skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another huge aspect of poverty and internet access is the increasing number of households who don't have wifi but use only their phones for internet access. ("one-quarter of those earning below the median income and one-third of those living below poverty level accessed the Internet only through their mobile devices." https://theconversation.com/many-low-income-students-use-onl... and if you want more http://qz.com/580024/more-americans-are-relying-exclusively-... )

The world really looks different if you only have a handheld device -- it's more read-only and because of caps and expensive mobile plans, you will use it less.

In cities there's a chance that libraries can help, but with rural poverty it's really a trap!
I guess nobody ever invests in index funds, then.
> So... intellectuals were right about the issues that they were focused on, but somehow populists are right that they are out of touch? Those seem contradictory to me

One can be factually correct yet emotionally incorrect (indeed, in my experience that's been at the root of some nasty interpersonal unpleasantness).
When shopifys whole business is built on drop shipping.

Just how is it a fraud/money-laundering target?

Are you insinuating that they should be investigated by the IRS/FEDS now?

Laughable!
I'm not sure, but i feel like what is missing here is "Stripe does some things differently to other payment providers, via our immediate onboarding via a sub merchant account. Prior to Stripe, everyone had to go through pages of paperwork and wait week/s for an approval or non approval. For 80% of the market, that was a terrible waste of time. However, there is a % of the market that does benefit from having someone perform a deep level of due diligence. We've made the trade off whereby we can't address that segment due to restrictions placed on us in return for being able to onboard merchants immediately"

Or maybe the unique approach is not a factor here in these decisions.
You're conflating technology that is available today with challenges which occur only after we have AGI. When those are different problems with different time horizons.

Post AGI. Obviously robots do everything. Post AGI it is the technology singularity as we have recursively improving superintelligences. Unemployment in this scenario is a trivial issue. Strong friendly AI would solve so many problems that unemployment would be one of those historical footnotes. Concerning ourselves with 'what happens when computers are better than humans at everything?' is akin to asking 'what should we do after the rapture?'

Prior to AGI, human + computer is the norm for most tasks. Similar to my banker example. You'll have specialized computers augmenting human productivity. In each case driving costs down and in most cases usage up. Specialized computers will make it easier for humans to do jobs they couldn't do before. Even if truck driving becomes fully automated there will still be humans in the loop somewhere. It will just mean a more efficient ratio of man hours per ton shipped. Which is not a fundamentally different issue than dealing with any other efficiency increase.

> your logic is skipping over the fact that computers don't have hard limits like humans do. If a computer can't do something, just give it a handful of engineers, and some time, and it'll eventually be able to do that. Once a computer gets better at a task than humans, there's no reason to ever go back to humans. It's a one way street.

I don't deny that. Merely that we've been headed down this one way street for a while and the houses keep getting nicer. I keep hearing that Efficiency Avenue will take us towards human suffering, but we've been heading this direction for centuries and never arrived there. In fact everything about what we have seen so far says we should travel as fast as we can down that one way street.
By breaking the law to do it, yeah. And now they're under investigation for antitrust in almost every major market worldwide. And the product isn't even that good. It's a security-ridden mess[0] where common sense things like security updates aren't a thing because of the compromises they made to get the widespread vendor support.

[0]Source: I carried an Android (or several) as my primary device for seven years.
> The ability to explore a huge, living world/universe in a game sounds great on paper, but I find that it almost invariably leads to shallow games - the real world is also big and sparse, and so the "alternate life" you end up living in the game ends up being as dull and routine as real life can be.

Indeed. Massive, procedurally generated worlds have been tried over and over again before – Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall contained a 1:1 scale map of Britain; Frontier: Elite II contained 513 million "unique" star systems, and so on, and so forth, but no matter how fancy your generation algorithm is, meaningful variation is always constrained, and there's only so much excitement you can get out of an empty world you can barely interact with in any meaningful way.

Borderlands also figured it out: Sure, all weapons are procedurally generated, and there's billions of possible combinations… but it's just one aspect of games with 40+ hours worth of story content.

(Disclaimer: Haven't played NMS yet, so I cannot comment on how/whether they addressed this. They need to, however, if they don't want everyone to toss out the game and forget about it in a year.)
>The batteries may die, which means there must be a physical lock as well

I generally see a battery compartment on the exterior, so if the batteries die you just replace them and then enter the code. Sometimes the key lock does something like immobilize the dial or handle, so it's a second factor, not a bypass.

>Why pay all that money and get nothing in return?

On consumer-level safes, who knows. Beyond that: individually identify users, revoke specific users, have an audit trail of who opened it when, make the ACLs depend on time of day.
At the beginning, yes. The beginning alpha/demo version was. Infiniminer was like the prototype, and the demo was like the engine reimplementation when it was at the same level of development, when the previous dev team quit and deleted the original source tree (not literally true; I'm speaking figuratively).

It was a clone with aspirations of becoming something greater.
In Finland many public libraries nowadays have even 3D printers and film slide scanners, and arrange training sessions for their use. It's really a wonderful system, and probably not even that expensive considering the learning potential for even the disadvantaged citizens.
VMware workstation can be modified using an enabler to allow support of Mac OS X within a virtual machine. The functionality is there already in Workstation but it's hidden away by default. El Capitan installs with no problems. It might work as an option for you if you're not overly dependant on the OS for native graphics. If you want Bluetooth/Wifi to work without any hassle, it's worth looking on eBay for native Mac components in USB or PCIE form (generally found by searching for hackintosh and the component)
> I moved back home and use it as a homebase to fly everywhere. I like that I have the freedom to take a taxi to the airport and be there in 10 minutes, board a plane with my laptop in a carry-on backpack and fly somewhere random, work from there and stay there until I get bored and fly back. That's extreme freedom and it means I still can have my home life and friends + have amazing travel experiences.

That freedom is the holy grail, and I think has more to do with financial independence than anything. It's cheaper to be a full-time nomad because no rent, but money is worth trading for comfort. It all depends on individual preference. Confidence in your goals will bring you where you want to be!
or learn to do proper due diligence and stop blanket blocking what could be very profitable clients.
I see what you're saying but I'm honestly kind of unclear at this point on what I'd be getting for my $50 that I can't get for free if I just, you know, go for a walk.

That probably sounds really dismissive, but I don't intend it to be. I mean, I live in a city and there was a deer hanging out behind my apartment building the other day, and a half dozen Cooper's hawks decided to stop for lunch at the pond behind where I work not long ago. I feel like maybe spending money on the game and the hardware to run it is a little bit missing the point of something? Maybe I've just been very fortunate in my choice of environment.
This is amazing. I've always said I'd switch from d3 to react as soon as transitions were better supported in react, and it seems like you guys were able to accomplish that?

How did you guys do it?
Because Verizon has created an artificial monopoly by buying up the vast majority of the most coveted spectrum. The only reason T-Mobile is even in business still is because of the failed AT&T acquisition which netted them more valuable spectrum than they had ever or would ever have been able to get via the government auctions.

AT&T can somewhat compete, but the failed T-Mobile deal hurt them far worse than anyone seems to be acknowledging.
Minor point: Did you mean to say "Aurora" (AWS's MySQL-ish DB) instead of "Azure" (Microsoft's cloud service)?
License plate that's reported as stolen + seen by police mounted on the "wrong" car (make/model does not match make/model of car where the plate came from) = stolen car.

They're going to interpret it that way when looking at a car from behind, in traffic, until they can prove it otherwise. They have no idea who the driver or passenger are until they've stopped the car and checked things out.

Felony traffic stops are one of the MOST likely times and places when a police officer will get shot and killed. I'm not surprised at all they came out with guns drawn. It really sucks and I'd be pissed off and indignant if it happened to me, as an ordinary non-felon law abiding driver.
I use a Hackintosh as my main. It works great except but I don't have a webcam, bluetooth, or wifi hardware in it.

I have a GTX 980 Ti OC hooked up to a Dell 5k monitor. Performance is great for general usage and gaming.

One annoyance, which I still have to deal with to this day, I can not boot the OS with the monitor on or the kernel will panic and reboot. I have to turn the computer on, wait for the boot loader, hit enter and quickly turn the monitor off, then after about 40 seconds I turn the monitor back on and OS X is working.

For some reason, when I full frame a video that is playing in the browser the frame rate drops to like 10 fps. It's kind of annoying. It has something to do with the type of video encoding. I suspect one of them is hardware decoded and other entirely in software. Not sure the specifics. When that happens I usually just zoom in (Ctrl + scroll wheel). If I download the video and then play it in VLC it plays full screen at the full frame rate no problem. Not sure what is going on.

Gaming was completely fluid. I was playing Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft 2 fine. There are some minor issues with the gamma and mouse not working right but there are easy workarounds. Problem was just limited to HoTS. I never saw the display / mouse problems in any other program.

One other thing that annoyed me was that FCP X and Adobe Premiere would not use the GPU for anything. My MacBook Pro is much faster for 4k video work than my super beefy Hackintosh. I think it has something to do with Intel QuickSync not being recognized on the Hackintosh even though my CPU supports it. Couldn't find a way to make it work. Supposedly very little of video encoding uses the GPU for some reason.

RAW photo converters like Capture One Pro takes advantage of the GPU just fine. Processing RAW photos is about 10x faster on my Hackintosh than my MBP.

Coding works great, torrents work fine, watching movies work perfectly fine with VLC. No issues whatsoever with those things.

I also had some issues with video conferencing solutions like WebEx and Blue Jeans. I had to use my MBP for those.

Be careful of updating on a Hackintosh. Wait for the community to vet an upgrade. Sometimes you need to reinstall things after an update. I had 3 days where my graphics driver didn't work after a security update. Luckily nVidia released a driver fairly quickly.

If Apple ever comes out with a MBP I'm going to switch to that for a desktop. I'm thinking I can use an external GPU enclosure over USB-C / Thunderbolt for when I need the extra power. The fan noise is pretty loud, it sucks up a lot of power, and creates a lot of heat. That's fine when I'm gaming, but it's an annoyance when I'm just in vim coding.
You definitely can make money from risky merchants. However, the policies, processes, partner selection, pricing and marketing required to do that well are very different, and sometimes entirely opposite, from what you need to serve the normal businesses well and with low expenses.

If you're focusing on the general market, then all your internal business is ill-suited for doing that, and if you target the "risky markets" then you'll be ill-suited for handling the normal markets because e.g. you'll not be able to get as cheap deals (or any deals) from various institutional partners. Your comment about load-balancing chargebacks below an arbitrary "threshold" is a prime example of behavior which (or suspicion of which) alone would make some institutions to not deal with you, because gaming that threshold is costing them real money that is comparable or in excess of the fees they can earn from you.

If you can get and maintain a better reputation, then it directly translates to lower rates you can get, so a larger profit margin and/or more competitive prices for your customers.
Cattle is domesticated.
> I want it deregulated and opened up to very serious competition. I also want our government to build reliable infrastructure (fiber) as much as is possible.

I'm not surprised that you feel torn. Those desires are in direct contradiction with each other.

Even if you're referring to splitting infra from service, there will still be regulation. You'll also see law enforcement becoming very interested in the fact that interconnects and the last mile are now government property.
I live in Albany, NY and pay TWC $80 for a 50/5 connection. $50 gets you 25/1. Our stupid state government gave them more money to make 50/5 100/7.

Our library gets a lot of Internet patronage. In our city the library has done a great job of transitioning into a third place. People like to use the "think of the poor children" card, but I see all walks of life there. It's a great place.
As I understand it (and I just started using Pandoc today), pdf output requires TeX (or maybe it's LaTeX) from MiKTeX which I installed. By default, MiKTeX downloads dependencies as they are needed. For me, it dies when it tries to get xelatex.def because it's not on the server.

MiKTeX comes with an admin tool that has an option to synchronize repositories which supposedly fixes lots of problems, but apparently not this one.

For anybody that reads this and decides to get Pandoc and MiKTeX, I suggest getting the version of MiKTeX that bundles all of the dependencies. In the days of terabyte disks, I'm not sure it makes sense to pull down dependencies a few kilobytes at a time, especially if packages periodically go missing from the servers.

This is a side-by-side comparison of the HTML version and the generated PDF version:

http://imgur.com/a/Zkamk
Democratic data breach bigger than thought
i don't even understand the ire of this post. you're mad that stripe is lying about the reason they don't take high risk businesses? what is their motive in lying about that?
> The Culture novels are some of the few books I've read that really expanded my perception of humanity.

If that's what you are after, I can really recommend Peter Watts. Fair warning, though: don't expect to enjoy him.
If you leave you can Airbnb your place and mitigate that (and even make a profit).
Inactive Checkboxes Are Poor UX
Better training != more training.

Police are presently trained to shoot first, to pull out their guns first, and perhaps not formally trained for this but they're taught by at least their peers and mentors to be hostile and aggressive first.

Better training changes this. Better training fosters their membership and relationship with the community. Better training gets them to pull out their guns only when they intend to use them, not when they first pull someone over. Better training will get NYC cops to stop shooting passerbies while trying to kill suicidal people (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/unarmed-man-is-ch...).

The present training is overly focused on violent intervention. And for the majority of police-civilian interaction no violence is intended by the civilians or needed by the police. But their mindset is entirely predicated on "be violent before they are".
Yes, I discovered this myself far later than I should have!

The SF central branch has a really good selection of programming/tech books. Also, having a library card enables access (as you note) to a wide selection of ebooks[1].

(I note, however, that the interface that you can use them through could use some redesign.)

[1] http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000005001
Here is a recent free chapter from a book (Secret Sauce) coming out soon; it is a bit more hands-on, explaining how to figure what what keyword to go after:

https://medium.com/startup-grind/seo-is-not-hard-a-step-by-s...
Wikipedia at least does offer full content torrents now & again so the internet can back up their work or have local mirrors, which would make it survive catastrophic failure of Wikipedia itself.
+1,000 if I could. Honestly, this is my biggest issue with getting better at programming.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel - and everything I want to exist already does exist and has an awesome implementation.

"I want to be able to categorize my music as if it were my job." --> http://beets.io/ ---> "Oh, this exists and does everything I could possibly need."

I want beets for arbitrary media (eg: tv shows, photos) but my current solution covers my needs - I'd just be switching over from grepping text files for queries to querying a database to obtain the same info...
True, save the areas where legislation disallows. But this is a consideration when I purchase/rent a place now, so your point is definitely valid.
Recurrent Neural Networks for Beginners
Source: can't find a single really good explanation but https://www.google.com/#q=hypercapnic+alarm+response gives you the idea.
Create Hybrid Test Framework – Testing Framework Driver Implementation
Charter was the only cable company allowed to buy TWC because of their track record. Both Comcast and Cox considered it, and the FCC straight up said no, they would never approve it.

The former Adelphia areas that went to Comcast got marginally better (more uniform towards product offerings in line with existing Comcast), but are still overpriced shit, and the areas that TWC got worse to match TWC's existing shittyness.

Given how TWC is a toxic shithole of a company, and Comcast is barely any different, Charter has actually made a name for themselves for being customer oriented, not short term anti-profit like the other two, and the FCC happily allowed the merger.

Charter's pricing is generally lower, their customer support is generally better, and they actually rebuild areas they buy instead of letting them rot like TWC (and also Verizon, on the teleco side).

tl;dr if the companies refuse to compete, how is any of it considered "competition"?
As "radical" as the Greens in many countries...
Did you read the entire article? This is addressed with a specific example.
For a hackintosh, there's no such thing as comfy, only minimally scary. The worst case scenario is that your system becomes unbootable and/or data loss. Being able to live with these possibilities is a requirement for hackintosh ownership.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, just that there is no guaranteed safe path and you'll always be at risk for an update borking your system. The best you can do is make maximally informed decisions and prepare for the worst. And ideally have your hackintosh be a secondary machine that can die at any moment without screwing up your life.

It's a great hobby project but (like others have said here) it's something you do because it's a fun and interesting ongoing challenge. There's really no context for anyone in which building a hackintosh is a rational choice made for purely pragmatic reasons. FWIW, I wouldn't consider saving money a pragmatic reason- the ongoing time and risk involved will always exceed whatever money has been saved, unless your time has little value and you have nothing to lose (which admittedly is the case for some hobbyists or students, but good luck getting anyone to admit that :).
> Ok, allow me to be more precise. The loopback _link_, the virtual cable, the virtual interface thingy has zero packet loss. If you imagine a wire that represents loopback, it will never congest, never have interference, never have any loss.

> The packets will _always_ reach the other end. Now, what happens after they reach the other end, that's a separate story. The article indeed showed that it's possible that the kernel network stack dropped packets because of full buffers, or the CLOSE-WAIT thing.

Which is kind of ironic, because that's how packets get lost in the wild as well. The router's buffer gets full due to congestion and it drops them.
The vast majority of the cost of any kind of infrastructure is labor, which scales with local wages.[1] A New York subway ticket is about $2.75. That's about 11x more than the cost of a ticket on the Kiev Metro. And it's not like the New York subway makes a profit--fares cover only about half the system's operating costs.[2]

In Baltimore, I paid about $50 for a 50mbps connection, or about 20x more than a subway ticket. Sounds like the ratio is about the same order of magnitude in Ukraine.

[1] A telecom field technican in the U.S. makes about $6,000-$7,000 per month, plus benefits. That's about 20x what the average Ukrainian in Kiev makes (according to the Internet).

[2] Fares on D.C.'s metro, which similarly cover only about 50% of costs, range from $1.75 to $5.90(!).
>For generations, populists of various kinds have argued that intellectuals are unworldly individuals out of touch with the experiences and values of most of their fellow citizens. While anti-intellectual populists have often been wrong about the gold standard or the single tax or other issues, by and large they have been right about intellectuals.

I was a little confused by this statement. I thought that the populists of yore like William Jennings Bryant were opposed to the gold standard, and the modern consensus is that the gold standard is a bad thing. So weren't the populists right about it?
Good engineering is not the only factor in a product's success. There are other things that are much more important.
> Maid, cook, child care

...

> Americans just refuse to do them

Lots of Americans work as cooks, work cleaning homes, or work in child care. Wages in all three of those areas are quite low, there's not demand for a lot more that would provide livable wage in any of them.
Proper due diligence is expensive, it may easily be a smart business decision to choose a blanket ban on a minority of segments and leave the due diligence to businesses who can specialize on doing that cheaply and accurately.

The article explicitly gives multiple examples where they have accepted businesses from those risky categories after proper due diligence. However, it's quite likely that for Stripe it makes sense to do so only for businesses above a certain size or influence, not for everyone in the category who applies.
A pop-up that obscures the entire page.
They also have a legal requirement to disclose that an ad is an ad. Eventually you'll just get to a point where you block based on seeing the little "Sponsored" text in a post.