skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One" person is two, and they made valid points that you refused to acknowledge.

> Red light cameras or speeding cameras on a few areas !== all encompassing surveillance that implements 100% compliance with the laws.

Who said there would be all-encompassing surveillance, or that 100% compliance with the laws would be enforced? That's a straw man that you created.
I think the fact that more and more money is being invested in index funds, and index like funds. It feels like to me in the next 10 years something has to break.
If a pub or cafe had microphones on all the tables and a proprietor who knew the intimate details of every conversation that ever happened there I don’t think it would have a lot of customers.

I think you’re suggesting that the free speech argument is overblown when it comes to online discussion forums, and I agree with that - they can, should and do set house rules.

The problem that Facebook faces is that it has become bigger than government, and so people expect it to obey similar rules regarding the protection of free speech, but Facebook does not have the power to make actual laws, so it is not required to protect free speech on its platform. Free speech is intended to protect democracy from governments that would enact laws to limit dissent. It is not relevant to Facebook.

The argument that a product whose business model is based on artificially weighting communications between disparate groups for profit and engagement should protect peoples right to inject whichever provocative messages they want into it in the name of free speech seems like a perversion of the principal to me, because the result is an erosion of democracy and human rights as we have seen.

They absolutely should ban people for posting stuff that doesn’t align with their brand, and in a free market those people can find another forum for discussion with more permissive rules. Preferably an open, decentralised network that does not rely on ad revenue or have any incentive to automatically promote the growth of groups of algorithmically selected like-minded individuals.

And yes, I am ignoring all the good things about FB here. I don’t believe Facebook has amounted to a net good for society, however good its intentions.
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That's not entirely true, and that's basically what all modern games do: switching buffers is an expensive context switch, so texture atlasses became the norm over a decade ago, as did stuffed vertex buffers.
https://github.com/ramyhardan/proof-of-existence/blob/master...
Because it's all angularjs. And angular is slow
A single step that reduces costs by 5% is a good thing to do, but it isn't going to fix costs all by itself.
> ... Jeffrey Towson, professor of investment at the Peking University Guanghua School of Management, adding that the US has no mechanism to support a top-down model.

This...does not seem correct? Many technologies have spillover effects which end up being non-rivalrous and non-excludable. As a result the private sector under-provides key technologies that otherwise are net welfare enhancing. Governments, even those with free markets know this and routinely step in, in the form of top-down subsidies or what have you. In the US, we have DARPA, NIH, SBIR, and numerous other federal laboratories that end up engaging with the private sector on a delegated or cooperative basis.

What am I missing? In China, where patent protection and intellectual property enforcement are not as strong as those in the US, there is an even greater incentive for governments to subsidize R&D.
It's been a year+ since I've done any work w/ either. At the time IFTTT was 'consumer-y' and Zapier was 'business-y'. By which I mean, I could wire together meaningful workflows in Zapier across multiple SaaSs inserting my own javascript to clean things up along the way. At the time IFTTT wasn't as developer friendly.
Something like...

>We're not spying on you, we're learning your behaviors to offer a better experience!

Okay I guess that makes sense, I like when stuff is designed well around what I actually want from it, this will help in that, cool!

>We're not spying on you, we're just going to report you to the police if our ML algorithm detects a child screaming for their life

Wow okay, that kinda seems like crossing a line, but I guess it makes sense and is going to be good to protect kids

>We're not spying on you, we're just going to lower your reputation on x/y/z service if we hear racial slurs

Uh, I get where that's coming from, but this is clearly spying. Well, a private company can do what they like I guess, and its understandable, who other than racists wouldn't want less racists online.

>We're not spying on you, we're just going to let your insurance company know if we hear you coughing

Woah okay what the fuck

>We're not spying on you, we're just going to block you from x/y/z service if your political views differ from our CEO and put out a warning to services provided by other companies.

Hey what the - I mean, wow what a great update. goes in seperate private room WHAT THE FUCK I NEED TO GET RID OF THIS

>We're spying on you, we're just going to arrest you if you will not comply. Don't worry about what law you're charged under, we just blackmailed the police and those who tried to protest got arrested, our company policy is your local law now.

What a great update, thanks awesome [super evil company name here] developers and all employees, what great work they do! internally oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god

Of course this goes way to the extreme, but that's my point, this is the kind of seed that makes that stuff possible. Doesn't mean its absolutely evil, but the potential is there.
"The nation" isn't just swing states.
Who doesn't have an incentive to mug someone on the street? So, what stops them? Morality. Law. Responsibility. Reputation.

All of this applies to companies. Morality comes from shared culture and values. Laws like GDPR help. Reputation is a huge one; if companies want any sort of meaningful enterprise contracts, especially with PII/PHI, data privacy and security is paramount.
No moat? Of course it has a moat! So far Lyft has raised $1.5 BILLION dollars in order to compete [1]. Capital requirements are absolutely a barrier to entry and protect their position.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/12/05/lyft-gets-1-5-billion-funding-...
That's exactly my point. Your absolutisms and generalities discriminate against many individuals.
I've been following Zapier from the sidelines for a while, and from early on I was fascinated about the way they managed to leverage the network effect to grow.

In retrospect it seems obvious, but they probably would't be where they are today if they hadn't built it as an open platform (for partners developing their own zaps) from the beginning.

Actually met two of the founders (Wade and Bryan) in mountain view when they were based in the YC offices (5+ years ago). Sometimes it's easy to think someone's just lucky, but in this case I think it's pure focus, talent, and a great understanding of the acquisition sources that got them here.

Looking forward to see where they'll be in another 5 years.
In my view the question of whether the law is unbiased and “fair” is more important to resolve than whether accidentally erasing a phone seized by law enforcement counts as spoiling evidence.

There’s no point arguing that storing a vat of milk in the sun counts as the law enforcement impounding incorrectly or the suspect deliberately arranging evidence to destroy itself, when the crux of the matter is that the defendant is a black woman in Alabama so has no chance of a fair trial regardless how airtight the case might seem.
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Yes, well, now that Rust is aiming for first class support for embedded by the end of 2018, I expect there to be more pressure to find a good solution for bitfields. For that target audience, many will consider the current situation a show stopper.
Sutter is pretty good though, it's nice to have comprehensive care in the same EMR. Kaiser is a competitor too and is actually the model the OP denigrates as UPMC at reasonable costs. Stanford is also very good especially if you actually get sick and need comprehensive care.
I'm an Amazon new grad. We only have 2 standard salary bands in the US - one for premium regions and one for everywhere else. I know this only because I explicitly asked recruiting and they brought it up in the midpoint intern brown-bag.
Dang I'm drinking a sour as I type this...
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privilege doesn't need to be all encompassing. I'd argue that just being white has some inherent privilege no matter how poor you are. Such as interactions with police. that doesn't mean you automatically do better in life, and you can be less privileged in others areas. white privilege =/= wealth
Amen, 100% this. Same methods here, same success rate.

I just had a long conversation this afternoon with a friend who manages a tech recruiter team and she was telling me how frustrating it is working for cash-strapped early stage startups who pass on perfectly talented & experienced candidates open to taking a salary hit - because they, in their inexperience, cannot fathom how to interview without subjecting candidates to a series of dehumanized and impossible puzzles that are only solvable by people who have dedicated themselves to puzzle solving.

Meanwhile established companies with deeper pockets, such as banks, scoop up these candidates to do humdrum back office software work because they use tried and true interviewing methods.. like talking to candidates.

I attribute most of the issue to inexperience on the hiring managers' part and pressure to hire only the "best of the best" from leadership. Coupled with developers' personal insecurities, lack of education on the fundamentals of management, echo chamber noise around code test culture and the incessant desire of engineers to abstract away any human elements of their work, the process has devolved into a toxic mess when it comes to recruitment and interviewing.

Hopefully the situation can be fixed at some point. But until then, I'll keep on scooping those 10xers by trading war stories over the phone, thank you very much...
For a driver, there would be problems getting it to run correctly in 2004 already, since the internal Linux kernel API used by drivers is not stable and changes very rapidly. Unless the driver has been upstreamed, because developers updating the kernel internal APIs also update all the in-tree drivers at the same time.

About leveraging one interface or the other: when you use the glibc interface, you are also using the Linux interface behind it, so a change in either can affect your program. On the other hand, if you are using the Linux interface directly instead of going through the C library, chances are you are doing something unusual, which increases the risk of it breaking by accident. And there are some things which exist only on the glibc interface, like nameserver lookups (getaddrinfo), user database lookups (getpwnam/getpwuid), and many more.
I love how life in Tokyo is so middle-class and family oriented compared to US cities like SF and NYC.
I'm talking specifically about Amazon, which has a presence in all 3 of the cities I mentioned. Also yes, $145.5k total compensation at Amazon with a Bachelors (I'm not sure if this is competitive though)
Also start revoking lines and blocking calls from known telemarketers!
Total taxes are likely to be about $3500 a month or so.
I don't mean to be cheeky, but I think the owner of the WSJ is paying them.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118589043953483378
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-02/murdoch-s...
We are talking about a man (and his company) who began with a site that, per Wikipedia, "allowed visitors to compare two female student pictures side-by-side and let them decide who was hot or not." Imagine being subjected to such childish humiliation. Of course I also did stupid and childish things as a young adult. But I never thought things like this:

"I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive."

That is just mean. To me it reveals his vision from the beginning was to prey on people's worst instincts.

Marc Zuckerberg is, I fear (because of his enormous power), a man devoid of empathy. This is the root of Facebook, and that is the problem with Facebook.
With more parties, new/different ideas have more ways to infiltrate the political decision-making process. With two parties, ideas stagnate unless they are adopted by the overly-powerful heads of those parties.
When you decide to change out the filter I recommend using cheap painters or kraft tape instead of duct tape. I found that painters tape removes easily and tends not to leave adhesive behind.
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archive.org actually has a form for "archive it now", right there on https://archive.org/web/. They also address using their data in court proceedings in the FAQ. So I think they do have that use case in mind.

Of course they'd be stupid to offer any guarantees without payment. That's what their service https://archive-it.org is for. Only for organisations, unfortunately.

In regard to respecting robots.txt: I would consider any organisation running a bot and not respecting robots.txt as somewhat shady. ignoring it could even have consequences for admissibility in court.
The title here is curiously different from the source:

NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job

vs

NY taxpayers to pay $48,000 per Amazon HQ job

I don't think those are equivalent statements.
> You can't remove the need for trust - that need is inherently beyond the reach of math.

That hides more than it reveals. Yes, trust is beyond math.

Measuring value is also beyond math. However there are ways of measuring value that aren't amenable to math (eg, how much you like a diamond) and ways of measuring value that are amenable to math (how much you are willing to pay for the diamond). The first worked method fine in a subsistence economy. The second way is how our current economy works. We are not completely and utterly dependent on being able to measure and transfer value with math. If we could not do it capitalism would not exist, nor would our society or way of life.

And so it is with trust. You can trust a banker not to embezzle your money because he has a reputation, mouths to feed, or he's your brother, or he will be perused by government agents armed with big guns, or any number of the other reasons we do now - none of which are easily quantified. Or you can trust him because he can't undo his decisions without corrupting a while pile of others and do to that he had to expend the net energy output of New Zealand for days. One is amenable to being manipulated with math, and one isn't.

Because the trust provided by crypto currencies can be quantified and manipulated with math we have smart contracts. Smart contracts mean the example you gave about trusting someone to deliver the goods means a computer can be the escrow agent and it is all done automatically the 99 times in 100 there is no dispute.

Yes, the OP was wrong in that crypto currencies allow us to replace trust with math. But only a little wrong. Crypto currencies allow us to manipulate and transfer trust with math, which is not so different.
There are at least 3 locations for on-demand web archiving:

https://web.archive.org/save/https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://archive.is/
https://webrecorder.io/

Probably some of the other sites supported by this extension have on-demand archiving too:

https://github.com/dessant/view-page-archive

For archiving on your own computer, this LWN article is pretty interesting:

https://lwn.net/Articles/766374/
> I’ve been working in a hedge fund as a quant dev for more than 10 years. Before that I worked in 3 banks.

I guess you know too much about it, then.

> “this seems to work, but we don’t really know why, so we probably shouldn’t use it”

The same could be said of human intelligence. With that attitude, you can just throw out machine learning altogether. Most models are not interpretable. It's too many variables. That's how the world works though, there are too many variables for you to ever understand cause and effect at any broader scale. That's especially true with finance, where models have relatively little predictive power anyway. I'm surprised to hear an "appeal to reason" coming out of that corner, of all places.
The ACA market place is supposed to reduce those costs.. The competition for patients by the insurance carriers who then negotiate rates with hospitals etc... Having more customers is not a prelude to higher prices. So your argument is bogus.
Not offended. It's true. I don't care enough to make a change. This is partly because I use such a small amount of palm oil--maybe 200lbs annually--so my impact is minimal. Deforestation from palm oil production has been in the back of my mind for years. So far, my customers don't care as far as I can observe. I'm glad to see a big company taking a stand and informing consumers in the process. It's making me think about changing. Removing palm oil is not an option in my mind, but I might pay up for sustainable palm oil.
Some journals explicitly expect academic association but it is rare

a lot of journals implicitly expect academic association

often though, including in technical engineering from my experience, it is not for people from industry to submit articles.

Basically..start by reading other articles in a journal you are interested in submitting to and getting a feel for how they work. Figure out what sections you will need to have, what prior work you can reference. Have you ever written something similar? Are you interested in publishing the model as a theoretical construction? If so, why does one not already exist? how confident are you in your math? Are you interested in publishing an implementation of the model?

It is worth noting that AIAA and arXiv are TOTALLY different beasts. arXiv is a pre-print repository, that is NOT a peer reviewed journal. On the other hand, AIAA publishes multiple journals with different specific areas. For AIAA, how

What is the value/relevance of the paepr? Not just...novelty...journals get hundreds of 'novel' submissions. What is the value of a model of drag in incompressible flow? can you cite others making that argument?

As someone who regularly reviews (although less now because I won't review paywalled articles anymore) a fair number of journal articles, the reason most get rejected is lack of adherence to field norms and poor writing. Norms aren't god, but they exist for a reason and speak to/provide evidence of credibility in what you are saying. Poor writing...well academic writing is HARD. everything you are doing contributes to building an argument and providing evidence for your key point. It has to be situated, claims have to be supported, references made, etc. There are many problems with academic publishing...and these issues can be applied in exclusionary ways, but they are generally useful. Often, people think that you need some crzy high minded writing for journal articles...you don't. What you are seeing is field norms operationalized. In a way it is a highly practical cargo cult. Each field has a ton of knowledge and needs a way to short hand all of it to their disciplinary peers.

Happy to answer more specific questions or similar off list if you want to get into specifics.
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Not only WSJ, but a lot of anti-google articles by other publishers are doing rounds of YN and most of them get upvoted right here.

The only balanced coverage I find is nytimes. Sure, they are critical of Google when there is a reason to be, but they aren't printing them either because somebody paid them to do it, or for hype train click-baits.

Also, they are the only ones who has balls to call out Apple.
I'm an infrastructure engineer (and love it), so I'd only consider joining in that role.

That said, I don't recommend a company whose product is something you're against. Yes, you're not directly working on it but I do enjoy my job a lot more knowing that I'm helping product developers build cool stuff. I think it'd be a lot harder to do that if I wasn't proud of what they were working on, by extension.
Why do these ride companies need so much capital? They don't buy cars; the drivers aren't employees. They're a mobile app with a big backend. So why do they need more capital than, say, a game company?
> Luvoir is expected to launch in the mid-2030s

For others who are not familiar with the NASA studies, "expected" is probably too strong a word and "proposed" is probably more accurate. LUVOIR is one of four flagship mission concepts which NASA has provided with seed money. They will all be evaluated during the coming 2020 Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The recommendations from that survey will then be used as guidance for NASA. So if the Decadal Survey ranks LUVOIR as a top priority (the missions are all so large that it is unlikely more than one would be funded), and if they meet their proposed timeline, then it would launch in the mid-2030s. So it's not yet a given that LUVOIR will happen (another mission could be more highly ranked), and the timeline should be taken with a grain of salt.
The point is that these are all examples of negative choices that consumers choose to take because it’s easier to accept short-term personal gain while causing long-term, depersonalized, harm.
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I think its harder to some extent, but you can always find a niche to make significant improvements. If you think that everything is already done and there is nothing else left, that just means you're spending enough time on experimenting and researching.

As far as investment concerned, I'm personally a self-funded solo founder. This is a very hard and stressful path. I'd love to get an investment with a reasonable deal, but for me that's a little bit early. I probably start working in that area once I get few paying customers.

If you haven't yet already done so, read the "Lean Startup" book. I'm by no means associated with it. It was very useful to me, and I think this should the very first think for entrepreneurs to do. Will be probably best $15 spent on amazon.
It’s difficult to show how much profit you had in Q2 2018, let’s say. Hence the fiction qualifier.
Azure's UX is terrible. They have this weird sliding, Metro UI that takes a lot of learning to figure out. Every startup that I have talked to has hated using Azure. Even the pricing is so hard to figure out. There is some weird intermediate conversion when looking up the price for managed databases.

Microsoft is known to throw brilliant discounts into bundling cloud along with its other Office stuff. Not sure if they are using this as leverage.

In India, I know for a fact that the banks that are moving to the cloud are doing it on Azure, because Microsoft is not afraid of heavy compliances. It's hard to speak to a human in Google Cloud.
A powerful NASA telescope looked for ‘Oumuamua and didn’t find it
While this program sounds bad, it seems like something like it could have prevented this from occurring:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/25/6475315...

Genuine question, how do you think governments should regulate this market?
They're arguing for the removal of regulations in a general sense, not just specific problematic regulations. The solution being proposed is incorrect, regardless of whether the problem has been correctly identified.