skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that'd be an uphill battle.

E.g., I, for one, oppose federal interference with the technical decisions of ISPs via so-called net neutrality. I've written my representatives on multiple occasions saying so. If I lived in Montana, I'd be similarly opposed to the state government's meddling. As a citizen of Minnesota, I'd actually oppose an overreaching federal government if they tried to overturn Montana's law. Even though I think it'd be better policy for Montanans, I regard Montana's rights as a state as more important than my ego's desire to direct their policy from afar.

My guess is that a lot of other opponents of federal internet regulation would agree.

I'm actually quite glad to see this playing out among the various states as 'laboratories of democracy'. In ten years, we'll both have a lot more data on which policy promotes better offerings.

What I'd really like to see is one of the states declare municipal grants of telecommunications monopolies to be void. E.g., if some town has contracted with Comcast to be the only ISP legally allowed, then the state would come in and say that those terms are legally unenforceable and that the town has to license at least one or two competitors or face charges from the state.
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I agree with your word-choice examples - I was referring specifically to pronunciation only. My general instinct is to pronounce people's names the same way they themselves do, as opposed to the way I think it should be pronounced. I try to extend that same principle to countries as well, if the natives unanimously pronounce their country in a certain way when talking in English.
If it were removed, the new processors would simply be worth less than the ones that immediately preceded them. The systems you're thinking about would then cost less. What's the problem?

The problem, of course, is that vendors couldn't pretend to sell systems that are worth the prices they would have quoted before all of this awfulness was exposed. That would be a problem for the vendors only. The rest of us would be better off.
I'd like to see a response about the hype of data science.
Yea, I want to look at his presidency, and actions, in a objective manner.

I've never liked the man, but not everything he is doing is evil.

We have gotten so used to Chinese underhanded business practices; it all starts to look normal. I'm almost to the point where why should I even buy my stuff from Amazon, when I can get it cheaper at Alibaba.

I know Tartifs can be tricky, but we can't just let them take advantage of us.

My hope is he has a group of economists whom are instructing him to slowly test out a few tarrifs, and hopefully, nix any tarrif that's not working. (Yes, I know it's more complicated than deleting a law.)

For a long time I have felt our government almost discourages poor/middleclass entrepreneurs.

We needed a change. Yes--the wealthy will always be able to make money here. They aren't the problem. I don't understand why they are always bitching about paying taxes. It seems like the only time they shut up is during a world war, but it has to be the right war--I guess? A war where they feel guilty about not signing up. I heard we had a 90% tax rate on the wealthy during/after WW2, and the quality of life was never better for most Americas.

My point is I'm shocked at most of Trumps actions, especially the one's will greatly affect the poor.

I'm ok with Tartifs on solar panels, and washing machines right now.

If he makes our pathetic wefare system worse--I don't care what regulation he enacts; I don't want him around.

In my world, that will be the final straw. It was my final straw with Clinton--when he decided to "reform" our terrible welfare system. Actually, he knew the Rebublicsns were about to enact reforms, and decided to take away their thunder. (Thunder--like taking care of the poor, and disenfranchised is wrong?

I'm not on welfare, but have friends who are, and shocked at just how terribly they are treated.

And whenever a Tariff doesn't work, the naysayers run to the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act. We really haven't had a lot of Tarrifs in the U.S. in the last twenty-40 years?

My point is I don't want to throw the baby out the cliche. His presidency will be interesting, and hopefully not too painful.

(Sorry--I'm not feeling great today.)
They’re run head and shoulders above every other fast food restaurant, maybe the secret is paying employees enough to make that happen?

edit: changed management to employees to capture more generally.
China’s 'Micius' satellite demonstrates intercontinental QKD for the first time
Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway
This is obvious, and it's extremely sad to me that people believe otherwise and vehemently argue that Linus is justified in his pety rants. It was always pathetic.

The response is shockingly adult, given the culture Linus insists on trying to push:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/05282.html

What an excellent writeup, despite the tantrum Linus threw just a few replies earlier.

I'd highly recommend only reading the response and avoiding the Linus 'rant'. The rant contains no valuable information, the response is excellent and far more informative.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted though for calling Linus a baby, because somehow insulting Linus for his flaws is never ok but when Linus does it it's so cool!
Maybe your favorite thing. As a urban dweller, I'm a little fed up by subsidizing people living rural lifestyles only to see them have (in some cases) 4 times as powerful a vote as my own. I suspect that if we removed the federal interstate subsidies, farm subsidies, internet subsidies, etc. your lifestyle would not be self sufficient.
Not only the catalog is rotting, but The physical discs have as well. We resubscribed to disc service last year, but have had a surprising number of cracked or heavily scratched discs compared to years ago.
The cute robot soccer game is a disingenuous argument. Put a machine gun on one of those Boston Dynamic robots with image recognition targeting and tell me it's not scary.
Translation? Image search?
I've held NFLX since 2013. I'd buy it again today, even at these prices.

My view is that profits are low because NFLX is investing everything in original content.Their last 4 quarters of profit is about $550 million. But their spend on original content is expected to be $7 - $8 Billion in 2018 [0]. Theoretically, that $7 - 8 Billion, less income tax, could fall to the bottom line, putting their P/E in a much more reasonable ~20 range.

AMZN is taking the same strategy: Invest in growth above all else and defer profits until the company is 'huge'. Moreover, for NFLX, revenue growth is accelerating (+23% 2016 vs. +30% 2017). Given the performance of management, both at NFLX and AMZN, it's a reasonable calculated risk to buy shares, even today, even at these outrageous prices.

[0] http://www.adweek.com/tv-video/netflix-is-increasing-its-spe...
>it's likely to kill productivity

Possibly, but I don't think that arguments, even heated ones, aren't without benefits that may not be otherwise obtainable. Arguments require passion and commitment, you have to care about something to get heated over it face-to-face and when you, as an adult, get upset over something you are putting your reputation on the line to some extent. This motivates some people.

This provokes an interesting question-does googles desire for a very... harmonious work environment have any relationship with their reputation for project ADD?
I have a better solution for those that are angry at banks and wish to innovate around them. Don't use them. Build communities around you that are also happy to not use them. There are plenty of working solutions available now to be free of banks - the main thing that is tethering you is lack of faith in crypto/ each other and debt that is still required to be serviced. Once you can unshackle yourself of the debt, you can say goodbye to the traditional banking system. Maybe not completely, but in the most important and significant ways.
The movie CHIPs that came out last year had nearly exactly the card pictured. One of the newer cops was attempting to pull over and ticket a guy who was going 100 MPH and weaving in and out of traffic.

The scene basically turned into a fight with his more seasoned partner when the new guy refused to accept the "donor" card, he called backup, and the 4 or 5 cops that showed up basically lectured the new guy and apologized to the card carrying criminal. It was a comedy so I didn't think such a card actually existed.
I agree with your sentiments here but the other perspective is that you've worked your entire life, saved up, built up a wonderful home with all your belongings and now at the end of your life you have to give up everything you've worked for. Possibly your home is one of the few things that give you comfort and peace.
You pretty much can get anywhere in Japan using rail / subway alone.

https://www.japan-guide.com/g17/2361_01.png

Subway maps cover cities to insane details.

https://bento.com/pix/subway/tokyo_subway_1700.gif
Could also view it as...
more usage == more data == more value
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This shit just erodes my trust in ALL the streaming services, devices, and companies. I cannot believe regulators aren’t going to use these shenanigans as evidence for some future action.

Really, the fact that each company abuses leverage in one realm (retail market position, device, services) to gain advantage in another is getting old.

Why do I own two copies of The Big Lebowski on iTunes and Amazon? Because of this stuff. Once or twice, and I'll grumble. If I find myself needing to move between incompatible ecosystems regularly, I suspect I’ll just ditch digital streaming.
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> artificial intelligence (AI), a sub-branch of machine learning

I could have a failed mental model, but I'm under the impression that the relationship is the other way around. AI is a broad field encompassing various strategies to build intelligent machines. ML is one particular strategy where large volumes (think Big Data) of training data is used to teach by example. (Which makes Deep Learning a subset of ML, where "deep" neural networks are at play.)
The governor's even been a Democrat for the past 13 years, for that matter (4 consecutive elections). People seem to have the idea that Montana is an ultra-conservative state where Republicans win every election, which isn't really true.
I'm really trying to get better with my discussion here, so what in my post could have been considered arguing in "bad faith?" I'm not trying to trick anyone into something here, I'm being pretty explicit about my POV.

I think it's totally possible to rope off areas that are clearly not it.

My point is that I think it might be locally possible for small enough groups, but for what we're talking about with whole swaths of industries like social media not only isn't it possible, it's likely misguided.
Here are some sources. GDAX charges 0.3% fees for BTC/USD market orders and 0.25% fees for ETH/USD market orders [0]. They charge slightly less if you trade large volumes (millions of $) which most users will not hit. GDAX's pricing structure incentives users to place stop/limit orders which help provide liquidity.

For purchases through coinbase, in the US they charge 1.49% in fees for cash/bank account purchases [1]. They have different pricing fees for other countries.

[0] https://www.gdax.com/fees/BTC-USD

[1] https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/210...
Maybe the secret is paying _everyone_ enough the make that happen. There's also a lot to be said for providing clean paths to climb the ladder by hiring internally (but that's made viable by paying well to provide good stability and mentoring at all levels...). Then you end up with inherently informed and connected management.
I think part of it is also that the restaurants are owned by In-N-Out, not franchised.
Doesn't work for me? Overloaded?

But https://gizmodo.com/china-has-already-gene-edited-86-people-...
Pain and pleasure may not be as distinct as common sense assumes. The purpose of both seems to be to draw one's attention.

A simple example would be eating chilli which is painful the first time. After one has learnt to enjoy it then the experience becomes pleasurable.

More controversially perhaps is when I stub my toe these days. Instead of yelling and hopping around the room I try to transfer as much of my attention to the affected toe as I possibly can. I won't say it feels exactly nice now but it's a heck of a lot better than when I was a kid trying to distract myself from the pain.

It seems plausible that if one could get very proficient at paying attention then the experience might be comparable to a highly intense pleasure (a pleasure too intense to be comfortable, at least to begin with).
Doesn’t this ultimately raise the price of solar in the US though? Either buy from established Chinese factories at a tarrif adjusted price, or buy from less established US manufacturers at the price they can manage - a higher price than the Chinese factories.

One could imagine instead that the US government competes with China by providing its own solar subsidies. Of course, the republicans would rather the price of solar go up and the government spend money on green energy subsidies...

But it’s clear that making the US competitive in solar isn’t the sole motivation here.
US Coal may be behind, but overall, the US is cleaner. US has more nuclear, natural gas, and more renewables (Hydro, Wind, Solar) than China.
>A typical architect in California earns about $112,000 a year, according to the jobs site Indeed.

That's because software architects are wrapped up with building architects on Indeed. Building architects make much less:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/architect-salary-SRCH_KO0...

(Which is partially why I left.)
Python stands on the shoulders of the giants, namely MPI/MKL/BLAS/LAPACK, which was the core of numpy, scipy and sympy. Maybe even SageMath.

If you are developing ML/DS models, a REPL environment comes very handy, there is IPython.

You'll find a large chunk of your time is spent on gathering, cleaning data, which Python really excels.

Make a website that integrates or visualize the data with Python? Sure

You can not find a second language this versatile and has a well supported ecosystem.
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I'd like to think someday AI will help us make those technical decisions, even though we won't fully understand them because the human brain simply can't process the multi-dimensional complexity that a computer theoretically handles no problem. That leaves a lot of room for fear-mongering, but one man's utopia is another man's dystopia, I suppose.

As long as humans benefit, I say it's a worthwhile goal to at least explore. If that leads to the extinction of the human race through genetic defect or similar existential tragedy stemming from this, then maybe we just weren't cut out for this gig and should go the way of the dodo. Maybe on another planet, a higher intelligence will figure out how to peacefully coexist with an intelligence of their own creation/modification. Maybe this is just all an inevitable aspect of the evolutionary algorithm at work; who are we to think we can avoid it?
Given the wealth of information available on the internet, I would suggest a google search:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=experiences+with+high+speed+rail+in+jap...
Though the In-N-Out where I live has seemed at times understaffed, most of the employees who work there have been there at least as long as I've lived here (over five years now), which has to be anomalous in fast food.
> There should be county sponsored transportation for medical appointments.

How's your experience been with that kind of service? There's a reason lawbreaking octogenarians still ride golf carts down the sidewalk to get to the doctor's office, hoping they won't get ticketed.

> Uber.

I'm sorry. Did I mention my grandmother is 96? Ninety-six?
This headline alone has me thinking "As if it's a requirement that a transportation system needs cater to the people who can't physically drive?"...
The funny thing is that I have literally only ever been "robbed" in my life twice. (As in money that was rightfully mine blatantly stolen from me). Once was from Mt Gox who I largely suspected to be insolvent, and the other was from my bank, the largest banking institution in my country. Both clearly knew they were committing a crime, but I was really only shocked by one of these institutions.
Police work would not even make a list as one of the top 10 most dangerous commonly-held jobs.

Also, the grandparent's comment may be true for at least a percentage of the workforce:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/03/police-complaints-drop-93-...
Sole mention of "Zinke":

Still, Gianforte was elected months later in a special election to replace Zinke as Montana’s congressman.

Yes I know I could have just Googled it. I don't actually care who Zinke is, or what her or his first (last?) name might be. My comment was about journalistic standards. Sorry to confuse you.
Thx, its always cool to learn new economic tidbits.
Bummed about that. Enjoyed the premise. However, definitely not cheap to shoot on location across 5 continents (although i very much enjoyed the detail and contrast it provided)
I wouldn't mind it if someone pressed me about those companies, Uber can absolutely be managed on the local government level, and the other bad stuff that these big companies do is within the range of activism. It's not 100% my responsibility, but there's probably at least a 1 a few zeroes after the decimal.

Secondly, when one company gets away with something in the US, we have a fairly good reason to believe that other companies could get away with something similar. So, if I were a person in any country (even the US), and I needed to decide whether or not I could trust a US company not to do something to me, legal precedent in the US would actually be very relevant.

To make this concrete, I bet Europeans have become rightfully wary by now about the data privacy implications of banking/shopping or otherwise making an account with US business.
> Amazon can just stop reinvesting one day and make money

Does the money disappear if they stop reinvesting?
Yep. As of 24 days ago, there’s this public quote[1]

"We are on GCP now and have no plans to migrate off of it, or go 'multi-cloud'"

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/7mv84u/does_dis...

(Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud)
There are a number of good chains in that category. Shake Shack, Five Guys. But In-N-Out is pretty good. I suspect it's a category that rewards quality/consistency and isn't just a race to the bottom like the truly mass market fast food chains are.
It's almost like the government that puts easements up, or laws requiring easements, failed them.

This is hardly the fault of land owners that don't want 'everyone else' traipsing all over their property. If the public land must have access, they can use eminent domain to buy the strip of land required to put in a road.
> debts in terms of ecology disasters

They may have made missteps along the way, but if Flint, Michigan or Puerto Rico were in China, they'd both be fixed by now... Though hypotheticals are unhelpful, I know.

> suicide sprees routinely making headlines. Suicide prevention nets, I haven't ever heard about something like that in any other country

Bashing Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) is often done in the same vein as China-bashing. Even before the suicide nets, the suicide rates were lower than the population at large. It's just that when you have a large enough population working at the same company, any number seems like a lot. Even without accounting for the suicide clustering effect, the rate was lower than similar-age populations at universities. After the nets went up, the suicide rate became almost negligible, similar to the prevention methods installed at the Golden Gate bridge.

> Because today you don't need a massive army to be a formidable power.

Until someone fear-mongers you into a plausible enemy. And then you're screwed. Prepare for another century of bloodletting? (Shudders.)

> How does China measure up to that? > ignore any progress in human rights

A lot of the progress simply doesn't get reported in the West because it's not China-bashing enough to get eyeballs. There is this popular perception that freedom of assembly doesn't exist or that all protests get cracked down on. In recent memory, there was a strike of factory workers in Beijing and Shanghai, and it resulted in better working conditions and a higher minimum wage. There's lots of progress, but we just don't hear about it here. You should have seen the state of human rights during my grandparents' time when the KMT (the political party that self-exiled to Taiwan and was the official China internationally for a generation) was in charge.

I'm glad we live in modern times and not those times.
As someone thats never been very good at programming in full languages I find that PowerShell is very easy to learn and quite intuitive once you know the basics. I have used it for a huge amount of things that are quite varied. I dont think I've ever had a thought of something I wanted to accomplish and wasnt able to do it (eventually in PowerShell)
That's where Peter Thiel screwed up in his pessimistic premise about flying cars vs tweets (used as an illustractive example of course).

At the same time Thiel was making that claim, CRISPR, AI, robotics, VR/AR, blockchain/crypto-currencies and a massive general leap in automation were working their way into the economy. We're also about to take a leap forward when it comes to space tech and transportation improvements (from electric vehicles, electric planes, to hyper-loop and subterranean tunnel transport, those are all likely only the beginning of a new generation of transport tech; the power of combining electric vehicles + radically better software + lower cost, will be vast and will remake every nation). To add to all of that, China throws a big X factor into the global economy, they'll add additional spark to invention/innovation, accelerating competition and improvement between the US-Europe-Asia (Thiel's observations apply primarily to a time range when China was dirt poor, as recently as 1994 they had a mere $500b in GDP).

What's more important, flying cars (which are wildly impractical even if you can do it well), or curing Hepatitis C? We did the latter at the same time Thiel was expressing his pessimism. At least 70 million people have Hepatitis C world-wide. Flying cars are a joke by comparison to the extraordinary scientific accomplishment of wiping out HepC over the next two decades. Thiel set up his bold premise at exactly the wrong time.
There's quite a bit on the horizon with potential to reshape society. Self-driving cars is perhaps the most obvious example, and the underlying technologies of computer vision and deep learning seem likely cause automation revolutions in a number of other fields.