skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My go to gut feeling is that if EVERYONE is doing it, where it is something that's speculative, then that's when you avoid
Precisely, Net income leads to funny bookkeeping to game the system. The goal of gross income forces companies to be efficient and with only wages and salaries as deductions, not at the expense of employees.

Trade tariffs can be applied in a similar manner. In the usual case, tariffs are based on the worst performing internal supplier, not on the best performing (most efficient) internal supplier. As efficiencies are gained by all, the tariffs themselves can come down. If the most efficient internal supplier gets less efficient, the tariffs do not increase to offset this decrease in efficiency. hence, they are forced to maintain or increase efficiency.
Sometimes I stumble upon things on the internet, sometimes I search specific things in the surroundings. I'm a history buff and I love exploring old bunkers, so I search online for bunkers in the vincinity of, let's say, Avranches.

Some destinations are chosen because of their convenient location. I can't travel to the south of France in one long drive, so I need two stops that are approximately 1/3 and 2/3 on the way. I check Google Maps for interesting geography, and do some research about towns/cities in the vincinity. This applies to other road trips as well: I found one of my favorite hotels ever this way (Kasbah Tebi in Aït Behaddou, Morocco: a UNESCO-protected kasbah without electricity or running water.)

For the city trips I browse forums (TripAdvisor, Zoover) and 'things to do in...'-lists.
> they knew what happened was shameful

Do they? Are pro-democrasy protests allowed today? Or would people be shot again?
This sounds very similar to the work places I've seen in Japan, too. Essentially those who don't work as much unpaid, voluntary overtime as others don't get promotions, get shafted on bonuses, and very passive-aggressively "bullied."

I'm surprised your boss tried to pressure you for info. Usually the companies that are more traditional ('non-mandatory' aka mandatory outside activities) will follow cultural norms and just do the punishment without the asking.
Ask HN: Anyone else noticed very poor eBay desktop site performance?
I have noticed this across multiple devices. Works okay with ad blocking but without it is overloaded with adtech, affecting both load time and page performance (6 events attached to scrolling for example).

No idea why they run all these display ads, if many people are getting the same performance they would be shooting themselves in the foot with all the lost sales.
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Tried to do exactly the same thing before heading to the comments.

I know it's not that unusual, but I find it amazing and somehow comforting that some things are still there, and especially incredible that I can see them from here, without visiting Berlin (although visiting in person places that you only know from books, for example, is an amazing experience too)
The problem there is advertising, and jurisdiction for taxing "image rights".

E.g. Cristiano Ronaldo pays taxes in Spain for his salary. His income from advertisers using his mug all over the world is another story - the Spanish state wants dibs on it, his accountants say that is not "work" performed there.

We still do not have a handle on the Mickey Mouse and superstar system.
a lot of people get a percentage of everything.

Credit card processors, the post office, transportation companies. ISPs, kinda.

"A percentage of everything" is another way of saying "in the infrastructure business".
I think you can achieve that in the SQRL app (I don't know if it does in practice). The app would have multiple private keys with one flagged as active. You would toggle which is active before reading the QR code (or tapping on it if on the same device).
Who's to say that it isn't a pattern from Game of Life? You can set up the initial configuration however you like.
The problem is that most (all?) site subscriptions now are all-or-nothing, and even if you do like a site, you probably like several, and paying $10-$30 per month (or whatever) each for even 5 different sites starts adding up real fast.

If sites were to offer an "article bank", it might be more compelling: you put in $X and that buys you Y articles, which you can read over the span of days, months, or years. But no one seems to be doing that, probably because they believe the economics of breakage is better.
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The book is a short story compare to the LOTR book trilogy. As a result, the movie cannot be that diverse and fast-pased, so it inevitable becomes boring after a while.
Works for me?
Agreed. As long as it's clear what I'm going to pay before I open each article, I have no problem paying more for an article from a trusted news source than from a tabloid.
Thank you for your feedback.

I only discovered that article by rsc quite recently when I was putting the finishing touches on the article and going over the sources, but it has some very interesting points and ideas.

You are probably correct on both accounts. I will consider how I will correct the article.
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Munich is becoming increasingly expensive for young, unmarried people. Or couples with kids. I don't have actual sources for data, but most of my friends are complaining.

I am living in a town 80km south west of Munich and I pay for a full house with garden less than a one bedroom app in Munich. I find this really expensive. Kindergarten you are expected to pay about 1000 euros a month for a place, because there is a shortage. Meanwhile, my local kindergarten cannot fill its quota of children. Life quality is amazing since you can buy most of the food locally.
The key issue is that a lot of startups use various contractual terms --
things like options on exit, liquidation preferences and others -- to take money into into the business at high nominal valuations, while still offering downside protection (optionality) to investors. The public at large usually just quotes the nominal valuation and goes from there. However, the optionality of those terms has substantial financial value, so the nominal valuation is often far from the truth.

These authors have developed a system to tease out the optionality using standard financial methods (using methods like Black-Scholes, for example), which can give us all a better understanding of the true worth of these companies. Far overdue in my opinion.
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Where are the steakhouses? That's my problem with the current state of the paid content web; it seems to be a race to the bottom, with few exceptions (and the exceptions in my experience seem to be mostly enthusiasts doing it not for a living).
This might win the gold medal for loose associations in a non-schizophrenic context.
I wonder what kind of reaction site owners will have to this; I can think of a lot of smaller sites or forums that rely on Google ads + premium access with no ads for revenue.
That's the thing that really annoys me about human psychology (to which I myself am of course not immune). I don't subscribe to any sites that offer subscriptions because I rarely visit any one particular site to make it worth it (I rarely, if ever, run into, for example, the NYT free article limit). I block all ads, but I certainly wouldn't mind paying a reasonable per-article price all the same.

By not offering per-article pricing, they're actually _losing_ money from me, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if going to per-article pricing would result in less revenue than monthly subscriptions overall.
This is awesome.

I just hope that people secure their phones. I recently got a new Android phone and it has no password and no encryption by default, so I assume most people leave it like that.

If you get access to my phone you can access 10+ years of pictures, email, bank account, and all the services I use.

Besides this, I love it. Can it be implemented in a website, already, or is it just an idea..?
they should be flattrd, obviously
Penrose tilings would look much better, yes. They are proven to be aperiodic.
Penrose' alma mater was St.John's in Cambridge but then he switched to be professor at Oxford, in the south.
So they cannot really put Penrose tilings on a Cambridge station.
There's huge rivalry between those two cities.

But how could they fuck up Conway with Wolfram tilings? Wolfram went to St.John's in Oxford and then moved to California. No Cambridge there.
Conway's alma mater was in Cambridge and then he became professor in Princeton, USA.
Penrose has the same affiliations as Conway, the only problem is that Penrose stayed in the UK and went to Oxford.
TL;DR it is not fair to take the per-share valuation at the last round of funding and apply it to all stock if the newly issued stock has preferential rights.

10 apples are worth $100. 90 oranges are not therefore worth $900.
I already have an ad removal pass, it's called uBlock origin.
Do you want $NaN after all your hard work?
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Seriously what even are you offering? Your web site doesn't tell me anything. Everything is just "pattern lock" that and "pattern lock" this. Are you just substituting passwords with freaking 9 point "pattern lock"? Because that sounds super dangerous and weakens security significantly (and it's not like people are going to use different patterns for all websites/services anyway)

Also your signup says "no credit card required" are you asking money for this? Because as far as I'm aware SQRL is completely free to use.
From TFA: "Suramin works by inhibiting the signaling function of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a nucleotide or small molecule produced by cellular mitochondria and released from the cell as a danger signal. When CDR is activated, the effect of extracellular ATP is similar to a warning siren that never stops. Suramin inhibits the binding of ATP and similar molecules to key purinergic receptors, according to Naviaux."

Are there any other substances out there that inhibit ATP signaling?
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If I had a language that could do a cool microsite in just few lines of my language code I'd be pretty proud of it too.
Hilarity ensues...
This comes just after the BAT ICO? Interesting
The Fireball malware already infected more than 250M computers worldwide
So my ID's are in my SQRL app on my laptop or phone. Can I sync my ID's between my laptop and phone? I don't want to be forced to use my phone to scan a QR code on screen for every site..

Can 1Password implement SQRL?
Besides the books recommended below, check out Peopleware if you haven't already, as well as Joel On Software (skim the blog list to only read the ones related to creating a good work environment).
That is not adblocking, it is enforcing Better Ads Standards in Chrome.

It might be useful to detect and block clickfraud sites.

Imo it will be very hard to sell it as pro user change. I would not be surprised if few would even go further and call it insulting to think people are that gullible.

For reference, the companies that make up the Better Ads Coalition
https://www.betterads.org/members/
This intrigues me because I never see the self-aggrandizement.

> bragging

I got that he was saying how easy it was for anyone, not just him. Not bragging.

> selling his product

To be fair it wouldn't show a lot of confidence if he never used it

> writing his own name

It's the name of the language. What do you want him to say, "a certain language who's name I will not disclose"? :)
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Is it not the point that this system will incentivize better content by allowing creators to charge what the market is willing to pay for content?
Pragmatic choices one can forgive, but that doesn't make it right to pretend that a thing is something it isn't. Ultimately, it seems someone there is simply lying to people.

And you may think it's trivial, but it's exactly how - step by step, creative decision by creative decision - we turn each other into idiots with little clue about how reality works. Something that was discussed at length just few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013

See also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect.

I strongly second the quote that I once found on the Internet: "Promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don’t do it to anyone unless you’d also slash their tires".
This is what Edgser Dijklmnopqstra was saying back before these unicorns existed.

We have drifted far from the vision of people building up computing.
I think that the ideal here is that something like this manages to supplant AdSense as Google's main actual business.
No, I simply want there to be progressive taxation with a relatively high marginal tax rate, and for people to actually pay the taxes they owe, instead of hiding them in tax shelters.

My income is comfortably in the region where I have to pay the marginal tax rate in my country (56%), and I pay it happily because I know it pays for valuable services and welfare for everyone.
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Not in this one, for sure ...

That is one damn insecure guy.
I like how Google doesn't remove ads from it's own sites
Most people who make a few million probably do it as a capital gain rather than income - so different tax rules will apply.

e.g. Higher rate income tax in the UK is 40% for income over £45K (to £150K). However with capital gains tax with things like taper relief you can end up paying 10%.
> it's also one of the highest-paying software niches

Thats a myth, app development is one of lowest-paying software niches. Many don't even earn enough to recover their $99 fee.

Sure, Apple hands out a huge pile of cash but almost all of it goes to King, SuperCell and other big corps.
Having choices is all well and good, but I worry that making the pricing hard to predict will reduce the reach of this feature. But I guess they are only expecting a small subset of users to use it anyway.

Why not let the users choose what they want to pay? Because Google needs this to be net-positive for their revenue, but it would be a much better web if there was some kind of mechanism to automatically give small amounts of money (say 1/10th of a cent per page view) to site owners.
Apparently Joe Hewitt is gardening during the summer months, and then working solo on a programming language (https://github.com/joehewitt/moya) among other things, in the winter months.

He feels the open web doesn't matter any more, and is embarrassed that he used to think it did, among other things.

Seems like he's not totally secure in his decisions, still.
Pointer Overflow Checking Is in LLVM
No shit, Sherlock
The python libraries ML people use (scikit-learn, tensorflow, numpy) all do the heavy work in C though
>Maybe they were going for the randomness that rule 30 provides (you can build a PRNG from it) but Game of Life doesn't?

You can build a PRNG in Game of Life, since you can build a Turing Machine.

http://rendell-attic.org/gol/tm.htm
I don't know about the particulars of the app, but at the end of the day, the only data stored in the SQRL app is the private key. All website specific keys are derived from a combination of the domain of that website and of the private key. So there is no need for a sync mechanism per se, outside of originally sharing the private key.

That being said storing that key on your (encrypted) mobile only is what protects you.

There is an option to maintain the state of which websites were used to authenticate, but that's only to reset your access should your private key be compromised (or mobile stolen). Then your SQRL app should sync the list of websites with some central location. This would ensure that the day you think the key is compromised, you can reset all access to all websites with a new private key automatically (this is part of the SQRL protocol).

On 1Password, I don't see why not. Gibson made the protocol open source and free.
They're sadly moving towards interoperability/feature-parity with WebExtensions, but I don't think they'll change entirely at any point.
It's not sex that I want, it's a family. Why have sex if I can't have kids? Why have kids if they have to kill me? Why have kids if I'm not allowed to live in the same country as them?

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My parents had a chance to kill me before I was born, and it would have been called "contraception". They didn't. I will choose to abstain from sex until I get this political mess sorted out though, so I can deny them the joy of grandchildren.
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So Japan has issues with a poor job market and people working themselves to death?

It seems like raising the mandatory pay rate for overtime would really reduce the issue. A sliding scale that increases the overtime pay rate for additional hours would nip this in the bud and improve the labor market.

Something like 1.5x for > 50 hours/week and 2x for >60 hours /week would put tremendous pressure on companies to hire more staff rather than working their employees to death. Also it wouldn't nuke the salaries of those depending on overtime pay to make ends meet. Fewer overtime hours, same pay.
> I'm not claiming that fly ash laden concrete is going to kill anyone...

That's the thing though, these low 'safe' levels of radiation do actually kill people. Every now and then somewhere, someone will be hit by a radioactive emission from Fly Ash that happens to hit one of their chromosomes and trigger cancer.

If Fly Ash increases cancer cases in a year by x% then we can be pretty sure that x% of cancer patients were victims of Fly Ash, it's just that x is actually fairly small and we just don't know which ones they are. But they still have cancer.
A somewhat relevant "theory of everything" in a TED video from 8 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy4t_zAJJ4
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