skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i can't imagine how it's possibly worth it

Let's say you're one of three (or five) major creators/distributors of said coin. a third (or fifth, or whatever) of a thirtieth of all the pound coins in circulation doesn't seem worth it to you?

> As of March 2014 there were an estimated 1,553 million £1 coins in circulation

A fifth of that would be ~311 million pounds.

Let's say you're one of fifty or 500 counterfeiting rings, that's still £31 or £3.1 million. Even if the process for counterfeiting cost a million pounds to acquire (probably much less), it'd still be £1M pure profit. The numbers for both cost and slice of the pie probably scale down to a bunch of small-time counterfeiters, but the margin is definitely there.
I hate tipping because the rules are arbitrary, random, and unspoken. I have a few friends who work as servers in restaurants: anecdote, but they view anything under 20% of the bill total (including tax) as a "bad tip". This is partially because credit card receipts only include the total, not the tax separated out. So really, anything under around 22% is a bad tip.

I tip 22% for full service, 10% for partial. If I go to the bar, I tip 10%, or a dollar/drink if I'm paying cash. If I'm ordering takeaway somewhere, I tip around 5%. I have no idea which of these are reasonable or not, because there is no "tipping class". I have no idea if places I regularly go like to spit in my food because I tip like shit.
This was fun to look at from a novelty perspective as a native application developer.

Q: Should Rust be considered a noteworthy web backend development option, or is there just not much community activity for that?
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

The takeaway that's quickest to explain is that the best things in life are priceless. You might be surprised how few $ you can happily live on.
App i use on the daily base
Do city police departments have access to the FBI facial database or do they have their own?
> It is a continual frustration to me that the male-dominated tech community is so bad with these issues

Is it? The implication is that tech is worse than other professions in this regard. But it has never been compared to other industries full of young people.

Color me skeptical but I don't believe that a field full of introverted immigrants with language barriers would have a bigger harassment issue than the business/sales/administration fields that are full of extroverted Americans and frat boys.

My experience is that the diversity in nationality in the tech field has made it difficult for in-groups to form. Whereas in-groups form more rapidly in fields where people come from more similar backgrounds (fields with higher American %). When not part of an in-group, people engage in less risky behavior.
Is It Ever OK to Sell (or Buy) a Kidney?
This is like when people talk about the AI. The AI will do this, the AI will do that...

The AI doesn't exist. People will make it. That is when you know what it will do.

If we make the union, we can make plenty of reasons and ways for it to be different. Whether or not those result in a difference, is not very predictable.

Our day jab is literally understanding, predicting, and building complex systems out of ideas. Why would we be unable to make a union with a reasonable - even likely - chance of not developing the same problems these (much) older unions have?
Whether the server is free / open source software is irrelevant to the matter of privacy with a VPN. It's running on someone else's computer, so you have no way of proving what is running, or more importantly, what isn't running - the service provider can run OpenVPN and also tcpdump, both of which are free software. You need to trust the provider not to monitor your traffic, and perhaps not to be easily compelled to monitor your traffic on someone else's behalf.

(The same is true of Tor exit nodes, incidentally, and it's very easy for an intelligence agency to run Tor and tcpdump.)

If you actually want a VPN, one of your best options is to use a commercial service that has a reputation to uphold. Some fly-by-night "non-profit" is probably a front for a miscreant running tcpdump. (And there is no conflict with a commercial service running open source code, as I'm sure you know!)
I'm curious as to the source of this data. While the conclusions seem to match experience -- smaller # of seed deals, higher quality deals netting more money, longer time to raise, the truth is that overall seed investing is dropping significantly. That's what I don't see here - overall numbers. Also, how is this location dependent? Tomasz is in the Silicon Valley area, and Silicon Valley will always have metrics in deal size and quantity that don't match other regions. From what I'm seeing, angel / seed rounds in places like Boston, NYC, DC, Austin, Chicago, and some other places are dropping precipitously. It's looking like a major retreat right now from investing in the highly risky startup asset class.
You can correlate traffic without the middle node thanks to timing and packet sizes. You just need the entry and the exit nodes.

Hence why they introduced entry guards. To make things a little more difficult for an adversary that manages to bring up a lot of nodes.
I love Netflix, but they really need to invest in some more depth for the UI.

Let me curate my own lists and my own history per profile, including removing stuff from dynamic lists. I don't want to have to go into my account settings (something only the account owner can do) to remove recently watched items from my account history and then have to wait 24 hours for it to actually happen.

Let me build new lists and manually dump a tv show or movie into them.

Let me search all offerings, sortable and filterable alphabetically and/or by release date.

Let me view my profile's total viewing history if I'm interested. Even for titles that are no longer viewable on Netflix. A neat feature would be to group these by title. So you can show just "The Office" or "Game of Thrones" or "The West Wing", which can be expanded to a list of seasons, each of which can be expanded to a list of episodes, showing which ones I've watched and which ones I haven't.

--- --- ---

As enjoyable and useful as Netflix is, the fact that it still remains essentially a completely non-customizable list of "what's popular" is just incredibly lazy on their part.
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. -Sun Tzu
"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter." -Paul Graham in "What We Look for in Founders"

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

There's definitely a sense in which Kalanick's "boundary pushing" is the sort of thing Silicon Valley encourages.
If I recall, this was a core idea in Godel Escher Bach. Is meaning inherent to information, or do you always need a compatible interpreter (eg. a human mind)?

Messages don't exist by themselves, but are layered. Eg. To understand that a radio signal is a video I need to also understand video protocols, RF communication, etc.
I will say, a lot of the feedback in the article does come across as, "don't manage people poorly".
The designer/engineer identity and personality disconnects are definitely a big part of the story of Javascript in the last five years.

SF (design) took over as the bleeding edge when Javascript finally burst on the scene, and Palo Alto (engineering) faded.

The interesting thing to me is the amount of identitarian-style thinking that I see around the arguments in technology (macs, linux, javascript, etc.) where it is obvious that in-group/out-group factors nearly completely dominate discussions, rather than technical issues and trade offs.
The first one has that metallic sound that is a dead give away. First falsetto is quieter than the second one, and you can really hear as he increases the loudness of his voice, the metallic kicks in https://youtu.be/450p7goxZqg?t=1m27s

Second one has a "Cher moment" almost straight away, just after "wandering the desert a thousand days" the following "mmmm" has a glissando between two notes where we clearly hear the hard edge on what I assume is an auto tune lookahead. I don't actually know how they work, I just assume there's a lookahead for the next note approximation which makes glissandos sound funny. https://youtu.be/M8uPvX2te0I?t=31s

The last one I can't really fault for too much autotune, more a lack of it. The bridge is especially intense https://youtu.be/E0oyglKjbFQ?t=1m51s
Here's a link from a comment a bit further down the thread: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/uber-true-cost-uh...

If you really want to go down the rabbit hole I'd recommend reading this series on nakedcapitalism. They're at nine parts now:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?s=can+uber+ever+deliver
Take a look at http://markojs.com/ and http://markojs.com/docs/installing/

test.marko: `<h1 on-click('callMyFunc')>${ input.hello }</h1>`

component.js: `class { callMyFunc(e) { console.log(e); } }`

...gets compiled to test.marko.js which can then be require'd or using a special runtime loader or transformer. It hits a nice sweet spot for me, and is worth checking out.
I had the same issue but a manual reinstall wasn't necessary. I believe the problem was that in the developer > profiles menu there is a certificate for beta updates that needs removed. Something along those lines.
This sounds amazing! What's blocking you?
So while maximising paperclip production, it should also manipulate the stock market to bring down the price of black leather pants?
How We’ll End Up Merging with Our Technology (NYT)
>I don't there is a legitimate argument as to which provides the superior gameplay.

I think you're conflating graphics and gameplay too much here; different games need to communicate different things. If anything, well made 2D games, because of their economy of expression, possess superior legibility once you learn to read the sprites.
I was more answering the question in the clickbait-ish title then trying to summarize the entire article.
Its just a guide, and DO guides are one of the best floating around. You can use any provider; the pre-reqs is literally 'a' server running Ubuntu.
> This is where the EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere extension comes in handy. It will make sure traffic to non-HTTPS websites is also encrypted.

Is it just me, or this paragraph is completely wrong?
HTTPS Everywhere's job is to HTTPS when available but not explicitely used.
I don't want to speak for my wife, but she has been actively involved in Girls Who Code, and seems to have thought that it was worthwhile. As I understand it, it's more about letting girls know that programming is an option, rather than being about segregating female engineers. I think this is necessary because I have personally seen the assumption that men are engineers and women are support people limit the careers of women who were more accomplished and competent than men in more prestigious engineering roles. From my perspective, there's a lot of bullshit mythmaking in programming that plausibly dissuades many, IMO disproportionately women, from approaching the field, and which seems to have a tendency to funnel women to less prestigious/respected roles tangential to engineering.

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> we're both pretty standard-issue silver-spoon white Midwestern liberals

I can see why you would draw that conclusion, but your assumption is pretty wide of the mark in my case. I grew up very poor in the deep South.
The first subway in New York City cost about $100 million per kilometer in 1900 (adjusted for inflation of course). The new subway line being opened this year cost $2.2 billion per kilometer. This is despite over a century of improvements in technology.

Here's an interesting HN post, "Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11736696 In that article is a statistic that three fourths of the square footage of Manhattan was built between 1900 and 1930. If a freak hurricane somehow destroyed New York, we would be literally unable to rebuild it. For both cost and legal reasons.

Someday soon we might be like the later generations of Romans. Living amongst the great crumbling structures built by our ancestors. Wondering how on Earth they could have achieved such things.
Doubt that, Uber became a company that's popular to hate, and any negative news on the company is going to get a lot of eyeballs.
It's been there for a few years (at least on major updates and new devices, might be first time they've asked on a minor update).
I do know this Larry person, but outside of the Drupal project and alternative lifestyle subcultures.

I would not be surprised at all if everything he wrote is absolutely true, but key details are omitted.
Dismantling the permit raj in housing
self-assurance is probably the wrong descriptor.
True, but remember this is New York City.

In the original article, when the crane was first used on jobs and word got around about it being less expensive and required fewer operator man hours, his job sites were picketed by unions. There were anonymous calls to 311 reporting violations but when the inspectors got there, they didn't find anything wrong.

In my mind, I'm skeptical and it could have been the cranes or it could have been union influence.
Does anybody know what they’re using to render the equations? I know that WebKit has MathML support, so maybe they’re using parts of that codebase? It would be neat if they released some APIs in iOS/macOS.
> The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 14-14B lays out the wage floor for its operators at $73.91 per hour. That’s $150,000 a year before overtime, plus benefits equal to $32.50 an hour. When the operator is behind the controls of a tower crane, he gets a $2-an-hour bump. On weekends, when cranes are moved, pay doubles. With overtime, many union members earn half a million dollars a year.

And they don't have to take their work home with them! Wow, I'm in the wrong line of work.
REBOL was first built by Carl Sassenrath, who is probably best known for his work on the Amiga operating system. REBOL was cool, but happened when a half dozen similarly cool languages sprung up that also had the feature of being free and open source (while REBOL was proprietary and cost a little money).

REBOL had some novel ideas, and some shortcuts for some particular types of development making for strikingly concise code in some specific cases, and overall a nice design. I think it's neat that there's an OSS implementation, but I have so many other things on my todo list that I've never done more than give it a glance. I just don't see how I'd make productive use of it in the kinds of projects I do (given interop requirements I have).
Parts of UK that voted for Brexit may be hardest hit, study finds
I'm a fairly conservative guy, but reading this I cannot help but think Dries is the problem. So, Larry has a kink that is consensual that has a community and is not against the law. I'm at a loss if he hasn't harmed anyone and done anything in his speeches at the various Cons why this is a problem. Which brings us to:

While I will not share the evidence that I believe would validate the decision that I made for reasons of liability and confidentiality

Is pretty much the new "I don't have to justify my decision, it is right, and you don't get to argue" phrasing. You get to kick them out, and everyone gets to use their imagination about what further nastiness occurred. Also, they cannot fight back effectively.
Alternatively, you could play a well-designed game. There's no shortage.

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame
The site is hugged to death, so I'll just be that person who makes assumptions based on the headline, and writes comments without reading.

Assuming we're talking about the game, my favorite fixes are anything that increase player autonomy, interaction, and decision-making, and decreases randomness.

My favorite variations are probably old-hat to many players, but they include allowing completely unregulated deals between players (e.g. loans, swaps, etc.) and allowing all players to bid on every single unowned property that a player lands on (sometimes with some kind of addition such as the landing player getting the right of first refusal at twice the price, or something, but never simply letting them purchase at face-value).

The second rule -- putting all landed-on properties on the open market -- really allow people to try out different strategies, whether it's trying to buy everything at the start, no matter the cost, or trying to be more cautious with money.
>If he wants to perform for children

have jontron or pewdiepie ever specified that they produce children's entertainment? i keep seeing this argument brought up but i don't see how it means a hell of a lot on an open* platform with effectively no ratings guidelines. plenty of 14 year-olds used to read big brother and watch baker videos and i can guarantee you they are interfacing with far more suggestive content on a regular basis, but none of these things would be considered to cater to children even if they were the largest demographic of consumers.
Got it, I can buy into the argument that pro-rata voting rights would lead to better performing companies than founder-controlled companies (in the long run and on average).

But, I don't see any reason why founders should be obligated to give away voting rights.

In other words, I would argue that if founder CEO's want that level of control, they SHOULD get it.

It's sort of weird to even phrase it as "get it". They already have it by default, and I don't see why we should have any right to force them to give it away.
Start here, and expand outwards in related searches:

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

Saying "C-level's orders" doesn't carry anywhere the same weight as "software engineer's orders". Given a technical decision, what weighting is the CFO's decision given over the software engineer tasked with understanding the problem domain? I deliberately chose CFO because it is a common refrain on HN and elsewhere that software engineers are summarily overridden by non-technical management on technical decisions. How frequently are doctors overridden on medical decisions by non-medicine-trained hospital administrators? I don't know the precise answer to that, but doctor/nursing friends don't complain about it.

I'm pointing out a possible line of inquiry that doesn't seem to come up in these discussions. Given the relatively low status of IT in most non-tech companies I work with, compared to Sales and Finance for example (where women are better represented than in coding and technical IT, yet sales and finance cultures can be notoriously misogynist in many orgs), it isn't an unreasonable question to pose whether or not that relative low status of programming turns off women in the general non-tech business world, which vastly outweighs our small echo chamber of strongly-tech-focused companies.

An observation I've been chewing upon. The US pharmaceutical /medical sales environment is heavily represented with women, with a blatantly cynical unspoken industry practice of hiring easy on the eyes women. This is an openly misogynist atmosphere, with getting hit on just a part of their daily sales calls, but women are not driven away by it to the point where beautiful medical sales women no longer is a cliche. Incentives matter. Might there also be the possibility the programming world's negatives outweigh the compensation, and at some point, the compensation can outweigh the negatives?

A related question is why, with so much money on the line, and as direct revenue generators, are so many women programmers in tech-focused companies relating consistently depressing stories of exclusion? In other words, are there no financial consequences for managers mishandling such valuable revenue generators in general, or is it only when the revenue generator are women?
When the first response FTA indicates that the "biggest factor [...] has been when an employer promises changes to how the tech team is managed and then doesn’t deliver on them", the comment of "manage better" is absolutely relevant.

The only real bits which are solely relevant to women in the whole thing DO revolve around sexual harassment, which leads me to believe that an enforced policy of "don't harass people" would go a long way.

We're not perfect yet. There are stupid men through the industry who sexually harass women. There are stupid men and women who have internal biases against women. There aren't enough women studying tech in the colleges to provide a truly diverse workforce in tech.

These are all problems which need to be addressed, but they will not be positively addressed by shaming people: comments like "the male-dominated tech community is so bad with these issues", "men might be silently stewing over their existence", and "It is a cowardly oblique swipe at these sort of organizations" don't advance the conversation, they attempt to shame people into agreeing with you.

WRT Girls Who Code; it is not small nor local anymore. It's nationwide and well represented in tech company volunteer activities, so I've found. At least for women; they frown on male volunteers in my experience.
Both "meritocracy" and "equality" exist as emotionally loaded terms that in practice exhibit almost otherworldy malleability (Did you like that polysyllabic flourish?)

What the author did essentially was reveal her opposition to Trump, May, and British "grammar schools" (we in the States call it "tracking" or maybe a three or four syllable word has since replaced it.) OK, so be it.

Maybe we have finally a good social use for AI -- as a social ombudsman -- who at least hypothetically is not a "respecter of persons", i.e. does not take markers of social status into account when slinging benefits. Maybe.
I agree. Monopoly isn't broken; it's a shitty game by design.
Or even simpler, just allow people to buy the drugs elsewhere and import them into the US. With most products that is allowed, which through market pressure keeps prices from diverging too much between different countries. With drugs it is not allowed, so drug prices can diverge to a much greater extent.
Sibling comments already made good points, but the BW screenshot isn't actually in-game view, either. The mini-map adds to the noise and the shot is smaller. I don't know if the SC2 one is in-game with the HUD removed as well.
In principle, I agree with you but in practice, I so loathe the stink of waterless urinals that on the inside, I'm glad they did that.
It's 100% like Reddit; the site is wonderful if you dig through and find the little corners that appeal to you. Yet skimming off the top tends to yield a lot of garbage.

The Alientube browser extension will display Reddit threads about a video (if available) in place of YouTube comments, which I've found is often a good way to find new channels as people discuss similar videos. The more you watch, the more good stuff you'll find. It doesn't all happen at once.
Hopefully this thread is not killed like the previous one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13960859
Except that there's no direct evidence of union shenanigans, in this case.

Yes, conceivably the DOB could be in backroom cahoots with Local 14-14B, and nixing the crane on stated grounds of structural design concerns -- whilst in reality having other motives. And not only "conceivably"; stuff like this happens in NYC all the time.

But we'd still need to see some actual evidence of such collusion, please; not just speculation (or arguments on the basis of "unions bad!", more or less)