skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What they did was trespassing and theft in the service of shutting down political speech they disagreed with

The most fun thing about this is that the whole thing could very possibly not be really politically motivated. Speculating, they would have not been disagreeing with the (message of the) speech but instead just stirring some shit up for "fun". These are not people who support Trump because they think he is a good leader. Instead they enjoy the drama and chaos he creates. Saying that "some people just want to see the world burn" might be bit extreme, but that is essentially the mentality there.

Of course that might be also completely bullshit and this was done by actual pro-Trump people. I haven't frequented 4chan lately (thank god), so I don't know what the scene there is these days.
There is WebStorm and PHPStorm which is WS with PHP functionality - both professional editions are free if you have an edu email.
Show me a doctor who'd spend millions of dollars for me to not get a cure
> Nanobox doesn’t natively support Elixir releases yet, so I’m going to run the app with mix in production.

Is this still the case?
Yeah, yeah. Tell it to the judge.
Huh? Ecuador uses the US dollar and issues their own coins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_centavo_coins

Americans were able to trade fine in the past when a penny had far more purchasing power. Other counties will manage.
Archived copy that can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.fo/wM6HU
I want to echo this advice. One of my closest friends was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in his teens, having surgery not long thereafter. He began researching for ways to get it under control which led him to anecdotal evidence on the benefit of adopting a revised diet.

He has been vegan for almost a decade and has had no major problems since.
I believe other countries solve this by legally mandating fair rounding.
That 15 cents helps facilitate commerce, and the lifetime of a bill is usually more than a single transaction. It's not a huge cost unless people are destroying a lot of bills.
I feel the docs of Facebook are good enough and when I read some jsx examples I just map them to React.createElement in my mind.
I can't write about the code I use at work, I could possibly write at home but I have other priories at the moment on my free time.
As a European, I feel the exact opposite about the 1€ coin. I would much rather have a paper bill. The coins make my wallet heavy and tend to fall out far easier than bills.
That's timely.

I just had a discussion with the taxi driver on the way to the airport here in southwest China about education. He seemed to be suggesting that, given I spoke Mandarin and English, I would be well-regarded as a teacher. I had to explain that the type of thing I do is not really available in the syllabus of universities or schools in China, and that while I'd investigated opening one the government policy made it a prohibitively difficult and unstable proposition to run a non-standard syllabus. I arrived at the airport, and had a 10 minute wait to get in the door, because people were employed to manually wave an explosives-detection wand over everyone's bag. Entering the main hall, the flights display did not have my flight listed. I asked a nearby shiny sash-wearing airport employee what was up. She directed me to the right place immediately. Evidently, nobody had bothered to update the computer.

The manual-only (despite the zero luggage encouraged nature of the airline) check-in wasn't yet opened, so I went up to the F&B level, where I met some Nepalis en-route back to Kathmandu from studying computing in Korea who needed to change money to eat and couldn't, because the manual change bureaus weren't open. I then had a ridiculously bad meal ordered from a place where the lights were only half functional where neither the table nor environment were properly cleaned. During the meal, manual cleaners and their trolleys wafted about the dining area without urgency. After the meal I opened my laptop and had to go through a dated SMS code-sending procedure to get on the airport wifi.

Robots and automation would have improved the experience on so many levels, but I don't want the world to turn in to a shiny fascist utopia like Singapore. I'm literally on the way to the Pearl River Delta (Hong Kong/Shenzhen) on a project to build food-making robots - http://infinite-food.com/ - but the human question is a strong one and it unsettles me. In a wholly automated future, where is the sense of worth going to come from for the average citizen? Where does it come from now?

Somehow, after witnessing the miracle of transformation that is modern China (I've spent most of my adult life here), I can only believe that the human spirit will find a way, at least in this society. After all, on the grand scale of things, if we're all fed, clothed, housed, but simply bored... it's not a bad problem to have: onward to robotic noodles!
My .emacs file has been accreting since around 1988. It is a hot mess, I would be embarrassed for anyone to see it.
> I still won't trust SpiderOak with my data. Their service is unreliable and slow, their client is horrible to work with and their support is disgraceful.

Unreliable and slow completely describes my experience with both Backblaze (lost the data for one of my drives which unfortunately I learned after the drive failed) and Crashplan (the Java client brings my rMBP to a crawl when it runs). There has got to be a decent online backup service that's reliable, reasonably priced, and respectful of resources out there somewhere.

Two that have been recommended to me recently that I haven't tried yet but would like to are Arq Backup [1] and Tarsnap [2].

[1]: https://www.arqbackup.com/

[2]: http://www.tarsnap.com/
One of the core principles of the OOP is encapsulation - your object does not appear in inconsistent state to the outside world. So in sense of the OOP, object methods are all the functions that can have access to the internal state.

Naturally you can do the same in FP with modules, but honestly, how different it is from OOP then (considering that you can use some form of polymorphism)?

For me OOP and FP stand for abstract concepts, not as specific languages.
I have never met a doctor (and I think I know a higher-than-average amount of doctors) who wants people to be sick.
You can feed a dollar or three into a soda machine (or swipe your card) in the US
The penny lobby [1] is a front for the zinc industry. Mostly Jarden Zinc Products.

[1] http://www.pennies.org
> "and would gladly be put out of business"

But someone still has pay their student loans :)
Ah, I see - I'm speaking as someone from the US. I don't have the experience to speak to EU healthcare.
And is wrong about that.
would love to learn more whats your email and company
Basically the only thing I use coins for is parking meters and having a bunch of quarters in my car isn't a big deal. I don't use laundry machines. I don't know the last time I used a vending machine. I have a stored value card for public transit.

I do need $1-ish value cash for tips etc. from time to time and I don't want to carry coinage for that purpose.
The IRS already knows what taxes you owe. In most cases they could just send you a bill.
And yet Clojure immutable datatypes were written in Java.
Ask HN: Fingerless glove recommendations
My office is (a) cold and (b) windy. I sit under a huge industrial vent and I love the sound masking but after an hour I can't feel my fingers.

Can someone recommend good fingerless gloves for typing in extreme conditions?
boulous is app engine datastore the preferred way to store data or cloud sql or something else, do you mind throwing some light on this thanks
Or $650 which was my fee from H&R last year for one hour of service. (I own a California LLC)

Anybody know a good alternative? I'm thinking about trying TurboTax Self-Employed for $89.99.
When I visited India I found that one rupee is the smallest increment offered. It's very roughly equivalent to the American nickel. Even though cost of living there is much cheaper, the coarser grain of currency does not cause trouble.

When available currency has limited resolution merchants simply adjust their quantities to match.

Wouldn't it be nice to just pay 3.50 and get a tad more product than 3.37 and futz with the change?
The pharma lobby?
Alcohol and tobacco are heavily taxed many countries, with pretty low levels of incarceration for smuggling them. It doesn't seem to be much of a problem in practice. Also programs of decriminalisation of regulated drugs provision in several countries have been very successful. At this point, there's an awful lot of actual real world evidence that it really does play out differently.
Of course, you shouldn't need to pay anything. That is a false dichotomy.

The way tax returns are done is deliberately abusive to citizens. They'll chase you down if you owe them money, but not if they owe you. In that case you need to jump through flaming hoops every year to appease them. It's not a coincidence.
If somewhere the economy of a country is built on melting down pennies and making brass statues that's also not the problem of the US Mint.
Or use Credit Karma Tax. Completely free software assistance at any income level. (https://www.creditkarma.com/tax)

Disclaimer: I work there.
Another good option if you want to write Android apps in Lisp is lein-droid [1] which allows you to use Clojure on Android. This means you can use any standard Android API, library or SDK in your app without additional bridge components.

The initial build & deploy times for Clojure on Android are annoying, but using a REPL to edit your Android app dynamically is amazing.

[1] https://github.com/clojure-android/lein-droid
They are US$160: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods
What are you doing putting coins in your wallet? That's your mistake.

You're also highly unlikely to have more than 3 or 4 of those. If you have 5 just trade up for a bill. Most stores will be very grateful to get some change back.
Yes it requires a different container. It's called a pocket. Or a coin purse, which can be easily found.

And it saves space, both in the wallet and in my pocket.
When I was a kid we used to play with rusty galvanized iron and stray dogs. I would give my childhood a 10/10.
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Your state and local government would also have to send you a bill.
I think people are taking your comment too personally. It's not about an individual doctor, but the healthcare business. It's not about an individual lawyer, but the legal business.
The beauty is you don't. If you go to HR's website they basically say "click here to file for free!", and "click here to make an appointment at your nearest office"
great choice (I do the same on my jailbroken iDevices..
my usual go-to hosts resource is:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

block responsibly :)
I got stuck next to one of these in a 2 hour jam (something big was on fire 100 miles south of us) on CA I-5 the night before Thanksgiving 20 or so years back ... it was so obvious - large white unmarked truck, combat-style jeep-things front and back bristling with big antennas, full of scary dudes in fatigues and dark glasses - it was like something out of central casting - throw a McDonalds logo or something on the truck for heaven's sake

While sitting next to a nuke and not really knowing how safe it was was a bit scary the actions of the security dudes when people started getting out of their cars to stretch their legs was far more scary - they were actively menacing while trying not to give away why they were there or that the unmarked truck between their vehicles was in any way special (despite being stupidly obvious)
Serious question: Is it possible for society to criminalize rent seeking behaviors like this? It seems clear that there's no benefit to keeping the status quo tax filing system except for the benefit of tax preparers. What's stopping the US from creating a law that says if a company attempts to lobby for something in bad faith (like the tax example), they will face sanction?
192 GPUs eh. Interesting to compare that with the numbers being dropped in some of the Google Brain and Deepmind papers like 800 GPUs...
Everyone should be able to get his taxes done for free by the Government. I pay about $3500/year to get my taxes done and pay a _lot_ in taxes. Why should the 40% of people who contribute little to tax revenue get another government benefit?
Not entirely true. I have received money back on taxes that I filed with an error that resulted in my overpayment. So in a simple case, yes they will return money they owe you. But I would not expect them to file an optimized return on your behalf and you probably already know if you should be doing this yourself.
Yes, of course. Obviously if the IRS knows your income, knows you mortgage interest, interest on savings and dividends and it is all electronically recorded, there what is the point of filing. Only to keep accountants and tax software companies in business. I can guarantee you that if you file a return and copy the numbers in wrong from your W4 you will get a computer generated letter. I did that by accident once I transposed two digits in the amount on a 1099 and I got a letter from them that was computer generated. So obviously they are having computers check it, so what is the point of me wasting time and money on filing. The UK system (and many other countries) is obviously the way to go.
Doctors want you to be sick? - no. HMOs? - maybe.
Lawyers want you in trouble with the law? - no. Prison Corporations? - definitely.

People are generally good, corporations are evil by design.
I suppose you are speaking of a dime, since all the other coins are clearly marked with their value. It is odd that the dime doesn't say it's 10 cents. I guess it's just one of those cultural things that we are supposed to just know.
Anecdata at best. Rsq or gtfo.
I suggest this message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846800 which sets out Steve Blank's behaviour in practice. He appears to work by making demands he doesn't understand.
...so what?
> where "checks" are still used for ordinary transactions like buying groceries.

I've been wondering if there are statistics regarding the usage of checks. When I was younger almost every week I'd get stuck in line by someone very, very slowly writing a check. But I haven't seen someone write one in...well it must be at least 3 or 4 years ago and that was at some tiny store that didn't accept credit cards.

Do people really still write checks in a number that's in any way significant?
Many other countries solve this by just rounding the final price up or down regardless. So if your fuel comes to $100.02, all you pay is $100. If it comes to $100.04, you pay $100.05.

It works fine, no one dies.
For a moment I thought you were talking about half-cent coins.
The problem with phasing out nickels is you have to phase out quarters first and replace them with 20c.
If someone wants a house that doesn't have one of those things - one with a smaller lot, or less setback, or a smaller driveway, or no garage, etc. - and starts to build one, do you think they should be arrested and hauled off to jail? If so, why? If not, then please join us in voting for land use reform in local elections, since that's how things currently are in 99.9% of the US.
Better meetings
could you elaborate more, where does it say that your wife should make 80% than what you do?
Are you kidding? Very rare is the doctor with that kind of schedule.
I've got no interest in carrying something extra. I'm well aware of how to carry coins, which I have little choice but to do in the UK/EU. I'm very happy in the US to basically never deal with coins.
The 1st amendment.
im reading what your saying, nodding, then i think to myself... climate change is a partisan issue, gun control is a partisan issue, voter registration / suppression is a partisan issue... so i guess its very easy to believe that civil asset forfeiture will become one too, if some police forces decide its worth lobbying for.
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To get a law like that passed you'd need lobbyists stronger than the lobbyists representing that industry.

I would say every lobbyist in DC would fight any such law as it would directly threaten their industry.
Lack of price transparency is the fatal flaw in nationalized healthcare. I'm endlessly surprised it's not top on the list at every debate.

Lasik is an out-of-pocket procedure. It has the highest satisfaction rate of any surgery and the price has gone steadily down since it was introduced.

Should all healthcare be out of pocket? Maybe not. But if most consumers purchased most health services retail instead of via invisible negotiated prices, insurance would get cheaper too. (And until that happens, prices will continue to go up).

Medicare set a cap on the first 30 days post heart-attack care in the 90s and hospitals respected it -- but day 31 got a lot more expensive.
Probably that your proposed rule is so vague that it would be impossible to be enforced .
The problem isn't your preferences, but rather that so many people like you (I won't guess at your exact situation) express the same preferences only because so many of the significant downsides have been hidden by government funding models. That, and so many municipalities refuse to do the accrual accounting that would demonstrate just how quickly the suburban model bankrupts them.

Suburbs receive a level of service from public entities that is far in excess of that justified by the private investment there. They receive bus funding from State government that doesn't count against their school budgets. The roads and pipes reliably cost more than the houses they service.

There's nothing wrong with living in a rural house. But as long as money gets funneled disproportionately into these places, you should expect to have that decision second guessed. Plus, when all the suburbs finally have to face facts, delivering services to the suffering poor people left behind there will be an absolute disaster.

Of course, our laws regarding financing and building anything that increases density in suburban areas are hopelessly awful too. We have a sort of donut hole, if you will: cheap financing for suburban houses, and for large apartment blocks. But the logical increment of a 2-3 story building with first floor commercial is left out. Ask for a loan on that, and you'll be laughed out the door for your silly request for a non-conforming mortgage.
"Machine Learning Algorithms that Matter, like Machine Translation, Spam Filter or Cat Generation, will find its way inside a Web Browser." https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/834607972923748353
And they should keep using pennies but valuing them at the base metal value ...
Not as long as bad policy is good politics. https://youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I did the same thing but using an old netbook I had lying around. It lives under the house running Pi-Hole and a few other things. I wrote about it here http://www.boyter.org/2015/12/pi-hole-ubuntu-14-04/

No idea what power draw it has (probably $5 a month?) but I have a large solar array so I doubt it costs me anything to actually run. I also get to recycle some old hardware.

EDIT - Seems that post was linked to by the pi-hole project itself at some point. Was wondering why it got so much traffic each month.
Well, if you break your arm, what's the big deal ?

No, seriously ? Yes, you did break your arm, but I'm sure you can learn plenty of things in the process.
CRC32c -> I saw this many times fail to detect corruption on message lengths anywhere between a couple kB and a few MB. btrfs blocks are 16 kB iirc, so in range. The longer hashes of ZFS, Borg and so on mean that if it's corrupted I _definitely_ know. Not so confident with CRC32 from experience.
PayPal doesn't need FDIC insurance because it's not in the money lending business. In fact, to my knowledge, PayPal had no trouble weathering the financial meltdown of 2007, whereas many regulated banks went under and had to be bailed out.
Absolutely. What few people realize is that nations are competing with each other and this is a perfect example of how you can differentiate.

However, your options may be limited at present, or you may have "roots" where you are. If I was founding a nation on the water with Peter Thiel, or in space with Elon Musk, you can bet I would advertise quite loudly that this (and for example pharmaceutical price gouging) would be criminalized.

Today, well, put your votes into people who support it and/or be willing to relocate towards those politicians.
Supplier sent advertly sent not Waymo (Google)
Yeah, if they can check if I've paid the correct taxes then they know how much I should pay. Can't they just tell me?
Lets kill two birds with one stones and also abolish the horrific tipping culture the US has ;)
It looks like it lowers levels of folic acid, which is vitamin B9: http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/content.aspx?productId=107&.... Looking at the other articles for B vitamins on ADAM, it seems that only folic acid is affected.
Steve Blank's actual approach is to shout at people who bring issues to him ahead of time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846800
> Majority of work will be done automatically by some free jQuery and PHP scripts (hello Obamacare website)

Obamacare website was notorious for being completely terrible. And so were many other government-run healthcare sites - I personally tried to find some info on CA site when it was launched and failed for several days until they worked out the kinks.

And tax code is vastly more complex than what healthcare needs. There are literally hundreds of various exceptions, deductions, conditions, etc. Many of them inter-related or conditioned on other things. Did you every try to figure out how to use some of the IRS worksheets? It's no picnic. I recently tried to figure out whether I can deduct the cost of some home improvement I've made - took me several hours and I'm still not 100% sure I got it right. US tax code is insanely complex.

Of course, it may be that IRS has most of it already implemented and it may be that this implementation actually allows to produce pre-filled return (from what I've seen from IRS, it's not that easy, but maybe I'm wrong). Still, the project would probably have very significant cost, and unlike the commercial offerings, it won't be privately financed, and it would inevitably suffer from what many government projects suffer from - cost overruns, bureaucracy, wastefulness, choosing suppliers based on political clout, etc. It's not going to be free, it's going to cost a lot of money.

> Just exactly which part of information that IRS process is not already in the IRS possession?

Quite a lot of it. E.g. my charity donations aren't. Many of my other deductible expenses aren't. Education expenses probably aren't. A lot of small business income may not be. A lot of deals like selling non-public stock aren't.

I think you might have very narrow view of how complex a tax return can be if you don't have just "one/two salaries, standard deductions" situation - which btw many preparers offer to handle for free or near free already. That's not where the problem is. It's when it goes out of that simple case where the complications lie.

And yes, currently the simple taxpayers in some measure are subsidizing the more complex ones, by financing the platform that allows handling more complex cases with their money. However, I'd hate if I had to pay $600-$1K for my more complex case (that what it would cost to hire a tax accountant) instead of $60 or so I'm paying now for the software (plus hours of time reading IRS instructions of course).

Maybe Intuit argument is still bad, I don't know, but it's not as laughably bad as you describe it, not even close.
I saw a middle aged person buy groceries with a check a week ago.
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