skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> realtors don't add much value and will eventually no longer be part of most transactions.

I agree with the first part of your statement, but getting rid of them will be tougher than expected. In my area many realtors won't show listings of houses that are not listed thought another agent. So you go with an agent yourself in order to get the traffic to sell your house. Realtors are not going away without a long protracted fight.
It's a Russian newspaper-in-exile. It wasn't hard to find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meduza#Censorship
There are several possibilities. It could be that when you don't catch all defectors in such a system the remaining defectors reduce your ability to catch future defectors. It could be that the power structure, and associated politics, of the group mean that defecting is a move that increases your relative fitness - in terms of the power that you will wield within the group and over its moral character - dramatically (imagine if the person investigating a complaint is a defector, or someone performing public interest tests when deciding whether to prosecute has some incentive to prosecute regardless....) It could just be that most people within the group are in fact good, but that the systems that allow them to publicise and correct malign actors within the system are not present, or are very ineffective.

It seems to me that you only require that the majority of the group be in need of corrective action, and be completely unwilling to do so themselves, if you think that the group is ruled by a majority... If you believe that power between the members of the group, is roughly evenly distributed, and can be as easily turned to any end. I don't believe that's the case. I believe that the moral character of the group taken as a whole is uncertain, but that a few very powerful people establishing the character of the system are operating under fairly perverse incentive structures... and that there's no readily apparent way to get rid of them.

That is to say, that there is no candidate you can vote for where your vote translates into meaningful action in removing them. That, if you were an individual policeman, there is no action you could take there to remove them either. That even if the majority of the group were good, there are problems of detection and power disparities that they would have to act in concert to overcome (perhaps even on a national level)...

That as such the chance of anything significant to being done to curtail abuses of the system, before they can grow and become the nature of the system, (if they are not already,) are very low. You don't need everyone in the police to be corrupt to silence a potentially problematic civilian. A few people in the right place, that you can get to do what you want them to, will do perfectly well. It doesn't even need to be the case that they're evil if you can feed them the wrong intelligence. The people who turn up to arrest the person might honestly believe that they're a criminal.

They may even be right. Everyone's guilty of something these days and selective enforcement would be a fantastic weapon if you were a hypothetical evil master-mind type. You arrange for someone to be looked more closely at, and they'll be effectively eliminated even by people who are trying to impartially uphold the law. You get to eliminate your problems while thumping your chest about how impure the world is and how you need more power to protect it....

Not everyone needs to be evil for the system as a whole to become abominable, even incorrectably so (at least just going by number of good vs bad participants.)
Well, they're (usually) about taking over someone else's investment. In theory, each share should be priced at the present value of future dividends, all the way forward to the company's eventual liquidation -- if market price is below your estimate of this, you should be buying; if above, you should be selling.
It's a funnel. You can have many top tier researchers working as postdocs for top tier labs, but when it comes time to start your own lab there aren't many openings in top tier institutes. IE over the course of an academic lifetime, most principal investigators will train 10s of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
Sometimes when I'm stuck on a bug, I just go on a ride on my motorcycle. I'd be too afraid to ride a motorcycle in New York (lane splitting actually saves lives, and this is prohibited in NYS), but I do this around SF, Marin, and around the bay. Being on two wheels or on your feet allows you to enjoy the scene. For whatever reason, there's something about 4-wheels that doesn't allow you to do so.
I didn't know "beats" was an intransitive verb now...
The WSJ article seems to hint at that:

> The AWS figures allow investors to value what some think could be a spinoff prospect.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-swings-to-loss-despite-ju...
Fist-bumps when you interview at Google.
Actually, I totally agree. I'm almost sure that if any major corp gave out more info about how the final candidate decisions were made the number of lawsuits would increase no matter what. The reason being is that there is no fair algorithm for evaluating people. It's subjective and someone will find something unfair to complain about. They won't be wrong, it's just that humans judging other humans is a process doomed to faultiness & unfairness.
All is good, she was able to host Obama's fundraiser.
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html

"Profession" by Asimov (1957)
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> Foucault "proves" his opinion not by citing a single document but rather by simply stating his opinion that "executions did not, in fact, frighten the people."

That quote is the concluding sentence of a paragraph which cites at least three documents:

* Argenson, 241

* Hardy IV, 56

* Richet, 118-19

Does your copy have the parenthetical citations removed?
Thanks for the nice summary. No way was I going to click on a headline that read like this one!

There are two kinds of jobs that robots will have a hard time replacing: these sorts of high-skill, creative, intution-and-experience heavy tasks; and low-skill but mechancially awkward tasks.

In both cases, the key to job survival will be that it's something of a niche. Anything remotely generic will be taken over by machines. So for example we'll still see certain kinds of literature generated by humans, but 100% of financial reporting, political reporting and sports reporting will be automated. More sophisticated commentary of the kind that Nate Silver does might last, but the Paul Krugmans and David Brooks of the world will be engineered out in the next decade or so by bots that troll the web for stories and generate canned ideologically-loaded commentary based on a smattering of data sources.

At the other end, jobs like fruit picking will be completely automated because it's a common task that can be implemented with a relatively generic machine, but cleaning houses will remain the domain of humans because houses are such awkward, complex spaces. Once we have a humanoid robot with very good AI that'll change, but I'm a little doubtful about seeing that in the next few decades.
Aren't markets expected to figure out the true price of things and do other similar stuff? And doesn't that imply that the state of the market should always be close to the global optimum and market force should drive it even further into this direction? Sounds very much like a stable system to me, so how can it run away unless the current state is just a local optimum and a correction to the global optimum - or a better local optimum - happens?
YouTube is Doomed (2009)
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Won't this leak A if B's constructor throws an exception?
I don't know about Coinvault, but other systems would generate the private key on a server and send the public key to the computer for encryption. I don't see how you could have zero servers and still send the private key upon payment, though.

There was an early version that would generate the private key locally, which was discovered by Symantec (the original blog post isn't loading, but you can see it at https://archive.is/1AGHG) For an analysis of a more recent version that fixed this see http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats...

A TorLocker had flaws that allowed 70% of infections to be recovered, see https://securelist.com/blog/research/69481/a-flawed-ransomwa..., although they didn't explain what flaws there were.
It's class action, so to succeed do they need to show that this particular guy was discriminated against, or that some people were?
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There's a similar problem with the name "GVM" being used in both the Groovy and Golang ecosystems, with Golang using the name first. So perhaps the library author for Gorm did do a Google/Baidu search. The Groovy/Grails project manager started the tit-for-tat by changing the meaning of "Groovy" from a language spec used for building implementations, to a specific implementation used by his Grails software.
I'm curious whether you have seen this speech from last year given by Gregg Berman who was, until recently, an associate director in the division of Trading and Markets at the SEC.

http://www.sec.gov/News/Speech/Detail/Speech/1370541505819

I think it shows that the regulators (at least some of them) do want to have a better understanding of the dynamics of the US equity market, and that they are trying to build the tooling that will give them the right sorts of insights. Berman's suggestion that policy changes ought to be driven by data are, I think, something that most technologists would agree with. For whatever it's worth, Berman also has a physics Ph.D. from Princeton. So if your insinuation is just that the regulators are more lawyer than scientist I don't think that's completely true.

edit: Also wanted to add that there has been a lot written about the flash crash and I think this article is definitely one of the better ones.
I don't think the growth will accelerate as the article claims as the barrier to entry is becoming less and less each day. It should be interesting to see how it plays out.
You can't really remove the scarcity; if machines make mass-produced stuff non-scarce, the rest (including intangibles) will become more important. In Star Trek, everyone could probably have their own luxury car, but there was still only one captain for each whole ship.
If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
"Since its inception, Amazon has refined and expanded AWS while competitors including Microsoft and Google have tried to replicate its success with similar projects. Those companies have only recently started to deliver basic services on par with Amazon’s."

Is this really true? I know that AWS offers many more services than competitors currently, but for the services for which there is a competing product, is the AWS offering really that much better?
A comment perfectly in keeping with the edginess of this entire comment page :)
what kind of a bump does this produce
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2909292/files-encrypted-by-co...

>The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) of the Dutch police recently obtained a database from a CoinVault command-and-control server containing decryption keys, the Dutch police said in a news release. The information obtained from that database allowed Kaspersky to build a decryption tool.
The statistics themselves would indicate this. Which is why the lawsuit cites that the average age of a Google engineer is 29 vs the national average of 43. This does not bode well for them.
Reminds me of the New-Age Bullshit Generator: http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/
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Assuming your talking about the homeowner sorting each type of material seperately, it depends on local facilities. Some have "single-stream" plants that take all recycling mixed together, which seems like it may be the way forward as the sorting machines get more efficient and ingenious.
I vaguely recall something similar. I think it was called "Demon on my back" or the like, but I can find no such novel listed anywhere. It was a YA story.

[Edit: Looks like it was "Devil On My Back" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_on_My_Back Hope that is the one you are looking for]
Ok, but that not the definition used for a lot of languages (particularly when talking about microcode). Ada will happily compile to bare metal without what is traditionally considered a runtime. Forth on forth chips is as bare as you can get.
José Valim has repeatedly said that he did not create Elixir to be a whitewash of Erlang's syntax.

http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn...
"We're going to have a conservative majority for decades."

Not necessarily. On average, the last 10 justices to retire have done so around age 80, and that's with Stevens (who retired at 90) pushing the average up. Assuming (a) that this trend holds, and (b) that next President serves two terms, four of the nine justices may be replaced in that time. After all, come 2016 Breyer will be 77, Kennedy will be 79, Scalia will be 80, and Ginsburg will be 83.

Currently, the Court is 4-4-1, with Kennedy being the swing vote, though in recent years he's sided with his Conservative colleagues more frequently.

If a Republican president wins, it's possible that Breyer (who leans left) will outlast him. But it's less likely that Ginsburg will. And it's almost certain that Kennedy and Scalia would retire. With the swing and at least one left leaning vote flipping Conservative, the court would be 6-3 Conservative, if not 7-2, and likely to stay that way for another decade. But if the Democrats take the White House and Breyer and Gisnburg retire before 2024 (likely in both cases), then both Kennedy and Scalia will also need to hold out until 2024 just to preserve the 4-4-1 status quo. It's an unlikely prospect, given that they'd be 87 and 88 respectively.

If Scalia goes first, the Court would become 5-3-1 Liberal, with the importance of the swing dramatically reduced. If Kennedy goes first, taking the swing vote with him, the Court would become 5-4 Liberal, thus negating Scalia's power should he decide to linger, thereby increasing the chances that he'll retire as well. With both gone the Court would be 6-3 Liberal for a generation.

For what it's worth, Liberal voters are intensely aware of these numbers. They'll push Hillary as far to the left as they can during the primary phase of the campaign, but given the prospect of a clear and long-term advantage in the Supreme Court - and a bone-deep fear of what Conservatives would do with the same advantage - you can be absolutely sure that they'll be unified and motivated in the general election. Indeed, given how few major issues unite all Democrats, there's a good chance that reshaping the Supreme Court will become a central issue in the general election, since it's pretty much the only thing that everybody in the party can get behind without reservation.

Of course, Conservatives are looking at the same math, and they'll be just as unified and motivated for the same reason. However, the GOP is also burdened by a general lack of popularity (they trail both Democrats and Independents in terms or registered voters), structural disadvantages in the Electoral College, and the fact that voter turnout in Presidential years favors Democrats.
Maybe it's more about being a young manager & a little weak in the knees about managing someone older?
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Seems a bit whitewashed by not making any mention of all the youtube internal emails turned up in viacom's discovery with youtube staff participating in, aiding the infringement (including, e.g. removing report functionality), and saying the infringement was integral to the success of their business; But it mentioned viacom's not-completely-clean hands. (Though there was nothing unlawful about viacom uploading their own stuff to youtube...)
Thinking that only younger people work long hours is also a subtle form of age discrimination (and not true).

I'm sitting in an office at 6pm and everyone under 40 is headed to a bar. I looked around and things currently reflect the median age mentioned in the article.
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The walkability of New York -- or rather the non-walkability of every other city in America -- is what keeps me here. So many other cities with nicer weather, more beautiful landscapes, but all of them depend on vehicles to varying degrees.
My favorite part is that moving Siri to Mesos actually had a noticeable impact on Siri's response time. It didn't just make the lives of Apple engineers easier but improved the product as well. For every one of the more than 700 million iPhone users worldwide.
What is the advantage to spinning it off to its own company?
Like the Institute for Advanced Study?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study

On the other hand, Richard Hamming thinks this model won't work:

> The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. In fact I will give you my favorite quotation of many years. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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> editors don't have network effects

The 82 plugins in my current vim setup really, really beg to differ.
Privileged Wall St. firms can afford better lawyers than schoolteachers in Atlanta? I had no idea...
There are HUGE barriers to entry. What is the reason behind the "barrier to entry is becoming less and less each day"?
> Duolingo, but for Cooking

That's… not a terrible idea actually.
Demo of Compose spanning multiple hosts using powerstrip/{flocker,weave} & swarm
TL;DR on AWS

- $1.57b in revenue in Q12015 on $22.72B total ($5B annualized for AWS)

- $265m in operating income (net loss for Amazon as a whole was $57m)

Looks like revenue was slightly lower but operating income quite a bit higher than most Wall Street estimates.
> is the AWS offering really that much better?

Depends on your needs, tbh, traditional hosting is a better fit for mine. I can automate buying and provisioning bare metal servers already. I don't need AWS for that.
Why are JIT compilers time constrained? If you have a banking system that runs all day every day, why does it matter if it takes 5 minutes to compile the hot spots at the top tier of optimisation?
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You're leaving out most of what the instructor does:

-Prepare lessons
-Answer student questions (during and) after class
-Grade homework
-Prepare, proctor, and grade examinations

And instructors rarely spend their entire instructional period interacting with students; usually, they have a lecture they deliver for the majority, and a small time at the end for questions - about the material, class errata, unrelated questions, or even just to bask in the glow of someone with expertise in the field.

I'd estimate that 1/4 to 1/2 of students will stay after for question time, or show up to office hours. Those few minutes are wildly different for a class of 10 vs a class of 100.

If you have a 50-minute class, and you choose to have a 45-minute lecture and 5 minutes of question time, you can spend 1 minute each with the 1/2 of your 10 students. With a class of 100, you can have a crowd of 50 where maybe 10% of them can get your attention.

Additionally, many lecturers have office hours - time specifically allotted to meet with students. If you kept 2 hours a week, you could give an additional 12 minutes to each of your 10 students a week. With a class of 100, you can hope that only 1/4 of your students show up.

Furthermore, in a lecture of 10, it's very easy to ask an incidental question and go onto a short educational tangent. In classes exceeding 25, it's very difficult to retain control of such a large body of people, and so the instructors work very hard to ignore such tangents and keep everyone on track.

Not to mention the order of magnitude difference in grading 100 assignments vs grading 10.

I'm less-convinced that instructor-time is a myth. But maybe I'm biased by experience.
> under a republican president

Democrat or Republican doesn't matter. Lobbying and who is offered and receives campaign contributions, etc. matter. It's about manipulation, money and power/getting re-elected, plain and simple.

Notice the Reps and Dems on this list of campaign contributions from Comcast:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000461

Top Recipients from Comcast:

National Republican Congressional Cmte,
John Boehner (R-OH),
National Republican Senatorial Cmte,
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte,
DNC Services Corp,
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte,
Ed Markey (D-MA),
Democratic Municipal Officials,
Cory Booker (D-NJ),
Fred Upton (R-MI)

Comcast spent $16,970,000 on lobbying in 2014. They likely lobbied both Reps and Dems.

Those noted who own Comcast shares:

Barber, Ron (D-AZ)
Boehner, John (R-OH)
Cohen, Steve (D-TN)
Collins, Susan M (R-ME)
Cooper, Jim (D-TN)
Dingell, John D (D-MI)
Frankel, Lois J (D-FL)
Frelinghuysen, Rodney (R-NJ)
Hagan, Kay R (D-NC)
Hanna, Richard (R-NY)
Heck, Dennis (D-WA)
Holding, George (R-NC)
Isakson, Johnny (R-GA)
Kelly, Mike (R-PA)
Marchant, Kenny (R-TX)
McCaul, Michael (R-TX)
McDermott, Jim (D-WA)
Pelosi, Nancy (D-CA)
Bingo.

There were precisely zero content providers (outside NBC) who were looking forward to dealing with a monopsony that also owned a direct competitor.
Welcome to three years ago. Seriously, who thinks that humanities topics are outside of the discussion of HN?

This is a guy that's talking about how power transmits through societies. Do you think that's irrelevant when looking at who's funding companies? What different VCs project about their vision of the world when putting money down? What different business models project to the outside world?

Let's cut this crap of the hacker as an apolitical being. It's Hacker News, not tech/Unix/cracker News.
The university is not dead. People who are going to inferior schools want to make this logic a fact.
My guess is this article is either false or Apple re-examines to allow "watch" mentions on iOS app store pages.
I think it was quite reasonable to doubt youtube had a future.

The bandwidth costs still must be enormous and back then more so. Only a few companies had the clout to negotiate favorable prices for bandwidth.

Even now I am surprised that they are either making so much from ads or pay so little in bandwidth that they can do what Vimeo charges for free.
Where do you get your data?

https://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/screen-shot-2015...

-Kantar
Analysis of first 200 LinkedIn users by changing IDs in URL
Haskell's not new compared to Elixir which got it's 1.0 release last summer. It is new compared to erlang which has been around longer than the startup CEO in silicon valley has been alive. :-)

Also "new" is one of those things that I think changes perspective with age. Probably when you're younger newer things seem more established than when you're older and looking at a longer time horizon. No offense meant to haskell. :-)
In the same, um, space..

Deathy

The evolution of the death.

Buying deaths just got a whole lot better…

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=633682077153