skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Launch Aadhaar Pay on 14th April
Yes. The problem is that the government tends to take money out of that 'special pot' for general budget shortfalls. It doesn't help that projections for future pension payouts tend to be overly optimistic as well.
Soviet Union never denied holocaust.
It's better to be rich and mediocre than poor and bright in the UK
What baffles me that it is still considered OK to indoctrinate children with provably false beliefs.
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This paper claims to have found RNA interference in mammals (https://cl.ly/jq5X). This paper is an attempt to refute the first paper (https://cl.ly/jq5T).

The crux of the debate is that mammals have the interferon system to respond to viruses, so why would they have kept around a system like CRISPR?
Apparently they have PCIe4 x16 and PCIe3 x32 models. Not sure if either of these exist at the moment but they so satisfy the PCIe bandwidth constraints.
That last quote is somewhat misleading; Southwest adopted the Amadeus GDS for their internal reservations in 2007, replacing a homegrown system. In their 2015 exposed their bookings through Amadeus but only through i:FAO for corporate customers, not the public who still have to buy direct.

Also, the definition of 'most of the LCCs' conveniently excludes, well, most of the World's LCCs...
Actually the second one is connected to the former. I'm too lazy to cite a reference but there is evidence that psychopaths feel relaxed when others are not. (There are a few popular documentaries about that one Youtube) Of course 'psychopath' is a spectrum, so this doesn't mean Uber management consists of complete psychopaths. Actually there are clinical psychopaths that end up being altruistic - obviously not in this case though.
I wonder how much of this trend is helped by the stock market going mostly up and sideways in the past years. In that case passive investing is very good, you need to minimize fees. Timing the exit before the bubble bursts again and re-entering at the right time will be a big part of the long-term performance and I expect many humans to outdo the robotic overlords who will just stay invested.
It's kind of the other way around, TCP is done in silicon and firmware and passed up to the OS via a scatter-gather engine which is the core architectural feature. So iWARP lends itself to layering on the TOE, as do other higher level protocols like iSCSI and FCoE. DDP requires intertwining with the OS networking stack and VM but the card is able to DMA the data from the offloaded TCP stream right into the application's address space sockbuf.

I'm out of my league on extreme low latency stuff but take a look at http://www.chelsio.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/T6-WDLat.... For comparison sake, do you know the end to end latency of Mellanox RoCE?
Maybe. What State are you in? CVS and Walgreens dominate the market for these clinics in Minnesota.
>immigrants habitually save and/or remit their disposable income, spending as little as possible to get by

Source? As it seems like a massive generalization that doesn't reflect what I see from my immigrant neighbors.
We support voice interfaces and we can support other platforms such as Slack, Telegram (we used to support it actually), and more. Like I said earlier, most users simply Google their chief complaint (e.g., "my throat hurts") which lead them to sites of varying quality such as homeopathic sites and WebMD. These sites do more harm than good. Users are also reluctant to download apps when they just want answers such as health answers.

Bots allow us to reach people all over the world no matter whether they are on their desktop, tablet, smartphone, or budget phone on every platform (iOS, Android, etc.). When I look at my girlfriend's phone, she has 95+ updates waiting and she's not looking to download more apps when a Google search would suffice.

We've discussed building an app in the future to enable even more features, but it's not a high priority right now. We're competing against Googling what's wrong with you, and we have to be just as easy to get started with. The priority for us is answering people's health questions.
Unless you have a business plan, I don't feel that they even guarantee that.
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Great point. That is also a problem with the entire industry.
My sympathy. I feel I worked somewhat hard to get through studies and into work but this is way worse.

I wish you all the best in either getting promoted at work (some jobs actually do) or getting an IT position at another company.

Possibly inspirational for some of you guys: at one point me and a couple of other guys in the IT department where I worked found out the girl who cleaned the floor had an IT degree from Poland an bugged our boss until he gave her a chance. She was good, got a permanent position. (She stayed there for a while, later married and moved across the country and continued to work in IT as a sysadmin.) My point is to be nice and dont give up. I have worked my way up from farm hand through conscription and a few months of construction work as well as cleaning to now being on my way from one Java position to the next. Of course I admit this us probably easier here in Europe but never ever give up.
You forgot "very cheap". Compare the price of a monthly netflix binge watch session with what it would cost on Amazon, or God help you, iTunes or Google play.

It's like 90% cheaper.

The reason for this is obvious on the Netflix balance sheets. They spent 3-5 times what came in.

Of course, this is not what the content producers want. And that's where things have gone wrong in the past, and will go wrong again.
I hate when companies use basically zero-value rewards like badges to incentivize very-real-valued work like giving people rides. All I can think of is the "fuck you, pay me" quote when I see this happening. My last company wanted us to comment our code thoroughly and write better repository readmes and documentation -- except they would never build in explicit time for these tasks. Being a manager, I was asked how can we get folks to do this in their own time. My response was "carrot or stick, take your pick, but it needs to have real value or cost or nobody will get behind it". They looked at me like I was crazy and proceeded to roll out a "kudos and accolades" program where people just verbally acknowledged each other for extra work like this in a public forum. You guessed it, behavior changed 0% and morale went down because all the engineers were like "do they think we are idiots?"
Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds
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Yes. But this is more the problem of vendor lock-in than anything to do with Haskell.
SF tech companies use sexy 20-something y/o female recruiters to get engineers
Throw away account for obvious reasons...

Has anybody noticed an uptick in tech companies just turning a blind eye to the fact they load their recruiting department with sexy 20-something girls to use as bait for nerdy male engineering candidates?

Seems pretty disrespectful if you ask me.

Let's see whether or not HN moderators censor this.
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This is probably wayy off topic, but not having met real life earning Norwegians (traveling students don't count): how does it feel to be giving away half of what you earn to the government? I'm trying to phrase this question as blandly as possible; don't mean to be snarky or anything. My own political philosophy has been migrating from something far-right to more center, but this is one issue that does bother me very much...Specifically, the feeling I have is: I worked pretty damn hard to get to a situation where I can make the kind of money I make now, and almost 20% goes away in taxes to the US federal govt. (not including Social Security and Medicare). I was born into a poor family so it seems rather egregious that my hard work, my blood and sweat is ultimately to be used for the benefit of people who are not, well, me.
You're lying, I said the opposite. They are running a despicable concentration camp of a country over there.
...just be aware there isn't much evidence supporting most of what's on there...
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I get 120 Mbps down on a 75 Mbps Xfinity plan. I think.

My bill says I have “Performance Pro Internet”, which appears to be specced for 75 Mbps download.

I'm using an Arris (née Motorola) SB6183 modem. fast.com and speedtest.net both report that I'm getting 120 Mbps down.

(I'm pretty sure that I signed up for 75 Mbps down, but Xfinity makes it really hard to figure out what service you're using.)
Sorry, I didn't mean to dis my dad there. He explained it as soon as he thought I would be able to understand it.

What I meant by "well enough" is that the explanation that he gave -- or even the one that I now have in my head -- is nowhere near the truth. Engines are complicated, and I will never truly understand them. But at least they can be demystified.
I agree very much with you. I would categorize point 6) as manipulation though, because it is about choosing wording to change behavior. IMO this creates stress though, and connecting your service with stress can backfire in the long term.
The article says that some companies have switched to an employee model to ensure workers are available during peak hours. But there are other ways to do that:

- Pay workers more during rush hours, and less during other times. This could be surge pricing, or the platform choosing to not take a commission during rush hour, and take a higher commission than normal during off-peak hours.

- Tell workers they should be available from 8 AM to 11 AM and 5 - 8, at least four days of every work week, but are free at other times to work or not work.

I don't think it's necessary to have employees to make them available at certain times.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned /. yet.

http://slashdot.org

Chips&Dips, er Slashdot, was the original high-quality tech forum on the internet. In recent years it has gone to trash, but it is still the model community-driven tech news forum and occasionally has very good commentary.
5) What did you search for? Top results for "uber employees pretending to be women" shows only sexual harassment suits
filing through credit card would cost uber money. consider it a punishment (For the lack of a better word) by the consumer.

Whether it works out in favor of consumer is a question. I would probably not use uber in the first place.
I've had a very conflicted experience with SomethingAwful in the past. Parts of it feel like a quality and tight community, others are just endless shitposts. They might have severely dipped in activity as well over the past few years.
Just so you know, your site is completely broken on mobile when users use Firefox Focus.
It looks like roomkey.com doesn't seem to have any mobile apps, which makes it hard to say that it's more convenient to use when traveling than an aggregator that does have an app.

It's interesting to hear about your site though, perhaps I'll try it out next time I'm traveling.
Interesting. One of the limits for independent contractos is that you can't really give them a specific schedule like you would an employee. If you do, the government could eventually come down on you and tell you that you really need to classify them as employees.

In Uber's case, they let drivers work whenever and wherever they want, but give them strong suggestions about where they should be.

Obviously employment law wasn't designed to account for the kinds of businesses we have today, and I think a strong case could be made that it needs to be rethought entirely, but regardless, Uber is certainly benefiting a great deal from their relationship
With their drivers and how they are able to use data to motivate them as opposed to outright telling them what to do.
True. The Newly industrialized world, (India, Thailand, Sri Lanka etc), have strict rules for non-business/tourism related immigration.

E.g. It's nearly impossible to emigrate to India as a retiree, unless you can obtain OCI/PIO status.
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The answer, of course, is automation. Granted, a ton of thing may just not be possible with robots. But I expect that, just like Oil was the resource that boosted humanity, AI (and modern medicine) will be the resource that comes to aid the elderly as demographics rapidly change.
Depends who you ask. They either already have the capability now or will in the near future.

Hawaii is much closer anyway. Remember what happened when Hawaii was last attacked? We've already deployed radar out of Hawaii earlier this year so we believe it's a threat [1].

"North Korea is now in possession of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the US mainland, according to a senior US military official." [2]

"Despite Pyongyang's apparent progress on a warhead, it doesn't have good enough missile and rocket technology to deliver a nuke -- at least not yet, says Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the Rand Corporation think tank." [3]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/politics/north-korea-icbm-us-r...

[2] https://sputniknews.com/asia/201612111048412314-north-korea-...

[3] http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/01/asia/north-korea-kim-jong-un-s...
Invisible Manipulators of the Mind
Dante tried to tell the people that their were in hell, but their ears were blocked.

I told you it was God. There is magic that prevents you from being saved. You are in Hell. I cannot cross the barrier.

84147 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
84148 fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 16:20 And there was a
84149 certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of
84150 sores, 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from
84151 the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
84152
84153 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
84154 the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was
84155 buried; 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and
84156 seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
84157
84158 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and
84159 send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool
84160 my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
84161
84162 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
84163 receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now
84164 he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
84165
84166 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
84167 fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither
84168 can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
84169
84170 16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest
84171 send him to my father's house: 16:28 For I have five brethren; that he
84172 may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
84173
84174 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let
84175 them hear them.
84176
84177 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from
84178 the dead, they will repent.
What do you want, and what have you done today to move towards that? Are you waiting for luck to pay you a visit first?

I presume you have sound mind and body, and live in the US. That's all the luck you need. Anything else is up to you. YOUR choice. Even your health is about 60-80% under your control, if epidemiological studies are to be believed.
I think it raises questions about the rules of engagement if all your deployments are unmanned.
If you're retiring to another country, it makes sense to open a local bank account and have a fairly substantial amount denominated in the local currency. Some retirement visas even require that. That should protect you against a temporary drop in the USD. A long-term drop in the dollar means something really bad happened in the US, which would likely be bad for people retired here too. Worst case scenario, if the USD drops, you come back having spent less of your retirement nest egg than you would have if you'd retired at home.

Plus, having spent a good deal of last year in Southeast Asia, the dollar would have to drop precipitously for it to become a problem. It's very easy for two people to live on under $1000/mo there. Even with ridiculously conservative investments, you only need a few hundred thousand dollars to support that kind of lifestyle. Most people who own their own houses could make that happen.
You don't make any sense. What did I lie about?
This looks rather nice though two things seem to be missing:

* A docker-compose file for easy testing
* Screenshots of the WebUI
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a static website, but there are already tools like pelican, hugo, jekyll, sphinx and stuff that are better suited for it. So while I'm happy for the person's effort and that he got to use Azure, the more glaring thing is I suspect he could be happier using a static site generator.

Also Armin Ronacher released a new one late 2015, Lektor. https://www.getlektor.com/

Show me a team replacing their medium-sized django or rails website with ASP.net Core. Or a YCombinator startup huddling up to their screens late at night in Visual Studio pushing code to azure. And them shipping and making customer's happy.
Reddit. For instance, the programming subreddit.
No cafe worth its salt (in Australia) would be caught dead using UHT milk. Perhaps it is a cultural preference (and what I am used to), but I hate it when I am overseas and see them pull out the UHT milk to make my coffee. It just tastes horrible to me.
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Why would I need a chatbot to view a shipping status?

Online shops have usually a link where my orders are displayed and updated in real-time. Worked well.
all these articles completely disregard technological progress and assume we are in a 60s film. In my view people in their 30s now will be "modified" in many ways and will be capable of work always, if work is needed in the first place.
Full disclosure: this is a project I'm working on, and comment functionality is coming.

Nonforum.com is for sustainable / resilient agriculture+composting+earthships, alternative lifestyles, personal experiences, and forward-minded things that would otherwise not really have a home on the 'net.

There's a small write-up of things we are trying to foster at
https://nonforum.com/about.html
(or just click on the (non) logo card on the front page)

Still pretty nascent, and I haven't submitted a show HN yet because there's no commenting functionality up yet. On the bright side, nonforum functions as a nice link-sharing platform, and votes and submissions show up in real-time (no page refresh required).

Currently in semi-open beta (one needs an account to submit new links/write-ups and to vote on things), you can request an invite code by providing your e-mail, or, at the moment just asking me to send you one.

https://nonforum.com/
> This is a pretty troubling way to phrase using behavioral science to manipulate your employees.

Isn't this pretty common across all companies? Can the HN modifying the ranking of articles be categorized as user manipulation and evil?
In general, yes (except you left out "growth arrest"). I don't see how their experiments can tell the difference between the two mechanisms, or some combination of them. Also, since mine is simpler, it probably dominates.
Android update makes Google’s Pixel C look more like its Pixel smartphones
Discussing the limits of artificial intelligence
A little defensive no?

While I tried to convey my own excitements and my dislikes, I was careful in my comment not to say that everyone most like the same things.

What I will say though is that there is a difference between known how a thing works and how to use it. Very often you only need the latter. But thinking that it equals the former is just an error.
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It is not clear to me if this is a product anouncement, or a blog article about something you made using a product.

If the former, then why should anyone choose this over Netduino? If the latter: why have you chosen this product?

edit: by browsing the page I saw it is the former.
Unfortunately this is economic bullshit. They are taking a description of an economy that requires a constantly increasing workforce and increasing productivity and then apply the most obvious, ill-thought out short-term fix, and actually expect it to work despite violating the basic assumptions.

Population growth stopped 15 years ago. Normally those people that weren't born would be entering the workforce in about 5 years. So with quite a bit of variability, the new people coming into the workforce will drop of a cliff. Extending the age of retirement has already (if "temporarily") stopped the outflows out of the workforce that are going to stop.

This means that the total workforce will drop anyway. Even if people don't retire.

Second they assume productivity will keep rising. But productivity (amount of $ per hour of work) has been dropping for 30 years, initially still compensated by rapid workforce increase, but not anymore since 1995 or so.

The government has spent a ridiculous amount of money (~100% of GDP) to increase the money supply to make it seem like this hasn't happened, but of course the change has in fact happened. The question is how long can we keep spending like this. 100% GDP is a worldwide stat and roughly means that for every dollar anyone, anywhere spends, the government lent and spends 0.08 dollar yearly to, firstly, pretend the economy is not shrinking, secondly, keep the local social welfare going (for the US that partially includes the military, which is in some ways a social welfare program). Every year. Since about 2000. And of course, this has been on an exponentially rising trajectory, with 2 huge growing peaks. One right after 2000. One right after 2008.
That baffles you? Because of Romania's anti-vaccination movement 17 children are now dead: http://globalnews.ca/news/3345439/deadly-measles-outbreak-sp.... At the end of the day humans are just apes.
I look forward to the grey haired revolution.
Whenever I read something like this, I have one question:

If this is how you believe the world is and it cannot be changed... why the hell do you want to live in it? Why do you care about it? Why do you promote its principles?
In a world filled with randomness intent is the only thing we can control. I think the trend towards statutory crime comes from the fact we feel we've tamed much of the world. And therefore what occurs is most likely someone's fault - instead of an act of god.