skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...even if we take this not-quite-equivalence at face value (note: 650 < 979 and 20% < 25%), most life expenses don't scale linearly with housing values - not even close.

Groceries may be more expensive in the big city, but not 10x more expensive. You're not paying 10x more for a car, or a plane flight. And insurance premiums / deductibles sure aren't 10x cheaper in a less expensive part of the country.

Plus, the "$300K in expensive place" household has the option of moving to the less expensive place. The reverse is hardly true.

> it is arguable that 30k in MO would actually be better off

1. No.
2. Even if we were to accept that $30K in one place went just as far as $300K in another, "better off" ignores that higher property costs are likely to indicate a more desirable place to live. (For whatever reason: access to jobs, lower crime rates, pleasant to live in, what-have-you.)
You are free to build and run your own apps on your devices with whatever code you desire.

Now, talking about MY devices, I don't think you should run whatever you want. That's why I like that there is someone making sure that whatever I run on my device from a 3rd party is safe.

If you have an iPhone, what anti-virus are you using? Exactly.
The article's conclusion is all about guilt and morality. Says so in the closing paragraphs.
Dropwizard bundle managing authentication through JWT cookies, 3.0.1 released
This allowed me to make a folder named CON. Literally unplayable.
I was going to say those really don't seem comparable, but after reading Jeffries', that really was awful.
> "I just bought a VW Caddy, but was also struggling with the decision as I thought about going electric."

If you don't mind doing the work yourself, and don't mind a range lower than 500km a day, you can get something like this for less than 30k Euros. For example:

http://hackaday.com/2017/05/17/solar-powered-camper-is-a-mag...
Facebook passwords are also case-interchangable. i.e. PasswoRd5 is same aa pASSWOrD5 both will work. Idea is if Caps lock is left ON by mistake.
Ask HN: Difficult relationship with CEO of v. small startup
Last month I joined a new tech startup as the second employee to the Founder/CEO. 5 weeks later, my anxiety levels are through the roof and I'm wondering whether I can stay on. I would appreciate any thoughts on how to manage this situation.

The CEO has a very strong personality (and I'm exactly the opposite - I get stressed at the slightest hint of emotional or angry exchanges), and we've had several clashes over a range of different issues. Each time this happens, it takes me a while to recover, and over time I've found myself getting really snappy and anxious. (I already had an issue with anxiety for which I'd taken a course of CBT last year, but I rarely have time to meditate / practice mindfulness because I look after our two v. young children by myself after work.)

I love the scope of the work required - it fits my skills to a T. The CEO is also really impressive - she has great business and marketing acumen and I honestly think, based on my experiences with similar companies, that she could make this company work. I'm just struggling to establish a working relationship with her. I find it hard to talk to her directly - on several occasions when we've done so, the results have been emotional language / outbursts that I find hard to cope with. I'm trying to be calm and respectful but she interprets that as not being open enough and she occasionally finds my wording to be disrespectful. (I'm british, she's german, if that's any help.)

Is this worth persevering with this? If so, how? Are there any frameworks through which two people with very different personalities can establish a working relationship? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>Nothing prevents you from moving in a more socialist country.

Countries can control who moves into them, you know.
>Hitler was a full-throated socialist too.

Is there even remotely a consensus by historians on this?
No, that's the definition of Wealth
Sorry, @flukus, the alpha is not yet on nuget.
Random advice from the internet:

1. Anchoring the value of the product to $0 may limit the ceiling on possible prices.

2. Producing a free version with upgrades creates an incentive to make something that is deliberately bad to use because it is easier to make the free version suck than to add functionality to the paid version that convinces people to pay.

3. freeanything.com is probably a lousy name for anything that is intended to be good.

Good luck.
Is there clear evidence that this reasoning justifies such a ginormous tax rate?

It looks to me a lot about the story that if you run, you'll sweat. If you sweat, you'll take a cold. If you take a cold, you'll sneeze. If you sneeze, you'll catch pneumonia. And if you catch pneumonia you'll die. So don't run.
Funny money: How counterfeiting led to a major overhaul of Canada's money (2011)
You'd probably be surprised it also works with some older workers who were at companies that had to pay per character on the old teletype. Often, those companies had abbreviation lists and two I worked with had ACK on them. It also provided an interesting insight into what words were very important in their business communications.
They leased a warehouse and provisioned it like an office. People probably like to go there, but they like to not go there more. I don't think they are terribly surprised as they created the remote working policy deliberately. It is more a counterpoint to IBM and Yahoo and their policy of not allowing remote work any more.
I could also see the original statement to be true. Humans are biased to believe that fortunate events are caused by their hard work and virtues. A society that constantly reminds you that the system is rigged thus causes discomfort.
Some major medicinal companies here in socialist Denmark are:

Novo -- focusing on diabetes; about 15,000 employees in Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk

Novozymes -- enzymes; about 6,500 employees in Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novozymes

Coloplast -- colostomy bags etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloplast

Genmab -- cancer etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genmab

These are 4 directly medical companies that also are all 4 part of the OMX 20 stock market index (similar to NASDAQ 100, the most 20 valuable public companies). That index also has 2 hearing aid companies (GN and William Demant)

One source estimates 44.000 employees in biotech/medtech in the Copenhagen/Sweden "Medicon Valley" area.
Certainly makes Amazon a less desirable employer for me.
I don't think this is WordPress employees taking a mile when given an inch by working remotely all the time. I believe WordPress encourages employees not to regularly go to the office. The reason being is they don't want a small faction of the company to become essentially collocated while the rest of the company is distributed, thus breaking their communication flows. Remote works for WordPress because almost all communication gets archived in Slack, email or p2 (their internal social network built on WordPress). Anyone can see what's going on or get caught up asynchronously. It's pretty much guaranteed that in a collocated environment some of that communication would happen offline IRL, and others would miss out on it.
Actually, quite a lot does prevent Americans from moving -- namely the work permits and job offers that are generally required -- just as America limits immigration, so do other countries. I actually have lived and worked in other countries myself, but my employers had to write justifications as to why they were hiring me rather than one of their countrymen.
Inkscape hackfest planned for late June in Paris
As much as I like the interactive map the truth is it makes things look way more shadowed than they actually are because its showing the averages of shadows from all time of the year and all times of the day. The reality is that most of the streets have a shady side and sunny side at all times of the year. It's shady on one side of the street in the morning and shady on the other side in the afternoon.

This is actually great because you can choose the side of the street to walk on. If you are too hot in the summer you can go walk on the shaded side, or if you are too chilled in the spring/fall/winter you can walk on the sunny side. During the summer it is actually very nice to have a long stretch of tall buildings where you can cool off by walking on the shady side of the street.

It's kind of like enjoying walking down a street that is shaded by a lot of trees, although sadly the buildings don't absorb as much heat as the trees do, and in some cases glass buildings actually seem to reflect the heat harshly.
OP probably looks Asian and comedian thought it would be funny to make a play at the whole "Asians are all super good at school" stereotype.
Ethereum hits $400, up 5,000% in 2017
Am I mistaken in believing that the Windows tablets offer the open ecosystem everyone here is asking for?
I just can't believe how wilfully ignorant people are about this. You're talking percentages, but ignore the absolutes. 75% of 30k buys you a lot less than 80% of 300k, even after taxes.
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he got tired of punching people in the back of the head as they ran away from street fights. the dude really had it together, sometimes a fluke of design happens and someone derives a framework that simplifies and streamlines centuries of pugilistic assumptions. spending decades of my own time pursuing this specific ideal, i realized that Bruce had it right and deserves more credit for his revolutionary approach that i still havent been able to find fault in.
but the consumption of utilities varies great from household to household and it would be abused. but a capped subsidized amount would make sense.
> Posh Brits are more likely
> to see that their position
> is at least in part the
> result of good fortune

Quite, although it did take a millennium-long detour through the divine rights of royalty and so on
How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Enterprise Software in 2017
Show HN: Peer-to-peer for shell scripts
The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime
A good primer, but more like SIGINT 101 CIRCA 1970. No mention of China, Iran, North Korea, or the use of SIGINT against terrorist or insurgent networks.
> Yeah, Identity theft is one of those crimes where the authorities don't really care.

There is no such thing as "identity theft". You can't steal who someone is, that's bullshit. It's rather some party not making sure it's actually you they are talking to, and then claiming that you are responsible for it anyway because they fell for someone else's scam.
Anecdata: most of my employers have offered good (but not the best) insurance. If you didn't use it, the employer and employee contributions together were probably something like $10k-$15k. If you did use it, the employee contribution would be capped at something like $20k-$30k, but the employer contribution would be uncapped. Somewhat famously, the CEO of AOL (?) talked about spending $1,000,000+ on an employee's neonatal care.
yes, the grids should be the same company, but who bills you varies.
Did you file a report with FBI? I once was scammed on ebay for a laptop worth $1200 around year 2002. The local police did not get involved so I went to the FBI website and filed a report. I thought nothing is going to happen. They eventually caught the guy and I got my payments in installments (restitution) over several years.
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Ask HN: Good Ruby codebase to read?
Inspired from these two previous posts:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369 (Python)

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14462125 (Go)

I want to know what Ruby codebase you recommend to read since I have been building a Ruby Gems. Thank you.
thank you for sharing..
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Last time I checked the "free" provisioning profiles it generates are valid for something like 7 days. It's not really convenient for anything but experimenting with iOS development.
Ask HN: ETH will cross BTC price?
That looks interesting. Sudoku is a fairly useful constraint satisfaction problem/testbed to test neural networks architectures on, since the most general version of sudoku is NP-complete.

There was some interesting work a while ago that solved sudoku using spiking neural networks too [1] (Fig. 5) with some nice associated theory.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...
I'm not sure of the accuracy, but I've also heard it argued that you're much more likely to regain control of a vehicle after an evasive maneuver, since you will stay in your seat.
These Gorgeous Designer Gowns Are Made by Blind Dressmakers
Healthcare: Are you prepared to trade privacy for treatment?
Turtl – A secure, encrypted Evernote alternative
Very odd.
(Pipe)Dream scenario this gets challenged and ends up in the supreme court and non-competes as a practice are ended completely.
Almost always you want Apt B. Bright sunlight can be controlled with electronic transition glass, curtains and other methods. You can't reproduce sunlight in your apartment.
'Crash Override': Malware That Took Down a Power Grid
Futuristic Visions of Germany by Artists in 1930 [transportation and video calls]
The poor cannot see beyond their own noses.

The rich can see the horizon and plan ahead.

The super powerful float in space looking down on earth and place things beyond the horizon.

Planning is good, but who's game are we playing?
While that's true, having seen how frequently my parents and grandparents would bring their computers to a grinding halt by installing stuff they didn't understand, I get it.

It's worth pointing out that I can still install whatever I want on my phone. Apple just protects its official distribution channel.
The title and the first line of the README

> GUN is a realtime, distributed, offline-first, graph database engine. Doing 15M+ ops/sec in just ~12KB gzipped.

But no mention of any guarantees provided by the system. What kind of transactions are supported? are writes consensus-based, best effort, eventual consistent?

The "GUN Survives a Primary Fault" raises more questions than answers. The "primary" appears to be the only server, and the clients are simply caching un-confirmed updates. Unless every client is a full copy of the database (which would seem prohibitive for the types of things this is aimed at?) there wasn't really any fault tolerance showed here.

Also, all clients resolved to the most recent update, the one didn't fail because the row had been updated between the last read. While that's OK for some designs, it just smells fishy. I shouldn't be able to trash someone else's update.

I feel like this is yet another datastore trying to call itself a database, but offering no guarentees of any kind that your data is safe.
A backup can still be very useful if you perform something non-trivial like e.g. history rewriting. Sure you unlikely lose something but restoring a backup might often be the easier solution to restore the state you started from.
The Age of Nvidia
I'm doing that in the office right now, has nothing to do with location.

Measure productivity, don't police time.

If you as an employer are getting less results from telecommuting (while also not being able to attract better talent, which you should) then of course it's a loss, but I would like to see those numbers. I for one produce better results at home, even if I were to spend 2 hours on hn.
Visual-cryptography: Visual cryptography script refurbished to actually work
I don't know that neural netowrks are particularly "simpler" than SAT solvers. They're both complex general tools with different requirements of problem knowledge.
Read his speeches, and watch him deliver them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpTWKKWQ1o

> A new community is being built in Germany and it is our most beautiful goal and aim. Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else. It is the luck to help which rewards those who commit themselves to this socialist state, and this commitment must happen every new winter. Our social welfare system is so much more than just charity because we do not say to the rich people "Please, give something to the poor." Instead we say "German people, help yourself!" Everyone must help, whether you are rich or poor. Everyone must have the belief that there's always someone in a much worse situation than I am, and this person I want to help as a comrade. If one should say, "Yes, but do I have to sacrifice a lot?" That is the glory of giving! When you sacrifice for your community, then you can walk with your head held up high.

How else do you rationalize the killing of millions, than "these people got rich because they cheated and stole it from us, now we will take it back from them?" How will you take it from them except by force? And then they will revolt, and you'll be forced to or find it quite convenient to kill them.

No wonder everyone wants to shut down his speeches. Socialists don't want to be associated with him, and capitalists worry that people will be persuaded by him.
Amazon does this shit all the time.
Sure, fair enough. I was implicitly talking about 1980s to present (the period when the inequality began to spike), but obviously was not clear about that.

However, in the present day, I don't think it is just the 1% who are against a corporate tax increase. That would hit IRAs, pensions, and investments for those who can afford such things.
>Government is the only insurance scheme large enough to protect us from ourselves.

Maybe the culture you come from is very new.
...except when it kicks you to the curb, and forces you to fight over what they'll cover while your family's in the middle of the hardest time of their life and has negative energy to spare.

Our healthcare/insurance system is miles better than nothing, but that's no reason to stick our heads in the sand and insist that it's especially good by modern standards.
> I think most people would like to pay (good) teachers more

In that case you're entirely unfamiliar with American conservative rhetoric and policy.
Usually it's more like free training and networking and sales opportunities, but whatever helps you lick boots better I guess...
There is a consensus that Hitler was not a socialist. He was a Nazi and a fascist. He purged the elements in his own party that had put the "socialist" in "national socialist" on the Night of Long Knives.
FWIW there are some studies that try to break apart health outcomes caused by health care vs those cased by lifestyle. Most of these seem to indicate that we are actually getting something for our extra money in the US. Cancer recovery rates, for example, are very good in the US compared to elsewhere.

Many of our poor health outcomes seem to be due to lifestyle issues (obesity, drugs, lack of exercise, etc) not our actual health care system.

Not disagreeing with your comment as I think you are mostly right. Just thought you might find this interesting.
I'd like to think that there are diminishing returns, but in my experience, the biggest complaint about doctors (and from doctors) is the lack of time they get to spend on a patient. It would stand to reason that a doctor that can spend an hour talking to you, researching your condition and history, collaborate with colleagues across disciplines is going to have a much greater impact than one who sees you for 5 minutes.

And it costs quite a lot to get that level of care.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end...
Livestream of Navalny protests Moscow
I liked the book, thanks!
Will a cashless society leave us broke?
Implementing Python-like decorators in JavaScript
>How else do you rationalize the killing of millions, than "these people got rich because they cheated and stole it from us, now we will take it back from them?"

Well, Hitler actually rationalized it by, "The Jewish vermin are poisoning our racial stock and bringing Communism to our borders, and now we will be free by destroying them."

(Seriously, if my family were here, they'd seriously be yelling at you for trying to make the Holocaust about libertarianism or whatever you think you're doing.)
Ask HN: SWEs with math background: do you miss math?
If your grad/undergrad had significant math part (math/applied math, physics, engineering, maybe theoretical CS) and now work primarily on SWE role without (or with) math component:

* Do you miss math?

* Do you think it was worth the switch (compared to trying to get quant/research/stats/data science career)

* Do you have fear of missing out/regret that lot of hard theory is not applied

* If you work for big X: how much did it help you with interviews, that are hard but in a different way?

(I apologize if I come off as rude, not a native speaker and it's not intended)
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Ethical Artificial Intelligence  – An Open Question [pdf]
I'm not certain, but based on the description by the author, this solver is sometimes doing probabilistic guessing. You're more likely to make a mistake early when you do this -- there are fewer chances to guess incorrectly near the end of the game as inferences grow stronger, and more chances in the beginning and middle to guess wrong which will then snowball into a more wrong answer. So statistically, it makes sense that failures tend to be large.

I thought it was interesting that the "hard" category seemed to have more wrong answers than the 2 harder categories. Maybe there just aren't enough samples, but in the data shown in the table, it seems like a big difference.
Well as with everything it depends:

If you just started out (less than two weeks, 4 days/week) then it will make you more awake.

If you passed this point then there is enough fatigue accumulated that your body just wants to rest/sleep. I would still recommend to finish training 3-4 hours before sleep.
The term has several meanings. Scandinavian countries consider themselves socialist for their high levels of government support of education and healthcare, but so did the Soviet Union and similar countries with a state-run centralized command economy. When people in the US rally against "socialism" they are either thinking that what people in favor of socialism want is a centralized command economy or think that it is a slippery slope and that government support of health care will eventually lead to a Bolshevik insurrection or something.
I'd be surprised if NNs come up with a simpler result. At least, not one that has anything close to intuitive results.

That is, yes, sat solvers have a lot of heuristics to speed them up. But, almost by definition, we understand those heuristics do can reason about the answers they give. NNs, however, are notorious for being incredibly opaque. They give his probabilistic answers, but my understanding is we really only trust them probabilistically and can't explain their answers.
Well, it is really more of a exact cover problem, which can be solved quite simply and elegantly with Knuth's algorithm X.

A neural network isn't simpler in any sense of the word. You might as well throw a simulated annealer at the problem.
Does the phrase "company town" ring any bells?

This is a baaaaad idea.
It's gotten far easier to telecommute in recent years and that keeps the productivity much higher than it used to be. My partners and I tried remote work back in 2007, even spending 10k to video conference with Marratech [1] (Google-owned). Today it's trivial to have good fast communication while working remotely.

[1] http://www.marratech.com/
How Bitcoin works
Cool historical read. Thanks.
Taxing fuel it's better as it correlates quite well with engine size and usage and therefore pollution.
It apparently just wants the timing information, and will print a readable schedule based on that. Try

0 */2 * * *

By the way, this app sorely needs a link-to-result functionality.
I agree. Is that an airplane hanger?
I hope this mean I can easily load scripts onto Pythonista. It's a real pain right now.
On what Constitutional grounds could the Supreme Court possibly support such a ruling?