skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like if the folks hoarding money via investments were to spend it, we'd see much greater wealth equality.
From the article:

Hidden high security feature - an additional security feature is built into the coin to protect it from counterfeiting but details have not been revealed.

So, security by obscurity. I wonder how long that will last.
> At my former American job, I received 10 days of paid vacation per year, and each of those days came with a sizable portion of guilt if actually used.

ELI5: are employees sometimes (often?) expected to work on their vacation? Or take those days out as extra pay instead? Or is it just that it's never "a good time" to take that holiday?
Seriously not all jobs are like these. Even part time jobs, it's up to you to find the right place to work.
The X1 Carbon (4th gen) mentioned in this thread is not a touchscreen, they don't seem to offer a Carbon Touch anymore. It appears the X1 Yoga is essentially the Carbon Touch.
But there are family dynasties. http://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-142... And wealth does get concentrated for long periods of time. Corporations, government agencies, endowments.
> my feeling is that the "unknown unknowns" of the New York situation might make up a 50% difference? But we're looking at a >200% difference.

On what basis do you have any idea?
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex usually has the most up to date information. They are saying 10:28/18:28 (PST/GMT).
This is extremely refreshing. I have a really hard time dealing with the social norm that is being forced on me.

I don't mind being social but no social gathering beats sitting home alone for me. I can do the thing I like the most for free but instead I spend money on things less enjoyable just because you're supposed to be social.
Similar experience: twins born at 35 weeks, they're 4 and very healthy now, but I don't remember 2013. At all.
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Those people are a threat to all of us.
From the comments:
> Another article that shows that American exceptionalism is a myth. We can be so much better and we have so much to learn from the rest of the world.

America probably was exceptional at some time in the past. Now, among modern western countries, we are merely an exception.
The Rockefeller, DuPont, and Kennedy families (just to name three) show that capital survives for many generations if enough has been accumulated that it is impossible to consume it all. I think between $50 and $100 million is the critical mass needed to create a "black hole" of money. Above that amount of money and more money is sucked in faster than one person can squander it.
The consumer space at Best Buy is focusing on whatever shit can be made and sold for < $500 dollars. And they are incredible at making stuff cheaper (whatever they may need to drop and break to reach that price).

Business require better built laptops than that, they've got money to pay and they want to have decent services and support. As a special characteristics, they also never bother to have a GPU (save money and power but missing for some consumer folks).
Most of the europeans do not realize how much of their wealth comes from cooperating with Americans and using cheap labour in countries with liberal laws. Lets make cars expensive because they pollute our country it's not a problem we can all drive bikes it's much better. Then we sing kumbaya and call it a day while our biggest corporation fucks up the earth.
> They don't even seem to have a monitoring solution which can track what time each server is advertising.

Yes they do. http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/ In fact the page linked to even specifically mentions removing bad servers from the pool in real time.

> I would switch to time.nist.gov if they had any servers in Europe.

You talk about "amateur hour" but are seemingly unaware that unless you are running an NTP server for a significant number of users yourself, you should not be using time.nist.gov. Given that you're apparently currently using the pool, I'm guessing you're not.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987816
I use G Suite, I know it and lately it's been always up - Google wrote the book on System Reliability Engineering.

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Considering that Swiss politics (especially immigration) makes Donald Trump's policies look downright liberal. I will pass. Switzerland is a tiny (population smaller than NYC) paradise for those privileged to be born there (err scratch that "hold citizenship" Swiss actually don't believe in birthright citizenship) funded by tourism and tax-evasion. Sure they might have a great "work culture" but I would rather take chance on American dream and belief in hard work.

If you actually read the most up voted comment the last time this was discussed, it says the same thing.

"""

"Driving Bentleys ruined me for BMWs and their poor make quality"
Switzerland is one of... three maybe (Luxemburg, Norway) countries with higher standard of living than the US. Not even Switzerland's neighbours (Italy, France, Germany) with people coming from the same populations can reproduce it.
All these great states are tiny (8M people) outliers. There are more people enjoying work-life balance in America than alive in Switzerland. You could carve out multiple Switzerlands of the US if you broke it up and tightened immigration (as the Swiss are doing right now).

""" Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9988048

If you were to carve out Silicon Valley to LA into a new country and with similar xenophobic immigration policies you will have a nation far far superior than any other on earth. Such comparisons are meaningless.
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It's also not how donated organ allocation happens in the US. A hospital can't just grab an organ from a local donor and use it.

And, if someone thinks the system is so corrupt that those processes aren't followed, I'm not sure what laws etc. will make a difference.
What "universal" in UBI means actually? If we pay to some of people then it's not universal. No matter if it's the top 1% or the poorest.
Some resources on how Google handles the leap seconds in their datacenters, where this is no longer a problem:

- https://developers.google.com/time/

- http://www.businessinsider.com/google-compute-engine-leap-sm...

- https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/Got-a-second-A-...
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https://youtu.be/aclS1pGHp8o [Monty Python's take on this question]
If you die in a fire, that might feel like an order of magnitude greater than the $3 tax you could have paid. So even if you are right, that the total social cost of the tax exceeds the total harm of a few deaths, we as a society can determine that this is an acceptible trade off and spread the risk of a truly aweful outcome for 1 person over a larger group and impose a small cost on each.

Have you ever read the analysis Ford Motor Co. did when they were determining the cost of adding a safety feature to the Pinto (it would cost $11 to add a feature to prevent a low speed rear end collisions, as low as 25mile/hr from spraying gas into the passenger cabin and lighting everyone on fire, the total cost of the safety feature for all Pinto's: $140m, the cost of an expected number of 180 deaths, and 180 injury (and resulting law suit payments): $50m). In the absence of regulation or judicial liability (which is also a regulation, but one with more uncertain cost making it harder for businesses to plan for and comply with), companies would make this exact analysis all of the time.

I would assume you would be willing to pay $11 for the safety feature right? Thus, given the asymmetric information that benefits Ford, and prevents consumers from demanding that as a mandatory feature or an "upgrade" option, it seems like an acceptible regulation to impose.

See https://users.wfu.edu/palmitar/Law&Valuation/Papers/1999/Leg...)

See also https://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-2-why-do...

> "I think you are putting too much stock in the effectiveness of regulation..."

Except that clean water regulation very clearly prevents disease. Have you heard of the origin of clean water regulation in London? One researcher traced a cholera epidemic to a single well, city water services and related regulations were a direct result of his effort and advocacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_ou...

Before that, in 1849, 8,000 people died in NYC from cholera from water: https://dec.alaska.gov/eh/dw/publications/historic.html)

Last time I checked people aren't dying in NYC from unclean water. I am also confident that the utility of 8000 people dying greatly exceeds the cost of providing clean water.
The number of servers in the pool is slowly falling. If you can spare a server, why not join it? http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/@
shameless brag - I've developed a chrome extension that creates immediate summaries from long video talks - Brieftube.com.
I used it myself on this talk and found the major topics in a few seconds.
Tough to say without knowing more about the stack. But in terms of first byte latency, some things you can look at:

* TLS False Start

* HTTP/2 + ALPN

* Optimizing TLS record size

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The company's determination is the "primary source", even if it might be biased or added some marketing spin.
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The current rules around military cooperation mean that it's opt-in and wouldn't so much be an 'EU military' as one might think of it.
If you are really serious about being fair. Ask yourself this question: Why would a guy who can easily get 6K+ USD per month by working on Upwork, Toptal work for Gitlab for 1/3rd of that money and that too Full time?

A quick google search will show you that people use 30% of their salary towards their rent: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=rent+as+percentage+of+sala... What does that tell you about computing salaries based off of rent?

You can see a lot of people discussing Gitlab's salary in a negative way on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gitlab%20salary&sort=byPopular... Most of them have fluff responses talking about being open and fair.
> it's unions, not wage payers, who have these powers

Are you serious? Major developers in NYC don't have market-distorting power?
Yes, I just came to the conclusion that the X1 Yoga is my ideal laptop but I am going to hold out and wait for the next gen version so it has USB-C charging.
But macOS is famous for having fast wake from sleep. It's always had this, years before Windows and Linux started catching up. It's always been near-instantaneous for me.

That said, it would seem that they have, and continue to have, issues with waking up with a new external monitor. Maybe you're being hit by this? Occasionally when I arrive at home or the office and plug my asleep-and-lid-closed MBP 2015 in, the screen will display garbage for a while, and hang for 10-30 seconds until it shows the unlock screen. Sometimes it doesn't recover at all.
They chose to use a framework without understanding the implications of its security issues. When one comes up, they tell their users it's someone else's problem. Maybe they're an impoverished company that can't afford to pay to solve the problem. Or they dont care much.
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I'm not a developer, but it seems to me that the proposal to eliminate leap seconds smacks of laziness. Keeping UTC within a second of UT1 has important real-world uses, including navigation and astronomy. The only problems it has created are software ones, and redefining how we measure time to cope with bad code seems like a ridiculous overreaction.
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If we consumed all of that nasty wealth, there'd be none to borrow to get a house or education. None for startups.

People get rich by not consuming everything as soon as they get it. This is a great thing for everybody.

And it's not just rich that accumulate. A person making minimum wage and just saving the same amount withheld by the US social security tax would have hundreds of thousands of dollars accumulated if they kept it in the stock market for their entire working career.

I was curious about this a few years ago and put together this spreadsheet, using this tax rate, rate of return and minimum wage over a 40 year period.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RlSfkW-DKXAXtXKvZJR5...
In practice the two will be impossible to tease apart at any rate. Stress and lack of sleep make a feedback loop. The more you feel like you're drowning, the harder it gets to find sleep. Adding nighttime feedings just throws gas on the fire.
Dang, ok, didn't think it would be feasible but thought it might be a workable solution if it was.

I hope things work out for the best, whatever the best is.
I only skimmed the article but it seems this requires "registration" for each type and does not support template types.

What I would love to see it a completely generic type-to-value map ToValue<T> for ANY T, possibly template types, and without any sort of registration required. If the results are integers or otherwise ordered, they could then be used for compile-time ordered data structures like RB trees or heaps, for the implementation of some metaprogramming concepts.

Granted I believe that is impossible in plain C++.
A really fascinating conversation with Stanford senior scientist and astronomer Ivan Linscott, part of the team that ran the radio science experiment on the New Horizons probe.
When investment capital's returns turns out to be distributed in a disproportionate manner that's not actually benefitting the majority of society, we have a problem. The tables have been turned in favor of rent-seeking behavior, which is what the article complains about. This is merely a way of correcting that problem.
My slightly elitist view:

I don't think (the vast majority of) the people using PHP should build Internet-connected software at all. The risk for massive privacy intrusions caused by programmer incompetency is too great, IMO.
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Not sure why this was downvoted, but I would say the most promising candidate is Dihexa [1]

[1] https://nootropix.com/dihexa-story-science-experience/
I don't believe neither in the existence of introversion or extraversion.

Articles like this reinforce a certain paradigm of behaviour as something inescapable or unchangeable, thus limiting one's ability to explore their environment in more productive ways. I believe it limits one's freedom and one's capacity to change.

Sure, you can take a bunch of people and according to any measure that you create, generate enough statistics that conform to the particular linguistic structure that is behind your hypothesis.

But that doesn't mean that the structure is really there.

If you change either your environment or your perception of it your behaviour will change accordingly. If you reinforce your baseline perceptions and avoid looking at them in a more distant way you will not change your behaviour.

I was very introverted as a child, due to some shattering events in my childhood and always assumed it was a part of me, it was my nature. As time has passed I've changed, not to say that I've become textbook extroverted, but I see my environment differently and I can embrace things in a more productive way. I can move between those definitions of interpersonal behaviour and be aware of what triggers certain patterns that I'm already aware of, and move into mental spaces that I don't feel can be described by this binary classification.

Language, as in your internal narrative, can become either your freedom or your prison. You can choose where you lay down your walls, or if you will lay them down at all.
Your comment reinforces the point mvdwoord made. It ought not be up to a person to find the right job. It is up to society to enforce basic worker protections. Failure to do so leads to exploitation. The U.S. is not as nice a place to live as other rich nations.
It's basically impossible to use Redis accidentally in the way you're suggesting - to have absolutely no idea what you're getting into and fail to understand that it can run out of memory and doesn't provide security. Sure maybe before you've ever tried it or read anything at all, but you can't get very far without finding out.

You want Redis to support https so that people who haven't tried it and haven't read anything about it won't accidentally shoot themselves in the foot?

Even if you're right, your argument convinces me it's smarter for Redis to not implement security and say so than to add some in an effort to hide things for people who don't know what they're doing.

Do you have any evidence that the problem you're talking about actually exists wrt Redis? Do you have any evidence that vanishingly few people understand & do homework to offset the body of evidence of the growing number of people that can deal responsibly in security and that things are getting better over time?
They did? My impression was that until the server farm optimization they were a cost center for Google.
Most of those floor traders is running a small business (2/3 guys/girls) based on past contacts and trader know-how (such as it is - some better, some worse.) It's really more of a 'bazaar' for small, likely well connected, trading firms rather than anything else. It has been 'hard' for them in recent years as order flow has moved to the largest, too-big-to-fail brokers (GS, JMP etc). But certainly the NYSE gets a lot out of the media coverage, but the brokers themselves are not owned by the NYSE.
Hotel occupancy rates in NYC are 90%, compared to 65% elsewhere in the USA, so if we were to try to draw a causal conclusion: high hotel tax rates cause high occupancy.
I find that surprsing.

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Meditation is so broad that it includes what both of you are talking about.

It certainly sounds like one of you is talking about the meditating by using your thoughts as an object (sorting thoughts obviously makes no sense once you stop identifying them as "yours"), while the other is talking about simply doing it object-free.

Both are taught by many of the same traditions, with neither being necessarily better or worse, though usually the object-free version is taught later because it's hard to do without something to focus on when you're first starting.

I personally find the prior more useful when I'm trying to process a specific problem or stressor and the latter to be more useful after I've done some preprocessing. They are often done sequentially for this reason, as well as because meditating briefly with a specific focus helps prepare you mentally for the more general focus-free meditation where you simply rest in the experience of existence. But other preparation meditations with focuses can also be used to help you mentally prepare, such as focusing on body sensations, breath, vision, sounds, etc. Thoughts are just another thing you can observe.

EDIT: I'd note that the Wikipedia article on Hesychasm describes it as asceticism and "blocking off", so in retrospect I'd describe it as a different class of meditation than those that involve resting in experience. More like visualization practice or some of the scarier death practices. But they're talking about the "advanced" version there, and such things are easy to misconstrue because the language for describing it is poor. But I'd still call it a meditation.
Seems like a total straw man argument.

I think very few are against the idea of free money for everybody because of the fear of moral decay if people aren't working. I think the opponents are worried about where that money to fund UBI will come from.

Taking away people's assets to be redistributed is obviously kind of a touchy subject.
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