skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once you’ve sized out of pandas/scipy/scikit, your next major option is Spark, which is certainly powerful, but is also unwieldy.

There's also Dask [1], a native Python framework for distributed computations (by Anaconda). Irina Truong gave an excellent talk at PyCon 2018 about it [2]. I had never thought to look into Dask because Spark worked well for my use cases, but it has a lot of advantages over Spark (e.g. speed -- it's faster and more lightweight than PySpark and has no JVM serialization overhead) if you're using Python. Dask also runs on Kubernetes clusters, so scaling is not an issue.

And yeah, a huge amount of important data analysis work will continue to be done on data that fits in memory. Data analysis on distributed datasets is important, but from what I can tell, outside of certain domains it's certainly not the majority of the data analysis work out there.

[1] http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/spark.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4YHGKj3V5M
I just read the fresh news about Malaysian minister not convinced with the evidence [1] and have to admit you can be right here. We'll see what happens next, but it doesn't seem entirely impossible that this bunch of officials is indeed just one nation too diverse to lie in concert.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/no-conclusive-evid...
The smart employee used a Limited Liability Company, his personal assets are not at risk.

(this is from a US perspective, IANAL, etc)

The protection of an LLC or other corporate structure isn't absolute - there's a whole vein of legal literature discussing "piercing the corporate veil".

One of the biggest reasons why a court would pierce the veil is using the LLC for fraudulent / illegal activity as described above. All the salary / dividends / benefits could be clawed back, and even assets the person had prior to starting the scheme would be potentially subject to forfeiture to pay a judgement.
They went into it thinking there was a network effect. (There isn't.)

Worse for the scooter startups is that they can go far enough to cause loss, but can't go so far as to link up two essentially different geographic zones. Thus no demand side market balancing like Uber and Lyft. They're limited to small cities in the sunshine.

The people driving around and getting paid big bucks to recharge them are using...... cars.

Which is why the only play for the scooter companies is to be acquired by Uber or Lyft. Which is unfortunate because there is no original technology in these scooters. Xaiomi will sell the m365 to whoever wants to buy one. When two Chinese companies are selling the scooters, their price will halve or more, and anyone who finds himself using a scooter daily will buy one...... for $200.

I would think that Dara is on a Boeing Business Jet with Lei Jun right now toasting their exclusive deal on the next million commodity scooters at a bargain basement price.
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The Daily Express is quite a long way from being a serious newspaper. I don't know US papers but it's probably somewhere around what would happen if Fox News put out a print edition.
The simple question is whether most billionaires have actually contributed $1B of effort in producing value. The answer is mostly no, that most of that value was extracted from other workers who were disproportionately less rewarded than people who were able to structurally secure more ownership than the value they conteibuted
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I don't blame him for not dealing with it, I blame him for not fixing it with the https+captcha the rest of the site got.

I find some interesting stuff in the readonly. Fibonacci buttsort is always good, sicp stuff is nice to remember. Idk, it's a nice nostalgia for me.
I wonder what he means by that. To me it's the exact opposite. I don't want anything extravagant - none of the things one might picture when one thinks "millionaire's lifestyle"; no big house, no luxury car, no exotic vacations, etc. The only (or at least primary) thing I'd like is the security to pay my modest expenses and cover any potential emergencies in perpetuity, without relying on a job and without moving to a cheap country to reduce living expenses (I would like to stay close to my family in the US). For that, I do need a million dollars, and even that is barely enough.
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How is Revolut solving that specific issue?
The parent explicitly mentioned that they did not get the e-mail notification they were supposed to get, suggesting they were subscribed to the issues. So if waiting for e-mail counts your criticism doesn't seem to apply.
I'm hoping I'm just a little bit ahead of the curve. Doing a bit of reading it seams Honda and Yamaha have electric motorcycles being released in some form or another this year. Hopefully they find a market for them and the competition will start to push prices down.
headline: 'scientists conclude'

Article
'A SUDDEN and dramatic drop in the number of human males living in Europe, Africa, and Asia 7,000 years ago is evidence of brutal warfare spanning multiple generations, a new study has suggested.'

Theory is fact in click bait tabloid headlines...
That has no relation to the cases above which were of people running Tor exit nodes from their home. If one wants to hide their Tor usage then that's something else and there are pluggable transports that are already built-in the Tor Browser to obfuscate Tor traffic to look like something else--no need for a VPN.
If it "will" happen more, then why are we seeing the opposite ? Numbers of deaths due to military conflicts has been systematically declining and drone strikes have been with us for a decade. If loosely defined, you could say they've been with us since the first precision guided missile struck (1968).

And of course there's the real can of worms that most technologies have military applications and can often even be directly weaponized. Drones being an example by themselves, but of course every source of energy is another obvious one. Add most medical discoveries, or at the very least every advance in genetics. Furthermore, say a better hashmap also helps guided munitions work faster and more precisely ...

The problem with this argument is that it is self-contradictory when you analyze it thoroughly. Furthermore, reality seems to confirm that this is contradictory.
Facebook using dark UX patterns?
The US's developing them -- and especially the US's being the first to develop them -- makes it at least slightly more likely that Russia and China will develop them.
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"In a nationally representative survey of single, childless people in 2011, more men than women said they wanted kids."

"A different poll from 2013 echoed those findings, with more than 80 percent of men saying they’d always wanted to be a father or at least thought they would be someday. Just 70 percent of women felt the same."

Granted, I don't have tons of studies, and some of this data is a few years old (but still after the 2008 recession,) but I think it's reasonable to conclude that the drop in birth rate can not be explained solely by a decline in the number of men or women who want kids. For sure, that is a big part of it. But the fact that couples who want kids are not having them, and that this gap grew after the recession, leads me to think there are structural issues with our economy at play.
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I submitted that link a couple hours ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17206065), but it got no upvotes, and eventually duped to this submission.
Wow what a bunch of bullshit
> stolen from Googles ... Wikipedia

Stolen from Wikipedia then.
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
State monopoly for violence is itself a solution to a coordination problem.
No one said you need to rival Buffett. You added that.

He was simply provided as an example of an extremely successful person who is living life on his own terms.
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Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of this deal are the fact that the order seems to be on the scale where things appear to be ready off-the-shelf. Does an order of 62,000 imply that Waymo is close to having hardware that can be quickly adapted to multiple cars (e.g., the Jaguar and now the Chrysler) that can be produced at scale? Or have they managed to convince manufacturers to heavily customize their existing vehicles (seems unlikely)?

That's something I'm not sure is even on the horizon for any self-driving car effort other than Tesla.
That too. I saw the ad for the first time yesterday during the Warriors game, as we don’t watch live TV, only stream. Two observations:

1) as you said there was nothing in that ad that would make me come back, rather if I had not already been aware of it I would have searched about it to learn - the Streisand effect.

2) there was another similar ad, from another company, about breaking trust, Wells Fargo bank -> nuff said.
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In any other program, such customization you made would be impossible.

The things you can customize in other editors and IDEs, you can customize through the M-x customize interface. The things you'd install as plugins, you can get from Emacs package manager. All other things that you can - with smaller or greater amount of work - alter in elisp, are more-less impossible in other editors.
You may be interested to know that both of those are illegal in the EU. Shipping costs are a special case unless the price is clearly disproportionate. But under the CCR in the UK (I forget the EU directive it's based on) if things are automatically added to your basket, you are entitled to a refund and to keep the item.

The email thing is covered by the GDPR, but was covered by UK law already. John Lewis (a UK retailer) lost a test case for exactly what you described:

https://news.sky.com/story/spammer-to-pay-damages-after-cour...
Another one, the word "free." Much like literally it has lost its original meaning and now means "included."

For example, "Get a free widget with this 12 month magazine subscription ($12.99/month)!" And then people will genuinely argue that the widget is "free" in spite of it being tied to $150+ in mandatory expenditure.

The word people are looking for is included, the widget is INCLUDED with a 12 month/$12.99/month subscription, there's nothing "free" about it.

Nothing about the above is contrived either, these "free" ads and claims are all around us.
Or annoying, apparently. A good friend of mine’s father, having recently acquired a unix based POS system for his retail store, decided he’d prefer a nicer name than ‘root’. Apparently, ca. 1984 unix was rather particular about names (instead of uid) and didn’t take kindly to such. Much pain ensued.
People love to talk about Huawei's links to the People's Liberation Army, but when Google starts working with the US military, it's somehow different. Hmm...
oh totally agreed. What I find confounding is that up until now the limit on braking performance appears to not have been tire grip but software.
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I'm interested to see if they're ever looking for offensive security people.
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Or they just want you (and more importantly their potential fleet/commercial customers) to think this. Whether they are ready or not, that kind of announcement further marginalizes the credibility of competing efforts. It could also be interpreted as a move to counter the growing public perception that self-driving cars are "not ready."
They're the wave of the future today, just in cryptocurrency form. See eg. Brave & BAT.
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People think if they can control facebook, they can swing elections. Hillary just recently made that comment if she controlled facebook.

Look how Yahoo news and Google news pushes editorial pieces above news, almost like an agenda. Same thing was happening with facebook.
An e-bike with pedal assist requires you to pedal so you get at least some exercise out from it. E-mopeds are also much heaver than e-bikes and may not be allowed (depending on jurisdiction) on all bike paths. They are also locked at their 25 km/h top speed, while e-bikes can go faster if you pedal.
Why would writing a patch for any other editor be easier (or less hard) than writing a patch for Emacs?
Look at the Waymo/Uber lawsuit. It involves alleged theft of IP and the individual along with company is being sued.
You can meander, gawk, and enjoy things all you want, but it's not necessary to stop in the middle of the sidewalk or weave around unpredictably to do any of that.

It's not taking "ownership" of a city, most of what he mentioned is just about avoiding being in the way when occupying a shared space. It's basic manners.
The nightmare letter is specifically designed as an instrument of malice to maximize processing costs. If it does what it was intended to do and that generates a large processing fee, the system is working as intended.

If the cost of preparing for compliance is reasonable then amortizing it over each request should not produce unreasonable costs per user. If the costs are unreasonable to begin with then that is the root of the problem which is what needs to be corrected independent of who pays.
> Does a Segway really take more space than a bike? Bikes are big. Like really big. They're far longer than a human is long

The problem is that segways are wide, they take a lot of transverse space which is generally at a premium: at the scale of a street, length is infinite but width is limited.

Worse, they take that space very low on the ground which is more problematic: there are obstacles at ground-level which don't exist at handlebar-level and it's outside the normal field of vision.

> they carry momentum and cannot start or stop quickly, and they have a very wide turning radius so they can't maneuver around obstacles easily

That's an advantage for other people, because they can more easily estimate trajectories even not knowing the intents of the driver. There it helps a lot that bikes are familiar objects so people more or less know their range of behaviour.
The only book discussing the history of Project Cybersyn is, I think, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile by Eden Medina. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006NY5426) Here's my Amazon review: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1IBPD2HGZ6UVA/

The project was very short-lived, but (IIRC) the primary designer was Stafford Beer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer) who based the work on his so-called Viable System Model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model). For the fundamental theories of the time you'd want to read Beer's works as well as those of his contemporaries, who espoused competing theories and methodologies. (I say "at the time" but the state of the art never really changed. Project Cybersyn is a fascinating chapter in the long-history of AI, and if there's any dominate thread to AI it's one of diminishing expectations and migration to ever more circumscribed problem domains.)

As I mention in my Amazon review the author, Eden Medina, seems to have compiled a ridiculous amount of material but only a fraction of it bleeds through into her book. The book is fascinating but if you're interested in the theory and history more generally then the book's bibliography is priceless.

It's been awhile since I read the book but here's one lasting impression: one of the biggest problems with Project Cybersyn was communication between producers and consumers. Much of the budget and time was actually spent on telecommunications infrastructure and then figuring out how to get people to use it properly. Which hints at one of the most important functions of a market: price signaling. Regardless of whether a market is efficient, given the dynamic nature of a complex economy any system you setup that tries to centralize price signaling (capturing pricing information is a prerequisite for processing it and generating optimal allocations) seems like it'd very quickly become antiquated and a hindrance. Markets may be inefficient but at scale not only are they remarkably powerful distributed computation engines, they co-evolve with the economy. But that doesn't mean there isn't room for applying these techniques in sub-domains (e.g. trading engines, city governance, etc), improving overall efficiency.
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If a decentralized cryptocurrency platform could properly scale
in the future, likely with a stable cryptocurrency for currency usage, then this scenario will become a thing of the past.
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