skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody ever talks about this.

I've always assumed that this is because those who think land is just another free market commodity (it isn't) don't realise there's anything to talk about, so they keep quiet.

However, those that understand realise they can use land to bypass the free market and get a constant flow of free money through rent. They then routinely lie about it so they get to carry on.

My hope is that new technology such as the linked map of land ownership will lower the bar to learning how land works far enough that it becomes hard to lie about it effectively.

Land is a monopoly, but most people are not even aware that economists describe it as such, let alone knowing how the monopoly works. I think once that begins to change, we will see reform. More of an education issue than anything else.
Ha! I saw a pretty good one along the lines of:

70% of statistics are made up on the spot.
- Abraham Lincoln
I read an article about a year ago that about 50% of China's ATM had this serial number recording capability, and that at least some compuer-connected cash counters had it too. I was highly sceptical, but then I found a cash counter that had this capability listed on its specifications page.
I don't have time right now to find it again, but they are out there and it's already being done at some places. Okay, maybe not correlated, but recorded for sure.
Disclosing potential conflicts of interest is standard journalistic practice for any respectable news organization. This isn't something the Post just invented.
Yea Italians are a pain in the ass about dressing; people here are stuck in the 80s still when it comes to work so it only makes sense it works that way.
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>Your post suggests that it doesn't work properly in your country anymore

Your post seems to suggest that the default is it working, is that really true? Does it actually work anywhere?
That's the point of Catholic school, isn't it?
The point was that it's usually said in a derogatory fashion, insinuating that European innovation suffers as a result of this.
The irony is that if someone asks the same question about a different editor, it would probably get closed by a bunch of mods and admins immediately.
Private industry created the infrastructure by which the NSA conducts these searches, and the willingness of companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook to "interact with the federal government" in support of its illegal activities is a big part of the problem.
You are right! It's the UK implementation of the law that's more fuzzy.
How does this add value to this discussion ? Indian here too :)
In the west a couple of hundred years ago, we used a mixture of religion and shame to achieve the transformation of behavior necessary to meet these sanitation goals.

"Cleanliness is next to godliness" was a slogan of that movement.

It took, more or less, a century to make the change. A big step in the right direction was the 1854 discovery by Dr. John Snow that removing the handle from a public water pump in London could slow a cholera pandemic. The well was contaminated by human feces. Steven Johnson wrote it up in his book The Ghost Map.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/ghost-map-the-story-of-londons...

A board of church directors (a vestry) owned that pump, and Dr. Snow had to talk them into approving his plan. It wasn't easy: he was denying the conventional pious wisdom of the time. But they went for it.

Then cleaning up cities required major advances in civil engineering technology: things we take for granted today in the west, like interceptor sewers and and treatment plants.

Whether or not PM Modi is a politician who toots his own horn is irrelevant to this project. Its benefits will outlast everyone alive today. Go for it, India!
>Should I throw a bit more money at the EFF?

Emphatically, yes. They're the ones challenging the NSA in court.

Does it solve every problem? Of course not. Is it part of the solution? As long as the judicial branch continues to function correctly overall, yes. Hell yes.
That document doesn't prove anything. It's clearly an email send to Clinton, so it doesn't reflect her views any more than whatever spam she got. Plus there's actually nothing nefarious in there. Nobody is disputing that the US government's position is and has always been that Assad needs to go.

If it were written with more than public knowledge, it would actually proof that the US and Clinton did not organise any sorts of fake-grassroots protests, considering the document is arguing for US engagement against Assad a full year after the war started,
(a) it’s not about Hitler, but the StaSi/MfS, the East German internal spy agency

(b) it’s not necessarily about Trump – but considering the US has elected Trump, and considering how many freedoms Trump has tried to erase already, what’s if someone worse comes after Trump?
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So the maintainer, who is already doing stuff to provide you with some code or library, has to go out of his way to accomodate you?

If you can't be bothered to send an e-mail or submit to a mailing list, why should he/she be bothered to deal with your preferences? He/she is delivering the value, not you.
You forget to add a link to the Play Store page.
Massive corruption at all levels.

I'll give you an example: the Delhi municipal corporation, the local body responsible for all civil work in the country's capital, has more employees than the Indian Air Force.

A municipal body has more employees than the country's entire Air Force.

Of these, nearly half of employees are "ghost" employees. They don't exist except on paper. Their wages go into the pockets of the local politicians and employees.

India's corruption is mind boggling.
This depends entirely on what you're using the land for. If you have a farm with a farmhouse on it, you pay council tax on the house but not on the farm (greatly oversimplified from http://manuals.voa.gov.uk/corporate/publications/Manuals/Cou... ).

There are all sorts of exemptions. A common source of complaints is that it's possible to have a huge area of Scotland as grouse moor but not pay business rates on it.
Freakily accurate predictions of the future.
Please, tell me more about how much more you learn about Operating Systems by doing a three year course on them, as opposed to implementing them off your own back using only research papers to guide you
At some point, you're going to have to have a separate device for international travel. Then they'd have to ask: "Do you have another device back home that you didn't bring because it contains sensitive information?"
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Eye catching post design ideas for social media
There's a very similar argument in this article that's trended on HN a couple of times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12472905
Value already resides almost entirely in distributed consensus systems such as Visa, the international banking system, etc. That revolution has already happened.

A zero-trust distributed database is kind of cool. A distributed database that can do 6 transactions/second with a commit time of about 30 minutes and an enormous energy consumption is not very cool. The only people for whom bitcoin is valuable are people for whom the former outweighs the latter, i.e. people for whom trust is extremely costly and zero-trust extremely valuable. Basically, criminals. There's a decent population of those, but it's still a small fraction of society and shrinking every day; drug legalization and the collapse of capital controls in the few places that still have them will destroy most of bitcoin's value.
Duke of Westminster, until recently: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/construction...

(highest value, not largest area)
Is this an actual problem? Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm willing to bet 99% of all npm packages never get downloaded. Shitty modules can live there with their 0 downloads in the last day as far as I'm concerned.

Regarding this bit: "Remember Google’s Polymer? Angular 1? Express? Perhaps the creators of these kinds of tester projects which get abandoned if they don’t pan out should be more transparent about their intentions."

Angular 1 and Express did not pan out? Not only do I remember them, I maintain half a dozen enterprise applications that use them. Is he actually mentioning Express as an example of a failed module that should not have been published?
My experience is that the opposite is often true: quite a number of those who overcame <x> tend to have the least sympathy for people struggling with <x>.

I've met ex-poor people who attribute their success to simple 'trying harder' than other poor people. I've met socially successful people who attribute it to learning 'a few simple tricks' and 'getting out of the comfort zone'. I've met ex-depressed people proclaim that if only others would meditate and/or believe in themselves it would solve all their negative feelings. I've met gays who argued that if only these sexually-confused individuals would let themselves be themselves, and move somewhere more free if need be, their struggle would be over. I've met Christians who attribute their new-found wholesomeness to simple being more repentant than everyone else in church.

In each of these cases, the conclusion was that 'these people', whether poor, socially anxious, depressed, gay or in existential crises, are just not trying hard enough (lazy).

In fact, I'd go as far as claiming that, considering myself someone who has had a decent breadth and depth of experience with these groups, easily more than 50% of the ex-somethings I've met are more on the side of judging their ex-peers instead of supporting them.

I'm sure there's fascinating research in this area. I catch myself doing similar things and while I have some theories I can't fully explain why I do it. Protecting/polishing my ego? Keeping some clean narrative and sense of progression in my head?
Maybe they said: "yeah, right; the two people before you also said they're meeting <T>, except they weren't" and continued to escort him out.

I mean, if I were asked to escort a salesman out of the building, I'd immediately assume that they'll be trying to talk their way into staying, so I'd put my extra assertive face on.
New C++ to WebAssembly compiler: Cheerp 2.0 to support mixed wasm/JS output
Doesn't CFA contain lots of law/ethics etc?
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The 26th Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollutio
We absolutely still have dress codes, they're just more ambiguous now:

http://putthison.com/post/144964888828/the-end-of-office-dre...

>Unless you work in a creative industry and live in a big city (read: basically NYC), you probably can’t wear anything too fashionable or avant-garde to work. We’re not talking about Rick Owens, but even somewhat tame designers such as Robert Geller and Stephan Schneider. And if everyone is wearing shorts and t-shirts, the sharpest you can look is in chinos. New, open office spaces still have dress codes – they’re just softly coded as social norms, not hard written into rulebooks.

>Dressing now follows subtle, in-group views – those who understand them know how to navigate the corporate world; those who don’t pay a price.
Maybe read the article
At least in America you have a variety of news sources available with different political and social agendas, including news sources that were able to legally publish material from people like Snowden and are free to report on issues like this.

I many countries, you don't even get that and couldn't start your own news source with your preferred agenda even if you had the resources. Don't buy into the "we might as well live in <insert oppressive censorious dictatorship here>". My wife was born in one, the difference is a factor in my daily life.
> she said "i just want to know who you are and why you are coming".

Isn't that what passport and visa are for?
The law has power only because it can be (potentially) enforced.
I remember PCA really "clicked" when I saw this intuitive explanation: https://youtu.be/BfTMmoDFXyE
I think the ultimate problem here is lack of delivery. 6 years is a long time to work on something and not to get something done, delivered, completed and used. If the author wants to continue on the product id recommend going backwards a bit and removing all the excessive features from the product. Define the smallest set of features that makes sense and then complete those. Get a release done and then take it from there in smaller increments. I have worked on a personal small project (60-70kloc) for over 12 years and imho the key is t o be able to.deliver something . I nearly killed my project when I did the classic mistake of doing a complete rewrite which took me over 1.5 years. It was very slow labouros unthankful job with no positive feedback. In retrospect I should have just carefully refactor my old code base to reach the same end result but with smaller increments.
You're confusing the product with the rollout / marketing. Wave obviously needed network. So what was the point of limited invites.

Imagine this. I want to have a group chat - a la Slack - and 9 team members are able and one is not. Guess that happened? No Wave use.

The point is simple. The history of stupidity, shite customer service and abandoment is there...Google is not - yet? - a world class product company. Innovation is not the issue. Execution is.
IPv6 is Classless
> Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong! https://www.youtu...

What kind of person do you have to be to act like this when people try to show what they have made? Very sad.
Mice have their place. But they have issues with precision, RSI, and force the need to move the hands to/from home row.

And if you use a laptop as a primary work tool, being able to avoid the touchpad (or trackpoint for those ThinkPad users out there) is a huge advantage.
Literally every forum I have ever been on, when it gets old enough, complains about declining quality and new users. There was a big discussion about this on a popular IRC I used to hang out on. And I spent the weekend setting up a bot to replay messages from 4 years ago in real time. And the general opinion was that the quality wasn't any higher back then.

Same thing with a default subreddit I moderated. We got endless complaints about declining quality. Using web archive to go a few years back, and the quality was just the same or worse!

All the time I read old discussion threads on HN. Either through the search feature or the "past" button. And I really don't see any difference between the old HN and the current one.

If anything it's slighty improved. I think many of the complaints discussed 4 years ago here aren't relevant any more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373 When was the last time you saw a "_____ in js" post? Honestly I miss those a bit.

Ideally I'd love to do statistics and see if stuff like average comment length or political words have increased over time. Maybe I'll try that sometime.
Linen and tropical-weight wool suits are fabulous.
> So big land owners do get hammered trying to pass it on down generations.

Many can get tax relief as a "national heritage asset" by opening to the public [1].

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tax-relief-for-national-heritage...
I'd compare to Second Life. Huge hype, huge investment, but no-one can quite connect it with doing something useful. And that's what I expect to happen to cryptocurrency: no big bust, just a gradual fading from view as it turns out there's no there there.
To be fair an iPad 2 is quite slow and bulky compared to the current model. Maybe you don't know what you're missing, but I'd say there's no going back if you use a current iPad Pro, or just the recently updated non-Pro version.

Judging by your requirements you're looking for a tablet and compared to the surface an iPad still offers a way better tablet experience.
Rails 5.1 adds support for limit in batch processing
All the pieces matter – Visuality DNA
Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale
>1. a bicycle on a blue circle

Only bicycles

>2. a bicycle on a white circle outlined in red

No bicycles.

>3. a bicycle on a blue [rectangle]

Recommended route for bicycles.
England is run by landowners who are really hostile to the idea of property tax. The last big attempt at reforming the ancient "council rates" system in the 90s converted it to a per-person "Poll Tax". This was incredibly unpopular, widely boycotted, and resulted in riots. The system was dialled back to a system based on the value of the property in 1991, paid by the occupiers, with exemptions for students and empty properties, and a 25% discount for people living alone (mostly pensioners).
What's the case for Bitcoin's inherent utility? I could place some tulips around my flat and they would make me a little happier, for a little while - and that's what utility to humans ultimately boils down to.
I've been enjoying sql-template-strings lately, which build on ES6 tagged template literals so you get the best of both worlds:

dbquery(sql`select * from friends where user_id = ${userId}`)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/sql-template-strings
Transloadit releases Java SDK with support for resumable file uploads
this is 100% anecdotal. But I got the impression that you get used to it rather fast if the climate is consistently hot for a while.

Source: I got used to Bangkok's climate in a month and happily worked with a fan only, without AC
Not sure what you mean by NPM packages, but I don't publish anything to NPM (not even a local repository).

On the other hand, the client and the server obviously each have their own package.json, with their own dependencies, etc.
I was once going to an event in a full suit, but before that, I attended a guest lecture on my university. I was just a regular attendee, but my clothes were enough for people to think I manage this guest lecture. I was handed the keys to the lecture hall, and people would come to me with questions and issues...
well i do have location services on, but on my iphone. i dont have google maps open even in the background. i have background app refresh off for google maps too. i really dont see how google could get that info. apple maybe.
According to my husband, canned herring in tomato sauce or cream is delicious but I can't bring myself to even try it due to the smell.

He's only allowed to eat it indoors if I'm not home, and the cans have to be thrown in the outside trash immediately.
I am sure that Airbus management is delighted with their best plane being associated with huge piles of shit.

India has definitely a problem with this - it was the only country I was warned about to never drink or eat anything outside of the hotel from friends that had traveled all around the world.

In the Sheraton the water was crystal clear - I think they had in house water plant. In the tech park next to it - it was yellow.
Why does this sound like something they might actually have done? In what way would (managers at) spaceX be benefited by not properly conducting tests and repairs?
Many types of common headlights, and other light sources, emit tons of IR radiation already so we'd probably know.
China expands DNA data grab in troubled western region
Haha...

And here I am today, sat in the UK offices of a Fortune 100 company (one of the big finance houses) wearing scuffed boots, black jeans and my old Megadeth t-shirt...

I am on the scruffier end of the spectrum, to be sure, but not the worst.
> with exemptions for [...] empty properties

https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-proper...

Empty properties are not always exempted. It's up to the council. Sometimes they are, sometimes there's a discount, sometimes there's no discount, sometimes people have to pay extra for empty properties.
Pencil beam with fast scans coupled to a moving, unstabilized platform can introduce stitching/alignment problems that must be solved to maintain high accuracy.

I wonder how well this system does it -- it is not trivial.
sure, but these are small local convenience stores. i doubt they would advertise on google maps.
Just an uninformed guess, but I'd say that 70% figure probably covers Visa/MasterCard but not Amex or Discover, based on what I've observed working in retail in the past.
blue circle: something you MUST do (in this case, indicates a path that can only be taken by bycicles)

white circle with red outline: something that is forbidden (the road is forbidden for bycicles)

the last one indicates a bycicle-only path crossing the road, 150 meters before it you should see a white triangle outlined in red ("danger") with a bycicle inside it
Give Typography the love it deserves
I agree it's not quite the same thing. At one point not wearing the required jacket and tie was just grounds for dusmissal. Now "overdressing" in some manner is just eccentric. Of course, not everyone has the luxury of being eccentric.
Worth noting that Labour's manifesto mentions investigating a Land Value Tax as a replacement for council tax and business rates [0]. OK, unlikely to happen, but the best chance we have for reform in the near-to-medium term.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-land-va...
Winelib requires you to (re-)compile from source.

This project allows you to load (some) windows DLLs as-is.
A 2016 work project I did requires to crawl 100 million web pages from around 100k different web sites each night. There was no existing infrastructure what so ever. I was told that it is a big data project and internet scale processing power is required (and actually budgeted for it).

Built a Python crawler to pull data from the Internet using EC2 spot instances, as they are dirty cheap. After just a few days happy coding, I eventually got to a place where I can reliably (spot instances are not that reliable) pull the data, compress them and download them to our own data centre for processing (policy rather than design decision) for under $50 with the majority spent on transferring the final compressed output.

Big data? 100 million small files a run is a typical small data project, big data means trillions of files a day, or something like exabytes scale data volume.
Also power, which implies risk. Besides the various kinds of salesmen, which you can recognize quickly, people wearing suits are usually those with power that can affect you - bosses, managers, lawyers, government officials. Piss them off, and they can ruin your day. Or life. So one learns to be extra careful around people in suits.
>The good news is at a certain point the competition for eyeballs will become so fierce that the ads become honest & informative.

How exactly would that transition work? If anything, the trend has been going the other way for the past century.