skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other thing that strikes me as a conundrum here is that, if one is aware of deliberately choosing unreality over reality, are you really choosing unreality?

I.E. how is it possible to choose fiction as fact in the knowledge it is fiction?

I don't really understand the mindset...
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> the french example is a bit beyond ridiculous

Considering how cheques are usually welcomed in France, I strongly disagree with you. And, if a normal cheque isn't accepted, you can step into your bank and ask a bank-cheque, which is the top. Sure, you have to go to the bank, but it's just for big payments, so not that often.
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Its for those late nights, when you really need your fix after a long bar crawl. Take out the phone, open the app, hit the button and get your Döner.

Of course, we will at some point make a web app. We focussed on apps first as we have more experience in native app development.
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So are you saying its unreasonable for services to become less costly over time ?
They're also using models with multiple skin tones (dark vs light), which is a classic scenario for underexposed faces.
> Perhaps it's no coincidence then that their word for taxes, skat, also means “sweetheart”.

The word "skat" means treasure. That's why we also use it as a word for our sweethearts.
Google voice search doesn't record everything said near the smartphone.

In fact, it only records and send to the mothership when the OK Google is recognized.

Another clickbait article with just FUD
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I agree, but that doesn't mean that the safety testing has to be done by the company.

A system where the company pays for the a 3rd independent party to do the testing is desirable IMO
I don't think cellphone radiation is harmful.

I'm just pointing out that it's a logical mistake to assume it is harmful just because some of the research was sponsored by industry.
First thing that came to my mind - check the logs. What, no access logs for critical infrastructure, no physical access control, "anybody could use the door, no biggie"? I had a hunch about your issue from sentence 3 onwards - I thought the story "janitor unplugs server, plugs in vacuum, replugs server when done" was universally known. Apparently, "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." ;)
In other countries, taxes are complicated (no citation needed). There's income tax, but there are also social security payments, industry-specific taxes, etc. And you have to pay for your own education and healthcare!

Danish tax is simple and all inclusive. It is around 50%, which is about the same as in US if all hidden obligatory payments are taken into account. But it is all inclusive: all education and healthcare is free in Denmark, and social security grid is immense.

I am a pro-free-market person and Ayn Rand admirer. But even I think that Danish system is not that bad: you just pay 50% of your income to the government immediately, and they do not bother you until the next time. On the other hand, in the US, the IRS will pursuit you relentlessly, there are insane friction multipliers like healthcare insurance rising costs spiral, and everything is so complicated that only lawyers are happy about it.

Free markets only work if the government is separated from the economy. If they are entangled, you are getting the worst of both worlds.
similar also with magarine / chemical industry vs butter / farmers - for decades they paid for favorable research to say that magarine is better for you than butter.
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I've noticed lately that posts stay for a much lonfer time on the main page. Half year ago I almost never saw a post twice if I checked every 24 hours but now I do. What happened?
Why should the taxpayer subsidize industry? Isn't it their job to prove their products are safe?
>Most people are not idiots. If they disagree with you, it's probably not because they are being irrational, but because they're starting from a different premise, making different assumptions, or assigning different values to different aspects of the problem.

This is probably one of the most insightful things you can ever read. Internalise this and your whole way of approaching others will be changed. This is valid for arguments and discussions, but really for interpersonal relationships in general.
> Folks who do not trust banks/governments ...

I can't imagine why a government, while deciding its political action, should consider the opinion of someone who doesn't trust them anyway :-)
Cars are too expensive for people without much money. Boom, question answered.
Did you contact Google sales for a premium plan? Just curious if they were able to give you a reasonable quote since 200k daily map loads looks to be so much outside the scope of the standard plan.
Not unreasonable but so far unobserved. Any initiatives to reduce costs seem to increase an even costlier bureaucracy.

/generalization
Just to be clear, most insurance companies have very strict risk management policies and almost exclusively invest capital in government bonds. As you are probably aware, these bonds have had very low rates of return in recent years - getting close to 0℅ yield (or even negative yield in some regions)

So I don't think the difference in efficiency will always be a significant factor.

In addition it is possible to create bond tokens on Ethereum, which might provide opportunities to invest the capital from premiums - provided that the bonds have sufficiently low risk.
In Europe, even religious people don't take their religion seriously. It's rather a personal, cultural thing, something that makes one's soul feel good, something that creates communities, gives hope and consolation etc. It's put in a totally different sphere than worldly matters, like science, physics, biology etc. Religious talks even at ceremonies is always about how humans feel (and of course endlessly repeating the story of Jesus). But they don't usually touch topics that "smell" scientific and fact-like.

But this is quite a new development. It's hard for us to appreciate it, but there are other conceptions of religion's role in life. In the US, many religious people believe that things in the Bible literally describe how stuff is, it's not just an allegory or metaphor to help people in their lives. (Or similarly in Islam, the religion is not separate from all other aspects of life, but an inseparable part, without which nothing else makes sense).
Surprisingly correct: USA did not sign the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, as the only western country. Special snowflake as usual :D
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Recent car-maker shenanigans suggest industry shouldn't be trusted in this regard.
Why do I always land at the very end of the page when clicking atlas obscura links?
>The government's plan involves cutting the top rate of income tax by 5 percentage points

>The main idea behind the change, which is now being discussed by parliament, is to make salaried work more attractive and woo some 40,000 people off welfare in the process. Not a bad plan for a country that faces labor shortages and growing pressure on its costly social safety net from an aging population.

This is a sales pitch for tax cuts on the rich, not an idea.

Somebody, somewhere made a campaign contribution and this is their reward.
Also if services are getting cheaper then there's a question of why the money isn't reinvested to make those services better for the same price?
I have invites if anyone would like one :).
Don't do what most other people do.
Ctrl-p/n are a quicker way to go up and down the history.
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I get your point, but you make it sound like Denmark has flat tax. For the record, it does not.
Far less risky to first make the services less costly, show a surplus and that service has not been degraded and then lower taxes than lowering taxea first.
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It looks like people like to comment on the title without reading the article - it says that young people are genuinely not interested, as demonstrated by the fact fewer take a driving licence. They do have money, but they prefer spending on IT gadgets rather than cars. The article may be wrong of course, but it's not simply a matter of them being broke.
You're completely missing the next wave of high end NYC dining, smaller destination chef oriented places like Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, or Torst, or Blanca.

Now one could certainly argue the merits of those places, but pretending that NYC fine dining is defined by midtown and expense accounts just makes it seem like you don't spend much time here.

Not to mention the real money types go to Eleven Madison Park, which is still stellar and curiously absent from your list.
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This entire article is about Elixir, not Erlang. Can someone fix the submission title?

Also this fits with my experience with Elixir. I can apply all my OOP baggage very well in Elixir; one active process maps beautifully one object.

The only thing I miss is a clear _terminology_ distinction between the Elixir versions of an object and a class. Both are called processes, which is a bit messy. Strictly a process is just the runtime thing (the "object") and the "class" is just a function (or, in practice, a module that follows a certain convention). But I've heard many people refer to the latter as "processes" too and I'd love a better word.
I'd guess it's a combination of
(i) there's a not unreasonable belief that a human (or a trading algorithm that evolves over time according to human input) can do a better job of managing an investment portfolio than an immutable "contract" algorithm
(ii) insurance companies tend to be much larger and better diversified than an individual insurance contract on the blockchain
(iii) insurance companies are often considered to be "too big to fail" by governments even when they do screw up...

For Ethereum-based smart contracts you can probably throw in (iv) Ethereum-based asset classes are riskier than many liquid investments available in dollars, and even if you can write your smart contract to seamlessly exchange the cryptocurrency float for nice, safe Federal Reserve bonds and convert back if and when more of that float is needed to pay claims, you've got more counterparty risk and exchange rate risk than carrying out the same trades purely in dollars.
Read John Siracusa's Spatial Finder rants in his OS X reviews for Ars Technica for more details than you could ever want
These press releases are terrible. It took me quite a while to find the original paper:

Optimizing Indirect Memory References with milk

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2967948

(seems to be available without paywall)
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control-p, control-a, 'sudo ' return.

I think I'm pretty proficient as a basher, but I also never use the bang, nor do I use the 'history' bit. Didn't know about alt-. tho, that's handy.

I could toss 'control-k' for 'delete to end of line' that hasn't been mentioned. And of course control-P/N for previous/next commands (or arrows obviously).
Taxes are widely used to raise prices and discourage consumption on unhealthy products. E.g. car fuel, tobacco, alcohol.
I think given the choice, many Danes would prefer to keep that taxation as is, and and get more and better services.

If some public service would get cheaper (so fare all services seems to just get more and more expensive), there's a ton of other services that could really use the money that would be freed.

Honestly I think that the Danish public sector is a terrifying example of mismanagement of public funds. We simply aren't getting enough value for the taxes we pay. Part of it is insane ways of handling purchasing and outsource of public work.
> in many ways, the old versions are much purer expressions of the timeless concepts of software usability.

Maybe you are right on this.
Maybe this is why I feel nostalgic of pixelartish BeOS, QNX Neutrino, maybe MacOS9 / *Step and even plan9 rio/acme or IRIX.

My UX in terms of usability and style seem to cycle: 0. get inspiration, 1. comfort, 2. fatigue, 3. back to 0 and realize the previously inspiring thing is now obsolete.

Sad thing, in 30 years, I have cycled a lot more with "computer interface" domain than I have with congas and cameras, some of my favourites having been produced in the late 80s / early 90s.

Software do not age well, yet, and there isn't much chance to keep them running, even if their features, concepts and styles are still relevant to a significant user base. That being said, I use OS, terminals and text editors whose concepts take roots in the 60s :)

As the discussion above focused on macos Finder, I miss the now unmaintained Rox Filer the same way.
is this US-specific line of thinking?

Indirectly. Creationism is really only a thing within certain subsets of baptist and evangelical branches of Christianity, and these branches haven't take a large hold in Europe, whereas in the US they've flourished. Catholics have never really gone for it, even in the US, as far as I'm aware.
No silver bullets + Baumol Cost Disease + greater expectations = very unlikely that services will become cheaper. Someone promising to make public services much cheaper should be treated like someone offering to sell you a $10 Rolex. It's either fraud or theft. God help you if someone tries to sell you a computer system to improve public services, that needs very careful management (18F, GDS, not Capita and friends) if it's not to become a cost writeoff.

I should probably expand on Baumol Cost Disease: many public services inherently involve humans doing touchy-feely automation-resistant things, and as the rest of the economy becomes more automated or imported this gradually becomes relatively more expensive. Things like childcare, where the cost in childminder-hours-per-child is inherently fixed. You can raise the ratio (ie reduce quality), but you can't produce an hour of childminding in 50 minutes.

Besides, when redistribution is a goal in itself, it's a mistake to talk purely about cost and you have to look at outcomes.
She's saying that how can you be so sure that sugar is the culprit? 30 years ago, people were very sure that fat was the culprit.

I actually do personally think that sugar is a main driver of these problems, but I get her point.
> to hire a developer who wanted a different person to write/run their tests

That's not the role of the tester. The developer should be writing and running their own unit tests. The Tester should be running through user scenarios, use cases, and basically be pretending to be a user of the software to make sure that everything works and makes sense in a workflow (not just in their unit components)
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Cars as a status symbol is very old hat.
Wow, that seems like a big issue. Is this accepted as a bug and being worked on or yet another feature?
> I decided to pen a magnum opus of my own opinions

"magnum opus (noun)
a large and important work of art, music, or literature, especially one regarded as the most important work of an artist or writer."

Considering that this review has a word count of 3708, describing it as a magnum opus (something I associate with a work that takes close to a lifetime to complete) rankles.
Cars was the manner to show your wealth, now it is the iphone 7. People use to be proud of their shinny car. Now, they compare cost of ownership.

BTW, I am proud of my Leaf. Maybe EV will mark a renewal for this market.
Oh cool, we have the same word in Dutch, "schat".
Learning to drive was expensive, so I didn't do it, then I graduated and moved to a city (like many others my age) and didn't need a car because public transport is ubiquitous and parking facilities aren't. Only anecdotal, but I know a lot of people in my position.
I'd be happy to pay more in taxes if I knew the money would be spent wisely.
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Tried reproducing it with TCC/LE or ConEmu?
Or change your own mind.
There's a certain threshold in terms of added-value that has to be met in order for "yet another" app to live on my home screen. This pix app looks like it may have a bit of cool technology behind it, but will I install it? big nope.
Dear HN, recently time series DBs appear to have become very popular on HN but I'm confused. What are they for?

I understand the idea for, say, physics experiments. Lots of parameters sampled thousands of times per second, gotta store that stuff somewhere. But this is HN, not an experimental physics subreddit, so I must be missing something.

What do people on HN who care about this stuff use time series databases for? Why are there 20+ competitors?
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In fact there are several levels - municipal, state and church tax, bottom, middle and top tax. VAT, as well as other industry taxes, among other a tax on the air in softice and an special nut-tax.
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We used to have an old EPROM (the UV-erasable kind) programmer in the lab. I remember it also had a mode for testing 74xx series logic. I don't think it was ever used in that capacity though.
Yep.

I grew up in the sticks, so of course I got a car the second I could to get around.

Then I moved to an actual city (i.e., 250k population) and I spent more time hunting for parking spots than actually driving, and when I moved to an even bigger city, I left my car with my parents because I was fed up with how inconvenient cars were.

I don't see how car manufacturers are going to "fix" being worse than public transit.
If you're interested in that line of thought and would like perspective on the way perhaps Ramanujan might have perceived it, perhaps you may enjoy this transcript of a great lecture from an Indian holy man, mathematician and poet (Swami Rama Thirtha) in SF in 1903: http://www.ramatirtha.org/vol1/inspiration.htm
We're talking about the same millennials that have more than one laptop and smart phone per capita, right?
The idea that millenials are buying gadgets over cars is a pretty dumb one. Those aren't in the same realm of financial responsibility.

People disagree with the article.
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Sure, but only if those in charge of approving/denying grants (at the NSF, NIH, etc.) also have high ethical standards. And they happen to be researchers and research managers.
As an example, I track requests per second per datacenter in a time series database. This allows me to make pretty graphs and do traffic engineering between sites.
"my jet black review unit scratched and scuffed almost instantly"

I don't see a point of making smartphones thinner if they are so fragile that they have to be in cases. A phone that's a few millimeters thicker and a bit heavier might still feel smaller for the customer if it's usable without a case.
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What does that regulation stop other then people not using bank accounts?

How could this possibly stop any real crime?

Is there example usages of this law?

I've bought computer hardware here that totaled more then 1k when k was setting up a few services. How would that even work since it was online in France?
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Is it because cars are expensive horrendous fossil fuel powered polluting machines that are not compatible with city living?
Is it because the insurance industry, by its failure to deal with fraud, except by simply pricing it in, had made insurance premiums unreasonably expensive?
Is it because the streets are clogged and travel times are huge?
Is it because going by bike is just so nice?
>I.E. how is it possible to choose fiction as fact in the knowledge it is fiction?

That's just the moment of choice though. Given enough conditioning and getting used to it yourself, it can become as convincing (to your own self) as any reality.

Besides, don't people chose convenient truths over reality all the time, creationists or not?

Even the belief in science, which usually is a belief in fiction (an ideal of how it should be conducted) as opposed to how it's practiced and what interests and motivations are in play (from corporate tampering to "I'll review this peer reviewed paper favourably, because that guy is a friend of a friend, or they might help with my grants, etc." -- which can even function at a subconscious level, e.g. instinctively being more positively predisposed to papers by people you know or can help your career).
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> Great display

How can they write that as a plus when it is the same screen size and resolution as the previous model, and the competition as a better display overall?

http://www.kimovil.com/en/compare/apple-iphone-6-plus,apple-...

Why not mention the lack of SD card slot or removable battery? <-- EDIT : Thank you all for your openness of mind!
> I think the way its done in biotechnology is that the company pays and some 3rd party lab (e.g. university) then does the experiment.

The OP's article suggests this method has lead to uncomfortable bises in the past.
This is why I think the Apple Car is doomed. Apple makes products with a luxury/status component, that people want to own. But if transportation becomes a service rather than a physical product, the market for autonomous vehicles will not be for end-consumers. Apple will need to seriously rethink its strategy and perhaps reinvent itself.

I also think that once autonomous cars are ubiquitous, transportation will become a service no matter how much big companies want to see it differently, because autonomous vehicles as a service will make parking spots totally unnecessary. Interesting times ahead for city planning.
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> Label things correctly and let the people decide, just like cigarettes.

I don't know of any country that doesn't have a very high tax on tobacco.
If you're rooted xposed with xprivacy has

1. More finegrained permissions (per api call basically)

2. Ability to give/deny permission per use case or some time.
Yes, I feel the same. Akin to becoming a PhD by scanning the spines of books in a library. It's by no means bad work at all, but not a Magnum Opus.
Looking at the source code took me back to days when I used to do stuff in Delphi :)

Neat project -- Loads of room for improvement, but a great initiative!
People may grow unfavorable feelings if the government because if regulations like these. Considering these feelings is still important for a government of it still cares in some way about its people.
and raising personal allowances so as to boost the salaries of the lowest earners by an average of 7 percent

So the plan is to cut the taxes of high-earners, as well as improving the tax-free allowance for everyone…

Without increasing other taxes, or reducing spending?

Where's the extra money coming from?
I knew a very smart and successful scientist doing biochemistry research at a pharma company who fell squarely in the Intelligent Design camp. Rather than seeing it as a wholesale abandonment of science they simply felt that the evidence of the prevailing scientific view was not that strong, and that ID offered firmer theory for the beginning/evolution of life than any other theory.