skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there at least one "nordic" country that pays for living expenses for young people to go to school while raising a family?

It's almost like they want healthy children and an educated work force. How odd...
I work in gov't as a contractor, where the USDA does large scale loans for of course the well known providers as well as smaller ones who apply. We're talking huge loans, great interest rates and their main requirements are, is it rural, is it unserved, census projections of populations to show there that will in fact be paying customers so the provider can earn money and pay back the loan.

So when the companies give the run around to unserved areas, it may be smoke and mirrors, it may be that they have applications in the hopper and are waiting, or were rejected.

And I'm just speculating (I'm thinking out loud here that's all) but I would NOT be surprised if a bigger company has as service area on lock down with their loan applications, who knows that might be a prohibitive measure that a smaller company couldn't jump in and get that area served with a similar loan.

If that were the case, that would annoy me because I like to hear when the smaller companies are providing fantastic service and being good competition for the conglomerates. It's getting to the point where a small number of companies own the pipes and now even content networks. Now I'm going to have to go research this and find out if that strategy is there to benefit the big Telcos.

Media and utility consolidation is nearly always a bad sign to me.
Are there any sources indicating what percentage of sales or units are from third-party retailers?
I just moved from the UK to the US. It is quite surprising how useless Amazon just became for me.

So far, every item I wanted to buy has $49 min spend for free shipping attached to it, which is not something I have had to deal with - except for a few add-on items.

So I just switched to eBay sellers instead.

I realize the price may end up being similar but I want to know what that price is while browsing, not "add $5.99" at checkout.
It's interesting work. In the spirit of "Show HN" I wish there was something to play with or try out. In part because that's what I expect in a "Show HN". In part because that's something the most interesting data analysis tends to have...interactivity might not be bad for a portfolio either.
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Solid points! Couldn't agree more. Well written, good job!
But not all EULAs are enforceable and certainly not in all countries.
The issue comes into play that Bitfinex owned the private keys of all wallets in their possession, and the winners of positions were shown an accounting ledger through Bitfinex as opposed to having possession of their own coins. Now I can not pretend I know what happened behind the scenes with the back and forth between Bitfinex and the CFTC, but I can say that based on all evidence, Bitfinex was unable to pay out all positions within the required 28 day period. Verbiage within the original CFTC complaint suggests that the primary cause of this was Bitfinex's accounting system that was at fault.
What position have you taken to profit from this bubble, and how has that position performed since inception?

There should be a rule on HN that whenever someone calls a bubble, they must also share an estimate on how long the bubble has been building, when it will burst, and how to profit from said bubble. They should also have to disclose whether or not they have any skin in the market of the supposed bubble asset.
No need to satellite, there's quite a few microwave point-to-point internet services depending on where you are.

I know someone living on the mountain above me who gets reasonable internet speeds from a link down in Portland.
I feel ambiance and decor of a restaurant is highly underrated. It is one of the reasons I do not like food trucks (I assume a street food stall is analogous but perhaps I'm wrong). There is a difference between dining and just eating something good. Reviewers seem to harp on taste and service but honestly I can put up with both (with taste there is always alcohol and with service ... you can just be patient).

Of course there are exceptions to this if the food truck is positioned in a great place (some Hawaii food trucks come to mind).

I'm not saying I can make better food than a Michelin star chef but one of the reasons I go out to eat is for an experience and that experience for me has to be more than it tastes really good. I feel like many review sites, magazines, etc are ignoring this.
> The very idea is that the rulebook is NOT thrown away.

I think you misunderstand what the rulebook is. The most basic "rulebook" in the US, and the one on which the exclusionary rule is founded -- the Constitution of the United States -- does not limit the actions of individual government agents, it limits the power of government. If you allow the government to use evidenced gathered outside of that rulebook, but punish government agents, you are, indeed, throwing out the rulebook, and the entire idea of limited government.

A central idea of the US system of government is that preventing tyranny by unbound government is more important than punishing individual wrongdoers in the criminal justice system.
Politicians are terrible and soulless... All of them.
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Current space habitats probably aren't what he had in mind.
Or perhaps we should replace the income tax with a property tax? Thus, you can only keep property if you are productively using it, or some such thing. Perhaps subject to some kind of sliding scale to have a higher rate on more expensive items.

See also: "Jubilee", a topic you will almost never hear mentioned in American churches.
Laws about making copies for private use differ from EU country to another. The author is only talking about UK, which has strict laws about copying for private use. For instance, it is illegal to copy CDs [1] or entire books [2] for private use in UK.

In Finland, it is legal to copy CDs (even the ones in public libraries!) [3] and entire books [4] for private use. So, I don't think that 3D printing of furniture is affected in Finland. I can happily continue printing my Ikea chairs.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12021607/Why-in-2...

[2] https://www.reading.ac.uk/library/finding-info/copyright/lib...

[3] http://www.kysy.fi/en/kysymys/it-helsinki-city-library-legal...

[4] http://blogs.helsinki.fi/copyright-within-teaching/exception...
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Interesting speculation. Any references to support this?
Honestly if I'm going to risk going to prison/getting prosecuted it's going to be for much more than claiming a $5 lemon wasn't organic and switching the barcode over ...
I've been noticing more and more that I code around the stories rather than following the best practices from the beginning. When I am adding a DB connection and we don't have liquibase or fliway in place I can't add it because that is a ticket for next week and I need to get it done now. I write code that sucks so that I don't break from my sprint and possibly work on something else first.
I would recommend giving them an excuse to not put you through the gauntlet.

I got pretty tired of the boilerplate technical recruiter questions, so I created a public github repo and starred it so that it is super visible for anyone who wants to vet my skills (or lack thereof).

Having a strong professional network is also incredibly useful. When you are 1 hop away from the hiring manager, you'll move faster.

With those two pieces in place, you've answered the fundamental questions of 'do you know what we need you to do?' and 'are you a reliable human?'.
You're right, but I think my oversimplification still holds. It's an economic philosophy and it's also the philosophy that the economy/market is a tool to be used to achieve goals.

Neoliberalism doesn't specify what those goals are. It's vaguely "make the world better". That gets associated with the social left because the social right's goals are basically "keep the world the way it is and/or roll back changes made".
People had moved on from mud huts by the 1600's, and yet had a pretty small (though non-zero) carbon footprint.

I do agree that population, especially the population of people living a carbon-intense lifestyle, is a serious concern. Many people point a finger at poor nations with high population growth rates while failing to acknowledge that people in those countries tend to emit very little.
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I just went to the supermarket here in Japan to hunt down some of these Pocky. At least the ones they had did not promote this, so they are using the candy programming app as a promotion to get people to buy the candies, but the candies in store are not promoting programming.
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(Throw away for obvious reasons)

It is all total crap. We dumped a bunch of time and money into rebuilding everything as SOA and on all the latest technologies. Most of the work was done by an army of Indians that couldn't get jobs elsewhere in the valley. Absolutely nothing scales.

We have more servers in total than peak users to the site, and still can't get any respectable performance numbers.

The few smart people left here are super excited to jump over to Jet ASAP.
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Microsoft launched Office apps for iOS in 2014. So when did they start writing them?

UPDATE Note: Office 365 already supported Macs, and alternative browsers.
> First, it's exceptionally unusual to see anything more than a 1x liquidation preference (i.e. investors receive their initial investment back before anyone else gets paid) among well-funded companies

I've had options zero-out because the company, after investing with absolutely no preference given (which was part of what induced me to join), they took another round with preference funding at greater than 1x.
I'm pretty sure the article meant China Miéville's Embassytown, a novel about aliens who speak with two mouths in unison using a language of similes (referencing events they orchestrate to expand their vocabulary), not The City & The City:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassytown
Did it not die when the analog signal was switched off?
I don't like scrum myself, but let me try to defend it because I think the problem of most of the people who don't have a good experience with scrum is a misunderstanding of the underlying principles behind it.

Let's just remember that Scrum is just a tool that is trying to replicate some practices of the toyota production system (TPS), and an important principle of the TPS is continuous improvement, and Scrum has this through restrospectives. Another principle is quality built in.

Now, how to avoid having a rat's nest after 2 years?

First of all, you have to remove velocity as a goal for your team. It's easy to game, and it de-incentivizes finding a _predictable_ velocity, which is the goal of that tool.

The goal of velocity, is to know what's the "cost" of building an healthy system.

i.e.: Your team ships an arbitrarily 10 points per sprint by doing what they think is right. The same team could ship an arbitrarily 20 points per week. 10 is the _true_ cost of building a healthy system. There is not a lot more to do for good team, honestly, at that point. Management can't say anything, because you bring them predictability, and that's mainly what they want. They might think you're slow, but hey, all of this is relative.

Suddenly, what does that mean when your team only ships 5 arbitrary points? That they had to push extra. That there was an unexpected problem. That things were on fire and you had to stop working on features entirely.

Basically, that there is something to retro on, find the root cause and anticipate for next sprints, and use to go back to the healthy level of points.

I used this at several places. It demands trust, but it always pays off.

With some teams I worked with, we set up a technical prioritization planning meeting every week, where basically decided what was going to be prioritized for that week. Each team was picking 2/3 things to do on top of the features.

You don't tell anyone. You do it.
It's strange how many aren't self-aware enough to realize when they aren't the target market.
If a decision is unpopular with the large majority and it is morally wrong, then yes.

Otherwise, what is the point of having a head of state?
This looks like a great program.

The next logical thing to do with the Jet Anywhere program is to launch a credit card that creates customer stickiness to Jet.com. While some of the incentives are great, e.g., 20% cash back at Nike, the process is cumbersome (receipt -> photo -> email -> wait -> cash back!!).

A cashback credit card would significantly reduce friction, with minimum overhead for Jet. If Jet doesn't want to get into the credit business, it can piggyback on the system deployed by MasterCard for Sam's Club [1]. Sam's Club is part of the Walmart umbrella of companies.

1. http://www.samsclub.com/sams/pagedetails/content.jsp?pageNam...

edit: Deleted redundant reference to Jet in the 2nd paragraph.
This is one of the very few Macro articles which reads like advertising spam.

The core of the article links to another site (http://www.black.design/messaging/) which requires users to "Write your email address here, so we can send you your custom Market Messaging".
Farming is similar $200/tonne of potatoes and one 25kg bag is $10. Quite a difference in what a farmer gets and what the end products costs although not as bad as salt.
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Just to fill in a couple gaps: The attack lasted approximately 3 hours, starting by draining the largest accounts and moving down from there over time. It's known not all of them were stolen. I've seen estimates (by outsiders) that approx. 60+% of bitcoins were stolen. It was certainly more than 36%.

Edit: Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4wizdn/txid_and_bi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4wmpzt/bitfinex_as...
Speed is a big issue, as well as address space. Caches can't be huge and really fast, partly because a fast cache is crazy power hungry, and a big cache has large distances to travel. So your on-die caches are hierarchical in part so that you can have a fast cache and a big cache.

The second problem, address space- larger address space requires more addressing bits, which makes the CPU bigger, and bigger means slower. This constrains cache as well as memory. The final level, disk, has that as an advantage over DRAM because it is not memory-mapped. It's not frequently a problem, but for example Nehalem, despite being a "64-bit" architecture, actually only supports 44-bits of address, setting a hard limit at 16 tebibytes of RAM (not considering MMIO etc)
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Yes, but so should the under-40s.

(If this ends up as a threshold, it will become yet another factor encouraging the middle classes to delay having children...)
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You can't just wave a wand called "emulation" to hypothesize whatever speed, precision, or rate of calculation you want. Emulators are physical objects and you'd need to show that it's possible to build an emulator that calculates the same amount of information as the Earth's biosphere, but faster, more precise, etc.

Then, once you have the attributes of that emulator, you'd have to calculate how long it would take that emulator to deliver the same information that can be harvested today on Earth with simple observations. And even if it completed, how would you confirm it is indeed the same information without traveling here to check?

The energy budget would be immense of course, but heat management might be the limiting issue on how fast it can run. It's hard to dump heat into space.

I'm not intending to argue one or another about hypothetical god-like alien civilizations. It's just a pet peeve when programmers make open-ended claims about simulations or emulations without considering physical constraints. We tend to think of electronic computers as powerful, but their information handling capabilities are quite slow and diffuse compared to what biology has produced on Earth so far.
I don't know much about the legal aspects of international agreements like that, but is real estate considered an investment vehicle like e.g. bonds and stocks? You'd think there should be some exceptions, since real estate is enabling local communities, and you know, provides shelter for people to live in.
Not OP, but I stopped thanks to this book (the French translation) as well.

It does not try to make smokers feel guilty or use the usual rethoric of addict = weak. What really make it click for me was its deconstruction of the addiction mechanism. After reading the book, when I wanted a cigarette I knew exactly why, and I was convinced the feeling would fade quickly and subsequent occurrences would get milder as well.

HTH.
who wanted better lives for their children and grandchildren

As opposed to the Republicans who want a worse life for their children and grandchildren?
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I wouldn't expect the average consumer to be a reseller, but that's an interesting point to consider.

Travel is a heavily restricted category. I wasn't able to find complete terms and exceptions for all of the programs you mentioned quickly, but for example, TopCashback caps flights from Orbitz at $3 [0]. Discover Deals doesn't seem to support flights besides one weird deal with CheapOAir [1].

[0]: https://www.topcashback.com/orbitz/

[1]: https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/deals/all-deals.html?c...
Some great throwback comments in that /. thread. Love it.
Despite the generally stand-offish way parent made his point, there is some validity to wondering why we should provide broadband at such great distances.

I think these conversations tend to get dragged into "think of the farmers" because their work necessitates that they be spread out; accordingly we think of the beneficiaries of these programs as not needing to be held responsible for the hardships of living far away. The problem is, most people living so far apart are there by choice, because they see cheap space to build a big house and have a big yard. They're seeing low prices because we so often supply them with sewage lines, water pipes, paved roads, and other infrastructure, at costs which vastly exceed the receipts from their property taxes.

The people paying for these expensive infrastructure projects are the ones who live in places that pay for themselves, and then some. In many parts of the US, that's the poor people. They can't afford to own big houses outside of town, so instead they get stuck subsidizing those people.

This is particularly painful in transportation, where we take money away from cities who need that money to fund decent transit. Then we send it out to suburban areas to be spent by town leaders who just see easy money for building roads, rather than seeing that putting a 45mph, 5-lane road through downtown is suicide for the finances and vitality of a town.
With all due respect:

"a state where most people are just surviving."

It's not new. It's called feudalism. When a powerful elite owns just about everything, a minority of the people serve as specialists at the master's pleasure, and the rest are peasants/serfs (or rogues/thieves).
Instead of inventing my own system, I would go with the (rather new) GROWS Method[1], which is designed to be adapted to suit your needs (but only after a certain level of experience is gained).

GROWS splits its components into stages, through which your team progresses as they become experienced with the various practices. The stages are:

Stage 1 is very simple and easy and about getting your team setup on good practices (eg source control). At this stage, you should be following it rigidly.

Stage 2 is about making sure the right people are working on the right things at the right time. A rigid but simple agile-development system.

Stage 3 is about applying judgement and critical thinking to stage 2, adding release planning, retrospectives and other plan-and-feedback practices

Stage 4 is the stage where your team is experienced enough to tune and alter the practices so that they work best for your unique situation

Stage 5 is when you're ready to replicate your teams practices for other teams or environments.

I like it because it acknowledges that no one-size-fits-all system can be perfect for everyone and provides a framework that allows itself to be changed, but does so around a "skills model" to prevent premature change.

"This requires a lot of skill though"

Exactly. Which, in my experience, most teams do not have. All too often have I been in a team practicing some form of agile, but they don't like X and would prefer Y and so they change the framework to suit their needs and then it fails and they blame the framework, saying it doesn't work, when in reality what happened is they changed and broke it, because they are not (yet!) experienced enough in that framework to actually tweak it to their needs. GROWS is designed with this in mind.

[1] growsmethod.com
I've routinely brought up all of the unconsidered comments in retrospectives. Retros are all about making sprints better, and talking about technical problems is integral to that.
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it is totally reasonable for stakeholders to want to track your progress through a project. If you have a good way of doing that then great, you should use that.

Scrum people believe that scrum is the simplest way of measuring that. But at some stage you have to estimate the constituent parts of the project in order to get an idea of its size, and for those estimates to be useful in tracking your progress you have to do it in advance.

I repeat however, if you dont need to do this then thats fantastic! Many of us do however, and some of us choose to use scrum to do that, and some of us have had a great deal of success with that.

(edit: I worry that this sounds condescending. I am just trying to keep the tone friendly)
I'm not sure that a brand of chocolate-covered carbohydrates sponsoring sedentary behavior like coding is something that should be celebrated.

Hours spent coding should be followed or broken up by physical activity, not sugary treats.
The people with the best risk ratio are not the people with the most invested, therefore acquisition deals are almost always poor value for shareholders as top execs gamble other people's money with virtually no downside. Deal goes bad? Have $2m severance and get another huge job elsewhere. The incentives at play are perverse.
"As any developer will tell you, software development is a marathon, not a series of sprints."

I would argue with that.
> You're right, but I think my oversimplification still holds.

No, your "oversimplification" is an overcomplexification: neoliberalism has nothing to do with the social left/right axis.

> and it's also the philosophy that the economy/market is a tool to be used to achieve goals.

Only in a very narrow, utilitarian sense.

> Neoliberalism doesn't specify what those goals are.

Actually, it does; neoliberalism rests on the theoretical optimality of ideal markets in maximizing experienced utility.

> That gets associated with the social left because the social right's goals are basically "keep the world the way it is and/or roll back changes made".

Insofar as that is an accurate description of the social right's goals, its because the social right consists of people who believe that rolling back (negative) changes is a way to "make the world better", often (though not always) in utilitarian terms.