skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting anecdote, KDE had the opposite conclusion and now uses Phabricator. They said enough was missing from Gitlab CE (ex: LDAP support) they couldn't drop in replace their current infrastructure with it.
"$14.9 trillion in individual retirement accounts and 401(k)-style plans."

These are also tax-deferred plans... income the IRS is not receiving.
Q: Are there any effects in drinking natural carbonated water? Such as Evian, Perrier from source.

I am skeptical if drinking more Perrier increases your food consumption
There weren't really any dead ends. Mostly because I started with a very simple naive way to draw polygons and improved it incrementally. I didn't implement all those steps, but convinced myself that they would work.
I started with a generic plot-individual-pixels-into-tilemap routine. Going by tile-rows and columns with special casing solid tiles came next. That required "convexity" in x direction but at that point I was only thinking of triangles. Then I noticed that avoiding overdraw and working with a tesselation of the screen is probably faster. A that point I also extended it from triangles to polygons. While fleshing out the details of everything I noticed that I don't have to be exact for right-side edges if I draw the polygons in the right order.

There actually was an extension I did, that was scrapped because it just didn't look good. At some point there was support for dithering. That helps with the low color precision of the Mega Drive (3-bit/channel). It only supported 50% checkerboard dither though, which looked odd when animated. I toyed with some ideas on how to improve upon that and discussed them within our demo group, but in the end the decision was to not use dithering.
Spending down your principal may not be a smart idea though, especially if one is in good health. It runs the risk of them outliving their savings. Spending 4% or less of your assets annually is sustainable indefinitely, statistically speaking.
CEPHALOCON 2017 canceled: first reason U.S. political climate
Gnome won't do that because Github is not open source software (a good thing, in my opinion).
> The U.S. contribution, however well compensated, seems like the most inessential part of this setup. The global economy is a fair-weather economy. If there is a slight rise in tariffs, a subtle judicial reinterpretation of regulation, a tiny change of attitude — in short, if there is any exercise of what we think of as normal democracy anywhere along the supply chain — the model that links companies like Hilfiger and Li & Fung to producers will fall apart. Should that happen, which is more likely? That Asian manufacturing powerhouses will learn to market their own products, or that Western P.R. spivs and window-treatment consultants and professional espresso-tasters will learn to rebuild an industrial base from scratch?

This is well put and funny, but there are other options. It seems in fact more likely that Western designers would find other suppliers, than manufacturers would be able to market and sell directly to consumers.

Good design needs proximity - cultural, geographical proximity - with the end user.
Why should you save more than you need? What good does it do?
FOSS and commercial sector tried and failed to do stuff like that for over a decade. I agree developing it is better in the long term but most don't have the skill to solve that problem. Better to buy a proven solution, make sure you can exit it (not sure what Spanner is like here), and switch if a FOSS solution emerges.
A writing app to combat writer's block, distractions, etc.
> And while 40% of the cars in 2030 will still be of the old, internal combustion variety, they'll represent just 5% of the consumer miles driven.

> compared to the internal-combustion standard, self-driving EVs will represent, “a 90% decrease in finance costs, an 80% decrease in maintenance costs, a 90% decrease in insurance costs and a 70% decrease in fuel costs.”

> Car subscription services will increase utilization of a vehicle from 16,000-32,000 kilometers per year to 160,000 kilometers or more. And that reduces the number of years the car is in service (and thus interest paid on any financing plan) as well as increases the amount of use wrung out of it per year.

These seem like wildly optimistic projections based on an assumption that a single self-driving car can take the place of 5-10 conventional vehicles. This could possibly work if commuters don't all need to use those cars at the same time (maybe a wider prevalence of non 9-5 work schedules) or that a substantial portion of autonomous vehicles will be high-occupancy minivans and the vast majority of commuters are willing to carpool with random strangers. I don't expect either of those things to happen.

I do think self-driving cars will be successful and widely used, but it's hard to imagine them having a 95% share of passenger miles when there's plenty of manually-driven cars still on the road.

> The savings represent some $5600 per consumer per year or $1 trillion in additional disposable income in the U.S. alone by 2030.

According to the first thing I found on Google[1], average consumer spending on transportation was about $9503 per year in 2015 (which is a lot higher than I would have guessed. Apparently I'm an outlier). I think it's unrealistic to assume that lower vehicle maintenance and insurance costs are going to be passed on directly to consumers rather than shareholders. I know that's how efficient markets are supposed to work in general when you have multiple competitors, but I'll believe it when I see it.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
Maybe these people are well off because the developed the habit of saving over a lifetime and they are simply continuing the habit. If they were spenders, they wouldn't have the reserves to speak of.

It might not be fear but simply a practical habit that there is no real reason for them to break.

Keep in mind many people will have purchased items or experiences they desire throughout their life, rather than simply waiting for retirement.
Perhaps we should rethink the under pinnings of our culture rather than continue pushing "excessive material consumption"?

Seems strange to live on the notions of man who lived before today's environmental concerns became cause for alarm.
>Is watching March Madness or Game of Thrones likewise inevitable and thus a good employer should furnish a rec room with HD TV?

Sexual intercourse is a fundamental human drive, whereas watching television is not. That said, many employers do, in fact, have HDTVs in a breakroom or somewhere similar.

Despite it being banned in every workplace in the western world, sex at work is commonplace. When people want to do it, they're going to do it - that's what makes it inevitable.
> I submitted my first patch to Cairo a few weeks back and depressingly it was met with tumbleweed

There used to be a time (from what I've read) when free software meant a tarball available for download every n years. Apparently, Open Office under Sun was very good at not accepting patches at all.

Things are looking up though. Please don't give up. Look at the comments on previously on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051106

Now, we have things like KDE Neon with git-unstable and git-stable which basically allow end users to participate in the latest changes in KDE and now the windows/meta/super key actually does something in KDE which I wouldn't know if I was on Kubuntu.
Wonderful and deeply moving narrative.

Unfortunately through modern capitalism & the global supply chain we are all complicit in slavery.

The lowest cost of labor is zero or near zero. The challenge for miners/garment makers/manufacturers/industrial farms/etc. is to circumvent local laws & regulatory bodies while expanding their profit margins. Once past the local regulatory hurdle, the global supply chain adds successive layers of obfuscation and legitimacy until finished goods reach our homes. At that point, we can't tell anymore the amount of slave labor (or environmental externalities for that matter) that went into the product, so most people buy with little regard.

The solution is to strengthen regulatory bodies at all steps of the process worldwide with punitive damages to violators making the cost of circumventing labor laws greater than the benefit from exploiting poor/at-risk populations. This is an ongoing challenge for all governments worldwide - the difference is only of scale. Whether it is the plight of poultry workers in the midwest, slave fishermen in asia, trafficked women in Europe or indentured workers the world over, exploitation is an intertwined economic and moral problem.

As for Lola, I found it heartwarming that the author accompanied her home twice.
I would love to read this.
>What area has $12,000 a year in property taxes?

There is no state income tax in Texas, only sales and property tax. A house valued in Houston at $400k will yield ~$7,700/yr in taxes. Search the tax rolls at hcad.org - pick a zip code like 77008 and see for yourself. Just be sure to pick 2016 tax values as 2017 aren't posted yet.

http://hcad.org/property-search/real-property-advanced-recor...

Select "A1" for the property type and/or put in a valuation to filter the dataset down below the max of 3,000 records. Any more than that will return an error.
My grandfather worked at Exxon Mobile for 60 years and retired around 1988 with a few million dollars in stock. I remember my dad saying he had about 3 Million in stock he purchased as his retirement plan.

He built a house and bought a couple of nice cars living on about 100,000 a year. About 12 years ago he had a heart attack and stroke and was bed ridden. 12 years of doctor bills and hospice ate through almost every dollar he saved.

My grandmother sold the house and now lives on her social security. Maybe people 60 should not be so fast to go spend their cash. He was 72 when he got sick and 84 this year when he finally passed away. If something happens to our grandmother there wont be a nice $3 million to cover 12 years of hospitalizations and surgeries.
That might well be the paradox of thrift, that is that their frugality, while individually rational, collectively harms the entire economy (including themselves).

Just like arguably a lot of austerity in the Euro zone was self-defeating.
> The "2013 devices" makes me thing that this is a "toy" for people like "us" that have a Nexus rotting away somewhere

I'm writing this on a 2013 Nexus, thank you very much! A year ago it stopped booting and I tried searching for a newer, comparable tablet to replace it: no such device exists. I ordered a replacement main board and couldn't be happier. Until someone makes a new 7-inch tablet with a full HD display, it will continue to not rot in my hands for a few more years.
Random thought: I'd be curious if results hold up after drinking sparking water regularly and the novelty of it wears off. Like is any of the effect due to an associations in your brain triggered by the carbonation.
That's how my grandpa lived: A life full of fleeting moments now in exchange for shellshock when 65 arrived.

Given the reluctance of our culture to show care and concern for people in general, I'm not too psyched about getting to the end and needing a handout.
As a heavy user of datastore, i'm glad the pricing model is around instances and data stored. Paying for reads and writes makes doing any sort of migrations or map reduce jobs extremely expensive.
I am going thru that very scenario right now, having had an emergency crop up while unemployed and uninsured.

I'm very sure that unless I get very lucky, I am so very fsck'd for the rest of my life.
Yep! It's a decent web browsing experience with Chromium once you configure some of the settings, and use at least uMatrix to block some of the heftier Javascript. And you can use SMTube to play Youtube videos.

I'm currently running Chromium with a few open tabs, SMTube, VS Code, and Hexchat without any problems.
Keep this in mind when you read "Chinese" or "Russian" hacker and immediately assume it's state sponsored...
Economists distinguish between saving, consumption and investment. Excess saving is economically inefficient.
I definitely agree that GitLab is a very poor product. Upgrades every week and I get a 500 return, I mean I can't remember GitHub or Bitbucket having this sort of issue. Transferring my repos to GitLab is one of my bad decisions in my development life.
For the most part, US retirees have health care too.. more so than the rest of the population at younger ages.
The initial selling points will be for high end markets. This style farm would give more control over the humidity and temp to the farmer who could then make significant changes to the flavor profiles that would be easily repeatable. Additionally, all out of season crops will taste in season and there will be no issue with shipping time leading to degradation.

This could be enough of a selling point for certain high end restaurants.

The loss of sunlight does seem staggering to overcome, but plants can only use a few narrow spectrum bands of light which can be efficiently replaced with led.
Suppose you are a financial planner or whatever they call themselves. You've been in the business a while and you've observed dozens of wealthy peoples' retirements. Isn't it possible you might reasonably have some perspective to share with a wealthy couple just coming into their mid 60s and ready to stop working?

Look at this paragraph from the article:

One of those irrational reasons may be simple habit. Something strange happens when people retire, Browning says. All of a sudden, they’re not getting a regular paycheck, and that makes them scared to spend. Goals set before retirement are abandoned, along with pre-determined spending plans, because retirees are terrified see the balances on their retirement accounts drop even a tiny bit.

What's wrong with someone, like a financial planner, reassuring a couple that yes they can take those vacations they always dreamed of, yes they can pay for their grandkids' college tuition, yes they can make a substantial donation to that museum they love so much -- here's the math showing that it is likely to be okay?
Keyne's paradox of thrift is hogwash.

If the occasional person is thrifty, there's no problem.

If everyone is collectively "too thrifty", then we've got a problem, but this isn't the cause of the problem, it's a symptom. What does it mean when everyone is saving? It means that there is some kind of uncertainty or fear which is making people forego current consumption in favor of future consumption. This isn't a natural state of human affairs, since we tend to value things today more than things tomorrow. The extra "thrift" happens because of political or economic uncertainty.

Political uncertainty is fickle, you can't predict it or plan for it. However, saving is the correct response to economic uncertainty, and it's what's responsible for the eventual recovery after a crash.
I have a 'pet theory' (ie random thought that crossed my mind a few times), that to become a good engineer or software developer you need to have, or make yourself a perspective of the world, and your place in it, where you don't need to - even subconsciously - lie to yourself in order to feel all right.

It almost appears as if the brain almost doesn't allow us to see what we need to see, and think what we need to think to be good at those task, if doing so will interfere with our self image and/or worldview in a similar vein as our more physical self-preservation instincts make it very hard to consciously do things that will cause pain or harm.

I don't think it is about having to be altogether rational or truthful, but rather that you and the perception of whatever world you experience will not be significantly challenged by the observations you do each day, the thoughts you experience, and the decisions you make.
That's unfortunate for you and the other poster but given the popularity of reclining I'm going to have to think you're in the minority.
http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=NETFLIX&job=SENIOR+SOFTWARE...
Probably because a lot of the PHP things are down by tightwads who want to spend as little as possible.
You should probably remove "Event Sourcing" from the description ... CQRS has nothing to do with Event Sourcing (even though they are often used in conjunction with each other), nor does your library from what I can tell.
Fallacy of the excluded middle, nobody suggested that people should be spending themselves into penury. This is a great argument for universal healthcare though.
It also has "disruptive performance." I am not sure if I should take it as a good sign, that AMD talks more with reddit than with their marketing department.
This is such a naive, ignorant statement that no wonder you would never get a job at Netflix.
> Who knows if the police there would care or not.

That's not a reason not to call.

> We don't know enough to say if the situation is that of a shitty employer or that of a slaveowner, and our only source of information doesn't even know himself:

Well, if police were to check, all the "friend" would have to do is provide proof of salary and most everything would be fine if it was a mistake.
NASA Selects High Performance Spaceflight Computing Processor Contract
Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/

(Most of) the rest of his films:
http://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/
Unless there's some special pricing, I don't see any of the enterprise options work out. You can't pay per month per contributor for a projects public bug tracker. So I'd think they'd stay with the CE and hack in/around the features they need.
Whenever these `weight gain linked to soda` studies come up, I'm always confused.

That seems like the goal, doesn't it?

If sugar is singled as the cause of obesity, the next step will be taxing sugar and not diet sodas. So expect a thick smokescreen around soda. The fact that overhelming difference between beverages with a huge sugar dosage and without doesn't appear in a study is suspicious enough.
Is LinuxKit's core system based on Alpine?
You might find the following book interesting - my wife recommends it to many people. It's by Australian political writer Annabel Crabb.

The Wife Drought - Why women need wives, and men need lives
https://penguin.com.au/books/the-wife-drought-9780857984289

"'I need a wife' -- It’s a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it’s not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It’s a potent economic asset on the work front. And it’s an advantage enjoyed – even in our modern society – by vastly more men than women."
I'm certainly not advocating conspicuous consumption and needless spending.

However, these individual actions might collectively have unintended consequences, and that's what the paradox of thrift is about. It's a descriptive concept (i.e. about what happens in the real world), not a normative one (i.e. what people ought to do).

But before you decide what one ought to do, it is best to take into account what actually happens in the world.

It might well be better if people spent more (and that need not be on material things, it could be education, concerts, and so forth).
This is some crazy shit.
I hope this is a predecessor for him taking over from Jack Dorsey.

I don't understand how anyone thinks Dorsey can run both Twitter and Square at the same time.
Abe Shinzo has been explicitly trying to rehabilitate Japan's imperial legacy the entire time he has been in power. He's tied to Nippon Kaigi, a group who believe,

“Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers, that the 1946-1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate, and that the killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 ‘Nanjing massacre’ were exaggerated or fabricated.”

I think you can predict someone with that view of history's ambitions pretty clearly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/opinion/tea-party-politic...
You'll need proof about Japanese militarism. Many in Japan disagree with the country's rearmament [1]. Even Chinese people find Japanese people less nationalistic than they are in recent days [2]. Though for some reason they still think Japan is a warlike/violent country.

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/10/31/japanese-back-global-eng...
[2] http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/09/13/hostile-neighbors-china-...
This seems to contradict the purpose of banks. You put your money into banks so that you earn a savings rate on the money while the banks puts it to work in the economy.

Are the piles of money in mattresses really all that much bigger today than they were 30 years ago? Beyond the demographics of the baby boomers, this feels like a non-story to me.
Honeycrisp is good, but there are a lot of other varieties out there like Envy, Lady Alice, Ambrosia...etc.
Less than 1 out of every 20 deaths are from traffic accidents. It's higher for young adults mainly because young adults have a near zero death rate.

We had a spike in 2015 & 2016, and one in 2012, and every other year over the last decade the death rate has declined. The article you linked to emphasized the increase in deaths, and downplayed the increased number of miles driven, which is misleading. Deaths per mile only increased 3%.

And we've seen these spikes before, about one or two per decade and they don't change long term trends. In 1961-63 they spiked 6% per mile driven and 4% in 1965-66, since then death rates have declined 80%.

2015 was the 5th safest year ever for US auto travel. It's death per million miles was 1.12, in the 2000-2009 the death rate averaged 1.41 per million miles, meaning they've still declined 20% over the last decade, even with the recent spike.

Self driving cars aren't very speculative any more, it's not a question of if, just when. But automatic braking systems and lane safety systems exist today. Honda offers "Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS™)" as an option on most of it's cars already.

https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/om/JA0606/JA0606O00...

Honda also offers a collision warning feature, lane keeping assist system, road departure mitigation, lane departure warning, and adaptive cruise control with low speed follow. All of these systems exist today, and are offered by most manufacturers as options. They haven't had a big impact yet because they are options, and haven't been offered for very long so they are on a minuscule portion of the cars on the road.

But as their costs drop, just like ABS and other safety features, they will become standard equipment and after another decade or so it will be difficult to find a car that doesn't have them.
The quote is about what financial planners should recommend to their clients (the retiree).

I don't think the article is suggesting that financial planners recommend their clients take one for the team and spend more money.
I work in a flexible seating or "activity-based" work space. I get to sit near HR from time to time. When reviewing user feedback about the work space I've heard them say, I quote, "That guy is an introvert, of course he'd say that..." while shaking their heads. When reviewing training and information session feedback "Introverts are less emotionally intelligent than we are, they're bound to react that way." Finally when reporting on work space feedback results they say the response is "overwhelmingly positive" but never quote figures or provide a breakdown of responses.

Extroverts control the office space and culture, as they tend to gravitate to the kinds of fields/departments that coordinate those aspects. Working from home is our only hope, as they seem to have an almost militant distaste for personalities that don't blend with their vision of how things should be.