skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify with the people who feel that we were built to pay taxes: it is not to say that we shouldn't help others and even establish forms of law and government and pay our dues. The social contract affirms that we must do this and it isn't free. So we must be willing to pay something "into the system" to have this.

It is the fact that... how much in taxes do we have to pay until enough is enough? Our paychecks are taxed. Our toilet paper and food is taxed. Everything in life is taxed and even our deaths, at least our estates, are taxed.

We weren't born or built to do this. This is an enforcement upon us that we agreed upon and we continue to do in order to live in the "social contract". We continuously feed this unending hungry greed money machine and "this is the way it is."

Of course, there are people who "live off the grid" and found their way to pay nothing. There are also rich people who prefer to pay other people to find loopholes in order to avoid paying taxes too.
It's surprising how fast queuing for check-in disappeared in big airports in Australia too (for domestic travel at least). First it was the self check-in terminals that printed your boarding pass (and bag tag if you're checking in luggage), and then you just scan at an automated bag drop that takes your bag.

But now check-in is mostly through web/apps. Some airlines also have RFID bag tags that you get when you reach the first loyalty tier so you just check in on your phone, scan it at the bag drop and then head through security (which is still relatively reasonable - worse than I think it needs to be, but so much nicer than in the US!).

I think they're rolling out self check-in at the international terminal in my city now too.
Sure. That would make the data more useful too. Will do it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Actually the real life Jay Landsman shows up in The Wire, as Dennis Mello. He takes over after Bunny Colvin is fired for Hamsterdam.

> I know some people will prefer Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, but (good as those shows are) The Wire is peak TV imo

I watched The Wire, Breaking Bad and Mad Men in the first 6 months into my first job. It was the most stressful time of my life, but I don't regret it at all.
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I think it would be hard to call dynamic groovy types from java
This was my feeling as well. Try using Google from a public library and it returns results similar to DDG.
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You can write platform/hardware specific extensions to Vulkan, it's very easy and anyone can do it.
Can you give an example of when someone was apprehended as a terrorist while in the United States, and not given a full jury trial? (hint: you cannot)
> Machine learning for automatic fact correction seems like a nice answer

who determines the facts?
Both are systemic and consistently skew the population of people who reproduce. Both also discriminate against people that the system decides aren't worthy of reproducing. Either poor people, ugly people, diseased people, etc.
SFTP/SSH (many IFS and fuse implementations) is an option. But it's not always a good alternative.
Is that the kind where they cite anonymous sources as the basis for extravagant, sensational, hysterical news headlines?
I find few poets and writers as affecting as Shakespeare.

You find yourself transported into the minds of the characters.
disingenuous.. we have zero understanding of "something happened" a lot of about everything later, you are conflating the two.

If you have better logical or scientific explanation than God about the actual creation I am very interested
I'm not sure that's true. While abundant in the universe, there's a fairly finite amount of helium here on Earth, and once it escapes, it leaves into space for good. The US even has a strategic helium reserve. The shortage of helium was reported back in 2012 [1] We really need that helium for things like MRIs and chip lithography processes.

[1] http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a4046/why-is-...
I think what LinuxBender may be trying to say is that if everyone standardizes down to a single cipher, that's not a good thing when that one cipher is shown to be a poor choice. It might be nicer if people have a few choices, so we have freedom to disable some of them when one becomes a poor choice.

Ex: when TLS clients and servers commonly supported 3DES, RC4, and AES, it wasn't universally painful to disable 3DES and RC4 (although if you support(ed) embedded clients without AES support, it's still painful). I think ChaCha looks to be a second good option that's gaining support.
> 1) it has cash back;

That's only a benefit for a small percentage of people. If you're a middle-manager or salesperson, cash back on purchases reimbursed by the company can be considered part of your compensation.

I suppose the bank can negotiate with certain popular companies for a higher cash-back rate, which is harder to do as a bunch of individuals.

Outside of these, it's not really a benefit since it's included in the interchange fee. You might not notice it because your bank hides it with clever marketing, but it's there.

> 2) it has no fee in most cases

One common credit card fee is 2.9% + $0.30.

> 3) the payment is instant for the user, meanwhile bitcoin is much slower.

Payment is 6 months if you want to be sure. Anything less can be charged back. Bitcoin payments are instant if you're willing to immediately confirm, which isn't a bad idea on payments smaller than $50 or where it's a repeat customer.

The one area that you truly benefit from a credit card is in the consumer protection laws: You can chargeback very easily and it's tough for the merchant to dispute it. Bitcoin transactions can't be reversed, so if you get scammed you're out of luck.

The items you've mentioned are just banks out-marketing you. They aren't fundamental benefits. You pay for them with a markup that the merchant adds, and you also end up paying for a bunch of banks and Visa/MasterCard to exist.

Checks or ACH are better than both credit cards and cryptocurrencies, when applicable. Terrible security and a bit clunky, but very efficient for moving money around. And you can even get a card with a lower fee: I think the debit cards from major banks are 0.05% + $0.21, though you might have to convince the merchant to charge you less.

My ruling? For casual use, then - mostly because of the better security:

Credit cards > Cryptocurrency > Check/ACH

For anything serious, then - mostly due to cheaper transfer costs and assuming you can trust the counterparty:

Check/ACH > Cryptocurrency > Credit Cards

For guns, drugs & porn, then - mostly because you don't want self-righteous politicians or outraged soccer moms pressuring your financial processor:

Cryptocurrency > Check/ACH > Credit Cards
Their hacking capabilities seem closer to that of a criminal gang than a state actor, I'm not sure what there is to be worried about.
Yes, some silly turtle, scratch and stuff like that. I can tell you that as a 10 yo I wanted to build "real" software with real tools (even if it turned out shit by actual real software standards), not toys.

You would certainly find a hater in me if I was to go to school today.
What you're writing shows you continue to miss the point.
'Please pay attention'

Hilarious. Please continue to school me on the nature and basis of artificial intelligence.
Choosing the right actions is dependent on how you want to evolve. The right emotion is going to be joy. The only belief needed is that you can evolve in the way you want to. Also need to abandon beliefs to the contrary.
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> I don't think github etc. should become graveyards of abandoned projects. Open source should rather be a method of developing a project.

Ending a project by releasing it as open source is a reasonable form of "closure" for the developer. For future viewers, a reasonably well-documented-but-abandoned project still offers insights for future developers to draw from.
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> the Korean War they dropped more bombs, including napalm and experimental bombs, on the Koreans than all of the bombs dropped in WWI and WWII combined

This seems like an extreme claim. I can't find any reliable source that claims that more bombs than the ones dropped in WWI and WWII combined were dropped to Korea.

> And these are two of the US' closest Asian "allies".

Not back then, Japan had sided with the Axis.

> The US simply hates the Asians

Some far-right people do probably hate Asians in the US, but my experience with the people from the US that I know as well as my experience here in the UK Asians tend to be quite liked.
First of all, it's a strawman - just because you're focusing on the present in general doesn't mean you're unable to look at the past or future, and just because you're focusing on the past/future in general doesn't mean you're unable to enjoy the present as well.

This is true of people who learn to live in the moment despite it not being automatic for them, and its when they do it in a social context that demands paying attention to the past and future. If a group of humans innately lived in the moment, they would be unlikely to learn to care about the past and future. An individual who was born with that innate tendency in a social setting that does care about the past and future might learn to care by absorbing the values through socialization. But the values have to come from somewhere, and they're less likely to be ignored of people care about them by their nature.
I am using F# for when Powershell gets too complicated.

For multiplatform scripts, Python, as F# isn't available in all systems.

Love Tcl, I used it on a startup as our application server main language, back in the first .com wave.
Not necessarily - there's multiple ways to collapse at least one branch's history into another repo e.g. from https://github.com/arkie/proto

read repo; git fetch ../$repo/ master:$repo; git push origin $repo
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Personal: Evernote, as a big dump of things I may need in the future. I don't use tags, but when adding a note I try to include meaningful keywords which I think the future me may use to find the note.

Work / Projects: Workflowy. Each project gets a dedicated top-level folder in my Workflowy account, and under that are the (Diary) folder for chronological records, and various non-chronological / accumulation folders for things like (Site), (Marketing), etc.
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> you cannot develop anything on them.

Yes you can, iTunes has quite a few development environments to play with.

Swift Playgrounds and Pythonista are much more powerful than what I could do on my Timex 2068.
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I pay money to them
Could it be that there used to be an oversupply of low skilled VB programmers and that nowadays JS is the new VB?

I remember hacking simple VB apps as a self-taught teenager and I could probably get a job in it if there was an opportunity and if I didn't go to uni to learn other things instead.

Today I suppose VB is not much different from COBOL - just an old language used in few systems here and there maintained by dedicated specialists.

Or are there still new things built in VB?
Another commonly seen trend is actors coming on Reddit to promote a movie, rather than to engage with fans.
wow, did you read a history book backwards?
There was Oden[0], which is supposed to be a functional programming language inspired by/and written in Go. That, until a few months ago when the author stepped down.

[0] https://github.com/oden-lang/oden
I was referring to battery production scaling, sorry that wasn't obvious.
TechStars Mobility was originally started in Detroit as a partner with Bizdom, Dan Gilbert's now defunct startup accelerator (former participant speaking). Ross Sanders and the other Bizdom folks had a strong presence at the last Tech Stars Mobility demo day I went to.

Now that Bizdom is gone, there is more oxygen for natural organic community.

On a related historical note Marc Weiser and Tony Grover from RPM were active in funding Detroit startups and other MI tech from their office in Ann Arbor well before 2008.

Lots of progress and growth in the Detroit startup scene, but far from the maturity that other communities have.
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Is this just another way to link to articles?

I do like the fact that a newspaper equates itself with any Joe with a resdit signon. How many steps in between wapo and "Average Joe and his facts and opinion?" maybe 3??
f :: String -> ()
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What exactly do you mean by the "one true strategy"?
It's really terrifying how much the deep state seems to be unraveling.
Steps tech companies can take to protect women and minority employees
Your airlines and hotels are already doing this along with the travel industry in general (and they've been doing it for a long time). Amazon will almost definitely do this more broadly one day (they do some version of this now already). Physical retail will definitely do this once the in-store tech to manage the pricing complexity catches up. Sure, the degree and granularity to which each of these industries implement something like this may vary but I think that at the end of the day, it just makes sense from a business perspective.

So while the word "Uber" might trigger some people, I think there's a broader, more interesting conversation to be had here outside of the Uber context.
I have to agree with him. AMP's different scrolling behavior in Safari makes me avoid it entirely--it's the same reason why I avoid using Chrome in iOS.
I've been wondering since this began, is there any reason as to why someone would open up their file server/shares to the internet? I remember reading somewhere that SMB wasn't designed for WANs and seems like a terrible choice to put on the internet (even without the security risk).
> The most likely source, a leak inside. A leak they were never truly able to detect.

This is pure conjecture.

It is quite easy to do data mining on your subjects if you aren't actually bound by laws, evidence, or human rights.

The drug lords were using AS/400 mainframes decades ago to ferret out traitors. Sure, they killed a few people who weren't, but, meh, who cares, right? I can't imagine the Chinese government actually cares to any greater degree.

Unless an informant doesn't actually want any tangible benefit, there is going to be SOME trail in the electronic ether nowadays. Even the act of disabling your phone is going to be a trail nowadays.

If you simply kill off anybody who falls afoul of your "standard profile" you're going to get your intelligence agents.
Imagine the Chinese here were more paranoid and they killed a dozen honest folk instead. They would have not hampered US efforts in the least and only shot themselves in the foot. See why it's not good to be more paranoid?
Granted, "charging people as much as possible" is a basic tenet of microeconomics (another related one being pricing things according to the customer's willingness-to-pay). It's not even AI, just a first-derivative maximization.

Profit maximization is not inherently evil unless it's monopolistic. Which in the case of ride sharing, it isn't.
A journal made up of both digital logs and a physical notepad, a graph of associations between things, and a wiki for deeper details on specific topics.
Is it really that bad? I'm not American so perhaps I missed the decline, I've only noticed them breaking a number of stories recently (previous month for example) that all seem fairly credible, albeit often via anonymous sources.

I admit I can't discern the difference between the dozen WAPO or NYT articles I've read in the previous fortnight, for instance.
ever since the Hiatt(s)[0] (Fred Hiatt and his wife, Margaret Shapiro ) took over editorial position on Wapo. The paper has become a neoconservative/neoliberal operation.

Bill Moyer did a nice episode showing the disproportionate number of report Wapo did in pushing fro a war in Iraq [1].

Among notable neoconservatives/neoliberals working at the post and using it as a pulpit are Robert Kagan [2] who worked on the "Project for the New American Century" that became the blueprint of Iraq war agenda.

For me the nail in the coffin against the Post was when they used an unknown research firm to push for a neo-mccarthyism Russian connection to over 200 blogs and publishers [4],[5].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hiatt

[1] http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/citations.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...

[5] https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace...
>A hypocrite (Gruber, as evidenced in another thread) calls the AMP team hacks who do terrible work

I must have missed this. When did Gruber call the AMP team hacks?

> Turns out their "terrible work" is actually Apple's bug and the AMP team points this out both to Apple and to Gruber.

This is flat out disingenuous, unless you're talking about something other than the originally submitted DF article. There were multiple examples of why Gruber thinks AMP sucks. Are you claiming that all of them are "Apple's bug"?
Doxing the person who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb
The so-called "deep state" is just a Trumpian label for "any bureaucracy once gets in the way of my autocracy."

At best, it's a complete reversal of Hanlon's razor, where witches and commies and whatnot are hiding behind every corner.
Oh I absolutely agree, nothing wrong with people selling review copies. My point was that review copies for sale is an entirely separate issue from which seller wins the Amazon Buy Box.
Although bear in mind that open sourcing it might require you to spend some time on the project answering to bug reports and stuff. You might not even intend to add any new features, but if someone else comes in with a new PR, you'll probably (atleast I will) be inclined to review it out of courtesy. Do this for enough projects and you'll be spending a considerable chunk of your time on the weekends on this.

However you might, of course, choose to ignore everything: bug reports, new PRs, users asking for help, everything.
https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom/commit/1e1659ebc2357bf34be...

Is in the example the usual place to put this?
Possibly infinite city sprawl (Smallpox): http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/City_smallpox
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I like ChaCha. I like AES. Systems should choose one or the other. Part of the point of ChaCha is to exploit the capabilities of general-purpose processors to get fast encryption without special-purpose hardware acceleration.

What people should not do is cascade ciphers, or, even worse, build systems that allow for cipher negotiation. Every system that negotiates has been a disaster.
Shouldn't the license be in every file?
I suggest watching some tutorials on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6xBi2JWyZU
Is it code-mentor or co-dementor?
/r/IAmA as a subreddit is mostly self-promotion nowadays, but there's usually a decent amount of give-and-take.
>> What guarantee do users have that they won't be individually selected to receive a higher price?

As long as Uber is not the only means of transport, this issue should take care of itself. Besides, as another comment points out, isn't this pretty much standard across industries?

Not sure what this has to do with Uber in particular which doesn't apply to any other company.
Yes, Amazon definitely has a counterfeit problem. But that's not a problem with the buy box.

If it were, then Amazon could say to publishers, "We fixed the counterfeit book problem, now customers have to click on another link to buy fakes from third party sellers." But putting counterfeits 2 clicks away instead of one click away isn't actually a solution.

There's a lot to criticize Amazon for. I just thought the linked Vox article was incredibly terrible reporting.
Two words: disparate impact.

I'd be very concerned that they're somehow charging more to a protected class. Yeah, pricing is a bit of a black box, but that isn't a defense against "blacks end up getting charged $1.2 for every $1 whites get charged for equivalent rides". There's enough protected classes that you can basically do p-fishing. "Uber price discriminates against black people" not statistically significant? Run the numbers again with Asian instead, and see if it comes up. Or women. Or religion (rides to church service more expensive? Whoops.)
The NN does a better job of inventing names for metal bands:

http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160407271482/metal-band...
Well, I don't share your fear because I think the whole of mandatory centralized civilization should and will be destroyed, and replaced with equivalent voluntary microcivilizations.

I also think anyone trying to control the flow of information is fighting a losing battle, so I don't lose sleep over that one either. Censoring the internet is already difficult and economically costly. Once we have Ethereum on a mesh network of $5 handheld computers, the difficulty goes up probably two orders of magnitude. And we're what, 10 years away from that?

I also think corporations are trying to lure you into thinking they control things, when in fact they don't have any real power any more, we (people with a little credit and a computer) have it all. We are just brainwashed into thinking we need them, so we're not exercising most of our power.

What if Comcast et al stopped offering you service entirely? Would you be lost? Would you be able to find the internet again?
Really? Push HTML without bload to a CDN or gihub pages.
Is this legit result/idea or some prank?
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The plant doesn’t give a hoot whether the ‘nitrate ion’ it eats comes from a bag of manufactured fertilizer or decomposing organic matter.

-	Norm Borlaug, inventor of the green revolution and winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace prize
lol! any proof?
Ok? That makes perfect sense. They're not a charity.

People like to use this as an excuse to attack capitalism in general, a la "if corporations didn't run things, we would charge as little as possible instead of as much as possible". However, this is entirely missing the point; it's critically important that businesses charge as much as they can get away with. Why? Because prices are how market information is communicated, and high profit margins indicate an imbalance between supply and demand. If Uber charged the bare minimum they could get away with and still survive, there would be no incentive for competitors to come in and attempt to undercut them, leaving the supply/demand mismatch as it is. In a zero-overhead idealized market, competitors would keep coming in until profit margins were within epsilon of zero; obviously we can't do exactly that in real life, but we want to get as close to that as possible.
Yes, and counterfeit books have also been sold through third party sellers who don't have the Buy Box – it's a problem independent of the Buy Box.
There is also principle of free speech — you know allowing opinions you don't agree with in your private spaces. Of course unless having bad manners is piece of performance art it is good to observe them and articulate one's position eloquently.

There is a lot to be said about obama era failures on a lot of different levels. Which includes intelligence agencies performance.