skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them.

No, you did not take it from them. They willingly gave it to you. You are free to give it to them, but you choose not to.

> I don't believe that wealthy people should get to choose were their money goes. That's a decision for society as a whole

Please do not equate any body of government to "society as a whole."

Even in a true democracy where everyone votes, the majority will never have an adequate enough perspective to ensure funds are correctly distributed.

I don't know your friend. How can I know what he needs? How do you expect the real specific cases to be solved without direct assistance from someone (an individual, a charity) who knows how to help?
Steve jobs success is attributed to MANY things, part of his success is attributed to his personality for which he is known to be an asshole. If you read two biographies, you'd know.
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This is a perfect example of why a firewall between editorial and advertising departments in a news organization is not sufficient. I would really like to see a subscription only news service exist that doesn't take any advertising dollars. It would make very clear that it serves the readership, not advertisers. Alas, I don't think enough people are willing to pay what it would take and media companies are too risk averse to even attempt it.
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/cloud-computing/...
Well they also learned to not put their most important asset on AWS.
I think I recall seeing "IAAL, IANYL, TINLA" with some frequency on Slashdot.
I guess that's accurate, since there are zero lines of the Linux kernel in WSL.
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more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764939
The gap is irrelevant. It's the lifting that counts. The gap only becomes a problem when the top doesn't get farther ahead by moving up, they get farther ahead by pushing others down (often while their absolute material wealth actually declines).

This is a point of view I do not share. It is a common argument, capitalism made everyone better of. But I would argue the gap matters even if the lower is better of. The CEO making 10 million Dollar a year did not create that value, the 10,000 workers on the factory floor did this.

That are only 1000 Dollar per worker and it might not matter that much to each one of them whether they earn 1000 Dollar more or less. But he fact that the workers are the ones actually producing the value while the CEO is the one disproportionally profiting from that, that seems to me unfair and at least psychological more relevant than 1000 Dollars more or less.

I fully agree with all the arguments about taking risks when founding a company and so on and getting some compensation for this, but that should not be excessive. Taking a bit of money from many to become disproportionally wealthy is something I am not okay with.

And I make no distinction how it is done, whether you take it from your employees, or from your customers depositing money in your bank, or by investing your existing wealth and collecting dividends. Taking some money from many is no better then taking much money from a few.
Their expenses were over $900m, I don't know where you got $450m from.
Flexbox in 10 Minutes
This was the transformation that hooked me:

(transform (subselect ALL :a even?)
reverse
[{:a 1} {:a 2 :b 1} {:a 4} {:a 5} {:a 6} {:a 8}])
;; => [{:a 1} {:a 8 :b 1} {:a 6} {:a 5} {:a 4} {:a 2}]]

I'm solid with Clojure, and I am not even sure how to begin expressing this transformation without Specter.

Granted, it's not clear why you would want to do this in a real program. But I'm convinced about the generic power of such transformations and have little doubt I'd find use cases (albeit probably not this use case) in real code bases.
Those sorts of numbers aren't floating point, they're typically fixed point.
Biggest overstatement. Linux gaming, though becoming more possible, is nowhere near gaming on windows. Forget game availability, even most GPUs are not properly supported on most Linuxes.
Depends on what you do. Often managers don't even know so they just use "citizen" as rule to be safe.

Also worked for the military and we had a variety of citizens, non-citizens, green card holders and non-green card holders. We had to go through silly gymnastics on who can talk about what and work on what depending on their status.
Isn't that just a sales tax shuffled around?

One person's revenue is another person's purchase.
One way Snap is more like Twitter: the length of your messages are "artificially" limited. (Temporally in the case of Snap.)
Keyboard handling in iOS for optimal user experience
How would you ensure that the news service doesn't accept side-channel donations for the "right" news? How would you ensure that the news service doesn't keep telling the subscribers what they want to hear?
The data is stored in BigQuery and updated from GitHub weekly. I imagine they do a date range filter when they updated from GitHub
Old joke from the my University's math department.

Q: How do you apply to work for the NSA

A: You pick up the phone, call your mother, and ask for an application.
Well, since the NSA is actually in MD, you can be a bit more vague than that if you want to... It's technically not "In Washington" so you're not lying.
I always suggest Spencer Weart's extensively hyperlinked "The Discovery of Global Warming", available online from the American Institute of Physics: http://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm
I have lurked here for a long time but never felt intelligent enough or had anything worthy to contribute, until now.

When the article mentions AI (Or any other article/discussion), I don't think it means robots that walk around and greet/interact with you like in iRobot, I would say it means self-serve checkouts, like the ones already in Tescos or McDonalds[1]; or Automated cars/trucks that don't have a need for human interaction[2].

I think that is where the confusion lies with AI, it might not necessarily mean a physical entity.

[1]https://i0.wp.com/www.styledemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/...

[2]https://www.axios.com/heres-where-jobs-will-be-lost-when-rob...
I avoid a cigarette tax by not buying cigarettes. I avoid more property tax by moving to a lower property tax state. Will you jail me for tax avoidance in either case?
Huge transfer of wealth from low-margin businesses to high-margin businesses.

Supermarkets, for instance, have margins of about 3%. With a revenue tax they'd be completely boned. They could raise their prices, of course. But the bigger supermarket chains would be better off buying out their own supply chain.
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I believe they meant "runs directly on the browser without the need for additional plugins by using WebGL and WebVR".
Pretty much the same reason why there are a ton of carrier exchange points in certain geographic areas of the SF Bay area. Or why the Westin Building in Seattle and One Wilshire in Los Angeles have become the defacto carrier exchange points/peering locations. Large numbers of ISPs began accretion in certain buildings in the mid to late 1990s and the process has continued through its own inexorable inertia.
The government would be very disappointed to learn people weren't making decisions based on a tax system that's filled with incentives to change the way people conduct their lives and businesses.
If sockets are not available how do programs access the network?
This is a good book to read on it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LG92LYM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

It's a bit of both. Network providers were encouraged to build in the area to support government requirements lead by defense and intelligence. But that same infrastructure supports commercial. When Equinix built their exchange in the D.C. area to support those customers, it snowballed from there.

It also helps that the D.C. area has cheaper electricity than many parts of the country. And a major transmission line serving the east coast runs west of D.C. Fiber + cheap electricity adds up.

It's more than just Amazon that's out here. Azure and Rackspace have datacenters out here, as well as a large smattering of colos and smaller providers.
If you can't admit there is a huge overlap between mobile touch screen devices your are just being silly.
Absolutely agreed. I think the GP's viewpoint was widely shared by "The Elite" for the past 10 years and is what created the backlash that got Trump elected. We (and I use that loosely) have to care because the people who get displaced all care about their jobs. In fact, because this displacement is accelerating, we have to care even more than we would in the past.
The news service could have an independent accountant affirm that all revenue comes from subscribers. As for bias, this is not something I'm suggesting would be prevented. I'm only suggesting it would be a news organization incentivized to serve the readership and not advertisers.
NYPD Claims That Oversight of Surveillance Efforts Will Embolden Terrorists
I'm curious what you expect people to do and what you're doing yourself.

I worry about climate change and so do most of my friends but I see ZERO action on any of our parts. Example: Nearly all my friends FLEW to GDC this week, many of them that's a HUGE amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere just so we can have fun, network and party. Then we go to BBQ and hamburger restaurants and eat lots of beef which we're told we shouldn't because it's the biggest resource user for the smallest amount of food. Many of them upgrade their $!000 phone every year as well as several other electronic gadgets creating lots of electronic waste.

My point is, even the majority of "believers" won't change their behavior. At most if you're lucky they might start carrying their own bag to the grocery store yet still probably have 15+ pairs of shoes for "fashion" (yet another industry people claim is bad for the environment"

If the believers won't change their behavior what chance is there the non-believers will do anything?

If the only solution is "vote for a world government to geo-engineer the planet" well that's never going to happen.

Is the only rational thing to do, figure out where the new beachfronts will be and start buying property while it's cheap (like Lex Luthor from the first Superman movie)
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The presence of huge datacenter facilities in NoVA near Dulles greatly predates Amazon AWS/S3 or any significant Amazon presence online, except for its online store. Huge amounts of construction occurred prior to 2002. The fact that there's tons of dark fiber and it's easily trenched in green field type applications there is why it has continued. It reached a certain tipping point that a dozen square km of NoVA became the defactor carrier interconnect point for anything on the US east coast (outside of the NYC/NJ area).
> more people should be doing apprenticeships and attending trade schools

Wholeheartedly agree. Not everyone needs or should go get a college degree; it's oversold. Yet if you put them as an apprentice to a blacksmith they could get excited and productive in their trade quickly.
Bingo. I just hate it.
Yeah but he wouldn't need to get clearance to work for GovCloud.
Can you site the savings consumers have gotten, or guarantee them in the future to the dollar? And will you agree to penalties if the savings aren't seen?
That requires that you have board control. If investors control the board and you tell them to fuck right off, you will quickly find yourself out of a job.
Integrate with grocery stores. Hook into an API with Safeway, Whole Foods, etc. to know exactly what they have in stock so you never let a user buy something that they don’t have. Does such a thing even exist? Would Safeway be cool with that? No idea.

This brings me back...the year was 1999 and I had an idea for a comparison shopping engine. Online was easy but I wanted to include brick and mortar stores. I went door to door around UCLA asking stores if they could provide a real-time XML feed of their inventory. Most had proprietary POS systems that didn't even connect to the internet, some had export to Excel, but you'd have to manually send it out.

I wonder how much different it is now?
Apple's AirPod design (while more sleek than playful) is quite opinionated and beautiful IMO. It also shifts charging responsibility to the case.
This change is so frustrating, I can barely look at these blue links. What is happening in Github, did they just launched a new UED head?
There is no net gain, the number of jobs have only been growing because the market have been growing, but in the west the number of actual jobs are declining. In the US, 95% of jobs are temp jobs and the definition of when someone is said to have a job have been widened substantially since Bush. The number of new jobs created have gone down decade after decade since ww2
completely disagree...

why using a throwaway account? if you are going to dis someone, at least stand up and don't hide.

most all companies ignore emails upon rejection (at least in my exp), don't take it personally.

my experience with svb has been the complete opposite. the initial programming test was short and sweet, shouldn't take much more than an hour. they reached out a bit after i submitted the quiz.

i've had a chance to speak with the crew and they are a great bunch.
"vomit" maybe isn't the best word.

The point is they are able to in their head: compose the program, notice bugs, fix those bugs, possibly tweaking the design in the process.

Basically, they can prefect the design in their head and fix a lot of bugs all before starting type.
f() = (rand() + 1.0) - 1.0

and pray that your compiler isn't clever! Or you can actually randomize the fraction bits.
VS code has changed the way I feel about the editor landscape. It's been good for a while but the past three months have made it GREAT!

If you've not experienced writing type script in vscode, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's amazing
You don't have to contribute via github you would just have to grant the project the rights needed to use github. GPL Java projects usually have a classpath exception added, now github projects need GPL with github exception.
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What about organizations like NPR and PBS? It seems like that is as close as you can get to a subscription only news service that doesn't take advertising dollars. Their news reporting is really top notch.

Technically it's not a subscription, it's a donation. And technically they do make money with underwriting but I think user contributions make up the vast majority of their funding.
Integrating inventory across various grocery stores would be ideal, but it seems like a big undertaking not to mention it clashes with the shopping experience (e.g. customers keep items in their shopping carts for long times)

I like the idea of warehouses, though the requirement to stock items seems restrictive, kinda like when Google Shopping Express launched - it had such a small selection of products. One potential middle ground... why not use a warehouse/centralized location to aggregate the requested groceries, then have a separate system to dispatch the groceries to the customer? By aggregating from multiple grocery stores, you minimize the risk an item is not available.
I think you nailed it. I live in NYC and work too much, meaning I live and die by trading money for time. And every time I use instacart I regret it for the exact same reasons you describe.

The idea of hooking into some kind of warehouse management network makes a lot of sense. Does an API exist? Probably not. But there's an opportunity right there. Partner with a major warehouse management system, preferably one that works with Safeway or Stop n' Shop, and figure out a way to cut out the store visits altogether.

Of course this would mean automating away the shoppers :/.
It's a bit surreal.

You can now bring all this information and entertainment with you and it takes up less space and weight than any 2 textbooks I used at uni and people are concerned about an extra half kilo in-case they can't make up their mind if they want to play console games or watch TV that day on the train.

Of course their phone can do all these things as well but they need the bigger screen or something.
By 'here', I specifically meant this article.

If you don't want to read that style of writing, then I would suggest not clicking links with this style of title.
You're mixing up equal access to educational materials with an equal sensory experience. Giving sighted and hearing people access to educational materials that the blind or deaf can't access is discrimination.

The ADA also covers things like plays (classified as "entertainment"), and plays like Hamilton were sued for not providing audio descriptions of what is happening on stage. Movie theaters have to provide the same service to blind users and this also applies to Netflix movies and shows.

Restaurants probably wouldn't fall into the entertainment category, so they're not covered by the ADA.

For the "deaf and blind" scenario, most litigation is held off by the provision that says the establishment doesn't need to provide an accessible experience if providing such experience would be "unduly burdensome". For example, a blind and deaf man sued Cinemark for not providing tactile ASL interpreters for him (he communicates using sign language and by touching the hands of someone signing to him). The theater said it costs $60 per hour for an interpreter and a movie would require 2 interpreters, so $120 per hour is a bit nuts.

But audio descriptions and subtitles are not considered unduly burdensome - they're not that difficult and are basically seen as a requirement at this point.
That are different kinds of taxes. There are taxes especially designed to steer behavior away from discouraged actions or towards encouraged actions and there are taxes that are mainly for funding. That is certainly no absolutely sharp distinction and all taxes can at least at times be used to steer behavior, but income taxes certainly do not exist to discourage having an income.
Jesus! I'm glad people don't take that stand in other areas of science. If we did that 20 years ago we never would have found out that ulcers are caused by bacteria.

"Ulcers aren't caused by stress, they are caused by bacteria!"

"Heresy!! String him up!!!"
Unemployment isn't a good measure of the thing we care about. Two factors for this: the politicization of the statistic, and a more fundamental mis-calibration.

The mis-calibration is that unemployment looks at how hard it is to fill job openings - basically, it's the ratio of job-seekers to filled positions. When it's higher, there's more candidates trying to interview for the average position. When it's lower, there's fewer. This is a very distinct thing from what percentage of folks are productive members of society; the 40 year old mill worker that cannot retrain to a non-obsolete role ends up being "disabled" and not an unemployed job-seeker.

The politicization is why we talk about official unemployment numbers as they are measured rather than more rough measures of labor participation. The unemployment rate is used as a measure for the effectiveness of various economic policies and political entities, so those policy-makers and political entities have decided to talk about the ones that make them look good. Goodhart's Law in action, basically.
Why does every article on Racked read like a Patrick Bateman monologue, stripped of any sense of irony? It's as if aliens were writing about human society from the perspective of a banner ad.
Thats why we need single payer systems to take the place of UBI for everyone
Most 2 recent:

ASX:FLN - feel this has good long term buy and forget potential. Seems to be well run. I like the boot strapping style more than debt funded world domination and figure out margin later. Plus maybe a short term win if someone decides to buy. A well funded US tech/PE could buy this brand name up up and have it as a side note.

ASX:GOLD - Feel this cycles cliff is approaching...but dont have the guts to go TIVX of something more aggressive.
A lot of that technology relies of aerosols which would exacerbate the ocean acidification process. Get engineering is really hard to get right
Turner wasn't exactly beloved at Microsoft either, at least by the field sales people who reported up to him.
Where's the line?

In New York, a sliced bagel with a smear of butter is a taxable prepared food product. A uncut bagel with a side butter is tax free. Should I be a criminal for going the unsliced route if I wish to deprive the state treasury of $0.10?
there's a paradox here somewhere. ;)
Which planes are these? I've never seen an autopilot that could take off or land.

The people who need to know astrodynamics are those who plan the tour. They will encode all the maneuvers required before launch. In the exceedingly unlikely event that corrections need to be made, they'll be made by radio. Even if they wasted an $80M berth on a pilot, where would she practice twiddling the knobs?
Gates is worth $76 billion. US population is over 300 million. So if we liberated Gates of every penny he has, there would be a one-time payment of less than $253 to every American.

The rich do not have enough money to pay for everyone else to be on the dole.
Make files not war
In a perfect world where food distribution isn't affected by things like spoilage, lack of transport infrastructure, politics, trade barriers, diversion of food crops to biofuels, monopolies, war etc. etc., we may have an oversupply. In reality, it's not even close, given that yield increases in staple crops like wheat are beginning to flat-line, and population growth marches ever onwards (and millions are lifted out of poverty to the middle class).

The Green Revolution was through picking all the low-hanging fruit - hybrid crops and synthetic fertilizers. Increasing yield to match demand is already looking like an issue without the effect of catastrophic climate change. Other issues occurring in the next 20-30 years include encroachment of cities into prime arable land, land degradation, and increased cost/reduced availability of phosphorous fertilizers.

It's a massive issue that barely registers on the public conscience, and we may hit the perfect storm soon, particularly if a new nasty rust or plant virus pops up on the scene at the same time.