skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"a huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic."
restated as >"Some people have bad work ethic"

And to you that restatement constitutes "attempting to shirk from and minimize away from your own comments". Seriously? It's the same thing with a difference in degree. The degree word "some" overlaps with "huge amount".

So my great crime is replacing "huge amount" with "some", and connecting it to poverty?

Meanwhile, you go ahead and restate what I said as "the reason the poor are poor is mainly/mostly/primarily due to moral failings."

Which is an utterly different, wild, moralistic, absolutist statement that I obviously never made and don't believe. And hypocritical, given how sensitive you seem to be about accurately re-stating what someone has said.

Let me disabuse you of the anti-charitable notion that you've invented in your head implicitly attributed to me: Just because someone has bad work ethic, doesn't mean it's their fault. I've specifically said in this thread that work ethic is changeable by policy and cultural factors. And, I think bad work ethic often isn't the fault of the person with it, but is rather the fault of people you who gaslight the poor into believing that all they can do is wait to be saved by Wise Rich White Leftist Social Engineers.

A huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic. A huge proportion of that bad work ethic stems from the cultural effects of messages like yours.

Neither of the previous statements present any moral attribution - they are simple statements of objective, measurable cause-and-effect. (Yes, work ethic is measurable; the effect that your messages have on it could in principle be estimated via survey or experiment).

Honestly, you really seem to want this to be about morality. You want to see evil in people with whom you disagree because it makes you feel more secure in your own beliefs - a world where good people question your morals with powerful arguments is just too uncomfortable. You continue to apply the exact opposite of the principle of charity. It's unfair to others, and unproductive.
It sounds like how an honest person might describe me on HN.
Theresa May makes 'fair and serious' offer on rights of EU citizens in UK
I have dabbled many times over the last 20 years in trading and even done it rather professionally. There is no easy way to handle a loss. Take comfort in the story of a Ray Dario having lost everything to the point of borrowing 10k from his dad to get back on his feet and now managing 10s of billions.

Trading is a really hard way to make money.

The best way to bounce back from a loss is to make sure you will never ever place yourself in the position to make the kind of loss from which you can't recover.

You did this, now never ever do it again. There is no sense in trading unless you have a provable long term edge.

Most people would say good luck at this point. I would instead say, re-evaluate if trading makes any sense. Why do it?

Are you willing to spend 20 years "mastering it" only to accept one almost never truly masters the strangeness of financial markets, but perhaps develop a bit of character and pick up some sound principles and some unique chance insights for which there are no shortcuts.
Fun with Python's sys.getrefcount()
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14612196
I am reading "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success", from the Stanford's Professor Carol Dweck. I really wish I had read that 10 years ago... By that time the book wasn't published but some part of the science behind it was already available. I am almost finishing it and it is probably the best of the 12 books I have read so far this year.
Hint: Governments have more perceived control than actual control.

It's seriously disappointing, but if the claims by people crying out about "Chinese money" are correct, 15% was never going to be enough. If your concern as an individual is your currency losing 50% of it's value over night [likely worse case for these individuals], then a 15% tax, even in a bubble market starts to look like a good deal.
Actually, what the essay proposes wouldn't result in ignoring it, it'd result in making it more obvious.
The idea of trying to understand and/or address the rational reasons behind a seemingly racist behavior is the process of stripping excuses that a person might have.

But it's only when you look beyond just assuming "oh, they're racist", that this sort of process can begin. And, as linked and explained in the article, there's no guarantee that you actually understand what motivates a person, especially if you haven't tried (or been forced to).
Was a great read -- thanks!
Turing Tumble Emulator in JavaScript
Because sometimes I DO use MySQL because a client requested it. At this point, I'll probably just explain to clients why pg is a much better alternative.
The art and craft of making board games for the CIA
Institutions do have motives. Institutions want to keep being relevant. Institutions want to see the influence grow. Institutions want to continue existing.
> self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.

[citation needed.]
It is just a simple general-purpose, data-oriented, data-driven, entity-component based, lua scripted game engine written in sane C++ for my own game development needs.

Nobody's trying to sell anything here.
I live outside the city, we had subsidies taken away long before Macri became president. I've actually seen my electricity bill go down because I saved compared to the same period in previous years.
You just described Reno, NV. Even at noon there, I felt more at risk on the streets than any other place ( SF Tenderloin, etc )
My bad. Fixed now.
Ask HN: How do you tell a founder they are developing features wrong?
If you are at an early stage startup, how do you best communicate concerns with product development when that control is exercised by a founder? Specifically scope, complexity and intent seem far off the mark, especially in a high velocity environment?

A simple feature request in the form of a user-story is almost always met with "well, the user asked for X...but what I really think they wanted Y..." and in each case the scoped and defined feature is an attempt to "redefine" or "reimagine" a customer workflow...workflows that the founder has no personal experience with.

I would like to say "hey, we really should try to narrowly address the user-story...then see where we can innovate"...but each time I've pushed back with that narrative I get what I can only describe as arrogant responses about "disruption" and so forth. For me personally its tough, as I have a good deal of relevant professional experience in the subject matter and I feel like because I am also an engineer my concerns are brushed aside as those of a "techie, not the target customer persona".

What other routes can I take?
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I don't care what they done in terms of stable runtime. I mean, I care, but not in the context of the language itself. Language is all - combined! The runtime, syntax, libs, everything. I call it "experience" or "feeling". I like the idea to treat JS as web assembler, but as a language, JS is just a garbage. It will be garbage until you will be able to write code, that seems completely valid unless you are super JS geek and know that it will break. I will not reconsider my hate until you will be able to write `['10','10','10','10','10'].map(parseInt)` and get `[10, NaN, 2, 3, 4]` as a result (just a small example of many). Sorry if that puts you off.
I moved away from Argentina 5 years ago (wow, time flies) and I agree with all the points above.

Many people in the First World assume that Buenos Aires is a cheap place because it is in South America, but many places in South America have actually higher costs of living than Europe/North America, with lower incomes. An apartment in a nice neighborhood with a reasonable size is ~USD1000[1], while local income for a Sr Software Engineer is around ~USD27K[2] (sounds low even for BsAs standards, but not outrageously so) and taxes are outrageously high (over 50%[3] for an individual, 137.4%(!) of the profits for companies[4]).

[1]: http://inmuebles.mercadolibre.com.ar/departamentos/alquiler/...

[2]: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/2003950-cuanto-ganaba-un-programa...

[3]: https://es.panampost.com/antonella-marty/2017/06/21/en-argen...

[4]: http://www.infobae.com/economia/2017/03/07/argentina-continu...
Never used any other. But if Uber has all I need - why should I switch to anybody else?
> Sunday shouty shows

Never heard that before, but I'm totally stealing it from you.
Please stop spreading this misinformation. If you look at the transaction, the only thing that happened was using the safe split contract which essentially gives the owner equivalent ETC.
Thanks! Just updated the demo document to highlight the most important commands.
Not mentioned: written in Allegro Common Lisp (for the IDE on SGIs) and Scheme/GOOL running on the Playstation.
For me it's the smoke. And the $10 minimums. Would love to find a smoke free casino with $1 minimums.
Interesting essay, but it seems to miss the Jupiter-sized problem at the core of this global turbulence:

Power is power.

Power doesn't care who has it or how they got it. Power creates winners and losers. Power kills people while the survivors divvy up the former possessions.

Power doesn't play by the rules. Power is the rule.

Liberalism only works if enough people and power agree to let it work. Authoritarians of today want to smash this liberalism precisely because a world without rules on power benefits their style of acquiring and using power.

Only power beats power. Power cares little for meaningless terms like good and evil, if it even cares at all.
From what I've heard and read, the numbers released by the province were debunked and rejected by pretty much everybody. Having visited a few times, I don't see how the number could possibly be so low.
The Complete Business Continuity Checklist
I am working on something that, well, somewhat resembles what Mendelsohn did with California city.

You can read a bit more about it here [shameless plug, but I feel it's relevant]: https://medium.com/the-naked-founder/crypto-city-5d48a33a9f4...
Has anyone run a large codebase like chromium with this tool? Is the indexing looking at what's compiled like libclang or is it static like gtags?
Cause in the opposite direction may be more fundamental, though in evolution all cause is circular. Because the world is variable a necessary adaptation in every lineage is a corresponding variability in each of its systems, subject to homeostasis. Combinations of this variability may then happen to offer survival of new challenges. So yes specific diversity is selected but it's because general diversity has been there from the beginning.

The article doesn't address this second-order effect of innovation. Instead it seems to take a basic result of evolutionary game theory and cast it in a model from physics.
Rails' CurrentAttributes considered harmful
Who pays out the .1?
I guess we should all go home and get off the internet.
> I think you misunderstood my comment, I'm sorry, I did not mean that.

No worries :). One thing I like about HN is professional discourse and debate, rather than the utter chaos that conversations in other fora devolve into.

> I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Yes, there's a rising demand for qualified people. But that demand didn't arise because the supply was too great. Typically when supply rises, wages drop. China is the opposite.

I agree with the fact. Honestly, I'm not sure about the underlying reasons for economic growth in China, so I will concede that I don't have much to back my assertion.

> Then why are rich people more likely to have higher education? Why do the rich in China value education just as much if not more? Why are top universities in the world not in China?

You are asking very broad questions as if they are closely related, which they are not. Rich people are free from the daily grinds of making ends meet which gives them more time to pursue some kind of education. They also have the means to afford the costs associated with getting an education, and are less likely to drop out because of monetary reasons.

Top universities in the world are not in China because of many many reasons. Some reasons are:

1. There is already a hospitable environment for academia in the US. Much like SV, its hard to replicate elsewhere.

2. English is not the medium of Instruction in many Chinese universities, making it harder to attract talent from around the world.

3. Not quite sure about this, but I'm guessing the US spends more on scientific research and engineering than China.

4. China until very recently (speaking relatively) was not a very politically stable country, and stability is very necessary for an academic community to take hold and grow strong. Most US Universities have been around at least since after the Civil War and European universities have been around for much much longer.

All of that is changing of course, but I'm pointing out the reasons why it is the way it is now.

> Also, even the poor?! Seriously?

Please don't quote me out of context. By even, my intention was that people who are trying hard to make ends meet, who don't have the basic necessities of life ... still understand that getting an education, which takes time and has no immediate alleviating benefits, can help them and is a path out of poverty. I did not intend to imply that they are somehow a lesser class of people, as you seem to imply with that statement.
I've taught evolutionary biology to non-biology majors and the way I would explain natural selection is as follows.

First, to clarify the last sentence above, selection does not happen at the level of an individual. Selection is a statistical process that requires a population of individuals.

For evolution by selection to occur, there has to be 1) variation in traits (i.e. "Phenotypes"), 2) the variation in these traits has to be in part heritible (i.e. Have a genetic basis), and 3) there have to be average differences in success of leaving offspring that themseves go on to reproduce, etc, etc, based on the trait differences amongst individuas.
More importantly, we should be vigilantly suspicious anytime an article says something about breaking a fundamental limit of physics.
Where are you going to live next?
Even Wams?
Those monopolies have been explicitly granted by municipalities for decades.
Transforming Data to Insights (Salesforce Design)
>>However, if they can demonstrate to a jury that Uber execs definitely knew what Levandowski did and ignored it

Since this is a jury trial, they only need to demonstrate it beyond reasonable doubt, no?
ImgTech has been a bit of a basket case for a long time. Why did they buy MIPS for $100m? Why have they just (last year) built a huge posh new HQ when they were losing money? I don't think it's something Google would want.
True, but it's one of the comparatively few places in Canada that absolutely never experiences -20c, and normally doesn't have snow on the ground for longer than a couple days at a time (except this last winter.) Most other Canadian cities go through ice-building cycles in the late Autumn that can persist in neighborhood streets all the way through to late Spring.
Up Your Strasse – Munich's Hub for Startups
Show HN: Alexa-Skill-boilerplate – An Easy to Use Setup for Fast Alexa Skill Dev
- How close?

- Very close ;)
To Grow Faster, Hit Pause – And Ask These Questions from Stripe’s COO
Updated Developer Tools Features in Chrome Worth Knowing
Make sure you earn in dollars or euros. I've got hit by the inflation blow last year as well but lately the euro and dollar are going up again which makes everything a bit more affordable again. There's definitely a gray area now where I exit the bank with my money in euros (this is legal now) to change it in another place where they pay 20% more in pesos.

I don't live in BA but in one of the other large cities. BA was always a bit crazy in terms of travel distances and price of living. People earn about 20% more there just to compensate. Compare it to London.

I really like the city but there's a lot of grey boring areas and/or bad neighborhoods.
Ask HN: Do you feel fulfilled with your work?
Do you feel fulfilled with the work you do every day?

If yes, please explain what it is you do and why it is so fulfilling.

If no, please explain why not, and what type of work you think would be fulfilling?

I'm relatively new to the job market out of college, and it was a bit of a shock for me to see how many (in my opinion) bullshit jobs there are out there, to the point where I've had an extremely hard time finding work that could earn me a comfortable living (I don't need 6 figures) and align with my moral/ideological compass.
> high immigration

ya, 5000 entire people last year in CoV...
Michael Tsai – WWDC 2017 Links
> And the number of applications is limited only by one's imagination," sums up Tsakmakidis.

That's the scientist behind the publication
the tldr answer: SVMs are theoretically powerful but either impractical or pointless.

The longer answer:

SVMs comes with two theoretical benefits:
1. A guaranteed optimal solution. You get this with simpler techniques like logistic regression.
2. The ability to use non-linear kernels, which can offer much more power than logistic regression (on par with neural networks).

So, at first, it seemed like SVMs were the best of all worlds, and a lot of people got excited. In practice, though, non-linear kernels slowed training down to the point of being impractical. Linear kernels were fast enough, but removed the second benefit, so most people would prefer to use established linear techniques like logistic regression.
I am pretty sure that the plan is to never let the protesters get even close to any Americans. That's how we handled it when I was at German military police. There would be a huge diplomatic problem if the Secret Service would do anything to Germans.
True, but that's still better than -30degC and 2m of snow during winter; and +40degC (without humidex) during summer. So for Canada, yeah, that's pretty good.
There's a tradeoff to be made with amount of fuel loaded into the car. If you put more fuel in the car, it weighs more, and so will corner and accelerate worse and have worse lap times. On the other hand, it'll have more fuel, so it won't need to make a pit stop as soon.

Qualifying laps are structured differently from the actual race itself, in a way that incentivizes putting less fuel in the car. Essentially, only the qualifying lap times matter, and not the advantages from having more fuel loaded. The obvious strategy is to put the bare minimum in the tank for qualifying, and more during the start of the actual race.

The new regulations forbid that strategy - you're allowed no more fuel to start the race than you had used to start the qualifying laps.
Such people can either use lower quality H.264 versions which are commonly provided, or as others said, get an external device to decode modern free codecs.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/07/vancouver-chi...
He's far from perfect, but the sheer length of his writing makes the flaws in his thinking easy to see, which I suspect is by design. He's generally right, and makes it easy to see when he's wrong.

Death to Moloch!
When we purchased a house a few years back, Comcast was our only broadband option, so we reluctantly called them. The previous owners had a Dish Network receiver on the roof, and the when the Comcast technician arrived he enthusiastically offered to remove it and haul it away for us at no charge, even though it was in no way interfering with Comcast's cabling.

I doubt I will ever have interest in subscribing to Dish Network, but I declined, not wanting to be party to such anti-competitive behavior. I can't imagine the tech would offer to remove it unless such is standard practice. He'd be doing extra work for no extra pay (unless Comcast offers a head hunting bounty).
You're still spinning. Your argument is invalid. You're not making a direct comparison. A direct comparison would ask how much CO2 is generated in the production of an internal combustion engine vehicle. A quick search tells me a similar sized sedan, a Ford Mondeo, produces 17 tons of CO2 in the manufacture process. That's about the same as the battery alone on the Tesla.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

You're trying to change the subject. That's what spin doctors do. If you find that insulting, try not spinning instead. I find your anti-science spin insulting. Please don't do that.
Credit card details are passed to a "payment processor" who uses one of these storefronts who have a legitimate merchant account (due to their legit-enough looking website), they charge the cards and load credits into online poker accounts.
There isn't a lot of good data on foreign transactions because regional and federal governments have worked hard to make sure data was not collected on it. Popular pressure is slowly changing that.

One observation I have is that even if it's just single digit as a %, it can exert very significant pressure on the market. A bubble is a mob effect. It begins with some properties purchased at prices the local market can't support, regional opportunists jump in seeing the opportunity for flipping, then fear of missing out, especially for first time buyers, results in a stampede as people see the ladder going up and leverage themselves to get the last rung before it goes out of reach. But there was never any real scarcity in the first place.

Point being, a small amount of foreign investment can have a leveraged influence on local markets.

I do think the "foreign" word there gets too much attention though. The more important question to ask is - should property as an investment be something we economically encourage. How much economic activity does a $5M 3 bedroom house actually generate? I don't pretend to know the answer but I think this focus on the "foreign" bogeyman is blocking us from having more important conversations about the role of real-estate in economic policy.
To paraphrase Bill Gates (who never actually said the original, but anyway) 4K should be enough for everybody.

Having seen 1080p stretch and play nicely on a 30 feet cinema screen, and not being much worse looking from regular Hollywood titles even for front seat viewing, I don't see the allure of 8K even for "future-proofing".

Sure, monitors and tvs might improve their resolution in the future. But I don't se human eyes improving much (regarding angular resolution vs distance) or houses getting any bigger to fit a 30ft tv.

4K is good for reframing (cropping) and higher detail, but after some point enough is enough.
I think this is a really good idea -- many people, myself included, get really excited about Haskell and then are turned off by the complexity of monad transformers.

I would recommend that you focus on good error messages that explain monad-related errors in "user land" and not force them to either guess about what's wrong or suddenly learn all the stuff under the hood. It's a terrible experience and you see it in C++ with incomprehensible template errors or any kind of transpiled language like ClojureScript that gives you errors from the underlying implementation.
Don't forget what happens when people find out they can abuse driverless vehicles. Cutting them off, getting closer to them, slowing down in front of them, etc. God knows what commuters will do to them in the Boston area.
Stupid question from someone not well-versed in economics/finance: is it even still considered a "bubble" if it never bursts?
Nevada Bans Taxing of Blockchain Technology (Bitcoin, Ethereum Etc)
This Kaggle competition was 5 years ago, but sounds awfully similar (selective molecular binding energy estimation).

https://www.kaggle.com/c/MerckActivity

It was won by Dahl, Salakhutdinov, Jaitly, Jordan-Squire, and Geoff Hinton using deep learning.