skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia is always a schitzoid State because it’s not European and not Asian. It’s both and neither.

IMO, for all of the screwed up nature of the country, Russia is so big that it and it’s sphere of influence is always a threat to its neighbors.

If you are not an ethnic Russian, happen to live between the economic powerhouse of Western Europe and Russia, you probably want to affiliate with the strong economy of the West vs being a sort of vassal to Russia.
Why did they fire that consulting company that was doing work? Was it purely for political reasons?
Triggering what? It's not like the UK has the capability - every "strategic defence review" is just cut, cut, cut. Challenger2, AS90, cut to the bone. Typhoon is barely capable of air-to-ground and the Tornado fleet is rapidly approaching end of life. The Type 45s fitted "for but not with" their major weapons. Carriers without anything to carry.

NATO cannot defend the Baltic States, and if push comes to shove, it won't even try.
Also their passwords are not case sensitive (try it yourself)
"Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday's merger as 'an excellent move.'"
They more than dominate the media as the loudest pro-second amendment voice, they straight up have your elected representatives by the balls and bullied into submission.

This episode of Fresh Air from a couple months ago about the NRA is pretty horrifying. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555859571/nra-backed-gun-laws...
Yes, you only get them with the iMac pro
everyone gets taxed in the scheme, even the board of governors at the fed, so whats your point? who benefits? government tax income increases? so what? does fed get a pay raise everytime they do this? you are really over your head.
This rings very similar to the Startup Way, Eric Ries’s new book about how larger organizations need to functionalize entrepreneurship and the successor to the Lean Startup. I’m reading it right now and having started an internal startup at a public software company years ago, it’s really quite good. My guess is Ben is reading it right now based on some of the verbiage like “atomized teams” that Eric uses repeatedly in the book.
>The original goal was good: encourage individual inventors to make technology that the whole society will benefit from at a price of some limitation on use by society for a short period of time

I know this is the common belief of the origin of patent law, but is there actually any evidence that this is the case?

As I understand patent law originated as a way for monarchy to maintain control over innovation and intellect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_roll
Apple is famous for paying less for hardware than any other manufacture so I don't see how MSRP is pertinent.
Let me blog it. I get tired of answering this question. The short answer is if we had built robots and sent hundreds into space, we'd have more humans in space now because it would be safer and cheaper. We'd also learn more quickly. We'd also have more advanced robots because of the investment.

We reached the moon, spent a few years, then gave up because of cost.

Would you rather have a new robotic explorer, or two or three, queued for Mars, Titan, etc every year or a few people on Mars by 2040?
My intuition is that the fragmentation of the US health care system is a queuing problem with interdependencies among many many small jobs. It runs on a system with high costs for context switches. The deadlines are real but indeterminate. Priorities for jobs are not assigned in a way that relates to getting the work done.
How much (or how little) we trust the world's biggest brands
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Maybe we need a compromise.

Should we let companies keep some percentage of their IP out of the public domain?
Oh this is interesting. I am almost certain this is what I am seeing. The funny thing is that the times I have gotten the most secure setting is for something like buying an ebook or RSVP'ing for an event. Nothing in the least bit sensitive. So I'm guessing people think they are practicing good security when all they are doing is making for a terrible user experience.
Yes! It will definitely be worse for people who are not investing in FB stock.
Refusing to defend your statements is not a compelling way to win an argument.

If you believe that you can dismiss a candidate because you have "fundamental disagreements" about politics you are incorrect.

My contention is not that "culture fit" is used exclusively to bar candidates because of race/sex/etc, but that it is used in that way and that it is impossible to know what culture fit even means because it means different things to different people.

To some people, such as yourself, it means something that is not a valid reason to dismiss a candidate.

If nothing else, please respond to this question: If my company does not have a dress code, but the "culture" of the place is that everyone generally dresses in button down shirts and slacks every day. Furthermore, I believe fundamentally that people work more productively when they dress nicely, by my definition of what nice is, and that there is greater team cohesion when they do so.

Then a fully qualified candidate walks into my office wearing clean, but baggy jeans, a hat with a sticker on it, tilted to the side, sneakers, and a t-shirt. He actually mentions in the interview that his style is important to him and part of what defines him.

Can I dismiss this candidate on the grounds that he is not a culture fit for my organization?
Should have called it 'Research peer-versions are spreading' or 'Research peer-perversions are spreading.' It would have been more accurate. Its this kind of group think that limited research and new ideas in the dark ages.
Seems like a next step would be just buying Netflix with threats of pulling?

Maybe Netflix can survive on its own OC, which is growing each time I load it up.
Pro in Apple-speak just means "deluxe" now.
I guess it is a glass half-full/half-empty situation but I see a high-spec workstation that you can easily move and is about the same price (compared to other high-spec workstations).
My point, was with a bilateral agreement perhaps the Russian public wouldn't be in the current imperialst craze and the danger of an "uprising" in the baltic states much smaller.
It appears that an Nvidia GPU is not an option, so this machine cannot be realistically used for deep learning.
With respect to Mickey Mouse specifically, the only reason anyone cares about Mickey Mouse is because he is associated with Walt Disney Co. He's more like an animated logo.
That's what the coming robot force is for.
I did my postdoc work in the UK, as a US Citizen.

After getting the job offer and being sponsored by UCL, it took months for them to grant me a visa, and it cost thousands of dollars just to apply for one. (That's just what I had to pay out of pocket, and doesn't include whatever UCL had to pay to sponsor me.)
It's in the top line of the press release:

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire...
https://xkcd.com/558/
All NATO countries in Europe currently increase their military spending a lot.
The point of system dynamics is not predicting the numbers--it's understanding the system. If you look at historical data over time and see values increasing, decreasing, and remaining steady, it would be nicer to have an endogenous understanding of what causes those changes instead of extrapolating based on the historical data. When you understand _how_ the system works, then you can reason about where the leverage points are.

I always loved that the biggest leverage point in any system is to change the system itself!
"The simplest: No exhaustible has been depleted yet"

You are correct. In fact, they never will be depleted. Same with the oil. Most of the oil that is still in the ground will stay there.

"These forecasts are made possible by assuming the limit on the amount of oil extracted is the amount of oil in the ground. In fact, the limit is likely to be a financial (debt) limit that comes much sooner."
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2014/01/13/why-eia-iea-and-rander...

Please also see:
Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Extracted-Mineral-Wealth-Plundering-P...

It is well possible we are beyond the peak already. This brings us to the "Seneca effect"
http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2011/08/seneca-effect-or...

Otherwise: Business as usual.
They definitely weren't wrong. But at the same time, it shows that this isn't a good argument against Facebook, and that it likely means we'll be using Facebook more in future instead of less. Probably to our detriment, but definitely to Facebook's profit.
It seems to me that that someone can prove that the configuration mattered by pitting a correctly configured Stockfish against the configuration used by AlphaZero, and see what the outcome is for 100 games.
I haven't read the paper, but some of the constraint choices seem odd to me (1 minute max per move?).
I think you're inflating prices. You can get a really good 4k 27" monitor for about $500,
Isn't a lot of that top tier stuff based on Marvel characters owned by Disney?
> Really PRO is just a marketing term

This seems to be what everyone forgets when airing their grievances towards Apple's "Pro" line.

It's unfortunate but the number of people that may dislike this because of a lack of upgradability, etc is probably smaller than the number of people that just want a cool looking "pro" computer and have money to burn.
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> Nothing you said here is true of the WHATWG standard. It doesn't make breaking changes and it is specific.

Counterexample: About three months ago I asked on HN why on modern browsers some subtests of Acid3 fail:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256890

I actually got some pretty smart answers, for example:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15259428

To quote it for convenience:

"Two changes lead to three failures in Chrome.

The first change is described in the 'note' at https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#child-index

Chrome is failing a test because the root node claims to be a 'first-child'.

The root node is the first sibling, but since it doesn't have a parent, the selectors 3 spec didn't include it.

The selectors 4 draft does away with the requirement that a 'first-child' have a parent, and chrome's behaviour matches.

The second is discussed here https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/319

Roughly, when interpreting qualified names, Chrome is throwing InvalidCharacterErrors when the acid test wants it to throw NamespaceErrors, in situations where you really have both. This leads to two tests failing."

So decide for yourself whether the WHATWG "standard" did breaking changes in the past or not.
Unless "conditional includes" are some new feature of HTML5 that my Google-fu isn't turning up, that kind of negates the whole "static HTML" thing.

Bootstrapping a web page through JavaScript polyfills is like autoconf all over again.
It's just a fleeting term. It'll be Pro until it's not - then you need to buy a new one. Some pros are fine with that. Lots of them can write this stuff off, or request it from their employer. It's not much sweat off their back.
Here's something to think about, if you find the perspective useful.

You are engaged in one of the more basic forms of information arbitrage: a "gather info from users and sell it as a searchable database" model. To make this work, your cost of acquiring information must be very low because the incremental value is very low (the value is in the aggregate).

Most startups like this crawl the web or otherwise index their own data from somewhere like LinkedIn because it provides an easier path to mvp/scale, but also because its a balance that HN types will respect: "I did the work finding the information and I can so what I want with it."

Asking users to provide the information that you then sell is shifting the cost of that data acquisition cost burden from you to your users, and is comparatively rather expensive in terms of the currency that you are expecting someone to spend to provide you with value, i.e. time. Its more expensive than passive data acquisition. You are, in a very real sense, charging for your users to access the site.

So when you have a link that says "Sign in with HN and get started" and that link essentially forwards to the order page, and that ordering page is (or looks) expensive, you have some sales work to do beyond "make it a bit cheaper by asking for less" or being open about what you'll do with it. You are doing almost zero sales work on your current landing and ordering page beyond adding a big sign saying "Pay".

Also, something else to keep in mind, how much information you ask for is, again in a very real sense, a form of price discrimination.

Any model which includes an element of price discrimination requires a mechanism to charge different users differently to maximize the overall profit. Otherwise you are facing an existential risk in the form of mispricing risk and have no ability to iterate out of it, because each change you make to the price will shift your entire userbase to people who are willing to pay that price, so you can't learn from it.

Just saying "most things are optional but more is better" actually hurts in most cases because it implies that you are unsure what pieces of data are actually valuable and rather than figure it out and only asking those things, you're, again shifting that cognitive/time cost to your users to figure out. A business with a sign saying "pay as much as you like and you'll maybe get more value out of it but maybe not we don't know either" does not inspire a lot of confidence.

The best companies in the business of arbitraging data explicitly provided by users charge the lowest price possible before they provide value, and then provide incremental value as the users pay more. LinkedIn has figured this out, that's why you can be in the site searching after just a very basic profile, and then they ask for more over time as users are getting value from the lower pricing tier.

By insisting on all or nothing, you are ignoring the lessons learned by arguably the most successful example of active user information arbitrage the world has ever seen.
I think i seen that too - Jobs wanted him to take the role - but he didnt want to
I know that in some journals it is good some of the time. But yeah, didn't mean to imply thats always good.
Maybe we should introduce a process of reviewing the reviews, and some incentives accordingly. Not sure how to do that.
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Let us hope that facebook won't be allowed to have the same profound negative effects on human health as junk food have.
This one: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ . Contrary to some people's perception here, everything that goes into this is implemented by at least 2 browsers.
Go cannot be won with raw power though. It has a lot of the constraints of incomplete information problems.
at this price tag, I would have expected a frameless screen.
Super interesting points here. You mentioned that the real-world Kanban board forces you to empty slots to make room... I've never seen that in any of the software Kanban-style systems have you?

I've played around (in spreadsheets and basic apps) with trying to create systems that scaled available slots to team size as a way to force correct granularity.
We told them we wouldn't expand NATO further toward Russia. Then we went back on our word and did it.

Russia responds to Western meddling in its "backyard" with geopolitical moves in Crimea and Ukraine, and meddling in the US election.

When the Russians started messing about in Cuba, we nearly went full WW3 on them.

For what purpose did we go back on our word? We won the cold war. The best path forward would have been to strengthen ties so the two superpowers could work together to deal with the world's problems.

Instead we decided to humiliate the Russians, and the pro-west Yeltsin was eventually replaced by the nationalist Putin.

Whoever was making these policy decisions in the '90s -- What were they thinking?
MSRP is what the customer can expect to pay, so gp is probably thinking of it from the consumer's perspective.
If you dial all the knobs up to the max on the configure page the dollar value is an eye-watering $13,926.98
Attacking that commitment is likely a big part of why we have the political situation that we have in the US today.
I'm talking about single farmer farms and similar.
What the SATs Taught Us about Finding the Perfect Fit
Agreed. As a hobby software developer and long-time Mac person, the low end 13" MBP is a really great computer for me. But I can see how even the top of the line versions are lacking for a lot of professional uses.

It feels like a computer designed for trendy college students who want something faster than the mini-Macbook or made for web developers who don't use any external devices.
Publicly traded corporations do not extend savings created from economies of scale to their costumers - they extend them to their shareholders.
EPB in Chattanooga charges businesses quite a bit more for fiber, too. One of my clients has a 150 Mbps connection with a routed subnet and pays close to $400/month. There are service level guarantees, though.

On the other hand, I pay $70/month for 1 Gig fiber at home, which I've routinely tested to 950 Mbps up and down.

I've yet to meet anyone who has signed up for 10 Gig service yet, or knows what they'd do with it.
Thanks for that paper, very interesting.
Yes. Any intellectual property should always have to meet the "test" described in the Constitution: "does this promote the progress of science and useful arts?", and secondarily, "Are these rights being secured to authors and inventors?"

Copyright terms that allow 5 generations of descendants to live off continuing royalties while the property rots are not beneficial (I am not anti-inheritance, I just don't think it helps anyone for exclusive monopoly rights to last so long). Extensive copyright powers that make _everything_ that gets digitized subject to draconian copyright protection are not beneficial. Arcane legal processes and astronomical legal costs blocking the useful application of the small amount of recourse available in these laws is a travesty.

Should companies whose primary function is pressing "go" on the DVD assembly line be competitive with massive, serious logistical operations that deliver necessities like food and energy? Is it possible we are rewarding companies who invent cute characters a little too much?

Do note that copyright is not a natural thing; it exists only due to governmental fiat, the government's threat to use force to stop someone from drawing Mickey Mouse in an unflattering pose. We are so protective of "free speech", yet are not concerned when we see government goons hauling people off for offending BigCo?
Perhaps it wasn't deliberate and I was reading from a source with an agenda, but the model did suck:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/403256/global-warming-bom...
Comcast has a limited fiber to the home network in Central Illinois with unmetered 2Gbps symmetrical fiber for $300/month. I'm told (by a couple friends who have it) that it works pretty well and actually does out-perform their gigabit coax (which is what I have) if you have a router and workstation capable of handling it. As much as I'd like faster than 50Mbps upload, I don't think I'd be willing to double my internet bill to get it (ignoring the $1k non-refundable installation fee for fiber).
iMac Pro RAM is not user-serviceable: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/05/imac-pro-ram-and-space-gray-a...
Devil's advocate: That same networking also makes it drastically easier for a single representative to network with a larger constituency.
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That's correct: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/05/imac-pro-ram-and-space-gray-a...

> Additionally, Apple has confirmed to us that the RAM in the iMac Pro will not be user-replaceable. This shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise given Apple’s other recent products, but nevertheless it means users are stuck with however much RAM they purchase from Apple. Currently, the 27-inch iMac features user-upgradeable RAM, while the 21.5-inch model does not.
I look forward to the time when Facebook is just a bad memory, kind of like CB radios and every other money making scam that has been foisted on the gullible public.

FB and social media in general has been absolute shit for our society.
oh, really? Maybe I should read more about this country :) Thanks!
Finally we can build a proper compile/render farm! Oh wait.
Yeah, RSNs are a different game. Sports in general is in decline; the RSNs are likely included to fill out ESPN's content deals to build a national sports streaming service. Things like Big 10 network have enough restrictions that the content could not be rebroadcast on ESPN or separate services.
It was political, but they were also charging a lot and outsourcing the actual work, apparently. Some of the same subcontractors are still working in Puerto Rico.
Who are the Celts? I'm Irish and I have never heard of this or heard of the Celts as a separate group of people from Irish people.
I wouldn't buy one of these with my own money, but I might try to get one for work. We don't upgrade anything. All of our PCs and Macs now are leased for three years and replaced. Maybe I can get one on our next refresh cycle. It's true, from a user's perspective, the configuration may not be the best, from a certain accounting perspective, it works out.
I wouldn't call forcing ads in as "a perfectly viable way" to watch something, especially on an already paid service. Is it a perfectly viable way to eat dinner at a restaurant if the chef takes your plate away from you mid bite several times so that you can listen to his friend try and sell you shit?

If it's free + ads I could agree, but most content sellers are just trying to get paid twice
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Yes -- the configuration page states: "Space Gray accessories are available only at the time of your iMac Pro purchase.".
It's not like the money being split between Disney and Twenty-First Century reduced the amount being used to lobby against sane copyright laws; the two firms were perfectly aligned on that issue.

There are others where they might have different interests, but not that.
> Each of us has some small responsibility in this

How am I responsible for this?
Be sure to balance out your portfolio with some Uber and Blackberry
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The csswg is a W3C working group. It's true that there are sometimes breaking changes if usage is low enough. This is true of the W3C specs as much as it is of the WHATWG specs.

The advantage to following the WHATWG specs is that it reflects how browsers work today, not how they worked a few years ago.
Really cool to see! I did feel the need to make this one correction though

> when you're LetsEncrypt SSL certificate

This should be "your."
My rule of thumb lately has been that if something is marketed as 'Pro', it is usually intended for average joe who wants to feel pro, not to meet the requirements of people that are actually professionals.
Disney is now officially too big to fail. This deal needs to be stopped right away.
Maybe they meant "5K monitor" which is what the iMac Pro has and would fit this price range better.
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