skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without prime it typically takes 4-5 days for the order to go into "preparing for shipment", then 1-2 days for it to be shipped, followed by 2-3 days to get here.

It's kind of sad really. It's like your item is being held hostage because you haven't bought into using Prime.

For the reasons you just mentioned (it takes a day or 2 for it to ship) is the reason I'll never buy Prime. I don't like the idea of paying for a service that says 2-3 day free shipping but rarely comes in time.

Back in the good old days of mid-2000 you could order stuff from NewEgg and you'd get your package in 3-4 days all the time for the same shipping price that takes Amazon 6-10 days.
Two things would go a long way.

First, stop all attempts to control the exchange rate. The moment you have an "official" and "unofficial" exchange rate for a currency, you're going to have a black market cashing in on the difference. Just leave the rate to stabilize by itself, at whatever level the market is willing to pay for it.

Second, stop regulating prices for any goods for which there is a deficit. If the price is artificially low, that causes a deficit, because the aforementioned black market will use all means available to buy products at those low prices, and resell them at the real prices.

And none of this is rocket science. These two things are exactly what had to be done in the USSR to get anywhere (and, like Venezuela, they persisted in refusing to do them for a long time, making the problem worse and worse).
Under your interpretation there is no possible way taxation, waste, or even fraud is ever a losing proposition. You fall into one of those holes Keynes said you could dig and fill up to help the economy.

Unfortunately taxation itself reduces the incentive to produce and distorts the economy, and the Broken Window Fallacy is still a fallacy.
>Toyota even took one of GM's worst plants as part of a joint venture and made it one of the best ones, but GM couldn't absorb the lessons. This American Life did a very moving piece about that plant.

Which was closed in 2010, and purchased by Tesla.
They are moving it to a library. Is there a post with more info about the modifications they had done to be able to move it?
I've had roommates before. I just can't do that again.
China invaded into Tibet in 1951, so China is not a peaceful country (it's binary thing, without gradation), but China is less aggressive than many other countries.
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It sure would have been.
I have heard this too. However when working with SQL server it was generally recommended (iirc) that fibers not be used except, and were only goof for very specific niches.
This was outside of the purported 9 dash line. So this was not in disputed waters.
Is $12 per hour a livable wage?
How do you know one human did? It is quite possible the concept evolved over a very long time, so no single human came up with the idea.
> For instance, why use a machine when you can just hire more people?

Politics could become a reason -- the people who are being replaced by machines become a powerful force, have a strong work-based ethic (different from "work ethic"), and care more about their well-being than the overall efficiency of the economy.
Liquor, Beer, Wine?
The country of Taiwan has a better claim to these waters then China.
They probably store passwords hashed with MD5 too. I wish more websites provided 2-factor auth.
Thrilled that the idea that ones basic needs be met as a basic human right is gaining traction. Granted, in the form of our most common commodity-abstraction apparatus (cash).
You don't think the Linux Foundation makes money? Heh. The secure BSD project had hard time raising few thousands of dollars last year.
Lots of early physics was also not done very well, lots of fudges, etc. Does that discredit the idea of applying science to particle movements? Does Freud discredit the entire idea of psychiatry?
All Cyrillic alphabets I am aware of do use diacritics. Й, Ў, Ё, Ґ..
Yes, a lottery winner would be swamped by many surrounding them. Less likely to happen in a trial where the full community is receiving a similar income.
Out of curiosity to the way HN works -- why was this post flagged?
Thats still a fraction of the overall software engineering world. There's a lot more in the world than websites and phone apps that need code to run.

That's not taking away from its importance, that's putting it into perspective. I'm not an anti-javascript snob either (I'm not sure what that actually means), I just think it's a bit hyperbolic to call javascript the most important thing happening in software engineering right now when we're solving much bigger global problems than that right now with technology.
Sure, but refer to my last point.

Don't appeal to us. The problem is not whether we have or have not evidence of who you are. The problem is that the Chinese government has actively destroyed its long term credibility on these issues by (a) using wumao and schills to attempt to DDOS public debate on these issues, (b) locking up and disempowering any voices of dissent that might allow a nuanced, authentic discussion of China-related issues in or outside of China, c) taking zero tolerance, blinkered and extreme views on many national/territorial issues that are very difficult for anyone else not Chinese to accept.

E.g. I would totally support the idea of One China eventually, but why does the mainland government insist on denying that Taiwan is, de facto, a separate country right now? It's insane. Few would begrudge a future, managed and gradual reunion of these historically linked countries. But why on earth won't China (and pro-China commenters like yourself) drop the charade that Taiwan doesn't have its own constitution, currency, diplomatic service, politics, borders etc.? That's why your opinions can't be trusted - because they 100% mirror the insane opinions of the CCP and the wumao they employ.

You might be a totally cool guy who just happens to believe that China is peace loving and coincidentally has done loads of detailed research into UNCLOS and the state of civil society and dissent in China.

But the issue has moved on.
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I feel like we're creating a new government program to counter the failures of an existing one: education. If people had marketable skills, it would be a lot easier to find work. Perhaps tax revenue should go to education and training, instead.

I think we're a long way off from total automation of most industries.
Do you mean brought out information about Clinton and her promoters trying to hack the election by getting questions to debates beforehand, rigging the election against Sanders, and when the head of the DNC was found to be only working on Clinton's behalf having to resign then given a juicy job in Clinton's foundation? Well certainly!
Thanks for the kind words but I do think ClojureScript is much, much bigger than Om Next :) People are succeeding with many different approaches - Reagent, Rum, Hoplon, etc. all have enthusiastic, active user bases and for good reason. While I'm happy too see Om Next gain traction, in the end I'm much more excited to hear about someone adopting ClojureScript regardless of what other technology choices they might make.
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yes (firstly, clicking the link does not imply that you'd read the fucking intro so) they are by the same author, the link in the intro does not describe what they are for, and is easily missed
At what point did I say "most data will live in cons structures"? And I explicitly said I would not use them for everything. And no, it isn't just "Lisp-the-mathematical-model", cons cells have real-world implications to the language.

I was going to suggest watching the video presentation "The Swine Before Perl", by Shriram Krishnamurthi, but alas I can't find a link to the video (which is sad, because it is a very entertaining and informative video). The slides are here: ( http://ll1.ai.mit.edu/shriram-talk.pdf ), but without the talk they may do you no good.

Hopefully someone will see this and add a link to the video ( it should be made available again, even after all of this time, it is still great -- I believe I saw it as recently as 2 years ago).
Counts in the report are for new "innovation centers" in 2016; sources and methods for compiling the list are not provided.
Well you could at least recognize his point. Tibet alone doesn't justify the joke of "We have proof that Saddam Hussein has WMD" at the UN. Let's count the number of deaths in Irak and Tibet, and if it's not enough let's measure the long-term effects of invading Tibet vs the jeopardization of the middle-east.
This and the similar initiative in Utah are the kinds of governmental problem solving I really like to see. More effective services for the populace in the form of helping people better their lives while at the same time benefitting society at large and being less expensive than traditional approaches. I count myself reasonably liberal, but these type of solutions have largely popped up in traditionally conservative places, which is a pleasant surprise and makes me take another look at my understanding of the spectrum.
For the near future, company owned cars or even privately owned cars that service others seem reasonable. There's an incentive for profit and it seems like something that could compete with a normal commute and some other things. So I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

A little after that, I wouldn't be surprised if these "on demand" cars could be part of public transportation. In a lot of places buses or even trains are hardly profitable, which I think would be a good market and a win-win for everyone involved.

The dividends thing.. I am not so sure of. If the cars were owned by the city, the revenue could be used the same way money from public transportation is used.
Hyper inflation is defined as over 50% per month. Venezuela is very likely to hit that next year. That level of inflation destroys cashflow, as money almost stops having value before you can spend it.

Printing this much money would cause less than 5% inflation per month. It would be unpleasant, but you could get a biweekly paycheck and spend it over the next few weeks without having all the value disappear. Supply chains would continue to operate without much trouble. It would be vastly superior to hyperinflation.
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I don't agree with you at all. The best part of Western culture is rationalism and analysis.

The West moved from monarchy to democracy and developed human rights over hundreds of years of smart people criticizing their own societies and asking how to improve it. That included studying other societies and keeping an open mind about what works best. That's day and night from your openly dismissive, close-minded attitude.

To the original question, I think a naive and direct transplantation of Western political forms to China would be an unmitigated disaster precisely because of cultural differences. China should find its own path to creating a just society without slavishly and uncritically copying the West (but it should look abroad for good ideas).
I will not reply to you any further. You continue to live in a fantasy echo chamber and refuse to acknowledge or even research basic facts. For shame!
Agreed. My point is kind of that China has been poisoning the well for years by employing paid commenters and schills to parrot the exact same arguments. And then when anyone points this out, they're accused of poisoning the debate :)

This guy is entitled to his opinions, but unfortunately the entire pro-China position is untrustworthy because of this (ref my previous comment).
The poor person isn't paying Yacht tax, country club tax, box seats tax, Porsche tax.
It might have something to do with the branch not being part of a loop so the best it can do is assume the branch is random (think something like modding a hash code when it would indeed be random).

Ad was pointed out in the thread, recent cpus have reduced the latency of cmov to a cycle. So your result could also depend on your architecture.
Funny they want to start it in Milan which seems like a ground for the ultimate test of their marketing. If it can be accepted there by posh crowds who appreciate good design and gourmet food like nobody else in the world, they can make it anywhere. In other big cities though, like Florence, Rome or Venice there are so many Asian and American tourists that they alone can make Starbucks a sustainable business, even without a single Italian buying their coffee, ever :)
"Two seaman were killed and another critically injured when the explosive was remotely triggered"
Getting users to sign up for a pre-launch list isn't incredibly hard, especially when you have a good looking product. Getting those users to convert into paying customers is where the real challenge is. I generated a list of a few hundred users pre-launch and am still sitting at a consistent ~25 paying users 3 months in.
I think MBAs are the MCSEs of the business world; you can't get into certain (high paying) jobs without them despite their value being questionable...
"Somebody" has to pay for welfare, too. The fact that all social welfare programs have a cost is not a reason to reject all social welfare out of hand. Do you really think welfare programs should be abolished? What level of starving to death and freezing to death in the streets are you comfortable with?
iOS doesn't have a mouse driver, so no, unfortunately :(
[sidenote, most people agree that the figure is 3-7 countries - depending on your definition of "currently" - not 8.]

I think the US bombing various places is a bit more nuanced than it seems at first sight. For example, our military action in Libya - which is entirely contained to one coastal town - is with the support of the Libyan government, the vast majority of the Libyan people, and the United Nations. It's an air campaign against an ISIS stronghold, and it's pretty black and white in that most people agree that it should be done.

I personally don't support our airstrikes in Pakistan, but they have definitely been effective (although at a devastating price to civilian lives that I find unacceptable.)

In some cases, the US government is an unimaginable force for evil; we've dropped chemical weapons on a civilian population as recently as 2004, in the 2nd Battle of Fallujah - one of the worse battles of modern times. In others, it's an unimaginable case for good.

For example, during the Indian Ocean tsunami, governments around the world donated billions of dollars. America promised unimaginable quantities of food, fresh water, and support. Within days, American aid began arriving - in the form of two aircraft carriers, basically floating cities. During the crisis period, American forces delivered the daily food requirements for 100,000 people every 24 hours.

In the end of March 2005 - remember, the tsunami was in December 2004 - the Indonesian and Sri Lankan governments reported that they had received precisely none of the money promised by foreign governments. They did report receiving some food; the Thai government in particular received many donations of rice from the governments of Israel and China. To demonstrate how pants-on-head stupid that was, Thailand is the world's largest exporter of rice, and that year they had their largest crop of rice in all history.

So yes, America can be horrible. But America can also be the world's largest source of good, especially when other governments can't step up to the plate.
How about actual job and skills training, instead? I would much rather my tax dollars go to training an electrician than some made-up bureaucratic job.
Do less than 100 people on Earth have taxable monthly income (which can be used for UBI) same as half of world's population? Or same income as UBI for half of world's population?
Net worth is irrelevant.
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There are multi-component reactions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-component_reaction

The Hantzsch reaction looks promising (producing pyridines which are apparently pretty nasty); from looking at which foods contain which compounds, the obvious ones are cinnamon (cinnamaldehyde), apples (malic acid, which links to keto acid, which is linked from β-keto ester... I didn't take organic chemistry), and aged cheese (glutamate, a nitrogen donor).

Apple-cinnamon and apples+cheese are both well-known pairings. The only question is cinnamon cheese, and surprisingly enough there's a review: http://www.thekitchn.com/cheese-review-trader-joes-cinn-1307.... It's apparently pretty good. But, when eating the cheese with the apple, "the cinnamon flavor didn't really enhance the cheese, ironically enough, and so I opted to eat the cheese separately from the fruit." I guess that means this question is solved...?
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As many have noted, this is not UBI; full stop. Also, you can't "test" something that is supposed to be universal by definition, on a micro scale and to a selected subset.
Did he choked to death?
I see. It appears you've decided your opinion long ago.

Please don't appeal to me as the rest of this comment is not to you.

I'd like to address the HN community. Note the above authoritative assurance this commentor is giving, with one sided accusation of the Chinese and a complete pass on US aggression and social media propaganda. This is exactly the kind of playbook used by those operating out of the US military propaganda center Fort Bragg.

He might be just a HN commentor who is nationalistic and affected by the propaganda of his media bubble who coincidentally is charging people who dissent from those opinions as being foreign propagandists. He could.

But either way, this conversation has moved on.

;)

What a horrible place the internet has become...
This was a popular conversation among friends of mine years ago. The best answer a friend of mine had was "tequila, tequila, tequila"
It's not either / or. Someone can work 30 hours / week and still have time for training. I do agree that we should do more to get the long-term unemployed into training programs at community colleges and trade schools.
And, in my opinion, the test would be useless if it had a time limit attached to it.
I think this has more to do with the nature of Albuquerque than republican/democrat. This as someone who grew up there. I now live in Las Vegas. The two cultures are very different. There's a lot of hostility in LV in a general sense that isn't there in Alb.
Whenever I read about widgets and business school, I can't help but remember the scene from "Back to School" [1] when Thornton Melon attends Economics class and the professor introduces "widgets". Thornton, being a successful entrepreneur, challenges everything the professor says based on his real-world experience and gives the class "practical" advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_School [1]
The problem is that it's bad style to write (in Python 2.x):

for i in range(n):
# your code here

because it potentially allocates a lot of memory for no reason whatsoever. It's the equivalent of this C code:

int* r = calloc(sizeof(int), n);
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) r[j] = j;
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
int i = r[j];
// your code here
}
free(r);

If you don't want to deal with the distinction then what you can do is just treat range() as deprecated and always use either xrange() or list(xrange()) depending on the situation. But you had probably ought to know about the issue.
Oh, true that! Alien has been merged into the code base for so long that we didn't really remember to announce it as being one of the new features of the new release. Thanks a lot for pointing that out. We will include a note on that on the web site.
Jesus... I wouldn't want to have dinner with you.
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China reportedly has literacy rate of 96.4%. As a successful software dev of 20+ years, I don't expect to leave any mark on history. What I create is obsolete and hopefully replaced in matter of years.
Yeah, I've long suspected the same, that the big market is a significant advantage. It's easier to grow in a big market, that's why the US has (seemingly) more big companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, McDonalds.
How can you say nobody is getting shunned for gender pronouns?

Do you mean how can I prove it? I can say it really easily, because I believe it. Proving it would be pretty hard (logically it's impossible). But you haven't exactly demonstrated that people are getting shunned for uttering pronouns

As far as the link, there's like 4 really not that horrible situations listed (a guy moved to a different job, a university decided to abolish its academic speech code (the opposite direction of reprimanding someone for speech), a teacher wrote some letters, unclear). It's not exactly evidence of the widespread horrors of PC shunning.

Now this doesn't invalidate all of political correctness, because the world isn't black and white. The fact is, there are bad people out there, and they are on both sides (and this is true for almost any issue), and if you cannot admit this then your tribalism is actually part of the problem.

Yes of course there are people that take things too far. But your argument is that there are so many of those people, shunning so many other people unfairly over tiny issues, that they have created a troll army on the internet. It's ludicrous.
Imperative unhygienic macros are what Common Lisp has, right? So you're pretty much guaranteed you'll be able to do whatever you want to do, the tradeoff being that you are responsible for watching out for unwanted name capture?
tl;dw: Basic Income has been so thoroughly theorized and determined to be a stupid idea that we shouldn't try it or we'll end up a welfare state forever.
The problem is the needed steps would move the country in a free market direction, and Madura wants to stick with socialism.
haha nice try :)

Again, totally cool, but straight out of the wumao playbook. Post of last resort is call everyone and everything into question, accuse the other commenter of his own national bias and bubble (whilst refusing to accept yours), throw your hands up and play the victim.
Yeah, as WestisEast already pointed out, this is an operative.

By the way, you guys should brush up on your English some more.

Plus they have done nothing to me and I love all the Chinese people I have met.

You are they.
Leaving out the part where he effectively abandoned his last client in the quest for the holy grail (#1 QB who stabbed him in the back) and did abandon his relationship with his employee (don't remember why, couldn't watch the whole thing without fast forwarding).

It's a memorable movie and a notably unmemorable movie.