skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not super easy to figure out what things other people might be scared of if it never occurred to you to be scared of them yourself.

I don't agree with this claim. In fact, I think it's extremely easy to identify what might scare other people. So much so that it can be reduced to a single question:

"Is this outside the norm?"

Doesn't matter if it's full body tattoos, 30 body piercings, electronics plastered all over you, you're lit up like an X-mas tree, wearing a full-body suit, wearing a balaclava, what have you. Do you see other people doing it? No? Chances are you're going to raise suspicion and suspicion not only can cause fear but I argue it will cause fear.

Normality is a social comfort zone. Nobody bats an eye at anyone who isn't standing out from the crowd.

Now before anyone tries to wage some sort of moral war against me for stating how things are. I don't pass any judgement on if this is "good" or "bad" behavior. However, there is an evolutionary explanation for this: "People who don't fit with your community are outsiders. Outsiders can be friend or foe. Be suspicious of them."

Nobody would be scared of what they were wearing if they were at a Hackathon or some place where "this is normal". But they were at an airport. That isn't normal for an airport.
Not sure I follow? The Fed has added +/- 3.6 Trillion to their balance sheet since the start of the great recession.[1] Excess reserves for banks went from 0 to +/- $2.5 Trillion during the same period. [2] The FED arguably brought us back from the brink but I would think that those emergency measures are for emergencies not to be used because things are "weak" but when things are on the "abyss". One person's opinion.

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/WALCL
[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS
I am named as the inventor on a patent which is held by my employer, we have lawyers to do most of the law stuff, but they make us do a bunch of work first before we start costing lawyer time.

Searching for patents online is fairly trivial, but time consuming. I'm assuming you're in the US (I'm not, but the value of most patents is that they are not yet patented in the US, so we did our patent search there). http://patft.uspto.gov/

As far as patentable, I can't really comment. I am extremely disappointed that the Amazon single click purchase was awarded as a patent as I don't believe it is non-obvious. I'm not too far off the same belief for my own patent, but a bunch of experts had looked at the problem before and didn't get to my solution. They thought my solution was elegant and decided to patent it. At the same time, we mostly patented because that is what the higher-ups like to measure. I can't imagine my patent every actually being used for monetary gain.

So, you don't want to be a patent troll, but you have an idea. Do a patent search, see if it is already patented, but more important, do a search to see if anybody has come up with a solution that is close to yours. If the concept is already in the public domain, or something close enough, than you can't patent it.

The big question is why do you want to patent it. You say you don't want to be a patent troll. Will you be building a business around this patent? Can it be used in your existing business? Do you have the ability to make your invention into a viable product?

What is your definition of a patent troll?
A pretty good first pass to any problem that requires self-control is to start by exercising every other day and eat right for a week, and then try again then.
I've found they perform OK in the wet and rain, but that New Yorkers avoid using them anyway if it is raining. Other problems they have are a few with slippy gears (this can actually be dangerous), and many ~30% without working bells.
Assuming you qualify for TN status, it's pretty quick (matter of weeks); you need to get the appropriate paperwork in then show up at the border and say you're applying for TN status. The immigration lawyers for the company that's hiring you will explain this in more detail.

As for relocating, that's up to your employer, but many employers offer help with relocation (eg. temporary housing, relocation stipend).
I personally make money selling software that I wrote expecting to be able to sell it in the future. Without copyright, I wouldn't have done it in the first place. How do you see this sort of activity in a world without copyright?
This is a centralized service, not distributed or decentralized?

Have you given any thought to making it compatible with federated social networks like Diaspora?
I would really love an answer to these questions.
I spent many years trying to work out how that could be made to work, in a world where the people with the most money and ability to buy those resources being destroyed are also the people with the most interest in seeing them destroyed without impediment. I just can't make the math work out. When the oil and gas industry can cause wars involving the world's largest nations, in pursuit of their profits, how can I believe empowering them to buy every river will save those rivers? In a world where they can literally buy armies (even more directly and with even less impediment than they have today), how can I believe there will be less violence over oil?

I've read the same authors you've read on the subject (believe me, I hear you, and I have made the same arguments you're making more times than I can count). I was for many years a libertarian (big L and little l...card-carrying member of the party, worked for ballot access, etc.). I just don't believe in the premises of libertarianism any more. At least, not the free market uber alles part of those premises.

Also, I can't reconcile the idea of unlimited capital accumulation in the hands of a few that spans generations (e.g. land, water access, etc.) in a world of limited resources with my own beliefs about fairness, justice, and human freedom.
Apologies my mistake!
They can be augmented with something as simple as these:

https://snapguide.com/guides/install-leather-mud-flaps-on-yo...
This is one of the old VeriSign 1024-bit roots. This and most of the other 1024-bit roots was removed or restricted to email in Mozilla some time ago (last remaining one is Equifax). They had been consider obsolete for a long time.
Yeah, or looking at the monitor with the drone camera feed and thinking "hmmm, looks terrorist to me".
AI has been progressing in a fairly predictable way as computers get faster and gradually ticking off milestones like beating us and chess and driving cars with less crashes. There are only a finite number of such skill areas to tick off.
> Substituting careless technical writing for equally clear and meaningful terminology doesn't harm anyone's ability to stand up continuous integration

You are misinterpreting what I'm saying. Substituting one word for another is not harmful in and of itself. The context around it makes it harmful.

For the sake of the argument, let's go to a parallel universe in which a group (any group) decides that the word "lambda" is offensive to them. Like very offensive, heavily politicized etc. It's not a very common word overall in English, but used quite a bit in specific domains.

Now let's say some small parts of the programming community gets together and agrees that "lambda" is offensive and changes it to a less-offensive equivalent. Is the programming community now more or less welcoming overall?

If there was a real problem with the word, the outcome is slightly positive. But if there wasn't, the outcome is extremely negative: Something which didn't use to be a problem, is now a problem. The community appears less inclusive.

Back to our universe now. Do you still think it's wise to carelessly change words whenever someone claims they're offended without actually verifying those claims? Is it still wise to bundle up to an issue you're not affected by when it's more than likely created by people who aren't affected by it either?

I do hope at least some people realize that this is widely open to abuse, as well.
I'm working on a secret project to do just this. Also working on an ad network focused on better ads.

The future will be better very soon.
Adding onto that, I can't imagine the logistical nightmare of privatizing the entire ocean including international waters, besides the root of the issue in which it solves nearly no problems.

What if I buy a 1 meter by 1 meter parcel of the ocean and charge bottom of the barrel prices to dump industrial waste in it? What if that square of ocean was 100 meters off shore from a beach in Los Angeles? If you don't want that then we're right back to government regulations.
Stop using gzip
Rainforestqa has a unique value proposition in this space (YC some year)

Their team and product are quite good if you want to explore QA as a service. Essentially humans(turks) preform outlined and preprogrammed steps.

Their tagline "We automate your functional and integration testing with our QA-as-a-Service API. Human testing at the speed of automation."
Maybe books resiliency has more to do with the aberrant prices for ebooks? They are rarely cheaper than physical books and I often find them to be even more expensive!

Either way, I hope that phones do not become the preferred way to read books, I really like my e-reader, if only the technology seemed a little more modern (Its hardly changed in 5+ years) I think they would have no problem becoming more popular.
Workbook Enhancement
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S&P is measured in nominal dollars, so of course it is near its all-time high. It should almost always be at its all-time high just because of inflation. So this doesn't tell you much.
That's a very powerful statement. I'd love to see some kind of source for it so I can repeat that myself.
That already happens now as advertising is mostly sold on impressions seen.
Unfortunately this all sounds highly implausible.

If you have found something that you feel works for you, good luck with it. The chances that it works by the methods you suggest are hugely unlikely.

Compartment syndrome can be extremely serious. Extremely. If you notice swelling with numbness or weakness again please go immediately to a hospital.

Good luck! :)
Or are hidden by a recruiting agency. A lot of agencies will do anything they can to make sure you don't go around them.
I believe that this also means that any signed agreements between employer and employee (some companies used to try this a lot) are null and void. Disclaimer: I'm only a fake doctor, not a lawyer (fake or otherwise).
I had great hopes, and then you burned them :(

"We believe the first step for such a company is to build alliances with the industry's professionals." From my perspective, agents are the problem, not part of the solution.
From what I can see, you've built a website generator targeted at the real estate market. A listing 'showcase' is nothing new. Yours is nicer, great.

What do you see as the 'mess' you are cleaning up?
Financing your car through the company that you work for as an independent contractor it not generally how car financing works.

"Tools and Materials: The furnishing of tools, materials, etc., by the employer indicates control over the worker."

I think that fact that in some instances the company finances the very tools required by the contractor to perform - for this factor - suggests employee, I imagine you still don't.

Luckily from the sidelines we can watch as the various levels of government (federal, state and local) begin to figure it out for all of us. Already California Labor Commissions have ruled an Uber driver as an employee (which Uber is appealing to the CA Courts, so now we will have our first taste of their opinion) and per this article some state legislatures appear to be codifying drivers for TNCs as ICs.
I'm reminded of when hedge funds bought out old family owned logging companies via leveraged buyouts. The only way it made business sense was to clear cut everything and then close the mills down when the trees were gone.
What Awful Music Can Teach Us About Economics
Prime Minister M. Turnbull launches innovation hub to back 'digital agriculture'
This startup will fund your wedding – if you divorce you have to pay them back
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/281jav/lpt_pre...
You can already see this happening a bit in the online freelancer marketplaces. It is, apparently, easy to find people to write code for $1 or less per hour. I have doubts about what kind of quality one might get for that price, but the project listings I see, regardless of how low the offered price is, always have dozens of proposals.
I saw the same thing a couple of months ago with a key/value datastore that synchronously writes each update to disk. Switching from ext4 to xfs fixed periodic 100ms+ latency spikes.
> You are saying that you don't know if it's offensive to blacks.

I was very careful not to say anything on what I know. But since you bring it up, what I know is that the original issue in the tracker was created in bad faith and people hopped on the bandwagon. Addressing this is another discussion entirely.

> I think you are blowing out of proportion the consequences of erring on the side of not offending.

I'm open to hear arguments as to why what I'm saying is "blowing things out of proportions", when all I'm claiming is that the direct results of these actions are producing the exact negative of the effects they intend to. So really, my argument's proportion is relative to how large of an issue you think the original premise is.

Another consequence of course is opening your project up to abuse. If people see that you'll cave in to any form of "political correctness" pressure, they'll double down and find more faults, and if there are no more faults they'll create them for you. I'm speaking from experience - This is something we see a lot in the game development community.
> They are rarely cheaper than physical books and I often find them to be even more expensive!

ebooks are easier to store, easier to back up, and easier to access where and when you want than paper books, and can support functions (search, etc.) that paper books don't. There's a good case that -- outside of the downsides of DRM for those books that are burden by it -- ebooks are just plain better than paper books in many ways. So its not really unreasonable that they'd be more expensive (books generally don't have direct substitutes, and the ebook and physical version of the same book don't come from competing entities, so the tendency for a perfectly competitive market to drive prices down to production costs is mitigated -- OTOH, the forces driving prices up to marginal utility are present just fine.)
Would love to, which will require a bit of engineering on Crypton's server
Ad impressions add up to way more than that. Online content is, in aggregate, the most expensive content you consume yet you don't notice since it's free right now.

Why is Netflix, Spotify ok for $10 but not a constant stream of content from any source online? People spend 10x more on coffee every month in some areas.
Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Even more important is that the developers spend time writing tests and their schedules are not expanded to accomodate this, nor is their pay increased. They are simply expected to cut corners elsewhere, or work more hours, or whatever is necessary. That's the real savings.
Thanks for explaining it.

I guess my comment back would be it appears that this is an issue with governments, not with competition. I would hope that the government has some incentive to spend tax payers' money wisely (re-election would probably be the only one).

Ignoring the whole "lets give tax breaks to businesses that move here" issue, I think we'd all be better off if there was a strong incentive for the appropriate spending of tax payer money.

I mean Singapore seems to do it reasonably well, why can't we. And yes, I know a little about how Singapore trainings and attracts top talent to government.
Regardless of what organizations claim to be looking for, virtually everywhere I've been besides my current position has been staffed to the brim with junior developers, and been in dire need of at least a few people with seniority.

The irony is when a senior person does come in, all their recommendations are ignored because they will slow down the pace of development. Which it will, but in exchange for setting a sustainable pace of development. A senior developer might (making numbers up here) crank out 100 lines of code per day, but a junior will crank out 1,000 while solving twice as many business problems. Unfortunately, bug counts seem to scale linearly with code size, so most of the problems you're solving are actually just a direct consequence of the ten-fold increase in bugs in the larger code base. Eventually progress grinds to a complete halt as it becomes too difficult to add business value, and the company enters zombie mode where its death is virtually inevitable, but can still operate for years through additional funding.

Sorry, I may have gotten a little off point there.
Except when you can't remember something and you have to spend seconds, or even minutes trying to remember it.

A hard drive would find it much faster.
> Which, until this year, has effectively meant all browsers except mobile Safari.

And mobile Chrome, so all but the two most popular mobile browsers.
Earlier in the thread I mentioned that Kloak came about as a UX experiment in private social networking. We are building on these concepts in another project that is underway now.
"Luckily there are physical limitations.... I'm less worried about government doing bad shit and more worried about private citizens getting nasty."

The MSF Trauma Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan (3rd October) didn't have this luxury and in the fog of war, [0] 12 MSF medical staff and ten patients were killed. [1],[2]

Killing by remote sensing, is indiscriminate. Adding AI is another order of stupidity.

References:

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-te...

[1] http://www.msf.org.uk/article/in-memoriam-msf-colleagues-kil...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-witho...
I understand the upsides of ebooks, but this often happens with technical ebooks too. You know, ones containing equations and diagrams, which are atrocious as ebooks with few exceptions (one that comes to mind is Knuth's TAOCP -- it is decent as an ebook, but that took a lot of effort from a team at Stanford).
It sounds great - $40B+ can do a lot of good. I'm disappointed to see they're also trying to "reimagine" school - Gates's attempt has been a disaster.

That said, Gates's work with diseases in third world countries has been absolutely magical. Hopefully this isn't ushering in an era of billionaires all trying to stake out their own social issues, but will see organizations working together where there is overlap.

But I can armchair QB tens of billions of dollars in "making the world a better place" all I want. I can also be cynical all I want (as is at least partially my nature) but I'm going to try to remain happy about this one. I'm not a fan of how Facebook makes its money, but I don't mind seeing that money go somewhere that helps in any way.
Let's not overblow the threat. W was known to have done cocaine in his youth, and he was still elected, and I would expect statute of limitations to apply.
Just to list some ways that advertising is better than subscriptions:

- Free, obviously

- No willpower/decision required

- Faster (due to no decision as above)

- More equal access (as wealth/income don't determine how much content you get)

- Anonymous (yes more than payments which come with your cc number, address, etc)

I do think online ad formats have gotten worse but the model itself works. It's the implementation that needs a severe restructuring today and is finally in progress due to the growing consumer power through adblocking.
Companies don't spend their own money. The people who work for a company spend their investors' money, and their interests are only partially aligned.

People spending company money are sometimes far less thrifty than either people spending their own money or government employees, so I don't think you can rank them based on thriftiness. Nor do established companies necessarily provide better service than government organizations. These things depend more on the particular organization's culture and governance, not on whether it's a business or a government.
Sure, but it's substantially more expensive to administer and enforce tax on a company than an individual filing a simple 1040.

The withholdings system exists to make it easier to collect.
Because it's not a simple binary. The system works well for some purposes and not for others, but we can't easily measure the costs and benefits. I don't like the copyright system at all, but as a creator I derive some benefits from it like being able to protect my own work while I figure out how to sell it. Thus I'm not supportive when some people (not necessarily you) take the position 'it's broken, so let's just abandon it completely' since that would reduce the potential future value of anything I've created and shown to anyone else to zero, which would create a huge economic problem.

It's true that some kinds of creative work can't be adequately copied. People enjoy hearing musicians play and sing at live concerts, because something about the immediacy of the social experience is more enjoyable than just listening to a recording. Likewise, original works of painting and sculpture are almost impossible to truly duplicate.

But this is not the case for some other works of art, like novels or movies. The costs of creation are as high as for any other kind of artistic work product, while the marginal costs of reproduction are very much lower, and if they become too disjunct the business model collapses. Nobody is going to spend millions of dollars making films if it'c clearly impossible to recoup that investment, for example, nor are authors likely to spend years sweating over novels. Libertarians like to say 'your failed business model is not my problem' but ignore the fact that the business model is not failing, because people around the world are in fact quite happy to pay money to read books and watch big-budget movies absent any external compulsion to do so. And if I want to make a better sci-fi movie than the forthcoming Star Wars picture, the principal obstacle is not a legal one but the enormous cost of hiring so many skilled craftspeople and resources to make something of equivalent artistic and technical quality. The only legal barrier is that I can't call it 'Star Wars' or reuse elements from existing Star Wars products outside of the narrow exceptions of the fair use doctrine like parody, critical or educational use etc.