skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That explains congress, thank you.

It doesn't exactly explain the citizenry (it does for those that might be left unemployed from military cuts, but I expect that's a small % of the electorate).
"It's gotten bigger and more commercialized over the years."

You've never been.

I've heard this thing so many times.

There is no 'commercialization' at Burning Man. Other than coffee and chai tea at center camp, prepared by volounteers, there's nothing you can buy at the burn.

I terms of 'heyday' - I used to go often in the early 2000's.

The used to say the 'heyday' was before that.

I think it might have been more 'out of bounds' crazy back in the day - after all - the regulations around 'burning' are now very strict, that said, it's so much bigger now - people invest so much in crazy things ...

You should probably hold your tongue and just let people figure it out.

I suggest it's probably a fun thing for anyone to do once or twice. I've had my fill and would not look forward to 10 days in the desert among others without a shower ... but surely it's still something to be seen.
Yep, same. I got a Discover card when I went off to my first internship at 19. I kept that card, and only that card, until I was about 27, when I finally added a Visa for Southwest points.

Paying off every single bill on-time and in full (except for one month when I'd just moved cross-country and hadn't got my first paycheck yet) meant that I received nothing but benefits from the credit card, and ended up with a credit score over 800 when I finally decided to buy a house this year.

As a student, the Discover card was great because there were no yearly fees (what student wants to spend $100/year on that?) and it gave 1% cash-back, which was a nice little bonus a couple times a year that I could apply directly to the current bill.

I know quite a few people who refuse to get a credit card, because they apparently think they'll just be unable to control themselves and rack up $10,000 in debt the first month. I guess the voices in their heads tell them to spend. They tend to be a little surprised when they try to get a home loan and realize that, sans credit history, they have no chance.
Airbus is building a flying, driverless taxi to test in 2017
Yes, C++ takes long to compile compared to other languages. But I never understood the problems people have with precompiled headers. They've worked just fine, without any tweaking or babysetting, for me since Visual Studio 6. That's 15+ years. I don't know how/if the implementations of gcc or clang work, but using the msvc compiler precompiled headers are braindead simple.
Every competent military maintains plans for every imaginable contingency, including war with all countries within reach (which, for a superpower, means all countries on the planet) regardless of current political status. Note the part of your Wikipedia page where it describes how the Canadians had a counterpart plan for invading the US.
it all depends what you want. I've had intense jobs that required a lot of hours but I liked the pay and the experience from delivering a lot. Some of my coworkers went to a different employer in a different industry and down to 35hrs/week + lots of vacation. This included a big pay cut but they are perfectly happy. Just like I am perfectly happy where I am. this is not black and white
Hey, thanks for responding.

I'm curious what the custom-built sensors for specific diseases are? Are you using hyperspectral cameras? I know there was a lot of research into spectral fingerprints of specific diseases.

Also, in regards to the data from the end of season, where you monitor the quality of the crops coming out of the ground. How do you think that assists agricutlrual decision-making? E.g. are you able to predict the quality of the grain and that, in some way, makes it easier to manage?

Again, thanks for answering my questions
If we're talking about cost here, "character" is a luxury. I personally would welcome lower rent (or lower building costs) in exchange for something generic.
Teen HQ Opening in San Jose Library with 3D Printer, Makerspace
"Dump Wikipedia on your phone for look-ups during late night conversations and chill a bit :)"

HA ha ha ... a true Hacker comment. Well done.

But I suggest maybe 'dumping' your phone/computer entirely.
> We get the reward points with none of the drawbacks.

A small nitpick would be that there is a drawback: the cash value of the reward points is less than the additional cost of doing business for the merchants you pay via credit cards. Granted, if everyone else is using credit cards while you use cash, you get hit with that drawback without the benefit of recouping a portion of that value by way of points.
> And that also implies that you give up right of resale.

I'd love to see that tested.
I think it'd be killer if you could combine the user interface of Antimony with the same inspectability Ao. What would it take to achieve an Antimony-like UI on top of Ao?
> The other day I read a Volkswagen (VW Golf) today is ten times more expensive today then thirty years ago.

After adjusting for inflation? I'm gonna need a citation on that. This number sounds bogus.

> A modern graphic card nowadays costs 500$, whereas in 2011 you got it or 200$.

A high-end graphics card (like a 1070) costs $500. A mid-range "good enough" card (like an RX 480) costs $200. It's a segmented market, and it was exactly the same in 2011. Again, your claims are highly suspect and I want to see some numbers backing them up.

> And CPUs got more expensive again as well.

That's because AMD released a garbage fire architecture in Bulldozer, and Intel, no longer having meaningful competition, did what they always do and jacked up prices. Boo on Intel, but there's nothing macroeconomic about it.
There's certainly a correlation between necessities and government regulation, but I think that's an oversimplification. A more nuanced way to look at it is to consider the context in which a consumer needs to decide what to spend their money on...

* Necessities have a much different demand than luxuries. The free market may play against consumers when not getting healthcare or food is not an option.

* Markets like healthcare and education make the cost benefit analysis for the consumer so hard as to be effectively not done by most of the population. people find out the cost after they already owe the money a lot of the time. gov programs can exacerbate this but so can free market loans and insurance.

* As the article points out it's also got a lot to do with the production of goods. Mfg costs have come way down, innovations for lowering healthcare costs are much more complicated.

* Also consumers may have less money in their pockets to begin with because of some of the same reasons luxuries are cheap. Cheap mfg = cheap or no mfg paycheck in the us.
They don't download 851GB each week, what's really new weekly is up 200 Gb
>France, for example, is at 2.1%, so 3.3% is hardly disproportionate.

You just said the US spends 50% more on the military than France. ((3.3-2.1)/2.1= .57). That is a very large difference
Because a startup is private?
The absolute spending numbers will translate into capabilities though.

For instance, the US maintains about 1/2 of active aircraft carriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_s...

I guess the strategic problems with aircraft carriers vs missiles make them a less compelling example of capabilities, but they are a nice illustration of the spending gap.

Later: 1/2 maybe isn't the best choice for a number there, as it includes some smaller carriers that mostly support VTOL craft. On the other side of it, the US super carriers carry a lot more planes. If the next generation planes come through, the smaller US carriers do end up comparing reasonably well to the other small carriers.
> The whole thing could, unless the government blocked it, be sold to a private chinese company down the line.

It wouldn't be the first battery company out of MIT to go that route. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A123_Systems

If our trade policies assume a free market then we open the door to these situations. There's no free trade treaty to blame when China out maneuvers more developed countries like this. Perhaps the solution is to become more mercantilist instead of worshiping free markets.
Hopefully better than how it dropped the ball all around the world since Vietnam.
Not really. You can still legally sell a physical book if you've written your name in (if the buyer doesn't mind), and you can always remove your name from a non-DRMed eBook (though there may be more subtle forms of tracking left in).

The first sale doctrine is a legal matter, and unfortunately in the US it's been found essentially inapplicable to digital copies [1] whether there's a watermark or not. In other jurisdictions it may be applicable, but again probably regardless of the presence of a watermark.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDi....
I find that, for boring tasks or everyday work, this is true. I cannot use "turbo mode" for too long.

But if there is something really challenging in which I plunged in, and at the same time I am getting results, it will break the rule. I think much of what written here makes sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Conditions_f...

Also, if you really want to be productive, it's not about sleep, but about having very defined and organized tasks, so you limit the number of open decisions you have to take in a day.
It is 3.3% of GDP but it accounts for 16% of our total federal spending in 2015. Percent of GDP is a good metric, but it needs to be tempered with the amount we reap in taxes. I'm sure it's an easy calculation/google search, but I need to work now.
Give it to the Rastas and boost it to L1.
If Americans got to choose the textbook content, they'd likely be very pleased with that arrangement.
I've seen emulations of those early Smalltalk machines running at simulated speeds. It was definitely "leisurely." A word to the wise tech innovator: It doesn't matter how amazing the technology is, wait until you can deliver good UX.
Yeah, the "breakthrough" in the title was very misleading. It should be renamed to something like "the [early] history of the Prisoner's Dilemma".
That's called "paying for civilization" versus "lets bomb another 100k innocent civilians with precision guided munitions".
> I find it curious that argument is never put forward.

Because the argument you're making isn't a good argument.

The perceived waste would just happen in a different "industrial complex" with the perception that security is now weaker. Right or wrong, perceptions are what they are.
All the plans in the world won't do you any good if your political masters refuse to follow them. I'm sure the DoD had good plans for the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. And I'm sure those plans involved things that the administration refused to consider, like sending four times as many troops as we actually did.
Having worked in payment systems and processing, I'm well aware of the interchange fees and other fees.

However, the specific name for the cohort of users who paid a very small percentage of their spend (including 0%) was indeed "deadbeat" (at least in the two data warehouses I helped build out), as I'm less profitable than others with less spend.

In fact, one issuer (Capital One) actually closed a card I regularly used (~$1000/year annual spend) about 2 years ago, the letter not stating reasons why. I actually called customer service, and they cited that the costs to maintain my account was considered too high. I used them for a specific category of transactions in which the rewards were higher than any other card I had. Though my usage was apparently insufficient to make it worthwhile keeping me as a customer.
I t doesn't seem unrealistic to think that the generation before mine was probably greediest, and stupidest generation of the history of the world. I say we round them all up and literally throw them into a pit of snakes. Literally, not figuratively.
from wiki:

Perovskite materials such as methylammonium lead halides are cheap to produce and simple to manufacture.

Solar cell efficiencies of devices using these materials have increased from 3.8% in 2009 to 22.1% in early 2016,[3] making this the fastest-advancing solar technology to date

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22% efficiency and cheap materials?
2-a reminds me of something:

Biggest Air Force: USAF

2nd Biggest Air Force: US Navy

That's how much the US spends
I never called this a "fix". I used "fix" in reference to whatever backward incompatible change was being made to make this workaround necessary. (For whatever reasons, it is considered a fix that is desirable; and so the question is then now to mitigate the impact.)

Of course the fix for any behavioral regression is to make it go away without the user having to do anything (other than apply the fix).

The versioning request mechanism has to be supported via an environment variable also, because if a user has a tree of scripts calling each other, it may not be feasible to insert this extra argument into all those calls.

> But the cost to make a small change to a script and the cost to change the way the script is invoked are pretty much the same.

That is true, but the cost to make hundreds of changes to a script versus one command line parameter isn't the same. A change which breaks backward compatibility could affect some programs in many places.

There is also the cost of finding that there is a problem, and what that problem is: where is it breaking and what changes need to be made. All while ensuring that those changes work for the older versions of the interpreter too, not just in the upgraded environment.

Say I have some big, 10000 line script. I update to a new interpreter, and the script doesn't work. First thing I will try is the compat option to emulate the previous version. If it works, then there is my workaround; for the time being, I don't have to care why, or whether forty places in the script are affected or only three. The thing has a way of continuing to work (for a good, long time) so I have plenty of time to investigate it. I can treat it as a low-priority issue and give it as a background task to a co-op student instead of as an urgent blocking issue.

> HTML5 did away with the versioned doctype crap because it wasn't actually useful. It's just "<!DOCTYPE html>" now,

I.e. HTML5 just shortened the spelling of the utterance that you need to indicate that "this page is HTML5". If your page is HTML4, you need the older, more verbose utterance.
According to CreditKarma, getting "excellent" on the number of open accounts factor means having 21 or more open accounts. Assuming you have 4 cc, 2 student loans, 1 car loan and 1 mortgage you would still be in the "poor" category. I don't think I'll ever get out of the "very poor" category (0-5).
Imagine trying to convince a slave master that freedom, in the long run, will lead to more productivity on a scale that they can't even imagine. I believe working fewer hours is a modern day version of that.
What's blocking my lock?
Millennial checking in: I don't have a credit card, just got rid of overdraft on my regular bank account and have a line of credit. Once I pay off the LOC I'm never using credit again unless it's an invest that will pay itself off, ie. a (successful) business, real-estate, etc.
The sad thing is, all want I for my kids is great health and great education, and those are the two areas where the US performs the most poorly. That's such a spectacular failing of the basic social contract. I've never once hoped for them to be citizens of a "the one true global super power".

I've always wondered how much of the world superpower is sold to us as "to keep us safe" when the honest reality is "too feed our national ego". I do believe that the world is a safer place than it was 30 years ago. But I can't think of a conflict since WWII where U.S. efforts in the region seemed to be the stabilizing factor.
Click bait title much?
Really? What's the normal output? The content of the URL being fetched. If that message was to STDERR so that curl > foo worked without alteration but the help text still showed up on the console, I think fewer people would be surprised.

The number of bugs about this indicates that people are still being surprised.
Actually, the preferred rights almost certainly make them more valuable than employee common stock, and probably significantly more valuable. Do we know what the 409a valuation is?
> while the older models still work like a clock if there is no rust issue it will last another thirty years (if well maintained).

There is every reason to believe that a modern VW will last for 60 years as well in similar situations. I would guess the new one will last longer than the old one: VW has been improving quality over the years.

Of course most cars are wrecked long before that 60 years: humans make bad drivers. People also tend to not want to take care of old cars as well. Cars don't hold value in general so keeping the car on the road for 60 years will more than once call for more maintenance dollars than the car is worth.
I actually share these concerns, and that is why I asked here, so that I can improve upon this process.

Like the strategy of probing "deeply into technical details and the engineering decisions of the past" as a mitigation, thanks!

I don't actually think memory would play that big of a role, if candidate solved interesting problems in the past "How would you solve it now?" might be more interesting question than "Do you accurately remember your past solution?" :)
It's inadvisable because the US three letter agencies are known to disappear people without even a whiff of legal reason.
One way is to look for introductory deals. A lot of cards give bonus reward points for opening an account, then more if you charge a certain amount in the first 30 or 90 days, etc. Some also give double or triple points for spending in certain categories e.g. restaurants or travel.

Straight cash back bonuses are maybe not as easy to find.
India and Pakistan share a border, though. For the US to strike Russia is either a missile or a plane. That missile or plane carries a nuclear threat that a bullet or a mortar shell doesn't.

"Is that missile that's going to hit in 10 minutes carrying a nuclear warhead?" is a different category of question than "Is this shooting war on the line of control going to cause the other side to use the nuclear weapons that they have, but which are not anywhere near where the fighting is, and are clearly not yet being fired at us?"
How does async work in JavaScript?
Having anecdotes on both sides makes that "most" claim non-obvious and unsubstantiated. Now, if GP had led with "In my experience," that would be different.
Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone–police did
A first strike against Russia and China is probably a part of Obama's nuclear playbook even today.

I'm curious what a US first strike would look like. Would we assume any strike would devolve into nuclear terror bombing? If so, maybe we'd hit their cities in a first strike. But there is a possibility that a first strike purely against Russian nuclear weapons wouldn't cause the Russians to bomb US cities. In that scenarios Russia might retaliate against US military targets but not civilian targets. I wonder where we came down on that.
The error you're pointing out does not exist in general. % just means "per hundred". If I say A is 110% of B, I'm just saying there are 110 A for every 100 B, which is perfectly reasonable in many contexts. Of course it doesn't make sense to say "Give 110 for every 100 you have available", but that's just one particular context. On the other hand, "Give 110 for every 100 you think you have available" makes perfect sense, if you interpret it to imply that people generally underestimate their ability / hold back.
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Your credit card company needs Amazon more than they need you. They would side with Amazon.
In some cases in some cities in Canada, and where you are living you can rent and save and be ahead compared to buying in the current market.

The savings can be used to fund investments which make you more money.

In TO and the surrounding areas a fully detached houses start around 750k, and in the core can be way more expensive. Average home price is heading (or is over) 1m CAD. I can get a shoe box condo (1b/studio) in the "close" burbs for mid-high 200-300k.

A real house, detached that is nice, about 1.5 hours away approaches 200-300k.
I just don't understand this argument.

If you are working for a company and they wont give you this information, leave and join one that will. If you are thinking of joining a company, ask for all the stock option information. Ask for the details of the funding rounds including liquidation preferences. If they don't give it to you, join another company that will. If no private companies will give you this information (though I know of many that do), join a publicly traded company.

Additionally what would more legislation do that the existing Delaware law doesn't? The fact that a lawsuit is being filed here is a good thing... a company isn't fulfilling its legal obligations and the courts will settle it.
Flatstudio Google Play concept design
I co-sign this. If you want me to be in a location, any time spent conveying myself or being there counts.
8 to 5 here; lunch doesn't count.
Squbs: soft container and components enabling standard. Akka and Spray apps/services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

Your analysis would be correct in a context where both supply and demand for housing are constant... and also assuming that maintenance costs never, ever change. However, prop 13 helps to discourage land sales and new construction, resulting in a supply that grows much more slowly than demand. This drives prices up, especially in areas like the Bay that have been under-building housing for decades. Higher prices results in landlords incentivized to find ways to throw out rent-controlled tenants and outright prices out many working-class families.

Also the costs of things like building upgrades and plumbers can sometimes go up year-to-year.

In short, keeping property taxes fixed to 1970s-era for grandma with multi-million dollar property results in people getting pushed out of their homes. This is perhaps just a bit less than ideal.
I don't like the way wired treats people with adblock enabled, so no traffic from me. Its hard to respect a click-bait title like that anyway. Downvote away, I know its not a helpful comment about whatever the article is about, I just wanted to share that I finding no compelling reason to care about anything wired has to say.
The Golf is not ten times more expensive today than 30 years ago, not even close, non even in nominal dollar value. Adjusted for inflation, a 1986 Golf would have to have retailed for less than $1000 for the 10x number to hold (the 2016 starts at $20k, which is about $9k in 1986).

Also, FWIW, the Golf of today seems to be more of a upscale car, where the 80's models felt substantially more of a no-nonsense workaday car.
This billing was out of the settlement, correct? Where does the rest of the settlement go?

Did the judge just transfer money from the plaintiff to the plaintiff's lawyers?
Classloader-leak-prevention
...any such NDA should be revealed ahead of time, including the precise language of the NDA...

Is this a common thing with NDAs? ISTM it's rare that during the hiring process one would receive a folder containing all the NDAs one might potentially be asked to sign while working at a firm. One might receive an "initial" NDA, to sign before starting, but every time there is an ownership change one can expect a new round of NDAs, because apparently NDA terms are a rapidly-evolving area of contract law.