skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has enough poisonous unions. (The German and Scandinavian ones tend to be more bearable on the whole.)

The US has a lot of problems, but what makes you think they need more workers' rights? A saner tax system would be a good start---so that eg health insurance and employment can decouple. (Right now, their employer provided health insurance is subsidized, so individuals are rationally stuck with that model.)
In the absence of an underlying vulnerability, it would seem pretty unlikely that stress alone would be sufficient to cause CFS. Many people have very stressful lives (including being refugees, being under regular fire, etc) without getting CFS.
Okay, so the resolution center failed to show the last 5 transactions. Seems like other people have this issue too...

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Payments-Archive/R...

That's sloppy of Paypal, but he could find the last 5 transactions himself from his normal history page, gather the required evidence and email paypal.
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This series might be interesting for anyone interested in a personal story of science at the intersection of research, speaking, travels, and family. Enjoy!
I have an autoimmune disease; type 1.5 diabetes, formally called LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults). I'm insulin dependent, like type 1, but the disease didn't manifest until my 40s, like type 2.

I suffer from moderately severe diabetic foot pain. My doctor prescribed some medication that provided marginal, at best, relief. About a year ago, I had a persistent fever. I took some aspirin to knock down the fever (I almost never took aspirin before that) and discovered that it provided significant relief from the foot pain. More recently, I had a bad cold, and I took some cold medicine that includes acetaminophen, something that I also almost never took before that. It seems to help even more than aspirin. I am wary of taking acetaminophen regularly, because of the warnings about liver damage, but it is something I am considering for those times when the foot pain is severe.

What I would recommend for people suffering from these kinds of problems is that they embrace the idea of Quantified Self. Start keeping a diary of everything. The things you eat, the things you do, and the symptoms you experience, in excruciating detail. Then start looking for patterns and correlations. Put the data into a spreadsheet, generate charts. Learn statistics, learn about correlations. Learn Bayesian Probability. You may be able to find the specific triggers that cause your symptoms, and maybe the things you can do (or avoid) to reduce your symptoms.
> ethical disobedience

Isn't this ironic. Basically saying, Your disobedience must be obedient to our criteria of ethics. Isn't every disobedience unethical to someone?

Typical 'better than you' attitude of elites, we know what the best kind of disobedience is, based on our narrowly defined ideals.
It's a cleverly designed affiliate link list for self help books at Amazon.

OP's account is less than a day old. OP's two posts are to the same website.
Consumer Reports said basically the same thing in 1972:

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU11....

And that was supposedly just paraphrasing something from 1967, although I haven't read the original.
> Paypals user agreement limits fund holds to 180 days

Search for the word "notwithstanding". It usually comes in the form "notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the rest of this agreement..." Remember that PayPal incorporates--and reserves the unilateral right to change--several policy documents into its agreements.

These agreements are necessarily complicated. They're also drafted by counsel working for PayPal. At least in the case of AML, I'm reasonably certain PayPal has to, under federal law, hold funds when it suspects money laundering. Unlike banks, which have their AML policies and definitions reviewed, PayPal is relatively free in constructing this policy.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone advocating the inclusion of people with fatal heart defects on space missions just to satisfy a goal of improved diversity.

There are a lot of people out there who want to become astronauts and are rejected because they're not healthy enough. The reaction is almost always "that sucks for you, maybe you could go into something related to space so you're at least still doing something related to your dream," not "NASA sucks, they're building weaker teams by excluding people they think aren't healthy enough for space travel."
I really really dislike when VCs make a pro-investor claim and try to hide it in founder-friendly terms.

Priced rounds are great for VCs because they remove all their risk. But they don't remove any founder risk. Do a down-round after a priced round and you'll wish you were just taking more dilution from a SAFE.

> "1. They defer the issue of dilution until a later date".

When the company is doing well, notes allow founders get less dilution, sometimes way less. This is great for founders, and is just about the only time in the whole startup thing where things go better than expected for founders.

If the company is doing badly, I'll take a lower conversion rate over having to raise a down-round any day.

> "2. They obfuscate the amount of dilution the founder(s) is taking. I think many investors actually like this"

He sets up a moral imperative: you're an irresponsible founder if you don't know what dilution you're taking. But I know what dilution I'm taking: it's X _or less_!! (Again, in a down-round I'm fucked either way, so the downside of notes doesn't matter)

> "3. I cannot tell you how many angry pissed off angel investors [..] they own a LOT less than they thought they did."

And here we get to the crux of the issue, investors own less. If investors own less, who owns more? Founders do.

> "4. Most importantly, we cannot and should not continue to allow founders to issue notes to investors and not understand how much dilution they are taking on each time they do it. This is WRONG."

"Silly inexperienced founders accidentally give investors a bad deal. This is morally WRONG". Needless to say, I'm unsympathetic to this view.

Look I understand why VCs don't like notes. But to pretend that this is a founder-friendly thing is beyond irritating (note: he's far from the only VC to do this!). And this is one of the reasons I trust YC far more than any other investors - they're in it to help people make startups and they argue for founder-friendly terms.

(PS there is a real issue in that inexperienced founders might raise too much thinking its free money, and then they get a lower cap than expected. But my only bad experience with raising with notes is that VCs treat it as a lower implied valuation when raising the next round.)
Yeah, that whole suite of tests that you don't have to write yourself (or, more likely, you were never going to write, if you had to do it yourself...) that runs automatically every time called a compiler.
Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Sure, but you only know that after the fact. Basically, talking about `risk' after the fact is a murky business. (And can invite a lot of philosophical debate about frequentist vs Bayesian interpretations of probability. And determinism.)
Agreed. We walked all our angels through a 3 scenario (low, goal, home-run) Series A pre-money valuation analysis using a calculator. Bit overwhelming for some but everyone appreciated the effort.

The biggest benefits of the note structure to us were a) Rolling close b) Not wasting time debating "valuation" when neither us nor the angels were capable of estimating a number with limited to no data.
"Before the Revolution, an audience was a made up of individuals who simply consumed what was projected; after the Revolution the audience became a collective, with an important role in completing what was projected"

This is hard a little much.

Please, pray tell, what would the Cuban's watch if they could actually chose what they wanted to watch, instead of being told what to watch, and how to watch it?

I understand the argument about scarcity and appreciation, and that is fair.

But: "Cuba has one of the last intact coral reefs and environmentalists are rushing to protect it; preservationists are holding conferences to discuss strategies for preserving Cuba’s material culture."

So the socialists colonialists now want to keep Cubans oppressed, in their 'natural state of oppression', like fish in a bowl? For the aesthetic benefit of who?

Has anyone asked the Cubans what they prefer? I mean - if they do enjoy their state of scarcity, would they not remain so 'image frugal'.

This entire piece reeks of the ostensible benevolent totalitarianism of these kinds of systems. Very scary stuff.
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>This is more of a liability issue then anything else

If this was true why shouldn't they also test for alcohol use?
Most of the food wasted is "ugly" food. It's not putting farmers out of business. It could keep starving people alive though.
I feel sorry for you. Truly. I have to say—and maybe you have heard it—but cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin precisely avoid this sort of horror story. When you receive a Bitcoin payment, no one can take the money from you (no chargeback fraud, no payment processor to freeze your account), thanks to the decentralized nature of the system because bitcoins are received directly into your local wallet.

Seek legal help to fight your case. And in parallel, look into accepting and promoting Bitcoin payments for your business.

Heck, Bitcoin is even becoming more and more popular among B2B business suppliers (according to BitPay CEO https://medium.com/@spair/the-bitcoin-fee-market-4df1857d12b...). So if you start receiving BTC payments from customers you may use them directly to pay your suppliers without even converting to USD.
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Yes, S3 was down for hours. Don’t make expensive decisions because of it
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How is it "quibbling" to point out that these emissions are not, in fact, particularly important to global warming? Are you saying that I should just treat all pollution equally regardless of its effects and ignore the details? I don't get it.

This is not some meaningless detail. If 15 ships emit more greenhouse gases than all the cars in the world put together, that implies that everyone working towards sustainable cars is putting their effort in the wrong place and that climate change activists who don't talk about big ships are idiots at best, and scammers at worst.

If, however, 15 ships emit more pollution of some other kind, that's quite different. Especially when the pollution in question tends to have relatively local consequences, and is mostly emitted in the middle of the ocean.
The article is titled "Green finance for dirty ships" - the misleading HN title (which doesn't show up anywhere in the article) _is_ the problem in this case, IMO.
A follow up as a point of reference:

The median home price in Plano, TX is $317,800 according to Zillow (March 12, 2017 https://www.zillow.com/plano-tx/home-values/)

One bedroom apartments in Plano rent for $956 a month on average and two bedroom apartment rents average $1293.
(according to RentJungle https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-plano-rent-trends...)

Plano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano%2C_Texas) is a suburb of Dallas-Ft.Worth where many people who work in the Telecom Corridor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor live. It is similar to the Silicon Valley and more generally urban areas in California but with much lower home prices and apartment rental rates.

The high housing prices are not a consistent nationwide pattern.
>A major difference is that customers can pay through PayPal from a PayPal balance whether they have a credit card or not.

Customers can pay through Visa whether they have a credit card or not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Electron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Debit

As far as I can tell it might be only USA banks that don't issue these kinds of cards as standard, in place of a bank card.
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Doesn't that indicate methane is the low hanging fruit? I guess that assumes it's the same cost to prevent / recapture 1 molecule of methane vs. CO2... But if the next 20 yrs are the most crucial, methane sounds like a great target.

seems likely; after that, technology will hopefully have stabilized our energy sources
Oh interesting, it looks like Joel on Software recently got an update. Apart from cosmetic changes, there are now a number of recommended reading lists to help you find articles you might like.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/#reading-lists
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In case it's helpful to anyone who suffers from CFS I want to share a treatment which enabled me to recover 100%. It's called the Lightning Process:

http://lightningprocess.com

The theory is that CFS is caused by long term anxiety which sets off biochemicals such as adrenaline into your heart and bloodstream. These chemicals suppress your immune system and reduce your energy systems.

The treatment aims to switch off the source of the negative chemicals i.e. stop the anxiety. The methods are a mixture of self talk/coaching, posture changes, recognizing and confronting sources of anxiety and setting clear life goals to work towards a place of feeling less anxiety.

The LP was recommended to me by someone who also recovered from CFS. I'd say definitely give it a try if you are a sufferer of CFS, chronic anxiety or similar illness.
Also, most users aren't really aware what's using up the resources - only that their computer gets slower with time. I actually wish Windows would start naming & shaming applications - e.g. by showing a balloon when the system slows down, that would say that application X and Y are consuming most of the resources.

As it is now, CPU, RAM and storage usage are perfect externalities for developers. The result of their abuse is user frustration, and reduction of the number of things people can do on their computers. That, and wasting user time. Unfortunately, there's no way that would make the developers suffer costs for wasting user's resources, so the only thing that lets us have lean software is engineering competence and human decency (both of which seem to be in short supply).
It really bugs me (and has for a while) that there is still no mainstream linux filesystem that supports data block checksumming. Silent corruption is not exactly new, and the odds of running into it have grown significantly as drives have gotten bigger. It's a bit maddening that nobody seems to care (or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places)

(...sure, you could call zfs or btrfs "mainstream", I suppose, but when I say "mainstream" I mean something along the lines of "officially supported by RedHat". zfs isn't, and RH considers btrfs to still be "experimental".)
You're bolting on an optional, incomplete compiler to make up for the shortcomings in the environment.

I jist can't deal with the sloppy wild west way Javascript world works.
Probably the most common skin condition in humans is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatophytosis , aka ringworm, aka athelete's foot. I'm guessing by this point you've eliminated that as a possibility by treating with over the counter topical antifungals?
True but then the ships will just register in the next ship registry haven, ships, however, need to dock in busy ports, Rotterdam, Yokohama, Singapore, Shanghai, etc.
There's a somewhat related book by Deepak Chopra called The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
What if the surviving pool killed the other pools? In the absence of that one surviving pool, there would have been another. Or maybe even more?
Improvement isn't debt. Interest on debts is a direct transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves.
Besides health insurance: retirement pensions, short-term/long-term disability/incapacity, unemployment benefits, reasonable notice periods and severance pay, parental leave, ... all these things are a given in Germany and in most 1st world countries.
Probably on a steeply declining trajectory.
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Okay, your film example was super-interesting - but you touched only on "reverse" with it.

Look, as far as I can tell these terms are your own. If you could, would you please give more, illustrative, examples - I know it's hard to do. Like, with your film example.

I'm not looking for a list of domains like "comic fandoms, legal concepts, anywhere where there's significant amounts of hidden context to uncover". This is just a list of all sorts of things.

I would request for you to please walk through exact explicit examples of each of your "-verses". Make an example up and show me the insight. Be super explicit with a specific real example, if you can.

I am on board, due to the example you just gave with "reverse" and films -- meaning, "everything else the filmmaker could have put there." So I'm on board and you have my interest and attention.

Meticulously walk through the other "-verses", while staying with real, specific examples. Try to work hard to make a genuine example that grants insight. I'm sorry to make this request (I'm on board with everything you've written), but I find your abstract definitions too hard to follow. Instead of a single example (like the United States), if you would give specific examples that really give insight (as you did with film above) it would be helpful. Thank you.
The i915 drivers are dual-licensed BSD/GPL and the amdgpu drivers are MIT-licensed, so this isn't a concern for x86 systems.

The main area of concern for GPL in the driver space is that some of the ARM GPU drivers are GPL licensed.

From my perspective, it doesn't matter too much whether a GPL2 kernel module is in base or ports. I'm not a license purist.
There was another thing that CoffeeScript provides that I still missed a couple of years ago when moving to ES6/7 only projects. While ES6 provided a lot of conveniences from CS, like destructured params and a terser function syntax, it couldn't remove anything.

I've never intentionally used JS == comparisons in any code I've written for work, but I've still had to deal with code written by others that did. CoffeeScript eliminates the possibility entirely by only having a == operator, and it works like a JS ===. Similarly, CS won't let you leak a var to global scope by forgetting to declare. Every variable is local by default and if you don't want that, you've got to explicitly set window.someVar.

In short, compile to JS languages have the advantage of being able to eliminate foot guns rather than just tack on new features. ES2018 probably isn't going to get rid of any. Even extremely dangerous and mostly unused keywords like with will remain because of backwards compatibility concerns.
I very recently (as in this was resolved about 72 hrs ago) was in a a similar situation where I had $20k withheld by PayPal.

I would switch all of my business billing to stripe in a second if they had the ability to pay out to accounts in different currencies like I can do with PayPal.

Despite the fact that I run an Australian business I usually bill in USD but because I travel so much sometimes I'd like to have it in EUR or GBP etc for practical purposes. However with Stripe I am forced to convert it into AUD before I can do anything at all with it meaning I usually have to eat currency conversion fees twice before I can use it in a practical sense. Hence PayPal sadly....
- ClojureScript I forget and it is good alternative, but it doesn't seem to be on the rise either

- I have not seen anyone using ScalaJS

- These two are probably fine alternatives to do frontend for Clojure/Scala shops, but outside of these circles, they do not seem to have much traction.
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If you scroll down on Reddit (and especially HN), there is usually a top comment providing missing context.
Same here. Most people tend to downplay risks "because they're big", but there are alternatives and it's worth missing a few opportunities for a lower risk.

E.g., I don't go to USA conferences because of the TSA risk, people find it funny, yet I keep hearing horror story after horror story. For Paypal, though, people take the risk unknowingly because they aren't aware of Paypal's reputation, which is more understandable.
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> but it works depressingly well

I dont think it "works" though. paypal can withdraw funds from your linked bank accounts too. I think you would need to create an LLC , open a bank acct under that LLC, then sweep funds out of that LLC account to be "safe".
It almost seems like the message of NA was maliciously designed to induce hopelessness and defeatism, the exact opposite of what would help a person who needs optimism and confidence to make a change that might seem scary.
"The poorest people are rural whites and southern/inner city African Americans. "

I don't agree.

There are very large numbers of Central/South Americans who come to Cali, largely unskilled, and they occupy the biggest part of the economic underclass.

Think of how many are not even 'on the books'? I'd argue it's very difficult for an undocumented person to make that much.

It's not a 'moral' statement, it's just a reality of the blending of people from different civilizations in one pot.

Large scale migration from poor countries will definitely be a factor.

And as one commenter above noted - the 'weather' does as well.

Nice weather attracts more vagabonds. This is true in Canada s well, BC has way more street people than Ontario where it's extremely cold and extremely uncomfortable for street people in the winter. Again, not a moral statement. Just fairly rational human nature.
>in many parts of the state, $30k/yr just isn't enough to rent an apartment and cover the basics

Oh no, I can't afford beach front property or a mansion in Beverly Hills on $30K a year? Poverty!

http://www.apartmentcities.com/Los-Angeles-Apartments/Los-An...

15 pages under $500 in Los Angeles.

>and worse off than poor in the developing world.

So you won't mind moving there and living on a local salary, eh?
Google isn't going to "kill" Python 3. This is a relatively niche use case (grumpy only converts Python 2.7 code into Go code, and it's not 1:1 as it's missing features like decorators), and there doesn't seem to be any intention on adding new Python features into grumpy. My guess is that this was made more for Google's purposes of migrating some of their legacy Python 2.7 code to Go, in an effort to move towards Go internally. It also doesn't run Python code directly, it trans-compiles Python to Go code, which wouldn't work for some workflows. For this to have any possibility of becoming another Python runtime, it would at the very minimum have to support every feature or have a real reason to not support the specific feature in Python 2.7.

The other thing, arguably more important, is that there isn't really a community around grumpy, whereas there is around Python 3 (the latest nontrivial commit was 3 weeks ago for grumpy, whereas the latest nontrivial commit was 6 hours ago for Python). Even if Google did try to build a community, many people worry that Google will just abandon software when they want to, so people would be hesitant to work with this software long term, which means developers wouldn't want to build any software for it; the majority of developers developing new Python code are doing it in Python 3, and those that aren't are most likely using six rather than only 2.7 unless they're supporting a legacy codebase that either they don't want to or cannot upgrade to Python 3 or to upgrade using the six library.

Python 3 may, however unlikely, "die", but this and Google won't be the death of it.