skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The 'problem' is banks are limited in what they can do with this money which ends up creating investment bubbles and other market distortions which hurt the economy overall. If you slowly transitioned banks so they could not invest this money over say 100 years the net result would not be harmful.

Um, no. The type of investing you suggest includes the risk of losing the money. This doesn't work with commercial banks because they are insured by the federal government, i.e. the taxpayer. When people put money in the bank they expect it to stay safe. That's why the concept of a bank exists in the first place. If there was the risk of it evaporating due to bad investments, that would basically be more of "privatized gains, socialized losses."
I know it is a new/budget brand, but I've now purchased 3 different TCL 43S405's (work, home, wife's work). It is a 43" 4k monitor, with low lag, low motion blur and 60hz refresh rate. I've been extremely happy with them (once you turn on game mode and turn off HDR). $350 before black friday, they're $300 at Target right now.

Also, if you want a fantastic site to compare tvs/monitors apples to apples, you can't beat rtings.com. They grade every device on the same rubric so it is easy to compare and contrast. You can even tell it which qualities you care about most (or what use case) and they rate them accordingly.

http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/tcl/s-series-4k-2017-s405
Coercion, basically.

People need money to live. Some of them need money more desperately than others. Some are willing to work long hours under shitty conditions for almost anything.

So, if you have 1 job, and 2 people need to work to survive, then the salary for that job will approach zero because those people have no other choice.

We, as a society, realize that is a bad outcome for everyone, and so we say "Look, I know you /could/ hire someone to clean your toilet for $1 an hour, but that isn't the true cost of toilet cleaning because we don't live in a truly free market and there are larger factors that might force people to accept that wage against their will. Therefore, we're going to say that $X is the lowest you are allowed to pay to overcome the inherent coercion in jobs."

One of the beauties of UBI is that, at least theoretically, low wage jobs will have salaries that actually come closer to the true market clearing price of the job itself. To be clear, it is likely that the true cost of toilet cleaning is closer to $3 or $4 an hour, but people with no options would take the job for $1...and there are a ton of those people out there. Under UBI there might not be people that desperate any longer and so they would only take the toilet cleaning job if it paid more...closer to the true market value of having clean toilets.
Games have a clear ends goal. How to you measure getting better at ethics?
Please, find an example of a better system in a stronger economy.
This is pretty nice, the tool choices were pretty limited. (nginx-rtmp, red5, and another one that I can't remember.)

It still doesn't fix the main problem for me: content delivery and its price.

For a 60 minute-long 720p@30fps (~2500 kbps) stream with 1000 viewers, you have to push a total of 1TB of data.

Using Amazon CloudFront, it would cost you $0.085*1000GB = 85$. For one stream. Of one hour. Of mid-tier quality.
You would need three dedicated servers to push that data (You need ~3GBPS to replace that CDN) and it would cost 85$ per MONTH. Not per stream.

I know, building a CDN isn't simple, but when I tried to build my own platform, it wasn't about building something about video streaming. It was about creating my own CDN to lower the costs. I don't think I'm alone with that problem.
Ask HN: If you could automate anything, what would you automate?
Try to ignore the cost of creating it. You can assume automation is free, money and time wise.
I think becoming wealthy is incentive enough to become wealthy. No one is going to stop trying to be wealthy just because they might get taxed for that wealth. If anything, they will just try to hide it in another state. But the argument that a wealth tax would remove any incentive to become wealthy is not very strong.
I believe that we are not close to "general AI", at all.

Yet, that is a very different position than believing that "general AI" is not possible at all, which I think is a foolish position considering highly adaptative beings exist "biomechanically" in the form of humans.
No, this is purely the internal economic model of bitcoin production concerning work/energy/value input versus output to workers.

Imagine someone tells you they've created a money printing machine that prints 21m BTC, and they design the machine to give them most of the BTC and when it arrives in your town the man says "well it looks like the rules have changed now and your work isn't worth as much as my work because you encountered the magic box after me"

The users who ran the software on the network in 2010 required much less value input to generate bitcoins. Acording to Satoshis design, a user running the software now on an identical computer would not produce the same rewards for their work. This is essentially an intentional ponzi design.

Users who aquired bitcoins for low capital input are incentized to psychologically convince late adopters to purchase their bitcoins for more than it cost to produce and acquire.
Try headwayapp.co for the in-app notifications.
What precedent is that? That if you skirt the law somebody might do something about it? That having a good legal team does not give you freedom from your legal responsibilities as a media outlet?
The content of the challenges aren't the focus. The main take-away is to see how Norvig does it after you've had a whack at it yourself. You can learn a lot by seeing how he reads the problem, dissects it into different functions, documents and tests them, and keeps an eye out for performance and computational complexity.

His code is highly readable and elegant, and I wish every single person I'll share a codebase with will have studied him before.
A quick review of UK print media

1) The Times - Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece. Employs MP Michael Gove for £100k a year after he was sacked for being a backstabber.

2) The Mail - "The EU and immigrants want to kill your children and sleep with your sister and may even affect your house price". Billionaire owner too.

3) The Telegraph - "The Torygraph" former paper of the ruling classes, now mouth piece of two weird billionaire brothers who live in a castle on an island like particularly boring bond villains.

4) The Express - "Princes Diana wanted Brexit". Owned by billionaire Richard "not a pornographer" Desmond

5) The Sun - Rupert Murdoch's gutter mouthpiece

6) The News of the World - Rupert's other paper that had to close because they hacked the voice mail of a girl who was murdered, and therefore delayed the police investigation.

7) The Mirror - low grade leftism, but mostly celeb gossip

8) The Financial Times - Pretty good journalism and then pages of bond prices etc

9) The Independent. No longer in print. Billionaire Arab and Russian owners

edit: from comments there is a number 10

10) The i - a lower case Independent. Thinner, cheaper and still in print. This main use for the i seems to be to leave it on train seats when the Metro (a free paper they give out in railway stations) is just too cheap. The journalism seems OK. Owned by establishment media PLC

So if you didn't want Brexit, think immigration is helping demographics, think Princess Di should be laid to rest now and don't think the world is full of benefit scroungers, there is only the Guardian left.

edit: formatting and a sad inability to list numbers
errr.... no. every scheme i've touched / seen is perfectly happy to mutate your variables. what one doesn't?
I hope this is an exercise in playing devil's advocate and not true naivety. Do you really think telcos care about these issues? They are a business and not a socialist government.

Other comments have stated their goal clearly: increase margins from existing infrastructure.

If fair repartition of resources was their goal, why not make that an explicit part of the laws they want to introduce? Why do it in a roundabout way? Presenting a wall of 'possibilities' only serves to obfuscate their true goal.

Would you let 'the markets figure out' your water supply?
Good point, but I did actually mean to put down 99% of democrat leaders. To be "pure and truthful" to me is a high standard, which most of our representatives do not currently meet.

I have updated my comment to clarify.
Automate automation.
I'm not sure what we could hope to gain without some innovations in ram latency as well.
Getting out of the stock market in 2006 is not bad as far as market timing goes.
Well, not exactly. The law is not perfect. It's enforced and deliberated by humans. If someone is guilty, it doesn't mean they're objectively guilty, as though such a thing even really exists. It means someone brought and argued a case against them and a judge or jury (one person or a small handful of people) agreed with the argument. We may like to think that the set of rules which leads to a judge or jury's decision is logical but it's far from it.

So I don't buy into the notion that, simply because Gawker was found guilty by a court of law, we should not consider their side of things.
How did we chose this? The person who appointed the FCC commissioner has no mandate. The majority of people didn’t vote for him. The FCC is on record saying that they won’t listen to comments from citizens.

We the majority have NO voice.
Is healthcare part of cost of living?
This happened to me. I checked my account, which I hadn't used in a couple months, and found that I had apparently been staying in Bangladesh. I promptly told AirBnB and cancelled my account, but they didn't respond to my complaint.
You underestimate Comcast’s ability to fail spectacularly.

When the economy was crashing in 2008 they were neck and neck with Countrywide in a consumerist poll for worst company in America. Countrywide won, but barely, and they basically broke the global economy.

Comcast will do every single thing they can to destroy the internet and turn it into Cable TV packages once the Trump administration deregulates the industry.

In a few years when we have a new administration we can put the band aids back on.
https://xkcd.com/538/

(it's a wrench rather than a rubber hose)
Instead of using money that a government created out of thin air?
Goo founder here, can confirm this, was acquired after bankruptcy. Nice to see it live on! (still looks exactly the same which is cool)
I think you misunderstood my comment. Banks are currently allowed to loan out a percentage of their deposits IE: they need to keep say 10% cash on hand and can loan say 90%.

I am saying if your raise that percentage to 11% cash on hand not much changes. Then next year that becomes 12% cash on hand... until banks can no longer lend money.

At no point in this process is physical wealth destroyed only shifting how loans are created.
Because the datastructure being manipulated is the "decentralized" feature here.

And to manipulate a datastructure you need software.

I am intrigued by your comment and your expectation about"decentralized", though.

And now I am curious: What were you expecting ?
I am always a bit confused as to how the ideal Net Neutrality rules would work.

ISPs always have to make decisions about who to peer with, how many links to have with each other network, etc. These decisions are made with business motivations, and have a huge effect on QOS for various upstream services. You can't tell an ISP they need the exact same bandwidth for each upstream connection.

So what rules SHOULD they have as far as their peering and transit arrangements?
all back of napkin but im guessing you're playing with 55k after taxes, so 4.6 k a month.

so your total costs (rent/mortgage, food, kids, all in) is only 1.6 k? and you're saving ~65% of what you take home? you must live extremely frugally, this is not normal. so kudos, but don't try to make it sound like everyone should do what you're doing. most people do just fine saving 20-30%, even less.
Unpopular Opinion (but similar): If the ISPs win and the rules get rescinded, I think we are looking at their ultimate poison pill. An egregious push like this ends up stoking an unprecedented backlash at about the time that we see a bit of a swing in midterm elections that create less conservative leaning legislation and we finally get rules written that promote localized community broadband and essentially the end of their monopoly. As stated, I think they are pretty much making money like a monopoly now and as they push further I think they are gonna get "Ma 'Bell'd."
Provocative in the sense that we have far too much evidence of the destructive force of communism, most recent example Venezuela.
> That is not a crime.

Are you saying that this is why no one went to jail over this?? :) :)
I enjoyed your podcast and I agree, it looks dire for Tesla.
Because it's not that simple. Every moment of a person's life adds to their sum total of knowledge but it's very limited. Simply being a living human isn't going to give you a good understanding of quantum mechanics or general relativity, but it will give you some basic idea of things falling towards the ground. Something being unintuitive doesn't mean just that the individual lacks knowledge but that there is very little chance that this knowledge would be encountered in ones life time at all without making an effort to gather a deeper understanding.
Doesn't really look the same. The both have dark backgrounds but are completely different otherwise.
Why I don't support Net Neutrality
Certainly more suspicious than I used to be, in the wake of 2016. As much as I distrust Facebook and Twitter, it's hard to suggest they have a friendly relationship with congress or the intelligence community. Kaspersky is a far more insidious example - software with tendrils deep into our most sensitive data, hiding behind a significant degree of plausible deniability while maintaining problematic connections to the FSB.
UI design and implementation.
“Which five books have influenced you the most?”
> and here come the downvotes....

I'm not a mod but I'll still say that this is frowned upon. Wrt the downvote itself, I promptly rewarded you with mine for your representing of stalking as a male only phenomenon. This blanket statements blaming men for everything really grosses me out and does not help at all with the feminist cause. Saying "hey you're all nasty pigs" is not persuasive at all, especially when I at the receiving end of the attack am not at all guilty of what you blame every single person with.
>You can walk up to a girl, who in any other situation would smack you for it, [...] touch her and spend several minutes close to her.

Wow that sounds pathetic. Sorry but why would you want to do that? These minutes may be better spent socialising with someone without a princess complex.
There are enough fish in the pond, no need to make a fool of yourself!
Four things I like about Symfony 4
And it all started with Google and their "why are manhole cover rounds?".

Tip: They are only round in north America.
Growing plants on the blockchain
I don't think index funds are what the parent meant by "picking stocks". Going with a fund, even an index fund, is still a form of delegating the low-level work to financial professionals.
People are pretty OK with price discrimination all the time if its open. Like "discount for veterans" and nobody bats an eye.
I’ve read about people who do things like swim the channel, and bulk up (10’s of lbs) before doing so. Given that they lose this weight in the process, how does that happen?
> The whole thing is really about Comcast's ability to shake down other companies to pay for their infrastructure improvements. It's really expensive to sell a $5 a month plan to a million users. It's really cheap to get $500 million dollars out of Netflix to pay for your line upgrades. And for the next 4 years, they have a blank check to shake down companies in the background.

I agree, that’s what the have in mind, but I doubt their greed will stop there.
It's more like the opposite problem.

Psychology researchers try to justify deep, compelling theories of human behavior with small experiments that are hard to reproduce.

Deep Learning experiments are comparatively easy to run and reproduce because the field has both a common set of performance benchmarks and a large community of people implementing cutting-edge ideas in common frameworks. The harder part is building useful theory on top of those experiments.
One of the footnoted articles says that the engines were due for retirement (there were also boxcars involved) though the engines were painted to look brand new and were in good enough condition to be used in a nationwide tour to advertise the event:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/train-company-crashed...

> Whatever Crush’s motivations were, he managed to sway the Katy managers. For weeks leading up to the event, Crush and a fleet of workers scurried around the state in preparation. Crush found two 35-ton steam engines that were being retired for new 60-ton engines and commissioned them for the spectacle, after consulting with company engineers about the safety of the undertaking (only one suggested the collision might cause an explosion, and he was overruled). Engine No. 1001 was painted red with green trim, while its opponent, No. 999, was painted green with red trim

In the building demolitions I've seen, it has always been completely obvious that the building has been condemned and not in any kind of usable condition, because it doesn't need to be "usable" in order to be blown up. A train that is set to run into another train at full speed doesn't have to be brand new, but it does have to be able to actually execute the actual act.
Except he had to accelerate to speed and back, so only our reference frame matters.
What if you want to go hunting? What if you just wanna shoot skeet on your property? I predict that you are going to make zero progress on any attempt to get FaceID for guns in America.
Frankly,the trickle-down economics is not working.Plain and simple. Giving the rich lower tax and expecting them to invest the money back to the economy has been proved not to be working.

And we know now that the ultra-rich folks tend to take the money,windfall from lower tax, and hide it in Virgin-Island, Panama,Cayman Island and other offshore tax havens.
Did you actually read about the case or do you just follow the "Peter Thiel is bad" doctrine? I feel like when you're defending revenge porn you've lost touch a bit.

They literally published an article about how they're ignoring a court order over the matter: http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...
You must be very unusual then, because as I pay for our family to have access, and between unlimited data mobile and low-tier fiber, it's about $300-$350/mo. There is no way I could ever pay $3500/mo. I would sooner simply go back to the 1990's, reading books at home and occasionally using Internet cafes for surf time.
Completely wrong.

The output is actually completely inverse. More work, more users, less output.

The consistency you're thinking of is likely the algorithm that adjusts blocktime to 10 minute intervals.
Serious science fiction does not need to be bereft of comedy. Satirical science fiction, like many of the works of Vonnegut, are hilarious and ludicrous, but no less science fiction for that fact.
I think you are confusing "give everyone the same income" with "give everyone a basic income". Basic income is a floor, not a ceiling. It doesn't change much about the wealth distribution (except at the bottom).
Not to mention: https://xkcd.com/1865/
People on both sides pretty much share the same values; social issues are a big exception, but the crux of the disagreement between the right and left very often comes down to a disagreement about facts on the ground (e.g. lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs, net-neutrality harms customers and innovation, a minimally regulated market provides better and cheaper healthcare than single-payer, human behavior has no or negligible impact on climate etc)
So in our app, we need to post process .webm and .opus files to create a single mp4 video file. I think this can be done with " AWS Elemental MediaConvert"

Then we need to stream the .mp4 files from Amazon S3 to user's browsers when they start playing. I guess 'AWS Elemental MediaLive' solves that streaming problem for us.

Can someone confirm if this is right? Or AWS Elemental is too much for above kind of tasks. Thanks.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, worked hard, and yet he still gave his hard work to the public.
I think it's a mistake to assume that integration tests will capture all of the bugs unit tests will. Even with a full whitebox approach, the analogy I'd make would be testing from the next room over with a waldo arm that can only move in a preset number of directions.

It's just much harder to put together tests that hit any level of internal granularity than it is by controlling closer to the target. Theoretically it can be done, but that doesn't make it a good idea. Plus you potentially end up with a large body of brittle tests that can be invalidated by any hiccups in the stack.

Integration tests really should concentrate on the behavior of the integration. It's not just a philosophical approach, it's about not hitting the hockey stick of diminishing returns in your testing while trying to maximize value of the results.
I'm not a economist... But wouldn't turning all corporations into 100% worker owned co-ops be better?
Amazon used to arbitrate on products not-as-advertised, but I don't see a link for that anymore. Now you have to ship it back at your own cost.

Overall the Amazon edge over other retailers has been going down.
I have the 43" TCL 4k. I highly recommend turning off HDR when using it as a monitor. Up close it kinda creates this ghosting effect where black text on a gray background will get this light halo kind of thing, ugh, it looked horrible. once you turn it off it is much nicer to look at.
the key with money/investing is you want to stay alive long enough to get lucky.

if you sock away money every month, make sure you have 6 months of living expenses off to the side for emergencies, bet ~20% on crazy things with unlimited upside and the remaining 80% in a very traditional way, you stand a good chance over the very long term.

just make sure that when things get rocky you are one of the strong hands and only sell when you want to.

as for the dollar values etc ... totally tied to city-specific cost of living ... totally impossible to compare between individuals (e.g., family vs. single, country-specific tax codes, medium and long term financial goals).
I'm guessing the answer is that inserting a feature to serve 500 to a fraction of the incoming requests would have required a similar amount of effort as just enabling the chillout feature.
It is and isnt capitalist.

There's only a limited amount of stuff at any one time. Rarity and usage can make its worth different than other things. So it makes sense to track these things. Ideally, recycling allows recoup of most or all the material, which returning should provide the credits back.

It really then matters how much credits people get and thus how much resources and where. But then again, socialism and communism never talked about personal effects - but instead it talked of the machinery to create.

What the UBI enables is a migration that everyone gets the spoils of the machines of creation. The Story of Manna by Marshall Brain discusses more of how this might be possible.