skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was more speaking to the origin of the term (as in, a society of people pooling their money to build buildings); not how it's used today. You may very well be correct and that would make sense.
Right. I have a feeling that this is shocking mostly because of the context, and not necessarily because of the agreement itself. How many other high risk agreements have been made in the world? I'm pretty sure most of the human universe runs on this kind of thing, we just either don't find out about it because it pays off, or it doesn't matter, because the context isn't exciting. I said "wow" when I first read it, but only because of what I know about the whole Yahoo and Marissa situation, not because it seems like a particularly crazy deal by itself.
Where did you read that?

Goose meat tastes roughly like steak. It tends to sell for over $10 per pound. I know price isn't perfectly correlated with quality, but it didn't get high prices from nonexistent demand.
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Kondo isn't a minimalist in the sense that you seem to think. She helps people whose homes are overflowing with stuff they don't even like.

If you like your tools, and they fit your lifestyle, and they fit in your home without spilling out of closets and shelves, then you've achieved what she advocates.
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This is a great comment.

You should not close apps because you may interfere with tracking your location and other data collection.

Data collection is necessary to enrich your "user experience". When we know what you want we can fulfill your every wish! Just say "OK, Google". It will be great!

The developers behind this crap do not hear from satisfied users. Because the truth is no one really cares about this stuff. They care about things like reception and battery life...

except for some nerds like the ones who comment on HN who can easily point out all the stupidity of these "business" models.

When users are like puppets on a string, helplessly dependent. When there are no alternatives, no competition. Is that a business? And I suppose shooting fish in a barrel is game of skill.

Oddly enough, Googlers read HN comments and frequently defend the company, speaking only for themselves of course. Why should they care that anyone sees Android for what it really is? Whining nerds do not count, right? So why pay attention to what they think?

If developers of Android and iOS had any respect, if they had a conscience, then they would not be usurping people's computing resources for their own ends. Sure, users will be oblivious to what is going on and they will not complain. That does not mean it's OK to do these things.
NK has 25 million people. If their government can't feed the population, catching some birds won't make a meaningful difference.
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Of course, no one is saying that companies and employees have to value ISOs the same, but no one is saying employees who value ISOs at zero should be working at a startup either
But you couldnt draw a straight line that has half the land area on each side yet 94/6% split of population.
Thousands protest police violence in DC. Two officers injured in Dallas ambush
Picasso was apparently known to do this, not as a form of extortion but simply because he could sometimes be a butthead.

The story, as I remember reading it, was that a dealer approached Picasso with some drawings and asked him to authenticate them. "All fake.", he said. A friend who observed this had his doubts -- they looked genuine enough to him. He gave one of his own Picassos to the dealer and asked him to try that one.

"Fake.", said Picasso. The friend said "But Pablo, I saw you draw that myself! You gave it to me with your own hands!". Picasso's reply: "Anyone can do a fake Picasso. I sometimes do them myself."
In a nutshell why do a lot of developers dislike agile?
Since you already have the Vive, you should at least try roomscale once by temporarily moving around furniture. It changed my perspective on the potential of VR.
There is no personal accomplishment to hedonistic pleasure. I would call them pleasant, even broadening which I guess is worthwhile, once in a while. So maybe I should say it with many more words and more detail, so non-Calvinists can get it: many very hard, very demanding things are worth doing even though not constantly pleasurable.
There's also a big question about whether winning is actually necessary in the typical case.

Think about it: if this sets precedent, anyone with enough money who dislikes you for any reason can ruin you by filing a bogus lawsuit about something you putatively did a few decades ago. Sure, in theory you could eventually win based on preponderance of the evidence. In practice, unless you're a multimillionaire like Doig, the legal costs will bankrupt you before that.

Still think it was okay for the judge to send this to trial?
Or it could simply be viewed as a form of "rights management," where even though you already paid for a work of art, now that some time has passed, you have to pay the creator again. Oh, and for any copies of it that you make, whether you sell them or not.

No, that's crazy. No one would ever agree to such a scheme. [/s]
Search for this quote. It is very relevant

> "Let me give you a lesson in practical politics. It is a mistake to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort."
And that'd be pedantic. Better can be more cost-effective, cheaper in time or money or equipment or quality of land required. I grew up on a farm, live on one now, my family has farmed for 300 years, so I guess I win?
The fat is obnoxious.

You're more likely to make a mistake though by treating the legs and the breasts equally, they need to cook different amounts. Of course, that's the same way people ruin turkey. They want that whole bird to come out of the oven like in a magazine, even though the different parts of the bird have different volumes, densities, and protein chains.

On the other hand, maybe everyone's just making dry turkey as an excuse for gravy...
Society has chosen to not regulate which alleyways people choose to walk down.

There are many things that individuals are free to do but organizations are not.
What I think is going to be most interesting is companies/banks/insurances agencies being able to gleam information without going through the farmers at all. Not by subverting them and going to the machinery manufacturers, which is already happening, but just by using other sources of information, such as satellite imagery.

It's already possible to predict yield potential through biomass/NDVI monitoring via satellite, and given that imagery from a source such as LandSat is freely available, or something like Planet isn't that expensive once your a bank/insurance agency I'm certain they must already be using.

Once you can predict yields reliably via satellite, you can start to predict supply for certain types of grain in different regions, or to a lesser extent, countries as a whole. This data is useful to investment banks and insurers, as well as organisations such as CBH[1], that handle the entirety of Western Australia's grain export. They currently determine potential yield by sending out a grower survey, and asking the farmers to predict yields themselves.

I think the idea of anyone "stealing" our data is overrated. The data from our farm[2] is specific to our farm, and as long as where not farming in such a way that is detrimental to our partners (such as banks/suppliers), such that we were trying to lie about yield potential, or resource usage, I'm not sure what value could be stolen by anyone with our info. In fact we openly share all the trial work we do, so that everyone in the community can learn and benefit.

[1] https://www.cbh.com.au/
[2] https://hectare.ag/nook
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>Beijing is fairly wealthy these days, yet is still polluted like crazy....The reason it persists is because the the costs of cleaning it up are concentrated on a few, while the costs of being exposed are distributed among many, and there's no mechanism to push those costs back onto the responsible parties.

I don't know the details, but I suspect my explanation is better. Chinese per capita GDP is $6.8k, which is the equivalent of 1910 USA. Beijing is $10k, which is 1940 USA. Parts of the US had similarly bad or worse smog up into the '40s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
Local farmer groups are already a thing, where farmers get together to share research, look at properties with trials running on them etc. [1]

The question your have to answer before trying to sell any of this "info", is who, other than the farmers themselves is going to find it valuable enough to buy?

[1] http://gga.org.au/group/northern-agri-group/
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What, exactly, do you mean by "intrinsic value"?

That's not (necessarily) a trick question. I've been digging at the matter, and there's considerable dispute. W.F. Lloyd, 1833, states that "all value is relative", with Smith and Jevons making similar statements in their own works.

http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/%7Eecon/ugcm/3ll3/lloyd/v...

There's also the question of whether we're talking about any of three attributes, and how comprehensively those are defined:

1. Cost using the definition that all costs are opportunity costs (Krugman, Economics, 2008).

2. Price, here meaning market exchange price or what Smith termed exchange value.

3. Value, which is to say, the utility, affinity, preference, or usefulness to the owner, which Smith termed use value.

Market value (price) often bears only a very loose relationship to cost or value. See water/diamonds paradox, externalities, or environmental services and their value, cost, and price.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/48rd02/cost_va...
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Rephrasing: getting people to switch from Google (traffic) is the hard part, but Mozilla has the means to influence that (through Firefox's default search engine) more than, say, DuckDuckGo.
An easier way could be to take a fridge and lay it horizontally.
made a video inspired by this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do
Garbage collection.

A common pattern in Java based systems is fan-out based processing. One immutable message is created, sent to multiple processors, who then combine signals to make a decision. Tracking the memory here would slow you down. But usually the JVM handles this just fine, and kills those objects in first generation.

Also, Java has a fantastic standard library, probably the best concurrency system, and the JIT can actually make code faster than C++.

It doesn't work for extreme low latency people - those guys write custom code for FPGA - but there is a healthy chunk of HFT for whom Java is a great choice.
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So yay monopoly and cartels?
I missed the "hahaha", but came into this comment section to see if anyone else thought the "Craig : [Laughter]" got awkward from the get-go.

It is phrased like it's a response currently. Very staccato and interrupting the flow of the article.

I'd actually do the opposite and go more candid than professional, since "laughter" isn't quite informative. Perhaps something that looks like it's a side note, and less formal. So maybe;

(Chris laughs)

(Prompting another laugh from the interviewer)

etc.
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Re 4. Might be better off with two fish tanks. One for the wee ones?
Clarifying: 3DH only assures authentication to the original participants itself.

However if a message payload itself consisted of, say, a PGP-signed message, then that could be authenticated independently (either on receipt, or if/when the public key was disclosed).
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I'd be interested in knowing if all housing prices in India are going up or just for certain demographics. For example, I'd assume that there is a large burgeoning middle class based on tech / offshoring in places like Bangalore, Hyderabad, etc. And also, there are probably a lot of newly minted millionaires that are involved in politics, finance, etc. - a lot of investment money has gone to India in the last 20 years.

But are the rents even increasing for the majority poor that live in the very cramped areas surrounding most cities? How about the rural population?

I ask because, while it makes sense that places like London, SF, and Vancouver would have huge property price increases due to increases in demand (foreign wealth, start-up success, etc.) it seems very disturbing that more and more areas where wages have simply not risen at all for decades are also going through prices increases.

For example, the rents in the Midwest city I come from have gone up about 50% in the last 7 or 8 years, though housing itself has not. Wages have actually gone down, adjusted for inflation.
>What do you mean by money? (Honestly.)

By money I don't mean actual folding paper currency. These are all just numbers in computers - the central bank buys and sells currency as retail banks need it, but since that would take time most likely during a run they would give you a cashier's check which you could deposit somewhere else.

The amount of actual cash a bank branch has at a branch at any given time is just enough to handle their need for cash. Your typical US suburban retail bank starts the day with something like $20k in the vault. If I wanted to withdraw more than a few thousand bucks in cash I would have to give my bank advance notice.

There isn't actually a piece of currency somewhere for every outstanding dollar (or pound or euro or yen or whatever). If I'm reading this chart correctly there's something like 5 US dollars circulating in the economy for every dollar in currency.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m...

The amount of outstanding currency is mostly irrelevant. If I deposit $100k at a bank using an electronic check the bank could turn around and buy $100k in currency from the Fed, but for the most part there isn't any reason to and all they do is change my balance in the computer.

>Why do banks care about having deposits?

Because in theory the amount of money they have in reserve dictates how much they can create in new loans. For example, if the reserve ratio is 9:1 and you deposit $10k, the bank can only loan out $9k on the basis of your deposit.

If too many people withdraw money that quarter the bank has to increase its reserves to match the ratio of outstanding loans by attracting more deposits, selling assets (like loans), or borrowing from other financial institutions (including the central bank).

The reserve ratio is set by the government, and it's one of those knobs central bankers can turn to affect the economy -when they want to stimulate the economy they can increase the reserve ratio, which allows banks to make more loans. If they want to slow things down a bit they can decrease the ratio, which makes it harder for banks to make loans.

This video, while a bit on the melodramatic side, actually explains basic banking reasonably well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvKjsIxT_8
This is nothing, I've seen some pretty substantial JS apps that are only one line.
I routinely claim authorship of natural objects, like a cool summer breeze, "I made that."

Related, lots of artists make forgeries of their own work.
No, it is standard practice to place an officer on leave for any officer involved shooting. It has nothing to do with them being "trigger-happy".
Care to share any examples?
How does a middle eastern background help here?
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I'd be surprised if I've cmpleted 100 games in my lifetime, and I've been hooked since the original NES. I noticed in school that there was a vast gap in talent and achievement between those of us who got into comsci because we spent so much of our childhood playing computer games, and those who spent an equal amount of time on the computer but very little time playing games.

(Then there's Woz, who can be a world Tetris champ and also nearly-singlehandedly create the Apple I and Apple ][)
Who is this man who seems to die in every terrorist attack?
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"Vertical doors in refrigeration devices are inherently inefficient. As soon as we open a vertical fridge door – the cold air escapes, simply because it is heavier than the warmer air in the room."

Okay, so the author proposes that the thermal losses from the cold air being replaced with ambient air make up for the hundreds of extra kWh/year consumed by a vertical fridge.

While chest freezers typically have better thermal insulation and larger evaporators than fridges...

So shouldn't we be comparing a chest fridge to a vertical fridge with a comparable insulation system and condenser/evaporator capacity before declaring that lower air losses are the reason chest fridges work better?
What does that even mean? Do you have any examples where the so-called free market has successfully solved this problem?
The compressor has a coil with oil in it. The oil must settle in the right places or the thing could stop functioning. It can ruin a compressor to store the unit in the wrong orientation.
> Because the person who bought the painting is losing millions of dollars.

By that logic I should be suing the lottery because I lost millions of dollars when my numbers weren't picked.
As someone already pointed out, she filled her bank and made her friends rich as well. It will be enough for her, her family, her children, grandchildren and all their friends.

It is not like she'll need to quickly look for a job and will be ruined if nobody hires her afterwards. She could retire any second and do nothing for the rest of her life, which she might as well do.
"all the companies will be set up at tables to meet with you face to face."

A study on speed dating showed an increased opinion from the person that approaches the other. Intentional?
I thought yahoo japan was a completely separate entity from yahoo global, why does the article mention softbank at all?
... and the HN discussion of this article 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036864
it is still the wild west today... no secure apps exist...
I wasn't asking about regulation, but merely whether this makes the woman racist. Are individuals now unable to be racist?
You've been lambasted!

While I agree with pretty much all the criticisms raised by others, I would just like to qualify that I like the idea of attempting to disrupt the traditional terminal.

A terminal will always be a window from GUI land to the shell, but that doesn't mean we can't play with it! :)
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Sometimes it never gets to a "working" state and plods along in a "mostly not prone to errors."

This works for games but when you get to payment systems, autopilot cars, and operating systems... Well it's not a good enough way of thinking. You need tools to help you think at a certain level of difficulty. Even for programmers we shamelessly glorify that level isn't very high... Yet hubris sometimes pushes us to make silly claims.

I cannot disagree that "practice makes perfect." That applies at so many levels. One has to be comfortable with throwing things away and trying again. Practice dutifully and intentionally. Then realize what you don't know and where your limits are and have the humility and boldness to find ways to reach beyond them.
What does this mean?

Large chunks of code are fragile (or very 'fluffy' per line
of code)
Your second point is incorrect. There are plenty of trade agreements without free movement included. Indeed the EC (forerunner to the EU) was precisely free trade without free movement.

The first point is debatable. There is a lot of political power to be gained by the person who pulls the trigger if they do it succesfully. I think it is 50:50, but there is a lot of upside to be had if it is done well and with plenty of stability and adjustment time. Anyone in the Conservative party who refuses to pull the trigger will be subject to endless criticism and undermining from the significant base of people that wants it done.
Well, you're technically correct, but minified JS is kindof cheating, right? I mean, I've written multi megabyte C# programs that I could minify to just a single line, but it wouldn't be right.
They wouldn't be starting the trade war, the war has already begun. The Europeans are threatening to impose tariffs on British goods unless Britain signs up to EU rules. Threatening to respond in kind is completely reasonable. Whatever the rules of the EU were is totally irrelevant now, except insofar as they represent interests that the EU is seeking to defend. This is now a negotiation between sovereign powers, each with leverage over the other.

As to whether Britain can win, I think the next Conservative government is likely willing to walk away from the table. Shifting to a more Atlantic-oriented vs. European-oriented position would be a somewhat painful economic transition, but it's what a lot of Tories want at heart anyway, so it's not an infeasible outcome if the continent proves unyielding.

And don't forget that Merkel and Hollande cannot afford to be seen allowing hundreds of thousands of job losses in some effort to punish Britain and deter the further crumbling of the EU, which is increasingly unpopular in their countries as well. Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the National Front (FA) are biting at their heels, and FA might actually win the presidency in France next year, which would almost certainly be the end of the EU.
Wow. That's how one should pitch a new programming language to programmers.

>Yeah, we still count in KB.

Sadly, no one cares about such things nowadays.
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In some places you can negotiate for a sack of rice. A television. A taxi ride. A dress.

When you live in such places you become used to the ebb and flow of negotiating, the give and take.

If the only time you negotiate anything, it's worth millions, you might not be well practiced.