel -- if their job (or posting) exposes them to hidden pathogens or risk, even if they "knowingly" volunteer, their employer has an obligation to publicly reveal the source and severity of the risks that will be incurred (like a MOS that involves scraping asbestos from older navy ships -- a famous source of asbestosis and mesothelioma in ex-sailors). Only an open unrestrained discussion can reveal ALL the inherent risks and inform future soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines before they enlist what may be the military's latest Faustian bargain.
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* Downloading leads to page rendering lags and to reporting my browsing behaviour to google*

… if you are downloading Google fonts.
Rules were changed once already, why not again? Just because core developers are not involved? I really wonder what Vitalik is going to say on the topic.

I wish code was the law, but apparently, it's not. Same rules for everybody, please.
Depending on your state, you have a right to take the time to go vote:

https://aflcio.org/2016/11/5/know-your-rights-state-laws-emp...
The most legible font is the font you're most used to. If I let designers chose fonts for me then I'll have to read lots of different fonts, instead of just my own favorite. It can only harm my enjoyment of the web.
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It wouldn't have to be direct to have an effect. If their reduced taxes causes education to be underfunded, I cannot hire enough talented engineers, for example.
The biggest factor is probably inheritance tax and the slow fade of the aristocracy.

There may also be a "hidden wealth" effect as people move it offshore; is someone domiciled in the Cayman Islands who lives in the UK for <6mo a year part of the "UK" graph?
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They basically are equivalent if you go by what is typically called libertarianism in the US.
Nobody wins if everyone is winning.
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It's electric, couldn't we just leave some strong magnets under the road surface?
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> because to a very real extent there's a solid core of Apple fans whole will not leave the company's products, no matter how shoddy, no matter how buggy, no matter what.

This is pretty much irrelevant because this core is too small to support Apple. Apple very much needs to sell to the masses, outside their “core”, to keep afloat.
The point, then, is that it is the code that matters, even if one party later says "oh, this isn't what I meant". That's the _point_ of using a "hard" blockchain as opposed to transactions that can be subjected to the judgement of "soft" people even after they have taken place.
Will the canvas mouse input lag also go down? I tried to program some small games once and noticed this was horrible on all my (Windows 7) desktop browsers. Just tried again using this demo [1] (not mine!), and now on Chrome it was OK.

Edit: I just took the plunge and tested the beta (57.0b14). Unfortunately, the input lag did not go down. I think subtle lags like this cause web-apps to feel so uncomfortable for me.

[1] http://jsfiddle.net/Donk/5gXX8/2/embedded/result/
Milton Friedman's three categories for human equality: equality before God, equality of opportunity and equality of outcome - the second is compatible with liberty, and the third is socialism.
It's too bad we can't legislate morality. As long as politics is in bed with corporate interests the bigger bank roll wins.

Legality != Morality
I think was I was probably reacting to "everyone leverages the opportunities they have." and I was pointing out that there are some people, like Rowling, who avoid paying very large amounts of tax (tens or hundreds of millions in her case) for largely moral reasons. I'm just happy that people like that exist.... :-)
Roughly ten thousand dollars a year per person total spend including all government intervention as well as cash compensation. That is assuming everyone still is motivated to create as much under the new system.

For the downvoters, current global population is 7.6 billion[0], global GDP(GWP) is 78.28 trillion USD[1]. 78.28 trillion / 7.6 billion = ten thousand three hundred USD.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
> A point is a terrible unit for displays. No point in ...

Love me some pointed puns
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The "Invisible Hand" was a phrase coined by a Scottish economist who lived in the 1700's, Adam Smith. Do you think he had any concept of US based global computer corporations the size of IBM, MS, or Apple?

Free markets are not the only source of Invisible Hand. There's a growing mountain of actual evidence that regulations also often come with Invisible Hands that are larger than the hands of free markets. Take the environment [1], for example. There's no amount of Invisible Hand that offsets pollution that kills people. The Porter Hypothesis [2] is the name of the invisible hand inside the debate on environmental policy.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-08/documents...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_hypothesis
About what I expected for a piece on classical music.

Composer writes a batch of pleasant little ditties, critic spins that in to page-after-page of breathless prose as though they were the second coming.

No 19th century salon piece is going to live up to that.
I didn't say anything about avoidance, so I'm not sure your questions about dividends etc were directed at me.

At the turn of the century, it was common for software developers in the UK to leave their job on a Friday and then show up to do the same role at the same desk on the following Monday but suddenly they were a LTD company acting as an independent contractor. IR35 sought to put an end to that. It didn't apply to genuine freelancers, although there were risks.

And, I'm not sure I understand what you mean about not meeting a software contractor who isn't taking that approach ... as that approach is the very definition of software contracting :)
I'm not going to argue whether or not it pays all the taxes it owes. I'm pointing out that if they have access to offshore accounts that most businesses can't, they gain an unfair advantage over those other businesses. If you want to remove corporate income taxes, it should happen at the same time, not selectively to larger corporations.
I can't speak for Quantopian but traditionally the goal of a "hedge fund" is to preserve your vast wealth through a diverse range of market conditions. This means it should substantially overperform the index funds when they're all tanking, but could very well underperform them when they're doing well.

I think probably this only makes sense if you want to be able to liquidate your assets at any time without having to worry about taking a tremendous loss if the market is down.
How does that endgame look? And how do you intend to get there by further commercializing, thus monopolizing, such knowledge?

It's not like you are doing anything new here, the only new thing here is your approach of being dead honest about what you are doing, kudos to that.

But besides that I don't see how any of what you are doing there results in an endgame of "more autonomy and dignity for everybody", it rather seems to be reinforcing the current trend where such knowledge and practices are sold to anybody who can afford it, leaving those who can't out in the rain.
Thanks, we've added “Concept” to the title to clarify.
Are you paying them?
It seems amusing that developers, of all people, wouldn't realize the power of exponentiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem :)
The opposite of income inequality isn’t income equality. It’s less inequality and more integration. My wife grew up in small town Iowa. There were rich people (doctors and some farmers) and poor people, but everyone’s kids went to the same school (there was only one), went to the same cornfield parties (apparently a real thing), etc. The millionaire farmers still worked for a living—they weren’t making passive income.
Then let the non-index folks lose.
Quite true...
>In general, our society could benefit from more whistleblowing and disobedience - even in the "trivial" entertainment industry.

Or maybe our society could benefit from not believing a single word journalists or critics say. I think that would be easier than fixing a rotten industry.
Shared suffering, aka socialism.
>The fix can certainly involve appealing to morals and human responsibility...

Are you really suggesting the management and board of every major company in the world should meet to decide how much tax they should choose to pay each year? Even if they did, where should they choose to pay it? Should Apple Pay more tax in China where the phones are assembled? In America where they are designed? In the countries where they are sold? What criteria do they use to decide?

That might conceivably work for one company, on some tax issues, for a while. These are companies that operate simultaneously in multiple countries with different tax systems. They can’t be expected to choose to pay more tax here or there.

I do agree these companies pay too little tax, but expecting them to pay more voluntarily is never going to work.
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> I'm not sure what your point is.

My point is I bet it is not 9% but closer to 99% of tweets that are negatively affected by 140 characters, and their way of measuring this is very flawed.
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