skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump seems to take a "public company-esque" view of governing: focus on short-term gains rather than long-term R&D and strategic planning to win the long game.

Rational, if you view for governing as a tool of electoral politics rather than vice-versa.
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Totally agree. Especially if the expression of such ignorance comes with a sense of pride and entitlement. It's easy to get entitled and proud, because nobody in real life would give you 200 nods to your racist musings while in line at Walmart. But 200 people press a stupid like button, and suddenly you feel like your idiotic and uneducated opinion has a great meaning.
This is straightforward dangerous for representative democracies, which are founded on the subtle concept of an elite of better people that have a mandate to lead society.
The fact that this mandate has been misused so many times is no excuse to suddenly drop all the good that comes from having someone who knows more in a position of power.
Thinking about it, it's weird that people expect the ice cream to be yellow anyway, since I can't say I've ever seen a banana with yellow flesh.
Canada has always been fairly hard to get into... just like most countries you have to bring more to the table than they would be giving you.
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... with rockets.
Only around 40% of Americans have a mortgage, with a large chunk of those being people who earn upper middle class money and are therefore probably more stable in their career with more leverage against employer abuse. Most other common debts (credit cards) don't have the kind of consequences that would prevent you from missing a few months of payments if necessary. So, while this might be a concern for a subset of the population, it probably still stands that this would benefit most of the people most often preyed upon by shady employment practices.
US has a long history of upholding its agreements compared to other countries. Germany & France cannot even uphold spending 2% of GDP for NATO: http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/news/nato-funding-explained-...

Agreed in 2006 of 2% target, then had to reiterate the target in 2014 since many members did not meet 2% target. "Members that fell short at the time promised to meet their obligations by 2024" .. it is an obligation not some "aspirational goal" as some have mentioned below.

Time: http://time.com/4680885/nato-defense-spending-budget-trump/

Economist: http://time.com/4680885/nato-defense-spending-budget-trump/

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-calls-for-rise-in-defence-...
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Pulling out of it is indication that the USA's politics is primarily driven by virtue signaling among different segments of its governing elite, not by policy or objective reality.

If you believe the USA should be involved at all on the international stage, this creation of new public knowledge is a big detriment to that end.
It is a YC company. I don't think they're cheating, I just think stripe is especially interesting to the IN community.
> And why would "learning a culture" before getting to be a part of it be any bad?

Because they don't want to. They don't want to learn it, they don't want to be a part of it. So they stay in a walled garden where they can participate in groups they want to participate in, with their own culture. And they're not the ones complaining about it, the open web advocates are complaining about their voluntary association with each other.
I think the writer needs to learn more about the scientific method before injecting their opinions into this kind of piece.
So Trump is basicly quitting the Paris climate pact for the mining industry, which is mostly automated? Leaving the solar space for China that going to be the leader in solar energy.

I've actually never thought i would say this, but my "admiration" for the US has drasticly declined the last few months. I think this also affects "Silicon Valley".

PS. Am i right that your President only had a one hit wonder with Trump Tower, with daddy's money. Then licensed everything ( the few things he did with casino's failed). And ... He is now the president, because he was in a TV-show? Or am i missing something?
But I could argue that in corporate politics a knife to the back is more common than a slap to the face. At least it seems that way.
I don't know the exact etymology of this word in Celtic - just mentioning some other languages with a similar relationship to PIE, but not necessarily with the same degree of influence by Latin, for comparison.

I'm not sure what you mean by "mutation of the words happened identically over time"? The Latin for "ten" is "decem" - it didn't drop the "m" (hence also "decimus", "decimatio" etc). Most Romance languages did drop it eventually - but that came later, and in any case those languages wouldn't be in a position to influence Welsh.

FWIW, I don't think it would be all that surprising for related but diverged languages to evolve in a similar way. Sure, they may have developed some different laws governing those changes since the divergence - but they will also have some common laws from their shared ancestry. And there's "convergent evolution" of languages, as well. Although it would be interesting to find out if this particular change is really governed by some common rule, or some rule that independently arose in two different branches, or it's just a curious coincidence.
In your hypothetical situation, the headline would be an inaccurate headline.
> You're deliberately trying to erase the difference in order to pretend that there is no difference.

Well, here at least you are correct. However, it's not like I'm doing it willy-nilly. I am purposefully reanalyzing the construct, and coming to the conclusion that by doing so it makes a problem disappear. Oh, and at the same time, it also falls in line with these common constructions throughout at least West Germanic languages, of which English is one. So it makes a lot of sense on multiple levels, so why should it not be a valid analysis?

And so far the only argument you seem to have is that, no someone else beat me to the punch. This construct has already been analyzed and named and so I don't get to do that. Which seems like a pretty silly argument from this side of the table; that kind of stuff happens all the time. In science, in math, in engineering... I'm sure in other fields with which I am less familiar. There's always a process of refinement in studying the world, a constant improvement in methods of thinking and doing. That's how progress happens. Otherwise we'd all still be bashing rocks together, because rocks are used for bashing and that's been decided and I don't get to look at the situation and decide that hey, maybe this bronze stuff is better for bashing.
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Would knowing the fair market price be a proxy for percent ownership (assuming you know the current valuation of the company)?
Does anyone else get the cold sweats just thinking about a Windows machine sitting essentially naked on the internet? Sure, Windows has a firewall. I still wouldn't really trust there are no zero days in it. This will make a damn fine Chromebook or Linux machine. Windows? Particularly with Qualcomm writing the unauditable radio stack? (See Google's Project Zero for why that's a bad idea.) No thanks.
I think your numbers are a bit off. I am not sure about the exact numbers but I think the sun will only burn about half or so of its mass over its lifetime. Also the black holes we observed merging are stellar black holes with masses on the order of tens of solar masses, not galactic black holes with millions or billions of solar masses.
I don't understand how you think the NATO meeting was bad. Countries should pay their fair (and agreed to!) share towards NATO.
I prefer part 91 but there's some serious overhead there. Also, intercontinental travel is kinda hard.
What?

The US is a nation of immigrants. It doesn't see other nations as "other" any more than any other nation, and probably less so because we're very culturally diverse.

But yeah, if you want to go back to the days where benevolent places like the British Empire, Imperial Germany, and the USSR ruled the world, have at it. Because they were benevolent, right?

The US isn't doing a great job, but if American power gets rolled back, are you ready for Russia to come rolling into Eastern Europe? You ready for the Chinese to invade Taiwan? The US is the only thing preventing that.

It's not ideal but it's not all bad, either.
That's.. disappointing to hear, and actually getting me less excited about Sigma than I was. Please do make the API available.
And therein lies the problem.
Almost all of these quitting posts just read like people coming to terms with their addiction.

Good for them, but they seem to mistake it as some sort of universal lifehack.
Quite possible that the really good companies don't need to raise after Series A
Love the post(s), the reasons mentioned are precisely why I took the time to make my own site. There are so many unexplored opportunities with custom components that will never work on platforms, but too few are doing it. Alan Kay's talks completely changed my way of thinking - you need to take control of your tools.
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basically just keep working and don't look to the past as a predictor of the future.
Radar, smack there in the left-menu, is Stripe's Fraud "prevention" system. You can register and mark fraudulent purchases to improve the machine learning system behind Radar (sure). You can setup rules such as "Block if CVC verification fails" (really and can be disabled). At least, Stripe is trying to address the problem. Unfortunately, not with great success at the moment, but I'm sure/hope it will improve. We use both PayPal and Stripe and the difference is like a green meadow compared to a green toxic waste dump with regards to charge backs and fraud.
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Seeing as how the public debate has deteriorated, and the results that it has led to, I'm willing to put up with almost anything that can bring civil societies back to, well, "civility".

One of the most important pillar of that is varied, but high-quality media. These, however, have been squeezed relentlessly over the last years, with no end in sight. People think reporting isn't worth anything (an almost literal quote in many of these threads), just because they can read the same stories at different outlet–ignoring that somebody still had to be there. Or they're legitimising their use of aggressive ad blockers with the tired the-media-is-so-bad cliché (...then why are you reading it?).

There are two paths that I believe print media can get back on track: First, such an ad blocker that allows reasonable ads, i.e. not moving, obscuring, or for low-quality products.

Second: a netflix-style subscription that gives access to many publications. Because as it is now, I can't justify paying for any single subscription (except for the rather cheap New Yorker). But I'm willing to pay something like $30-$50 dollars/month for the written words I consume. There's just nobody to take the money.

I don't actually have much of a problem with Google. They have always been really excellent in such regards, especially considering how much potential for scandals they have. But I'd prefer more diversity, if at all possible.

I guess this will hurt other adblockers quite badly, and I'm wondering if they didn't create this problem by not creating a product that fairly accounts for publishers' interests.
A couple of years ago, I spent some time in South Africa. At one point I asked a local friend what they thought about the song "Sun City"[0], which was an anti-Apartheid song from 1985. My friend never heard of the song and was shocked since so many big artists performed on the track. They proceeded to ask their friends on Facebook, many of which were in theirs 30s/40s, if they heard the song, and the far majority of them also never heard of the song. The government was very effective in blocking access to the song via all the normal channels for the time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36NC-mIbq0
How active is it with your friends?
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> You would have no way of knowing if the image was an ad or part of the article content since they were all served through the same thing. No silly subdomains like ad.domain.com either.

Still quite feasible to detect by size and styling.
Yeah, that Trumpian factoid has long been debunked. Formally true, but 2% is also an aspirational goal, to be met a decade from now. That parallels, at worst, Trump making it harder to meet the Paris pact's requirements a decade from now.

But of course you know all that already.
A friend of mine is director of business for https://www.franschocolates.com/ , which is a great local Seattle family business that has grown up to be big thanks to a great product (Seriously good chocolate!).

They moved to Stripe for payments years ago, and it's helped them out a lot with simpler integration and more data. Sigma looks great for them.

They're not a big outfit, they don't have a dedicated engineering3 dept or developers on staff. Their main business is making chocolate after all.

With Sigma they can more easily query their transaction data and get all sorts of insight. My friend has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Nutrition, she's a smart woman and can do a lot more with excel that I can muster. Although she learned some coding in engineering school, using the APIs directly is a lot to ask. SQL is much more accessible, and was originally developed for business professionals just like her. So I expect something like this will help her go from periodic data imports and excel-based analysis to much more frequent, maybe daily, reports and analysis.
One feature I miss from the old HN Notify service is getting an email when someone replies to one of my comments. Any chance you could add support for that?
sigh. Guess I'm not funny.

This crowd is too damn serious.
edit: Downvoted for asking a legitimate question about Stripe's data handling protocols. I'll ask Stripe directly. Sorry.
There is a performance upper bound. You can only run instructions as fast as the machine can. Native code can get very close to this limit, in a way that in practice no interpreted or JITed code can. This is just emulating the techniques native code uses to get close to that upper bound in the same way.

It is not impossible to make pure JS run this fast, but its not going to happen without herculean effort put into JS runtimes. It is just easier to do it this way, and we get to leave JS, which is a benefit to everyone except people who actually like JS.
Sadly, butterflies and other insects are pinned like this for entomological examination, which requires the wings, antenna, legs etc are fully extended so that all manner of detail can be seen. Many species are different in minor ways, having reached a very similar body design by evolutionary convergence. Numbers of spines, hairs, scales etc are all enumerated. Once dry, they get very very brittle and you can not spread wings/legs etc in fear of breakage. It sounds strange, but a number of beetles, butterflies and other insects have been discovered that look the same - until you examine some of these esoteric aspects. Genomic analysis is the gold standard in these matters. read a few of these search hits. https://www.google.ca/search?q=entomological+examination+of+...
This move is mainly about making sure their own ads don't get blocked because of people trying to escape the bad behavior of others. But like you, I have doubts about an ad blocker created by an advertising company.
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Facebook is probably the last place I go looking for quality blog-type content. Also, the title and tone of this piece both seem intensely hyperbolic to me.
If you create your own shadow profile, you can sort of "Graffiti" your own shadow profile, right? Like a bunch of weird, random nonsense. Become friends with every single bot and every single bots' friends. Hell, you could help make shadows that aren't there.
China is willing to do it, as well as capital punishment for fraud. IMO this just transfers more power to politicians. There are more laws than anyone could ever read or count, anyone whose affairs are that complicated can be jailed at any time so it becomes purely political -- would Trump chose to arrest the same billionaires as you?
If you have invested in gold or bitcoin at $1000 per unit, does it matter if the price after the faith in its value goes away is $0 or $10?

The vast, vast majority of the price of gold is the same "it is scarce and other people value it so I too value it" that composes bitcoin or usd or any other thing you consider valuable.

By comparison, a lot of metals like aluminum have relatively low portions of their valuation wrapped up in stores of wealth.

We really should strive to replace gold with crypto. All the gold reserves in the world could be put to much better use than sitting in a vault as bricks. The artificial price inflation caused by the use of gold as reserve has inhibited its use in many practical applications due to its dramatically higher price per gram compared to many other metals in similar problem domains.
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One way to look at this is with the Kelly Criterion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion), which says that in order to maximize the long-term growth rate of your capital, you must maximize the geometric mean of your capital at the end of each decision point. To make this concrete, I'll take CA Powerball as an example. According to http://www.calottery.com/play/draw-games/powerball/faqs , the jackpot starts at $40 milllion, and your odds of winning are 1 in 293 million. For simplicity I will neglect the other (smaller) prizes, and the chance of splitting the jackpot with someone else, taxes, time value of money, etc.

Suppose you have $100k in the bank, and tldroptions.io says you have a 20% chance of receiving a $60 million payout. The geometric mean of your capital is then $360k: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=exp%28.2+log%5B60%2B.1...

It would take 62 million CA powerball tickets (each with different numbers, in the same drawing) to give the same result: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=exp((x%2F293000000)*+l...
So as long as your country is overflowing with poverty-stricken people, you're a role model for solidly low carbon emissions per capita? Got it..
If this bothers you, elect senators who will ratify an actual treaty.
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> US will give billions if it continues to pollute. Why not stop ruining our planet instead

Completely wrong. This is why all this outrage is nonsense. Nobody took the time to read the fine points.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/12/459502597/...

$100 Billion

"To help developing countries switch from fossil fuels to greener sources of energy and adapt to the effects of climate change, the developed world will provide $100 billion a year," NPR's Chris Joyce, who has been covering the climate conference, reports.

But that amount is identified as a "floor," not a ceiling.

"Developed countries won inclusion of language that would up the ante in subsequent years," Chris explains, "so that financial aid will keep ramping up over time."
That isn't the question I meant to ask. What I mean is say you have a company and get an lower offer now. Should you take it? (assume that maximizing money is your goal) If the company is at the peak of course you should, it isn't the big offer you hoped for, but it is the best you can ever get.

There are a lot of startups that fail. Then there are a fair number that do okay, but never really get big. Then there are a tiny number that gets big.
Scandinavian countries have one of the most progressive (meaning, increasing with total assets) tax scales in the world.

Astrid Lindgren, who you might now as the author of Karlsson-on-the-Roof and Pippi Longstocking children books, once was unlucky enough that she had to pay 102% of her income in taxes (yes, paying more than she had earned this year). Things got better since then, but I would totally understand the desire to evade arbitrarily-imposed taxes.
Pretty inaccurate copy, claiming Google doesn't make money off your attention when they mainly subsist off ad revenue.
Freedom will throttle after plan limit, but you can continue using it at the throttled speed indefinitely.
From that video:

"If we improve our detector sensitivity, by say a factor of two or three, the rates will go up from, you know, seeing one every month or every two months, to seeing one every day or every week."

- David Reitze, Executive director of LIGO

I don't know what their uptime is, but it sounds like they probably have a number of as-yet unreported observed events.
If you're serious, read over [1] for a bit.

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/topics/nato
If you look at this within the context of the new World Order it makes perfect sense. Trump is just another puppet President being used to incite tensions within the country while stoking unrest to foreign observers. The plan is to let the US become a third world country. Syria, Nicaragua, the United States, 'nuff said. Oh, and I failed to mention how China will become the gold standard in governing procedure, as has always been the plan. When a socialist country becomes the "world leader" you absolutely know the UN is aware and purposefully instigating just that. If China isn't a perfect example of how to run a one world government, I fail to see what else is. Democracy? Oh my god that's hilarious. Anyone with a lick of intelligence, historical knowledge, and context of global politics knows what is actually happening. America is simply being displaced as was intended since the Central Bank cartels infiltrated our economy, our politics, and now, our way of life. Mission accomplished.
Edit: Downvoted into oblivion? — I understand. The truth is usually hard to swallow.
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This decision has zilch to do with whether it's good environmental policy or will create jobs. All it has to do with is Trump's desire to feel like Alpha Man of Action when he goes to some rally/playdate in Iowa and can present a reason for everyone to tell him how incredible he is. That is the alpha and omega of policy making in this administration.