skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you feel this is bad? If you use my personal data and score me with some obscure system, i think it is just fair to tell me. If you score me bad, i deserve at least to know it before i run into problems
Ok.. for a dating app it might not be that important but rating systems like the schufa(credit trust network) already have big influence on my daily live.
Would this actually be considered "personal data" in the EU? Obviously things like name, age, gender, etc are personal data, but a rating derived from only in-app judgements by other people and only relevant in-app?

That makes it sound like every column in every database where your name is they key is considered "personal data." That doesn't really fit with my common sense interpretation of it.
Reminds me of the concept of data furnace: a "method of heating residential homes by running servers in them"

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/05/data-furnaces-arri...
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And if the whole project isn't consistently formatted enough for your team to turn on a linter, then considering doing it only for incoming patches!
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So, money?
“[X] is a toy”
Well, this may sound like a cliche, but I think that more often than not what women want and what they need are two different things.
Sounds more like the CIA
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On single lane roads though, as OP was referring to? I honesty don't know though because I don't drive much anymore.
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He's not saying it's free money, he's saying it's easy to have an account.
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Your ex was wrong.
Ancient societies, frequently full of wisdom, also believed dumb stuff like the sun orbiting the earth and that bathing regularly was bad for one's health. Please reach out to me and I'll gladly give you my phone number.
Google doesn't need to "transfer the money" elsewhere. They conduct sales from an EU company within an EU country to another EU country.

That is precisely the point of EU. I am therefore astonished that it mostly seems to be the same persons and political parties that both

a) want Britain to stay in EU

b) castigate Google for acting precisely in the way the EU legislation has been intended to work.

Personally, I engage in tax avoidance schemes e.g. by purchasing wine and spirits and even using restaurant services in a lower-tax regime, which is across a patch of sea two hours away (within EU). I have also avoided taxes by ceasing to use haircut/barber services in my country where there's VAT and service prices generally are very high.
Payday loans serve a purpose. Thinking the poor use them because they're irrational or stupid is just elitist.

A payday loan might have an atrocious interest rate, but it's better than getting kicked out of your apartment because you're $30 short on rent or getting thrown in jail for a parking ticket.
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The problem isn't with companies that sell huge TVs to poor people, but with companies the sell huge TVs on credit to poor people with an interest rate of 65%.

There are many other safer cheaper ways to provide this service - "lay away" would be one.
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Idea that people make logical choices when it comes to dating is nonsense. Most people when looking for a long-term relationship are more set on being in control than finding the right person. Beyond that, most people end up in a relationship not by choice, but out of habit.

Ran into a guy joining Tinder the other day, he said they were saying the valuation for the company was a billion... :-)
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The NY Review of Books is still primarily designed as a print publication. The title here shows up on their table of contents page, so you might better describe it as “flipbait”. Notice that on the NYRB ToC page, the title of the book under review – Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts – is also printed, giving additional context to the review.

There’s nothing especially “these days” about magazine essay titles with puns in them. Catching a reader’s eye and enticing him to start reading is the title’s primary purpose. This isn’t a newspaper story, where the reader might be trying to get a clear idea of the day’s main events just by skimming the headlines.
> Why would, say, a farming robot care whether someone is "freeloading" off its labor?

The obvious rebuttal is that someone has to build and maintain the farming robot, so this is the guy whom you would be freeloading of.

On a more general note: The concept of property only ever arises because of scarcity. For example, you wouldn't describe yourself as owning the air in your apartment, since there is ample air. A diver, on the other hand, would definitely declare ownership in the air in your air bottle.

So how can we implement a post-scarcity society? My best guess would be to work on affordable technology that makes basic things like water, food, clothes or internet access not scarce anymore.
There are some community activities to implement client-side encryption. But as far as I know there doesn't exists any running code at the moment. So don't expect to much in the next few months.

In general I want to note that client side encryption is great. I also like and use it in many areas. But you also have to keep in mind that it will make most of the web interface and it features useless. Personally I run my ownCloud in my basement. The connection to the server is secured by https and the hard disc is encrypted with LUKS. In this case it doesn't make sense to me to add additionally server-side or client-side encryption.

The first step is always to check your threat model, your setup and your requirements to see if you really need server-/client-side encryption.
I appreciate Tedu's musings on technical issues, and how he freely acknowledges when there's a problem on their side. I wonder how Chrome's performance is on OpenBSD?
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Depreciation of rental buildings (the land is excluded) is just a tax timing issue and reduces the basis in the property, so it's eventually recovered via recapture.

The paper you cite takes as an assumption a monopoly of landlords. It does not prove that's the case. "It should be clarified that our model here is one where...landlords have monopolistic power. ... We do not claim that this case is in any way closer to the reality of the housing market than the perfect competition assumption."
A small off topic point based on the article, it's not "ELO" or "elo" it's "Elo" as in Mr. Arpad Elo, the Hungarian-American mathematician and chess player.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad_Elo
I need S-expressions to parse question 8 on that form.
https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/587#issuecomment-40...

> We don't roll our own crypto.

> There are two parts of the code base in which "we roll our own crypto": the transfer protocl and encrypted library.

That's just ridiculous.
Any reason why you would want to use npm with Qt? What does npm have to do with Qt? Do we have to embed npm into EVERYTHING? Goddamn.
Congrats on developing a SaaS with revenue . . . keep bootstrapping . . . you don't need investment.

Polish up your app and code . . . there are some rendering issues on initial load and validation on the login form. Test, improve, polish provide the best UX you can to keep existing customers.

Start a blog with articles on how realtors can use social media, publish often and collect emails/build a list, email that list valuable information and details on PropertyWizard.

Invest some of your revenue in contacting realtors, test out some ideas and see what your ROI is. Try calling realtors in person make a goal of 1, 5 or 10 per day, approach an office with 50 realtors and offer them a group package, test mailing out 100 postcards, track the realtor/office names/provide a unique URL and track signups. Find out what's working to generate signups and focus your efforts there.

Add a signup process on the site (checkout stripe), test three subscription levels, offer a annual discount sign up for 12 months (price of 10). Add an Office package up to XX realtors, email us for custom plans/more realtors. I think focusing on real estate offices with multiple agents might be a good way to grow your subscribers.

Add a favicon, minor but I always notice when they are missing from a site.

Don't sell a piece of your pie at this point, keep growing it.

Good luck, update us on how it's going.
No, because the cost of building, maintaining and keep in a state of compliance a housing lot is superior to the increase in rent. Sleep dealing is a lucrative job.

There are many factors explaining this : reduced access to law for the poorest, lack of alternatives, but also social perception of the tenants and of their worth, or the cognitive bias displayed by many about homo economicus.
>Wealth inequality is the intended effect of that incentive structure though, not a negative one. The idea being that those who provide more to society - more unique skills, better creations, etc should be more wealthy.

Wealth inequality is the mechanism by which the incentives are supposed to work, but the goal is still the incentives, not the inequality itself. If it were possible to achieve the same without inequality that would be better.

But you say they "should" be wealthy, are you suggesting a model of morality that prefers rewarding merit rather than improving outcomes (even in the long term)?

>To hamper them in any way would arguably make many lives much worse. And what you're suggesting poses that risk. We could lose out on many such advances.

Or we could find out that the excessive inequality was unnecessary, and that we've been giving people shitty lives for no good reason. Or we could even find out that happy people are far more productive than people terrified of poverty. These possibilities are just as much a risk as your suggested outcome.

Personally, I'm inclined to think it would be far better for technological progress to ensure every person has the resources to educate themselves as much as they want without worrying about survival. And I don't think you need to offer people loads of money to give them an incentive to try and cure cancer.

> it's a lot more of a delicate balance than many people make it out to be. You need to be careful to keep those top performers extremely motivated to do more.

At a certain point, inequality can start to act against motivation, because the richest will continue to live in luxury almost regardless of what they do. Higher taxes (and ideally wealth taxes rather than income taxes) can actually encourage them to keep expending effort so they can maintain their standard of living.
I don't know where online publishing is heading, but personally I like blogs which are as simple as possible, formatting-wise.

For example: http://paulgraham.com/talk.html
Actually it's me being temporarily dyslexic! Let's still call it a typo. Thanks
We have those in Italy, as a counter point: it's amazing how fast those got occupied abusively and how local criminals use it to either hide their illegal workers or use it as bargaining chips to gain support and omerta from the population.
The largest fortune in the Roman empire was amassed in almost exactly the same manner (Marcus Linnus Crassus - he ran a fire service).

Desperation is a rich source of profit. Neoclassical economics, instead of analyzing this sordid detail, masks it with assumptions.

That's why you view it as an unrealistic scenario despite the massive amount of historical precedent. Under econ 101 models (perfectly equal wealth; perfectly competitive market) it is an unrealistic scenario.
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I was never a great violinist, but this fetishization of old instruments is part of what turned me away. I refuse to believe that we can't produce instruments as good as those of yesteryear - and indeed, no expert can tell a true Stradivari from the best modern instruments in a blind listening test.
This contrasts quite a bit with:

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/why-no-big-...

'Because The Times was not a part of the global consortium and was not aware that the story was coming, it needed some time to get its own story going. “We didn’t know these documents were out there and being worked on,” he said.

“We didn’t have access to the documents, and that is a very big issue,” he said. But Mr. Purdy said he hoped, and had good reason to believe, that that would change soon.'
Artificially decreasing housing prices always creates shortages - that's already well understood. The more people who can take advantage of artificially lowered prices, the more pressure there is in other parts of the housing market to absorb excess demand.

The cost of decreasing those housing prices are paid for somewhere else in the system.
If the top end is short of "billionaire", I think you get a world without Tesla, Space-X, Blue Origin, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and several other things that I believe are valuable and worthwhile.

You may argue that the cost is too high and that we'd be better off without those things.
Variation can be built in from the start as long as you are willing to pay for it. It is cheaper at the initial design and implementation stages to stamp out identical units that are openly adaptable. The architectural community's exploration into design patterns that filtered over to our community's GoF looked into a lot of these and related issues. The richness achieved over time was arguably very beautiful, as long as you placed a premium upon deep-rooted community identities built out of decades of individual adaptations, emerging like a coral reef.

A full discourse on HN isn't really the right format and forum to discuss land and socioeconomic policy, unless in the context of programmable shelter construction or similar. So I'll offer a tip of the iceberg thumbnail sketch. Land as an asset is given special privileges that other assets do not enjoy, and tightly coupled with that is debt (leverage for land) and capital are treated with special privileges that also are rarely found in other asset classes. These privileges are often enrobed and justified "for encouraging economic growth and development", but while that was true at inception, reflexivity has rendered those rationales moot today.

Personally, I've studied enough to realize I don't have the power to materially change any of this, and instead I focus upon what I can change in my individual sphere of influence. For my personal setting, that means focusing upon modular, incremental improvements in opex and deliberately eschewing conventional norms of how to allocate capex. A concrete example is eventually spending more on foamed glass insulation over time as the original shell itself, with the realization that easily-maintainable 70+ R-value insulation over >100 years between replacements will pay for itself on opex savings alone. A tangentially-related concept is reducing the economic churn in your and your family's lives as a means towards the cost avoidance of the associated economic rents extracted from the churn.
Yes, that has the general idea!
I met someone online who had an absolutely fascinating (to me) profile she listed a bunch of authors I liked, my opening message was a question of which protagonist she preferred from the two sets of books and she was also also into a lot of the same stuff as me (politics and history) but didn't have a profile picture.

We had long conversations and I had no idea what she looked like for the first month or so, she commented that I hadn't asked for a picture which men normally do straight away, my response was "I enjoy talking to you".

She eventually sent a picture when we arrange to go on a date last week, turns out she is absolutely stunning (not I find her attractive, I mean objectively stunning) and the reason she took her picture off was all the "Hey baby, want sum fuk?" messages she was getting.

Date went well and we are going out again soon, I'm not handsome, I'm pretty average looking except for been in decent physical shape (swimming, cycling and dropping 60lbs will do that), frankly if I'd known what she looks like first I probably wouldn't have sent her a message in the first place figuring I didn't have a chance.

The world is a strange place sometimes.
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There is, a bit. But:

a) We don't know which this is

b) An organisation might choose to stand behind its - as you say, altruistic - employee
I've always thought there's a need for a Tinder with an OKC match % running in the background. If someone is similar enough, they're suggested to you, with a few of your physical preferences taken into account. The interface, though, is Tinder-like.

Or, in the least, Tinder could just create a basic setting for only showing "def not looking for a hook-up" profiles.
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and computation:
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> First of all, what psychopaths would leave a dying man, woman or child like that?

Apparently, the same kind that would leave children living in a cardboard box in front of their job.

Life as described in the article sucks, but it's still orders of magnitude better than living on the street.
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I like immutability too. It's just sometimes rather inconvenient.

I would agree with you if you could write something like

http://www.lihaoyi.com/roll/

in a pure immutable style and show me how it's better. You will start off with lots of `.copy`s, maybe transition into lenses and other optics, and soon you'll be on the bleeding edge of research and still not have a working game that's maybe high-school difficulty if written in a mutable style

Research is cool and immutability is cool but if I can get what I want only needing some highschool kid instead of a PL-PhD that's cool too
How exactly do you see it done by the OS vendors ? Should they try to support every conceivable programming language out there ? Should they force every language to use a certain package format ?

Until languages reach a stage where they have totally transparent interoperability - which is the ability to use a library in your language regardless of the language the library was written in - OS vendors have a monumental (impossible) task on their hands.

Windows tried this with COM and ActiveX and I don't think that succeeded entirely.

Things like CLR or JVM are a partial solution, but you can't expect a C++ programmer to work with the JVM or a C guy to make his hack compatible with CLR.

I guess the way we have it right now is the natural "best" way. Let's hope someone somewhere gets enlightened and enlightens everyone else.
They may not find it to be valid prior art, but I think it'd be a relatively convincing argument to something being obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art, as it proves there is no inventive skill required.
Paul's notes got me through many of my engineering courses as well (+4 years ago).
For that kind of stuff it really is straightforward, Python is a pretty orthogonal language and it has lovely tooling.

If you do go that route look into using virtualenv and pip which allows you to 'freeze' requirements into a requirements.txt file.

Then on deploy you can just

pip install -r requirements

Which allows you to install python stuff locally without messing up your global space (it's pretty similar to npm and composer over in PHP land).
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Visible light imaging presumably offers easier perpetrator identification, though.
""" I really dislike the glorification of criminals in the British press."""
It should be noted that he wrote for The Guardian and this is an article from the Guardian website.
This site may have been around! I didn't hit up the way back machine, but I graduated +4 years ago and used this site throughout my undergrad degree.
The trick is to not just leave them poor, but leave them poor and employed. Then you have cheap labor.
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I'd say at least for the ELO score it would apply (I think what you quote is PII, data that could be used to identify someone, not personal data):

> (a) 'personal data' shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity;

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:319...
Have you read any of Marks' books? I know they only tell his side of the story, but the type is there on the page to be scrutinized. He was genuinely approached by MI6 to offer/collect intel, he may have hammed it up in court for his own benefit, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

He also disliked the IRA connections, apparently, but smuggling via Ireland was easier than via France/mainland Europe. In the politics of the time, and perhaps from being Welsh, it was easier to excuse the IRA, I think a fair few Welsh and Scottish subjects of HM Elizabeth II would have had sympathies with the "cause", although not with the manner in which it was being fought for (violence versus Scotland's wait of 30-40 more years for a referendum; some Irishmen obviously wanted a resolution within their lifetime).

The Mr. Nice moniker comes from having bought a passport/identity from a real person by that name (Nice as in the French town), which he then traveled under and adopted. It was genuinely his name for a while.

MI6 was known to exist even it not confirmed by the govt. Ever heard of James Bond? Myth rooted in fact, every UK citizen who has read Flemming/Greene/etc knew there was an MI6.

Whatever you think of Marks, he does have a folk hero side that appeals to the British, someone who found his way into the establishment, but then rejected the banality of that life and instead lived a life most of us haven't the gall to even attempt. I think that is why he is appreciated by the British press.
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I am not saying "Land Value Tax", which basically is a levy on the "unimproved" value of land.[1]
What I am saying is nobody (including corporations) should be allowed to own land for the sake of renting purposes. If you own more than a threshold, you should just hand it over to the government, for some compensation and then if you think you have any excess land left over that you can rent, you should just sell it.

In short, no renting of land at all.
I know, there are some issues to it, but I guess, those can be resolved, without much harming the economy of the 99.99% of the people.

Please correct me if I am wrong w.r.t. "Land Value Tax" vs "ceiling on land holding".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

edit: added clarification at end.
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