skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a short hop to banks (also private companies!) asking Facebook for those numbers, and it's not a stretch for the government to do the same.
UBI is quite popular in some libertarian circles. In theory, it would have minimal administrative overhead and distort the market less than the present regime of labor laws.
> More alarmingly, according to a paper in the Lancet, more than 90% of policymakers believe that “personal motivation” is “a strong or very strong influence on the rise of obesity”.

This is the "calories in, calories out" meme. It's very bad.
I know the foregone conclusion is "net neutrality good, White House evil" but I'm unconvinced, honestly. I feel like if leftists/statists support something, it's probably generally bad for me, at least that's how it has always worked out for me. Also, I generally like the EFF, but I feel like EFF is controlled oppposition. Barlow was working with the CIA before he died.

Which side is trying to eliminate free speech on the Internet circa 2018? The corporatists have this unholy alliance with the leftists is what I see going on there. Censorship on private services is at an all time high.

I look across to Europe with their laws that criminalize speech and wonder if we really want that here in the states. I don't. I don't see how that is a defensible liberal position to even have. As a liberal, I welcome disagreement. Censorship is the health of the state, along with propaganda. But the only antidote for propaganda is more speech, not less.
It represents a gerrymandered "50%" of the population.
The best thing to do is probably to buy high quality clothes and keep them for a long time. Don't buy t-shirts (especially printed t-shirts) that wear out quickly and get disposed of. Buy shirts and take care of them. Don't wash them often. Wash then minimally when they become dirty. They'll last you many years this way.
I've heard many libertarians who are in favor of universal basic income, because it solves many of the problems that current welfare systems introduce. Also, there are some who are in favor of universal healthcare. There are indeed a wide range of views in the libertarian spectrum.
Hah, I guarantee it.

The majority of this forum will think from a first world perspective.

Remember that per capita consumption of plastic in India is FAR lower than the first world average.

And then remember that no politician in the world can be elected, unless he promises growth - which directly means more consumption of plastic wrapped goods.

We haven't even seen peak plastic.

In only part jest, I think our best hope is a plastic eating bacterium, which will also mean that plastic ceases to be the wonder compound it is.
It's also worth noting that Trump actually lost by the (small-d) democratic measure: the popular vote. What gave him the election was the Electoral College, an institution designed precisely to "protect" against "tyranny of the majority."

So if anything, Trump's election is a point in favor of more democracy, not less.
I had a kid a couple months ago, and now pretty much all of my Google News recommended stories are about kids near me being murdered.
>Instead it was that windows/IE8 was sending data on search terms/clicks on google from their users' machines to Microsoft.

Only if they had Bing's IE search bar installed and enabled.
Bing and Google get their search results by scraping websites that other people own. For bing, google is just one of the website they scrape.

So probably not illegal - though it definitely looks bad.
> Also, why do the state dem AG's always suing to enforce new laws instead of the legislation process, it seems like the new way to pass laws is to get a judge to give it to you. We have legal weed from legislation now.

I agree with your position, but it's not just Dems. This is the main point of my comment also, this should be done with legislation.
Yep 404 to me too. Slashdotted perhaps?
My impression from reading the article was that this wasn't a choice of a gao tree monoculture over better methods, but actually a choice between this monoculture and widespread slash-and-burn [0]. See also, [1].

It may not be the best from an ecological standpoint, but it's certainly better than the alternative, and as you said, has the advantage of being well-accepted among the farmers in the area.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
I agree with this also. Very rare
Also interesting is who the Representatives represent when supporting the abolishment of NN.
My point isn't that cloning is easy. More that it has already been done multiple times and Slack has very little lock-in. And enterprise software has less network effect. Our IT department could dictate use of Microsoft Teams next month and it would probably be fine.
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I think there is a huge difference between reading fiction and nonfiction. One is tied to reality, the other is a socially accepted temporary delusion. I say this as someone who loves fiction in all forms. I wish I had only read nonfiction growing up.
so what makes a company a target for activist investors?

what are various steps a company can do to avoid being a target?

Are shares still held by the founder an important factor? Is it realistic for the founder to hold shares looking that far down the road for the day an activist investor starts evaluating their company as a target?

When activist investor look at Amazon, is the number of shares personally held by Bezos a relevant factor to their analysis?
I'd put a lot more effort and expect far more value out of a private, vetted startup school then I would say, this response.
I have personal experience with this back before the 2008 crash.

I owned a house along with someone else, an okay house, bought it for $115,000, held onto it for 5 years, until it appreciated to $350,000 in those hurly-burly days.

At some point, and I forgot why it came up, we needed to figure out who owned the loan. And we never did. It the morass of paper work and nearly fraudulent claims by various people who claimed to own the loan, we stopped paying on the loan. We literally had more than one company claim to own it at one point. What was weird is it was kind of a slow burn, even after we stopped paying. No one really seemed to care as much as you'd think $900 a month would make you care.

In the end, we sold the house, never paid off the remaining debt, and split the cash. I told my lawyer I'd hold onto savings to cover the debt if they ever came back and could legally claim it.. It's been 11 years. Nothing yet.
I bet your graph theory professor thought otherwise!
Isn't that more of a gossip/sensesionlism, rather than bias? Given the track record of the guy, it even seems plausible. Besides if a senior aide to the most important person in the country says that the president said racially explosive stuff, isn't that worthy of a report?

You label her crazy. May be you are right. But the same crazy person was the inside person for couple of years and was also paid $180K. Sure it makes them opportunist/immoral/backstabber. Crazy? I don't think so.
You should see a doctor if it doesn't go away :-)
The Senate actually came up with a resolution to reinstate NN but Paul Ryan refuses to bring it up for a vote in the House. So there is your legislative bottleneck. If it passes the house and the senate, of course trump will sign it and take credit for it. Not a difficult task there.
Maybe in the past, improving the economic situation would have been enough, given enough time.

Today, Hamas and the Israeli right wing leadership prevent any chance of advancement.

Now it's possible to see the right wing leadership changes, but it won't be easy. It's much harder to see Hamas, a religious extreme based dictatorship, change, without some drastic action, be it an internal revolution or a specific type of war from Israel, aimed at toppling down Hamas. And it's really hard to believe Hamas will change of it's own - extreme religions don't do that.

Both actions would be extremely bloody. A revolution often creates a new type of mess, and how the hell do you start a revolution? And an external war, if you could convince the Israeli public(a big if), even if it's for the Palestinians benefit, is a pretty terrible way to create the necessary goodwill.
Cable companies are the bulk of the ISPs in the US and they are subject to local municipal regulation in return for right-of-way access. In more conservative parts of the country this power is/was used to ban channels deemed unfit for community standards, like MTV. These same communities could impose net neutrality on the cable ISPs if they wanted.
thanks ridewinter :)
Excuse my complete and total ignorance here - but is this essentially a 'quick deploy' php instance? if so, what might a none-Google alternative be?

I've only ever 'rolled my own', on small-scale virtual or shared servers, but I've got an upcoming project I could do with trying to install on something completely seperate - something like this might fit the bill.

Or not!

Thanks.
"carbon forestry" as it is known doesn't just sequester carbon in the lumber, soil is a significant sink dominated by fungal processes. Soils are also very valuable to biodiversity and potentially commercially valuable ecosystem services.
It looks like this is too underpowered to get anything out of this. The 95% CI is 1.02-1.7. Considering that the great majority of statistical tests in studies like this have null results (but usually aren't reported), there is a very good, possibly more than 50% chance, that this is bogus.

I've basically stopped paying attention to studies like this. In replication studies in medicine and psychology, these kind of fishing expeditions have a very low chance of being successfully replicated.
My initial impression of the product was that it was a way to see which packages you depend on are looking for support in terms of funding/support. On a non-technical level this would be really good information for us to know because it would really help us make better open source investments.

On a technical level we do the best we can to get to know all the package dependencies and the various other things that we have to be aware of such as security and license issues (we are aware that not everyone does this). But honestly even when you decide to take this seriously it is still hard. Because of transitive dependencies and long chains of dependencies in the libraries you use, it is hard to be able to have a high confidence that you know everything you depend on. Essentially this requires tooling of some form or another to have any chance. With our in-house code we know what our direct dependencies are and we usually can track down most of what we need fairly quickly because we control our build environments. However when we go consult for a clients who have large codebases that we have never seen before it takes a while to track everything down. Sometimes if people have customized build systems this can be really hard to do. We have our own static analysis tools to help with this too.

Even without all the online package management services it's still a hard problem, consider the case of the humble makefile (http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/architecture/recursive_make.pd...) Add in dependencies on remote computers and this gets harder. Take for example Python with it's huge number of different ways of installing a package, we have some tooling to check things but it's probably not 100% accurate because of the various ways in which Python packaging is broken exacerbated by the various ways in which people have worked around these shortcomings in the past. Pipenv has helped with the lock files but not everything is using those. The power of good tools for package analysis is clear and we use whatever we can. I hope you will see that this is actually a hard problem in a business sense as it costs substantial amounts of time for a business to create tooling for these things and the customer is likely unable to assess the benefits of this directly. We have an obligation and a desire to bring value to our customers and this means we will sometimes have to prioritize a 100% coverage of package information less than other objectives if the client demands it (for example fixing mission critical bugs may be a higher priority). In an ideal world we would love to know every aspect of the stack that we run on but as time goes on the increasing complexity of the systems we use makes this harder.
I also wonder why they did simple case-control matching rather than propensity scores. The number of unobserved confounders you could imagine is high in an analysis like this.
A random slur would be 'Libertarians are unclefuckers'. But it's not controversial that the fringier extremes of American political movements often end up in some pretty dark, often white supremacist places. Ron Paul had a crazy newsletter and a weird, Trump-like personality cult. You mentioned NR and TNR. NR was founded, in part, to keep the anti-semites and other crazies out of respectable conservatism. Quite a few of the things TNR has published over the years are coming under renewed scrutiny of late as it becomes less acceptable to give bigotry a pass as contrarianism.

Is any of this a particularly fruitful criticism of the coherent political philosophies of Libertarianism, Conservatism and Jerkoff Contrarianism†? I agree with you that, for the most part, it isn't. But it's hardly a 'random slur', either.

†That's what I'm deciding to call (with love!) the coherent political philosophy of TNR.
How often does CNN go the other way and say "Trump is right" in an attempt to seem relevant?

Still, perhaps we can agree that, clickbait or bias, it's untrustworthy.

(And Betteridge's Law wouldn't apply to the statement in the first headline, "NFL ratings are down again this season.")
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What a bunch of nonsense. China is responding to it's people's concerns. If the US had a functioning democracy, it would also have dramatically reduced carbon emissions.
It requires some work but they can be beat
Interesting idea, thanks for the link.

I think the direction is right -- the solution probably lies in deriving scarcity from intelligence unique to the brain (for now).

Both brains and computers can perform pattern recognition. Computers are better at this task because they can be scaled and brains cannot. Therefore, this form of intelligence lies in the domain of financial capital. It can be abstracted through the cost of performing arithmetic operations (Proof-of-Work).

Brains can perform abstract thinking (answering the question why), computers cannot. If we could create a metric tied to the ability, it would be nested in the human capital.

I'm skeptical in regards to the practical application proposed in the thread. Even if this is robust, it'd be incredibly wasteful. The whole point of PoW is that it's moving computation from the brain onto a chip. This would go the other way around.
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That experiment would have always failed. Check my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17810832
For the moment, unfortunately it appears this second generation also lacks some of the great parts of the older platform. For example, with the shiny new GAE Standard Node Beta, you can't declaratively put your app behind authentication, you can't access the (extraordinarily useful) work queue feature from the older GAE, and probably more I have forgotten about for the moment.

I hope that stuff is missing just temporarily - there is a lot of genius in the original GAE.
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When you signed the loan for the mortgage, you made a business transaction with the bank. You knew full well the terms of the mortgage and the consequences of not paying it. You also should have known that the bank could sell the mortgage. They explained it clearly on all six mortgages I’ve signed for over the years.

But, I also have no moral qualms with “strategic defaults”. The bank also knew what they were signing.
Here's a crosspost if the original isn't working! https://dev.to/aspittel/a-web-design-crash-course-from-one-n...
There's a difference in a search engine scraping a site just to link to that site. And scraping a site to claim its content as your own.
You can facilitate git rewrites, but it's not computationally expensive (or expensive in any sense) to do that. So it's easy to erase history and start over. A proof-of-work approach (or proof-of-whatever, as long as the incentives are aligned) imposes a cost to rewriting history. And if you believe that there's some relationship between economic power and truth/goodness (debatable, but it's a tenet of most of Western societies), then creating a cost, even a wasteful one, is a good thing.

If existing proven technologies have a way of making rewrites hard (not reputationally hard but economically hard), then I'd appreciate the education. I'm not aware of such a power.
I’m really disappointed at the lack of critical thinking in the comments here. People are just accepting at face value what Microsoft says. Microsoft. I really must be living in some kind of parallel universe.
How do you use Jupyter for Deep Learning? I can only think about prototyping stuff, but not for training a large dataset (that doesn't fit in memory) for days.
The Danish PM itself said their government is not socialist: https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-...
Yeah, the spatial aspect of books is definitely a factor in why its easier for you (and just about everyone probably) to learn from physical texts than current electronic texts.

For myself, though, it's just not resource efficient to use physical copies of all the technical documentation I read. For example, I'm learning Vulkan right now, and there's just 0% chance I'm going to print out 1300+ pages of documentation that's liable to change a few times a year in subtle ways.

Then again, just thinking about it now, maybe specifically printing out just the diffs when the spec changes could make it easier to stay up to date?
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I've used https://getlightpaper.com/ (MacOS) for a bit but it had too many feature for me, I simply don't edit that many documents to make use of tabs, directory tree and such.
This is false. It's not abandoned. There are many commits per day and that wouldn't happen without a dedicated team [1]. There are frequent releases with impressive-looking changes [2].

But this does look like a team that's focused on the needs of Google's internal customers? An external-focused project would have better docs and do more outreach.

[1] https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/commits/master

[2] https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Releases
Also the election was decided by ~70k votes in 3 states. All that matters is who was convinced to stay home or submit a blank ballot.
I laughed.

The Chinese government has the accurate version of all data, what is published to the world is false and has different purposes
You can use Kotlin Native to do that — if your app doesn't depend on anything JVM-specific (apart from the small subset of basic things reimplemented in Native), of course.
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No, the only real way out of this situation is for Israeli government to actually get serious about making a deal along what has been proposed before.

Settlement building has gotten so bad in the W.Bank that any chance of a Palestinian State is close to death. Take a look at this map and see for yourself. https://www.ochaopt.org/content/west-bank-access-restriction...

or read about their effect:

https://www.btselem.org/topic/settlements

If the PA collapses, Israel will have a disaster on it's hands whereby it (openly) goes full apartheid or it goes to a Federal system whereby it no longer has Jewish majority.

On the International Law question,"the position that the 4th Geneva Convention does apply to the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights is supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross, UN bodies, and the International Court of Justice."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm
https://web.archive.org/web/20151029152324/http://ericleads....

https://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/crockford’s-2014-object-creat...

Once you start doing this, most other languages become obsolete. Because you avoid most of the problems of JS that things like elm try to fix, while maintaining the freedom and also writing a lot less code because you don’t have to write a “recipe” for half the things you write.

The disadvantage of JS is that it’s actually going in the wrong direction. Class is an attempt to copy C-style languages, and that really what you don’t want to do, because as soon as you use inheritance, the “this” keyword or “new” you’re basically doing JAVA/C#/whatever with all the downfalls of JS.
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As a developer, who spends a lot of time on my MBP with a Linux VM, it's the updated Mini I'm most interested in.

Apple has pretty much destroyed the MBP, due to bad design decisions (keyboard, touchbar) and bad QA. A reasonable way to go for me would be a suitably beefed up Mini along with a Linux laptop.
An interesting article, but the whole thing had a whiff of "paying income tax is unconstitutional", complete with the protagonist coming off as just a tad unhinged. IANAL, and even as an amateur one I wouldn't begin to claim to argue the merits of the law. But none of the folks mentioned in the article garner any sympathy from me. Banks weren't screwing anyone, AFAICT. Folks just couldn't make the payment, and found a loophole. Hell, one person had mortgages on eleven houses in San Diego. Hmm, could it be that they were just a bit over-extended, and not victims of the evil banking system?

Now, I'm not hatin' on anyone mentioned in the article. Overall, I'm about as neutral as I would be watching two people I have no interest in have a fist fight, because I have no great love for banks, either. And if they succeed, good for them. But the state of ID, as pointed out by another commentor, seems to put this in the "don't pay income tax" bucket as well.
Actual libertarians who think through the philosophy are as you describe.

Many of the casual fans discover the philosophy after reading Ayn Rand or something similar. The noisemakers on AM radio often claim to be libertarian.
Maybe because it’s cheaper than being regulated like other broadcast media is, a likely response to non-action to widely harmful content.
oh, I was talking about the racism.
At a superficial level, it sounds like China's social credit system. [1] Hopefully booking a flight never requires one to log into Facebook.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
How would this not be a good thing? Facebook and Google probably should face more public scrutiny, not less.
This is probably how it is across the EU. Why antagonize your customers unnecessarily by forcing them to jump through hoops when your product fails in less than 2 years? That just leads to bad PR and reduced customer satisfaction and thus lower trust and sales.

They benefit in the perceived sense of reliability of a 2 year warranty. Why buy a product if it's going to fail in 6 months and you can't get it replaced, when the competitor is more likely to treat you fairly.
Agreed. F# + Rider + Ubuntu is my daily driver.
Not OP but I too got the acceptance, then rejection, then "Everyone accepted" email.

That "everyone" count according to the email is over 15,000. The original acceptance # according to email was just 25 applicants (out of over 15,000)

It says that we don't have access to advisor, so I'm not sure what's different from the previous rejection email which said the same thing i.e. no access to advisor, but that I can "audit" the course...