skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Two years ago, the European Union capped the fees retailers pay at 0.2 percent for debit cards and 0.3 percent for credit cards.

How is it possible that retailers in the U.S. and Canada pay 2-3% for credit card usage, or ten times greater than legally permitted in Europe? I have to assume that 0.3% is profitable, otherwise the credit card companies would simply stop operating in Europe. Could this be a misprint in the original article or are Americans and Canadians being horribly ripped off?
Sometimes it's hard to see the importance of racism for someone who isn't part of a minority group day-in-and-day-out. In terms of racial identification, are you part of the majority in your country?
I agree with the parent comment, it is easiest to just play with it.

If you're particularly interested in Python webapps, I've written a tutorial on how Kubernetes can help deploy a Django app in a scalable and resilient fashion: https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/kubernetes-django/
When was the last time you read the Articles of Secession?

(here's one: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/secession.html)
I just uploaded a presentation I gave last February called "Git back on your feet":

http://www.slideshare.net/ChristianCouder/git-back-onyourfee...
I think there's some sample bias going on, because I basically don't know anyone who uses wireless headphones, except for Bluetooth earpieces that are increasingly socially unacceptable for use anywhere other than in a car. Gym? Cheap wired headphones. Work? Good wired headphones (or headset). Etc.

I even own a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones (nice onces, Sony's) but it's a pain in the ass to keep them charged and deal with pairing/unpairing them to various devices, or connecting to the wrong device when I want to use them with something else, or get them to work with various laptops' shitty Bluetooth drivers, when I can just use a pair of decent wired headphones and stick them into the ubiquitous 1/8" jack and move on with my life.
Show HN: Traceur, automagically track shipments found in Gmail
SearchTrack lets you collaborate with peers to save useful resources around any topic that you're learning about. Once you have compiled a useful research, you can easily make it available to others trying to learn about the same topic - so they could save time by not having to reinvent the wheel.

We're a team of three guys, working from a small studio apartment in Bangalore, india.

Looking for feedback and suggestions.

Thanks folks.
The current building boom is indeed partially in response to a rezoning to allow residential development in the area. (It's also in response to surrounding neighborhoods having become very desirable for other reasons.)

What do you do when land prices and the obstacles to construction posed by high density (such as not being able to store large quantities of raw materials or keep a bunch of trucks on site) make development costs prohibitive for affordable housing? What do you do about the NIMBYs who are afraid the new skyscraper will block their view?

And why would a developer choose to build in a cheap area for lower rents when they can get higher ROI on everything but the land costs if they build luxury housing in an expensive area?

I'm not convinced that the biggest obstacles to affordable housing in the city are about zoning or safety regulations. (Some of which, btw, ARE necessary for the sake of, yanno, people not dying.)
There is no offense intended in these statements.

One of the important lessons we learn in this life is that we're responsible for the offense we cause (or more specifically: the offense implicit in what we say), not the offense we intend.
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Refuse to accept delivery on the second order, this will legally force Dell to refund. If Dell still refuses to refund, refute the charges with your card company, they are legally required to chargeback if you refused delivery; they will likely rule in your favor on the first order as well if you provide detailed documentation.
1) I believe free speech has it's limits, like shouting "fire" in a theater. I was rejecting your statement that "telling people not to swear" is morally equivalent to "swearing". One is restricting another person's right to expression. The other is using the right to self-expression.

2) take the word "fuck" for example. I don't find it offensive in the least. It's a fascinatingly versatile word. If someone stubs their toe, and shouts "fuck", I am not offended. If someone looks me in the eye, points their finger, and says, "fuck you", I am offended. The word is the same, the context is different. The offense seems therefore to be derived from the context, not from the word.

3) No, again back to point #1. The presence of someone's offspring, in no way can or should obligate me to follow their moral values. Asking me to refrain from swearing because of delicate children's ears is someone imposing their moral code to determine my behavior.

I 100% agree with your last 2 paragraphs. I alter my language depending on context, anyone with a modicum of social skills does that. I was just responding to your original individual bullet points.

To add a little levity, I recommend everyone watch the YouTube video about the versatility of "fuck"[1]. Of course, please use headphones in order to not offend anyone around you. (sorry, had to be slightly tongue in cheek there -- hope you don't mind me poking a little fun)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LZSUYoNPMs
I'm intrigued by this type of case - this article doesn't mention any specific legislative requirement that fees should have been less during the period concerned. It's a strange precedent that a company can be retrospectively liable for charging "too much".

This is similar to the case of Apple and their tax dues in Ireland.

Maybe someone with a better grasp of legal matters can explain a mechanism that gives this case a chance. Otherwise I can't see this claim succeeding without causing a great deal of business uncertainty.
Isn't this what happened with Apple in Ireland?
They only decided now that it's wrong, yet they want apple to pay back for the last 20 or so years? Even though back then it wasn't seen so much as a problem.
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But the big difference is that the effects are almost completely local and not anywhere as threatening on a global scale compared to burning stuff and causing everything to heat up. This is actually a decisive point because whoever builds the dam will also lookout for the effects it causes and be more reasonable.

On top of that I think that the extinction of species is really not comparable to global warming, which will probably cause mass extinctions on a scale that has not been seen before in human history.
We hardly have enough data to say that. In fact we've found nothing remotely similar to Earth in all the thousands of samples we've taken. So if there are any others at all, they number in the dozens?
I only fell in love with the voice of a single audiobook narrator. I checked, and yes, he was Scott Brick. I think he adds about 50% on top of the value of the written book by his interpretation.
> I said nothing about what the parent believes, i said that there are religious groups that have an ideology i find narcissistic at best.

So you brought up a point that is unrelated to parent's about what people who belong to a religion believe in? I...should that even be in this thread? I don't get it unless you're actually replying to the parent above you.

> Thats a significantly stronger statement than you allude to

It's not though. They didn't say to bulldoze all the things. Why wouldn't humans flourishing and having happiness be a goal to hit? I can't think of a single thing that we do, when we interact with nature, that doesn't affect the environment in at least some fashion. It's all about balances. If you can add a dam, reducing carbon emissions from other power sources, but it displaces animals within X square miles that needs to be understood. It may be very worth it. It may not it.

What I got from your comment was that the parent poster was bad and that you think most people are bad because they find themselves most important.
Human's are rarely rational in a way that could be understood to be accepted as absolute, we are overwhelmingly emotional creatures just like every other creature in existence.

So if a young person displeases you, then all such young people will be simply marked as a threat +1 by your brain
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Just wanted to give the author a shoutout for being awesome. This article is published with an AMP version[0] too, which is pretty unusual for smaller blogging sites.

AMP articles are so much easier on my eyes (and the author can't include their own javascript on an AMP page, so there is less bloat). I wish all bloggers started to publish AMP pages.

[0] - http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbo...
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> this just looks like a shakedown of an American company.

Mastercard being American has nothing to do with it. UK banks have had to repay literally billions of pounds for similar things. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_protection_insurance
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/27/landmark-rulin...
The impression I get from the article is that it takes a supercomputer to generate it right now. So lets say 5 years? till it becomes mainstream.
Maybe it's hacking rather than defiance.
Good news is that you can filter what you see in your feed. Why do you think you or Facebook have a say in conversations between people you have no connection with? Why are you ok with taking down that conversation because there's a disturbing image that you don't even see, because it is not in your feed?
Every energy source needs to be looked at with a cost-benefit analysis. The materials for wind and solar are not impact-free, and neither is their use. Before we condemn dams, we should compare them to alternative energy sources that would have been used instead (at the time of building), and assess whether the damage is less or more. Dams may be causing the extinction of a few species (which I assume implies they may yet be saved), but we can't assume that an increase in coal or nuclear power would be impact free in overall climate health or the health of individual species (nuclear has a fairly good track record by plant, but statistically having more plants built in the past may have yielded a disaster, and it only takes once to drastically change the averages for nuclear to significantly worse).

The question is, can new dams be built in ways that reduce or eliminate the problems we've encountered so far?
Well no, in that case they decided that Ireland violated the treaties it previously signed.

I can't compare to this case but that was only retroactive in that they discovered the problem later.
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The article is about the native populations.
How would you copyright it? Neural Nets have weights that mean nothing outside of NN. The samples could be copyrighted. Maybe you train it on a cross between an impersonator and the famous person. Wouldn't that be a derivative work? (Famous training samples, impersonator training samples, copyrightable quote)
> That may be acceptable as long as it’s one tool in many, he said, but data shouldn’t drive the entire justice system.

Data has always driven all the decisions we make. It's just that in the past, before big data, our personal computers (read: brains) did the data wrangling. By the way, we still do it. It's how humans and other living things employ profiling.
I meant those as helpful suggestions but...ummm...thanks for the reminder. Also, you'd be surprised who is a notary. It's not all high-end finance people. I know one who works as a receptionist at a car dealership.
There are lots of dams in the Pacific Northwest... just drive along the Columbia river, for example.
Please add me to the beta test list too! This sounds awesome.
Do you have RP or something similar?

What else is on your bucket list? Apologies if the questions are too personal, I find what we miss when we lose sight very interesting.

Hope you get to see them again.
Yes. You become a medium of public discourse with network effects. That seems perfectly fine to regulate.
Protecting one's interests, if you will.
which is even more confusing, as the govt is being rewarded for violating treaties by being paid back all the tax.
Was the govt not more in the wrong than Apple was?
(sorry, thread hijack)
Two years ago the EU capped the fees, but that's immaterial to the fact that the fees prior to that were determined to be illegal under anti trust laws. The article is confusing, it's written badly and is mixing numbers and laws up. My understanding is this is not a retro active shakedown.

Also, I can only assume you're referring to Apple's case. My understanding is that calling it a retro active law shakedown is misleading. It was always illegal (who to blame for facilitating the behaviour is another question).

Consumer protection was one of the main reasons I voted to stay in the EU. Without the EU's clout these companies would be exploiting consumers relentlessly indefinitely and it's good to have an entity with clout who are able to fight back.
I guess I don't follow your reasoning.

The long term data (over decades) shows that nuclear kills fewer people than other forms of power generation. Maybe that will change over time (fewer people falling off of roofs when installing solar).

That data includes "high impact" events, including things like Fukushima, which evidently has not resulted in any radiation-related fatalities.
Because with great power comes great responsibility, and companies like to cherry-pick only one out of two. It's in the interest of society that when something becomes mainstream enough to be considered "infrastructure" - something with so little competition that ignoring or bypassing it is infeasible given the state of the market - that this infrastructure works within frameworks that we've built and refined over centuries.

Rent-seeking is bad, it's facilitated by ownership of too large a share of the market. In return for allowing Facebook to leverage its size and influence for rent-seeking behavior, we as a society, a.k.a. the government representing us, have the right and responsibility to set the ground rules for what we get in return.

That's not about fault or entitlement, it's about how we can continue to uphold the values that are important to us. Free speech and the ability to publicly disagree are a crucial part of that. If your platform gets popular enough that strengthening or suppressing your voice has a material impact, profit and shareholder interests can't be the only thing that decides how things are supposed to work. There's a lot more at stake here.
Austerity is rough, I suppose.
Let Mathematicians frolic in the Platonic world if they wish, but should physicists be using continuous math if our universe ends up by being discrete and finite?
Im not sure if english is your first language, but my response makes perfect sense to who i replied to, and we are discussing a comment by the grand parent.

> Why wouldn't humans flourishing and having happiness be a goal to hit?

you are /immediately/ softening the language - how do you not see yourself doing this?

now its gone from 'the whole point of existence' to 'should be a goal to hit' I'm not even going to read the rest, because youre flat out being dishonest here.
Fair point. For all my whining, I use both Git and Linux every day, they are incredible pieces of technology, especially compared to what came before.
Agreed. It feels like Atlasssian never met a feature request that they didn't say "no" to.

Unfortunately, most of the tools out there don't scale well, so most teams reach the point where Jira is the only reasonable choice.

(Full disclosure, building https://clubhouse.io address this problem.)
There is also a popular confusion that design has nothing to do with "making things look fun or pretty", and that anything done to make a site look more attractive is either a waste of time or counter-productive.
I agree, though I find people commonly reference various nationalities as if they represented a "race" of peoples. I'd also point out that "Hispanic" is an even less genetically precise term than "Mexican".
How is it possible that we pay twice as much for healthcare? Same reason.
> So, the article says dotcoms caused first bubble in 2000, houses in 2008, but this one is driven by central banks printing money. And there is no way they will stop printing so this is an infinite bubble

> There is sooo much wrong with that

Well, for one thing, its not true. In the US, for instance, the Fed stopped QE in 2014, and has not only stopped QE but raised interest rate targets slightly since.

Central bank policy -- like the economic indicators that drive it -- tends to be cyclical, not infinite positive feedback. This has been a long and particularly intense period of loose monetary policy (largely, because governments, especially the USG, have completely been asleep at the switch in terms of fiscal policy response to the economic situation, relying more heavily than is sane on central banks and monetary policy), but there is very little to think that the usual cyclical drivers won't work the way they normally do.

(Of course, that won't actually pop asset prices in general -- though it may result in a shift across asset classes -- since the cyclical drivers of tighter monetary policy are exactly the same things that drive high general asset prices without a loose-money driver.)

> As @rtpg says, that s stops not when Fed stops printing money but when market realises that the high asset prices "globally" become obviously unsustainable.

Which, if those prices were high nominal prices driven by the Fed printing money such that the supply of money vs. that of other assets was ever expanding, would actually require the Fed to stop printing money, because as long as it continued to do that (and as long as people believed it would continue to do that), high asset prices would be sustainable.

(Conversely, if people believed that the Fed would stop, but would only do so because of the existence of some other driver supporting asset value, then even with the money-printing-presses stopped asset values would be maintainable.)
> your experience with it is extremely influenced by how it is configured

When I hear something like that about a product, my first instinct is to run away. I already know plenty of programming languages, I do not need a Turing complete interpreter with an arcane language added to it.
Capitalism, the economic theory as posited by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" fails when stuff approaches infinity.

We already have a taste of it with the internet, where it's 'Create once, share everywhere'. The idea of scarcity is forced via legal tools, where scarcity means little.

And now, with cheap solar, leads to cheap/free energy. And robots are creating more and more goods. And we're on the cusp of a level 4 vehicle automation systems. As this trend continues, many things will approach 'infinity' the same way they do already online.

What does that mean? It means that people could have the requirements of life provided as a citizenship right: food, water, shelter, electricity, internet, plus a bit more. Unlike the older socialism and communism systems, that required people be slaves to the state and work in prescribed manners, robots and computers could be the provider of these essential resources.

And that starts looking at post-capitalism systems. Would there be money? Of course. Some resources would still be rare. But this idea of "go to work so you can eat and survive" would no longer be hanging over people's heads like a guillotine.
jaw dropped. Thanks for sharing.
I have near zero knowledge of finance infrastructure, but shouldn't stock price be normalized by the exchange rate in which said stock is denominated? Say index everything in USD or whatever currency your user prefers. Otherwise, even if you remove Zimbabwe stocks from your charts, any analytics will be fundamentally flawed.
I like Git generally, and my feelings on GUIs for it are kinda mixed. I like GUIs for visualizing the log with all branches, and they make it easier to selectively commit some of your changes, especially partial files. I haven't seen any that are much help over the command line for managing branching and merging, though. I like GitX for OS X because it does the things that I think GUIs are good at, and doesn't try to do much else.
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/
$ cd eigen
$ time hg grep CUDA > /dev/null
real	0m16.661s
user	0m16.097s
sys	0m0.531s

$ git clone https://github.com/RLovelett/eigen.git
$ cd eigen
$ time git grep CUDA > /dev/null
real	0m0.019s
user	0m0.035s
sys	0m0.057s

Never looked back.
Actually, if mhurron is referring to what I think they are, then it can be fairly global. Think fish migration and spawning, such as with Salmon. Global Salmon population is very susceptible to being disrupted by blocking rivers. That said, I believe there are modern ways to address this problem.
Elon's statements here add fuel to the already burning fire of suspicion over this event, given the fact that the sale of the company that made the AMOS-6 satellite to a Chinese military controlled company was contingent on this successful launch.

If some entity were to have decided they did not want China to get access to this technology, there's your motive.
I've been curious how much impact they have had on our current culture; a people who (to paraphrase Robin Williams) were so uptight they got kicked out of England.

Christian mores definitely still drive our cultural mores, and while there is some easing of the restrictions there, sex is still much less acceptable than violence. As a simple example of this, attempts to reduce the violence in highschool football are as vehemently opposed as attempts to provide more than "abstinence only" sex-ed.
Not a misprint: https://www.adyen.com/blog/eu-interchange-fees-cap (good summary of the regulation and what it covers)
But we don't pay 10 times as much for healthcare. The credit card fee differential is inexplicable.
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iPhone 7 camera was improved, but additional components add to its thickness much more than to width and height. Jack consumes width and height, that are big enough for one extra chip, for example.
I am yet to know anyone that gave any money to Vim.

Would those shit loads of plugins exist if people had to pay for them?
Exactly why I described it as the "Salesforce of project management." shudder
Exactly yes. Once your platform becomes this popular, you wield real power over human society. And society should absolutely start to dictate to Facebook what it can and cannot do to prevent it from abusing its power. How many times do we need to go over this?

Any organization, when it becomes sufficiently large, essentially becomes a government.
October 27, 2010. Really? :)
> I don't really care that you had a hamburger for lunch to be honest and I actively don't want you to know what I did over the weekend.

I used to think this way, and this line of reasoning misses the point.

You don't ask someone what they had for lunch to find out what they had for lunch. As you said, that piece of information has no bearing whatsoever for you. I may even ask someone what they had for lunch already knowing what they had for lunch.

The reason you ask what they had for lunch is that doing so is an explicitly social behavior, or as you call it, "keeping up appearances". The fact that you're willing to do the song and dance just like everyone else means you are sincere about keeping peace and order within the social group you're interacting with. You understand there are certain expectations, and you fulfill them. That's the behavior of someone that cares.

If you were truly insincere, you wouldn't bother keeping up appearances. You would tell that person "Oh fuck off with your lunch, no one gives a shit".