skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be really surprised if someone isn't already hard at work on an iOS app that uses this tech. The scalability is of course a problem, but I'd pay 50 cents per photo (assuming I got a small preview of it first) or something of that order to support the costs.
Which echoes its results to stdout, making it useful remotely, too.
Of all the taxes in the world, I have no real problem with lotteries. I can see there is an argument for needing to have clearer advertising on what the house 'take' is on the he tickets, but most people don't know how much tax they are paying on their fuel, electricity, alcohol etc.

Yes, it's regressive on the poor as these people overwhelming play the lottery. But so are alcohol and cigarette taxes. The point of those taxes is to raise revenue from undesirable activities as they both have inelastic demand curves and need to be curbed if possible for the good of society.

Perhaps a useful improvement woudo be to cap the number of lottery tickets a person can buy.

Certainly it makes me depressed to see how much selling lottery tickets dominates retailing in small stores. That means a lot of money is being raked in.
Tesla Model 3 preorders to begin March 2016, production in 2 years
Especially when much less of that money is going into a battery.
Well perhaps a better example might be System Management Mode on Intel CPUs, which easily allows for undetectable backdoors with constant access to the same physical memory as anything else running on the CPU.
Hampton Creek's plant based egg replacement is supposedly 18% cheaper than real eggs. A major advance if true.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161826
The last time I did this, it was the LLC. I worked directly with the Secretary of State, and did not use a service to do it for me.

If you are a 100% owner with no partners, you can file your paperwork as a "Disregarded Entity" which means that you have less tax returns to prepare at tax time. If you have partners, maybe a "C" corp. would be better, but this is where I'd talk to an attorney.

You will need a Taxpayer Identification number to create an LLC in the State of California. These are easy to get from the IRS.

In California, you will still need to file some paperwork with the Secretary of State on bi-annual basis, and pay the $800 franchise fee annually. Also, you will pay a separate franchise tax on any sales over $250,000 per annum. You have to file form 586 with the Franchise Tax Board annually.

One last thing: Although a corporation can protect your personal assets from being taken, you should also have business E&O and liability insurance. The courts may look unfavorably at any corporate entity which does not have insurance, especially if it is obvious that the corporation
was set up in a risky area of business, and was only incorporated to protect the owner's personal assets.
OK, sorry, the word "value" is the issue here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-salad-is-s...

Salad greens are not very nutritious. They are good business though.

Its very very tough to do (impossible with current techniques), but local/little/vertical/urban/high tech ag needs to take on big ag in commoditized foods if we are going to increase food security and decrease water and energy usage.

Sweet potatoes, soybeans, and wheat are the type of staples that provide a good source of calories and nutrition.

Its sort of like Tesla saying they can only focus on luxury vehicles. At first that's true, but at some point the tech needs to break through to the larger market in order to make a big impact.

I don't expect you or any other high tech growers to take on that challenge though, because it is very difficult research and engineering and marketing and extremely hard (next to impossible) to make the numbers add up with so much commodity competition. But our current agricultural approach for commodities wastes water and land.

Until we get to that point its mainly just hipster wankery (like Tesla).
I spent almost two decades writing software that saved peoples' lives. Trust me: after a while, everything becomes "just a job."
State lotteries don't try to curb gambling, despite broad recognition of the harm it inflicts. It's rather the opposite: they're elaborately designed and marketed to draw people in.
Personally, I am a fan of p2p applications and doing things locally. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unsolved issues, especially when it comes to data storage, like you mentioned.
400 miles? Even Tesla's Model S doesn't go anyway close to that under normal driving conditions. Model 3 will get 200+ miles, at best maybe around 250 for the top model.

Edit: Yeah missed the k. Never heard that one brought up. Also doubt Tesla's will last much longer.
> instead the clerk will just tell you that you lost

at the risk of being cliché this made me laugh out loud (lol).
> We're calling it version 0.14, but it's a full rewrite so we think of it more like a 2.0 release.

I love React, but that just seems like a bad idea. Especially given the fact that the previous version was called "v2-beta".
For some individuals, especially with certain psychiatric disorders, moderate use of alcohol to control an episode, especially a panic attack(true panic attacks); is not a voluntary consumption.

The drug has been vilified, for good reason in many cases, but is used as a sedative to the poor who don't have access to good doctors in too many communities.

(I really don't want to debate this. I know when I had panic attacks 2-3 drinks would stop them. I have yet to meet a doctor who won't admit privately that moderate, specific controlled use of alcohol is beneficial to for certain psychiatric disorders. Doctors don't bring it up because it's just not worth worth it. They are afraid of lawsuits because alcohol use carries so many risks, like the real risk of the patient becoming an alcoholic.

(Just keeping it real Homies. If you are currently suffering from an anxiety disorder(including some symptoms of PTSD, and the doctor is just offering a heterocyclic drug(like Prozac), or a drug that really does nothing, like Buspirone. Light, specific use of alcohol will help with some symptoms. Don't abuse the drug. Don't start drinking every day, or drinking socially. You only drink to alleviate specific symptomology. You need to save those liver cells because you use alcohol differently from the rest of the population. In other words; don't become a alcoholic? I'll get a lot of heat from this post, but it's meant for individuals who are suffering, and this advice only goes to individuals who have some self-control? If you didn't have self-control before the illness, and life was just a big party, don't follow this advice. Specific use of alcohol to control your symptomology will just result in your disorder getting worse, and yes--you will end up homeless, or worse. I am not a doctor.)
Indeed. I've been using it since they published the first beta, and it has seemed as stable as can be.
its like injecting heroin instead of chasing the dragon then...

hmm. that kind of invalidates the point. XD
Did we use that number anywhere? The only place you should actually see this version number is in your browser settings so it shouldn't really matter.

Edit: Oh, I see we did. The version number in manifest.json and package.json was 0.14 though… I'll leave it like this but will bump it up to 2.0 if it causes any serious confusion.
Is the new Nest thermostat worth the upgrade?
The main counter I would offer...

There's also the simple well established precedent of vice taxes.
MNIST dataset is not a difficult dataset, but it's a good start
The "tax" part of the lottery is a component of the gambling part. The gambling part is the product people pay for. Just like a tax on cigarettes, or in some countries a tax on every consumer product (VAT). You can always avoid the tax by not buying the product or reduce it by buying cheaper products, but we still call it a tax.
The blob runs on a different processor (the GPU), not inside OpenBSD.
If I wanted to build a legitimate middle man platform - solve contractor/customer match up, and intermediate payments, how should that service be built?
Under the theory of this lawsuit, can such a service be built at all, or would it automatically look like an employer?
React.js in Real Life at Codecademy
To my understanding, no distribution of a binary blob would be necessary. It is already flashed onto the raspberry pi. The original drivers are open source but not free, but it would be easy to at least get vga working.
There's no public list, so if you ran an image feel free to share here.
Absolutely. Fully agreed. And so are casinos. You notice they're built near high concentrations of poor people so they can get back all that welfare money rather than cutting it.
In Nordics, many refugees encounter a paradise lost
Communism is flawed because not everyone is allowed to become a member of the Communist party to get perks and elite treatment. The government also controls prices and if they want the price of toilet paper to be low and the price of bread to be low, there will be a shortage of it because the organizations that make it won't earn much money and make it at a loss. Then there are lines for toilet paper and bread to wait for it to be made.

The military is always given priority in food, and the people get what is left over.

Some argue that the Communism that the USSR had was not the same as Marxism.

I had a Russian coworker once, he tried to quit smoking. He had smoked US cigarettes and he switched to Russian cigarettes because they tasted bad and he claimed having bad tasting cigarettes helped him quit. Something about Russian quality control not being as good as quality control in the USA.

But as AI, automation, and robots improve, they will do the jobs of human beings and put most of us out of work and then there will be a basic income to live on. Perhaps that is when Communism works when the technology does the work for us and doesn't need any motivation to work better.
A tax would be if a certain class of people were forced to pay for the monopoly service, in this case some people would be forced to play the lottery.
Agreed, in fact just last week I was just watching a Dutch program I recalled watching back in 2005 when I was a teenager, it was basically a conversation that Rogers and Marc Faber and another guy had on their ideas of the future. Then India came along and he was incredibly negative and dismissive and that stood out to me as being over the top. Here I am a week later, surprised to see a topic on just that (Rogers about India) and not surprised to find comments like yours.
I thought lotteries were where money gets laundered legally.
Android’s Stagefright: One Billion Users at Risk?
Post author here:

In terms of Google products, CockroachDB much more closely resembles a combination Spanner (http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html) and F1 (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html). However, while we do share many traits with these systems (a consistently replicated, transactional key/value store with a SQL interface), our internal transactional model is actually quite different.

If you're interested in some of the papers that inspired CockroachDB's transactional model, we have mentioned a number of them in our design doc (https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...).

As for Percolator, that system is not a general purpose database but an "incremental processor" for large datasets (such as a web crawler). While it does use a snapshot transaction system internally, it appears to use real exclusive access locks, which CockroachDB does not use. Our write intents are not locks, because they do not guarantee exclusive access to a resource (I've expanded on this in another comment on the blog: http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-cockroachdb-distribute...)

We are not claiming our transaction model to be exceptionally novel, this post is just trying to shed light on a specific property of that model.
and on the same note of volume/surface ratio - Sun produces heat with the intensity (J/kg) of a pile of regular compost.
It's addictive to a lot of people, so there is a certain cost to society that comes with gambling that needs to be considered.
It is an interesting philosophical question of whether vice taxes are a good thing however given this result of those vice taxes. (I am generalizing a bit as cigarettes and alcohol are also vice taxed and also lead to the same problems as lotteries).
> you know not all theoretical models are equilibrium based

Depends what you mean. I would love to see a macroeconomic model, which is not just an assumption of equilibrium subjected to external shocks. I have only seen such models from postkeynesians. (Austrians do not count - they pretty much throw hands to the air and say "it does whatever it does, we cannot know anything, therefore it's OK".)

> can you rephrase it in a way that has some meaning

Well, assuming you want to show that some self-organizing system should be a moral guide, for instance, claiming that free markets lead to "efficient" (whatever that means) outcomes, then necessarily this self-organizing system has to have a stable unique outcome (which pretty much rules out chaotic behaviour that dynamical systems love to exhibit). If it had two different outcomes, then it couldn't be a unique source of morality (someone would have to come and decide which outcome is better).

For example, that's why economists, who believe in free market, cling so much to idea that there cannot be endogenous unemployment (and instead explain it as some sort of reaction to external "shock" which will eventually pass). If existing unemployment was endogenous, it would mean that at some point in the past there was a choice (bifurcation), which would set us to path of either unemployment or full employment, and the self-organizing system of free market "made" the morally wrong choice, or at least it was indifferent (meaning it is not a good moral guide).
Yup.

python -m http.server 8000

did the trick.
> A tax would be if a certain class of people were forced to pay for the monopoly service, in this case some people would be forced to play the lottery.

If the government taxes a particular non-monopoly service, no one is forced to buy the service, but the tax is still recognized as a tax.

Mandating a monopoly on a class of service, which monopoly then extracts monopoly rents -- especially where the state receives the rents, or a share thereof -- is pretty hard to meaningfully distinguish from taxing the class of service. Sure, no one is compelled to purchase the service, but a tax on alcohol or tobacco doesn't stop being a tax because no one is forced to purchase alcohol or tobacco.
I wasn't advising anyone to self diagnose. In fact the opposite. It sounds like depression. See a therapist!
This badly wants labels.
People not clicking on ads for things they don't want or need is the problem now?

Remember what happened when advertisers started increasing the volume of their TV spots? Do you think that increased sales, or just annoyed people enough to change channels? And what happened in the end with that? Because my recollection is that the FCC stepped in to curb those practices.
Quick off the mark eh? When was this idea published by those researchers, two days ago?

No wonder universities are getting super serious about IP protection/licensing/commercialisation
Imagine the opposite case; her brother is wildly successful, but still has a drinking problem. In this instance, she and her parents would probably shower him with love and affection. "We will get through this together!"

Pretending there isn't political economy in familial relationships is pretty naive. Especially when female relatives are concerned.
We have the words "inefficient, regressive, and exploitative" but the missing word is "voluntary."
If we are going to treat the lottery as a tax, what products and services should also be treated as taxes levied by companies rather than the government?
Consider a vanilla CMS: Public site where random visitors can view, with an admin part where groups of privileged users can log into and create/edit articles. In a microservice world, I would (and have) split this like so:

* Front end: Perhaps a basic Node.js or Rails app. It's UI only; all data handling is done through APIs to the backends.

* Admin: Completely separate app. Same here, UI only.

* Post backend. This is a data store for articles. It has APIs for creating, updating, deleting articles. It also has a permission system that connects users to the groups that they are part of. This could be a separate microservice, but it's natural to keep it close to the data (also for performance reasons, since every post lookup needs to check if the calling user is allowed to see it).

* Login backend. This has a user database and can do things like accept logins via other services such as Google and Twitter, via OAuth.

* Miscellaneus support services. For example, say you want to support upload images: Make it a microservice that calls into ImageMagick and stores stuff in S3. Or let's say you want to support importing WordPress exports (WXR archives). Make it a service that parses and uploads asynchronously to the post backend.

I have built this as a monolith, and as a microservice system. The microservice platform is much more flexible and clean.

It also allows us to reuse every part for other apps — and this is in my mind the number one benefit that microservices gives you. We've had several new projects completely unrelated to what we've built before, and we have simply reused the microservices we had already created, only swapping out the new front end.

Making reusable microservices is an interesting challenge, since core concepts (things like users and data objects) need to be generalized, and mechanisms built in so that you can make specific features that don't burden the microservices with too many conflicting concerns. For example, let's say that your CMS's public site wants users to be able to "like" individual articles. Instead of building this into the article store, create a microservice which abstracts the concept of "liking". Or let's say you want users to sign up for a newsletter version of the site that sends them a digest every week; again, don't build it in, but make a microservice that abstracts this into "subscriptions", with a registry of emails and what users are subscribing to, and so on. To generate well-formatted emails, simply let the front end provide an API for rendering templates, which this "subscription" microservice can invoke to do the actual rendering. Generalizing it this way makes it easy to then create new types of subscriptions, such as SMS messaging.

Another important point is that every microservice has to be multitenant; a single microservice can host multiple unrelated datasets, and they need to be partitioned in a way that allows the APIs to not comingle the data by accident. It's not rocket science, but it takes some planning and practice to make the APIs feel natural.
She certainly has the free-speech right to write whatever she wants to. It's just not the way most families treat each other - certainly my brother wouldn't write this about me, and vice versa - so it's uncomfortable to read. Either it's fictionalized, or it's a crappy way to treat your brother.
I occasionally buy lottery tickets just for fun. It's enjoyable for me to fantasize about what I would do if I suddenly never had to worry about money again. I think about quitting my job, going back to school and learning about something I care more about (I didn't care for my major) and doing some travelling. I only buy one ticket every month or so. This $1-$2 actually gives me mental enjoyment, more so than a candy bar at least.

However, last time I bought one the woman next to me bought $80 worth of mega millions tickets. To be blunt at the cost of sounding unkind, she looked like she was a lower class individual. I truly felt bad for her (for reasons I won't elaborate on for conciseness) and I thought about all the people spending a decent sum of cash on something that is analogous to flushing money down the toilet.

I think the lottery does much more harm than good to society as a whole and should be done away with. The people who get into spending loads of money on these tickets are ones who are - generally speaking - uneducated and in a position where they don't have much going for them. Instead of being proactive and trying to improve their lives (easier said than done though, i know), they get caught up in this dream that destiny will save them from a life of difficulty. Obviously those susceptible to addiction are most affected and taken advantage of here, as mentioned by some other comments. It's not really a "tax on the stupid" because these people are more of a cost to society by wasting money and putting themselves in harder positions.

Not to mention the people who DO win the lottery don't often find themselves living the peachy life they would expect.
Tesla produces high end cars but as a brand it isn't and might never be considered elite in the way traditional car companies are.

To focus purely on that space seems like an unnecessary risk, if you can expand.
I think you missed the "K" at the end of the "400" in the post you replied to. The part I'm wondering about is why the Tesla could "conceivably" go 400K. A modern diesel could go 400K, but a Tesla will suffer the same problems the diesel would with rotting body panels and interior, and a whole host of problems not related to the drivetrain.
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Then that portion is the tax, not the lottery ticket itself. In the same way that there's a tax on alcohol, but the alcohol itself is not a tax because no one's forcing you to buy it. The author himself states: "The lottery is not a tax. The inflated price of lottery tickets is"... which makes his headline "The lottery is a tax" shameless clickbait.
Just off the top of my head, a few possible hiring processes.

- Recommendations from people you trust

- Pairing interview

- Give a difficult/open ended homework problem

- Whiteboarding interviews are suitable for some candidates, they're not all bad ;)

- Pick from your list (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/whos-on-your...)

- Asking the candidate for ideas as to how they'd best be assessed

- Culture fit ; Gut feeling ; or any conversational interview followed by review of performance after 1 month

- Portfolio review (no one actually does it in my experience)

- Hiring off reputation in the community

I'm sure there are plenty more.
I just tried a one-step query in Google Maps itself, and it worked, so that's helpful ("From Address 1 to Address 2").
They're using OurAirports data, filtered to exclude all but "large" and "medium" airports. Anything smaller than that includes all sorts of cruft like African bush landing strips, heliports, etc.

http://ourairports.com/data/
They are cars not computers. The hardware is significantly more complex and more prone to failure in ways a software patch won't fix.
You're right that if we shift the aggregate demand curve its all econ 101 from there to wage and employment drop.

The difference between schools is that even though Keynesians believe in an aggregate demand curve( a relationship between price level and output) the neoclassicals(i.e. Chicago school) do not.

Varoufakis is criticizing the neoclassicals because they don't believe in an aggregate demand curve. Instead all of their modelling is done on the supply side. And its very hard to tell a supply side story where both employment and wages fall.

Involuntary unemployment is an easy jump from falling wages and employment.
This is a fun little side project my friend and I built. The goal was to design and build a color tool with resources for those who don't have access to Photoshop and Sketch. Judging from the high search volume and number of sub-par existing tools, we thought it was the perfect spot to apply our design and dev skills.