skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two (heavily loaded) questions.

First: what you do with a debt is to you pay it off

Why? not all debts are created equal. Some contracts are unconscionable, and there's a related question of why people should be obligated on contracts that were negotiated on their behalf but in bad faith. I'm not saying that describes all of Puerto Rico's debts, but bad faith contracts are common enough that that they shouldn't just be passively accepted.

Of course I know this has been litigated a lot already and I don't expect you to start over that whole process from the beginning, but I'm always a bit skeptical of blanket moral assertions like this.

Second: I presume that, like most places, there are a lot of poor but more-or-less honest people who know little of complex business and governance affairs but are heavily impacted by them, to their economic detriment; and I presume further that there are rather fewer people who are expert at conducting such affairs, and have enriched themselves through this knowledge without having provided equitable value in return to those they have been dealing with.

Has anyone explored the idea of prosecuting the latter group and confiscating ill-gotten gains? While doing so risks infringing upon cherished concepts of property rights and due process if not conducted correctly, bankruptcy is a singular event that results from some breakdown or conceptual weakness of The Rules, and in collective contexts it seems only natural that the pain of bankruptcy should be distributed in approximate proportion to the pleasure that preceded the bankruptcy.

After all, one of the practical benefits of wealth is the ability to spend a lot of resources on placing procedural barriers between your wealth and anyone else who might want to make a claim upon it, whereas poor people are generally limited to hoping their door is strong enough to keep out wolves. The degree of legal or physical security you can afford is not necessarily correlated with the validity of one's moral claim on the property in question.
WhatsApp down: Messaging app not working as people unable to chat to friends
The whole point above was about the black market. I.e. one that circumvents government attempts to ban it.
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It sounds so simple, but the msn messenger era taught me to always follow up on a shared file for this reason (address book worms were a minor scourge in my circles at the time).
I was born and raised in PR, but have since moved.

100% of our politics surround this very question. The 3 mayor political parties are one pro statehood, one pro staying with the current status, one pro independence. The first two have always dominated, and only these past elections we had a candidate without a party make a dent in elections.

I'm saying all this to say, that the statehood (or lack of) is a very complex subject for Puerto Rico, both for real logical reasons and also for equally valid emotional ones.

To keep it simple though, statehood is a possibility, in as far as there may be a time where a majority may desire it. However, Puerto Rico doesn't really have much say on, other than voting to say if PR as a whole are in favor of it or not. So far, past votes, the results are no. But even if it's ever a "yes", we don't control it that happens or not. The US does.
There is also a Docusign phish email going around. I received a couple of them yesterday from mail2world, though signed by [company name].onmicrosoft.com for that user's business email address. They purported to be from people I knew.
Will you publish a post-mortem?
This made me wonder what HN thought of the acquisition at the time.

Well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315205

Top comment noted how the company looked like a “quick flip”.
Coming from a non-CS background, I've always wondered why you can't "convert" code from one framework or paradigm to another. For instance, converting a project from jQuery to React. If you can define the outputs, why can't you redefine the inputs? That's what it seems like this project does... I suppose converting frameworks would be a few orders of magnitudes harder though.
For that purpose I think Java 9 AOT might be sufficient. Let's see if and when Intellij/Eclipse move to that.
The secret is that Buffett isn't beating the market by 7-10% a year over decades. He's not a hedge fund prodigy, he's a management prodigy.

His companies beat the market because he is the antithesis of the quarterly-numbers-driven model of Wall Street. He focuses on fundamentals, long-term value, and having leadership that's on the same page. He makes sure his businesses aren't underspending on fundamentals or overspending on inessentials, and then he gets out of the way.

Saying that Buffett "beats the market" is like saying that a sports coach is really good at picking winning teams. His companies outperform the market because Buffett enables them to outperform the market.

(on top of that, yes, he's a savvy investor and he's made some ballsy calls - but absent his management I doubt you would see him doing better than the 2% that other actively-managed funds can earn above the market return)
I think he missed the point about TV ad budget not moving to the likes of Netflix or Amazon. The reason it hasn't moved is not because the audience is limited but because the companies in question don't want to pollute their viewers' experience with Ads. Compare that to YouTube which is free and does have Ads.

Viewing habits are shifting but so is public opinion on Ads. The future of Ads on these internet TV sites is going to be the same as it was for traditional TV albeit a bit more targeted. Instead of TV networks controlling the viewing data in the future internet TV services will control it.

so the potential of a startup to take advantage of that data is going to be minimal since it will be guarded like gold.
Local here chiming in. Ive managed to work remotely for the past 6 years but have decided to move to the states. Anyone interested in an experienced Python/Django dev with an eye for product email me. Ive also been a tech lead as well. :)
But if we make it our social norm that bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of and to be taken lightly

If? That's already how the USA is compared to most European societies. Our current President has been through a string of bankruptcies.
They didn't stop Google Fiber. GF own gutless management did.
WhatsApp outage reported around the world
Yet Puerto Ricans don't live in a Marxist society, so I'm not sure how his ideas apply here.
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Down in Edinburgh, Scotland.
If it's difficult and/or expensive, it's not a real alternative, isn't it?
It's understood to be low-risk, but not zero risk.
DF also
No problem at all. You can always find me at sg@teller.io if you ever want to ask anything else.
Are you really sure they are that sophisticated? Genuine question. THis sounds like an extreme worst case scenario
The term "rights" means different things in different places. In the realm of the Constitution, it almost exclusively refers to limits of the (Federal!) Government.

In terms of a contract or in modern welfare state entitlements (such as Social Security), "rights" indeed refer to benefits owed. Kimmel wasn't referring to the Federalist Papers when he made his speech; it was an informal humanitarian modern-welfare-state understanding of "rights".

I agree that there should probably be some limit to the amount an insurance company needs to fulfill claims, otherwise our premiums are likewise unbounded. The NHS and Canadian health systems appear to have rate limiting aspects (perhaps unintended) that have the outcome of bounding costs.
What seems to be the official whatsapp status on twitter is silent: https://mobile.twitter.com/wa_status

Their subtitle "We are working very hard to make this twitter account irrelevant." is quite apropriate if they don't use it (;

Just kidding, I love Whatsapp and just saw the talk on Startup School and loved it.
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Cloudflare isn't down. If you're seeing an issue please send the error code + MTR to support {at} cloudflare {dot} com.

WhatsApp definitely is/was down though, that's reported in multiple places.
Education. I taught over a hundred kids with google VR. None of these kids have had to opportunity to go to a big city or see the seven modern wonders of the world or go scuba diving. They loved it. They learnt a huge amount.
FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
even if you don't buy the tabloids, wouldn't seeing the headlines over and over in all newsstands while you are walking around still influence you more or less subliminally? And obviously since the point of a headline is to get you to buy the paper, the incentive is to make it as purchase-baity and truth-stretching as possible

Seems that for the press there can be influence even without an actual sale.
Wait, 'thousands of users'? I though Whatsapp daily user base was nearing a billion by now... so, is this a very rare failure or...? Because honestly, if it's a total outage, then it this is likely on the order of the entire telephone system for the U.S. going down one day, if not more significant.
Agreed. Have your work ignored is a huge let down
Down in Argentina.
I wonder if they lost their credentials to update this account:
https://twitter.com/wa_status
updated 2014. lol
If that were the issue we'd throw parents who give their kids up for adoption in debtors' prisons too.
Don't click that Google Docs link someone just shared with you–could be malware
Please do, I would really love to know the details.
The greater issue is the passwords of other accounts, which could now be 'recovered' as the attacker has your access to your email
> that's magical thinking, and usually from corrupted politicians turfing their funders.

Subsidization is the game that corrupt politicians love. Not so much lowering taxes (and therefore their power to choose the beneficiaries among their friends/special interests). Unless of course the tax reduction is via a myriad of specialized loopholes and deductions, then it could be directed at a chosen few.
> Mr. Johnson, wild-haired and witty

Boris has never struck me as witty.
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That's certainly a reasonable position.
I like how there are no classes, that's how I personally like CSS.

Shameless plug: I'm the author of a similar library, with a minimal amount of classes, but it offers more functionality (a grid, components, navigation, etc).

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Ex fund manager here. Some things about this bet that need to be mentioned:

- It should be risk adjusted. No idea how the numbers come out, but what's the sense in comparing the return without the accompanying variance? For example if the S&P has 15% vol over the period but the hedge fund 30%, that factor of two needs to be taken into account somehow.

- Management fees of 2% are clearly too high for this day and age. They came about historically when hedge funds were collections of small amounts of money, happy to take large risks. If you're willing to have volatility of 36%, paying 2% a year is going to be different from paying 2% for 12% vol. Part of the reason vol is lower is institutional investors are not HNWs. I used to run a fund that ran 36% vol as a target, and the IIs came to us and said they couldn't present it to their superiors. The explanation that you could just put less capital in didn't seem to resonate with the box checkers. Must be something that Kahnemann and Tversky could illuminate.

- I'm not sure the thing about the S&P being unnaturally strong is a valid excuse. If you're a hedge fund, you are free to just do a leveraged play on the S&P, thus beating it if you think it's going up. Same goes for what will inevitably come up, the extraordinarily loose monetary policy following the crisis. Whatever caused the S&P to go up, you could have bet on it.

- The bets are against funds-of-funds, which compound fees. You might be paying 2/20 to the underlying funds and 1/10 to the manager of this portfolio. That's a pretty big chunk. Normally what the FoF says to its customers is they have access to funds that others don't, through good relationships gained over years. Though looking at the summary in Buffett's letter it looks like even if you added ~30% for the 10 years of fees to each group, you still wouldn't beat the S&P. But that's just my late night eyeballing, perhaps with the performance fee it would be in the ballpark.

- Buffett stipulated it had to be multiple funds-of-funds, probably because this would mean you'd get S&P with costs. What else are a bunch of mainly American hedge funds going to invest in, given you have hundreds of underlying funds? You might get the odd emerging markets fund, but they'll be swamped out by the hundreds of generic funds that just punt some US stocks. Restricting it to funds-of-funds is actually pretty smart, because FoFs are going to tend to be conservative and take a selection from the buffet (yeah I said that). Allowing individual hedge funds might have given a very different result.
Is the null process an available process? Why should anyone appreciate this kind of fatuous pedantry?
>The CDC has issued an alert for travel to areas where Zika virus is spreading, which now includes Miami-Dade County, Florida, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands. Travelers who are pregnant or considering pregnancy should consult a doctor.[0]

Let's just send cash over instead of tourists. Less chance of unintended consequences.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/zika/
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Sourcegraph CEO here. We don't support Ruby yet, unfortunately. It officially works for Go and Java, and we have alpha/beta support for a couple more languages enabled too (TypeScript and JavaScript).

As you can imagine, Ruby code intelligence (type inference, etc.) is super tough, and there are maybe 5-10 people in the world who could build it right now. We'd love to find and sponsor a Ruby expert to add Ruby support to Sourcegraph. If you know of anybody, please send them my way (sqs@sourcegraph.com).
Uh, Spotify down too in France. Looks like a bigger issue ?
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Which is why people are so angry at the ratings agencies - they are private institutions that were supposed to be giving honest information, and they have misleading AAA ratings to investments that did not merit them.
Note that the tabloids have different Scottish editions with radically different editorial policies; the Scottish Sun and the Scottish Daily Mail, while visibly close siblings of their English sister-papers, often cover headline topics (and editorialize) in diametrically opposite directions on key issues (such as Europe, England/Scotland relations, etc).

I can quite understand this distinction eluding a NYTimes reporter, though — it's not widely recognized even in England.
>They were submitted as (sometimes secret) change requests by every president post WW2 and accelerated by presidents in the last ~20 years.

They started way sooner than that, the first major one was the Louisiana Purchase. Basically non-Washington presidents have been trying to expand their power.
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Well, they did. There's nothing morally superior about being the lender vs. the borrower. Rich people are not better simply by virtue of having money.

It's just business.
Not sure the JVM world is really even targeting MPI. As an author of a competing lib to this with traction in the big data world (we are mainly used on large spark/flink gpu mixed cpu/gpu clusters), I'd actually do the reverse pitch on you here and say "why should we care about HPC?"

Usually the folks using MPI and the like either know python or c++ and are fine with that ecosystem where it's already well served often directly from vendors like nvidia and intel.
Well by that logic, what would the USA want with PR as a colony? Why not let them be free? Because it is the USA. You could say the same about what would you want with $ALL_POOR_STATES_IN_THE_SOUTH, but we want them too!
There is a major design flaw in democracy.

Democracy works on majority votes which is a form of consensus.

- If the majority believe that money is important, then they'll vote to reflect that

- If the majority believe that God exists and rules on us, then they'll vote to reflect that

- If the majority believe that paparazzi are smart, then they'll vote to reflect that

- If the majority believe that the leaders have their best interests at heart, then they'll vote to reflect that

- If the majority believe that Trump is smarter than Obama, then they'll vote to reflect that

- If the majority believe that science and climate change are phony, then they'll vote to reflect that

The only and only way to mitigate the effect of this bug is to have a well-educated set of majority voters. Unfortunately, for far too many years, school-districting and "choice" of education to young kids has under-educated the masses...resulting in voters genuinely believing crap to be true.

The result is Brexit and Trump.

When the critical mass of our populace prefers news from tabloids and facebook and are unable to think for themselves, there's really not much democracy can do.
> I know a very wealthy hedge fund manager who just moved to PR in order to minimize (read: eliminate) his Federal tax burden.

Based on a couple of minutes of reading from wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico ), it sounds like the federal income tax is only eliminated as to income from sources in Puerto Rico. If your income is mostly capital gains from your vast stockholdings, what's the "source"? How exactly is this working? Do you have to be invested exclusively in stocks listed in Puerto Rico? (Do those exist?) Do you have to be exclusively invested in Puerto Rico government bonds? Is his hedge fund incorporated in Puerto Rico, and that's enough?
"Default" is what disincentives giving loans to people who can't pay them off.

Remember that interest on loans that's higher than inflation is effectively profit for the lender; the lender needs to weigh the profit of the loan over the risk of default.

The goal is that every loan is paid off; that's what keeps interest rates low.
This is probably some kid. cutpastemonkey the code from here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37321100/how-to-login-wit...

Probably sat in his bedroom right now waiting for the feds going 'wow that escalated quickly'.
Also, why isn't Western Union thought of as only being used by illegal immigrants and Craigslist scammers?
I like how it coincides with release of new features for Allo. :)

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Messages are circulating on social media that it has something to do with a datacenter fire. I assume this is not the case?
I think 9A and the rest of the Bill of Rights actually discuss what are now known as negative and positive liberties.

The rest of the Constitution discusses various powers accorded to the Federal Government and how it is structured.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
That "pile of explicitness" replaces a pile of implicitness wrapped up in case law and statutes that are relevant to any case that arises but you don't know about. Because what you read in a license is not what matters--how do you know you understand them as they will be interpreted by a court of law? What do you not know that you do not know?

(This is why companies have legal teams.)
I'm pretty sure taking out a loan that you intend to default on is fraud, but making a contract with someone that you expect to be very profitable to you is not.
Why?

I suppose you're going to respond with something along the lines of "because it's better than the browser's search function".

But again: why is that?

Why do the built-in browser tools suck as badly as they do?

Example, outside of search: I realised some months back that a chief reason we have browser Reader Mode features, to uncrappify crappy site CSS, is because browser default styling ... is so horrible.

And again: why is that?

Why do we have craptastic CSS entity defaults when, with a very little work, every page could look, without any styling at all, pretty damned readable:

http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB/

(And if that's not your cuppa, then themes such that you get what you want -- Night Mode, or whateves.)

Whatever browsers are being built for, it's not the people actually using them.

/me looks suspiciously at Chrome => Google => Advertising....

Gee... I wonder why that might possibly be.
OK. Now tell me about the other side of the coin.
Can you turn lead in gold? Maybe using nuclear transmutation. But the potential cost of the process seems higher than the benefits.

Can you convert a code base to React from Angular? Maybe, but the effort to write this converter is higher than rewriting the code base.
Why not avoid dockerhub all together and just use ECR in two regions yourself?
> won't it change the equilibrium for future generations of lenders and borrowers such that an inefficiently low amount of lending goes on?

Either there's money to be made, or there isn't. There are penalties for defaulting too, like greater difficulty securing future loans, or higher premiums. It's not like defaulting is free of consequences.