skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He starts out an accusation of the left being obsessed with shame by using a Christian minister as a counterpoint?

I watch the televangelists on TV sometimes. They constantly have segments where men admit to masturbating and cry out for forgiveness to the assembled audience about how they "gave in to their sin". It's one of the many bizarre things I see on them. These masturbation and pornography repentance segments are shown over and over. This bizarre behavior is a cornerstone of the Christian right, yet the left is accused of it?

The example he uses is accusations of racist, discriminatory behavior. Well, the accusation can be true or it can be false. Outside of the KKK, I don't know many people who say a real accusation of racist, discriminatory behavior should not be shamed. They usually complain when they say there has been a false accusation of such behavior.

Whereas these bizarre right wing Christian public confessions of masturbating are bizarre whether the guy jerked off or not. You can go to Youtube and search for pornography and sin, pornography and christian, masturbation and sin. Sometimes the say supernatural forces and demons and devils lead them to this.

Also, for Europeans etc. puzzles by my statements, obviously I live in the USA. These things are common here outside of cosmopolitan metropolises like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles etc.
I use Jet on a regular basis. I try to avoid Amazon wherever possible, they're good but they have too much power so I try to help any alternative. Their selection isn't as good as Amazon, but usually it arrives quicker. Books are not quick, but cheaper than BN (even though BN ships them)

They must be burning lots of cash though. I placed a $100 order with about 7 items and it came in 6 different boxes.
> There are so many financially illiterate people here on Hackernews.

it's people using misappropriated financial terms to describe their social ideologies, even though the financial terms are ideologically neutral. they can be used to describe many different social configurations, not just the ones that currently exist.
The problem with this is that it imposes a membrane on the process that is only permeable to work that contains a shippable piece of user-facing software. It presupposes that all work can be divided into such pieces. And since that's not true, it leads to contorted stories to squeeze necessary work through that membrane.
If only the author had software to find the optimal result for 10 years of working on his thing...
Whats your favorite text to speech tool?
A major supermarket chain in my area is in the process of phasing out their self-checkout lanes.

A family member is friends with many of the staff at their store. The inside word, not promoted publicly, is "shrinkage".

They are losing enough that the cost of remodeling out the self-checkout lanes, and the cost of additional staff, is still seen as a net savings.

For my part, I'm glad for the change. Their staff are competent and helpful, and it's a union shop: Wages at least for long-term employees seem to be living wages, people actually get vacations, etc.

They still employ young adults, providing initial jobs and e.g. jobs for people in the local community college.

And staff, while hardly idle, have enough time and the freedom to e.g. provide enough boxes for my friend's recent move. (Already collected in a shopping cart as they had worked, so it really didn't cost them much if any productivity to do so.)
Should people over 40 work a three-day week?
I second this. I did my first reading in high school and it changed me for the better (and weirder).
Microsoft Adds High-Performance GPUs to Azure Cloud
Most (all?) programs have a global cap. Where this one is unique is lack of per transaction caps.

A $2k roundtrip ticket gets you flat $2.25 from Orbitz [0], or $112.00 from Jet.

To hit $1k per year off the 5.6% rate is ~$18k spent on flights & hotels. I think most people won't come close.

[0]: http://www.ebates.com/coupons/orbitz/index.htm
I've been using mutt for a few years before switching to gmail and finally to FastMail. Once you learn the keyboard shortcuts (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en or https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/kbshortcuts.html) I wasn't really slower than using mutt locally. Since they are both single page apps you can't "outrun" them by using shortcuts too fast. It works pretty well for me.
For Google Drive you can just use insync. I used to use them before I went with my self hosted solution.
Characterization Testing
I guess there are many way to use points, but what was described in this article isn't the way we use them. Points are great for a group of people to groom a story (estimate a features difficulty). Points are an estimate of difficulty. The way we do it is we have a story that describes what feature will be built, then as a group we talk about it and then all at the same time (so we aren't persuaded by others) rate the story with points (level of difficulty) and if we all (developers) rate it at the same points then we add the points, if we have different opinions on the points (level of difficulty) then we discuss why we think it's easier or harder. And this helps others who wrote the story foresee issues or know of other simpler solutions. Works great if you ask me, and that's how we were taught to do it.
> To oversimplify, neoliberal means 'socially left, fiscally right'.

No, it doesn't. Neoliberalism has never had anything at all to do with social policy; nor is it particularly about the left/right political axis in any domain. Neoliberalism is an economic philosophy -- the "liberal" in it refers to classic economic liberalism, which is (in terms of the left/right spectrum) typical of the center-left to moderate right (both the far right and moderate-to-far left tend to diverge from economic liberalism.)

It can coexist with either left or right social approaches (in the US, the majority of the Democratic establishment is both neoliberal economically and socially liberal, whereas the Republican establishment tends to be neoliberal economically and socially conservative.)
Tyler Cowen addressed this in an interview, saying that the inequality that "really matters" is the difference in your living standard versus your sister's husband[1].

[1]: http://www.hudson.org/events/1356-are-plutocrats-drowning-ou...
In fairness, Canada's female PM wasn't democratically elected, was only in power for 2.5 months, and came to power after the current PM stepped down due to unpopularity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Mulroney#Retirement

This has parallels to the current UK situation.

I understand the response to perceived American ethnocentrism, but I wouldn't minimize the significance of Hillary/Trump.
>Provide an argument supporting the notion that people shouldn't be incentivized to produce things that the market values

What?! That's crazy! Even if I were intending on debating any of you guys, I could hardly do it being prompted by this intentional strawman. But, of course, you're one of them! By which I mean an arch-capitalist, or whatever, who cares, whose internal value system precludes the understanding of what UBI might accomplish because, of course, people are just going to "do anything they want[ed] without contributing to society" [0] rather than behave differently under a system whose fundamental assumptions have changed. Just because you're absolutely certain that people would stop taking jobs in "construction, plumbing, electrical, farming, etc if they can choose to do nothing instead" [0] doesn't mean it's true, and dropping that slimy ostensible fact instead of an actual argument is hardly adding value to the discussion, either! At least my actions provided some value to those intending on discussing UBI in good faith -- ie, do it somewhere else, these guys don't seem capable.

>Hinting that someone's argument is absurd adds no value to the discussion unless you illustrate why

I think I'm doing a pretty good job, but just in case, said argument attempted to imply that higher education is a stupid hobby, those seeking higher education without the material means to pay for it in fact desire McDonalds, and for those reasons UBI upsets the natural order of things and deserves throwaway comment mockery. Am I really bound to provide something more substantive? I think I've made the 'response' that 'argument' deserves.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12245629
No, have you read my post ?

No problem in promoting your views, just not expect people to take them at face value, or as an "impartial examination of facts", when they are not.
Will Self – Great Apes. To remind people that sometimes we're just fucking monkeys.
I'd be happy with their deal but I wasn't a customer. Back when MtGox collapsed (and I was a customer) we all wished for something like this.
If that's true, then almost all mainstream economists are diehard capitalists/anarchists. (Hint: They're not.)
Well, address decoding can be started in parallel if your page size lets you do virtually indexed, physically tagged caches which applies to only some processors. But that's a separate issue from the relationship between cache size and cache speed. That's governed by three things.

First, the larger your cache the more layers of muxing you need to select the data you need, meaning more FO4s of transistor delay.

Second, the larger your cache the physically bigger it is. That means more physical distance between the memory location and where it is used. That means more speed of light delay.

And third there's the issue of resolving contention for shared versus unshared caches.

So despite the fact that you're using the same SRAM in both your L1 and L3 but access to the former takes 4 clock cycle but access to the later takes 80.
Ask HN: Dear Self-Driving Car AI, Who Should Die?
A bubble is a more complex phenomenon than large price increases. A bubble is inflated by speculation that isn't rooted in anything except the rising price.

If rich foreigners are buying property to summer in because they like the weather, then not a bubble. If rich foreigners are buying property because the property has gained X% in price every year for the last ten years but they don't know anything about the specifics of the local real estate market, then more likely a bubble.

You also can't say something is a bubble until after it pops.
Playing devil's advocate, the thing that these exchanges can, and often do, try to hang their hat on is anonymity. While through hard work (and lots of money) it can be "had" on the mainstream markets, financial anonymity is not something that you average joe really has access to on the major markets.

That being said, is that added benefit worth the (much MUCH bigger) risk of your money going up in smoke? Personally, I don't think so.

Overall, I agree... The reinvention of the wheel for the sake of it is laughable.
No, it really isn't. The person who built that piece of furniture does not deserve an overall control of the design for the person's lifespan + 70 years. There is not a single rational justification for the 100+ year protection, nor should the society protect the few's livelihood when it can benefit everyone once the protection expires.

Switch your scenario the other way around because the reality is, the laws benefit larger companies more than the small indies. A lot of people in US didn't patent their ideas because it cost money to even start the patent process with a lawyer (you have to pay to research prior arts and so on).

Your scenario switch: A company built and patent that same furniture design and you as a small time designer can never sell that design with your own improvements on top of it for practically over 100 years. You cannot improve on a basic copyright unless you have permission. You can end up in a scenario where a massive amount of copyrighted designs are owned by a single company and there is nothing anyone can do for 100+ years.

The original purpose of the copyright (in US) was to push the society forward by promoting the arts and science by protecting the creator's work for a limited period of time, so everyone's motivated to create original stuff. Society suffers from extended protected terms. I'm okay with protecting the person's work for 10-20 years once the work is done, but there is no justification for 100+ years. I don't care if that person goes out of work in 20 years, it's not up to us to protect him for life.

In this age with ~7 billion of people, the right of one single person (or one company) over hundreds of millions of folks is no longer sane.
> Windows mobile OS trying to compete with iOS and Android - which they seem to have given up on.

Microsoft's strategy is to be cross-platform, which is why it has dozens of apps on iOS and Android, and supports Linux on Azure.

Microsoft's Windows strategy is to be cross-platform, with Windows 10 for "internet of things", phones, tablets, games consoles, all types of PC and servers.

Windows phones didn't sell well enough and the hardware lagged what was needed for Windows 10 (eg Hello and Continuum). However, there's still an ARM/smartphone version of Windows 10, so that door's not closed yet. There are always rumors about a business-oriented Surface phone

Also, Windows 10 was and is free for smartphones, so there's still room for Asian manufacturers to have a go. Even if they don't ship many units, it provides a fall-back if Google gets too aggressive on Android.
It's hard to tell because their pricing strategy is so complicated with the dynamic discounts based on quantity, what else is in your cart, paying by debit card vs credit card, etc.

The items that were cheaper than Costco weren't way cheaper, maybe 5–10% less, so I considered that they may have some kind of higher level membership that I don't know about.
Never underestimate the dumbness of walmart corporate LOL
Not at all what I was thinking. I was imagining the US spending money to build highways and electrical infrastructure and water purification plants etc. At that point people can start spending money on luxuries we produce rather than on basic needs we don't.
(replying here because I guess we've reached the maximum depth)

I am here assuming that you want to be able to try to measure your progress through the project (as I mentioned, this is the only thing scrum does for you). Both of you seem to be suggesting (dont insult me if Im wrong) that this isnt the highest priority.

And no, velocity is to make the whole system self-adjusting. If I put 3 points against a story we use velocity to discover over time how long those 3 points take. This self-adjusts to incorporate for contingency.

If you disagree with this then we simply disagree on what velocity is about. It doesnt make us enemies, we dont need to get super pissed off at each other.
Curious about the HN community's thoughts on this self-driving car AI conundrum.
The Automotive Industry Is Driving Innovation with DevOps
The tone of this post is uncivil, e.g. "If you think ... you're an idiot."
As far as I know, the patches are submitted to the -stable ports tree. mtier just provides a very convenient way to perform binary updates.

I fail to see any downsides to this arrangement.
Seriously? Did you not see Canada, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia. For me it was relatively balanced and mainly the US really throws it off. There are also some red countries that I would seriously not want to live in.
This is the problem with real-world Malthusian predictions. There are (obviously) hard limits on growth and carrying capacity for Earth, but extrapolating from some existing metric like food growth per human is an atrocious way to find them.

A convincing Malthusian argument needs to take one of two forms: either concede that it represents doom without engineering progress, or convincingly argue that it represents a physical boundary rather than an engineering one.
I had a problem with the smileys as well. They don't actually appear by default, but if you view your email in plain text and not HTML (as I do) there they are.

I made this for Stylish to fix the issue:
https://userstyles.org/styles/106482/fastmail-hide-smileys/
The common distinction between machine and life seems arbitrary. Suppose for instance you had essentially infinite resources to design a machine that self-replicates by stealing blood from mammals, etc etc. You would end up with something very much like the mosquito. Why is it a machine only when man designs it?

This is perhaps more apparent with viruses. They aren't living per se, but are halfway there. The assertion that the virus is not a machine seems to be a difference without a distinction.
She's a smart scientist who has published quite a lot of important research.
Fair complaint. My experience is limited to Britain, Germany, Holland, Austria, Spain, Italy and France.
It was down long enough that it blew through the queue for several (most? some?) MTAs which were about ~36 hours if I remember correctly.
> I and probably many others around here already run a personal dev server

Oh yeah, me too, and tbh it's enough of a pain already without having to deal with mail, spam and the likes.

There is a reason that companies like Heroku exist and prosper; it's the same reason personal mail servers never saw mass-adoption, despite being one of the first things you could do on the internet. The anecdote that you find it easier than most doesn't change the reality of the matter.
A bubble is inflated by speculation that isn't rooted in anything except the rising price.

It's been like that for the last 8+ years.
The last paragraph indicates the precise problem with this policy - it isn't adhering to the terms of the free trade agreements that Canada has signed - both NAFTA and the "China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement" require that offshore investors be treated the same as onshore.

The CFIPPA [1] is clear on the subject:

1. Each Contracting Party shall accord to investors of the
other Contracting Party treatment no less favourable than
that it accords, in like circumstances, to its own
investors with respect to the expansion, management,
conduct, operation and sale or other disposition of
investments in its territory.

Perhaps the claim is that the initial purchase of the asset is what's being taxed, which might be seen as exempt?

[1] http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-comm...
It's important to consider that sometimes these acquiring company stock options come with additional vesting attached to them. It can be time based + milestone based.
On backpressure: "Common versions include dropping new messages on the floor (and incrementing a metric) if the system’s resources are already over-scheduled."

What I would add here is that "and incrementing a metric" must use fewer resources than would have been spent serving the request. I once worked on a system that would latch up into an overload state because in overload it would log errors at a severity high enough to force the log file to be flushed on every line. This was counterproductive to say they least. From that I learned that a system's flow control / pushback mechanism must be dirt cheap.
> The lack of support for desktop clients

Their servers do not decrypt your email, thus doing so requires support from the client. The browser currently does this on your machine. Do desktop clients support decrypting email? Can we trust these clients won't store your emails in plain-text on your machine? Or that they won't mistakenly leak your information via some other channels?

I agree desktop client support is a nice feature to have, but I am not sure it is trivial to make happen.
French speaking part of the country still have it, even online [0]

[0] http://www.rtbf.be/services/teletexte
This is my experience also. Points are complexity and high complexity tasks are most definitely to be addressed by breaking down stories. Dependencies are also easily addressed by setting a Definition of Ready. Don't accept a story if the dependencies aren't met (be that APIs, environments, designs, whatever). Simple.

Planning/grooming we do in one hour. You good story writers is all. I once had a planning last 12 hours because the product management was so awful. If your team sucks, no process will save you.
Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash to fight Amazon
I have been using them more and more lately for random household essentials, since their prices beat Amazon a lot of the time, and shipping is typically 2-days, which is pretty good.
BFXCoin isn't totally without precedent, as BitcoinBuilder (created in the wake of MtGox) was recognized by the Japanese courts.
"The Illuminatus! Triology" by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea

I did my first reading in high school and it was absolutely brilliant. I never expected so many twists and turns where characters melt into one another and plots jump from world domination conspiracy theories to self discovery and awakening.

Decades later, I am now looking more into Robert Anton Wilson's other work (in particular Maybe Logic) and am seeing some very interesting applications, especially in software quality and artificial intelligence.
I don't think they are, as mentioned, Australia doesn't have the equivalent of a National Security Letter. FastMail has a very short and very easy to understand privacy policy: https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html
What you are thinking of is called "factlet".
I have heard the phrase "points west" used when listing the places where a train is going. After listing the next several stops, they say "...and points west" to sum up all the stops the train will make that are too far away to be worth listing.

So I guess it's a metaphor for the indefinite beyond that makes sense to people who live on the east coast of the US and ever take the train.
Slightly OT, but a group in the UK actually recently built a steam locomotive and operate it fairly regularly[0], so steam is kinda back from the dead…

[0]https://www.a1steam.com
Seemed like the founder worked hard to make it a nice place to work. Maybe they just like working there? :)
I use them regularly. Mostly for items that are cheaper than from Amazon. Also with money from their cash back program, Jet Anywhere.

I would suspect one portion of it is their dynamic pricing model. I wish there were more info publicly available about the mechanics.
In general, the unregistered "general solicitation" for the purchase of securities is prohibited. You can't go on TV and ask people to buy your stock in exchange for money unless you have registered to do so--an IPO or subsequent S1.

Stock is certainly a security. Stock options are just call options of a security, and also a security. Obviously there is some (future, conditional) value implied since it's a reward.

It doesn't really matter whether you are trading stock for dollars, or work, or fb likes, or whatever--it's still a general solicitation because they are being traded for something.

Caveat:
I'm not a lawyer but I have been involved in startups in the space for many years.
I live in a place where the largest sources of electricity are nuclear, wind, and hydro power, simply because they're cost effective for the region. So electric cars here shift not only to an easier problem, but to a largely solved problem.

As in math, transforming one problem into another is often just as good as finding a direct solution.
Why couldn't they show growth?

Amazon is getting worse for non-prime users. They've increased their free shipping limit, longer shipments, and kept pushing their deals onto Prime users only.

I've bought more from Jet.com this year than Amazon in the last two years and Jet was faster with its free 2 day shipping than Amazon's free shipping.
It looks like foreign buyers are also speculating. The difference is that it seems that foreign buyers are interest in long-term holding (instead of quick flips) and they are paying in cash.

So there's no risk of them being forced to sell at the bottom, like what happened to Americans, because there will be no 5/1 ARM that needs to be refinanced. Since these buyers paid in cash, so most of them will be able to weather a storm.