skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone else looking into this, it's pretty hard to tell from this post how many people the source (Credit Suisse) estimates have negative net worth. Looking at this article https://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/about-us/research/resear... they estimate that "an estimated 9 percent of adults globally are net debtors". Together with their claim "we disregard the relatively small amount of wealth owned by children on their own account, and frame our results in terms of the global adult population, which totaled 4.8 billion in 2016", that's ~425 million adults with net debt.

It's hard to determine for which p Credit Suisse believes that the poorest p proportion people/adults have zero net worth. I tried to compute the implications of these claims (from the full PDF form of the report linked to above): "According to our estimates, half of all adults in the world own less than USD 2,222, and the bottom 20% of adults own no more than USD 248. The average wealth of people in these slices of the distribution is correspondingly low: just USD 159 for the bottom 50% and minus USD 1,079 for the bottom 20%." I believe these claims imply 42% <= p <= 46.5% or so.

All in all, that means that they estimate the poorest 2 billion adults have combined zero net worth (in fact, slightly negative). If you combine that with their estimate of 2.7 billion children of "relatively small .. wealth", that's about 4.7 billion people with approximate combined zero net worth. It's unclear how to properly account for children (maybe you shouldn't!), but you can easily decrease the number of adults to compensate. I think it's safe to say that (the people behind) this Credit Suisse report believe that the poorest 4.5 billion people in the world have combined nonpositive net worth.

(Note that the "people" numbers are higher than Oxfam's because they include children. Oxfam's "3.5 billion poorest people" is a reference to half of the world's population, even though Credit Suisse was talking about half of the world's adult population.)
This is still what drives politics today.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/History_...

You have to get pretty creative to explain why the US are sprinkling missile interceptors ever closer to Russian soil without considering "mad power drive".
>Instead, if you tried to wave it, handset makers would have walked and just done something else. Heck, some did!

Yes some have and some more would have. And then it would have been up to these holdouts to come up with a viable OS. Good luck with that. Almost everybody who tried has failed.

There is no doubt in my mind that Google could force it successfully, but why would they? Everything is moving in their direction anyway and users don't seem fazed.
Like I said before, you can't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime but when it finally comes around you've got a fking aircraft carrier.

The established players in the auto industry noticed Tesla a few years back, began writing checks and now the ship has come around and they're closing the gap.
SSN used to be widely used for things like driver's license number. I'm sure it still happens here and there but it seems as if SSN isn't widely used outside of financial situations any longer.

It's still a slightly odd relic because I certainly would never want to depend on my SSN being secret. Even when used properly, that's still pretty wide usage.
Tempting, thanks. Wasn't one of the original Norse sagas about Greenland? I haven't read it either, but I can say that Njal's Saga (mainly on Iceland) is very good.
The founders of beeradvocate are jerks (to put it lightly). I try to stay far away from that site.

Small example here: http://beerstreetjournal.com/tweet-from-beer-advocate-founde...
I think the first objection one would raise is that you don't need an ORM at all. It all depends on the application, of course, but ORM means giving up a lot of control (and transparency, and understanding) of your database in exchange for a few shortcuts regarding things like M:M links.
Windows is one giant binary blob. Also, Android runs on many CPU architectures as well.
Well, ownership and value are different things. Ford has large creditors and they lay claim to a correspondingly large portion of the cash flows. Tesla (presumably, looking at the difference between EV and market cap,) does not.

The significant extra value of Ford is ignored when you focus the cost of getting control of a company rather than total value.
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Thanks for the reply!

Your support team definitely helped me out and restored (my access to) my account.
I respectfully disagree as does the economists. Lowering the cost of land thorough fixing the artificial scarcity will encourage builders to build. Some might want to restrict housing, but other will build.

Just curious if you read the articles referenced, for they mention large US cities where the prices have not increased because they don't have the zoning density restrictions.

Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....
I live in a tenement house with no doorman in a neighborhood where package theft can be an issue, and usually get my packages at work.

But it's easier to get packages near home now that UPS (at least here in NYC) just rolled out the 'Access Point' program where one can get their packages delivered to local grocery stores, bodegas, etc. for free. You just bring in an ID and pick up the package.
Sort-of true on your second point. Flask gives you more room to organize the project how you want: if you don't have experience doing this then yeah, you'll make a mess. However, with experience comes more power. You aren't forced into doing things the "Flask way" because there is no "Flask way."
CRISPR is a biological weapon!

Yes, this is something that is mostly not talked about. CRISPR is a virus engineered to attack and penetrate human cells and modify its DNA. It can be used for good. But at the same time the technology is becoming so easy accessible that it can be used to create a virus capable of whipping out the people. Or put a dormant gene in there that gradually kills people.

Up to 80% of people have Oral Herpes by some estimates. Imagine a virus like that could be engineered and spread quietly that in 10-20 years cause a worldwide cancer.

My point is, CRISPR can be used for nefarious activities. It's inevitable! So we need to create an antidote for it to prevent unwanted viruses that might one day be created by CRISPR.
Already discussed here [1], I'm very disappointed in this Bloomberg's article, they manage to write more than 500 words of fake news, the only true sentence lies at the end of the article :

>“This is not a change in policy on H-1B and H-1B1 eligibility in computer-related fields,” CeCe Gwathmey, a spokeswoman for the immigration agency, said in an email

It's literally making sure the Nebraska Service Center guidelines are synced with the California Service Center and Vermont Service Center since NSC hasn't processed H-1B for a while, there was no need to update that 17 year old guideline. CSC and VSC were the only centers processing H-1B

No changes, yet Bloomberg claims New H-1B Visa Guidelines Crack Down on Computer Programmer Jobs

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023413
True. But it's also true that firstpost1234 has pretty good reason to care about those particular ways...
Blocking EU consumers to work around VATMOSS
Here's the things that seem different to me:

- No dealerships

- Supercharger network (It started as free, but now it's moving to pay/minute usage). I expect that in the years to come it will become a profit center.

- Powerwall battery + solar roof integration

- Tesla seems to have more cars on the road doing some level of autonomous driving now than anyone else. I think that real world experience and data counts for something.
Pretty much the same thing happened to me just a few weeks ago. I found out someone used my insurance info to pay for their emergency room visit.

After much amateur sleuth-work, I came to find that the person had the exact same name and birth date, and the hospital had messed up the insurance lookup.

Of course, when I called the hospital to resolve the situation, and provided a copy of my license to prove my identity, they admitted they made a mistake.

And two weeks later, they used to the address from my license to send me the hospital bill.
Credit card networks (Visa/MC/Amex, not Chase/Wells Fargo/etc) rely on their fixed infrastructure to extract profits. If Amazon can disrupt that business it'd be a massive shift.
Used a similar trick with an old Casio ages ago. Maybe it was a EX-10? not sure. I think it did 120 fps at 480p in like 2010.
I work in health care. I can't begin to tell you how many hours are spent at the beginning of any project that involves another system discussing patient matching. A simple unique identifier would change so much about healthcare.
Dirty bombs are a pretty empty threat and are a terrible first strike device. They don't "wipe out" anything. They are mostly area denial plan. Nobody would die immediately. The US would be able to fully retaliate with regular nuclear weapons. They wouldn't even need to do that. The USA could defeat the Canadian armed forces in several weeks and then ethnically cleanse the country to make room for all the refugees from the dirty bombed cities.

You'd also wouldn't be able to coat the entire seaboard with enough radiation to be all that dangerous.

If Canada really wanted a nuclear deterrent, it could just build or buy a nuke. Hell the USA would probably give them nukes with the codes. It's done so with other NATO allies in the past.
There should be a rule for down voting that people should justify. The information is factual is the reasons the Democrats lost a very winnable election.
I don't really understand this metric at all. I've heard it colloquially, but I highly doubt anyone was scanning IP address ranges so often that you could be passively attacked on the internet without any interaction by two minutes in. Even more so, people are often behind NAT, which acts as a good firewall on its own.

Maybe it's related to browsing habits? IE? I mean, you aren't going to get hit by a drive-by attack on any major websites -- even in the heyday of malicious advertisements.

So, what I'm really asking is: where did this metric come from, and why does it get spread so often?
Navient is consistently the worst company I've ever dealt with, including Comcast.
> So yea my friend, all you doubters trust the US Government too much.

Err? I'm a conservative with libertarian leanings. Of all the things you can complain about regarding the US government and our idiotic foreign policy decisions (most of which I agree with you regarding), the September 11th "conspiracy" is one of the more absurd. It is indisputable that aircraft impacted numerous buildings that day. It is my belief that anyone who posits otherwise is living in a world of fantasy.

Don't be so hasty to make assumptions.

> It's news produced by US Intelligence and the powers that be with no real evidence and you believe it.

Not sure where this came from as this thread is a discussion about September 11th.

You're referring to the DNI report. And yes, I read it: There's nothing in the report of interest, only speculation. So no, I don't believe the Russian narrative.
When was that?
So what?

It was a PS/2 model, even if without MCA and the only way to legally get OS/2 2.0, where I was living.

Getting a PC compatible and a OS/2 2.0 box just to try out if something works wasn't an option.
I appreciate the work! It was not clear to me from reading the webpage whether people in Congress actively and consistently use GovTrack.us
«He stated "+1 for some fixes" which is incorrect as it implies that you may not get all of the security fixes for that additional year and only "some" of them.»

Interesting.

The OP's statement was for "upgrades" not security fixes; I read it as 2 years upgrades and 1 for security fixes beyond feature upgrades. The choice of "some" was ambiguous, but "upgrades" is much less ambiguous to me than you seem to consider and not something I'd directly confuse with "security fixes" alone and something that the (+ 1) seemed to directly add "security feature" context to me, despite the ambiguous wording.

Though that still raises the question of if Google properly subsets general (feature) upgrades and security fixes across that 2 + 1 time period. The ambiguous word choice of "some" could be an editorial indication that the OP considers that Google is likely to release some fixes in more general upgrades that don't fall into that (+ 1) time period. As a non-Android user/follower, I have no knowledge in that area and no opinion to offer of my own if that may in fact be the case. I'm also not the OP so I can't express whether or not that was an editorial opinion.

Even if it was an editorial opinion that was expressed, I'm still not convinced it was "disingenuous on purpose", as it may very well be a sincere/candid opinion of the OP. I can only leave that for the OP to comment on.
Could this also work on "cold" devices, so devices that have Wi-Fi but it's turned off?
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That's not uncommon, and I work for a wealth management firm. All consultants sign NDA's if they are going to pitch services to us. But, you'd be surprised at which companies are looking into blockchain..
>Simply get 10% of mobility and 10% of electricity storage and they'll have justified well above their current valuation.

Please show your math.

>Tesla will basically take the market from coal and petroleum.

And you base this off, what, exactly?

Sometimes I think that half of HackerNews didn't even know solar or battery backups were a thing before Tesla. These are competitive spaces where Tesla has essentially no market share (just like cars).

I think Tesla will be successful, but I doubt they end up market leader in any of these things.
Because of its brevity, my story is stripped of context here. In context: 1) this was just one of many such moves on the part of the city government 2) it was very much in line with the prejudices loudly and unashamedly expressed by many in the once-very-white suburb 3) these moves got underway only after non-whites began moving to the city in significant numbers and therefore clearly were not about economic status at all. (That is, the city didn't want to knock down the affordable housing when it was full of low-income white people.)

When I was 20 years younger, I might well have made the argument you're making. But I would have been wrong.
The way iOS and macOS applications are verified is by signing the application package itself, presumably the OS updates use a similar mechanism. At that point it is irrelevant whether the connection used to download the package is secure. This is similar to the way that packages for most (sane) Linux distributions are signed. The advantage to this technique is twofold: that there are network environments where SSL communication is not possible, and you can distribute updates offline or from your own server and devices will still accept the updates.
McDonald's just a couple days ago announced a change from frozen to fresh beef patties in their Quarter Pounder, clearly to compete with Wendy's who joked about it on their Twitter (https://twitter.com/Wendys/status/847478772311834626).

I'm not sure what that says about your analogy. Perhaps Ford should have gotten started on this a long time ago and taken the hit then. Perhaps once Ford gets serious about electrics, their response will be equally as weak as McDonald's.
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IMO, if you're using an ORM because you want many-to-many to work in a neat way, then you're using an ORM for the wrong reasons.

Use an ORM because tools like this: https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ work really well with it.

And tools for migrations: https://sqlalchemy-migrate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ start to make sense in your code.

You don't need an ORM to do either of those things, but it makes things a hell of a lot more organized. Makes the database easy to understand from your code. Makes things like "testing from a blank database" really nice.

You don't ever _need_ an ORM, but for 90% of projects you'll use Flask and a Database for, it makes your life a lot nicer.
An NDA that restricts future business is a non-compete. It's a valid point: businesses do sometimes sneak noncompete language into IP agreements, which are sometimes what they mean when they say "NDA".

You can clause-by-clause compare an NDA to your own standard MNDA and, if you're not confident they're basically the same document, offer your own MNDA instead of theirs.
Define "right candidate"?

Is right candidate = person who solves algo questions for 5 hours on a whiteboard?
I always pay the minimum due balance on time. Haven't explored any other features. Right now it seems ok to me.
Government launches a mass amount of federal student loans, demand skyrockets, offer does not, prices skyrocket. Basic economical interference.
I chuckled, but when it's threads involving touchy subjects that lend themselves to attracting conspiracists, it's usually true.
Also, Amazon has Cash On Delivery option in India.
And if you need to handle negatives:

def add(a, b):
while a and b:
if a ^ b < 0: (a, b) = (a & ~b, b & ~a)
(a, b) = (a ^ b, (a & b) << 1)
return a or b
This doesn't make sense. If I build a ton of luxury apartments and fill them with willing buyers, then won't those buyers be giving up their own housing?

Overall, the total amount of housing increases which should drop prices.
The math here doesn't really make sense, factors multiply, so if there were two 50x factors the total improvement would be 2500x. In other words if one factor is 50x, the other one must be 2x to get 100x total.
Wouldn't the modified virus need to have a selective advantage to outcompete the normal oral herpes virus? (And since viruses don't reproduce sexually, you can't use a gene drive.)
> Ford is a car company, while Tesla is a software company.

How? Uber has passed as a software company by making its drivers pay for capital and depreciation. Tesla currently sells physical cars to individual people. They may be aiming for "self-driving," but if they ever get there, there's still the question of who pays to build and maintain the cars. Compared to that, the value of the controlling software seems fairly small.
... but if one day you need it to use it, you wont be able to notice if you don't know what is an AVL tree and what is its advantages over other trees.

No, what would happen is you'd say to yourself "Hmm, looks like I need a self-balancing tree. Haven't thought about those in N years..." and do a few seconds of keyword searching. The idea that people will be utterly helpless on their jobs without instantaneous photographic recall† of AVL tress (and A-star, and all the other crap people are bullied into memorizing these days) just doesn't hold water.

† Which, as we know, is the only level of recall acceptable in the modern interview process. Even momentarily hesitating in your recall of certain definitions will easily get you flushed by some interviewers.
So there are security patches in Android? So the problem seems to be: some vendors seem not interested in distributing them... :/
I don't think so, but by 2027 poor people won't be able to afford to drive anything other than a Tesla. The per mile costs for ICE will dwarf electric. The per mile costs of car ownership will dwarf autonomous mobility services. And Tesla will own the biggest battery supply chain in the world, with the best economy of scale.

Rich people will still buy classic cars and Germans will still buy ICE BMWs. The vast majority of daily commute hours will be split between Teslas and whichever other manufacturers who get off their butts before it's too late.
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If Waymo stands still, I suspect Cruise will be there in ~1 year. And right now Waymo is in the throes of a managerial clusterfuck, which is why most people left.
I think I agree... and that is a huge problem! The same can be said about Windows Update. Or any computing topic in particular! Which is an even bigger problem.
Agreed. What I left out is that being a good manager can be really hard. If this quarter, the metric is scrap, and you've already exceeded your scrap budget, you have to be willing to tell your people to scrap bad material anyway. You have to do that, knowing that you're going to get raked over the coals in the managers' meeting. Knowing that it's going to count against you at review time. Knowing that the people you manage mostly don't understand that you're all that stands between them and the torrent of abuse. Middle management is a hard job.
"Donald Trump is/was a real estate developer. His grasp of issues such as affordable housing must be non-trivial." - that's not how things work at all.
And yet Apple requires you to download this update over Wi-Fi to receive it OTA.

Sure you could update via a computer, but that seems to go against Apple's vision of not requiring tethering your device to a computer every time you need to update/sync/setup.
Withholding information is not playing hardball, that position is just stupid. So you're saying banks should be able to lie and mislead people, with no consequences or regulation?

Do you not remember 2008?
Why does it matter how close the spaces are?
One reason is API change. For closed source solution they do not have to worry about API changes but open Android has to have much more elaborate API deprecation and change process.