skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To build on my previous comment [1], and those by thinkloop, it's plausible to me that one of the layers of social commentary they targeted was about clickbait and 'fake news'.

This story itself is purpose-made for viral speculation, which these days also implies clickbait fodder; I can already see the articles in the template of "The True Story Behind the Super Bowl Potato Ad" and "You Won't Believe What This Game Company Spent $xx Million On"; all the while as planetjones pointed out the reporting on the event has not yet been corroborated by multiple independent sources, where those sources themselves are known to have existed ahead of time and are reporting truthful information.

Perhaps this will change as the day passes, given how the announcement was made in the middle of the night, but so far all the evidence of this ever having occurred derives from either the Medium announcement from an account that only contains this one post [2] while their known-good official website [3] (and other known-good official channels, like their Tumblr) are devoid of any such announcement, and the evidence presented in the Medium post itself is a screenshot of some Tweets and a link to a Youtube video [4] (which in all fairness was uploaded by Cards Against Humanity (co-?)creator Max Temkin [5], but not posted on the official CAH channel [6].

While it's possible that the accounts making the Tweets are real and the content of the Tweets is truthfully based on an actual event they witnessed, we've yet to see evidence provided by sources known to not be affiliated with CAH -- which is a different threshold than 'not known to be affiliated with' -- that the ad indeed aired in one or more markets -- one this evidence arrives we will have completed rudimentary fact-checking good enough to report on the matter. Until then, any attempt to 'report' on this situation fails to meet the basic criteria for 'news', but is instead repeating a viral rumour that appears to have been started by either the first-party or an as-yet unverified third party.

I surmise that at least one low-quality report will be made about the story while still unverified -- let alone all the social media buzz that the story will generate in either case; thereby demonstrating how easy it is to manufacture a story; for speculation's sake, the same could have been accomplished by creating a plausibly-named brand-new Medium account, uploading a Youtube video, creating a few Twitter accounts or paying actual people to Tweet some choice lines.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13577181
[2] https://medium.com/@CardsAgainstHumanity
[3] https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWW-pN_niE
[5] https://www.youtube.com/user/MaxTemkin/about
[6] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIntWOSU38r6V0YaPLNjRg
Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles
> No, it generates thumbnails outside the main UI thread; sometimes it's a bit slow in so doing, but I've never seen it hang an Explorer window,

As an example of the contrary, I've seen misbehaving third party thumbnail-providers cause Windows explorer to crash entirely.

Only way to "fix" it was to install the software which added the thumbnail-provider, or go into the folder via cmd.exe and rename the file you "knew" caused issued to a different extension while doing the operation you originally came to do.

That may have been on Windows 7 though. I don't know for sure if this weakness still exists in Windows 10.
How about not having such crazy visa fees to begin with? I got a visa here in Japan, the only fee was $30 to have my residency card issued.
Doesn't that depend on the tax laws of their home country?
Rise of Elixir and Rust.
Learning to see [Welch Labs] Introduction to basic ML for vision problems
> Calories in, calories out is not the golden rule, and this has been scientifically proven false.

That's an extreme statement you definitely need to provide source for. I read a lot of scientific journals on the subject and have never heard anything like that.
Why not have solar modules in a shipping container form factor. (Maybe shorter in height though) and stack those at the top layer when loading the ship.

You could probably even find some ingenious way to run the current through the containers stacked umderneath to route the power. They are made of metal.
> regularly edit large equations in LaTeX. I don't see how it's not manageable, just break your equations into multiple lines.

I understand how to indent TeX, but when you have a hundred algebraic terms it's very unwieldly, and Mathematica becomes clearly superior (for me) just to visualize it.

Anyways, it sounds like you're just saying you haven't found the graphical visualization for equation trees to be useful, so you stick with the linear representation, but the manipulations of those trees (by mathematica, or some other dedicated editor) is still useful.

In this case I would add that we would probably still need some sort of visualization aid for sufficiently large equations, and that the tools are just not good right now. After all, much/most code is written in normal (linear) text editors, but some people still do find it useful to "collapse" sections of code, corresponding to branches of the tree structure induced by indentation. Many people don't bother with this right now because it can cause headaches that simple scrolling does not, but better tools may change this.
Looks great but it only does text. The link speaks of beyond ASCII. For this the old school PIM were better at storage of thoughts.
The problem here is that the people who are actually aware and concerned about security updates (or lack thereof) are the technologically literate who upgrade to a new phone fairly frequently.

The target market that you want to secure is generally either unaware of or apathetic towards security concerns (until they get hit).
Visa-wise. Very few countries let you work remotely, most do not.

Canada for example says right on their immigration website that if you are working for a company not based in Canada and are paid from outside of Canada then there is no problem.

Thailand, and most of South East Asia frankly, have laws on the books that say any work, including volunteer work, is work and is forbidden. Thailand has however stated some years ago that 'Digital Nomads' aren't their concern, just illegal workers. There have been arrests in shared work spaces but people were released after. Definitely a grey area.

Singapore's another example but you can count on them to enforce the law to the letter.

That's an uncomfortable truth you don't see people talking about on the remote job boards.

You don't read about many issues because nobody is going to know that a guy on his laptop is working and not uploading holiday snaps to Facebook. I'd personally avoid coding camps, shared workspaces and collaborating in person if I was going to skirt the law and do it anyway.
Low socioeconomic status is linked to significant reductions in life expectancy
Yes, it is like thinking you can implement a service like Twitter in a distributed way. You can, but you loose some of its properties like performing analytics over all the messages in real time.

It is important to first apply basic computer science theories before trying to invent a perpetual motion machine.
David Heinemeier Hansson - How reliance on luck can undermine productivity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISOSyr_dMU
You'd also need to create new accounts for all your services each time, or any basic logging of access will trivially link your SIM, data provider's IP, your VPN, and your endpoint services. You only need to mess up once and your "anonymity" is compromised. In this instance it would be the IMEI of your phone, the tracking data used by advertisers and data miners to fingerprint your devices, and whatever services and accounts you use for email or social networking on your device.

Real anonymity is hard, and takes a level of paranoia not many can sustain without suffering mental health issues.
Nobody else seems to have mentioned it, but with 2x4K screens, Ubuntu Gnome (16.04) with it's Hi-DPI capabilities is the only thing even close to usable for me at the moment.

I've tried switching to XFCE and a couple of other light weight DEs but when I can actually get both displays to output at once, the text and UI are so tiny or messed up it's unbearable.

That said, Windows 10 does an almost equally horrific job (scaling everything up to a horribly pixelated size but at least a size I can see sitting 2-3 feet away. I only use Windows 10 for gaming so it doesn't bother me.

My go-to for both home and work is Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 right now, sadly even Kali is horrific to use when I do occasionally need it now, but Ubuntu with Gnome has worked close to flawlessly and looks stunning with its crisp clear test and UI elements at 4K.
Fresh air. It's tough to breathe in many cities across the world, especially in Asia.

I'd pay a lot (probably more than I would for my laptop / car) for a tool that would help me breathe fresh air in the midst of a polluted environment.

Of course, a long term solution would involve actually reducing pollution, but there are enough of us suffering from a lack of fresh air, that a short-term solution would be greatly valuable.
> Rust's memory management as static/compile-time garbage collection

I've never worked with Rust, so I may be horribly wrong. Based on what I understood, it's a more than what you say: resources are freed at a time determined by the source code, no random involved, thus you get GC and RAII at once.
I'd rather have a bigger salary and not to have to share my living-room with total strangers in order to have a decent income.
> I would take Windows 95's window manager over Ubuntu's Unity every day of the week.

And I'd take StumpWM over Windows 10. Honestly, I'd take Windows 95's UI over Windows 10.

I don't actually mind what the Unity guys are trying to do — it's definitely not for me, and is part of why I left Ubuntu for Debian, but I can see that they are trying to do something good.
Greed, destruction and misery are the defaults. Any system which scales at all will amplify them.
How do they kidnap people from a plane crossing from south America to Europe via the Atlantic? Board the plane in-flight?
But which kind of virus?

An internet-distributed one would be pretty futile, but a diskette-spreading one aimed at a lab with several macs could be pretty successful.
> Furthermore, your whole implication that the companies care about this from primarily a financial point of view is deeply cynical

How can you be so naïve. You just have to look at the charges against tech companies regarding displacement, or in terms of wage collusion. Or look at the mass layoffs that occur regularly.

This is entirely related to saving "a few bux".
No, that is the basis of weight loss.
Focus should be on introducing better eating habits (better as in lower calories and better macronutrient composition), education and finding the reason behind their overeating habits since it's usually psychological one.
The main reason 'housing' is getting more expensive is zoning regulations + limited supply of land in desirable areas. You can still find cheap houses in places that not many people want to live in.
But I must say, I was also kind of upset the first couple of weeks when always getting errors whatever I tried to do with Rust. And spending lots of time fixing those errors. When you learn the style, it's very easy to work with, but the first two weeks were a massive slap to my overblown programmer ego... :D
The third screenshot [here][1] is hilarious :)

[1]: http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/screenshots.html
Indeed, I had these as a kid in the 80s. Coins are simply inserted in the top right and roll down before falling into a stack. Hours of fascination!
https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/303781937345711623/
The opportunity to not be obsessed with stuff is one benefit of the path we've taken. Perhaps you'd have to know Greatest/Silent generation people more to see the change.
At least for the first one, this definitely plays into it. Average winters in NYC top out at 38-42 degrees, compared to LA bottoming out at 48-49. LA can get away with less insulation, so they don't need to worry about buildings trapping as much heat during the summer.
> Write another desktop enviroment from scratch?

I think you mean a new distro which is mostly, but not entirely yet another a Ubuntu-derivative, which comes packaged with its own DE and related software.

And no, this new and perfect email-client will still not try to beat Outlook by managing both email and calendar at the same time. Go away!

Seriously... What are Linux Mint and ElementaryOS even thinking?
Data Pipelines: Cassandra, Kafka and Python (and Go!)
I really hope you're wrong.
Chat bots would make new and prospective customers FAQs/enquiries easier for lots of small businesses, especially in emerging markets where a large swath of people are coming online for the first time via their mobile phones.

Many of these users are not that familiar with the WWW aspect of the Internet; Facebook and Whatsapps is really the Internet for them.
I've been a digital nomad for almost 6 years and have written in great detail about this subject here:
https://bkpk.me/digital-nomads-tax/

The gist of it is that it depends a lot on your citizenship, the kind of work you do, and how it is all setup. Normally, taxes are to be paid where the work is done if you are a tax resident in that country. Interpretations vary so most nomads are on tourist visas and just fly under the radar. There is no proper framework for this kind of work yet. Even if you wanted to pay taxes in a country you're visiting it would be impossible in many cases because they wouldn't even issue a tax number without proper residence papers. You should be most concerned about your home country and speak to an accountant about that.
"Black History": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4 -

Probably the best, most eye opening talk on any topic, but especially on the roots of institutionalised racism, and perhaps the cause of a lot of issues today.

It is by "Akala", an English rapper, poet, and journalist at the Oxford Union and is is a shining example that you can gain a great amount of knowledge, if you are only willing to.

If you liked the Netflix documentary "13th" you will like this.
Contrary to what many people think, I will predict that the original Trump order will be upheld.

It is absolutely an Executive branch function to handle visas and immigration, and the actual law appears to be very clear.

I am not making a statement about Trump or his opponents, otherwise.
> Linux (as in the kernel) succeeds because it's free, flexible, stable and secure. But none of those words are "pretty", "aesthetic" or "powerful".

I think that StumpWM, i3 & dwm are all powerful, æsthetically-pleasing environments. I think that emacs is a powerful, æsthetically-pleasing environment.

> OSX became the uber tech junkie's OS of choice, but with Apple's recent shenanigans these savvy enthusiasts and devs are also starting to use Windows again.

I think anyone who chooses to use Apple doesn't care about his freedom, and anyone who chooses to use Windows doesn't care about æsthetics. With Linux, I have both.
Reading this interpretation of the immigrant history of the US, and how this means corporations should be able to dictate public policy now, just shows how arrogant and entitled these companies are, and how necessary it is that this means of hiring needs to be rejuvenated.
Welp!

Thanks for the clarification.

(A version with actual real money could be interesting, although the caveats and ramifications do pile up at an alarming rate. But Bitcoin was bold and daring when it started...)
> How do taxes work in this case? Am I supposed to be taxed based on my home country, the company's home country or the country I am currently residing in?

I'm not a tax accountant, but I've spent a reasonable while looking at this and talking to various people in similar situations.

Step one: work out where you're tax resident. You're typically tax resident in the place you spend more than 6 months of the year. There are some more complex per-country rules if that doesn't cover you though, and lots of tie breakers on things like where your ties are (where your business/family are located) and how many days you spent working in the countries involved. This can be complicated and gets relatively subjective in the tricky cases. If it's truly ambiguous and you're not a super high earner, you can probably pick any plausible option without much risk.

Step two: pay taxes on income earned in the country(ies) when you earned it (i.e. where you currently are working, if you're working remotely), plus taxes on your whole annual income wherever you're tax resident. There are double-taxation treaties between most nations that allow you to claim it back. If you're American, I think you also have to pay taxes in America, on top of the above (but I'm not American, so I'm not sure on that). An example:

- You live in the UK for 9 months this year, so you're a UK tax resident

- You work from Spain for 3 months (remotely or locally)

- You should pay tax in Spain for the earnings of those three months

- You should pay tax in the UK for the full year, but claim payments in Spain back against that (there's a field for this on UK tax returns).

- That means your total tax bill is the same as if you were just in the UK (this isn't necessarily always true, if you have wildly different tax rates), but there's just more paperwork.

In practice, my impression is loads of people ignore these rules (I personally know large numbers of people doing so), and just pay tax where they're tax resident (or even just where they were last tax resident), and skip the extra paperwork.

Whether you can get away with that depends on your situation, but if you're asking for tax advice on HN you're probably not an individual where it's going to bite you, as long as you pay tax correctly for the majority (i.e. if you just pay normal full tax to the UK, in this example).

This is 'what happens in practice' advice though - it's a good idea to actually talk to an accountant, and take the risks of shortcuts here seriously, especially if your situation is interesting or complicated or you're earning a lot of money. These rules can also vary significantly in other nations, so you'll need to double check them for each of the countries you're planning to visit.
Seeing the comments here i fear that Rust will end up binned alongside the likes of Ada. Because people want to write code that runs and thats it, correctness and safety be damned...
Which "actual law appears to be very clear"?
It's definitely written with the intent of using it to edit Lisp code, and for that it is great. It is now hard for me to imagine writing Lisp by editing S-expressions directly.
>Are the elderly so populous that they can force tax benefits for only themselves?

They didn't call it a baby boom for nothing.

>If more young people move into an area, rentees or not, they're eligible to vote and should be a large voting block all their own.

Young people can't move in if you ban building more housing, now can they?

>I'm surprised than in San Fran, supposedly a tech mecca, there isn't a strong opposition coming from young, able bodied tech workers, with oodles of money on their hands.

Once they buy, they, too, benefit from these laws. Also: they make up a small portion of the population
I live full-time on a school bus with a family.

Flexible solar panels, LED lighting with open source drivers, and the new generation of DC refrigerators are all incredibly exciting and are allowing us to experiment with living without grid electricity.
No, because everyone is busy doing its own little thing.
Even if the companies that wrote these laws get to retain copyright, surely the substantial public interest in making them freely available makes this Fair Use. But current Copyright law is a cancer on our economy. Why not the government, too?
I'm not sure if this would pass a security review, but occasionally I've had some issue with a bank or credit card account, I've then used the chat-based technical support, and the conversation was very straightforward.

I could definitely see chatbots becoming advanced enough to handle "I'm locked out of my account and need some part of it reset" type questions within the next 3 - 5 years. I could even see it being superior to the current experience (right now there are significant delays after each thing I say to the customer service person, presumably because they're handling multiple chat windows simultaneously).
And a small European country like Ireland doesn't get its own Amazon store so they have to rely on Amazon.co.uk, where everything is priced in Sterling (not Euro). Irish customers can't avail of Amazon Prime, shipping times take longer etc. A federated Amazon.eu with a continent-wide distribution network may help. Goods priced in Euro certainly would.
Scaling for TB Level Log Data with Kinesis and Lambda with Elastic Search on AWS
Auto-fact checker. Realtime analysis of the bullshit most politicians say so that journalists can immediately challenge them in realtime with the actual facts.
yup! Since trump[1]. As I said IIRC this feature has been introduced with the patriot act. At least out of US, privacy oriented online companies put forward that they are outside patriot act jurisdiction.

[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/26/trump-signs-executive-or...
Government could as easily control Red Hat, for example.
Do you have a reason to believe that the relationship here is causal, rather than just correlative?
In countries like Argentina you can stay as much as you want without any issue. Just need to travel (and return) to a near country like Uruguay every some months.

I would love to know in a comment why this suggestion is downvoted.
Older people.

We live in a rapidly ageing society. Retirees are a large and wealthy demographic. Despite that, tech companies are absolutely woeful at designing products for older users. We don't empathise with their needs. We don't understand how poor eyesight, arthritis or cognitive difficulties can affect UX. There's a huge amount of pent-up demand and excellent opportunities for future growth.
Pretty good, it almost make you feel you're working on trees and not text. Takes a few moments to get used to. I recommend what I did: take a bunch of Lisp code, strip it out of parenthesis (M-x replace-string, replace ( and ) with empty strings), and then use Paredit commands to restore the original tree structure. I spent less than an hour simply doing this exercise again and again, and it was enough to become a proficient user.
>assuming that the fix is just a few lines of code
It's a sharing economy, as in there is little room for profit - it's all break-even business, the producer surplus shared completely with the consumer.

Ok I made that meaning up - but still, think about it.
Nice.

Nitpick: Rainbow (jet) color maps can be confusing. Better to use a perceptually uniform one such as viridis, see e.g. https://bids.github.io/colormap/
On a philosophical level, what you are asking for is what Google's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was designed to solve except that this will leave us with a web much broken than how we started.
Try Lyra instead! We're a nonprofit focussing on control and a respect for language and conversation. www.hellolyra.com
If the third-party thumbnailer is implemented as a shared library (DLL) that Explorer is configured to load, then sure, a segfault or similar in the library will kill the whole process. Not sure how that's Microsoft's fault. Sure, there's an argument that loading a library is the wrong model, but there's a performance tradeoff, especially given Windows' relatively slow IPC capabilities. The real surprise here is that Linux manages to be comparably slow, but when you complicate a simple, fast IPC model with dbus and a million other middleware layers, I suppose it starts to make more sense.