skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author does a good job of laying out the fundamental differences between the Jeffersonian and Hamitonian approaches to solving the "knowledge problem" of platforms creating such massive sets of data as to become a threat to any society in which they exist, but misses in terms of thinking out the consequences of several approaches.

For instance, there is a perverse disincentive in the Hamiltonian approach to relinquish control. The input which would "theoretically" increase the quality of a Hamiltonian regulator is more data. This means the regulator has a greater incentive to act as a data vacuum than those they are regulating. Furthermore, there comes a point at which when the data sets get large enough, there will tend to be no accountability to be found. See the banking crisis.

"Oops. We accidentally the economy. We promise we won't do it again."

"What did you even do?"

"We don't know off hand, but we won't do it again!"

The Jeffersonian approach is very much a precautionary approach. Where a Hamiltonian goes all in, the Jeffersonian steps back, limits scope, and sees what happens. It is better to advance the state of the art slowly and methodically without creating a point where a failure could propagate through the entire system, than to take the risk that the SCRAM (Safety Cut Rope Axe Man, the man responsible for triggering the active safety mechanisms in a non-passively safe nuclear reactor design) falls asleep at a bad time.

Do one thing, do it well. You don't need a Leviathan to build a functional, thriving society, but it sure helps if you are looking to destabilize and destroy one.
Ok, then are you saying that the problem is that the authors of iron Python didn’t spend as much time and effort to integrate it in the .NET platform compared to the work that has been done with OCAML?
From what I know it was actually Don Syme, the creator of F#, to bring non-erased generics in .NET.
And if I remember correctly without his work on the generics it would have been more painful to have a nice interop between C# and F#.
This seems quite at odds with your assertion that on the contrary erased generics make easier the interop between different languages on the same JVM/CLR.
Almost all innovation in general doesn't pan out.

Look at all the money we spend on medical/pharma research. Most of it doesn't pan out, but we're basically ok with that since the rewards are pretty large when it does.
Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance observes that, “when third-party sellers post new products, Amazon tracks the transactions and then starts selling many of their most popular products.”

However much that practice may increase economic productivity, it does so at the unacceptable cost of concentrating power in one firm while discouraging entrepreneurship outside it. Policymakers should protect vulnerable sellers against it.
> but you have to be next to somebody

Unless you are New Zealand :D
To help quantify this a bit - in 2008 I bought a brand new Honda Fit (cash) for about $17k. Has 120k miles on it now, very low maintenance, few repairs, definitely a budget/economy car. Over 10 years, another $600ish a year in gas (lifetime average of 35mpg), 4 sets of ~$400 apiece tires, ~$80 in oil changes a year, another ~$700/yr in insurance, looks like a TCO of $32k (and I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out). $266/mo is quite a bit more than what this person has spent on Uber.

The big difference is this person is only using ~114 rides/year, whereas just commuting to work I use my car for ~400 rides/year. Add in one out and back weekend trip (ignoring shopping trips through the week etc.) and we're up to 500 rides/year. If my average ride cost were the same as this person ($17.50/ride) I'd be looking at over $700/mo.
I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

We don't prevent people from writing 3rd party tools, but I would also be very wary of using them. Our stance is outlined here:

https://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/06/you-have-secrets-we-do...

> We have to advise you to never enter your 1Password Master Password into anything that isn’t 1Password. We aren’t casting aspersions on the integrity or competence of any developers, but we simply can’t advise otherwise.

So as long as you're mindful of this advice from us, go forth and conquer.

Kyle

AgileBits
Fast Visual Testing for Embedded Content
If you have the market for an HSR (a real one) it's feasible, thought not great and you'd really need better downtown public transport. Assuming direct it'd be a ~1:45 trip, possibly 1:30 on the really modern 350km/h (~220mph) lines, and if you don't have trouble falling asleep you can usually sleep/nap, you can work, and you could have a meal service.

Not cheap though, HSR tickets are not $10 (though it's not that far if you're using a high-frequency subscription thing, especially if you're using it daily).
Ethiopian here

Yes, Chinese contractors are having a big boom (banks, stadiums, airports & roads)

There's a shortage of foreign currency due to the mega projects underway - medicine, electronics, car prices have nearly doubled
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17110865
Testing React Apps with Cypress
> gas + insurance + maintenance yields a 6 year cost above $12k

This will depend on the individual circumstances. Liability insurance is significantly cheaper than full coverage. Average annual liability insurance is ~$552/year [1]. Driving the ridiculous 12k miles per year that average americans drive, a Prius would burn roughly 226 gallons of gas. At today's price of gas ($2.94), that's $664/yr. At 6 years insurance and gas will run you $7,296. I'm very skeptical of depreciation + maintenance blowing $4,704 over 6 years on a Prius...

[1] https://www.carinsurance.com/average-rates-by-age.aspx
>The no-car-movement is great for cities and people with lots of patience.

Unfortunately Uber is kind of undermining public transportation though. In my city transit ridership is down, which ultimately impacts funding.

I can sit outside any sort of venue/party/bar and watch Ubers pull up by the dozen. 5 years ago most of those people would have been walking to public transit because cabs were more realistically priced (for the medallion owners at least, the drivers often got shafted there too). Uber trips often cost less than the price of simply stepping foot inside a taxi.

I've talked to my neighbors (6 college students sharing a house), and they've literally never taken public transit since living in the city, and we're ~5 minutes from a major bus station and ~10 minutes from a subway station. I was flabbergasted.

Of course, traffic is worse than ever (this is attributable to multiple factors not limited to Uber/Lyft).
Dick Tracy in the 40's
Edit: Star Trek communicators, 1960's
Plus I imagine putting that on your resume/CV will be a big help. An amazing talking point for interviews. Projects a strong sense of integrity. It would help them get a remote job or visa.
In my day, we just hardcoded our credentials in some shell scripts.
I saw a joke a while back about a new startup.

Their business was selling dollar bills, and their model was to start by charging $0.75 to drum up business. Once they had a large user base and a well-tested service, they were going to raise prices to $1.25 to become profitable.

(MoviePass might be a good idea, but it looks like almost all the value they actually offered came from the unsustainable pricing.)
I'd actually be really interested to hear more opinions, especially with regard to scaling Postgres.

It seems like a few companies have actively been working on the horizontal scaling part of Postgres, along with the RDS version.

Would this be something where he could move his data to AWS RDS, change no code, and have everything 'just work' due to AWS dealing with the scaling of Postgres?

That seems to be their selling point, though I wonder if anyone has actually used it with this much data.

I'm really hesitant of using a NoSQl solution, too, for any projects just because most don't have transactions, don't have real SQL APIs, etc.
GDPR taken to another level.
different states' laws can have a major impact. I have no experience with insurance in MA, but in Michigan 2k/yr per car would be considered fairly cheap. My insurance is routinely near the cost of the car payment itself, and I have a good record and multi-product discounts with my provider.

We definitely have a problem here in this state though.
Yeah, but I guess the bigger question is: is this convenience so large that it justifies that a single company puts a wall around a market with a gate with their name on it?
I've experienced it. A tire on an SUV is like 50lbs. If they've been tightened by a shop with air tools, it can be hard to get the lug nuts off, especially with the tools that come with the car. I've sheared off a bit at the end of a breaker bar because the lugs were so tight.

A car's tire, I can agree that if the lugs are not improperly tightened too much, anyone should be able to do it. But for a full SUV, a 17"+ tire is a bit much to ask a petite woman to handle in my opinion.
Thanks for such detailed follow-ups. I appreciate it and will read your comments again to really think about some of the points you raise.

Regarding my tough time with current negotiations, there was a recent article that really summed up my experiences: < http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-le... >.

I live in a large US city, and seeking senior machine learning roles has been dreadful, for all the reasons mentioned in the article, combined with what looks like big downward pressure on salary.
How the platforms can both play platform and participant is really the disturbing part. I get that a lot of platforms have to start off as both to get started. It's probably better in the beginning to be the a really good chicken and start selling eggs. The let others sell their eggs to.
So children are harmed by believing in Santa Claus? If you politely tell someone you enjoyed their cooking even if it wasn't to your taste, you've harmed them?

Context matters. Deception, in and of itself, is not inherently harmful.

It makes literally 0 difference in the life of the person booking the appointment if it's a robot or a human telling them the desired time and date.
Pictures aren't sufficient, mannerisms and facial expressions count for a lot. I know two people who have dopplegangers identified; superficially similar in appearance but get them talking and it's really striking.
Some of it is [0].

This fact is ever more important in the age of AI.

[0] http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/courses/readers/K54.pdf
>I thought about a vision of the near future in which half the human race will converse in preordained cliches.

Maybe that's how the "Darmok and Jalad" language came about.
But people in the US need to travel further since it's infrastructure is all built around cars. Netherlands isn't as focused on cars, more bikes.
I think you're agreeing.

That many people stop pirating as soon as something more convenient comes along does not contradict the idea that people used to pirate because it was convenient.
This. People generally prefer to make an honest buck but when honest bucks are few and far between skimming your cut off the people who pass through using whatever means necessary becomes very attractive.

You even see this dynamic in in college towns where the college town and associated services are generally ok but all the surrounding communities run speed traps like their going out of style in order to skim a few bucks off of all the people passing through as a result of the college and the commerce it generates.

A healthy local economy generally prevents too many people from trying to make a dishonest buck.
> I find it hard to believe that a government run system could be less efficient than one that has to pay off insurance companies, recruiters, and mass marketers, all with what seems like little oversight.

What makes you think that the government wouldn't also have to work through those hurdles?

Government is notoriously inefficient, especially at scale. If government demands a process be done in the public sector, then there is zero competition and little innovation in the process.
Sounds like a list of things pulled from a SpaceX brochure, not sure how exactly they are game changers.
As hopeful and excited as I am for Ethiopia, the cynical part of me can't help but see the relationship as less cooperation and more exploitation.
> a government run system could be less efficient than one that has to pay off insurance companies, recruiters, and mass marketers

...and lawyers. Apparently many software, hardware and medical drug research companies spend more on legal fees than research (!!!).

https://gizmodo.com/5949909/apple-and-google-spent-more-mone...
>> GO just uses PCRE

Currently, there are 4 Go regex-redux programs and 2 use PCRE.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

>> The GO implementation has to use the platform allocator

… because there doesn't seem to be a Go third-party or stdlib arena allocator.
Auto insurance rates are greatly variable throughout the US and many people cary more than state minimums. Near $200/mo., is pretty normal in California. My auto insurance, with a perfect record is $3100/yr with a $5 million umbrella for three cars and two adult drivers in Idaho.
> medicine, electronics, car prices have nearly doubled

What about salaries? Is the net result positive for you?
The iOS application doesn't require a subscription to use. It works just fine as it always has with standalone vaults via iCloud or Dropbox (and WLAN from a desktop).

On iOS, scroll down the list, you'll see an option on the welcome screen to create a standalone vault. You're not on a subscription doing this.

Already have a vault synced to Dropbox or iCloud? Tap the requisite option on the welcome screen and it'll suck the data in from your sync source of choice. Again, no subscription required.

Kyle

AgileBits
Good thing that the OP exercised good logical thinking about the bomb. It’s great that no one got hurt .
How are oil wars hand wavy?
I don't think Google still permits Android phones to select a different default search. They used to, several Verizon phones used to ship with Bing as default, before Google locked it down via the MADA. (And this is true even of Android phones Microsoft sells, if they have the Play Store, which Microsoft's own Android apps depend on, they must follow MADA terms.)

They could on iOS, but it's likely outbidding Google would make Bing unprofitable. (Currently, it turns a profit, and has for years.) Satya Nadella doesn't seem to be a big fan of keeping products or services that don't make money on their own, hence his willingness to chop off entire arms of Microsoft's prior strategy.
OP here, will try.
> There's a shortage of foreign currency due to the mega projects underway

Could you elaborate? How is there a shortage if there's a ton of foreign investment coming in?
Watch Mark Zuckerberg's Testimony to the EU in a Livestream
Genuinely curious: As far as you know, are the projects synergistic, or do the Chinese offer lopsided/predatory deals?
> I do think though that AI is the last "fundamental" change information technologies will bring though.

There are wast continents of mostly unexplored or abandoned territory in IT. Moreover, some of them are well documented. Some of them were documented in 1970s. The fact that IT professionals today don't know about them and can't imagine anything more significant than "AI" for pizza ordering, is unsettling. Just to name a few things Alan Kay often talks about:

- Automated system integration or tools for generalized interconnection of applications available to end users.

- WYSIWYG for the Web.

- Constraint-based problem-solvers accessible to mere mortals.

- Agent oriented programming with UI simple enough for normal people to use.

- Dynamic simulations in "normal" software (not CADs)

I am absolutely sickened by the fact that the most common response to this list is "nobody needs this". As far as I'm concerned, each of those things is needed orders of magnitude more than a haircut-scheduling AI.
If you lower the bar and just show infographics (which you already produce for print) and possibly lightly animate them and some reading of the articles, video cost can be in the hundreds of dollars all-in per video.

I suspect a toolchain could be created to essentially automate the process of making these videos, using stock photos/clips, an animation library, etc.
Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts
But it is correct, they removed it from Preface, did they not?

It is not just 'deemphasised', the meaning has changed, It is now Not directly applied to Google:

"And remember… don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right – speak up!" - it applies to reader of the doc.

And it got reduced from top 12 lines to 1 line at the end. Have you seen the original ?
Because such public speeches lead directly to violence against minorities. This has been shown again and again throughout human history.

If we do not act and do not speak out against them or even attack them, we are tacitly saying "well, they might have a point", and that leads to unacceptable acceptance of intolerant acts.
> http://www.BeeLineReader.com/individual

Completely off topic but do you receive feedback from some users that your color gradients actually make it harder to read? I was struggling to read your landing page, my eyes kept were involuntarily flitting all over the page. My eyes kept jumping around scanning like they would at a traffic intersection or a pool (I was a lifeguard) for activity. It was kind of weird and stressful.
Agreed, but TFA targets SpaceX directly from the subtitle on.
Ruling can be found here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-285_q8l1.pdf
> You might be right, but a company’s abuse of dominant position isn’t defined by the quality of their competitor’s offer.

And the assumption that Yelp's offer is of poorer quality is debatable. Google's own algorithm apparently often ranks its content lower than its competitors in organic search results.

The second video shows this: they created proof-of-concept plugin that uses Google's own organic search results to power a clone of Google+ local: https://youtu.be/k9UqqmIJW4g
It’s really not polite to celebrate colonialism.
We just recently, as of version 6.8 I think it was, updated the Dropbox SDK to work with their newest API version.

There are no plans to remove Dropbox support. Especially not after we spent an entirely non-trivial amount of time getting the SDK updated.

Kyle

AgileBits
yeah, i read a book on what you're talking about. it's real.

the book is called phishing for phools: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10534.html

especially on products we're not knowledgeable about, we're vulnerable to get phished.
Or this, since 79 mph is oddly specific.

"Trains without "an automatic cab signal, automatic train stop or automatic train control system "may not exceed 79 mph.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_speed_limits_in_the_Unite...
Sorry for the comment size! I use HN from a PC always and I tend to forget that's probably not the most common use.

You're right, I'm not talking about common sense. It was another commenter who mentioned it. I interjected that it's very hard to collect enough examples of "What cats do? How cats respond to things? How they interact physically with their environment?" to build a good model of cat behaviour.

I'll be honest and say I have no idea what is "common sense" in the context of cat behaviour. Not to mention that it's very difficult to agree on a definition of "common sense". Despite that, I think you'll find there's general agreement that machine learning models don't have anything that could be recognised as "common sense". One reason for that is that it's extremely difficult to collect training examples of "common sense", exactly because it's so very hard to define it.

Apologies if that was too much of a sidetrack from what you wanted to discuss!

I actually don't have a definition of intelligence :) I'm working off an assumption that there is such a thing, that it's one process or one set of processes and that we may be able to reproduce it on computers, at some point in the future. But not in my life time.

The great advantage of doing a PhD is that you have plenty of time to read up and experiment to your heart's content. I hope it all goes well for you and you can soon start your studies.

I'm sorry to hear about yoru parent. You both have my sympathy. Hang in there.
One movie per week makes it not worth it. It's only marginally better than buying 4 tickets individually a month but requires the the upkeep of a subscription that you may not use on a regular basis. Nobody will go for one movie a week for 30 a month.
Air tools should only be used for removal. Using an impact wrench for putting on nuts causes cross threaded and broken studs.

Some shops do it, but you shouldn't go to them.
The women profiled here set up a website for it: http://www.twinstrangers.com/
> The experience of watching a movie at home... is far superior to anything a cinema could offer.

This, at least, theaters seem to have realized. Increasingly, (urban) theaters are offering seat choice at booking, cushy reclining chairs, real food, and full bars. Sure, you've got to go out, and dinner and two beers will run you $40. But if you don't care about cost, you can at least see new releases under conditions as nice as home.

It might be too little, too late, but there's at least some recognition that a big screen and good sound are no longer a theater-exclusive draw.
Denmarks public and private sector is very efficient and have a yearly 2% effeciency demand to the public sector. But Denmark is also a small and very homogeneous country.
Sorry to hear you were robbed 10k. I'm not sure how much we can solve the robbing problem with surveillance.

I can talk a bit about the typical robbing that occurs in the more touristic places in the city. The police is very much aware of who the robbers are, and in fact most of them have been caught dozens of times, if not hundreds; they simply don't get punished, except with a small fine, so they keep doing it. It's disgraceful.
I wasted years of my life believing I wasn't "good at math" or whatever platitude was popular with everyone. I rediscovered math long after school and it has been a marvel. I really wish I wasn't so convinced by a faddish belief that most people can't do math. It was just an excuse to ignore, and then of course you won't know what's going on. That's not you, that's your past ignorance.

It just took one person to speak up when everyone was jokingly trash-talking their own math skills. One normal-looking guy, not bookish or anything but tatted up and heavy-set with a big biker beard, broke in to the conversation and said "I actually really like math." All of a sudden I just felt so stupid and realized what I'd been doing to myself. High school me was literally a moron. At least I still had time to catch up.
One of the issues I think with learning Haskell concepts are that once you learn and understand a certain concept, it becomes obviously easy. At which point it becomes difficult to relate with someone who doesn’t yet understand that concept, and to whom what seems intutitively obvious to you seems insurmountably hard.
This comment made my day! We just finished our GDPR audit last week!