skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point I was trying to make, so I will try again.

[edit: I had a longer response but realize it opened up a bunch of side issues that weren't helpful]

The economy and the system of government it operates in (yes, including black/grey markets) are fundamentally intertwined in ways that make it hard to reason about separately.

What I'm objecting to are statements that boil down to:
"If we all paid X less tax I would have X more dollars which we could do as we please with". In general this is hopelessly naive.

For what it is worth, both your examples of failed states and cryptocurrrencies (which do not, yet?, operate as currencies) support exactly what I am talking about, not the converse.

The attempt to divide an conquer in thinking about economies and government is useful but so far not completely successful. When it leads to people making silly inferences, it is problematic. So yes people talk about them as if they were separate, because it is easier. But that is not the same as having separated them.
> Taxes do not finance the US government. The US government creates money to finance itself.

Source for this claim? I've never heard this before and it sounds quite absurd.
> 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.

Let's call a spade a spade. It's for tax evasion purposes. That's the reason that the IRS assumes that you make 15% tips on everything if you're a server. (Otherwise people would never report it and to caught the large amount would never be recovered)
It seems like you have omitted the scenario that seems most likely by dint of the evolution of the internet: not needing a government at all.
Where do you get the 46B ly radius from?
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The Scrapy cloud alone is worth it. And it gives guidance, making the start very easy.
> I see news as a way to give them an introduction to the subject.

Very little news actually does that. Watch a TV news program, or read a newspaper, and try to imagine what the call to action is on each story. For most stories, there isn't any, other than "Worry more!" or "Resent these people!" or "Get annoyed!".

> Though, I agree it doesn't seem to work well in practice. I wonder what could change to make that happen.

Build a source of news whose fundamental premise is "if it doesn't have a specific call to action that people can act on if they care about it (and that in practice people do actually act on), it doesn't get published".
I'm no marketing guy so please excuse what may be some naive questions
prompted by his how-to-pay page. I gather that tiered pricing is
considered good practice, but how effective is it to use a jokey, edgy
and possibly sarcastic or insulting tone when explaining the rationale? Does it not undermine his professional credibility, or is there some new trend in this area that I'm unaware of?

Is it a good idea to tell people how much to pay based on how much you
think they should be able to afford, or is it better to let them
decide for themselves with just a little subtle help? I'm thinking of
how Apple sells iDevices at several price points separated by big increments for small increases in memory rather than
directly asking people how rich they are.

On a related note, if you were in charge of a budget for acquiring
books on behalf of an organization, would you be able to justify
spending any of it on a web published book like this one with no hard
copy? Would it raise any eyebrows to opt for a higher price tier with
exactly the same offering as a lower one?
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Exactly. There is, from the perspective of being able to digitally preserve it, an essentially infinite quantity of film, audio, and paper in all forms sitting in vaults, archives, libraries, etc. around the world in various states of deterioration. We collectively can (and should) make an effort to preserve significant properties but it's almost certainly unreasonable to think that even a small portion of existing physical artifacts can be digitized.
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I have the same "cold" allergy. I can walk into a room that is 10 degrees F cooler than, say, "normal indoor temperature" and if my quads/thighs are uncovered (shorts, for ex.), I will immediately start sneezing.
It's not elitist to dismiss polynomial factoring, though, just dismissive. I really can't think of any reason to care about the deeper points of polynomial factorization (anything other than repeated trial division), so maybe it's just ignorance on my part.

Stats? Now there's math you can use and is useful in understanding our world! And yet schools prefer to teach calculus in high school over however much stats you can teach without calculus. No one uses the integration bag of tricks in daily life, but everyone gets lied to with numbers.
I mean, if the U.S. had not created the nuclear bomb, odds are high that Germany would have. At the same time, the U.S. was prepared to do a full invasion of Japan with 250,000 troops, expected casualties at 100,000 U.S. troops. My grandfather was on a boat off the coast of Japan when the bombs dropped. I may not be here now if we did not drop the bombs. I know it's all relative, as somebody would be here today that is not in Japan. But still.

I tend to blame human nature for the destruction of our own selves, not the weapons we do it with. One way another, humans will kill each other, nuclear or not.
This sure sounds like sour grapes to me, arguing that a faster, or true quantum computer will be built in a few years that will out preform Dwave's current system is pretty weak sauce. After reading this article I can't help but see the similarities between this article and the recent attack posts against uber that seem to be the flavor of the day. DWave has built and sold several functioning systems and this is what most likely puts a bullseye on them for people to take cheap shots..just like the Uber haters. Regardless of whether or not DWave has built a true quantum computer, or if the next conventional computer will be faster, they are doing it now, they have found the more effective algorithms and they are pushing the envelope. It's always easier to criticize and whine than stick your neck out and try something new and innovative and articles like this one show that even if you do succeed in those endeavors the haters are going to hate. The one part of the article that I did appreciate is the mention of Geordie Rose who was one of DWave's founders and the fact that an ex wrestler founded such a cutting edge company may speak volumes to the need for strong willed people in unicorn type companies to fend off then nay sayers before they even get off the ground.
My wife will usually finish a romance novel in 2-3 days if she doesn't have much going on (exams, interning, self-care, etc)
I like the evolutionary analogy. I agree that the global nature of internet communication will most probably lead to a homogenization effect. Truly distinct cultures will soften over time. The lack of diversity would reduce the output, but by how much? I see it as a second term in the equation we're (informally) discussing. A negating factor to be sure, but I think the net result will still be in the positive direction.
The aspect of human nature in this story that I least understand is why we're so ready to pay cheaper base plus value-added costs for a seemingly infinite variety of processed foods made from a very small set of basic ingredients, instead of a higher base with no post-processing costs for a seemingly infinite variety of natural foods at what might be the same grand total cost, and better sustainability. Maybe modern life gets too chaotic, and people want the comfort of reliable sensations in their food? I dunno... I can only speak for myself, as I get excited to see new produce varietals in the supermarket. Maybe others just prefer the new brand variations of junk foods.
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> In a normal conversation you don't have time to access a word in a dictionary.

If you haven't the heard the word up until that points, odds are pretty good that you might not have needed it.
I use Java with simple task queue and multiple worker threads (scrapy is only singlethreaded, although uses async I/O).
Failed tasks are collected into second queue and restarted when needed.
Used Jsoup[1] for parsing, proxychains and HAproxy + tor [2] for distributing across multiple IPs.

[1] https://jsoup.org/
[2] https://github.com/mattes/rotating-proxy
I'd be much more willing to sign on with subscription services if I could access and manage all of them with a single sign-on and payment scheme. (Basically like how a la carte cable service would work.)

Right now I just don't want to be getting billed by a bajillion different people for all the content I consume. It's an administrative hassle.
some issues:
- massive information asymmetry b/n company and applicants.
- companies are different. why conform to standard "job types" like "data scientist", "software engineer" etc when a potentially custom tailored description would do a much better job?
- In technical fields the "non-technical recruiter as the gate keeper" model breaks down.
- There are many issues if you really dig in.
My understanding is, yes, you can deduct the IRS per-mile (54 cents per mile driven) as a business expense, which will reduce the amount of taxes paid. At least one Uber driver I rode with told me he did this. In fact, not doing it would be missing out on a huge tax benefit!

Example 10-mile trip: 1.25 base fare + (10 miles * 1.15 per mile) = 12.75 * 80% (driver's share) = $10.20 revenue - 5.40 deduction for mileage = $4.80 revenue reported. For somebody in 20% tax bracket, this could yield $1.08 in savings.

Although using the per-mile deduction negates the ability to deduct line item expenses, such as gas, car washes, etc.
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I don't think it's uglier than the sedan but I wouldn't call it beautiful. VW makes really nice wagon versions of its golf (or Jetta depending on the year) and I don't see why Tesla couldn't have done something similar.
You don't need to know Japanese. Each question is available in English on the page following the Japanese version.
I found a torrent and made sure the hash matched that on the MS website. I cant comment on the w10 non-LTSB as i've not used it, sorry.
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I catch most colds when the weather is humid, so the cold air can creep underneath my clothes.
All three problems descriptions use all three scripts. I think problem 2 uses a heavier font, for no clear reason. The English version is the same. Maybe the problem maker submitted it as bitmaps rather than Latex source.
"why not work for someone else" -> Mostly because they have no choice.
Rousseau said the same thing in his book Emile.
I had considered that possibility as I was writing my comment. The irony is rather amusing.
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HCL keeps the perceptual uniformity and I think is friendlier than L\a\b\*.

Almost any color scheme you choose which has enough
lightness contrast will tend to look okay, especially if
you avoid picking colors which are outrageously colorful.

Solarized[1] is a color scheme that did that and I think it's great.

[1] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Ask HN: Your most controversial comment?
I'm all for intelligent comments that deserve nothing but praise. But from an anthropological perspective, I think the comments that receive both up and down votes are interesting - and something that only visibly manifests in people's replies.

I've noticed a couple times when I comment that my karma will oscillate quite a bit, and I'm wondering if anyone here recalls (and can link to) one of their own comments that really split the community?
Why not apply and find out? I mean, 'YC probably will not accept the company' as a reason for not applying is available to everyone because most companies will not be accepted.

More specifically, based on Graham's essay, [1] there's not a correct formula for getting into YC and the application process is not a test that a person can study for (though preparation probably is a good idea).

Good luck.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/before.html

Good luck.
> "if it doesn't have a specific call to action that people can act on if they care about it (and that in practice people do actually act on), it doesn't get published".

Although I kind of agree with you, what about problems that don't have a clear, actionable response by most people? Although those are probably rare, I'd personally want to know about them and decide for myself.
In addition, it's really not that hard to add the equivalent of "apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt autoclean" to every dockerfile.
For anyone who is interested, this is the original discussion on hacker news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884532

I also created a youtube video to explain it a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyapXTwGyr4&t=2s
Isn't pure Kotlin a much more unlikely scenario than pure Scala?
Kotlin devs certainly take pride at every opportunity of how much Kotlin piggybacks on Java, cf. collections.

I think you can't have it both ways, having a worse abstraction for handling errors while claiming that it works better with Java code and then claiming that "pure Kotlin code" is where the more interesting case is.
Even better would be a ρ (rho) shape!
Agree. And if financial markets are working properly, the risk of disaster should be priced in, affecting the cost of raising capital for growers and giving them an incentive to plan alternatives.
My experience getting offered relates to southern/midwestern states, TN/NC/GA stand out to me, and the drivers I've met/spoken with who did this most regularly operated in areas of Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs specifically.

Although I have also experienced this several times in the upper Midwest. I suspect there might be some bias in my physical appearance that makes me get offered more? Several drivers had a sort of setup where they had goods in a box/console and opened it to make the offer, so it seems likely that if they didn't feel a fare to be the partying type they would simply not make the offer? One I saw had an entire cooler setup.

Another possible explanation could be that in very competitive areas like LA or the Bay the rank/yank system cuts out bad drivers more quickly than middle-america where there is maybe not as large of a pool of people applying to be drivers?

I have never had a bad or sketchy ride in Bay/NYC/Chicago/Dallas. (I have had no experience with Uber in LA)
I feel like the economy as a whole has been hit by this pattern. Call it "disruption","creative destruction", or whatever, but the general pattern has been that supply has gone up (it's never been easier to create content) while demand has remained constant (only so many eyeballs and so much time). Back then you could grow smoothly since there were always new people to reach, and only so much content for them to read.

With the internet we've also sort of fostered a society that expects some content (music, blog posts, etc) to be dirt-cheap if not free, especially if it does not meet ever-increasing standards. This again leads to a race-to-the-bottom style market where you have to outproduce others to gain a following that might be willing to pay you something.
Presumably so they can share the workload with other tasks, like boot verification or low power sensor listening. The M3/M4 are still very small cores.
~800-300 BC generated most of our surviving major religions (the major exceptions being Christianity and Islam, but both trace their origins to a religion that was formalized and created or finalized [most of] its canon in that time) plus the beginnings of mathematics as we know it, our earliest writings that are kind-of science and that often represent the founding documents of entire fields of study, the foundations of basically every major field of philosophy, the study of history in something like the modern sense, et c. It was a period of awakening for modern humanity from China to the Mediterranean.

Admittedly that probably can't be attributed to any one technology or idea, but I'd put that as a solid contender for a third entry in your list.

[EDIT] for a fourth I'd skip some of the other suggestions in this thread like the Enlightenment or Renaissance, and instead add The Printing Press.
I really like the Starbucks model, where you add the tip after the fact. If the drivers doesn't know who tipped them, then they would be nice to everyone.
Strange stuff happens in the wilderness. Strange beasts sighted. People disappear.

Some say that it's because what we call "reality" is, to a significant degree, conjured into being by our collective attention. So the edge of the collective (civilization or whatever) is the edge of reality.
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In the future buildings and factories should be constantly monitored and controlled from the cloud. But most of these assets are currently controlled from on-premise control boxes/computers called BMS systems. If you start a company to integrate the data from these systems (many manufacturers, many formats, many proprietary) and pipe them to the cloud and put a unified control scheme on top, you could potentially do really well.
Ask HN: Dealing with forgetful users without access to their email
One of your users forgot her password and has no longer access to her email (because she signed up with a email from a company she no longer works at, or she has been hacked).

You can't authenticate her, you only have some data about her that is easy to find out: Name, email, last 4 digits of credit card, etc. You have to make a judgement call so you can be social engineered.

I am wondering how frequent are these edge cases like this, and how do you deal with them.
In the example they themselves use, I doubt two identical twins would be considered part of the same organism in human world...
>Doesn't publishing information on a public web server equals to granting authorization to download it? Why publish it otherwise?

This is the argument that there is an implied license. The counterargument is that the user agreed to the Terms of Use which explicitly defined automated access as violative. In addition, these cases generally begin with a cease and desist demand letter, which explicitly informs the allegedly-infringing party that the publisher believes their rights are being violated and that they must cease and desist immediately. If the TOS argument doesn't hold, the C&D will surely qualify as a revocation of any implied license to access the content for copyright purposes. It generally also serves as explicit notice that the publisher considers the accessor to be "exceeding authorized use" of their computer systems, which is a crime under the CFAA. In Craigslist v 3Taps, the judge also commented that needing to circumvent IP bans should've made it obvious that 3Taps was "exceeding authorized access" under the CFAA.

>And copyright laws are supposed to protect only creative works, not every page on the web.

Copyright law protects all works of sufficient originality. Pretty much the only thing it doesn't protect is a plain list of facts (and in the European Union, it even protects that, known as "database rights"). The minimum standard of originality for copyright protection applies to practically every page on the web, yes.

In effect, this means that you can copy a list of names and addresses from a phone book, but you can't copy the layout. Since you can't access a web page without making a copy in RAM, if the publisher has revoked your license to access the content, even accessing and extracting the raw factual information within the body of the page is an infringement (because your RAM copy is an infringing copy).

IANAL and this is based on my layman's understanding.
good candidate.
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And I share my Go reservations with you, given the whole error-handling (or lack thereof) philosophy as well as information emerging that it may require 100 lines of Go to do roughly the same amount of work as 20 lines of Elixir or Haskell, according to one example at https://medium.com/unbabel-dev/a-tale-of-three-kings-e0be17a...

(Although I concluded the Haskell-Elixir equivalency myself based on functional semantics)
Well that's interesting. They seem to be arguing that the bank angle is super high, causing the planes to pull massive Gs just to land or take off, and that's terrible.

Even if it's true all that means is,

(a) planes achieving takeoff instantly have better than stall speed in the open air and can safely get up and away from the city,

(b) planes landing can come in at any angle, have infinite space to negotiate a decent landing and no specific window to hit as far as retaining enough runway, plus the landing speed is significantly higher than stall speed in free air. That directly improves the controllability of the aircraft.

The guy's right, this would work just fine. Even without a bank and increased G forces, it's not a bad idea, but when you include the reality of the banking increasing takeoff/landing speed over normal stall speed, it becomes a slam dunk. Very good idea anywhere you can afford to build three or more runways in your airport.
Some languages and frameworks are simply too new to have a significant number of people moving away from them. Go and Vue fit that case. MySQL looks genuine, even if surprising.
Pluggable parsers, automatically good error handling and spidering functionality (finding and queueing new links to scrape), great logging, progress stats, exports, pause/resume functionality, and a million other goodies that are seemingly "trivial" but really you don't want to rewrite them every time you write a scraper.

edit: Especially if your scraping jobs take a LONG time - days and weeks, this stuff is extra handy. Might I add a great debugging environment (scrapy shell), error handling, rate limiting, respecting robots.txt, so much more.
Spot on,anecdotal evidence ahoy but I'm a contractor so I move around a lot in the last few years I've worked for a government department, a mid stage medical startup, a late stage startup, a large corporation, and a very new startup.

The efficient ones have been the smaller companies in everything from decision making to process. The gov department and large corp are Kafkaesque nightmares where getting an account is a 3 page form and a 5 day SLA.

At the medical startup I was given a laptop and asked for a PR by the end of the day, at the large corp I didn't get a laptop for a week and even then I didn't get logins (yes, logins...) to the code repo for another week.

Governments are inefficent because they are made up of lots and lots of people, same as large companies. Everything needs to be triple checked, rubber stamped and have all people in the chain cover their asses because if anything goes wrong it's very important not to be anyone's fault (but it's definitely someone's fault. This isn't a blame free post mortem here!)
hah i do the same thing. even with audiobooks. i feel like anything higher than 1x feels weird.
I live out west. It isn't that hard to start going in a direction and not see anyone for days.

My brother volunteers for Search and Rescue (Search and Recover most of the time). If someone dies in the desert, because of the sage brush and other grasses, you can easily walk right past a body and not know it (assuming there is no smell)
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This. I use uber over other ride share services and taxis because I know what its actually going to cost up front and I wont be pressured to tip at the end.