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This is a common fallacy, which hurts the ability to reason usefully about problems like those in this thread (regardless of where you fall on the "size of government" issue).

The fallacy is in imagining it is meaningful to separate money (earned or otherwise) from the system of government it was generated in. Your ability to "earn the money" is fundamentally tied to this system, and if you change one, you change the other necessarily (not a comment on the direction of the delta). Thinking about the economy as a thing that exists on its own, and the government as an institution that just "takes away" from this is just nonsensical.

The statement "It's not as if with government we have more money" is quite likely a category error. After all the ideas of money and the ideas of government are so deeply intertwined in their evolution that people haven't managed to separate them, ahistorical thought experiments in common introductory economics notwithstanding.

For what it's worth, I am sympathetic to some of the arguments you are heading towards, I just object to the sloppy thinking variants of them - which are the most common, unfortunately.
I'd also rename Droplets => Servers or Instances, and add a link for actual Notifications.
> That, and tipping is akin to having paid servants

It feels like that because that's what it is - American tipping culture has its roots in slavery.
At least in my experience, "bad neighborhood" more often than not simply means "black people live there."
What's left to be done?
> Doing your virtualdom or form validation in assembly probably wasn't a core design goal

It wasn't part of the MVP, but it most definitely is a design goal for future iterations. See: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
> One of the most evil parts is /etc/nsswitch.conf that injects at runtime arbitrary shared libraries implementing various parts of GNU C library. That leads to proliferation of undocumented file formats and protocols that are hidden behind library interfaces.

Are you opposed to dynamically linked libraries in general? Or do you simply oppose using them for name resolution? And how would you propose implementing NIS, LDAP/Kerberos, etc. without them (and without recompiling the libc itself)?

> For example, Linux still does not have a sane DNS resolver interface that is useful without GNU-C library. With move to containers that lead to many issues like inability to resolve link-local names etc.

Valid criticism. But that's not the GNU peoples' fault, IMHO - I mean, they have a working libc, it's not their fault that containers don't work with other libcs. (Or do i misunderstand you?)
Uber should pay it, yes, but they aren't. Further, not paying it is unlikely to make them go under - in fact the reverse. Charging more, or giving more to the drivers, will take away from their profits. Conversely, not paying their drivers enough will at worst cost them drivers moving to Lyft. Until this is a problem, they won't change.

The only parties that take advantage of the driver are Uber and yourself; if Uber is unwilling to take up the mantle of proper pay then the responsibility falls on you. The question becomes: does the driver have a right to be payed properly? Or, in other words, if the driver is willing to work for a lower pay, do you have a responsibility to pay them more? Some would argue that it's a free market, and that if they don't like the pay, they should find a different job. If you believe in a minimum wage however, you should make sure that all those under your service recieve a reasonable wage.
I dont like articles that bait and switch. The title says "into the woods" when it should read "squatting in vacant cabins: how this homeless man lived off other peoples' supplies and shelter for a quarter century".
Then you fail to activate one of the most important aspects of community building when people post comments, which is people feeling like they're participating and making a difference because other people respond to them. Take that engagement away and you're going to have a hard time building a user base.

The problem isn't that any given aspect of the annotation problem is unsolvable. The problem is that you can't solve them all at once to build a successful system.

Recall that I said I've been "watching this space" for 18 years now. That's no exaggeration; I was the first to hack Third Voice back in the day. It's not like people haven't been trying. Speculating about how it might work someday is really kind 10 or so years too late. In 1999, theorizing about how cool annotations might be was adequate. In 2017, a theory about how cool annotations might be needs to not just explain how they might be cool, but why all previous efforts have failed, and why yours might succeed. That's a much higher bar to leap now.

And one obvious solution is to trim away bits of the problem, but you end up in the local maximum of "link aggregation site with comments" pretty darned fast.
It sounds like tiping is a regressive tax against lower class "suckers".
Even as the very cautious spender I'd imagine I have wasted at least few hundred dollars between me and spouse just since new year. So at large scale even larger wastage does not look inconceivable.
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It's a pity that HN can't appreciate self-deprecating humour like this.
Other countries have solved the problem. Also there's a lot of other instances where US impossible to crack problem is solved... Not meaning to bash, but it seems evident. Other cultures just aren't so much into cut-throat competition, it's just not that fun.
Out of all of the virtual hosts, I would have pinned Digital Ocean's to be the most simple to navigate.
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tldr; We've all become patrons of the arts through micro-transactions.

Ten years ago, I donated regularly to charities that would enable micro-funding for people living in third-world countries. A $10 donation would buy some chickens for a woman in South America, who could turn a profit on the eggs and eventually pay the loan back. I thought it was a fantastic idea.

Today, I find I'm funding everyone's projects. I pay a $2/month for a serialized zombie radio drama I listen to on my morning run. $4/month contributes to one of my favorite weekly science podcasts. $4/month to Amazon gets me unlimited streaming music on my Alexa. I think nothing of paying $3 for a phone app I might play once or twice before getting distracted by the next shining new thing.

Culturally, even without this micro-funding, we are swamped in culture. My DeviantArt feed overwhelms me with more amazing art than I have time to appreciate. The same is true of books, shows and films both professionally-made and independent. As a result we are drowning in culture, but dividing into micro-cultures as individual. Twenty years ago, everyone had the common cultural experiences of watching the same shows and movies. Today, we no longer can take those common-cultural references for granted. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just an observation.
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There was an article on HN front page recently showing how this feature is at best unreliable. I don't have the link but the story was from a teacher asked about a US president being a member of the ku klux klan.

Way better, and I believe where google got its inspiration, is duckduckgo instant answers: https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html
I had this exact reaction to the graphs that also showed:

1. Movement from Postgres to MySQL

2. Movement from Mariadb to MySQL (and NOT the other way around?!?)

3. Movement from PHP to Java (I remember the sort of people leaving Java for PHP 10 years ago, and I don't think they'd go back, or that PHP people would pick Java as their choice to move to)

I think maybe he has the axes labeled wrong?
I don't know that to be generally true based on both my experience in the industry and those people I know still in it.

There were certainly places I worked where any credit card tips were declared for tax whilst cash tips weren't. This is one reason why staff preferred cash. Similarly in some places cash was distributed by shift whereas cards were distributed monthly based on hours worked.

As a final point, the idea of tipping the person directly is not consistent with anywhere i've ever worked. Even when distributing at the end of a shift, everyone would have put tips in the jar to be shared between staff.
> think about how almost every private institution that built that infrastructure went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the taxpayers.

Did they really, though? "Have to be" bailed out I mean. They were bailed out, yes, but... just as a thought experiment... perhaps we should have let them go under?

Edit:

Going bankrupt implies either mismanagement, failure to lower cost and increase margins, or the market does not value their service.

If it is the first two, going bankrupt will potentially allow them to sell off their assets to new management who might do a better job. If it is the last one, then they should be shut down.

All the government bailing them out does is prop up bad management and artificially lower prices at the expense of the tax payer having to pay them on the other end. (me paying for half empty train cars even though I haven't ridden a train in years)
When they released the initial paper a few months ago I looked into it and it sounds like this wont be profitable anywhere except the highest levels (although obviously the highest costs are in the training phase).

This in combination with casinos already doing a lot for bot-detection makes me think that we are at least a few years away until this is an issue.
Ask HN: What does a typical day look like for you?
Also, could you please specify what's your "job title" and for how long have you been doing it.
They still can do that. The only difference is that they would then sell the numbers to be used online, instead of running as fraudulent card-present transactions.
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Reading this sitting at a table at APS March Meeting is absolutely surreal.
Actually, there are - most(all?) of the popular algorithms play in somewhat specific ways that are somewhat detectable (or at least flaggable).
> Interesting that the original article doesn't mention this 2005 study.

But it does and even links to it. (As does the article in folli's link.)
i think 65 with a sheet is within the optimal sleeping range :) i should have quantified, <60 = cold
If you drive for Uber could you partially count the depreciation of your car (for the miles you drover for Uber) on your taxes? At least then you'd get some benefit in the form of a reduced tax bill that could offset the losses.

Landlords use depreciation to have low taxable income despite being cashflow positive. I don't see why Uber drivers shouldn't be able to. They're making business use of a physical asset (their car).
Cute toy but it will never be able to...what I can do....

says everyone that lost their job to automation.
Well the problem is when someone scrapes ALL the good listings then pre-purchases them for resale at double the cost.
I know you're probably joking, but would this actually work? I know it dissolves teeth.
One thing I haven't seem come up in discussions or media coverage about this is that the heads up game is entirely a different thing than playing with 5 other players.
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Granted, GMO labeling requirements are essentially a "give an inch" scenario. Since there is no logical reason why GMO would be the deciding factor between safe and unsafe versions of a plant (especially since the resulting plant is tested in the same way as common produce), it really seems asinine to require the labeling. Requiring GMO labeling legitimizes hooplah; and opens the door to labeling requirements for almost any dumb, irrelevant characteristic of the product. This also introduces tonnes of new requirements up and down the supply chain, it's not just about labeling at that point, because now you have to be able to prove that you don't need the label.

Then there's the problem of the commercial code. If you say it's GMO, so that you don't get sued by GMO paranoids, then you could be sued by sane people for selling goods of a different description than the one on the label (by just saying it's GMO to be safe).
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Web apps have been a pretty good way to bypass the app store for quite a while now, and Apple/Google don't seem to have a problem with that. Heck, Google is even taking steps to integrate web apps more deeply into Android so that they're almost indistinguishable from native apps: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/02/integrating-progressive-we...

WASM just means these apps will be faster, with closer-to-native performance.
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Microsoft's Cortana is allegedly going to support Alexa skills real soon now.
What sort of computer are you viewing it on? On my mac and ipad the colours work very predictably, but on my work Linux box (which has absolutely no colour calibration) I see huge changes round the red and purple areas of the h slider.
Plans for the death of the Queen
Maimonides always amazes me. What an incredible position to advocate for in the middle ages.
I just looked at a few of the problems and these are really well designed. From what I've seen, there's always a clear progression and a way to get partial credit. Plus the problems themselves are interesting and non-obvious.

So honestly I think that this is a great exam. The only problem I see is that 5 hours of exam work in a single day is a bit much, even with a one hour break in the middle. It's probably a logistical problem though, with many prospective students being in town just to take this exam...
But they can and do (or did) advertise the convenience of not having to tip.
I didn't actually say Go is better than Java. I said that binaries were something I realized I missed because of those languages. That is, it's something I appreciate about Go and Rust.
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Introducing Sportal.

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Please try and send us your feedback and reviews.
Have you been outside the US? You are living in the USA bubble.

Go to a 3rd world country and you'll understand what government corruption and waste is.
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I'm using latest Chrome and it's not happening to me. I have UBlock Origin installed but also tried with it disabled and still no issue.
Now turn it around. What is money? Money is someone else's debt. Money is a promise that someone else will go to work for you in the future to pay it back.
I'd really like to hear some specifics on this. What kind of job descriptions do they have? Roughly how many are there? Are they executives, managers, or individual contributors? Does this only happen in bonus form for extraordinary performance, or can new hires start with the expectation of comp at this level? I regularly hear stories about non-executives getting 7 figure paydays in trading and investment banking. I hear stories about non-executive tech people getting 7 figure pay days due to startup liquidity events. This is the first I've ever heard of something like this at an established tech company.
I haven't seriously tried Kotterknife, anko (been meaning to!), or KBinding (hadn't heard of it before, will check it out) -- I'm currently enjoying the Kotlin android extensions for referencing views inside custom viewgroups.

I use field injection to pull in instantiated Picasso/Glide image libraries and to create/bind to persistent view presenters (it's a Mortar/Flow based app currently). I'm not sure if this is best practice or what but I feel reasonably comfortable having image loaders in the view (when those image loaders do their real work off the UI thread of course).

Speaking of Kotterknife, I'm actually in the process of migrating away from Butterknife as I slowly port the app over to Kotlin. Butterknife is immensely useful for Java-based apps, IMO, but the Kotlin android extensions provide most of what I need and Kotlin's syntax largely takes care of the boilerplate I was avoiding by going with BK in the first place. I do miss string/integer/other binding but it's not so bad and, IIRC, kotterknife doesn't provide that anyway -- I explored adding it [1] but I didn't enjoy writing all that code and ended up giving up.

I forgot to mention another use-case for lateinit: junit tests. I use lateinit in the test class when testing code that uses constructor injection. This is probably less controversial because it is just tests, though.

[1] https://github.com/dpkirchner/kotterknife/commit/39dda1965ee...
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Oh OK, yeah that's how I interpreted the GP as well, so then I still wonder how the steps described aren't the default or even just blindingly obvious to the point that doing anything else is weird. I mean I can see when someone is drunk and is annoying, but apart from that.
For what is worth, heads-up is a very popular game, and from reading the paper, the approach should more or less be applicable to 6max or full ring, except it will be way more computationally expensive (but not unfeasibly so like before).
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so can you use greasemonkey to follow links, load new page, parse new page, just like a headless crawler?
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Does these Dabbas require maintenance? How do you plan to handle that? What if some dabba is down for some reason unknown the chaishop walla? How are you handling these repair requests?
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What's wrong with British spelling? It's also the English spelling using in India, Australia, New Zealand etc. By pure numbers, more people may spell it defence than defense. Americocentrism is quite annoying from the other side :)
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I'm old enough to remember the death of Diana. That was huge. Took over all four channels(+) for a week. Has taken over the Daily Express for the past 20 years. The Queen Mother's death was also a pretty big event. The Royal family are very popular especially among people who, shall we say, aren't liberal-internationalist.

The death of the Queen happening in the next few years before Brexit and possibly the breakup of the UK seems unlikely but would really accelerate the sense of chaos.

(+) I had to go back and check this; Channel 5 was actually launched 6 months earlier, but we couldn't receive it in our house at the time.
Team/Environment seems ok, great pay,

Stick it out.

Save money, learn as much as you can, do interesting things at and outside of work.

Plan what you want to do in the future.
> arbitrary rules

How on earth were the rules arbitrary? These guys were exploiting and abusing backlinks to boost their page rank.
Two reasons, beyond the sibling comment's notes that it's currently impossible:

1) You can't integrate it with the Javascript GC for interacting with the DOM and other JS-side objects

2) Now you have to distribute the GC with every app that uses it
Hopefully not long
> Scroll as slowly as you want/can. Tell me, do you think that this is a good way to communicate to Sara why this problem is of importance? or even better, do you think Sara will ever give a shit if all she can see is that?

"In all cases, a product of simpler objects is obtained."

That right there seems like a fairly well-stated explanation of the importance of factorization. As long as you're able to understand that a formula can be composed of objects, which I honestly don't think is that much of an abstraction, the very first paragraph (and in fact the very third sentence, the one that immediately follows two easy-to-understand examples of things that can be factored) tell you that factorization lets you express something in simpler terms.
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async/await is possibly simpler to implement. At least: in go effectively every method is async (at least the api doesn't show what is and is not), and that means you can't afford the inefficiencies that typical async/await implementations have because you'd be paying them all over the place.
It looks like you used 3500m as the radius when 3500m is the diameter.
>If it's indeed a byproduct, it follows that the amount of culture generated is directly proportional to the bandwidth/speed of that communication.

I agree that the mediums of communication of a society have a significant effect on the culture the users, but is "culture" something that can really be objectively quantified?

Perhaps it may be more accurate to say that the speed in which a culture lives is related to the speed of communication.
I suspect it is in part because there are typically fewer top level comments than non-top level comments and all things being equal the best comment is likely to be a non-top level comment.

I think it is in part because, while good questions are good, good answers to good questions are better.

I think it is in part because a top level comment is more likely to be low quality. It is where spam is most likely. It is where users with less interest/skill at engaging others in discussion are more likely to post. It is where drive by comments will park. It is where generalized trolling will take place. It is where conspiracy theorists will show their tin foil.

Good luck.
It is not. The greed of the consumer prevents raising prices. Not advertising the true price is the new scheme.

Tipping hides the true cost of services by forcing the customer's guilt on the ability of the employee to make a worthwhile wage.

No tipping restaurants have to have higher prices and the hyper-price-conscious consumer will defer to the cheaper ones. You could make a quality argument, but on equal terms the no tipping restaurant will lose. It is because it has not hidden its true cost of goods and services like the tipping resultants.
And I'd like to point out that tracking is very effective even with no JavaScript at all.
That study was mentioned and linked to in this thread's article. Quote:

>It may also be, as a 2005 study in The Journal of Family Practice showed, that people who are exposed to cold are more likely to report symptoms, even if they aren’t actually infected more often. Perception, and even potentially a belief in this explanation, may contribute to its longevity.
Without the actual numbers, it might be that one person from the unchilled group got sick and two people from the chilled group.
There's the transportation and distribution cost on grid-scale that's currently low, but as the generation costs go down, the fixed cost of owning the land, building and maintaining power lines will occupy larger piece of the pie chart.

Residential has zero transportation cost, post-installation, and I think those solar roof tiles SolarCity pre-announced is an attempt to blend the solar installation costs into the roofing costs. "You are paying the roofing guy for labor and materials to build/replace the roof anyway, so why not pay our roofing guy to build/replace the roof, and get solar as an incredible bonus" is I think their marketing strategy with that.
hahah I know, right! I have such mixed feelings about this. There's no changing our actions during the cold war, and we should certainly better understand what happened, but doing so to help future makers of nukes? Very unsettling to say the least.
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I don't completely disagree, but if these clinics are anything like the "nutritional supplement" racket (e.g. mannatech and others like them), then there's no informed consent. There's a lot of lies and promises about completely unproven bs that unlike the supplement market, is much more dangerous.

While the field may not need full blown regulation like the regular pharmaceutical industry, I'm guessing it needs something more than what exists now.