skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like articles on this subject to at least mention two other significant costs:

Impact on jobs:

Unless and until Uber starts treating their workers fairly (treating them like employees and allowing them some negotiating power over their own livelihoods) not only is it bad for those workers and working people in general, but it's also bad for the country, which has to cover health care and other needs for those workers. Does anyone know how Lyft does in that regard?

Climate impact:

* Buying a new car creates the impact of mining raw materials, processing them, manufacturing, shipping, etc. I have no idea what that impact is.

* For purposes of the trip itself, I think using standard taxi/Uber/Lyft services probably increases climate impact over a personal car: The ride-hailing cars drive around empty part of the time, waiting for rides; your personal car is parked when you don't use it. Otherwise, whether you are in someone else's car or your own for the trip, the impact is the same (unless your car is more/less efficient than the ride-hailing car)

* Sharing rides, such as in trains, buses, carpool, UberPool, etc., obviously is much more efficient. I suspect the more people in the vehicle, the more efficient it is: Trains beat buses beat carpools, but I really don't know that.
Why was it at risk of leaving?
This is widely believed but turns out to be false. The average length of prison stays may not have increased significantly at all in the last 50 years. Increased prison sentences are not the cause of mass incarceration.
an aside.. your link reminded of one of my favourite adventure time episodes: food chain(o); directed by masaaki yuasa

"to a plant, a day is short"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6DlinOXfZg

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Chain_(Adventure_Time)
He's not going to be offered 10 years. If he goes to trial and is convicted, he'll likely serve less than 5.

Once again: 40 years is not in fact a sentence that is available to the judge; the judge would have to discard the sentencing guidelines entirely, and that sentence would fall apart on appeal.

Further, there is simply no relationship between the number "40 years" and the guidelines. It's not like the DOJ is marking up the guideline sentence by X0%. They're instead using a ridiculous process to add the sentences for every count of a crime up, which is simply not how federal sentencing works.
For a start, there are bikes...
Here (in one of the EU countries) we have a strange situation when 4G is 20+ Mbps, but out home DSL maxes out at 2.5 Mbps. We're thinking of switching over to 4G, but it's only unlimited at night.
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The point of that exercise was to show whether you knew how to do it. Things like division and multiplication etc are so basic that you should know how to do it even if you haven't done it for years.

As for mental arithmetic, its main advantage is speed. Faster to mentally solve and continue along your train of thought/flow of conversation than to pull out a calculator. Physical actions will never be faster than speed of thought.
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That actually happened fairly recently with a United Airlines 737:

http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/4851...
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I've heard from multiple people who had their projects (software, electronics, organizations) make the rounds in online communities that HN was the worst experience.
The previous HN discussion for some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044
If you define "really make it" as making millions every year, yes that's rare. But if it's making 300k+ per year, there are multitudes of math-types doing that, and not much luck is involved.
How does collecting a gun database prevent a revolution? Concretely, what's the argument here other than "surveillance is bad"?

Using such a database to deny a citizen the right to purchase a gun would be one way, for example, but I don't see that mentioned here.
There was a fruit and vegetable stand in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NYC (USA). Never seemed to do much business during regular business hours, but somehow managed to remain open 24/7.
That's a heavily romanticized vision of the American Civil War. The revolutionary army was composed in a good part of pre-existing militia from the colonies, which was later expanded with enlisted civilians.
Thanks for recognizing the adversarial nature of the debate. Historically, registration precedes confiscation. Australia comes to mind.

As a gun owner, I'm not sure how there can be "compromise" with "universal registration", especially when politicians are actively touting confiscation as an option on the table.

Something I'd liken this to is Obama's "Key Escrow". Apple holds half the key to the encryption, The Feds hold the other. Look, a reasonable compromise! We promise that we won't do anything evil.
I don't mean to nitpick but your explanation is missing a critical detail. The chain of command for operational purposes (military operations) completely bypasses the Joints Chiefs of Staff and goes directly to the Unified Combatant Commands. By design, there is no military leader that has operational control over more than a fraction of US forces at a time, which further improves civilian control over the military.

The JCS have a very important role but their control is mostly administrative (doctrine, assignments, equipment, promotions, etc.).
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044

See also, if you have time to read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4p9n7e/as_of_nano_26...
I don't much follow salt-water economics, but is that true? That Keynesians think they are actually right?
Normally I'd agree with you on this point, but it seems that Musk is the one displaying hubris here. The gullwing doors were a blatant disregard for the 100+ years of engineering expertise that has converged on the current design of a car door, and throwing that out the window for something flashy and attention grabbing. The criticism is well deserved.
Echoing nickff, obviously they're going to seek out the lowest tax rate they can find for the greatest amount of money they can put there.

But surely you can see that 35% is so high a rate they'll focus more on tax avoidance than is healthy for any of these parties, including themselves?

The item I saw about regions indicated Europe was at around 18%. The nickff cited 6%, 12%, 18%, all those are reasonable, as well as 0%, since the taxes they pay by definition eventually get passed on to others. Some wags had commented WRT to the Christian duty to tithe, "If 10% is good enough for God, why isn't is good enough for the Federal government?"

That they and so many other US based companies have accumulated such huge offshore pots of money is one of those distortions I go into in my rather long post you're replying to. I submit to you it wouldn't be so huge if repatriating it to the US wouldn't automatically cost them 35% of it. By policy endorsed by no less a moral authority than the US Supreme Court, it's their right, if not their duty, to avoid as much tax as they can.
Lol, the ellipsis can also mean... information is left out.
Yes. Several of the CURE International (https://cure.org/) charitable hospitals (including a few in sub-saharan Africa) are already running it.
I'd think the lottery tickets we speak of here are smaller than $1M. Danish and other Nordic lottery markets are different from U.S. so that there are somewhat more "medium size" wins, but no truly huge tens-of-millions-€ jackpots. Denmark and other Nordic countries have state monopoly betting companies (though they do then also operate a multi-country Viking Lotto and participate in Eurojackpot.)
Google has lots of offices. I'm at the Zurich office, as this is my preference, but there are enough to choose from. I wouldn't go to Cupertino as I wouldn't like to have to drive everywhere (I prefer a bit of walking and 10 minutes by train), but I respect people who like those places.

Still, I'm not comparing Google against Apple (which is one of the top revenue/employee companies), but against smaller companies, startups and all the other companies in the world that can't compete that easily with the quality of life that these companies provide.
Average American in a Norman Rockwell painting, maybe. A lot of kids grow up these days without learning how to ride a bike. We just learn to drive early.

And I've never encountered a non-smug argument against automatic transmission.
If a math guy makes a math statement (in a forest of mom-math-understanders), does it make a sound?
> Sonara is Telia, didn't knew about DNA I know that some of the islands and the more remote areas have had setup coop telephone/internet companies but overall there isn't much "competition" as far as number of companies go.

There are five mobile operators in Finland: Elisa, Sonera, DNA, Ålcom and Ukko Mobile.

There are lots and lots of wireline operators.

> If you exclude MVNO's most countries have pretty similar number of mobile and broadband providers.

There are similar numbers of mobile operators in most countries because there is only so much spectrum to go around. However there is a great deal of difference in the amount of wireline broadband providers per country.
It rose because it was hyped by placement-articles a good week prior to the supposed week of monumental rise:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=monero&sort=byDate&prefix&page...
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Nano's new maintainer (Benno) didn't like GNU's maintainer agreement and refused to assign copyright of his contributions to the FSF. So instead he forked the project to maintain it ouside of GNU.

HN discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044
Ask the south Vietnamese government how all that superior firepower kept them in power.
Disagree about what exactly? if only 3 cellular providers is competition then it's the same case for most countries.

Oddly enough many countries somehow seem to devolve to the magic number of "3" which is usually the one old state run company, the "1990's/1980's" deregulation one, and the newer one which is also in many countries a consortium of several 2nd wave players that had to consolidate to survive.

Clearly there are some other forces driving cellular communication in Finland other than only having 3 carriers.
Actually, being at 30,000+ feet the air is extremely dry. Getting severely dehydrated during the flight is quite possible. More so if alcohol is involved.
Not a bad idea, but in the art world everyone knows everyone. It would become pretty noticeable after a while if a gallery is just a front.

Also has to be in the right part of town. If it is a Midwest Rustbelt suburb with Applebees and Burger Kings around and then an art gallery pops up selling post-modern art making millions a year in cash, it would stick out pretty well.
I fear that if this becomes reality it will result in even more people without respect for science or engineering, and thinking that everything is easy.

You need to have experienced that some things are complicated. And we need a lot of people to respect science and engineering, because they will be the ones taking decisions, and those decisions need to be good ones.
There are many more ways to skirt tax laws.

Look at IKEA. They operate as a non-profit, but transfer money to a holding company which licenses the IKEA brand to the non-profit.
When you work remotely, are you stealing from your teammates?
LA resident here. Got rid of my car 2 years ago and haven't looked back. A big difference for me is that I hate driving - especially here. The stress of it really got to me.

Financially, I'm not sure that I actually 'save' money. I live within 100yds of a ton of bars and restaurants, and a 5 minute walk to Trader Joes/Metro. I Uber most places but also take the Metro to DTLA and Santa Monica pretty often.

The whole car payment/insurance/gas/maintenance costs for sure are more than what I pay to Uber/Metro but what I'm not sure how to value the 'cost of walking.' I definitely pay a premium for my location and I often wonder, if I lived in a less convenient area (had to drive to groceries, far from Metro) if I'd be able to not have a car. Because as it stands, car costs < uber/metro/rent premium
It's in the EU documents.
I'd value the cost of walking as negative: it's good for your health.
Yes, when you use an acronym on a page where it's not been used and defined, please tell us what it means. The only meaning of ML that comes to mind, mine at least, is Machine Learning.

Is that what it means?
Busy roads with no shoulder and aggressive Land Rovers.
> My best manager let me really dig in and do my job without interference.

I also had a manager who was really hands off and just let me do my thing. He was my favorite at the time. However, years later, I had a manager who was much more actively engaged. We discussed a lot of problems and solutions on a weekly basis. In those conversations I would also get a very clear sense of the team's and company's priorities. He must have doubled my value as a developer; at least. That wasn't just good for the company, but also felt great.

So while micro-management is clearly bad, I now know that there is something better than a hands-off manager.
Reminds? It is a direct quote of Critical Chain, see #37
Doctors are great. Always going above and beyond the call of duty.

When I was side swiped by an SUV in front of a shopping plaza a doctor was eating dinner in the red lobster inside the plaza. Upon hearing the sound of a car crash she left her dinner and ran to the scene to render aid if needed. Thankfully there were no injuries.
Imagine a search engine that not only gave you search results, it used advanced AI to tell you in brief how each result applied to the problem you are currently trying to solve. Currently, you have to waste time thinking about each result to classify the contents, as for example, entertainment, product marketing, opinions and rants, purely factual, legal, political, social networking, media, API/interface, et cetera.

It would also be useful if the search engine could verify statements made on pages and give an accuracy/honesty score for each result. This is particularly important when the author of a page has a serious conflict of interest. Perhaps the search engine could tell you what that conflict is -- to help protect you from deceptive or incomplete information.
>For Google, it would be buying an enormous database of personal information,

For armchair quarterbacks like us, it's hard for us to mindread Larry Page's ultimate plans. That said, Chris Sacca has an interesting theory on why Larry wouldn't be that interested in Twitter.[1] Chris isn't just a random talking head. He worked at Google to buy datacenters for Larry Page during its explosve growth stage and is also one of Twitter's biggest outside shareholders. He's now a billionaire angel investor.

His comments are from 2012 but I believe it's still relevant 4 years later. The tl;dw: Twitter isn't an interesting "science problem" for Google to solve.

I haven't studied the list of Google's acquisitions extensively but it doesn't seem like they have a pattern of acquiring companies for the databases of user accounts.

[1] relevant excerpt is 4m45ss - 10m51s : https://youtu.be/SK4ezQrTqFw?t=4m45s

[2] https://www.cbinsights.com/research-google-acquisitions
Gun owners (I am one) regard compromise on the subject as they're the ones giving something up. The people on the other side of the table aren't sacrificing anything.

It's like your boss asking you to come in and work on Saturday for the good of the team. But won't pay you for your time.
Yes. (Modulo arguments about the definition of "blockchain".)
Actually, email isn't a bad analogy. Video is complicated, and most people shouldn't build their own proprietary technology. But the outsourcing often happens at the API level: if you use a third-party CDN, transcoder, player, and analytics platform, you can outsource much of the complexity.
Nobody is providing a 1Gbps cell connection anywhere -- this article is marketing hype. They didn't provide 1Gbps "in Finland", they provided it "in their lab" (which could as well have been in NYC).

Population density is a red herring -- deliverable service speed has much more to do with the amount of money the carrier wants to spend on provisioning service than the population density.

fwiw: I travel quite a bit and the fastest LTE service I've tested has been in Tokyo (high population density) @ 52M/23M. meanwhile, here in Montana (low population density) I usually see around 20M/15M.
It will happen just with any other market before, after reaching a certain plateau, only a niche will care about.

How many people do actually tune their cars, specially modern ones that require all sorts of on-bord computers?

Or customize their VCRs, TVs and so on?

PC have become what every other home computer system already was, plain appliances.

Before the PC all other home computer systems had all their OS, or at least part of it in ROM and where mostly only expandable via external devices on their connection port, very few models had internal expansion bays.

The market has come to realize that the PC flexibilty doesn't pay any more in the age of "good enough hardware" and razor thing margins, so back to the old appliance model.

As for alternative OS, Apple isn't an alternative in the majority of the world. On my home country people earn on average 500 euros, only the upper layer can afford Apple computers.

ChromeOS is hardly practical, and never saw anyone using one in Europe. Just a few shops in Germany trying to get rid of them at any price.

Android might be a solution, but it remains to be seen how the desktop version of Android N really works out in the wild.

As for GNU/Linux systems, I stop considering them as I am yet to see the typical stores that average people go to buy computers invest in a proper packaged whole stack experience.

So this leaves us with Windows, bad or not, that the majority of people already know.
I would really like alerts (like reddit does...an orange envelope or something similar)...when someone replies to my comment I don't want to have continually check to see if there are replies. I know there are a lot of people that don't want this for some reason or another. For this reason there should be an option to turn them on/off.
My only complaint is it is written in Haxe instead of ES6. It would make sense to code it in Haxe if it were to be ported to PHP, C++ and the likes but it appears to be strictly for web audio
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The countries simply need to hire higher competent people to construct their laws including addressing those newer types of firms such as Apple and Google. Since Wal-Mart and Starbucks are both "brick and mortar" it seems strange that Starbucks can have favorable taxes but not Wal-Mart.

Countries simply need to hire very competent people to construct the laws. Their problems with taxes is one of market competition for intelligent people to write the laws with Amazon and Google who hire people to "legally" skirt the laws, often acting in "grey" areas and loopholes.
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Hey guys,

The documentation and solutions are quite dated for setting up a public WiFi spot with a captive portal. Are there any resources that I am overlooking into how one can build a solution for small business? Setting up the hardware and creating the portal.
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Don't apologize. He just said he got a dick pic, not that he found it unpleasant.

I've never gotten a dick pick... I feel left out! Ha.
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Like I said, super simplified. But surely you aren't arguing that the revolution army was trained or equipped to the same degree as the British Army?
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You are sorely mistaken with regards to Finland.

Regulation in Finland defines what broadband speeds are acceptable. This includes mobile broadband. Acceptable speeds are a minimum of 50% of top speeds using a 4 hour average or a minimum of 40% of top speeds at any time.

And this regulation is enforced.
The article included the response of direct questions to said company about these violations. They refused to say it was wrong or violated their internal ethics policy.

Additionally, they just repeated no laws were broken.

There is no playing devils advocate here. They clearly don't care about what happened in Mexico or middle-east.
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My friend got cancer so I lent her my car and haven't been driving for a few months now, I grew up here in LA so its always been seen as a disaster to not have a car. but even to get to music gigs it hasn't been a problem. I do use uber for some things but because I live close to a metro station its easy to get to downtown and then take any of the lines to get up to general areas, then if I need to get to a more remote place I uber over from the station. The combination of Uber/Lyft and the stations enables me to get anywhere I need to go in LA without a car, even late night recording sessions in Hollywood, I live in a good location so its not costly to use Uber for the times when I have to be out later than the train runs.
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I just wish more people would read Critical Chain books, there are several very interesting books that discuss this technique - including some that were released just last year.

amazon.com/dp/1934979074/

amazon.com/dp/1499660901/

amazon.com/dp/1498746039/

amazon.com/dp/0884271536/ - the original book that started it all
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This is not just a personal anecdote but a remark on why Twitter as a whole is becoming unpopular. All this curating and pruning is work.

Twitter should be making the experience valuable with as least work as possible from its users.
I'm a, to put it lightly, a cycling enthusiast.

I bet this means that people don't know how to get from A to B on a bicycle, rather than, you know, being able to pedal a bicycle in a straight line, and keep the thing upright.

For example: which streets are the best to take? What's legal/illegal to do? (sidewalks OK? "I DON'T KNOW? I'M SCARED TO RIDE ON THE ROAD/NOT ON THE ROAD") Where do I lock up this thing? What happens at night - do I need lights? What kind of light? What do I do if it start raining? Oh no? What do I do about my wheel - the tires not holding air!

These are topics not always taught to you... ever by... anyone. Especially the legal aspects of bicycle rights on the road. That leads to all sorts of arguments about what bikes can/cannot do and creates a horrible opposing relationship with cyclists and other road users. As a motorist, if you don't ride a bike as an adult, you may have NO idea what a cyclist is allowed to do on the road, but the same can be said about a cyclist that's JUST getting into riding a bike. They'll make all sorts of mistakes, and put themselves in bad situations, often angering other users of the road. How long is that going to last, until that bike is back in the back of the garage?

What's the solution? Seek out a support group of cyclists to help you.
I have, because just recently someone tried to convince me it's just plain impossible to go at slow speeds (<10mph) in a car.

And apparently that's very difficult when you don't have the clutch to moderate speed, or so I was told. It might just be that American drivers aren't used to going in any sense slow at all.

(But those damn bikers, always zipping by! By the cries, you must think cyclists in America have some magic potion that makes them go 50mph instead of, you know, <=20mph peak)