skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I signed for prime 3-4 years ago there was also a lot online retailers jerking around on shipping prices. "Oh that CD is $0.01 but it is $11.99 shipping, so if you don't like it then you'll be refunded the purchase price." Shipping prices in general seemed to be where quite a bit of profit was being made.

I don't know if that is still the case but it was a major reason for me to move to prime back then.
That actually doesn't see that bad. It's effort, but at least it is predictable and clearly laid out ... very German imho. In the US things are generally more opaque, requiring experts (lawyers, even lobbyists) to explain how various agencies actually operate. Without that advice, most of the paperwork is either incorrect, unnecessary, or won't ever allow your issue to progress.

Try looking up the procedures for an EB-5 visa application. They don't mention that, since the prez made certain statements re deportations, the immigration people are going nuts. Each and every step is being examined as if your client was trying to export uranium.
Still pretty expensive though, IMO. I never use them here in Berlin unless I have to catch a 7 AM flight with my 2 kids.

But of course a valid alternative exists here in Berlin (public transport), which is absent in the US.

The taxis in Germany are definitely cleaner and more maintained. But man, I just wish there was some kind of cheaper option.
Quick Reaction to PG's “The Refragmentation”
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to mitigate most of the perceived negative effects of inequality (unequal access to opportunities) by simply re-allocating our existing tax revenue? For example, instead of paying for costly wars in the US / silly development projects like the F35, could we use that money to grant our citizens free college education, better access to health care under a single payer system, basic welfare, and job training programs? Could we employ an infrastructure development program to put people to work at good wages?
"In communist societies everyone had very similar income"

I really don't think that was the case. In a practical sense, communist regimes were the extreme endgame of inequality.

Those at the very top of the chain lived like kings, while those at the bottom starved.
It never compares older women to similarly aged men.

I did a skim of the article yesterday. I think you are looking for an apples to apples comparison that doesn't exist. From what I saw, I felt it was trying to explain the apples to oranges comparison that does exist. For example, it notes that women are more likely to simply give up than men. Unemployment statistics stop counting you if you outright give up, thus it is not really useful to look at "unemployment" stats for both genders to understand the problem.

I am a 50 year old woman who was a military wife and homeschooling mom. I was one of the top 3 students of my graduating class, yet ended up being a homemaker for about 2 decades. I find it enormously frustrating to try to explain to people how that impacts my life. Men very often just do not understand how taking time off from career to raise kids or support a spouse's career, etc, impacts your life and your prospects for earning an income on par with similarly aged and similarly educated, competent men.

So a) you aren't going to find a meaningful apples to apples comparison and b) any attempt to compare a woman's life to a man's in an apples to apples manner essentially denies that women are different from men and our lives are different from those of men. It tends to be very meaningful information.
I split my time between Saxony and Ontario and the German taxis are in far better condition and the drivers way better.
Absolutely. But as I said, it's for my own drawing program prototypes, I cannot build upon their application.
When can we expect to see the license terms? This claims that "The terms will specify a zero-royalty RAND license as well as verification suites licensees must run to use the RISC-V logo" but it appears that free (libre) implementations might not be permissible.
Aren't you paying around 1$ per new entry registered with them in your namespace?
Were the VC hype machines this big around the 2000 bubble? I was only 10 years old back then, don't know much about the industry before the crash.
"not very expensive"? - they are the same price as taxis in the US. I think most people would consider them expensive.

Personally, I would love to pay a cheaper price for a less comfortable trip. I don't need to ride in a freshly washed 2012 Mercedes E-class.
It seems to be that people are reacting to a potential threat to an axiom of their's. That is: "Income inequality is bad because A,B,C, and should be prevented at all costs." I'm not saying no part of this is founded in reasoning and evidence, but you are right that the author does not actually respond to PG's sentiment. Rather, his reaction is automatic.
Well, there's multiple answers to this that I am aware of, and probably more that I am not, but:

Scenario A, working as a Salaryman at a Large Company:

While you spend most of your time working, it's still not all of it - there is occasional free time, and anyone that is willing to date a salaryman will be aware of the demands imposed on you by your career.

Additional, if you have not manager to find yourself a serious prospect or wife by the time you are nearing the end of your 20s, it is your bosses responsibility to play matchmaker. This isn't an arranged marriage, but there some pressures to settle down, and culturally it would be seen as a failing of your boss for you to make it well into your 30s unmarried.

Scenario B, not working as a Salaryman at a large company:
Your work schedule is much more similar to that of what we see in the Western world. There are jobs available that are going to be a more typical 40-50 hours a week, even in professional fields - not everyone has to go work for a megacorp.

And, on the other side of things, sometimes you don't. Marriage and birth rates are dropping. More and more young men and women do not date at all - even those that are not working obscene hours. Many NEET (Not Employed, in Education, or Training) and 引き籠もり (extreme shut-ins, usually an overlap with the NEET) are not dating either. And while there is still more sexism in Japan than many other first world countries, women are finally being allowed more in the way of career progression, and many are choosing to ignore marriage, etc, and instead focusing on being successful. There are entire industries devoted to replacing the need for relationships - host and hostess clubs, where you pay exorbitant amounts of money to just talk with people of the opposite sex as if they were a romantic partner (with no actual sexual activity), 'cuddle bars', video games that encourage you to go on date-like activities with a virtual SO in the game (yes, literally taking your girlfriend on your 3DS out to eat), etc etc etc.

Dating is a problem in Japan, and not just because of extreme work hours.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10832439
The current Rocket implementation is single issue in-order, but it was designed as a dual issue in-order core.
Can anyone help me out with how the run-up height is ~17x greater than the wave height? This is because the wave hits the shore and the volume of water in the wave gets squished thin, making it temporarily higher?
JSFiddle Unveils New Code Embed Styles
Is there a "random bot" link I missed when perusing the site? I would love to click on such a thing a few times
Indeed. Ultimately a spreadsheet is a REPL for a functional programming language. Makes you wonder why we worry so much about teaching everyone to code when the average office admin does it every day!
"Honestly if you are worried about this sort of X, you shouldn't live in a [subset of first-world country utilities.]"

Ad hominem. C'mon, I expect better specious arguments on Hacker News.
How do you remove billions in net worth more than once? It doesn't exist the second time.
Walking Exercise for Weight Loss
As others have pointed out, this sounds self-inflicted at best.
Yeah, you can find it in my note-taking-experimentation github repo

https://github.com/Azeirah/note-taking-experimentation

It's in the infinite-canvas folder. Just open the index.html file and it should simply work, as there is no set-up needed yet.

Drag + left click = draw
Drag + right click = pad the world

I'm not planning whatsoever to support or document this. It's open source, but I leave it at that.
Oh, shazbot. Sorry.

Edit: Here's the link: http://www.babble.com/crafts-activities/25-more-at-home-scie...

I'll submit that instead.
> Also, different places have wildly different sources of pollutants. It is ridiculous to generalise across the whole world based on a few factoids.

Indeed, but no matter how you look at the data (and where), stuff like banning cars from roads is a placebo measure, given the slow share of cars in said pollutants.

The most problematic point, very often overlooked, is that factory chimneys (and, to a lesser degree, ship chimneys) belch their smoke in higher air, which means that the pollutants in the smoke can fly for hundreds of kilometers before coming down on the earth and causing problems.
Great stuff. I would love to be able to use Mongoose.js with Postgres, it would massively accelerate my development process.
Why not a death tax?

Give a flat amount to the family (capped at say 5 million), then a flat 100% tax after that

No living person pays more taxes

Children can get an incredible windfall, but not eye-popping.

Tax revenue goes through the roof.
A Still-Growing El Niño Set to Bear Down on U.S
Progressive taxation is a perfectly acceptable solution. Somewhere, there was some notion that said: "Already-rich people probably make money faster than the less well-off", therefore: "We should tax them more to even things out a little and have an upward push for the less well-off. And on the upside is we have a bit more funding for the state/infrastructure/services.".

The problem now comes that society in general are not happy with the outcomes of the above. It's now less about how to provide for a stable, secure society and infrastructure, and more about how will we "fix everything". I believe the very existence of a state means people will want it to fix things, because it's there.

And now, someone needs to pay for all the "fixing".
What's New in Pyramid 1.6
For all the effort that browsers go to in order to make sites "scary" when there are bad certificates, etc. I would love to see a big, red, scary page that says "you are loading a web site that is consuming an unreasonable number of resources, are you sure you want to continue?". Make that the default, make the warning limit 400 K, and watch web sites (complain first, and then) change.
I'm not following you -- are you saying that Python runs where C doesn't, or something else ?
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it's a spot on my screen:

#1 try to clean.

#2 not in my code.
"Native American Indians" suggests that the nomenclature is more subtle than that.

I think you are reading in subtlety that likely does not exist. In addition to what I said yesterday, I will suggest that whoever created the site may have mentally put two terms together without realizing it: "Native American" and "American Indians". They may have just run them together without intending to create anything new or realizing it was not a standard term.
Quantum Control Gates in Python
How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Catalogue
I didn't ignore your argument, I threw it back at you.

1. Ok, here is why it's offensive. Let's use an example.
Alice says: "Dota 2 is gay."
That sentence only makes sense today because gay means bad. But why does it mean bad? Because gay also means homosexual. So it implies homosexuals are bad. And it is offensive because it is continuing to reinforce the association of gays to all that is bad. That's how it got its meaning after all. Same goes for faggot. She calls Bob a faggot over Skype not because she thinks he is attracted to men, but because no one wants to be a faggot or associated with faggots. Same goes for queer and all the other words that mean homosexual and are now being used as insults. Using these words in these ways is disparaging to gays because it implies they are bad.

2. Not sure what you are getting at because gay still means X and Y. It still means homosexual and it now means bad. Faggot is still a homophobic slur and now a general purpose insult. This is the very problem.

2b. I acknowledge that words have multiple meanings. Gay has multiple meanings and this is actually essential to my arguments above.
I can tell you firsthand that was not the reason my wife didn't work.
25 At-Home Science Experiments
That's not even remotely an ad hominem, though I imagine you just mean it's a fallacious argument in general.

That being said, hardly. We already know that law enforcement can use cell phones to spy on people. There is an abstract fear that the Echo might do this in the future (enough analysis has been done to know that it does not currently), yet we know for sure that cell phones can do it currently.

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

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

http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdro...

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/08/02/fbi-can-remotely-acti...
> We think of this as a problem only of the urban and suburban elite, but in traveling the country to report on this issue, I have seen that this stress has a powerful effect on children across the socioeconomic spectrum.

I didn't read your subtext in the article. I'm not convinced it accounts for very much. Also, Asian Americans make up 5% of the population. What do you think "Asian" has to do with the topic of this text?
You're probably right and thanks for the advice, but this is for on-site storage I'm considering for my parents. They live in a country that takes me about 24h to fly to, with daily power outages, and while I'm sure they could do it if they wanted to, they're rather averse to the idea of doing any wiring work.

A user-replaceable battery that can be replaced in the way that an older Thinkpad battery can would be nice.

I'm looking at the options suggested [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831796) and [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831721), but I'm having a hard time finding APC battery availability in India.
I've heard if you pester Amazon support enough they'll stop using a problematic carrier for your orders.
Amazon is not as cheap as the culture makes it out to be. Most of the time its actually a ripoff compared to other online shopping when you factor in promo codes or deals.

Walmart.com offers free shipping for orders over $45. Target.com offers free shipping also. And if you are ordering dog/cat food or some niche thing, ordering from Chewy.com or computer parts from Newegg, etc.. will net you better prices.

I'm not sure if its Amazon who's canvasing online forums or the myth just continues to get perpetuated by less than savvy shoppers. But Amazon is hardly cheap unless you really do need the 2-day shipping. Which most of the time, people don't mind waiting 3-5 days to save 10-20%.
Sounds like the Netflix app just had better bandwidth detection and quality adjustment than Amazon or HBO. Not surprising, as the latter two are less mature apps and infrastructure built by relatively newcomers to the streaming business whose core competency is not in digital media distribution (regardless who may have built their system). Ironically, it might be because you bought it in HD that it buffers excessively on your roku, whereas it might stream better in SD.

But none of that matters, you are correct at this point that Netflix clearly has it figured out and working for you, while their competition does not. Only to say, the dynamic bitrate support is likely to improve on the other apps with time (not to mention, your internet connection is likely to periodically increase in speed for various upgrades to your equipment or your ISPs) so those issues are likely not permanent.
The late '90s version was much more disorganized and not quite as embedded in institutions (pension funds, governments, etc.) as the current version is. But it was a more "public" bubble in a way, more successful in pulling in money from regular people. There were VCs out there hyping companies, but there wasn't the huge infrastructure of media-savvy venture funds, incubators, startup schools, consultants charging startups money to help get them into an incubator, etc. And they weren't as successful in getting governments and universities on board the startup hype train with all the Innovation Initiatives you see now. But what they did have going for them was a gold-rush feeling that everything was novel: "X but on the internet" was itself almost enough to sell. And the emergence of online brokers (e.g. E-Trade) as part of the same bubble brought an influx of new retail investor money, as your uncle who just heard about the internet started lining up to buy into tech IPOs.
While I can't say this is the best written essay I've ever read, I do find it telling that most of the commenters would rather dismiss the piece as "barely literate invective" than engage with the arguments it advances.

If you don't have anything to contribute beyond an angry critique of the author's writing style, then maybe you should sit the discussion out.
This is one of those questions that is extremely hard to predict. Even though I was part of that team, it doesn't mean I have any special insight into what will happen.

A lot will depend on sources of funding. Will folks like Nvidia start sponsoring Numba, and if so what will it mean for support of Nvidia alternatives like OpenCL?

It seems like NumbaPro as a stand-alone for-pay product is not viable on its own, but that claim could be wrong based on more recent data that I don't have access to. So external sponsorship may be necessary.

One form of this could be through Continuum's already established business model of consulting and support services. But then the question is whether the nature of those consulting and support projects will allow for developers to actually further the cause of Numba, or just merely hack in poorly conceived features that are demanded by the consulting and support customers? Since Numba is open source, it should be easy enough for anyone to follow along with commits and discussions on GitHub and make their own opinion about what direction that is going.

The other question that is always hard is staffing. Far and away the colleagues I had the chance to work with on the Numba team were amazingly good. But it's not clear if working solely on Numba can justify the sort of salary that would be required to attract very top engineers and grow the team. You might start to see more interns and/or post-doc type labor feeding into Numba, and again I don't know what that will mean for the project ... could be good or bad.

At the same time, you've also got a lot of active development for Julia, PyPy, and a lot of people still prefer to use Cython rather than jitting functions. Some people even call into question the entire goal of making something that is "easy" but also a "black box" -- like the way just dropping in `jit` works for people who merely use, but don't understand the inner workings of, CPython.

It's an exciting area, and the Numba team has as much talent and ability to claim a significant piece of the tool space surrounding high performance computing as anyone else. Whether that will pan out for them is still really hard to predict.
Back then the bubble was more wide spread in the tech industry. Also startups were eager to go public quickly. High valued stocks would go up 25% on the slightest rumor (ie JSDU was a good example.)
We had commercials during the Superbowl for companies that had literally no product to sell.
That's just Berlin, not Germany.

In smaller cities, you'll wish you had Uber. Most taxis speak little english (hard to communicate where you're going without just handing them your phone with the address in it), they don't always take card or like doing so (I had a guy who after mumbling something nasty used a manual imprinter on my card) and have generally given me bad service.

Never had those issues with Uber when it was available in more places. I've moved to using Blacklane whenever I can, but they're worse than Uber.
Prime also has streaming video, music, etc. In my view, the free same day shipping is just a huge bonus.
That's fine but I'd expect if the issue is to be treated with any urgency we would have some sense of the problem. If parties are acting sensibly with data and self regulating then the urgency is quite less than top priority. Does it need to be addressed, yes but perhaps parties would spend some time to get it right before rushing to create privacy disclosures that will only add to the confusion.

Disclosing partner and vendor data usage to parents is likely a tricky issue for schools. My guess is the current loophole is more about laziness and lack of mature regulation than any insidious plan by Google to capture data about our kids so they can show more relevant ads.
And would Stack be the best place to draw conclusions like this?
I started working on getting my private Wordpress plugin and theme update service out of beta. It's getting closer! Maybe by the end of the month.

https://kernl.us - Come check us out!
And all those caveats are why Amazon can catch return abusers while brick and mortar stores have a much harder time, and ultimately don't bother as its not worth the effort.
But taxes on inheritance and investment are totally regressive (and have become even more regressive), which undermines the benefits of a progressive system for earned income.
why write unmaintainable code in Angular when the selling point of Angular is that it provides you a way to maintain your code.

to put it another way, if you're going to be writing unmaintainable code anyway do it in Vanlla JavaScript.