skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then let hedge fund managers organize their funds as equity purchases from their investors. To use your analogy, if managers were deserving of 20% of the profits, then structure it as investors own 80% and managers own 20%.

Of course, that would make many hedge funds a lot less attractive for many investors. Hedge fund managers want to have their cake and eat it too.
Does anybody believe SpaceX is getting a subsidy relative to any of its competitors? If not, I don't see this common criticism as making any sense.
I only know a handful of people that pre-ordered this. Can anyone justify buying the Roadster over other cars in the same tier?

I love how fast it is and all these nifty features but I personally feel that the design is lacking compared to its competitors.
That is (more or less) what hedge fund managers do.
I think the idea is that a company with enough money (who hasn't done something that people would viscerally consider horrible) can influence enough people through advertising that the well-informed consumers "voting with their dollars" don't make a meaningful difference.
> It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there.

You’re just begging the question. ‘It sounds absurd’, is not a cogent argument.
Also note that in the latest suicide attempt, Chelsea now implicates her very own friends, there is a pattern there (maybe she wants to go out with a bang, not a whimper):

> Im not really cut out for this world - I tried adapting to this world out here but I failed you - I couldn't do this anymore - I can take people I don't know hating me but not my own friends," she added. "I tried and I'm sorry about my failure.

Imagine being the last one to have an argument with Manning and her going through with it, leaving this public tweet to be found by you... You killed her with your hatred!

What had Manning to gain to contact and thereby grossly implicate Lamo - a complete stranger to her - with espionage, something that would completely define the last years of his life? The cables were already leaked to Assange. Manning just seemed to be bragging and thought she had a connection with Lamo, due to sharing sexuality issues, which was very naive and poor OPSEC on her part. What was she thinking? "Us LGBT need to stick together, and don't tell the authorities when somebody is doing something flagrantly against the law, possibly endangering soldier lives"?
No. You shouldn't. The person doing the actual work should be paying it as tax on labor, and the person who put up the funds should be paying it as capital gains. And obviously, capital gains should be taxed at a rate greater than labor.
This analogy doesn't work; carried interest isn't granted because of any sort of ownership stake.
The way I see it, this is transitory stage and future might be better for these workers. Capitalism is exploitive, and until better opportunities emerge, they will be squeezed for maximum work. However, I can't think of anything better way for 1.3B people to progress.
>Where do you think wealth comes from?

From paying labor less than it’s worth and keeping the difference for yourself.

People use sweatshop labor because they can steal even more of the value created by these worker’s labor, knowing there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. And they’ve done so for so long, amassed so much wealth, that they now can pay for boatloads of “intellectuals” to justify their exploitation as good and necessary, leading to us having this conversation now.
I have very mixed feelings about working conditions in emerging economies. It feels good to single out Amazon but all of us who own a smartphone or own part of the S&P 500 benefit from this reality as well.
The island natives in the pacific got a lot of fantastic things from the servicemen who visited their islands during WWII. In an effort to bring them back, they emulated everything they saw the servicemen doing. In effect, they were just going through the motions without purpose.

They built runways and carved wooden headphones like they saw the aviators wearing.

Here's a summary from Wikipedia:

With the end of the war, the military abandoned the airbases and stopped dropping cargo. In response, charismatic individuals developed cults among remote Melanesian populations that promised to bestow on their followers deliveries of food, arms, Jeeps, etc. The cult leaders explained that the cargo would be gifts from their own ancestors, or other sources, as had occurred with the outsider armies. In attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the soldiers, sailors, and airmen use. Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of US soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles.[14] The islanders carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
As of October 2017, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrat, 24% identified as Republican, and 42% as Independent.[3] Additionally, polling showed that 46% are either "Democrats or Democratic leaners" and 39% are either "Republicans or Republican leaners" when Independents are asked "do you lean more to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U....
While I certainly wouldn't make a bet at even odds on border agents having that information immediately readily available at time.now(), it doesn't sound particularly difficult to imagine how they COULD do it. Cell phone location data comes to mind.
Substantially more expensive goods?
The idea of democracy as a “rejection of aristocracy” has been well discredited for centuries now.

The topic of discussion here is not “social” but economic mobility. Let’s not mix them up so carelessly. Economic mobility is a measure of ability, or potential, not concrete events. To discuss “downward” economic mobility is to imagine wealth being forced upon these folk.
No you choose apple because its shiny. I'm sorry, no one actually uses Apple for the privacy.
I don't really get this logic. If your usage and data is worth something to Apple's competitors, its worth something to Apple too. Sure, "if you're not paying you're the product not the customer" but you could pay and still be the product all the same.
> I'm sick of people complaining about pulling their weight or saying they are too important to do so

The people complaining the most are those too well off for assistance and too poor to bear their responsibility comfortably. That portion of the population where it feels like you can pay health care/insurance/taxes or afford to go out to dinner one night a month instead of cooking.

It’s not a fun place to be.

I grew up like that. There was a lot of talk about assholes in power stealing from us to give to the lazy bums on welfare.
An awful email generator: Jargonzier
Like you said, there are very few companies who have done nothing wrong. But there certainly are companies who are better than others, and it's fine to praise them for that, just as it's fine to call them out for their mistakes.
Sun literally bought the StrongTalk team to make StrongTalk into the JVM, so "pretty big influence" is something of an understatement.
Company A can't directly increase the pay of workers at Company B. But A can increase the pay of it's own workers, making it more desirable than working for B. The increased competition on the labor market requires B to raise their wages as well. All workers win.

The equilibrium may still not end up with A and B paying the same, but personally I care more about everyone having enough than everyone having the same, so even unequal wage increases are a positive in my book.
I think they’re referring to Jamiroquai, maybe the album “Automaton” in particular.

Jay Kay described the inspiration for Automaton: "in recognition of the rise of artificial intelligence and technology in our world today and how we as humans are beginning to forget the more pleasant, simple and eloquent things in life and in our environment including our relationship with one another as human beings"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton_(album)
It's a privacy argument: Facebook has a track record of violating it, and Apple has done things to protect it. It's your choice if that's something that matters to you.
I read their re-design announcement and am really confused. Did they actually conduct user studies? focus group studies? research? proper A/B testing?

The general consensus seems that the re-design has a horrible user experience for most people. Curious on what their approach would be as I'm sure they're seeing horrible conversions.
Yeah and there is that one chef at Google who made $45M. But the average wealth manager has less money than the average founder, and the average founder is broke as shit.
That is not correct. Hedge funds and VC funds are generally organized as partnerships. The General Partners (GPs) are just as much owners as the Limited Partners (LPs).
The first tweet in the linked thread begins with "TL; dr:", it's not a statement by the comment author
That is a fine point of view, but perhaps outside the scope of the topic under discussion.
Boy, if you think getting people to use encrypted email is hard, I can only imagine trying to convince reddit users. Why would you even use reddit to send an actual, private communique? If you know the person through some other channel, why prefer a pseudonymous platform controlled by a third party, that is notoriously unreliable? If you don’t know them outside of Reddit, I find the odds of wanting or needing truly private communications very small, and a DM could easily be used to establish a more secure connection elsewhere.
Well, that was... bellicose. No company is your friend, but some are still better than others. It is true that companies work in their own self-interests, but those interests may differ. Apple has done quite well without selling user data, and has cultivate a brand that makes money doing something else. Facebook has not. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if they work in their own self-interest. It is in the self-interest of apple to keep customers and they might lose more than they gain selling user info. Again, no company is perfect. "Applying constant pressure" isn't perfect either, as governments are at least as bad as any company - their motivation is to stay in office. Apple is at least a better company then, say, Facebook.
Telephony used 2 out of 5 code extensively when passing dial digits around within the system.
Yes! There is a whole separate class just to handle formatting method chains:

https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/blob/master/lib/src/...
Hi, a couple of questions:

1. Could you describe the experiments you mentioned to prove ESP? What would be your experiment context? What would you measure? How would you measure it? Which precision would you be satisfied with to say you've proven ESP? (Precision should be a quantity related to the way you're gonna measure).

2. It seems that you have actually measured this phenomenon, since you actually say: "effects are immediate" and independent of distance. That's a big statement. Could you provide us with the measures of this phenomenon and show us their independence of distance?
Actually, the most interesting part would be: what equipment did you use to measure such small amounts of time? You said "effects are immediate", but "immediate" cannot be actually measures, because every equipment has its precision (so you would be only sure that two numbers are equal (which means immediate effect) until a certain point). What is your precision to measure this? What equipment did you use to do measures faster than the speed of light? (Since, you're saying that definitely radiowaves are ruled out, so that means you actually have a measure with a precision faster than the speed of light, the speed in which radiowaves communicate).

If you don't have measures, then it wouldn't make sense to rule out radiowaves. Actually, if you don't have measures, it would also seem that your analysis is highly biased by what you think is true, even selecting the "cooler" laws of physics to explain the supposed phenomenon that you can measure, the quantum freaky world of "entanglement and superposition", as opposed to the good and old "radiowaves".

You said it yourself, "A poor scientific state of mind leads to...", and I think a poor scientific mind is the one that pre-decides about the results of a subject in question before he can precisely say how he has (or will) measured that phenomenon. Science is not about "accepting any idea in", but more about: let's test all the ideas by measuring them in the actual world before we make a decision over it, or even if there is something to be discovered at all. Science is about a battle of ideas: all ideas should be fought and only those who present respectable evidence will raise. That's also the reason science is so effective, because it's hard to invent stuff and make scientists believe it. You would need to have actual proof that you are on the right track. So, a rich scientific mind would actually take your claims and beliefs with a very high dose of scientific scepticism.

Christopher Hitchens said it better: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
The One Piece of Advice to Help Engineers Negotiate a Better Employment Package
My company helps senior engineers negotiate job offers they have received. We've been doing this for a number of years, and if there's one piece of advice I can give you when negotiating a job offer you've received...and again, this is really geared towards senior level talent (though it can be as applicable down the food chain too)...it's this - be reasonable in what you ask for and approach the process being completely prepared to walk away if things don't move sufficiently in the desired direction. Nothing allows you to negotiate from a place of confidence more than a willingness to walk away if you're not happy with an offer or the negotiation process.

While there is a ton of nuance involved in a good, comprehensive, negotiation, everything flows from this one premise.

Why? Because it's a seller's market. There are WAY too many tech needs and far too few truly talented engineers to fill those rolls. This means that there is another opportunity around the corner if this one doesn't work out.

Be dispassionate, be reasonable, be comprehensive but most of all, be willing to walk away.

Good luck out there!
http://www.10xagentondemand.com/
Sure, but I got from the comment that this was some years ago. I agree that it's not hard to imagine how. I'm just surprised. I guess that I'm just not paranoid enough. Hard to believe, I know.
When I most recently logged in on a new computer, the new UI still persists. I suspect that's being rolled out slowly.
If her multiple suicide attempts in captivity had succeeded, I am sure, would be implicating the inhumane prison treatment she received (such as taking away a blanket to avoid noosing, and checking up on her every two hours).
Jeez, that's just brutal. I try to avoid content-free comments like this one but... damn. Just brutal.

If things actually went down like this person describes I would have been out the door too. (Due to the betrayal. I actually think Project JEDI is pretty cool.)
> No you choose apple because its shiny

That's an added benefit. My choices do not simply hinge around one characteristic of what I'm buying, but I do weigh privacy as an important one.

> I'm sorry, no one actually uses Apple for the privacy.

What do they use? How do you know this?
I don’t think people in the market for a $200,000+ car expect to justify their purchase to anyone on unemotional grounds.
Lionel Shriver attacks Penguin publisher's inclusion policy
Subscription Based Crowdfunding for SaaS
I’ll pick out one point that you seem to miss - when the US taxed the heck out of people with high incomes, you still had people like Howard Hughes, Warren Buffet, and John Paul Getty becoming even richer than they were before.

So yes, the rich get richer, and high taxes do not stop that (but present the illusion that it stops ).

I’ll gladly admit I’m wrong if you can disprove my three simple examples. Last I hexked, they were R I C H.
> Pulling your weight means equal sacrifice

I assume that means you feel we should all pay income tax at the same percentage. I agree with you completely.
I bet they have a lot of “conversions” because a significant portion of their user base don’t log in and use the site to interact with others, they just browse the front page of some particular sub or thread they ran across. Not something you can exactly do with FB for example. Of course, the redesign is so badly broken it will dump you back to the old view half the time. But they have this weird sort of captive yet passive audience that sees what is delivered by default via the front page and the default subs.
The average programmer salary in Japan is half that of the US, approximately. Their economy is dramatically smaller per capita than the US (the US GDP per capita is 58% higher), and then on top of that engineers are not paid nearly so well as in the US within that economic potential.

It's a lot more rare to make $100,000+ per year as a programmer in Japan. Normal circumstances generally will not get you there.
Their competitors cannot cash in public goodwill, but Apple can. Overall it seems as if this usage and data has no value to Apple because it's chosen that the good PR it gets from not collecting information outweighs the possible benefits that come from data collection.
I get annoyed when smart, wealthy people say that tax laws need to change while at the same time take advantage of the tax break becuase it’s ‘the government’s job to fix.’

Either pay the additional amount you think is fair and complain about it or take the tax break and don’t. But please don’t complain about it while simultaneously benefitting from the that which you say is wrong.
Here's a benchmark comparing the latest ROCm software with Vega cards from 2017 (with tensorflow 1.3).
TLDR; - Vega's are nearly as good as V100s for CIFAR-10!

http://blog.gpueater.com/en/2018/04/23/00011_tech_cifar10_be...
Some of them do, many, but not all. Surely some are surprised by the expectation vs reality of their new lives.

I have spoken to many "rich westerners" about my (also western, not poor but rural) upbringing and gotten responses which were longing for that sort of life. It is possible to live very well by a certain standard, on a small amount of land by doing most of the things you need for yourself. There are a lot of people who want that instead of their city life. Not for others but for themselves.

Very few people who didn't experience something like it have any idea at all what it might be like.
These are two separate problems. Kaplan is trying to address one issue. That didn't mean the other issue isn't also being addressed. Even if you solved the issue of people fearing for their lives, the other issue still exists and needs to be addressed.
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I might have missed something, but I though Google at least did get a pass for prism because not only were they not involved voluntarily but they reacted to the news by going all out in encrypting internal communications in an effort to make sure it couldn't happen again. Or am I confusing 2 separate programs?
> which I don't think we can

This is also begging the question.
Both are pretty over-engineered, but Maven has a drastically reduced "I want to pull all my hair out" factor.

Also, be careful not to confused "over-engineered" with "works correctly in the face of edge cases". autotools manages to be over-engineered and somehow is still not very robust. (Try using autotools on POSIX-compliant but not-very-unixy systems like QNX if you don't believe me.)
That's not true. Private/Public key encryption is just one example of secure communication over an unsecured channel.
Uh, what?

You want to make it more expensive to increase productivity? (Because that’s what capital does - it gets invested to increase profits).

The logical path you’re going down would replace road builders with people with spoons to move dirt around and file down rocks with spoons to put them in the ground to walk on.

Seriously, if you consider the logical conclusion of your argument, we end up in madness.
When you say "wealthy people", do you mean super-rich people like Jeff Bezos, or all of us who buy luxury products? Truly curious.
Um, wrong topic?

This one is about "Some notes on high speed networking on PCs" - not sure how Apple comes into it?
The same could be said of Tesla's other vehicles. A Tesla buyer has a different set of criteria than a Honda/Mercedes/Lamborghini buyer.
I am going to recommend a book to you. Doing Good Better by William MacAskil. It is not a work of right wing “intellectuals”. It is a book I think may cause you to rethink things. In exchange, I will read any book you recommended, Marxist or otherwise.
I find this pretty strong proof: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/as...

For those not clicking: the article writer did a (I think, not entirely certain) legally binding request for the data Google, Facebook and Apple have on him. Google delivered a 243Mb zip, Facebook a staggering 881Mb and Apple just 9Mb.
There wouldn't be any wealthy people left to complain.
One should not assume Apple is taking a strong position on privacy and security for altruistic reasons.

I assume they are competitively positioning themselves against Google, Facebook, etc. and will hopefully be rewarded by the market as more people wake up to the importance of privacy and security being designed into their hardware and software.

Apple is simply betting that privacy and security is great for business. No more. No less.
You're correct. But I feel that the innate californification of Apple along with systemetic PR showing Apple to be saviour of privacy is stopping privacy enthusiasts from putting Apple into same rigor as we do for Google, Facebook.
I appreciate the skepticism and perhaps credit belongs more with Melinda than Bill but it is hard to overstated the impact of the Gates Foundation in the world of aid. Seriously, I work in that world and their influence is both good and pervasive. It doesn't excuse previous behavior, but judged independently their impact has been absolutely enormous.