skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it has anything to do with a hate for exposure. Rather, a keynote is live. A video is edited. A video can be designed to show exactly what you want to show, in the way that you want to show it. A stand-up presentation, albeit powerful in its own rights, just may be too raw for him. He doesn't want to do keynotes. But if exposure was the issue then he wouldn't be in all of those era-defining videos.
Singaporeans aren’t complaining because their trains are worse compared to the ones in New York. They are complaining because the trains are worse compared with fifteen years ago. Fifteen years ago it was unthinkable that two of the busiest lines would simultaneously go down for hours during rush hour, but that happened in July 2015. The NS/EW line trains were so incompetently maintained that reliability has been going down for several years now, to the point that outages are now common. This is after years of reliable service such that most Singaporeans do not have cars and depend on trains for almost all travel needs. This is valid cause for complaint.
This reminds me of TaskPaper, an excellent plain text todo list app for Mac that worked the same way. It's evolved since its early years, but you can still use the original v1 for free.

https://www.taskpaper.com/

http://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/where-can-i-download-old...
Don't worry, that's definitely above high school biology level. Here's the most readable article I could find:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21254/

In summary (me: CS background, biology family), there are self-mobile genetic sequences (in that they themselves encode the molecular machinery necessary to move their string of DNA to a different location in the genome) in some fruit fly populations.

Additionally, the implementation of this also gives rise to a phenomenon called hybrid dysgenesis whereby the sexed cross of one type (female without, male with) causes rampant mutations in offspring. Whereas the oppositely sexed cross (female with, male without) has much of the P activity suppressed and therefore able to live.

Presumably this terrifies parent poster because one could hypothetically create a situation where only a population with the genetic secret contained in their females would be able to successfully reproduce.
> if you include the massive hype and expectations

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. One thing that no-one has mentioned is the implicit social contract in place in Singapore - give the PAP basically total power, and everything will run perfectly. This rightfully sets an extremely high expectation, moreso than in other countries where a little government incompetence is tolerated, even expected.

I think this explains Singaporean's higher expectations/complaining vs other countries (in my experience).
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> no one is waiting for weeks for hardware requisition

I work for a Fortune 500 where we have to wait weeks for hardware. This is not unusual at non-tech companies.
This is uncomfortable if you're Sam Altman, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about Sam Altman.
There's some info on their 2014 set up -

>At the time of writing the site uses 21 “virtual machines” (VMs) hosted at different providers.

>All virtual machines are hosted with commercial cloud hosting providers, who have no clue that The Pirate Bay is among their customers.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo...
Heres a thing, I see a lot of comments about starting an indie-ISP of sorts.

Simple question: if the monopolies were finally able to break net neutrality laws, don't you think they can likely introduce some bullshit legislation to kill indie-ISPs?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"

This wasn't a fairy tale.
I have one as well, and it even does IDE too. I do computer repair in my spare time, so I'm not exactly the typical user, but I've gotten a lot more use out of mine then I would have expected as well.

For those looking to buy one, I would personally recommend just going for a simple one that has an external AC adapter. I've found a lot of the ones that attempt to power the drive straight from USB ports can unexpectedly have the drive power-off due to the USB ports not being able to supply enough power, which is obviously a huge issue (Even my eSATA with a Y-cable has this issue with some drives, making it basically unusable). Powering it externally is a lot more reliable.
I thought yours a very interesting, worthwhile and thought-provoking comment. I'm puzzled why it's voted down. Maybe too succinct. 3^4 words good, 3^2 words baad?
"So in a sense, you could say that the source of wealth is spending."

The currency you're trying to build is based on that model, and I just can't agree with it.

You do have intriguing points but I think we're coming at the issue from a far divide.
I had so much issue also. Getting unit tests working with Truffle was a real pain. There is a serious lack of good, concise and clear documentation.
It's like org-mode for normies.
I have a gigabit connection, and regularly verify my bandwidth. It's usually not actually in four digits, but I see 800+ megabit on a pretty regular basis.

Admittedly, not FIOS.
Do you have any facts to back your claims?
Can't any company do that?
Not sure where your question comes from - one common ancestor could nonetheless have had a recessive trait (though selection for it might not kick in until it was visible.) It's not directly relevant, but I might mention there are many sorts of genetic combos/phenotype patterns, not just plain recessive and dominant.
It’s next to impossible to say who’s doing the buying. With regulated financial instruments like ETFs or mutual funds there’s a concept of inflows and outflows where fiat cash changes hands.

With Bitcoin exchanges a trade could be new money, formerly sitting as cash in a bank account, could be a miner converting his other currencies to BTC, could be a dude trading with himself with two accounts on the same exchange.

We have no clear indication of actual new money coming into the ecosystem.
How do you do unit testing?
> What? The break the internet movement didn't mention that part? That censorship by ISPs was ok under net neutrality?

1) You are in favor of censorship without clear disclosure.

2) You believe its acceptable such censorship should be controlled by government granted near monopolies.

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You are talking about a ruling that mentions as an unrelated aside about the editorial right of content curation being legal and that right being more powerful than Title II due to the existence of the First Amendment. However, if its exercised, you are required to clearly disclose it to consumers before they purchase from you.

Without Title II, that requirement to clearly disclose no longer exists with a clear history of case law.

So...I'm really uncertain why you feel a requirement to disclose censorship before a purchase is made was an unfair regulatory burden.

I'm glad you have made it clear you were being disingenuous about your earlier complaints about censorship publicly.

> That would be true of an ISP that offers subscribers a curated experience by blocking websites lying beyond a specified field of content (e.g., family friendly websites). It would also be true of an ISP that engages in other forms of editorial intervention, such as throttling of certain applications chosen by the ISP, or filtering of content into fast (and slow) lanes based on the ISP’s commercial interests. An ISP would need to make adequately clear its intention to provide “edited services” of that kind, so as to avoid giving consumers a mistaken impression that they would enjoy indiscriminate “access to all content available on the Internet, without the editorial intervention of their broadband provider,”

> It would not be enough under the Order, for instance, for “consumer permission” to be “buried in a service plan—the threats of consumer deception and confusion are simply too great.”

And now, you've legalized the "buried in a service plan" option. Congratulations.
Basically, when I load up your ship, I document all the stuff I am loading on to the ship in a Bill of Lading. You agree that all of that stuff is present and you're now responsible for it. At the other end of the shipping route you present the Bill of Lading and show that all the goods are present and intact.

If this document is digital, then I might get screwed if you lose stuff or stuff gets damaged and you remove it from the Bill of Lading and say you never saw the goods. Or you might get screwed if I add new stuff to the Bill of Lading after you load the goods and claim you didn't deliver it. So one way to solve this is to put the document and both of our signatures in a blockchain, and now we all agree that this is what we saw on that date.
Native virtualenv and python inside windows would be great :p
Why would you judge someone by the beliefs they're "statistically likely" to have?
Evil Front Part 2: Modern Front-End in Rails
The Show Trial of the Gang of Four for Crimes Against Computer Science (1999)
> I'm a bit disappointed with the low frequency, short trains that Singapore deployed

I must admit I'm baffled by the short trains as well. In Japan it's common to see trains up to 11 carriages (from memory?) - absolutely massive things and they were still crowded. In Singapore half the lines only run 4 or 6 carriages and sometimes as low as 3! I can't fathom why, if they're already building a subway system, they'd handicap it by making it run such short trains (and they get very crowded). Doesn't seem too future proof.

And don't get me started on the number of doors, just 4 per carriage, which is a huge point of congestion and slows the whole line down. Japanese rolling stock typically has 6 or even 8 doors per carriage; much more efficient.
Nature fucks them over because the government doesn't protect them from nature. The government does not fuck them over. There's a very distinct difference, and recognizing that difference is one of the fundamental things that separates Democrats and Republicans.
Well heck, the FCC decision^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d stand-up comedy was written by an Verizon attorney so why not some comedy in the WSJ?

Edited for support:
https://gizmodo.com/fcc-chairman-is-laughing-at-americans-wh...
https://youtu.be/DzHleu03fxY
Dissenting statements of the Democratic FCC commissioners on repeal
I think building out FTTH networks, and doing so profitably, is harder than you give it credit for. Look at all of the issues that Google and Verizon have run into - and they have all of the resources in the world at their disposal.
> I love GCP but honestly have no idea how these big internet properties can make the $ case for “the cloud”, unless they’re also planning to fire 90% of the Ops/SysAdmin team (ala Evernote).

What kind of price differences are you thinking about? How much hardware and how many people are employed to take care of this? Does the tripling of cost take salaries into account?

Having to hire a team that will maintain hardware, deal with scalability and give guaranteed uptime isn't cheap and requires a lot of management. I'm not saying it never makes sense, but offloading all that work on to someone like AWS and Google who have teams doing this for you reliably can be well worth the cost.
If users were fucked by Comcast and now pay $1 more, but still do pay, then why didn’t Netflix fuck them earlier himself?
Thanks for the links. What you say is true, but not the whole truth. According to your third link, ISPs can censor as long they clearly disclose it to customers.
I think you could even incentivize this via the blockchain... some kind of black hat x prize for doing stuff like this. You create an ethereum contract that people can donate to, and the balance gets distributed to someone to posts a blockchain account linked to the gene drive genetic sequence. The contract pays out once some scientists publish a paper showing someone did it and publishing the matching gene drive code from the wild.
I know for a fact that AWS that AWS negotiates. My buddy used to work at Netflix and he told me that they got a really good rate for AWS that was not available to the general public.

They might not bid in the strictest sense of the word, but when the vendors are mostly 3 players (Google, Amazon, and Microsoft) you just ask each one for a quote. I don't see how functionally that is different from bidding.

Btw, I know there are other hosting providers out there (Rackspace comes to mind).

I can't think of any one of them that would be able to deal with Netflix scale without shitting the bed, missing features, or an almost unacceptable lead time as they build out infrastructure.
For me my test for multivariable calculus text is their treatment of the chain rule. If the book says something like “derivative of a composition is the composition of the derivatives” it’s good. If they instead say something involving a sigma and things like ∂f/∂x ∂x/∂t it’s likely bad.
Download to dropbox then print and read on paper.
Yes, it has Torch.
"Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses."

Or in this case, pizza and Netflix. People will probably start moving once they start visibly messing around with one or the other.
That’s a fair point. I’ll give him a whirl when I have some time.
Somewhat similarly, in Hutterite colonies only men voted (dunno about today.) So what they said was very strictly watched and proscribed since their opinions mattered. Males rarely dared to criticize anything in the colony. In contrast females could criticize whatever they cared too with few consequences. They didn't vote so their opinions weren't perceived as threatening order very much.

I think de Tocqueville made a similar report about America a very long time ago, that Americans had to self-censor, French peasants didn't - they didn't vote so the powers that be cared little about their opinions.
How not? I'm not disagreeing, but genuinely curious.
People who do various illegal things hate volatility. They are already dealing with a number of risks, they don’t need another one added to the mix, where the supplier/boss can bust their kneecaps if the underlying cryptocurrency just went through a 5% “correction”.
If you want to actually skip to the end and see the ARPU chart, feel free.

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>mostly not true

Mostly not true is 1 for a binary yes and no scenario. The question at play was the comparability of telecom to other industries.

The fact of subsidies, spectrum, and right of way make this is a non comp, which make the chart being shown irrelevant.

If you truly believe that a simple industry ROIC comparison makes a difference, explain how that makes an iota of impact to AT&T or Comcast in terms of their Capex decisions.

Are they going to pull up their wires tomorrow and go all in and become Google?

Will they Not invest in capex at all? Or Seek money from the markets?

They will - and the markets will ask a known set of questions:

Are The revenue streams for pharma, or movies, or insurance of the same periodicity as telecom? What are the running costs, manpower costs?

How cyclical or not is telecom? What are the operating margins? What is net profit or EBITDA?

How much return on capital can they expect for the next 4 years, or 10 or 20? Or forever?

This is not an argument I am having with you. I am telling you, that industry comparisons are done within the same industry.

For the same reason that when buying microwaves, you don't look at refrigerators.

Each market has their own forms, issues, strengths and weaknesses.

ALL investors at the level where a capex influencing financial investment arises, are aware of this.

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As for the risk - its risk, not uncertainty.

Its pretty much a line item on multiple excel sheets all around wallstreet.

It will influence number of users by 10% over the next 15 years,

which will turn into an ARPU of X for these years.

This will in turn turn into revenue for that period, which will be then reduced down to an expected value of the firm today.

Hell, the expected rate of interest, could easily have a greater impact on the share price and risk of a telecom firm than cord cutters.

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Its very hard not to invest in such an industry which obviously has so many things going for it that it can persist in this manner.

Here this chart should help-

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203642/forecast-for-the-...

I'll see if I can find similar numbers for Wireline, but the pattern will be the same.

American Telecoms get huge ARPUs from their subscribers.

America has abysmmal internet for the nation that created the modern telecom firm, and created the internet.

The firms are massive rent seeking entities in many respects, and are now consolidating to reduce competition further.

When google fibre enters their territory, they manage to lay cable, despite delaying it for years otherwise.

So no, people will always invest or look to own American telecom, because American consumers are great at giving money out.
After downloading FoldingText, the user guide states that the author of FoldingText also made TaskPaper.
"If you put 2 and 2 together, you get 4, a toddler can see that, but how on earth did anyone arrive at the conclusions that (-2.0, 1.4) + (1.9, 2.3) = (0.1, -1.9) via drawing a line, finding a third point, then reflecting across the X-axis? Makes no sense to me at all."

Actually, that is the simplified version of the group law which is not what is actually "derived" in the theory. To derive the group law you work with rational functions defined on the elliptic curve (i.e. defined on the coordinates of points on the curve). The group itself is actually the "divisor class group" of the curve, which you can read about (but it is fairly advanced material).
> On Circle, DT/DT2 and Purple lines only, so not "completely".

NS and EW lines are currently being upgraded to moving block CBTC which will allow full driverless automation. That's why there are those signs up right now about the early closures!
Hadoop v3.0.0 General Availability
How grounded is this in data? I think there are two questions that need to be answered. First, it is not a given that everyone is capable of violence. There are some people who will not carry out violence, this is pretty much the vast majority. But it’s hard to predict who can commit violence and who will not. Given this small amount of people who commit violence, what is the probability of people with open verbal hostility who commit violence?

Without answering these two questions it is rather illogical to have your behavior change at all to someone who engages in open verbal hostility.

But you also need to distinguish between verbal hostility that is threatening vs non-threatening (ie, “I really don’t like people of class X.” Vs “I am going to punch people of class X in the face.”)

This also doesn’t account for the people are aren’t gay or trans yet are also targeted by irrational people (eg, Las Vegas victims).
Only a handful of mosquito species transmit human diseases. Other non-harmful species can fill their ecological niche.
That raises a point - would hiQ be liable in a civil suit if the CFAA were not a factor?
> > Something being pirated 1M times never means 1M lost sales.

> I've never said it did

You didn't provide any specific numbers, but seemed to be arguing with your two anecdotes that piracy (as opposed to simply natural market/product factors) caused so many lost sales it put people out of business.

> I don't know why you've put this sentence in your reply.

Perhaps for the same reason you replied to a post about copyright hoarders using stringent legal methods and talked about something else entirely; because, to quote you, things are "not all black and white".
Yes, it seems to be a common fly-only lab tool over the last 30 years for making some gene (test) pop into more and more genes of the lab population (generation by generation) until either the mutations caused or the overabundance of testRNA wreck the clade. So if MVS II fork{} gave you nightmares more than breeding flies, I guess? [crosses fingers for enjoyable and apt youtube link]
Out of curiosity, have you seen M-Disc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

It's supposed to provide a decent (not degrading over time) DVD and BluRay backup approach.

Years ago, with CD's I used to use Kodak "Gold" for archival things. M-Disc seems like the modern version.
"So what of China's billion-plus citizens who are not members of the free-speech elite? Although an average citizen could privately express sentiments similar to those published by Li Rui, if an average person had written and privately published what Li Rui wrote, or presented such sentiments in a speech to a large political gathering as he did, there is little doubt that Chinese authorities would prosecute them for subversion."

"In January 2003 the website of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of China's Communist Party, reported that a court in Hefei, Anhui province sentenced two men, identified only by the surnames He and Yu, to prison terms of nine and seven years respectively for "unlawful operation of a business." Their crime was publishing love poems without government authorization."

"Prior restraints are synonymous with censorship, and represent one of the most onerous infringements on freedom of expression. The term "prior restraint" refers to any system in which the government may deny a person the use of a forum for expression in advance of the actual expression. Chinese authorities employ several different types of prior restraints over the citizens of China in order to ensure that the Communist Party is able to silence critics and maintain direct editorial control over political information and news reporting..."

"The Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department sends out regular bulletins to editors informing them which topics are forbidden."

Etc.

https://www.cecc.gov/freedom-of-expression-in-china-a-privil...
...or compelled to stop blocking municipalities from building their own loops:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-cable-...
I think a lot of people would disagree with you. There are obviously many methods besides proof-of-work to achieve consensus, but a blockchain cannot properly be called a "blockchain" unless there is some consensus protocol. Not every DAG of digital hashes is a blockchain.

Under your definition, every CBC mode stream cipher could be called a blockchain, which just makes the term meaningless. It was coined for a specific purpose: to describe how Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies operate at a technical level, especially how they guarantee integrity and prevent double-spending.
A16Z Launches Bio Fund II
Well, That's the best idea by Facebook. Let's see now what will be the reactions of Youtube.