skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if an attorney would have taken this case pro bono for the opportunity to represent a case against a big name company such as Uber.
What makes that idea difficult is the fact that profits have become decoupled from contribution to society. Anymore, most corporate gains aren't being passed along to the workers, just to the owners. Granted, the equation shifts with small businesses compared to large ones, but the idea that business = improvement is a bit simplistic.
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You might also check out Plant UML - they have a much simpler language to type.

http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-legacy
Mildly related, I really appreciate it when someone puts the effort in to transcribe audio interviews.
You will be surprised as your phonenumber may be visible here
Due to the high complexity of d and the small community, there are currently no "great " ides.
If by 10kLoC you actually mean less than 4kLoC, then I agree with you. :)
I am glad to hear that they didn't stop working on this.
Do I understand correctly that paid subscription effectively removes 100 card limit? The description on the Settings page says something about "unlimited access to all content," but I can't seem to understand what this means exactly.

PS. I'm probably not the only one who stuffs his wallet deeper in the pocket upon seeing an "auto-renewable subscription." I would strongly encourage you to add non-subscription way for people to give you some money. I like what you made, it's useful and I'd like to support you, but no way in hell I'm entering a recurrent $ committment with a vendor of any app that I may or may not be using few weeks from now.
Unfortunately the Bunq API requires a fixed IP address which means I can't use it with my non-cloud banking software from my (dynamic IP) home connection.
Right, so one cannot assume that these cloud providers have a golden heart and won't peak into our data. I don't see what stops them from peeking into the data, ensuring that the business dies and later just pay some "fine". Basically what MS did killing many companies unscrupulously.
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I'd agree with the suspicion that UBI alone is not sufficient to handle our future economy. Though I'm not sure you have the right breakdown with what might be needed beyond UBI.

I've been feeling that in order to really accelerate/maintain a future economy beyond our current stagnation, some improved capital circulation mechanism is needed to release huge accumulations of capital from essentially centralized controls. This could be accomplished via multiple methods on a spectrum of compulsory / voluntary scale. From proposed taxes on capital or enticements to apply capital in non-traditional/higher-risk paths. If you can cause mega-accumulations of capital to actually circulate, I think that there would basically be no problem for people looking for work to find it.
English is the working language of software development, so it does make a degree of sense to bemoan the fact that the API documentation is only available in German.
How very rude of you to hijack his/her thread to plug your demo so many times in such a short time span.
Love the idea! Is there any way to import existing Anki decks? I don't want to start my learning from scratch.
Well, for me, visions of "I, Robot" come to mind while reading through your paragraph. (If you don't know the plot, the robots try to take over.)
Aren't those two effectively the same thing? As long as the EB-5 visa exists, the immigration system will be explicitly transactional.
> Anymore, most corporate gains aren't being passed along to the workers, just to the owners

Was this ever the case? I mean, look at the Victorian era and what amounted to forced labor camps in the coal mines of West Virginia – seems like profits are almost always sucked up to the top.
Oh, definitely.

However, usually that's the way I identify the correct driver. For instance Priuses are the more common car and sometimes it's easier to memorize the first 4 or so digits on a plate than the make/model/color that my driver is driving.

But on the other hand, it's still a small issue at least because in some rare circumstance somebody could use it maliciously.
The basic measurement is: Did i buy this machine/OS just so I could use one app 90% of the time. This is what the web-browser did to Windows.
By explaining to them what start-up options are really worth, what the hours really look like, what the office "culture" is, etc. All this so they can make an educated decision about joining one.

Ever wonder why startups prey on mostly young naive people?

Because they do not YET know better.
Yeah if you are providing ample resistance then I don't think you need 2 hands to resolve the tests. You won't even get test to my knowledge in that scenario.
> Then, for no particularly good reason, this is combined with some smart contract / crypto coin scheme

This single line, appended to pretty much anything, describes the latest crowdfunding fad of cryptocurrency or token ICOs.
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by all means continue with your thought experiments, they can be fun and enlightening. I just don't agree with this part:

'Because that's what "nature" is, right? That which happens without human intervention?'

Only if humans are supernatural is that what "nature" is.
I'd rather have well off individuals entering this country with means to spend and support our middle class.
Are they going to scrap the EB-5 visa too? Doesn't it basically sell citizenship for real estate?
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If they're already on every phone in China, what would that get them?
He could have learned to be born to powerful and seriously politically connected family in Asia?
Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality
Maybe it's far enough along now. Now one talks about SSE anymore, did it go away?

The discrete dies on Epyc all communicate with faster version of PCI-E(the Infinity Fabric), GPUs communicate with PCE-E, SSDs communicate with PCI-E.

AMD certainly hasn't given up on HSA: http://www.amd.com/system/files/2017-06/TIRIAS-AMD-Epyc-GPU-...
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That'd go against Trump's business interests though. So I think it's highly unlikely.
I think you meant "exclusive" partnerships, similar to how the iPhone was exclusive to the at&t network on launch and for a few years thereafter.
> This could have taken a very different turn.

Until something similar happens to them, people often take for granted living in a society where the legal process is relatively accessible to those needing it.
This is really great! Is there a way to paste/import a previously exported graph and preserve edit capabilities?
A big part of the rationale for immigration restriction is that poor immigrants will strain the social services. Unfair as it may be, "you can come here as long as you earn lots of money" actually makes some sense.
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You should try setting out a bowl of each sometime.
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There's no reason why the cheaply made goods couldn't be their "day job", funding the true passion of supporting the creative entrepreneur.

What would be concerning is if they see it as anything more than a way to pay the bills.
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https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d...

edit: hn thread from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
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> It's not like everyone who doesn't see success is lazy or doesn't work hard.

Well, I never said that did I? In fact that's kind of the point of my original post. Don't discount everyone who's had success as having had it due to luck. And don't discount everyone who's had failure as having had it due to lack of luck.

> I personally hate the idea of a moral obligation to do anything. Shaming people into certain behaviours is shitty.

I agree. I should clarify that when I say "moral obligation" what I mean to say is "my own, personal, moral obligation". What you do with your life, and what conclusions you draw based on your experiences, are your own. Just don't hurt people.

> Having a highly-stratified society, even if we feel it's 'fair', isn't a good thing.

Fair point to which I don't disagree. Life is inherently not fair, nor is it kind and forgiving. To your point, that doesn't mean we should give up our ideals of peace and happiness for everyone. My only concern is that we don't write off our fellow man as having achieved all of their success because they were born in the right place, time, skin color, gender, genetics, etc. In my opinion that's a way of looking at life that is detrimental. Instead, accept that luck plays a significant role in all aspects of life, but with hard work you can change your life.
My parents are obsessed birders and just about the only time I hear my mom swear is regarding a starling. It makes me wonder why there has never been a general order to hunt as many as possible. If the government paid $4/corpse, for a time, perhaps we'd be rid of them! (As long as we stopped paying when people tried breeding then for money, like the cobra)
I don't have iOS, but... what benefits does this have over Anki?
I've seen Game Publishers do this with milestone payments but for a different effect. One of the common clauses is that the publisher gets all assets(source code, art, etc) in the case of a studio folding.

They then intentionally delay milestone payments about 3/4 of the way though the project, watch the company fold(since that's the highest-burn part of the project) and then re-hire 2/3rds of the existing staff who are now out of a job to finish the title.

It doesn't produce the highest quality games but I'm sure it earns them a bit more money.
Make beer free as in speech.
There's a similar visa in South Korea, the D-8 visa, which requires you to invest 50M Won (roughly 50,000 USD), either in some business or to open another business, and some people have gotten frustrated that some have just invested for the visa and never done anything further as the government doesn't track beyond the initial investment. In this, and in the US case, the government should track to make sure it's not being abused by people who just have a lot of money and want to live in the country.
I'm starting to think that the tax rate on capital/profit should be somehow correlated with how advanced technology is. Increased technology -> greater productive leverage (inputs give more outputs) -> greater financial return. Thus, a larger cut should be used to better society overall, as the larger profits were made possible by the technology that a more advanced society enables.

This says nothing about _how_ that tax revenue should be spent. I think the current generation of government programs could be immensely improved. Worst case, if we are unable to increase the effectiveness of targeted government spending, then we just start cutting dividend checks. I will admit, this is the part I'm most uncertain about. Relatedly, I also think there is a lot of work we can do to vastly reduce the corruption and inefficiencies that are found in even the most modern governments.

The alternative would be letting those with the majority of capital increase their share of global wealth, as technology advances, at insane rates, and simply cross our fingers and hope they use their wealth wisely. Given that individuals have done nothing to bring about the tech that is present at the day of their birth, to me such a situation would feel incredibly unjust.

This is tricky stuff, however. My thoughts are slowly continuing to develop.
Perhaps this reduction in visas and foreign workers will make voters realize how much of the economy they currently enjoy is buoyed by cheap, foreign labor. We aren't paying the real costs.
And I'll bet the office and engineering staff at Uber, for example, absolutely love their drivers who have to work long days to barely break even-plus, many of whom sleep in airport parking lots and similar while they're away from home, working where the money is.

Sure, they have a "choice," they don't have to drive 250 miles and stay at their jobs for a week for low pay. But sleeping in your car to be able to work is, as the say, "not normal." The only reason Uber is able to get away with this is because their drivers' choices are limited. Just like the Jamaicans and similar that come to America to pick and serve strawberries. They're exploited because it's possible.

It's a dilemna, I realize. I rarely go stay at a B&B, for example, and if the B&B paid "American, livable" wages, they'd be too expensive for me to ever go. So maybe a business that provides "services" for things like a place to sleep (and someone to clean up after you) and something to eat (and someone to cook and clean up after you) is simply not sustainable (even though those exploited people would probably rather have the job than not).

Maybe there shouldn't be lots of hotels, restaurants and car services, except for the niche that serve people willing and able to pay enough for those services to in turn pay equitable wages.

Pretty tough to figure out, for me.
I thought that the STUN/TURN stuff was just for discovery and used fairly conventional protocols...Isn't the DTLS for actual media transmission - i.e. directly between clients (or via some kind of Gateway?)
You're right but your overall argument is wrong for different reasons.

Earning a lot of money is a good proxy for contributing to society, except not everyone makes good money all the time.

I'm an immigrant and if you were to judge me based on my first few years in America, then clearly you shouldn't let me in to America. Now, at a later stage in my life, I would qualify for "startup visa" but if I wasn't already living in America for past 10 years, then I might not wanna come here (might not even be eligible for this visa to be fare).
Though I'm not sure you have the right breakdown with what might be needed beyond UBI.

My comment was in no way intended to be comprehensive. A more comprehensive picture includes a need for universal basic health coverage and real solutions to the huge affordable housing crisis that has been going on for decades and only getting worse.

I write about my views on what I see as The Second Industrial Revolution and try to gather related posts here:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ir2.html
Rhetorical questions require no answer, instead provoke thought or emotion.
I was invited last year in a round table discussion on this new rule. The original responses for the rule were mixed as there are plenty of nuances. Specifically, the main concern is the rule would lead to investors demanding founders to first acquire this type of status before they were able to get funded, causing a Chicken and Egg problem.

The original proposal of the rule required 375k of funding from US only accredited investors, and there are also requirements for the startup founders to maintain a certain threshold of ownership while being able to hire a lot of American employees in short period of time. I don't remember the specific number requirement/head counts but it was definitely enough to pressurize the company to expand in size quickly, while many tech startups do not necessarily need to hire dozens of employees in a 1-3 year period, not to mention they all had to be US citizens. 1-3 years would also be a stretch for most startup to figure out a concrete plan of growth in order to quality for an extension. And what if the founders want to bootstrap themselves?

Ultimately this rule still doesn't show any concrete pathway of residency or visa guarantees after 6 years. And because it is not a visa, it will take time to educate immigration officers and TSAs as well as creating a reasonable structure to allow founders to travel outside US legally as well. Historically there is a huge delay of understanding OPT, STEM and O1 visas in plenty of US embassies.

To make things even more complicated, it is not USCIS's interest to be a judge to tell which company would qualify for this rule, and they would need to form a group of trusted committees to check case by case if a company and their founders/co-founders qualify for this rule. I also heard that founder's spouses would be able to travel to US too.
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I wish banks would provide separate read only credentials for things like this, or even for things like their own mobile apps. I don't think I would ever give a third party or an app read/write credentials for something like banking.
Clickbait, when attempting to check your data you are requested to login, where they auto check "Enhanced Search" which states: "By enabling Enhanced Search, your contacts are securely shared with Truecaller. This improves accuracy of your search results and helps improve the experience for millions of users around the world." - Simply by logging in you are giving your information away.
>> The people that want to learn will be incredibly leveraged and provide a ton of value to society.

Great, who is going to pay them? Serious question.
> It's an ale rather than a beer. To be a beer, it would have had to contain hops, which give beer its bitterness and act as a preservative. Unless drunk very quickly, like Lambic it would have also gone sour.

It's highly unlikely the Sumerian concotion would even pass for a beverage, let alone a beer vs ale. More like a soupy, alcoholic bread. It would have been filled with still-substantial grains; you would have drank it with a straw.
Uber's appeal in most markets is exactly that, product and pricing.
Speaking from a place where taxi service was terrible, inefficient, expensive, often corrupt and dangerous, Uber came in like a savior, when the government went after Uber people came to Uber's defense because now we can't go back to the way it was.
To be fair I think that is the same as most places Uber has been to.
So the world's biggest capitalist economy is being reduced to two giants battling each other, after they swallow everyone else.

Amazon buys Comcast. The End.
I'm sorry but your solution is not my problem.
Pasting my response from below:

Two things, I think.

First, I was a long time power user of Anki and don't mean to disparage it, but I think CleverDeck has a much better user experience and design.

Second, we've spent a tremendous amount of time putting together high quality frequency lists (mostly for languages right now) that incorporate professional imagery, native-speaker audio, transliterations (where relevant), and example sentences. Usually, making or piecing together your own decks and cards is the most time-consuming part of using an SRS - and user content is often of dubious quality.
In terms of the spaced repetition, though, CleverDeck and Anki actually use the same algorithm.
In practice, "people will vote against those who take away public benefits they receive" is probably more accurate in the US.
Societal norms forced him to resign. In other parts of this world with more patriarchal and authoritarian governments the leadership style might have been accepted.
Not really. This time it's CPU and kernel failing to provide expected behavior in some corner cases which makes otherwise correct userland programs vulnerable to attacks for no fault of their own.
> What makes that idea difficult is the fact that profits have become decoupled from contribution to society.

This is not true. Anyone can claim that in a certain venture profits are not coupled to the contribution to society, as long as the person refuses to acknowledge or define "contribution to society".

For instance, do you consider T Bone Pickens to have contributed to society via his profits? If no, then what about Warren Buffet?
From the article:

"To qualify for the rule, entrepreneurs would have to meet high standards. A foreigner must demonstrate that he or she will contribute to economic growth or job creation and show that a reputable investor has put at least $250,000 into the company. Under this rule, they can stay in the U.S. for 30 months, with the possibility of a 30-month extension. They cannot apply for a green card during this period."

This sounds like a pretty lame visa. How are you supposed to build a startup if you only have 30 months to do so? Why would investors risk $250k if the founder may be deported in 30 months? What happens after the extension period?

I'm 100% in favor of increasing all immigration to the USA, but this visa doesn't sound like a good option at all. Is the USA really so appealing that talented entrepreneurs will jump through this many hoops to start their company here?
Couple of pictures: http://imgur.com/a/8EQ0c

Apparently I didn't keep the Win95 partition and instead that's on a disk image "somewhere". Probably on another computer that hasn't been booted in a decade.
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I don't use AWS, but it's not against their ToS to encrypt data at all stages, right? How does that not that solve this problem? I would hope that anyone using a cloud provider follows that practice.
" wealthy interests who aren't on the benefitting side of redistribution"

I don't think anybody wants to live in a society where 99% of population are suffering from hunger and lack of basic necessities. There will be no safety in such a society.

but there is always possibility of robot bodyguards!!!
If you like this, try SvgBobRus[0], which also converts plain-text diagrams into graphics (and has a larger vocabulary). There's also Spongedown[1], which makes it possible to embed these diagrams in your Markdown files and render the whole thing to HTML + SVG.

[0] https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbobrus
[1] https://github.com/ivanceras/spongedown
Any idea of the ball park costs for such consultation?

I'm looking at taking two parties to small claims court, over ~$1,000 USD, and wonder if it's worth the fees to seek legal guidance.
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Except in the author's own narrative, Uber explicitly acknowledges that a trip and a theft took place during the first court date.
Disclaimer: I work for DDG.

I'd be interested in looking into any examples of searches where the results aren't good enough or where it seems to have gotten worse recently.

As far as I know there haven't been any changes over the past few weeks that would have made things worse.
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What you are describing is an A/B test of a price, not typically what industry calls "dynamic" or "variable" pricing. Amazon tried A/B testing prices and caught hell for it. They no longer do it, but they will do dynamic pricing.
Not really chrome -- it didn't exist yet when this started to happen. But web applications in general. And the whole Web 2.0 movement. As people spent more time in browsers and those browsers became more standards compliant it weakened MS' dominance and let others, like OS X, start to compete. As developers, especially for in house applications, saw it was much cheaper to publish to a common platform rather than have to worry about local installs they changed where they were spending money. The browser effectively killed MS' complete dominance.
The idea of cultivating yeast for brewing is critical. Before people had any concept of microbiology or yeast, they were still able to maintain a quality yeast strain. The same material was used for successive beers, and excess yeast would accumulate on the brewing medium, which could be a fabric used in the brewing vessel, or a stick used to stir the mash. It was quickly learned that re-using these objects led to better beers that started faster, and these objects may have been passed down for generations.