skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 100% a digression, but personally, I'm a fan of using "high-income" as a term in place of wealthy. I understand wealth to be having lots of assets: having a high income can cause you to be wealthy, but you can also be wealthy without currently having a high income.

I'm very sensitive to this at the moment, because "wealthy" is used as a term when people talk about CA income taxes, which can be frustrating since in reality, much of the wealth in California is enormously under taxed (thanks to Prop 13), which basically amounts to the continuing siphoning of wealth from the young to the old.
Big fan of Font Awesome - I use it for all my client projects. Just pledged $20 on the KS.
Urbit reminds me of a programming language that was featured a while back on Hacker News. It was a purely functional language and each function and data structure was addressed by its cryptographic hash. Functions and data structures did have convenient labels, but linking was done by the hash. So you can have as many different versions of a function as you like. Your code is never broken by updates. You can apply updates at your convenience.
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Looking at the examples, they end with A for initial and D for subsequent visits.
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> but as far as I know, no one has tried to kill him yet.

I'm not sure that's quite apples-to-apples, given: (1) US political asymmetries; (2) nobody accused him of conspiring with a clear "The Enemy"; (3) Cheney was already a multimillionaire with private security and moving in rarefied social circles.

If Cheney was once hunted by the US government, widely accused of being a communist spy, and he shopped for groceries like a regular person, I imagine the odds of an attempted attack would increase.
It's not about the academic source's basis on opinion, but on correlation studies.

This is your friendly reminder that correlation is not causation.
> Not allowed to paint the walls, nearly all come with furniture, better make sure you don't damage any of it.

This is the part I hate most about renting. Either leave the apartment empty, or at least give me furniture that isn't broken IKEA shit.
It seems to me that browsers could be smarter about this kind of thing. Like, "Hey, you just put your Gmail credentials into a non-Gmail login form, did you really mean to do that?"

Obviously in the HN-type crowd, you know to always carefully check the URL of links and form submissions. But I just don't know how realistic it is for that to be expected of an average user.
I do not think they are trying new things because they want change their core business. They have a strong subscriber base, which is growing, and a huge audience. They have a strong brand that is recognizable worldwide For example, they have close a deal with a Brazilian Tv network to deliver video and other exclusive contents that they produce.

Probably wanna have more ways to monetize from this base investing in digital plataform like Wirecutter.
It might be just that Reddit is still fairly young and doesn't have a lot of employees. Maybe they want to add features like "showing number of unread comments since last visit" or "better ad management system."

When you work at a small company, features like that can get sidelined for months to do something like "build algorithm for tying different users together as one entity to ensure bans aren't trivially worked around." With things like that happening, you can lose a lot of developer time on this kind of stuff without them even directly handling bans / policy decisions.
also https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic
Look back at 15 years of the iPod
You have to explain how 440 was adopted in Britain, though. Hmm, was that what Rudolf Hess was really up to?
What's the benefit with MacBook Air vs the new macbook?
> But, of course, it's not just a matter of dollars and cents. It's also a matter of letters and words. Affluent parents talk to their kids three more hours a week on average than poor parents, which is critical during a child's formative early years. That's why, as Stanford professor Sean Reardon explains, "rich students are increasingly entering kindergarten much better prepared to succeed in school than middle-class students," and they're staying that way.

I agree... that's why I work a traditional 9-5 instead of traveling the country with my wife and kids in an RV and working 15 hours per week remotely.

I view wealth not only as an exercise in creating income streams for myself when I retire, but as a means of ensuring that my descendants have the best possible chance at success.
In all fairness you have to say that the FBI contacted him because some of the death threats he received were credible. (he lives in California which is quite intolerant towards conservatives)

I also wouldn't act in a consistent way if I had to fear for my life.
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That's it's not their exes, it's them, isn't it?
Both. The marginal cost of an additional bedroom is miniscule compared to that of a studio/1 bedroom apartment, and having people to hang around with/socialize/cook is a plus.
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Ask HN: Procedure to fly a coffin from US to India
A cousin's son who was a CS student at Virginia Tech suddenly passed away a few hours ago.

EMS declared him deceased at his place of residence; the police have now taken over and said they can't divulge any information until their investigations are completed.

My cousin is inconsolable and she just wants to see her son one last time; she is not fit to travel to the US anytime soon. Under the circumstances, our only option is to try and fly the coffin to India.

We have family in the US who are all standing by for the police procedure to be completed and in the meanwhile, we are all trying to find out how to bring the coffin to India ASAP.

Any specific info and/or relevant links would be highly appreciated.
> partying your twenties away and as long as everybody in the house gets on

Why the assumption that all roommates everywhere are partying?
When I first heard of this I was really messing around with different tunings and such for writing music on guitar/bass. I didn't buy the whole new science schtick, but I did give it a try and I believe recorded and "produced" (as a hobbyist) an entire song in 432 hz to see if it'd be more interesting to work it. The only real noticeable thing to me was my strings were a bit more floppy than usual (due to it being in between E and Eflat tuning). It was an interesting experiment, but I've stuck to 440hz ever since, except for one time when I tried to do a rock cover/adaptation of a song from the 1920s that was in some crazy mystery temperament that I could never properly match (probably because every instrument section was different, horns were like 435+, double bass was 432, some strings were flat at like 430 or 431.. it was a difficult thing I never accomplished)
Reading about any mathematical topic on Wikipedia. For example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_superior_and_limit_infer...
--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_ordered_set
--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_relation
--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number
--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_sequence
...

Even if I think I know what's being discussed in the article, there's always some interesting extra detail or alternative way of explaining things that's worth reading.
> In fact being stuck owning a house in an unfavorable market can keep someone from moving, which reduces labor mobility.

On that note, supposedly the idea of homeownership was in part pushed because homeowners do not riot. After all, they can't as easily up and move afterwards.
I don't understand why someone would choose the student license over the small business one.
There's actually a Google extension[0] for Chrome that does that with your Google account.

[0]:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
The embedded video is by the creator, so 1h if you know the level perfectly.
Government shutdowns in the US are largely theater. The last time they only halted 15% of expenditures.
> That's the problem, we have to get rid of the idea that there's a set of ideas that kids "have" to know. Why don't you let the kid decide what he wants to study. Like there will be limitations but fuck it, if s/he is interested in something weird, encourage it instead of killing it.

The collective cultural experience is that this is sometimes incredibly valuable, but very often leads to intense study of subjects of marginal economic value. A person may be intensely interested in Latin and Greek Classics, but the odds of this producing skills for a livelihood are not as high as some other subjects.

Which is to say there's sometimes an awkward tradeoff between "Weird thing a kid wants to study" and "Thing that can be studied that will pay the bills later in life". This is not something that can be avoided by making education services free at point-of-consumption, because student time is finite.
The whole math changes if you either don't live in silicon valley or cook for more than one person (or cook for more than one meal).
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Name a track or artist and get a Spotify playlist
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Right now, to keep a poisoned entry one must keep poisoning the cache.

In that world, one can still do that. One can also poison the entry once and then deny access to the real server. You seem to be arguing that this is easier than continuous poisoning. Do I understand you correctly?
>We're trying to figure out ways to get around this for later stage seed investments.

Does that mean that seed stage companies should not bother contacting you unless they can get a warm intro?
The US adopted Nazi rocket designs to send the first person on the moon. There's always been exchange of ideas and it's not even necessary for the receiving side to fully understand the theory. It's often sufficient that some culture is dominant in some area and others will copy blindly.
My grandmother owns a house. She's constantly talking about moving into a retirement home (but still lives in the house out of nostalgia). My parents-in-law also own a house and they're also fairly certain they will move out when they grow too old.

Typical family houses are spread across two storeys with bedrooms on the upper floor and the living room and kitchen on the lower floor. This necessitates stairs. Also, the house was probably sized to have enough space for children, who at that point have long moved out. And even if you find different uses for that space it still needs to be cleaned and maintained (and you need to clean and maintain the rest of the house anyway).

So depending on how affluent you are, how close your children are and how much care you need, either you struggle living in an oversized house, you move into a single-storey "Bungalow", you move into an apartment or you move into a retirement home.

Another option depending on how the house is built is to split the house into two apartments and have one of your kids live in the other apartment.
Ugh...this is your friendly reminder that a lot of people already know this and pointing it out doesn't make you look smart.
Yeah, for me sharing the apartment is more of a downside either. I also only know people who enjoy it because they were friends with the other sharers before they shared an apartment.
I think that AMP as technical standard is OK in that it gives developers a format to follow that insulates them from the worst loading time issues that open-ended HTML can cause (JavaScript libraries and large images in particular). The performance gains are really significant e.g. 10x quicker load times on some sites.

The issue is how Google favours AMP results in search (with the lightening bolt and tag) and doesn't make it easy for users to get to the site hosting the page. We're sleep-walking into a kind of walled garden. More here: https://mobiforge.com/news-comment/sleepwalking-into-a-walle...
http://www.thebookoflife.org/

Quite nice now and again.
What subject matters do you think are substantially neglected by the American educational system that fails to reflect the needs of the poor? How should curricula be changed? What specific problems are unaddressed?
Surprisingly, there are some recent, more sophisticated studies indicating that our social mobility is a lot better than earlier thought, relative to the countries that are usually lauded for social mobility.

For example, Scandinavian countries are famous as exemplars for how to be a developed country with high income mobility. But a recent paper focused on Denmark (the most income-mobile country in the group) in order to study the effectiveness of the Scandinavian model. It found that pre-tax, pre-transfer income mobility was the same as the US! Needless to say, this is a pretty shocking find, as it belies years of assumptions about equality of opportunity and its effect on achievement (as measured by income). Even the addition of Denmark's much heavier investment in all levels of schooling does nothing to budge the level of educational attainment among the poor, relative to the US.

From the Atlantic article linked in my footnotes:

> Low-income Danish kids are not much more likely to earn a middle-class wage than their American counterparts. What’s more, the children of non-college graduates in Denmark are about as unlikely to attend college as their American counterparts.

IMO, Denmark's generous redistribution is worth the impact on outcomes, but it's fascinating to see redistribution have almost ZERO impact on one of its most positive-sum, universally appealing benefits (moving more towards equality of opportunity).

[1] http://voxeu.org/article/intergenerational-mobility-denmark-...
[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/the-amer...
The small business license is only available for a limited time only.
Why not pay not pay a cleaning lady?
I am pretty much sure at this point, that there will be a touchscreen mac in the upcoming event.. Microsoft has made too many ads to show the shortcomings of macbooks, with respect to lack of touchscreen in them...
Right, of course. I just don't see any reason that there would be an especially high "multiplier" on this vulnerability. A spurious SSL warning doesn't require the server to do anything particularly expensive; it just requires it to look at the ID, realize it's something weird that it doesn't recognize, and move on.
Perhaps we should form an organization of a few thousand people and dedicate it to safeguarding this location, making sure it never falls prey to local politics and other unpleasantness during the temporary fall of what we currently consider civilized culture. This foundation would need a descriptive name, and could probably use a plucky mayor to get things done. And we should set up a second one about a thousand miles off the coast of New Zealand.

If my calculations are correct, this should reduce the length of this neo-dark-age from 30,000 years to a mere 1,000.
>So in Germany, the interest on a mortgage is non tax deductible

Wrong reasoning. It's tax deductable in Switzerland and they rent even way more than the germans
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I'd say that 1-year roots are still roots and are every bit worth nurturing as 30-year ones. Even if I live in a place for a single year, I still want to improve it and connect with my neighbors. This idea that an experience is less worthy of cultivation because its duration is short just seems bizarre to me.
That would be tough, because most people use one or two email addresses for basically all their accounts. And unless you're storing all their passwords, which would be a sketchy thing to turn on by default, there's no way to tell if they just put in their Gmail credentials or they really meant to log into gmal.ru. And actually even if you're storing their passwords, a lot (most?) people use the same password for lots of different logins. So I don't think there's a way to consistently do this, unless you combine it with a password manager that guarantees the user isn't duplicating passwords across different logins.
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Eh, but the DNS server isn't necessarily the same as the bootstrapping server for the WebRTC API, and in most cases it generally would not be.
Isn't the student one also for a limited time as well?
I can see that the second regulation would slow down change significantly. The first paragraph I think is fairly general.
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That's what OP is saying: programming has plenty of holy wars that predate JavaScript.
Its much easier to make money when you already have money, ever had to play monopoly while behind?
"Fuck you, pay me" is applicable when someone is owed. Using a non-paywalled site over a paywalled one is more like using a FOSS project over paid software, which here on HN is quite popular. I don't see the supposed hypocrisy.
At my company we get these things 2-3 times a year.
Surprisingly many people understand that there is something fishy. But "Surprisingly many" is not enough.

2FA is not enough here a user that does not have the required knowledge to see what is phishing and what is not will most likely enter the 2FA key giving the bad guys the auth tokens anyway.
We're quick to ban accounts that post like this, so please don't.
> Wanting the country you live in to be safer and stronger against outside threats is not patriotism. It's just basic self-interest.

Wanting the country you live in to be safer and stronger is certainly not basic self-interest: that would be wanting oneself to be safer and stronger, without regard for anyone else. It is certainly nationalism, if not quite patriotism.

The parent responded to "made the US safer" and "made the US weaker". The point is that there is a bigger picture than the question of the USA's safety or strength: the effect that the Snowden's revelations have had on all humans when taken together.

> Even the least patriotic people generally prefer not to be murdered by terrorists

You seem to be saying that the desire not to be killed by terrorists is a good reason for the citizens of one nation to be want it to be safer and stronger than another nation. Perhaps the desire not to be murdered by terrorists is a good reason for all nations to be, together, safer and stronger.
Ask HN: What do you guys think about Netflix's expansion strategy to China?
According to their last Q3 report, they are planning to license content existing providers in China rather than offering their own services. How many titles do they actually own that they could license to China, since they don't actually own the rights to some of their popular shows like House of Cards and Orange is the new black?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II easily.

I grew up when the History Channel was nicknamed the "Hitler channel". I've read Manchester's the Last Lion, Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and will soon be ordering Ullrich's Hitler - Ascent. Saving Private Ryan is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time.

This is currently my wallpaper: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/US_Army...
Its not an option for most Americans; their skills don't translate into visas, or they don't want to leave their friends and family.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778965 and marked it off-topic.
Well, I have no reason to doubt you regarding Hitler's personal beliefs, but I wouldn't call it a total misconception.

I live in a German speaking country and the people here who still follow this ideology are frequently into the same insane mysticism. Of that I'm 100% sure because I've seen it quite often.
Orca is a "killer" whale -- you were duly warned. ;)
Mythology on wikipedia. Pick a category and you can get lost for days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann

I also love watching philosophy videos on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpkRh3qVh_Y

I also highly recommend BBCs "In Our Time" series. Quality broadcasting covering innumerable subjects about history and philosophy.
There have been zero rumors about this, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
OK.

"each point increase in IQ test scores raises income by between $234 and $616 per year"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289607...

and conscientiousness may even trump IQ when it comes to SES

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/06/does_personalit....
Stock being certainly higher risks than housing and still people invest a lot in stocks.

I would say low cost index funds are a much lower risk investment than a mortgage. They also have the advantage of being very liquid in the case of actually needing your money. Rent is not a sunk cost, this is a common misconception.

There are many good reasons to buy a home, but do not think of it as an "investment". Compared to other investment options, it's a pretty terrible one.

I highly recommend reading this article to learn more - http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrib...
One thing I'd really love game designers to do when designing levels - focus first on what it is, and then only on how it plays. E.g. if designing a space station, first consider how a space station would look like, what facilities it needs, what would be the optimal placement, etc. Only after that add the puzzles, enemies and stuff.

In other words, I'd like game designers to pay more attention to details in world building.
what is the point of touchscreen on the os that is not designed for it? I, as a programmer, would not like touchscreen.
That's why yubikey is important - it does it's own verification of the site. You can't MITM it.
Can you spend 10 extra minutes and earn an extra $10?

This mode of thinking is interesting, but it's usually overrated as a way of deciding on time value. Most people have a job that takes some time and pays some money, but they can't arbitrarily work a little longer for a little more money as they desire.

This isn't to say your time value might not be high enough to justify not cooking... but it's usually a complex calculus, that involves assessing what you would actually do instead of cooking (for many people, that might just be zoning out in front of the football game), and figuring out the expected future value of it (eg spending the time reading a book may provide you with future intellectual or financial wealth). But then you also have to factor in the human growth from cooking: maybe you'll be a happier person if you cook more frequently.

This is quite a web, but I guess that's the point in my opinion. Annual salary divided by minutes worked in a year feels like a slam dunk way to make these decisions, but it's really not rich enough.
> So really what it says is that you have a much better shot in life being educated regardless of who you are.

Not quite. All it says that the people who are able to do well in school also are able to do well in the workplace.

If you want to try and derive causation here, the simplest and most reasonable explanation is that the qualities that allowed them to do well in school are also what allowed them to do well in the workplace. It does not seem shocking at all to think that those who have drive, desire, ability, etc. perform better in everything they do, be it education or the workplace.

The idea that schooling magically turns you into a new person able to finally succeed for the first time seems like a huge stretch.
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Well, Al Capone was arrested for tax evasion, though of course he was also guilty of tax evasion.
There is no Spotify model, and you 'shouldn’t copy it in your own organization'