skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a "crypto" documentary on Netflix which goes into detail about how this came to be. Spoiler: the sanctioning board have basically all left Gov't to consult privately on best practices to getting the license.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9704517
I implore everyone to read the rest of the series.
Best advice I can give when calling 000 - let the call-taker follow the script. There will be a point in the call when you can add extra info, but they have a list of things they have to ask before they can press 'Dispatch!', you'll both have a better time if you let them ask their questions in order.
Hence why Uber is unsustainable without VC dollars. As soon as driver pay goes down further and ride costs increase, their model falls over.
Iran in the 1950s
Might be unclear, plaintext is usually Unicode these days.
cheers, thats a good tip I hope I will remember if I ever need to call in.
Not to mention Trump would NEVER say:

> Most of the time, when there is theft of goods, leaking of confidential information, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something simple like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company as a whole.
Shilling is a very different thing from just being biased because of a personal stake in something. Shilling is dishonesty, bias is just human. I know you’re not shilling, I’m asking if you might be biased due to a personal stake, or ideology. Are you?
You started by questioning jail time, then brought in the SEC. Now you're stating the SEC doesn't deal with industrial sabotage and talking about fines, which no one else mentioned.

As for actual jail time, here [1] is a single engineer in California (same jurisdiction as Tesla, presumably) that was sentenced to 15 years. Also, $28 million in fines, which is what he earned for his espionage. Another engineer got 2.5 years for the same incident [2]. And this was the very first instance of people being convicted under the Economic Espionage Act you mentioned. Further reading: [3].

I don't think the facts support your position.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-espionage-sentence-dup...

[2] https://www.law360.com/articles/571212/ex-dupont-engineer-ge...

[3] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-individuals-and-company-f...
Not the parent but this example comes to mind : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

(A British multinational company, but US did the overthrowing)
My immediate reaction would be the United Fruit Company and it’s dealings in South America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

But I’m sure you can find instances where oil companies heavily influence politics in governments all over the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Chiquita_Brands_Interna...
Sounds like artists and philosophers and academics fall into your category of nerdiness.
Key word there is found. Look at Facebook and the whole Cambridge Analytica debacle. The outcry happens after the fact, after they're caught. Assuming the worst is no different than assuming the best.
I didn't know it was this many https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
" As a non-US citizen I'm already required to give my fingerprints and retinal scan to border control agents"

Well that's my point - we already do stuff on par with ID recognition - so while it's uncomfortable and debatable, it seems 'within bounds' in our current state of affairs.

And yes, the 'all seeing eye' part is hugely contestable.

My point is that it's grey.
United Fruit Company is the origin of the phrase "Banana Republic"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
This is after tax money. Financial advisers are like car salesmen unless you're extremely rich. I'm already taking care of my investment portfolio (bonds, index funds, etc.). What they're gonna say is "double down", "increase your position". 500k because I'm aiming for places like Seattle, Austin, Denver, etc. Still looking to stay around a tech hub that is still cheaper than the Bay Area.
>Ethereum is the robust base layer for a whole bunch of stuff.

Solidity et al are imperative languages which basically turn the never static ethereum blockchain into an absolute nightmare to reason about or write robust code for. See basically the once weekly massive security bugs in ethereum contracts. Turning completeness and imperative languages; I would not call that robust on the code execution level.

Ethereum is also not immutable, see DAO bailout. I would not call that robust.

Ethereum has architected their consensus choices such that miners can increase blocksize to push out competitors. That leads to coercion centralization. I wouldn’t call that robust. Even if we live in a future utopia where coercion isn’t a threat, then The system is a horribly inefficient AWS.
Quora has become an absolute cess-pool of thinly veiled content marketing / spam and pseudo-intellectual self-help Ted-talky BS, in my experience at least.

When it was first out there were a lot of smart writers posting thought-provoking content, a lot of (SV) insiders giving interesting anecdata, etc. It seems that it has devolved into a more yahoo answers meets TED / stevepavlina.com type community now, but maybe that's just my feed. I admit that I've hardly used it in the past few years so it could just be my shitty and uncurated list of topics and people i follow
Joe mentions working with "existing language package managers". That probably doesn't include nixpkgs, but perhaps it could.
Author here – Part 2 uses:

- React for DOM rendering

- D3 for visualization geometry

- RxJS for handling state (i.e. turning scroll position into animated properties)

- PIXI for WebGL bits (i.e. all the little circles moving around)
Sure. I’m just pointing out a problem with the approach of the previous post, where ‘stfu’ was the advice.
Not offended at all. I just found your answer to be a little to "standard/cliché" and not targeted enough. Like putting someone in a bucket right away. It's not the case trust me... I'm better than that ;) Thanks again for taking time to post an answer. Really appreciated.
Recent studies have shown that gender differences in personality tend to be larger in developed countries. I think more developed countries tend to have a toxic set of socal standards.

If you want to figure out why women are underrepresented in technology, examine the differences between boys and girls toddlers and how they interact with their environment. There is a 'girls toys' isle in store but not a 'boys toys'.

Work you way up to 4th grade and see that most girls remain interested in math and science but when they hit 6th grade something changes, a young woman feels pressure to express herself in certain ways or face social stigma.

There's a reason Big Bang theory is one of the few American shows banned in China, it's not just good old fashioned American anti-intellectualism, it's social engineering.
The United Fruit Company lobbied successfully for the overthrow the Guatemalan government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

CIA plans and arranges Iranian overthrow of PM (along with UK) over interference with a predecessor to BP (concisely detailing who owned what is hard)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
> Google and Apple can grow without restraint because until they were massive they didn't affect anyone

Microsoft in particular lost an entire industry and way of doing business, partly (or maybe mostly) because of Apple and Google. It was only about 5 years ago that the “us vs them” mindset started to dissipate.
The United Fruit Company comes to mind.
> In 2007, a comprehensive study of markets around the world found that ones where short selling was legal and common were more efficient than ones where it was not. And a 2012 study concluded simply, “Stock prices are more accurate when short sellers are more active.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/in-praise-of-s...

Short selling is a _good thing_. Blaming the short sellers is the practices of companies like Enron, AIG and Lehman. Elon is not covering himself in glory here.
In Chicago, ATT is one of the better ones. It works reliably in the loop as well. Just read the fine print carefully for those extra charges.
Yeah I find it too coincidental. There was a news article if I'm not mistaken about how Tesla put in a lot of work into trying to automate making cars that failed. A lot of big car manufacturers commented how they tried the same and he didn't learn from their mistakes.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-r...
Where are you finding constructed events for $5 in NYC? Most places I know of are at least double that.
Agree with the other commenters, very interesting insight.

It maybe doesn't fit the metaphor quite as well, but as an operations person, I've frequently run into the "underfitting" problem. For example, we run Chef to manage our physical and virtual infrastructure. There are a ton of community-authored Chef cookbooks available. Which at first blush, sounds great. But often, they have grown over time to become these awful hydras that try to be all things to all people. PR after PR has added support for the specific use case of every organization that wants to run the cookbook in their own special way. The "Getting Started" section of the README eventually becomes a dumping ground of 900 attributes you need to set correctly, and yet somehow it still doesn't quite perform how you'd like.

In many cases, we've tried to use community cookbooks and even merge our own customizations back upstream. Only to eventually give up and write our own version that's 50 lines of Chef DSL/Ruby instead of 5,000 but does exactly what we need, the way we need, and no more. It's very possible to make a system too generic and configurable, to the point where it loses all meaning.
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The left is pretty screwed up these days, but not as badly as the right.

This email from Musk isn't at all the same as what we hear from the Trump camp. Sure he's talking about a conspiracy, but it's pretty reasonable, unlike the Trump conspiracies.
Hopefully code reviewers with institutional knowledge can advise on where to apply pruning and prevent code overfitting.

Pruning is also the common ML practice to prevent statistical overfitting.
I browsed the docs a bit, but can’t find a clear status or planned switchover date.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Programmable money means that I can download a bitcoin contract that functions as a will without having to pay a lawyer or live in a country with a robust legal system to ensure that: after 180 days of me not moving my funds, my heirs get it, etc

See https://bitcointechtalk.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-merklized-abst...
Yes, it's called authority. The point of the comment is that we should pick the proper people to give that authority to, instead of fighting against them through some strange corporate proxy.

If you want an alternative, why don't you become the qualified and capable person to join the government to shape it the way you want?
Double-arrows let you signify that the tag is different with no extra effort because it's just an extra tap where your finger is already positioned.

It also has a right directionality to imply that it has scope until the end of the line.

Triple-arrow is the same idea, but uses the convention that triple-characters are common for delineating multi-line blocks.
"You actually have genes that dictate whether you’re a morning person or an evening person."

The workplace constantly discriminates against night owls. How long will it take for cultures to finally catch up in this respect?
How do you share and publish terraform modules? Can you pip install a bunch of common configurations, and compose them together with your own app?

It sounds like the value add for this tool is being able to describe your infrastructure as code rather than configuration, with all the benefits of code over configuration (diffs, loops, package managers, variables, etc).
"A law firm could easily pay a number of app makers to try this out in exchange for the data, and then make a huge class action out of this."

I'm not sure you really want law firms doing this. The recent practice of people investing into litigation has not exactly done wonders for anyone.
> Uber's driver and rider acquisition costs (marketing, promotions, ads, etc.) are astronomical.

Which is hilarious to me. Uber is spending a ton of money, and very little of it trickles down to the people that make Uber possible (the drivers).
This isn't good.

I mean, there may well be saboteurs in Tesla. That's not my issue. What worries me is that Musk sent out a general email and announced this to the world.

Why is that worrying?

Whether it is Trump's "Deep State", Stalin's "wreckers", shadow governments, or Freemasons. Any time a leader starts publically pointing to invisible actors and demanding they be investigated and stopped, something is about to go very wrong.

What inevitably follows is leaders asserting that their failures are not due to incompetence or poor planning on their part, but are caused unseen and irrational forces who must be opposed.
How are people still trying to drive utility out of this
Hope is a powerful political tactic. Obama used it and got elected. However, Obama proved to be ineffective. Will Obrigon be effective? Who knows? Effective is much harder to do than hope.
Your bosses might be right.

Technical debt, much like regular debt, can also be used as leverage to quickly gain a competitive advantage. While your competitors are busy refactoring/rebuilding perfect applications without hardly creating any more customer value, the scrappy startup that writes piles of spaghetti code might be building exactly what customers want.

Code quality != business value.
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You’re really extrapolating a lot here. This was an internal memo to his staff about the incident.
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That may be your experience but that isn't what others experience. It also doesn't match the ICD's definition either.

Credentials in most systems are useless outside of those systems (and even within them in certain cases). Some can be used to gain employment or other things but even those can be abstract and "virtual" in a sense.
> Pinterest's entire business is built on unauthorised use of content from other websites.

That’s 100% true of Google too, and actually Facebook as well to a large extent. And certainly Reddit.
Wow, I hadn’t heard of that - pretty horrible stuff. Thanks for the info.
Yes, I do agree righting wrongs due to system racism
with:
(a): why do this at the expense of other minorities? It looks like on paper, the majority want to uplift (certain) minorities while keeping themselves safe which seems to be going the other direction when righting their wrongs - they aren't giving up anything, they are still taking opportunities from other minorities.

(b): under-represented because of the monolithic term Asian given to them. A lot of which are in poverty but seem to be overlooked based on being Asian. Someone else also mentioned the supposed under-represented group of Jewish people who stand at 1% but account for 40% of the cohort. Whoever gave those numbers was on this thread too - although I do believe a ratio similar to that is the real figure anyhow.
> As an INDUSTRY, we have some very important decisions to make, one of which is, "will we work on this type of system knowing full well what it will be used for?"

Can't this easily be defeated by breaking the project up such that different teams are involved in different parts, and none of the parts know the whole thing? E.g. they could all believe they're all involved in some new super secret product development, but not know enough about the final customer or the other parts to know it's the US government.
Maybe. Maybe not.

>Why aren't they generating awesome works of science or philosophy or literature or something with all that clear-headedness

Maybe they don’t want to? Maybe their motivation is towards intrinsic goals, while science/literature/etc. are all extrinsic.

Just because they aren’t doing X doesn’t naturally and obviously mean it is because they cannot do X.
e.g. I can readily be a manager, and have more of certain (in)tangible things, but choose not to, because that line of work interests me less than other kinds of work.
Just as, by the same token, just because somebody wants to do X doesn’t mean they can do it.
e.g. I really want to be a talented rockstar with mad guitar skills, but I cannot becuse I am largely tone deaf.
Pointing out that short sellers have an incentive to meddle with a company's performance is definitely fair play. Sure short selling by itself is not harmful for overall market performance but, generally, it's a lot easier for third party to affect a company's downside than their upside. That's just a fact of life.
Not quite fair comparisons with the slow mo guys vids.
Take a 1/4 cut of the original frames, generate your slow mo from that, and let us compare with the same rates.

The virtual slow mo of slow mo was neat, but it felt more like self flattery than scientific.
Agreed. In many cases, short sellers do a better job of identifying, researching, and flagging illegal behavior than government agencies charged with enforcing the rules.
The FutureCop devs did :-) “I... Don’t Believe it!” Went the sound clip as a window popped up telling Mac Users to contact the studio and tell them that they were playing on a Mac since the Mac version was apparently a labor of love for the engineers. <3
> You could probably change the ISA in various ways to save power, or make other uarch or arch changes - but cutting out say the 16-bit modes isn't really one of them.

I've got no idea (obviously) but it seems that maintaining compatibility with legacy hardware shouldn't be all that cheap. If it is, kudos to Intel.
Thanks for this extensive post and links, haven't heard about supernormal stimuli before.
There was (hopefully still is) a thriving community of D2 single player enthusiasts that had a very welcoming crowd and managed to avoid the craziness of battle.net[1] at the Single Player Forum of diabloii.net[2]. To this day, it's maybe my ideal of the internet done right (though its in-page ads seem a little more obnoxious now than I remember).

It had fairly strict rules w.r.t. documenting what mods you play with[3] but most folks used certain baseline tools such as infinite stashes[4] that greatly helped with playability.

The pace in single player is significantly slower without overpowered items, but also significantly more tactical. And there were often seemingly absurd self-imposed constraints imposed to make gameplay harder on yourself (no uniques, etc.). Here's one player who made it through hardcore in all difficulties (Guardian) doing full clears with a naked Amazon[5].

While not as extreme, and maybe it'd be insignificant on battle.net, I had some of my most satisfying D2 moments there[6].

[1] Good luck getting enigma and other overpowered runewords in single player.

[2] https://www.diabloii.net/forums/forums/single-player-forum.3...

[3] There was a vibrant trading scene but this helped discourage cross-contamination between, say, a vanilla player's items and those of a player who enabled ladder-only runewords.

[4] GoMule and ATMA may have been my first exposure to Java programs.

[5] https://www.diabloii.net/forums/threads/how-far-can-superdav...

[6] https://www.diabloii.net/forums/threads/finally-my-first-gua...
While not all addiction is due to escapism, it cannot be escaped (no pun intended) that it can be a catalyst. What we as a society need to stop doing (same re opiod addiction for example) is stop labeling and treating symptoms instead of addressing the root causes.
Riffle shuffle leaves many cards that were near the bottom still near the bottom. That's not exactly what I'd call 'truly random' ... which would be ANY card has an equal chance of being ANYWHERE in the deck.

A better alternative would be to put the bottom-third of the deck on top, then riffle.
Do they really use Fiber Optics in AT&T fiber service?
Most countries would not be signatories of such an accord, so there would be little to withdraw from.

Paris was a hard-fought compromise, involving concessions from all involved. A difficult negotiation, achieved with great effort and time investment, and shattered to pieces in two minutes.
Oddly enough, Descent was the one 3D game which didn't make me suffer from motion sickness.
The first example that comes to mind is the influence of United Fruit in Central and South American military policy in the last century. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars for instance.
Hey guess what. Are you healthy? Do you have a place to sleep? Do you have food on the table when needed?

Life is good my friend. You are part of the super human beings. You're 100% alive and healthy. Go live tomorrow like it was your last day. Rince and repeat.
This kind of argument can be used to justify working on all sorts of terrible things, but the premise just isn't true.

Most projects fail, and the people who work on super shady projects aren't some kind of evil supergeniuses. "Good" people are often better at working together. They tend to have more access to outside research and researchers.

It's also hard to know how far along these projects are. It's in these countries' best interests for you to think they're as far along as possible. The reality may be that you're building destructive technology to pre-empt something that doesn't even exist or will never work.
So didn't Steve Jobs, but look at Apple now. This is just the whiplash argument so I really don't want to get into it.
I saw their marketing recently in Costco as well. Do our cities (where they claim to support) already have fiber optic cables laid out?
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An email to all his employees and worded like a blog post. It was expected that this will be leaked.
> There are people that spend most of their available hours staring at screens of graphs while trading various tokens in order to achieve the highest score... but of course we call them professionals not addicts.

Not really, we call them workaholics (e.g. work-addicts) if they're so compelled to work that they can establish boundaries between it and the rest of their lives.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/workaholic
Found the exact same thing regarding the community cookbooks. We do use some though, it depends on the complexity and how well they work. I've either written some from scratch, taking pointers from the community ones or forked them to make them simpler and better suit our needs. Pull requests have been made where it makes sense.

Glad to hear we're not the only ones who found the community ones not perfect for every need.
I don’t disagree with your characterization of many ICOs.

But... is there anything wrong with that? It’s a junk investment, but aren’t junk investments just as valid as strong investments? If my gift card for an unreleased product trades for pennies on the dollar... isn’t that still a valid investment?
I agree, though I still regret they ended up overpowering counterspells by allowing them to target any previous spell in the stack (interrupts could not do this - they had the interrupt stack).

However Hearthstone has no such interplay - likely because it allows an easier functioning AI and interplay in a normatively turn-based game online is difficult.

I think we agree?
FWIR sex/porn addiction is a suspect concept for many psychologists just like "masturbation addiction" is. One wonders whether such ideas are based in psychology vs. social attitudes of certain people similar to the attitudes those who think "masturbation addiction" is a thing.
I don't think erlang procs are fibers, they are allotted a certain timeslice and if the instructions for the function exceed the timeslice the function is preempted and the VM comes back to it later, it's also preempted if it blocks on io or waiting for a message, of course.