skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as how the benefits should be distributed, the Democrats completely gave up on trying to do any redistribution of wealth

The neoliberal faction (Clinton's Third Way) has never been the whole of the party (even in government—many of the neoliberal policies Clinton pushed through or followed Congress on were opposed by most Democrats in Congress but supported by Republicans.)

And the neoliberal faction's dominance of the party has been waning over the last several years.
This shows why the inheritance tax is so important. It's that or a stagnant economy.
The price is your soul.
The KDE guys blew through several build systems before finally settling on cmake. It was a wild ride.
I think the underlying problem here is that there's no "mock Spanner" (in the Minio-is-mock-S3 sense) for people to write code against on-and-off for a while, to decide whether they like what Spanner does for them in development workflow terms.

Two node-weeks of Spanner credit, used wisely, might be enough to tell you whether Spanner fits your operations requirements, but it won't be enough to tell you whether you want to commit to creating an application architected around the paradigm it represents.
'For all the time and money sunk into the project, some in the architecture community question whether Apple has focused on the right ends. The campus is something of an exception to the trend of radically open offices aimed at fostering collaboration, said Louise Mozingo, a professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at U.C. Berkeley. Its central office building – a massive ring of glass frequently likened to a spaceship – could be a challenge just to navigate, she noted.

"It's not about maximizing the productivity of the office space, it's about creating a symbolic center for this global company," she said"'

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-campus-idUSKBN15M0CM

“Mainstream architectural trends are open office space to foster co-operation,” said Louise Mozingo, professor of landscape architecture and urban design in University of California, Berkeley, in an interview with Reuters. “At this point, Apple's new headquarters appears to be an alien.”

http://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/50051734.html

I suspect her quote from the new article has nothing to do with child-care, and was bastardized from her previous comments.
Exactly, the complaint of power users is that "it'll never be as powerful as my Core i7 desktop".
Were a phone solution seamless enough to dock into my kvm switch, I'd power up my 'workstation' far less often.
And when you do find yourself wishing for static typing, there is MyPy. It's not perfect but it's much better than nothing.
The trick is to move to a country with proper healthcare
Anthony here, dev/tech lead on the project. There is the .Net version which is currently open source vs the Node version which hasn't yet been open sourced... http://getglimpse.com > .Net version vs http://node.getglimpse.com > Node version. Assuming people are interesting in it being open source, this is something that we can advocate for.
95% of the jobs created since 2009 are temp jobs, the actual way the us defines a job was changed under Bush and kept under Obama

Do you have a source for this? 95% is hard to believe...
Can you elaborate on why some live-in maids in those countries are effectively slaves, but a maid that comes to the house daily would not be?

What is the significance of the live-in part?
Actually there are several reasons that Python has to be the language of Machine Learning and Data Science. It begins with two decades of being promoted as the most accessible language for scientists to get the job done. Then the widespread use of Python led to an explosion of libraries creating a rich ecosystem.

Nowadays there are sophisticated tools like Orange3 and Jupyter (not to mention Beaker Notebook) that make it easy to share code within teams of scientists. None of this is going away and even R users are discovering that it is easier to use R for the stats part of the problem and integrate with Python for everything else. R used to have the best presentation graphics but now Python has caught up with improved Matplotlib and Bokeh. Also some people prefer to use d3.js in the browser moving from just presenting their data to enable exploration of it.

In the ML/DS area, CPUs will never be fast enought with Go. You need to exploit the GPU which Python has good support for, or move to distributed computing which Python also does well.

No other language will dislodge Python. Instead we are making integration more prominent and using multiple languages working together. Beaker Notebook is particularly good at this and is driving Jupyter in that direction too.
I vote for B & C.
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Marijuana costs a lot more than $4.51/lb. They're just getting their process debugged and will switch instantly when it's legalized.
https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html
Don't get too bogged down in being a minimalist, though. You definitely don't have to get rid of everything in your house or anything.
Or Outline, for people without Facebook https://outline.com/zBTYT5
Just read the script from the link in the article. It's... not good. Pretty obvious why it never got made.
> I really want a statically typed Python.

You need to give type annotations a shot! https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#abstract

pip install mypy
mypy script.py
Here in HK I sponsor the visa of a Domestic Helper from the Philippines. Her situation is obviously better that Lola but the cards are really stacked against them.

They are literally second-class citizens: their visa doesn't entitle them to any hope of becoming full-time residents, regardless of how many decades of their life they spent in the service of others.
The whole Domestic Helper's contact is a sham: there is rampant abuse and very little interest in enforcing any of the few rights they have.

It is a form of institutionalised slavery. Hundred of thousands of helpers are taking care of people's kids and the elderly, they are indirectly essential to the success of the economy, yet get little recognition for it.
The interesting part seems to be their NGMI (next
-generation memory interface) that as far I understand acts as a kind of memory bus and each processor will use it more like a disk device (with special functionality like support for atomic operations etc).

Unfortunately I did not find any performance information about it.
I get you. Keynes is often distilled as, for better or worse, "Go shopping." My jump off point is usually there when talking to folks in meatspace.

But yeah, it could mean spend more on bridges, universities, or jewel studded iPhone cases.
Overdoing any of each of your examples is a waste of resources, just like dying with a pile of cash.
Two things happened in the French election. First, someone created a forged document, purporting to show that Macron had a secret offshore bank account, and published it on 4chan. (The forgery was poorly done, and was recognized immediately). Second, someone hacked the Macron campaign's computers and published all their emails. (Possibly with fake emails mixed in, though I haven't heard of any specific emails from that dump being fake).

This article claims that the first of these, the forged document, was done by Weev (aka Andrew Auernheimer). However, the second of these - the email data dump - has not been attributed to Weev and was likely done by someone else.
It is quite interesting from a strategy perspective of the agreeing third party security companies. If (for this or the alleged Russia DNC hack) clear evidence arises that completely contradict the reports they have put out (paid for by whom?) it could potentially be catastrophic to their business.

In these circumstance then at some point the company would have had to essentially doctor evidence to support the required conclusion. If unequivocal evidence arises that is contrary to this, then it would be a massive deal. How could they explain away their findings?

I am not making any judgements on if the above happened, but it will be interesting to follow in this particular case which appears to clearly point to weev.
>Groove also uses it to front-and-center feature artist information and album art of the currently playing song or some album you are looking at it.

Front-and-center is not the way I would describe it. They're squashed to the left, leaving huge swaths of empty.

Notice how the actual functional buttons in the banner are tiny, have no frame around it and no hint that they're clickable. They're tucked away in a corner and almost an afterthought. Also, definitely not touch-friendly. (I suppose that paradigm is dead now.) Looking closer, I especially like how there is an 'additional functions' button at the end even though there's plenty of space to put more buttons.

Most of the space is just wasted on a pointless gaussian blur that would get old real fast.

Also note how the actual functionality (in the article picture for groove) is to display icon lists of albums, and there are certainly more than can be fit on the screen. The humongous banner comes at the cost of reduced functionality.

>As a design tool it's neither good nor bad, user hostile nor user friendly

The way tools are implemented and marketed can either push third-party devs towards user friendliness, or away from it, e.g. by making certain choices easier/harder or by promoting certain reference designs. The message I'm seeing so far is definitely not towards encouraging user-friendly UI.
Somewhat off-topic, but I'm curious to learn about the relatively recent changes in Python's exception hierarchy, could you point me to a link?
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> How hard is it to have empathy for others?

That really depends on the person. Some people don't have empathy. As a sufferer of DPDR, a lot of times I don't even feel I have emotion.
The rates are low precisely because there is an oversupply of saved money. In other words, capital is so easy to get that nobody has to pay much interest on it. It's a borrower's market and will continue to be as long as we have the concept of "saving for retirement".
Yeah, I'm assuming the self driving car is much less likely to be damaged.
Nice. It would be cool to see a "kitchen sink" example project, similar to Firebase's Friendlypix, or something similar. Give people something to explore and hack on. I saw many good example projects, but nothing as full-featured.

https://github.com/firebase/friendlypix
This has been around for years. Webex has it for a long time.
This graph in particular left me confused.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ib_EJj3p7cW...

So, in 1974, Americans didn't have retirement savings? Or the total sum was just too small to display on the graph?

Or is this just graphing one particular type of easily measurable asset which was introduced around then and has grown in popularity...
Yes, I should have made more clear that I meant the Japanese government, not its people. But since Japan has not been a functional democracy since at least the 70s, the point still stands. In the post-war period, the US government has been actively subverting the Japanese left by providing political intel and financing to Japanese conservatives, who are the successors to imperial-era fascist regime. Abe's grandfather was even a war criminal administrator of the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/20/national/u-s-adm...
Rephrasing it as 3 cans of soda doesn't make it sound good. 3 cans a day is quite a bit. It might be healthy (or not), but I'm pretty sure 1000 cans/year is well above average for the typical western nation.
On one hand there are articles saying young people don't have enough savings, and on the other hand there are these articles ruing that the older generation don't spend more.

Maybe we need to check which kind of industries are sponsoring the respective articles.
Microsoft is fixing the Outlook bug that causes “:)” to revert to “J”
After each login into Microsoft partner page, it welcomes me with a page telling me, that I will get the best experience with Internet Explorer. It doesn't even bother to check, whether Internet Explorer exists for the platform advertised in the User agent string.

With the Microsoft services, the crucial difference is, that "Cortana, One Drive, Bing, Skype, Photos" is stuff that Microsoft is pushing on people, not stuff that people asking for from Microsoft. It is me too solution, it is Microsoft's version of Google+, except that Microsoft didn't learn their lesson yet.

Out of this, Office is an exception. iOS and Android users would not give up their platform, but they were willing to use another lite office suite. On a platform, where there is not a such threat, such as desktop Linux, there is no Office port. Even the macOS port hasn't got feature parity with the Windows version. Google is treating Windows Phone exactly the same way Microsoft is treating other platforms with Office.

If you consider this hate, maybe you should also consider whether it is deserved. There's no reaction without action.
It's a cart before the horse problem.

His argument is that the economy is imbalanced by excessive saving, and it needs retirees to spend more. He's trying to come up with a reason for them to do it.
You have a very simplistic view of this.

This is looking at why people are living more frugally? If people want to buy less/travel less, then that is no problem. If they are doing it because they are worried about the future, that is a problem.

Spending has an effect on not just those people, but on all of society when it happens at a large enough level. And it is one of the common way to pass money from old to young.
I'm surprised that there has been next to no coverage of the email leaks, and the media has appeared to focus on discrediting the forgery instead.
Property Taxes is also hurting Texans..

I live in Austin, in a neighborhood where 4 years ago the houses were 115k. Just this month we saw some of our first 425k sales.. and this was a blue collar non HOA homely neighborhood but Apple moved in and investors have followed.
Answering your question above: no, it is not.
Pensions before. 401K and IRA now.
I spent a few years freelancing on a bus with a hot spot to and from my day job.
See other discussion in this thread.
Seriously, are you going to knock this out in a few weeks? Have you tried integrate someone else's giant codebase and their infrastructure?

Also, integration does not stop other features and bugs from being implemented and fixed.

Also they probably have a path to sunset the service and perhaps that means they need to think about future migrations.
Have you watched television or listened to radio aimed at older viewers / listeners? If it isn't about the upcoming apocalypse and how you need all the gold in the world that you haven't spent on supplies for your armageddon shelter, it's about Fred Thompson selling you reverse mortgages. Nobody's easier to scare than people who feel their vitality slipping away from them day by day.
Question... how did your back feel sleeping on a hammock for a year?
To me, I'm wondering where the mistreatment is.

We have someone sleeping on a matt, and getting a daily wake up call to do their work.

Work which presumably they are being paid for---we don't know if they're not being paid for the work.

Now in the USA, sleeping on a matt in the kitchen is some kind of terrible situation that no one would live with but....

In my country, I slept on a matt as a child. I wasn't poor. We had a house, food, private schooling, etc. but kids under the age of 7 slept on a matt. It was just the way things were done.

Even today, I have relatives who sleep on matt's despite being totally capable of buying western style beds.

Now as for not having a room of their own, I don't understand the attachment to a private room as opposed to simply a lockbox or a place to keep your things. Private rooms seem like a luxury that one can do without, not a must have.

Disclaimer:

Our families maids have private rooms, and beds (which ironically they endlessly complain are too hot compared to the breezy floor mats they're used to). They also have savings accounts, and pension funds because the family matriarch is a western trained banker and believes that in the absence of good governance, private individuals have to take better care of their employees livelihood.
That's a fair argument, but you could also argue that:

a) they aren't making an informed (of the long term consequences) decision (and that they aren't informed isn't accidental)

b) considering the cost advantages of offshore manufacturing and economic hardship due to job losses, there really isn't much choice remaining

I don't fault Chinese citizens or even Chinese leadership in any way, they are simply acting in their best interests. It is western political and corporate leadership that I think are acting incredibly negligently/selfishly.
Not really. Most of the time, hard work does not correlate with making lots of money. A single mother of four may work incredibly hard juggling multiple jobs on top of her family obligations, but she probably won't make a lot of money. In contrast, most rich people's income comes from investments, rather than salary.
That called my attention as well, but I figured they would be in semi-open-space: some privacy provided by the shell to the left of the chair and maybe one behind the chair, but open to the front and to the right of the chair.

As in, maybe there's another workstation to the right of the chair positioned in symmetry (open to the left and shelf to the right).

The chair by the window looks like belonging to the hallway in front of the pictured workstation.

Just speculating though.
I like that argument. It seems tangential at first, but it would make a lot of retirees much more comfortable and willing to spend their money.

That line of reasoning sounds similar to the establishment of the FDIC bank account guarantee that helped end the Great Depression by alleviating people's fear of failing banks.
You're completely missing the fact that consumption doesn't always increase pleasure or well being. It's a gaussian distribution.
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Surprising that cost of healthcare, especially for those who are 60+ is not factored in. If the same rich retiree lives in a country with same cost of living (but with super cheap/affordable healthcare), spending behavior would probably be very very different.
I credit this place and the other abandoned warehouses of Detroit for my interest in public policy issues (e.g., economic development, labor policy). These places were also a great source of entertainment during my high school days. The Packard Plant was a bit legendary for parties (raves) in the 90s.

"It was just under ten years ago that my friends and I began traveling from our suburban homes in Royal Oak, Michigan into Detroit looking for nightlife. We were typical middle-class teenagers seeking to change our environment and explore the 'underground' of an aging city. The destination was often an abandoned warehouse converted into a makeshift nightclub, where by 2 a.m. bass shook the rundown building from foundation to roof. Over time and after becoming acutely more observant, however, I realized that these surroundings were more than a suburban nightlife. The boarded-up homes, the all too rare museums, and the businesses polarized between mild victory and failure, all came into context—my observations matured. Through the study of economics, these observations became first-hand illustrations of poverty, real estate markets and labor dilemmas.

...

I clearly remember paying $20 to stumble into a nearly pitch dark doorway of Detroit's Packard Plant. The walls of the abandoned building, certainly the size of a football stadium, were adorned with black garbage-bag-like plastic to create boundaries for the event. There were some scarce hanging lamps and one other thing that looked a touch unreal: an industrial heater. Seriously, it looked like someone had taken the propulsion unit from a fighter jet and mounted it on the floor. Its flames poured out a good 6-8 feet and the only thing keeping you from igniting yourself was a a remote, albeit real, sense of mortality. That was it in terms of the venue. One thousand other kids paid the same and made the same entrance into the city's largest expense-free nightclub...it was a good time before glowsticks and pacifiers made their way into the scene.
"

https://technotarek.com/shows/richie-hawtin
My numbers are from 25 years ago, so cost per SF for similar is probably $30+ a foot now, and engineer costs are much higher, but the percentages stay the same.

A 3.5 meter by 3.5 meter room is what many call a "two man" office. We had essentially 2.8m by 2.8m single persons, again you only need a minor more space than a cubicle. Doorway (which a cubicle needs too but not a swinging doorway) and mildly thicker walls. The ventilation goes through the ceiling, power in the walls.

You can't always have an exterior window in every office, but you can have interior glass. It's important to have enough natural light in the hallway so that the interior glass carries the natural light into the offices. You don't want long dark hallways that can only be lit by artificial light. Break up the hallway with an exterior window or an office with windows and interior glass.
Ask HN: What's the best way to relearn math?
Recently, I've noticed my quantitative abilities slipping. I want to refresh myself on probability, statistics, linear algebra, and maybe calculus?

Piggybacking on the thread below, I'd be curious to hear any new sites/apps/books/practices the HN community recommends. This is more of a mental exercise than an application towards a particular problem. Thanks in advance!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3569761
It was easy to learn, has great libraries to do virtually anything and I haven't yet found a need to require strict static typing (I haven't explored MyPy yet though). More importantly, I know the internals of the language pretty well and I invested a lot of time in learning them. So I'm kind of reluctant to switch to another language, although I want to explore Go.
Would you rather have a handout or a heavy heart full of regrets?
Wow.. really? There are many that are insanely popular.

House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, as you mentioned but I'm not sure how you've missed their others like...

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Narcos, The Crown, Stranger Things, The OA, Sense8, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Grace and Frankie, Santa Clarita Diet, BoJack Horseman...

.. and that's without mentioning their extremely successful original kids programming or co-productions (like Lillyhammer, or the new Degrassi, or Dirk Gently) and of course their continuations (Fuller House, Arrested Development, Trailer Park Boys, Black Mirror.. etc).

I mean.. just look at that line up.
Which part?

What do find so fantastic about my story, that a CFO would think about team productivity in addition to costs? I will agree that CFO was a very rare and special bird.
Daww! I'm the author, thanks!

I was REALLY depressed after watching these last two episodes. HungryBot was easily the coolest thing I've done in my unfunded nonprofit. But it was too buggy to fly. Kicked it out of the nest too early, but to the best of my knowledge it was the first deep learning food recognition app.

Looking for philanthropists if anyone wants to help me study diabetes with apps like this.
Real World Pandas/Python Video Series (Manitou Incline GPS Data)
Chat apps in 4 billion lines of javascript are totally terrible. Wrap the turd in 4 layers of react. It is still awful.