skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general natural languages are horrible but nevertheless working messes. They always change and each language is subtly different from each others, if not massively different.

For example: Korean verb conjugations are massive [1] mainly because conjugations themselves are morphemes (or semi-words, if you don't know what it is) and not mutations or transformations thus the set of conjugations is essentially open. Native Korean speakers can probably easily list hundreds of different conjugations with different meanings.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXakcsoUkAEMPaj.jpg for example.
Renters are a hassle, and they have a lot of legal protections. Where I live it's hard to kick them out even if they stop paying, and if they trash the place you could be out a lot of money. I wouldn't rent my vacation home out unless I needed the money.
Or just use IncludeOS, and you'll have the option to recompile most of the software out there (as IncludeOS is C++).
Mountain lion queens, too. Sounds like a murder in progress and carries for miles.
I apologise, I thought you were implying that what omalleyt 'really meant' was a perfect circle is data we can calculate

It seemed to me you were changing the question that was being asked, and a question asked implies an answer, or 'goal post'

But if you were just developing new inquiry stead building off omalleyt then I apologise and would hope to encourage like critical thinking in the future

.. Thinking on it 'goal posts'.. and 'soap box' elsewhere in this thread.. lacks a timeless quality, I really should have left it out ;P
Also notable that so many new shops are foregoing it entirely. SAS, and its price tag, is a holdover from the days when 'analytics' was an afterthought for companies looking to maximize profit.

Now that much less mature companies are realizing the value of 'analytics' (I hate that word) SAS's cost doesn't really make sense.
For that 59.2%, who counts as employed and who counts in the population? To have 40.8% not employed, they must be counting people in school, people who are retired, probably stay-at-home parents, people with serious disabilities, and the people wealthy enough not to work. How is that a useful figure?

The official figure doesn't include people who are too young or too old and doesn't include people who are not looking for work. Certainly there are some people who society would say should be looking for work and we'd like to count them amongst the unemployed but there isn't a good way differentiate them from the people who have good reasons for not looking for work. So the official number is based who says they are looking for work.
> all of those phenomena can be perfectly modelled in the box

Nope.

How you gonna model the interaction between a microphone and the preamp load it's driving, and the compressor that's driving, and the EQ it's driving, and the nonlinear summing bus that's feeding, when all of these are interacting in a live signal chain, and all entering various forms of nonlinear behavior based on the age of components, their tolerances which vary from box to box, heat, etc? It might be theoretically possible, but past a certain point, to model these devices requires modeling physics at the materials level. In point of fact most digital "simulations" of these sorts of devices are not simulations at all, but approximations that impart similar EQ, dynamics, and harmonic distortion.

I'm a dev by trade, been doing audio for decades too. I used to believe this was all modellable too. I think there's a tendency for people who are strong in digital signal processing but naive to what these devices are really doing to the signal to be overconfident in our ability to simulate them in realtime.

You can definitely achieve a reasonable facsimile! But if you want the sound of this console then you're going to have to make one or buy one.
It is also a function of inflation. Chronic negative real interest rates and quantitative easing across the developed world, used to prop up banks, disincentize traditional savings vehicles such as bonds, while property is usually a good inflation hedge that is less risky than stocks.
I don't know much about card processors but could you have two card processors and fall over to one if one failed ?
>It's normal for some units to be empty at any time for various reasons: remodelling, attempting to find a tenant, attempting to sell, waiting to be demolished/replaced, etc. So there's a baseline "normal" vacancy rate.

Or, one can always count long term vacancies, and be done with the subtleties of not-actually-vacant homes...
No, not hard stop. If understanding the cost of a service/product is expected (via getting an itemized receipt), and the cost of service is separated from the product (as is done via delivery fee, service fee, etc) then it is unethical to build in markup on the product itself.

It's the same reason I think mechanics are shitty when they charge 50%+ markup on parts for auto repair. I'm paying you for the service - the right thing to do is to show the cost of the service separate from the market price of the product.

Alcohol/food at a restaurant is different - it is clear and known that service and product are interwoven in the list price.
If you want a decent dialog you need to practice decent dialog yourself. That begins with dropping weaponized generalities like "feminist outrage" and "Women of the West have succeeded in perpetually shaming men" (edit: and, of course, the same the other way around).

Every side in divisive arguments lobs such weapons at each other. We all know exactly what those leads to on the internet: more of the same, only worse. We don't want that kind of war on HN. We want thoughtful discussion, which means dropping preconceived formulations and really engaging with each other.

Also, please don't do the preemptive downvote announcement thing. It's tedious, it's embarrassing, and it breaks the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13796919 and marked it off-topic.
What ought to be is what benefits the tribe. More people benefit the tribe, because you then have expendable males that can be used to pillage the neighboring tribes. Unless you have depleted the environment (e.g., overhunting), there is no incentive to abstain from breeding as much as possible.
Website is down. Here's the page as it was archived in February :
https://web.archive.org/web/20170221003148/https://download....
Unfortunately it's mainly German sources. I hope Google Translate can help here. They may also report different numbers, depending on who would be included in "Turkish migrants". Some address Turkish citizens (who have a work permit in Germany), some address German citizens of Turkish descent.

The numbers I used are from this article:
https://www.taz.de/!5176721/

> 75 Prozent der Migranten türkischer Herkunft haben keinen Schulabschluss, fast jeder zweite ist arbeitslos.

> 75 % of migrants of Turkish descent do not graduate from school, almost every second is unemployed.

It's from 2008. Upon reflection I would expect that the situation is not as dire anymore, due to Germany's positive economic development.

In any case, the trend in Germany hints towards a dire situation in any case (2009):
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/immigration-surv...

> Some 30 percent of Turkish immigrants and their children don't have a school leaving certificate, and only 14 percent do their Abitur, as the degree from Germany's top-level high schools is called -- that's half the average of the German population.

This article from 2016 references a report from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. It states that over 40 % of the Turkish immigrants and their children only achieve a very basic school leaving certificate ("Hauptschulabschluss"). With this type of certificate, it is difficult in Germany to even get into a vocational school. Also, over 1/3 of the Turkish immigrants are poor: They earn less that 60 % of the mean income.

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article155700942/Warum-so-vie...

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Datenreport/Datenre...

Out of the 3 million Turkish migrants in Germany, 275,000 have received unemployment benefits in 2015. Only people actively seeking employment are eligible for those benefits. I could not find the absolute number for Germany for this population. But for the whole of Germany, we have 39 million workers, out of a population of over 80 million. The Turkish migrants tend to be younger, so a larger percentage does not belong to the workforce yet.

I would therefore assume that the unemployment rate is around 20 % for Turkish migrants in Germany, and considerably higher in Berlin, due to the "special" economic status of Berlin as a whole. The article below is from 2001 and has them at 42 %:

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/tuerken-in-berlin-beruf-ar...

Summing up, while the specific numbers should be subject to scrutiny, the trend remains abysmal.
> habitual villainization of single mothers by Republicans

This is the first I'm hearing of this. I know the right is against "leeches," but I've yet to see them single out single mothers.

Unless you're referring to undertones in their (Republicans') way of conduct. If so, then I wouldn't expect single mothers to be able to recognize the subtlety.
There are plenty of people for whom $50 is a pretty good deal to save an hour of time. Whether that will scale is another question entirely.
It's absolutely warranted. I spent time in South Africa, specifically Johannesburg and Durban, and due to completely unrestricted immigration there is a massive unemployed population (there simply isn't enough work for all the people coming in to the country), and crime rates have gone through the roof.

"Idle hands are the Devil's workshop." Human beings do not naturally drift towards societally beneficial behaviour when lacking productive activities to engage in.
Here's the quote the headline appears to be about:

“We need, so far as we can, in my view, help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness,” Mr. Sessions said in remarks to the National Association of Attorneys General. “And I’m afraid we’ve done some of that. So we’re going to try to pull back on this, and I don’t think it’s wrong or mean or insensitive to civil rights or human rights.”
Not like you can sit at a public library's computer all day. You get timed about an hour a session and can only do three sessions a day and of course, if it there's a wait list, you have to wait.

Also, many libraries nowadays have been turned into "after school" centers where there's a whole load of talking on the kids section of the library.

There is a "quiet" zone, but people still whisper and really just straight out talk and you can very much hear the kids down the hall yelling and what not.

Unless you live in a huge metro area with a very large library (even then, the computer limit is still there) and instead of loud kids you get loud bums who are told every 10 minutes to be quiet by the guard...a library isn't really a great place to "sit down and gain skills across a variety of professions".

The only kinds of library where that romantic environment exists is at Universities, which many can only be accessed if you're a student there.
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Whiteboards are bad for writing programs. Think about how often you write programs on whiteboard, it's mostly for diagrams and system flow not to write for and while loops for hard problems. My thinking pattern is different when I write program I tend to write the skeleton first and then fill it out. Writing on whiteboard although I know the solution I'm just spending time writing which sucks (may be because the only thing I write is a cheque once a month and I'm not used to writing for years). Now if it were typing, within the same span of time I can write two or three programs find mistakes and solve everything. Hence I find coding on computer much better than whiteboard and these days I refuse interviewing on whiteboards and say so to anyone who wants to hire me.

Edit: It's ironic how the so called cutting-edge tech companies can't afford a keyboard, mouse, laptop and a projector which would make things way better. I even had a case where the interviewer changed the question with 5 min. to spare , I explained the solution he said it would work and then told me to write it. I was just erasing and pointing arrows because I did not have space etc. So easy to forget that while typing you just hit enter and get a new line. Draw on white board, write on computer; that's how it should be.
But with known reasons for why it isn't perfect. And math that works fine if you round to a reasonable degree.

Edit: "Scaled to the size of a beach ball, say scientists, the sun's equatorial bulge would be less than the width of a human hair"[1]

And, I assume the defects in the event horizon of a black hole are even more negligible.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/16/sun-perfect-...
I actually think NeXT would have continued. They did make money and Sun was all Java'ed up given their stepping out of the whole OpenStep thing. Plus, Pixar did extremely well, and I don't think Jobs minded running both.

Copeland in my mind had no chance of shipping. It just was just another step in the Pink -> Taligent saga. I loved the Newton but it was flawed in direction from the start (even loved NewtonScript and Soups). OpenDoc was not very fun to program, but others probably know better (I was more a visitor in those days, I'm not an Apple fan, I'm a NeXT fan who had to immigrate). I would have bought a Newton-based desktop or laptop from them though.

Be would have brought back Jean-Louis Gassée which probably would have been a bad thing.
>I don't understand, why owners buy such vacant homes, which they use twice a year. Renting the same house for two days would be much cheaper.

Because either

(a) they don't care for it being cheaper, they have plenty of money to spare (I know several such people), or

(b) they still have money, but not enough that they don't care about renting vs buying and living vacant. But they see the vacant house as a stable-ish investment on that property (I also know of this latter category).

Both cases don't care to go through the hassle of renting the house to others.

>In the first case, people are giving away money for nothing. In the second case, people refuse to take money. Why do they do that?

Both of these are concerns of middle/working class people like us. Not the concerns of people that make lotsa money (e.g. 500.000 to several million per year).

And above them, they are people who can afford to have whole castles sitting, waiting for them empty with full staff working there in several places in the world and not think twice about it.
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I think the convenience/laziness economy has an effect on younger people who have never lived as adults without it. They don't develop the same basic knowledge of the inherent/ideal cost of groceries or the ability to measure the total cost over time of car ownership vs. perpetual taxi service. I have friends who call an Uber even though our company buys us monthly public transportation passes. In a city with a good system.

Meanwhile I partition my everyday purchases among grocery stores, CVS, and Target based on a detailed knowledge of which product categories are inherently cheapest in each and which are currently or regularly go on sale at each and how aggressively. For someone with a six-figure salary I probably micro-manage it more than I need to. But I look at Instacart and Uber prices and just laugh.
Yeah? And I voted for her. Doesn't mean I turned off my critical faculties. Politifact is even less objective than an organization with obvious ideological commitments might be expected to be (given their explicit aim for objectivity).
Paris electric code is the same as for the rest of EU and yes, you can leave the lights off for over 6 months with no repercussions.

Your friend however bought an industrial site and the compliance rules there are likely a lot stricter than in residential.
> Hangul is truly an alphabetic system, in which each symbol represents separate phoneme, or sound.

Is this true, though? As far as I know ㅔ and ㅐ represent the same sounds.
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Hey, if your wife sees you as a sexless entity, that sounds like something personal. Like maybe you need to find a way to be sexy for her.

Turning that into a generalization about men being emasculated because women have careers now, man that's just not accurate. It's blaming women for something that's their fault or responsibility.
> but predicting how it will happen, i.e., how an organism will evolve, what genes will mutate etc, in a certain environment, is very difficult and really basically impossible.

By that measure physics isn't predictive either. Any moderately complex system and the best we can do is statistical models, often with little to no predictive power.
It might be misleading to you but to them its increased revenue.
I only laugh at tragedy.
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"Massages" makes it sound like the change the measures on the fly which is not the case. See my other comment about counting those not working vs. those not looking for work.
They operate within 100 miles of international borders.
If this were going to help -- if the people who want to gut the EPA were inclined to care enough about the country's air and water quality -- they wouldn't have to go to China. They could just read about the past in the US.
Citiation? I would think that evolution certainly plays a role in selecting for instinctive behaviors (such as preferences in a mate) that benefit survival
My first computer was an iBook G3. I loved it. I have never owned a PC, and reading this post makes me sad ... because it's true. The reality that in the next few years I imagine the Mac to be killed entirely is an awful prospect but one we should probably prepare ourselves for.
The main problem is that Amazon Prime Now isn't available everywhere
Yeah, I just think the concept is intrinsically cool which may be a bit of a http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-08-08 issue.

Taking it even further (and more absurd) the interface between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium (ISM) lets in matter mostly along a curved path at the bow who's size and orientation is defined by the relative magnetic vector orientations of the heliosphere and the ISM. This was a recent discovery by the IBEX interstellar neutral atom monitor. If you could get the artificial magnetospheres to influence the magnetic field around the region in the bow where this happens (by controlling the magnetic field in the plasmoids your artificial magnetospheres sends off with the wind) you might be able to control the direction interstellar neutral atoms come in at. And that'd allow you to apply arbitrary (small) force to the entire heliosphere and control direction over very long time periods. But that's so back of the napkin I doubt it's actually feasible.
Please note this 60% tax is 60% of what one could rent the property for, not 60% of the value. Yearly rents are maybe 5-10% of the value, so a 3% to 6% tax as the word is normally used. Still something, but not nearly extreme as the headline.
Ad hominem? Is that all you got?

The problem is not women having careers, it is men having careers as babysitters and homemakers. Reading comprehension is not your forte, I presume.
Ehhh...free market is a myth is a bit of a myth. Free market hasn't really existed in our lifetime is more accurate.

The free market is essentially a natural law. It's the root of economics. Policies and laws merely try to control portions of the formula and when they do that the reaction is predictable.

Put price controls on something, demand will rise and supply will fall. Provide money for a service regardless of price without increasing supply, demand will increase and the price will along with it. Control the price and the supply, then as demand increases you create a market for access.

These are the basic effects that have happened with education, health care, real estate, etc. Everytime policy tries to interfere, the market merely adjusts. When money is handed out from government policy, inflation happens.

You can pass a law that gravity must behave differently...doesn't mean it can actually control it.

The only controls that laws and policies have on markets is tampering.
People are hardwired to prefer partners they find attractive. Beyond a well documented bias towards symmetry in and a certain range of ratios of physical features, attempts to find some sort of innately desirable traits that are not confounded by the incredible strong signals sent in a given culture & generation's media always fail. When you say, "Women are hardwired to look for men with resources or the ability to get them. It comes down to whether a man can provide the woman with a safe and clean place to have her babies," it's quite peculiar how societies with more of the first have a massive decline in the second.

The snarky way to reply to this is, if you're so smart, why can't you get laid?

edit: are not confounded by. Also, if you're downvoting in response to something other than the useless snark at the end of my post, please comment.
> technically better system

Define "better".

"If it sounds good, it is good." - Joe Meek
1. What is most important in your CV is the last employer. If it seems that you were fired, this can cause problems with getting a (decent) job afterwards. If you were poached, it is because the other employer wants you badly. So in your example your new "last" employer becomes JP Morgan or Facebook. So this kind of problem does not occur here.

This does not contradict the fact that it still leaves/can leave a bad impression on impression if your were willing to be poached without a very good reason, since can be considered as a strong sign that your are not loyal to your employer and only hunting for money.

2. Poaching is rather uncommon in Germany. As I outlined in 1 being willing to be poached multiple times is a sign that you are not very loyal to your employer. Thus there is a strongly reduced incentive for employees to be poached.

Also for poaching to work, you have to offer lots of money - I'd be really surprised if there are lots of employers that are willing to start such an "arms race with money". Why not simply offer decent money in your regular job advertisements and get good people without any arms race?

Poaching might make sense if there you want to get "rockstars" that are not available on the "free job market", but can only be poached. But I'm also not aware of any industry sector in Germany where there exist employees that are treated as rockstars. :-(
They are doing it for flexibility. My wife's uncle and his wife do this. They own 3 homes in the bay area. An apartment in the city, a house in Marin and a condo near Monterey. They are well off, but not filthy rich (~$5M in net worth including real estate, which is high, but they are both retired after working good paying jobs).

They don't rent any of them out since they like the flexibility to decide at the last minute where they want to spend the night.

They did luck out and buy these homes when prices were depressed.
> Turns out there is a margin, and it is at least 20%, if not much more.

This is not true. In some stores Instacart offers the same as in-store prices, other it does not.

The same is true of anything one buys on Amazon. Low-cost items that ship with Prime shipping are usually marked up a bit, but I order from Amazon (and Instacart) in spite of this because of the convenience offered.

You can pick a basket of goods in Instacart where the percentage is high, but there are many other baskets where the percentage is low.
Next you guys are going to think the CIA's contract with the owner of the Washington Post is a bad thing.